Deidre Dawson - Residential College in the Arts and Humanities

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Deidre Dawson
Professor
Residential College in Arts and Humanities
EDUCATION
Ph.D. French, Yale University, 1989
M.Phil. French, Yale University, 1986
M.A. French, Yale University, 1985
Diplôme d'Études Approfondies: (M. Phil.) Littérature et civilisation françaises,
mention "Bien", Univérsité Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France, 1984
Maîtrise de Lettres Modernes (M.A.), mention "Très Bien", Univérsité Paul Valéry, 1983
Licence de Lettres Modernes (B.A.) Université Paul Valéry, 1982
D.E.U.G. de Lettres Modernes, Université Paul Valéry, 1981
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Full-time Academic Positions
2007-present Professor, Residential College in Arts and Humanities
1999-2007
Associate Professor of French (with tenure), Michigan State University
1998-99
Visiting Associate Professor of French, Michigan State University
(on leave from Georgetown University)
1994-1999
Associate Professor (with tenure), French Department, Georgetown University
1989-1994
Assistant Professor of French, Georgetown University
Academic Awards and Honors
Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Academiques, awarded by French government in 1997
(lifetime member)
The Vice President's Teaching Award, Georgetown University, 1992
Grant from the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies to participate in the
East-West Seminar in Berlin, Summer 1997
Yale University Graduate Fellowship 1984-89
Administration
2000-2002
Chair, Department of Romance and Classical Languages, Michigan State
University
1994-1997
Chair, Department of French, Georgetown University
Summer '88 Acting Director, English Language and Orientation Program, Yale University
1985-1989
Resident Coordinator, Helen Hadley Graduate Residence Hall, Yale University
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International Outreach and Study Abroad
2001-present Program Adviser of French and African Studies in West Africa (with Safoi
Babana-Hampton, Assistant Professor of French), spring semester MSU Study Abroad
Program.
2004-2005 Faculty mentor (with Stephen Esquith, professor of Philosophy) French-Mali
outreach project between East Lansing and Malian elementary schools
2004-2007 Resident Director, French and Classical Studies in the South of France, MSU Study
Abroad Program
2003 Designed French and Classical Studies in the South of France, summer MSU Study
Abroad Program, with John Rauk, Associate Professor of Classics
2001 Designed Francophone Studies in Senegal (later renamed French and African Studies in
West Africa) spring semester MSU Study Abroad Program, with Laurent Dubois,
Associate Professor of History
1989-1994 Resident Director, Georgetown in Tours (France) Summer Program
Other Teaching Experience
Fall 1999
1991-1998
1986-1989
1987-88
1985-1987
1982-1984
Visiting Associate Professor of French, University of Michigan
Lecturer, Liberal Studies Program, Georgetown University
Acting Instructor of French, Yale University
Teaching Fellow, English Department, Yale University
Instructor of English as a Second Language, English Language and Orientation
Program, Yale University
Teaching Assistant, Faculté de Droit, University of Montpellier
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Marc André Bernier et Deidre Dawson (éds.) Les Lettres sur la sympathie (1798) de Sophie de
Grouchy, suivies de six études. SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) 2010 :08
(forthcoming August 2010)
Deidre Dawson and Pierre Morère, eds. Scotland and France in the Enlightenment. Lewisburg,
Pa.: Bucknell University Press, and London: Associated University Presses, 2004.
Valérie Cossy and Deidre Dawson, eds., Progrès et violence au XVIII siècle, Etudes
Internationales sur le Dix-huitième siècle 3. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2001.
Voltaire's Correspondence: an Epistolary Novel. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1994.
Book Chapters
“British and French Influences on Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American
Farmer”, British-French Exchanges in the Eighteenth-Century, eds. Doig and Medlin,
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
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“The Sublime Passion of Sophie de Grouchy” From the Enlightenment towards a Romantic
Europe of Nations, eds. P. Chezaud and D. Bonnecase, Paris: Editions Gérard Montfort, 2007.
