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CURRICULUM VITAE
GUILLAUME ANSART
1177 S. Weatherstone Lane
Bloomington, IN 47401
(812) 331–2757
Department of French & Italian
Ballantine Hall 642
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405–7103
(812) 855–9608/5458
Fax: (812) 855–8877
[email protected]
EDUCATION
1988–93: Princeton University. French Literature
Period of concentration: 17th & 18th centuries
Ph.D., November 1995
M.A., May 1990
Dissertation:
"Réflexion utopique et pratique romanesque au Siècle des Lumières"
Advisors: Professors Lionel Gossman & Thomas Pavel
1983–85: Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Exchange student
1979–84: Université Paris VII. Anglo-American Literature; Linguistics
Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies, October 1984
Maîtrise, October 1983
Licence, May 1982
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2001–
: Associate Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington
1995–2001: Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington
1994–95: Lecturer (convertible to tenure-track), Indiana University, Bloomington
1993–94: Lecturer (convertible to tenure-track), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Fall 1992: Lecturer, Princeton University
1988–92: Teaching Assistant, Princeton University
1985–87: Instructor, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1983–85: Teaching Assistant, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Condorcet. Écrits sur les États-Unis. Édition critique par Guillaume Ansart.
Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012. 195 p.
Critical edition with introduction, notes, variants, chronology, bibliography and index.
Condorcet. Writings on the United States. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by
Guillaume Ansart.
University Park: Penn State University Press, 2012. 155 p.
Translation with introduction, notes, chronology, bibliography and index.
Nominated for the 2013 J. Franklin Jameson Award of the American Historical
Association.
Réflexion utopique et pratique romanesque au Siècle des Lumières: Prévost, Rousseau,
Sade.
Paris: Lettres Modernes Minard, 1999. "Situation 53." 176 p.
Co-edited volume:
Forthcoming:
Enlightenment Liberties/Libertés des Lumières.
Proceedings of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) Annual
Seminar for Early-Career Researchers, Indiana University, Bloomington, July 2–7, 2012.
Ed. Guillaume Ansart, Raphaël Ehrsam, Catriona Seth and Yasmin Solomonescu. Paris:
Champion, forthcoming 2016.
Book chapters:
Published:
“The Invention of Modern State Terrorism during the French Revolution.”
In Elena Coda and Ben Lawton, eds. Re-Visioning Terrorism: A Humanistic Perspective.
West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2016, 157–67.
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“From Voltaire to Raynal and Diderot’s Histoire des deux Indes: The French Philosophes
and Colonial America.”
In Aurelian Craiutu and Jeffrey C. Isaac, eds. America through European Eyes. British
and French Reflections on the New World from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.
University Park: Penn State University Press, 2009, 71–89.
Forthcoming:
“Le mythe de la Pennsylvanie, l’Histoire des deux Indes, et les Recherches sur les ÉtatsUnis de Filippo Mazzei.”
Selected proceedings of the Colloque international Raynal et les Amériques,
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, June 13–15, 2013.
Accepted:
“Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Universal History and the End of History.”
To appear in a collective volume gathering the contributions of the participants in the
workshop series Assembling the Global (a collaborative project between Indiana
University, Bloomington, the University of Oslo and the Sorbonne in Paris).
Articles:
Published:
“Condorcet.”
In Hugh LaFollette, ed. International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell,
2015. 7 p.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444367072
“Variations on Montesquieu: Raynal and Diderot’s Histoire des deux Indes and the
American Revolution.”
Journal of the History of Ideas (Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press) 70.3
(July 2009): 399–420.
“Condorcet, Social Mathematics, and Women’s Rights.”
Eighteenth-Century Studies (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press) 42.3
(Spring 2009): 347–62.
"Le Triomphe de l'amour: Cross-Dressing and Self-Discovery in Marivaux."
MLN (Modern Language Notes) (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press) 117.4
(September 2002): 908–18.
"Jansenist Themes and Influences in Prévost's Cleveland."
SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation)
2001.12: 47–55.
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"Rousseau, Bataille, et le principe de l'utilité classique."
French Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 55.1 (January 2001): 25–35.
"Imaginary Encounters with the New World: Native American Utopias in EighteenthCentury French Novels."
Utopian Studies (St. Louis) 11.2 (2000): 33–41.
(invited article)
"Aspects of Rationality in Diderot's Supplément au voyage de Bougainville."
Diderot Studies (Geneva: Droz) 28 (2000): 11–19.
"Le concept de figure dans les Pensées."
Poétique (Paris: Éditions du Seuil) 121 (février 2000): 49–59.
"'Ancien' et 'Moderne' dans Manon Lescaut et La Vie de Marianne."
Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France) 99.5
(septembre 1999): 989–1006.
"L'imaginaire politique de l'abbé Prévost: De Cleveland aux Mémoires de Malte."
Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Hamilton, Ontario) 10.1 (October 1997): 29–42.
In progress:
“Rousseau, Condorcet, and the Limits of Modern Mass Democracy.”
CITATIONS
“Variations on Montesquieu: Raynal and Diderot’s Histoire des deux Indes and the American
Revolution.”
Journal of the History of Ideas 70.3 (July 2009).
1. Bourgault, Sophie and Robert Sparling. “Introduction.” In Sophie Bourgault and
Robert Sparling, eds. A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography. Leiden/Boston:
Brill, 2013, p. 21 n. 64.
2. De Francesco, Antonino. The Antiquity of the Italian Nation: The Cultural Origins of
a Political Myth in Modern Italy, 1796–1943. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013,
p. 61 n. 27.
3. Verhoeven, Wil. Americomania and the French Revolution Debate in Britain, 1789–
1802. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. 105 n. 59.
4. Brunstetter, Daniel R. Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and his Legacy in the
French Enlightenment. New York: Routledge, 2012, pp. 149, 195.
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5. Stuurman, Siep. Global Equality and Inequality in Enlightenment Thought.
Burgerhart Lecture 2010. Amsterdam: Felix Meritis, 2010, p. 23 n. 58.
“Condorcet, Social Mathematics, and Women’s Rights.”
Eighteenth-Century Studies 42.3 (Spring 2009).
1. Albertone, Manuela. “Fondements économiques de la réflexion du XVIIIe siècle
autour de l’homme porteur de droits.” Clio@Themis. Revue électronique d’histoire
du droit no 3 (2010), p. 19 n. 64.
http://www.cliothemis.com/IMG/pdf/5-_Albertone_-_pdf.pdf
2. Kitts, Sally-Ann. “Ignacio López de Ayala and the Paradoxical Nature of Women’s
Rights Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Spain.” Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment
33.2 (Fall 2010), pp. 362, 377.
3. Landes, Joan. “The History of Feminism: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat,
Marquis de Condorcet.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N.
Zalta.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/histfem-condorcet/
“From Voltaire to Raynal and Diderot’s Histoire des deux Indes: The French Philosophes and
Colonial America.”
In A. Craiutu and J. C. Isaac, eds. America through European Eyes. University Park: Penn State
University Press, 2009.
1. Bourgault, Sophie and Robert Sparling. “Introduction.” In Sophie Bourgault and
Robert Sparling, eds. A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography. Leiden/Boston:
Brill, 2013, p. 21 n. 64.
2. Israel, Jonathan. Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human
Rights (1750–1790). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 428 nn. 90, 95, 475
n. 143, 980.
3. Levine, Alan. “The Idea of Commerce in Enlightenment Political Thought.” In
Joseph Postell and Bradley C.S. Watson, eds. Rediscovering Political Economy.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011, p. 79 n. 1.
4. Whatmore, Richard. “The French and North American Revolutions in Comparative
Perspective.” In Manuela Albertone and Antonino De Francesco, eds. Rethinking the
Atlantic World. Europe and America in the Age of Democratic Revolutions.
Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, p. 235.
"Le Triomphe de l'amour: Cross-Dressing and Self-Discovery in Marivaux."
MLN (Modern Language Notes) 117.4 (September 2002).
1. Davies, Simon. “Louvet’s Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas: Sexual, Political and
Textual Imbroglios.” In Simon Burrows, Jonathan Conlin, Russell Goulbourne and
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Valerie Mainz, eds. The Chevalier d’Eon and his Worlds: Gender, Espionage and
Politics in the Eighteenth Century. London and New York: Continuum, 2010, p. 212
n. 1.
2. Maslan, Susan. “’Gotta Serve Somebody’: Service; Autonomy; Society.”
Comparative Literature Studies 46.1 (2009), p. 75 n. 31.