“English, Welsh and Elvish: Language, Loss and Cultural Recovery in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord
of the Rings”. Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages, pp.147-179. Jane Chance and Alfred Siewers,
eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 105-120.
“From Moral Philosophy to Public Policy: Sophie de Grouchy’s Translation and Critique of
Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments”, Scotland and France in the Enlightenment, Deidre
Dawson and Pierre Morère, eds. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, and London:
Associated University Presses, 2004, 264-283.
“A New Incarnation of the Auld Alliance: ‘Franco-Scottish Studies’” (with Pierre Morère),
Scotland and France in the Enlightenment, Deidre Dawson and Pierre Morère, eds. Lewisburg,
Pa.: Bucknell University Press, and London: Associated University Presses, 2004, 13-29.
“A Quel prix le jardin de Candide? Progrès et violence dans l’oeuvre de Voltaire,” Progrès et
violence au XVIIIe siècle. Etudes Internationales sur le Dix-huitième siècle 3 ed. Valérie Cossy
and Deidre Dawson, eds., Paris: Honoré Champion, 2001, 189-204.
“La peinture des sentiments moraux: Gavin Hamilton et Jacques-Louis David” in Ecosse des
Lumières: Le XVIIIe siècle autrement. Grenoble: ELLUG, Université Stendhal, 1997, 319-342.
“La lettre dans la vie et l’oeuvre de Fragonard,” in La lettre au XVIIIe siècle et ses avatars.
Toronto: Editions du GREF, 1996.
"Is Sympathy So Surprising? Adam Smith and French Fictions of Sympathy," in Sociability and
Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, (reprint) Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1993.
Articles
“Chère Maman:Lettres de deux des derniers “élèves du roi” au collège militaire de Tournon à
l’époque de la Révolution 1786-1791”, La Revue du Vivarais, tome CIX, no. 3, juillet-septembre
2005, 181-204.
“Voltaire’s Complaint: Illness and Eroticism in La Correspondance,” Writers with Chronic
Illness, in Literature and Medicine, 18: 1, (1999) Johns Hopkins University Press, 24-38.
"Medieval Literature and the Voltairean Conte," in The Year's Work in Medievalism, VI,
1996, 44-54.
"Iconographie épistolaire: La Curiosité" (1993) in Le Bulletin de L'AIRE, publication of the
Interdisciplinary Society on Epistolary Research, 40-43.
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"Teaching Sensibility: Adam Smith, Rousseau, and the Formation of the Moral Spectator,"
(1992) in Enlightenment, no. 2: Nature and Nature in 18th-Century Britain, 65-84.
"Reflexions on the Letter in 17th and 18th-Century Painting," (1992) in Recherches
sémiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry 12, n.s.1-2 : Language, History and the Romance of Fact, 157-182.
"Is Sympathy So Surprising? Adam Smith and French Fictions of Sympathy,"(1991) in
Sociability and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, Eighteenth-Century Life, vol. 15, ns.
1&2 , 147-162.
"Danièle Sallenave: The Writer as Architect," (1988) Beyond the Age of Suspicion: The French
Novel Today, Yale French Studies, 237-240.
" In Search of the Real Pangloss: Voltaire's Correspondence with the Duchess of Saxe-Gotha,"
(1986) Men/Women of Letters, Yale French Studies 71, 93-112.
Book Reviews:
Elizabeth A. Whittingham, The Evolution of Tolkien’s Mythology: A Study of the History of
Middle-earth. (Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland and Company, 2007), Tolkien Studies V,
2008.
Kenneth E. Carpenter, The Dissemination of the Wealth of Nations in French and in France,
1776-1843. (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 2002), Eighteenth-Century
Scotland, no.17, Spring 2003.
Robin Nicolson, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Making of a Myth: A Study in Portraiture, 17201892. (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, London: Associated University Presses,
2001), Eighteenth-Century Scotland, no.16, Spring 2002
Dictionnaire de la pensée de Voltaire par lui-même (Suffolk: Editions Complexe, 1994), in
Erofile, an on-line critical review of French literature, August 1995.
Expériences limites de l’épistolaire: Lettres d’exil, d’enfermement, et de folie (Paris: Honoré
Champion, 1993), Le Bulletin de L'AIRE, publication of the Interdisciplinary Society on
Epistolary Research, June 1995.
De la Cour au jardin,1750-1759 by Christiane Mervaud and René Pomeau (Oxford: The
Voltaire Foundation, Taylor Institute, 1991), Eighteenth-Century Studies (1992) vol. 6, no. 1,
156-160.
Encyclopedia entries:
"History Painting","David Wilkie"," Spode Family", Wigs, Hair and Hairdressing", "Jewelers
and Jewelry"and "Augustus Toplady" in Hanoverian Britain: an Encyclopedia. New York and
London: Garland Press, 1997.
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Translations
Claude Reichler, "Talma as Néron in Brittanicus, or Putting a Monster to Good Use," (1989)
Autour de Racine: Studies in Intertextuality, Yale French Studies 76, 127-145.
Danièle Sallenave, excerpt from Les Portes de Gubbio, (1988) After the Age of Suspicion: The
French Novel Today, Yale French Studies, 249-257.
Non-scholarly Publications
"When Letters Reigned," Georgetown Magazine, (Spring/Summer 1994), 17-20; 8
PAPERS AND LECTURES
“Linguistic, Ethnic and Biodiversity in The Lord of the Rings,” presented in the “Teaching
Tolkien” Roundtable of the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI.,
7-9 May 2009.
“An Unsympathetic French Reaction to Smith’s Views on Love: Sophie de Grouchy, Marquise
de Condorcet”, invited paper presented at the XII International Congress of the Enlightenment,
Montpellier, France, July 2007.
“ Religious Tolerance in the Anglo-American World: A Foundational American Myth, or a
Construct of the European Enlightenment? : Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer” ,
paper presented at the conference Enlightenment and Religion, Interdiscplinary Center for
Enlightenment Studies, Halle, Germany, September 2005.
“La famille de Glasson: une famille militaire de Tullins”. Invited lecture presented to the Société
des amis de vieux Tullins in Tullins, France, July 2005.
Invited lecture : « Chère Maman:Lettres de deux des derniers “élèves du roi” au collège militaire
de Tournon à l’époque de la Révolution 1786-1791”, colloquium Correspondances de l’Ecole
royale militaire de Tournon au XVIIIe siècle, Tournon, France, 28 May 2005.
“Tolkien’s Aragorn/Layamon’s Arthur”, paper presented at the 40th International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI., 5-8 May 2005.
“Educating the Moral Spectator” “Educating the Moral Spectator: The Lettres sur la sympathie
of Sophie de Grouchy, marquise de Condorcet”, paper given at the conference
“Women/Knowledge Production/Sexual Difference, the annual meeting of the Group on
German Women’s Writing of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Michigan State University, May 18-21
“Sophie de Grouchy’s Lettres sur la Sympathie: A Revolutionary and Proto-Feminist Reading of
Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments”. Invited lecture, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
Dec. 3, 2004.
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“Les Lettres sur la Sympathie de 1798” Annual meeting of the Canadian Society of 18th-century
Studies, London, Ontario, October 2004.
“ La pédagogie jésuite et oratorienne au collège de Tournon”, Os Jesuítas:1540-1773”,
International Congress held in Lisbon, Portugal, 22-26 September, 2004.
“Les malheurs et le bonheur de Sophie: Sympathy, Passion and the Sublime in Sophie de
Grouchy’s Lettres sur la sympathie et lettres d’amour,” paper presented at the American Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Boston, March 2004.
“ The Sublime passion of Sophie de Grouchy”, Invited paper, International colloquium: From
the Enlightenment towards a Romantic Europe of Nations: the Paradoxes of the Sublime,
Université Stendhal, Grenoble III, France, April 2004.
“Language and Loss in MacPherson’s Poems of Ossian, and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings”,
39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 6-9, 2004.
“On the Road with Bonaparte’s army: Letters from a French aristocrat” Annual meeting of the
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, 12-16 April, 2000.