3. Vila, Anne. “Faux savants, femmes philosophes, and philosophes amoureux: Foibles
of the philosophe on the Eighteenth-Century French Stage.” Studies in EighteenthCentury Culture 35 (2006), pp. 208, 217 n. 26.
"Jansenist Themes and Influences in Prévost's Cleveland."
SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) 2001.12.
1. “Agrégation de Lettres Modernes 2007, bibliographie des ouvrages disponibles en
libre-accès. Cleveland, Antoine Prévost d’Exiles.” Bibliothèque Nationale de France,
2006, p. 3.
http://www.bnf.fr/pages/catalog/rtf/prevost.rtf
Selected bibliography prepared by the French National Library for the candidates to
the Agrégation de Lettres Modernes, the exam used by the French Ministry of
Education to recruit high school and university professors of French literature.
2. “Bibliographies sélectives des Agrégations de Lettres Classiques, Grammaire et
Lettres Modernes.” L’Information littéraire 58.3 (2006), p. 49.
3. Leborgne, Erik. Figures de l’imaginaire dans le Cleveland de Prévost. Paris:
Desjonquères, 2006, p. 275.
"Rousseau, Bataille, et le principe de l'utilité classique."
French Studies 55.1 (January 2001).
1. Inston, Kevin. Rousseau and Radical Democracy. London and New York:
Continuum, 2010, pp. 201 n. 21, 214.
"Imaginary Encounters with the New World: Native American Utopias in Eighteenth-Century
French Novels."
Utopian Studies 11.2 (2000).
1. Stern, Philip J. “Exploration and Enlightenment.” In Dane Kennedy, ed.
Reinterpreting Exploration: The West in the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2014, p. 72 n. 19.
2. Gallouët, Catherine. “Le topos de la rencontre de l’autre au XVIIIe siècle.” In JeanPierre Dubost, ed. Topographie de la rencontre dans le roman européen. ClermontFerrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2008, p. 208.
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3. Pohl, Nicole. “The Quest for Utopia in the Eighteenth Century.” Literature Compass
5.4 (2008), pp. 700, 702.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00556.x/pdf
4. Pohl, Nicole. Women, Space and Utopia, 1600–1800. Aldershot, UK and Burlington,
VT: Ashgate, 2006, p. 167.
"Aspects of Rationality in Diderot's Supplément au voyage de Bougainville."
Diderot Studies 28 (2000).
1. Ganim, Russell. “Autre temps, autres mœurs: altérité et identité dans le Supplément
au voyage de Bougainville.” Neohelicon 39.1 (2012), pp. 214 n. 14, 220.
2. McAlpin, Mary. Female Sexuality and Cultural Degradation in Enlightenment
France: Medicine and Literature. Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012,
pp. 61, 186.
3. Crowther, Louise. Diderot and Lessing as Exemplars of a Post-Spinozist Mentality.
London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2010, pp. 41 n. 67, 165.
"Le concept de figure dans les Pensées."
Poétique 121 (février 2000).
1. Gaudin-Bordes, Lucile. La représentation au XVIIe siècle: pour une approche
intersémiotique. Paris: Champion, 2007, pp. 65, 308.
2. Papasogli, Benedetta. “Espace/espaces: le fragment des trois ordres.” Littératures 55
(2007), p. 157 n. 27.
3. Pop, Călin Cristian. “L’infini et les digressions dans l’œuvre de Blaise Pascal.” Studia
Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Philosophia 52 (2007), p. 102.
4. Maierhofer, Martina. Zur Genealogie des Imaginären: Montaigne, Pascal, Rousseau.
Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003, pp. 148 n. 45, 208.
"'Ancien' et 'Moderne' dans Manon Lescaut et La Vie de Marianne."
Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France 99.5 (septembre 1999).
1. Stewart, Philip. L’Invention du sentiment: roman et économie affective au XVIIIe
siècle. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2010, pp. 145, 240.
2. Marivaux. La Vie de Marianne. Ed. Jean-Marie Goulemot. Paris: LGF, le Livre de
Poche, 2007, p. 693.
Réflexion utopique et pratique romanesque au Siècle des Lumières: Prévost, Rousseau, Sade.
Paris: Lettres Modernes Minard, 1999.
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1. Le Borgne, Françoise. Rétif de La Bretonne et la crise des genres littéraires (1767–
1797). Paris: Champion, 2011, p. 519.
2. Lai, Jun-Wei. “The Erotic Utopia in the French Enlightenment: On the Erotic
Republic of Marquis de Sade.” Universitas—Monthly Review of Philosophy and
Culture 37.7 (2010): 103–17. In Chinese.
3. Roulston, Chris. Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France.
Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010, pp. 90–91 n. 101, 215.
4. Carilla, José Luis Calvo. El sueño sostenible: Estudios sobre la utopía literaria en
España. Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2008, p. 20 n. 10.
5. Perrier, Murielle. “From Social Marginalization to Language Transgression: The
Figure of the Picaro in Sade’s Aline et Valcour.” Transitions: Journal of FrancoIberian Studies 4 (2008), pp. 35, 38, 40 nn. 5–6.
6. Pohl, Nicole. “The Quest for Utopia in the Eighteenth Century.” Literature Compass
5.4 (2008), pp. 688, 702.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00556.x/pdf
7. Schmeisser, Martin. “Die Erfindung des ‘mauvais sauvage’: Marquis de Sades Butua
und das Bild des Kannibalen bei Léry und Montaigne.” In Sabrina Ebbersmeyer,
Helga Pirner-Pareschi and Thomas Ricklin, eds. Sol et homo: Mensch und Natur in
der Renaissance. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2008, p. 582.
8. Baridon, Laurent. “L’Architecture de Ledoux: traité, utopie ou contre-utopie?” In
Gérard Chouquer and Jean-Claude Daumas, eds. Autour de Ledoux: architecture,
ville et utopie. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2007, pp. 103,
114.
9. Grélé, Denis. “Et si l’habit faisait l’utopie: Concevoir un vêtement idéal au XVIIIe
siècle.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 35 (2007), p. 118.
10. Pohl, Nicole and Brenda Tooley, eds. Gender and Utopia in the Eighteenth Century.
Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007, pp. 6 n. 14, 179.
11. “Agrégation de Lettres Modernes 2007, bibliographie des ouvrages disponibles en
libre-accès. Cleveland, Antoine Prévost d’Exiles.” Bibliothèque Nationale de France,
2006, p. 3.
http://www.bnf.fr/pages/catalog/rtf/prevost.rtf
12. Albertini, Pasquine. Sade et la république. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2006, pp. 95 (2), 96,
96–97, 117.
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13. “Bibliographies sélectives des Agrégations de Lettres Classiques, Grammaire et
Lettres Modernes.” L’Information littéraire 58.3 (2006), p. 49.
14. Leborgne, Erik. Figures de l’imaginaire dans le Cleveland de Prévost. Paris:
Desjonquères, 2006, p. 275.
15. Racault, Jean-Michel. “Voyages et utopies.” In Michel Prigent, Jean-Charles Darmon
and Michel Delon, eds. Histoire de la France littéraire, vol. 2. Paris: Presses
Universitaires de France, 2006, p. 338.
16. Sauvage, Emmanuelle. “Sade et l’exotisme africain: images de Noirs.” Etudes
littéraires 37.3 (2006), pp. 97 n. 2, 115.
17. Stewart, Philip and Stéphanie Genand. Cleveland d’Antoine Prévost d’Exiles.
Neuilly: Atlande, 2006, pp. 92, 94–95, 95, 217.
18. Heyer, Andreas. Die französische Aufklärung um 1750, vol. 1. Berlin: Uni-Edition,
2005, pp. 159, 172, 246.
19. Saage, Richard and Andreas Heyer. “Rousseaus Stellung zum Utopischen Diskurs der
Neuzeit.” Politische Vierteljahresschrift 46.3 (2005), pp. 391 n. 3, 404.
20. Vilmer, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène. Sade moraliste. Geneva: Droz, 2005, pp. 264, 362,
362 n. 8, 364, 364 n. 13, 490 n. 13, 500.
21. Delon, Michel and Catriona Seth, eds. Sade en toutes lettres. Paris: Desjonquères,
2004, p. 238.
22. Mall, Laurence. “Prévost ou l’exotisme tragique: l’épisode américain dans
Cleveland.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 33 (2004), pp. 271–2 n. 21.
23. Mall, Laurence. “Théories et réalités de l’égalité et de l’inégalité dans Aline et
Valcour.” In Norbert Sclippa, ed. Lire Sade. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2004, p. 122 n. 3.