“ Jacobite Sympathies in French Arts and Letters, paper presented at the 10th International
Congress on the Enlightenment, University College Dublin, July 25-31 1999.
“Textual Eavesdropping: Reading Between the Lines of 18th-Century Correspondences,” Invited
lecture given in the Department of Romance and Classical Languages, Michigan State
University, April 1998.
“The Role of Women in Voltaire’s Correspondence,” invited paper for a special session at the
annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, December 1997.
“A quel prix le jardin de Candide? ou Progrès et violence dans l’oeuvre de Voltaire,”paper
presented at the annual East-West Seminar (a competitive and refereed event) organized by the
International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Berlin, July 1997.
“Le Temps Retrouvé en Dauphiné: La Famille Glasson de l’Ancien Régime à la Restauration,”
Invited lecture at the French Embassy, Washington, D.C., May 1997.
“Women and their Letters in 18th-century French Painting,” Invited lecture for the Columbia
University 18th-century Seminar,” December 1996
“Sophie de Grouchy’s Critique of Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments,”paper presented at
France and Scotland in the Enlightenment, 10th anniversary meeting of the Eighteenth-Century
Scottish Studies Society, Grenoble, July 1996.
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"What's in a Name? Evelina's Search for Identity," paper presented at the annual meeting of the
North Eastern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Ottawa, September 1995.
"Jacobitism and the Arts in Continental Europe," paper presented at the University of Aberdeen
Quincentenary conference Jacobitism, Scotland and the Enlightenment: Focus on the North, 29
July-3 August 1995.
“The Revision of the Tragic Hero in Sartre’s The Flies and Miller’s Death of a Salesman,”
Smithsonian Associates Great Books Lecture Series, June 1995.
"Mirror, Mirror: Le Jeu de reflets in Molière's Misanthrope,"Lecture presented to the Theatre
Department of the University of Maryland, February 1995.
" ' Ecrasons-les! Les Monstres infàmes de Voltaire,"paper presented at the annual meeting of the
Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, Québec, Canada, April 1994.
"Marriage: The Most Dangerous Liaison? Madame de Graffigny's Lettres d'une Péruvienne,"
Annual Meeting of The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Charleston, S.C.
March 1994.
"La Lettre dans la vie et l'oeuvre de Fragonard," International meeting of l'Association
Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur l'Épistolaire, York University, Toronto, April 1993.
"The Character of Alceste," invited talk given to the theater audience following a performance of
Molière's Misanthrope ,Humanities Discussion Series, Centre Stage, Baltimore, May 1992.
"The Influence of Scottish Painter Gavin Hamilton on Jacques-Louis David,"paper presented at
the joint annual meetings of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society and the East
Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, October 1992.
" The Letter in 17th and 18th-Century Painting,"paper presented at the annual convention of the
Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1991.
"Teaching Sensibility: Adam Smith, Rousseau, and the Formation of the Moral Spectator," paper
presented at an international colloquiium on Nature and Nurture in 18th-Century Britain
sponsored by Études Écossaises et Dix-Huitièmistes, a division of the CNRS (National Center
for Scientific Research), Université Stendhal III, Grenoble, France, November 1991.
"Medieval Literature and the Voltairean Conte,"paper presented at the 6th annual conference on
Medievalism, University of Delaware, October 1991.
"Is Sympathy So Surprising? Adam Smith and French Fictions of Sympathy," paper presented at
the international meeting of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, August 1990.
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"Voltaire's Complaint: Illness, Writing and Eroticism," paper presented at the annual meeting of
the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, U.S. Air Force Academy, February 1990.
"Discourses of Desire: Voltaire's Love Letters to Madame Denis," paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of California at
Berckley, February 1989.