24. Berthiaume, Pierre. “Abaquis et Nopandes, ou l’Herméneutique inversée du
Philosophe anglais de Prévost.” Tangence 72 (2003), pp. 103–4 n. 40, 106 n. 45.
25. Edmiston, William F. “Atrocities of a different kind: incest and the veil in Sade’s
Aline et Valcour.” SVEC 2003.12, pp. 349–50 n. 4.
26. Racault, Jean-Michel. Nulle part et ses environs: voyage aux confins de l’utopie
littéraire classique (1657–1802). Paris: Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne,
2003, p. 7 n. 7.
"L'imaginaire politique de l'abbé Prévost: De Cleveland aux Mémoires de Malte."
Eighteenth-Century Fiction 10.1 (October 1997).
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1. Prévost. Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de Malte, ou Histoire de la jeunesse du
commandeur de ***. Ed. René Démoris and Erik Leborgne. Paris: GF-Flammarion,
2005, pp. 25, 302.
2. Leborgne, Erik and Jean-Paul Sermain, eds. Les expériences romanesques de Prévost
après 1740. Louvain: Peeters, 2003, p. 367.
3. Sermain, Jean-Paul. Rhétorique et roman au dix-huitième siècle: L’exemple de
Prévost et de Marivaux, 1728–1742. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1999, p. 193.
COURSES TAUGHT AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY
F300 Reading and Expression in French: Fall 14, Fall 13, Fall 12, Spring 12, Fall 11, Spring
11, Fall 10, Fall 07, Spring 07, Fall 06, Fall 05, Fall 04, Fall 03.
F300 Lectures et analyses littéraires (Intro to Literary Analysis): Fall 00, Fall 96 (2), Spring
96, Fall 95, Fall 94 (2).
F305 Théâtre et essai: Fall 14.
F306 Roman et poésie (Novel and Poetry): Fall 15, Fall 08, Fall 07, Fall 05, Fall 04, Fall 03,
Fall 99, Fall 98, Spring 95.
F310 Topics in French Literature in Translation: Tocqueville’s America: Fall 13.
F313 Advanced Grammar and Composition I: Fall 95.
F317 French in the Business World: Spring 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 09, 08, 07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02,
01, 00, 99, 98, 97, 96.
F375 Thèmes et perspectives littéraires: Molière et Marivaux: Fall 15, Spring 13.
F435 Enlightenment Narrative (“Love, the Family, and Social Order: The Novel from
Enlightenment to Romanticism [1730–1815]”): Spring 09, Spring 04, Fall 99.
F436 Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau: Fall 11, Fall 00.
F450 Colloquium in French Studies: The Enlightenment and Other Cultures: Spring 95.
Tocqueville’s America: Fall 13.
F495 Individual Reading in French Literature: Fall 07, Summer 02, Spring 01.
F535 L’Essai au XVIIIe siècle/The Philosophy of the Enlightenment: Spring 14, Fall 10,
Spring 01, Fall 98.
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F536 Le Roman au XVIIIe siècle (18th-Century Novel): Fall 12, Spring 08, Spring 05, Spring
99, Spring 97.
F635 The Enlightenment and Other Cultures: Spring 15, Fall 08, Spring 03, Spring 98.
F815 Individual Readings in French Literature: Fall 99.
F825 Writing History in France: From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Fall 06.
DISSERTATION & RESEARCH SUPERVISION
Committee chair:
Erin Myers (“The Evolving Definition of Man: From the Idéologues to Lamarck and
Beyond”). Recipient of the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ Dissertation
Fellowship, 2014–15. In progress.
Kate Bastin (“Humanity in Play: Man Meets Monkey in Ancien Régime France”). Recipient
of the College of Arts & Sciences’ Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2013–14. In
progress.
Committee member:
Nicholas Best, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science (“A Veritable Proteus: The
Synthesis, Analysis and Redintegration of a Revolution in Chemistry”). In progress.
Margaret Dempster ("Writing, Punishment and the Self: A Study of Five Twentieth-Century
French Novels"). Dissertation defended, Spring 2007.
Patrick Westhoff ("A Pilgrimage Narrative or a Mission Account?: Reconciling the Two
Halves of Mandeville’s Livre Jehan de Mandeville"). Dissertation defended, Spring 2003.
Wendy Carson Yoder (“The Abbé Prévost’s Unconventional View of Friendship”).
Dissertation defended, Spring 2000.
Sara Van Den Heuvel. MA Thesis, Dept. of Comparative Literature. Accepted December
2007.
Final Examination (Dissertation Defense) Committee member:
Michaela Ionescu (“Le Sentiment de la solitude chez quelques romancières du dix-huitième
siècle: Mmes de Tencin, de Graffigny et de Charrière”). Dissertation defended, Fall 1997.
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Outside reader:
Benjamin Hoffmann, Dept. of French, Yale University (“Posthumous America: Literary
Recreations of America at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century”). Dissertation defended,
Spring 2015.
PAPERS & PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
Co-organizer:
Enlightenment Liberties/Libertés des Lumières
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) Annual Seminar for EarlyCareer Researchers, Indiana University, Bloomington, July 2–7, 2012.
Competitive or invited papers:
“Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Universal History and the End of History.”
Assembling the Global. International workshop, École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales, Paris, December 14–15, 2015.
“Americanomania in France during the Age of Revolution, 1775–1794.”
Enthousiasme et Nostalgie: Variations in French Intellectual Interest in North America,
Indiana University, Bloomington, October 22, 2015.
“Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Universal History and the End of History.”
Assembling the Global. International workshop, University of Oslo, June 11–13, 2014.
“Founding ‘Firsts’: The Greek Example in Condorcet’s Tableau historique des progrès de
l’esprit humain.”
Assembling the Global: Universal History, Past and Present. International workshop,
Indiana University, Bloomington, September 26–27, 2013.
“Le mythe de la Pennsylvanie, l’Histoire des deux Indes, et les Recherches sur les États-Unis
de Filippo Mazzei.”
Colloque international Raynal et les Amériques, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, June 13–15,
2013.
“Condorcet and Enlightenment Universal History.”
Roundtable on Universal History, Indiana University, Bloomington, May 7, 2013.
“Condorcet’s Writings on the United States.”
Illinois State University, Normal, April 1, 2013.
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The Tocqueville Program, Department of Political Science (Political Theory
Colloquium), and Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana
University, Bloomington, January 25, 2013.
“Musical Imitation in Rousseau’s Essai sur l’origine des langues.”
Languages of the Baroque: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Indiana University,
Bloomington, April 14, 2012.
“Rousseau, Condorcet, and the Limits of Modern Mass Democracy.”
Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association
(Seattle, January 5–8, 2012).
“The Invention of Modern State Terrorism during the French Revolution.”
Re-Visioning Terrorism. International conference held at Purdue University, September 8–
10, 2011.
“Condorcet et l’Amérique.”
Ancien Régime Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, May 25–26, 2011.
“Condorcet and the Birth of Social Choice Theory.”
Dept. of French & Italian Student-Faculty Forum, Indiana University, Bloomington, March
6, 2009.
“Mathematics and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century France.”
61st Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
(Lexington, April 17–19, 2008).
“Condorcet, Social Mathematics, and Women’s Rights.”
59th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
(Lexington, April 20–22, 2006).
“The Spirit of the Laws Revisited: Raynal, Diderot, Condorcet on the American Revolution.”
35th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Oxford,
January 4–6, 2006).
“America in Pre-Revolutionary France: The Philosophes as Observers of the American
Experiment.”
America Seen through Foreign Eyes. International conference organized by the dept. of
political science, Indiana University, Bloomington, March 24–27, 2005.
"Reflections in a Mirror: Representations of the Self in Three Eighteenth-Century French
Novels."
Annual Convention of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
(Toronto, October 19–21, 2000).
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"Le Triomphe de l'amour: Cross-Dressing and Self-Discovery in Marivaux."
Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
(Santa Fe, NM, October 14–16, 1999).
"L'Utopie 'noire' du marquis de Sade."
Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment
(University College, Dublin, July 25–31, 1999).
"Bougainville as Explorer and Conqueror: Communicative vs. Instrumental Reason in
Diderot's Supplément au voyage de Bougainville."
Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
(Newport, RI, November 19–22, 1998).
"Imaginary Encounters with the New World: Native American Utopias in EighteenthCentury French Novels."
Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies
(Montréal, October 15–18, 1998).
"Jansenist Themes and Influences in Prévost's Cleveland."
Annual Convention of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
(Boston, December 11–14, 1997).
"Utopie et roman romanesque au Siècle des Lumières."
Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association
(Minneapolis, November 4–7, 1993).