"Unmasking the Infamous: Voltaire's Correspondence with d'Alembert," paper presented at the
annual meeting of the Midwestern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Notre
Dame, October 1988.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Residential College in the Humanities
Transition Team 2006-2007
World Language Proficiency Search Committee, Spring –Summer 2007
Provisional Advisory Committee, 2007-2009
RCAH Representative to the Faculty Council and Academic Council (Fall 2007 and Spring
2008)
Ethno-musicology Search Committee, Spring 2008
RCAH Representative to the University Curriculum Committee Spring 2007; Fall 2008 and
spring 2009)
RCAH Representative to the International Studies and Program Committee Fall 2008-Spring
2009
Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion Committee 2009Educational Policy Committee 2009Michigan State University, Department of French, Classics and Italian (from July 2003)
Lead Undergraduate Advisor for the French program, 2005-2006
Advisory Committee, 2005-2006
Curriculum and Program Committee 2004-2005
Departmental Representative, Global Literary and Cultural Studies (Spring 1999)
Michigan State University, Department of Romance and Classical Languages
Graduate Advisor to Students in French 1999-2001
Advisory Committee 1999-2000
Graduate Studies Committee 1999-2000
Search Committee for Department Chair 1999-2000
College of Arts and Letters
College Graduate Council 2000-2001; 2003-2004
Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee 2000-2001
Morrill Scholars Design Team (1999-2000)
Reviewer of applications to Competitive Doctoral Enrichment Fellowships
Reviewer of SCRAM (Special College Research Abroad Monies) applications (Special College
Research Abroad Monies)
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Academic Community
Secretary General, International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, (elected from a
membership of 10,000 for a four-year term, 2003-2007)
Assistant Secretary General, International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies
(elected from a membership of 10,000 for a four-year term 1999- 2003)
Chair, Travel Scholarship Committee, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
2004-2006
Chair, Scholarship Committee for the 11th Congress on the Enlightenment, UCLA, 2002
Referee for Illness and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Press, Spring 2000
Associate member of Columbia University Seminar on Eighteenth-Century European
Culture, appointed September 1997
Delegate of The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
to the Executive Committee International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
1995-1999
Program Director and Conference co-organizer: France and Scotland in the
Enlightenment, 10th anniversary meeting of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies
Society, Grenoble, July 1996..
Referee for Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Spring 1994
Manuscript Evaluator for Yale University Press, Spring 1994
Referee for Eighteenth-Century Life, Spring 1993
Vice President, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society 1992-93
TEACHING
Courses Designed and Taught at Michigan State University:
Residential College in the Arts and Humanities
RCAH 201: Telling the Story of Transcultural Relations Through the Ages
RCAH 202: The Presence of the Past: Defining America(n)
RCAH 290: Tutorial: Senegal and Mali
RCAH 390 sect.1: Language and Culture: Preserving The World’s Endangered
Languages
RCAH 390 sect.2: Language and Culture: Linguistic, Ethnic and Biodoversity in
the work of J.R.R. Tolkien
Graduate French Courses
FREN 891: Special Topics in French: French Literature of the Middle Ages;
Letters and literature in 18th-century France, Art and Culture in 18th-century
France
FRN 825: 18th-century French literature; The 18th-century French novel and 20thcentury cinema; Le Genre épistolaire au 18e siècle
Undergraduate French Courses
FRN 447: The Epistolary Novel
FRN 491: Art and Culture in France from the Regency to Romanticism
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FRN 420: Survey of French Literature II
FRN 465: French Literature of the 18th Century
FRN 415: French Studies I
FRN 340: Introduction to Reading French Literature
FREN 320: Self-Expression in Writing
Interdisciplinary courses
CLA 160 : Myth and Legend in the Work of J.R.R. Tolkien (with John Rauk,
for the French and Classical Studies program in Nîmes)
CLA 490: Caesar and the Celts: Cultural Accomodation and Conflict
IAH 241C: Cultural and Artistic Traditions in Europe: Art, Literature and Culture
in 18th-century France
IAH 241C: Cultural and Artistic Traditions in Europe Diversity and Dissent:
History, Literature and Culture of Languedoc (for the French and Classical
Studies program in Nîmes)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Alliance for the Study of Adoption, Identity and Kinship
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Association Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur l'Épistolaire
Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Celtic Studies Association of North America
Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
International Arthurian Society
Modern Language Association
Société américaine de Palmes Académiques
Société française de l’étude du dix-huitième siècle