Session chair:
“Science”
32nd Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium (Indiana University,
Bloomington, October 19–21, 2006).
"Sade utopiste?"
First International Sade Congress (Charleston, SC, March 12–15, 2003).
Panel participant:
“Eighteenth-Century Hospitalities.”
Thirteenth Annual Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Studies Workshop, Indiana University,
Bloomington, May 14–16, 2014.
“For Instance: Eighteenth-Century Exemplarity, Its Practice and Limits.”
Twelfth Annual Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Studies Workshop, Indiana University,
Bloomington, May 8–10, 2013.
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“Pascal at 350: A Dialogue Across the Disciplines.”
Indiana University, Bloomington, April 2, 2012.
Roundtable discussion organized by the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies in honor of
Prof. Joanna Stalnaker, recipient of the 2010 Kenshur Prize for her book, The Unfinished
Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia.
Indiana University, Bloomington, October 20, 2011.
"Berlioz Over Two Centuries: Interpretations, Evaluations, Reconstructions."
Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington, April 24–26, 2003.
"The Future of French Studies in the US."
Princeton University, June 1, 2001.
Workshops:
“Mixed Media, Mixed Messages in the Eighteenth Century.”
Eighth Annual Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Studies Workshop, Indiana University,
Bloomington, May 13–15, 2009.
“New Paradigms for Revolutionary Studies: French-American Colloquium.”
University of Notre Dame / Indiana University South Bend, October 6–7, 2008.
“Lines of Amity, Lines of Enmity: War and Peace in the Eighteenth Century.”
Fifth Annual Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Studies Workshop, Indiana University,
Bloomington, May 10–13, 2006.
"Signs of the Self."
First Annual Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Studies Workshop, Indiana University,
Bloomington, May 22–25, 2002.
Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), Indiana University,
Bloomington, June 7–10, 1998.
International Business and Foreign Language Education.
Organized by the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER),
University of Memphis, February 22–24, 1996.
International Business and Foreign Language Education.
Organized by the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER),
UCLA, February 16–17, 1996.
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AWARDS & GRANTS
External funding for the “International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar for
Early-Career Researchers” (2012):
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Grant (3,500 GBP).
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Grant ($5,000).
Société Française d’Etude du XVIIIe Siècle (1,000 Euros).
Internal funding for the “International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar for
Early-Career Researchers” (2012):
College Arts & Humanities Institute (CAHI) Grant ($8,000).
Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) Grant-in-Aid ($2,500).
Office of the Vice President for International Affairs (OVPIA) Grant ($2,000).
Barr-Koon Fund of the Dept. of French & Italian ($2,000).
Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies ($500).
Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2009 ($8,000).
College Arts & Humanities Institute (CAHI) Fellowship, Spring 2006 (partial course
release).
Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TERA), 1999 ($1,200).
Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1995 ($5,000).
SERVICE AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Departmental service:
Graduate Examiner in French Literature: 1999–2007.
Member, Tenure Review Committee for Prof. Hall Bjornstad (2013, wrote departmental
report on teaching).
Member, Tenure Review Committee for Prof. Oana Panaïté (2010, wrote departmental report
on teaching).
Member, Third-Year Review Committee for Prof. Nicolas Valazza (2012, wrote report on
research).
Hiring Committee for Visiting Assistant Professor Position: 2010–11, 2008–09.
Hiring Committee for Junior Position in 19th-Century Literature: 2005–06.
Hiring Committee for Junior Position in Theater: 2011–12, 2003–04, 2002–03.
Hiring Committee for Position in 17th-Century Literature: 1999–2000.
Hiring Committee for Junior Position in 17th-Century Literature: 1995–96.
Committee on Undergraduate Language Curriculum (departmental retreat committee): 1995.
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (departmental retreat committee): 1995.
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Departmental committees:
French Literature Graduate Studies Committee: 2013–15, 2001–07.
French Undergraduate Studies Committee: 2007–08, 2003–04.
Salary Committee: 2014–15, 2010–11, 2007–08, 2003–04.
Departmental Funds Committee: 2008–09, 1999–2001.
French Graduate Recruitment & Admissions Committee: 2015–16, 2011–13, 2004–05,
2000–01.
AI Awards Committee: 2010–11, 2005–06, 2002–04, 1998–2000, 1995–97.
Chair's Advisory Committee: 1997–99.
Guest Speakers Committee: 2011–13.
Placement Interview Committee: 1995–97.
F300 Committee: 1996–97.
Barr-Koon Committee: 1994–95.
College/University committees:
Academic Fairness Committee: 2013– .
Chair, Campus Review Board: September 17, 2015; November 11, 2013; May 8, 2006.
Member, Campus Review Board: April 30, 2015; December 5, 2014; September 26, 2014;
April 30, 2014; May 8, 2006.
Student Conduct Hearing Commission (first step): 1997–2008.
Student Academic Appointees Affairs Committee (formerly AI Affairs Committee): 1998–
2007.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Director of the series Americana in the collection “Bibliothèque du XVIIIe siècle” at
Classiques Garnier, Paris.
Referee/Reader for: History of Political Thought
Intellectual History Review
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Nouvelles Etudes Francophones
Utopian Studies
Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook
Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts
Chair, Graduate Student Paper Prize Committee, American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, 2013– .
Corresponding member for the United States, équipe inventaire Condorcet, an international
team of scholars working toward a complete inventory of Condorcet’s manuscripts, printed
works, and correspondence.
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Evaluator for a major grant ($100,000 + over 5 years) for the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada (2012).
External reviewer for Tenure and Promotion:
Prof. Rebecca Wilkin, Pacific Lutheran University (2010).
Prof. Rori Bloom, University of Florida (2009).
Prof. Luc Monnin, Reed College (2009).
Prof. Michael Winston, University of Oklahoma (2004).
Book manuscript evaluations:
“Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio” (1792) by Claude-François de LezayMarnésia. Translation with introduction and notes, for Penn State University Press
(2014).
“The Greek Girl’s Story” by abbé Prévost. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by
Alan J. Singerman, for Penn State University Press (2012).
“Scorned, Battered, and Bruised. Wife-Abuse in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction and
Society” by Mary Trouille, for Indiana University Press (2006).
"L'Evidence du tableau dans Les cent-vingt journées de Sodome et les trois Justine de
Sade" by Emmanuelle Sauvage, for Presses de l'Université de Montréal (2004).
Book Reviews:
Anguissola, Alberto Beretta. Ombres de l’Utopie: Essais sur les voyages imaginaires du
XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2011. Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France,
forthcoming.
Tauchert, Ashley. Against Transgression. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. French
Studies 64.2 (April 2010): 231–32.
Pierse, Síofra. Voltaire historiographer: narrative paradigms. SVEC 2008.05. Oxford:
Voltaire Foundation, 2008. The French Review 83.3 (February 2010): 654.
Stewart, Philip and Stéphanie Genand. Cleveland d’Antoine Prévost d’Exiles. Neuilly:
Atlande, 2006. The French Review 82.4 (March 2009): 842–43.
Donskis, Leonidas. Forms of Hatred: The Troubled Imagination in Modern Philosophy
and Literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003. Utopian Studies 15.1 (2004): 106–109.
“Love, Pleasure and Subjectivity in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel.” EighteenthCentury Studies 36.2 (Winter 2003): 270–75. Review Essay of: Hartmann, Pierre. Le
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contrat et la séduction: Essai sur la subjectivité amoureuse dans le roman des
Lumières. Paris: Champion, 1998; Cusset, Catherine. Les romanciers du plaisir.
Paris: Champion, 1998.
Stelzig, Eugene L. The Romantic Subject in Autobiography: Rousseau and Goethe.
Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2000. French Studies 56.1
(January 2002): 102–103.
Voltaire. Candide and Related Texts. Translated, with an introduction, by David
Wootton. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000. Utopian
Studies 12.2 (2001): 394–95.
Cooper, Laurence D. Rousseau, Nature, and the Problem of the Good Life. University
Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Utopian Studies 11.2 (2000):
251–53.
While a graduate student at Princeton, I worked with Prof. Thomas Trezise on his translation
of Paul de Man's Allegories of Reading: Allégories de la lecture (Paris: Galilée, 1989).
OTHER
Personal:
Citizenship: US
Date of birth: December 10, 1960
Place of birth: Paris, France
Member: Modern Language Association
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
American Association of Teachers of French
American Association of University Professors
18th-Century Interdisciplinary Electronic Discussion List (Penn State, Kevin
Berland)
Society for Eighteenth-Century French Studies Electronic Discussion List
(Duke, Philip Stewart)
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