EDUCATION
The Johns Hopkins University, M.A. (1979)
and Ph.D. (1981).
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
Society of Pleasures: Interdisciplinary Readings in Pleasure and
Power during the Reign of Louis XIV. NY: St. Martin's Press and
London:
Macmillan Press, 1997.
Translation of J. Stengers: Masturbation: A History of a Great
Terror.
NY: Palgrave Press, 2001.
In progress: Phantasms of the Feminine: Strange Bodies and Monstrous
Narration in the West.
CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES:
Articles on Euopean literature, history and the history of medicine,
especially in the 17th and 18th centuries. Topics include: female
bodies, witchcraft, history of anatomy, monsters, birth defects,
dictionaries, theater, fantastic literature and fairy tales, gastronomy,
violence, and modern technology. Selected recent titles:
"The Strange Bodies of Married Women,"
Dalhousie French Studies, 2001. "Flying through Classicism's
Night: The Witch in Myth and Religion," Papers on French
Seventeenth-Century Literature, 2000. "Matriarchal Desires
and Labyrinths of the Marvelous: Fairy Tales by Old Régime
Women," in Women Writers in Pre-Revolutionay France, Garland
Press, 1997 "Monstrous Women, Monstrous Theorizing: Mothers,
Physicians and les esprits animaux," Papers on French Seventeenth-Century
Literature, 1997. "Structures of the Body, Eruptions of the
Imaginary: Medical Science in the Ancien Régime,"
Cahiers du Dix-septième, 1997.
RESEARCH AWARDS:
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies
Camargo Foundation Fellowship
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
Institute for Research in the Humanities Fellowship
UH awards include Research Relations Awards, Office for Women's
Research Award, Humanities Endowment Fund awards
TEACHING AWARDS:
Regents' Medal for Excellence in Teaching
Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Languages, Linguistics
and Literature
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Literature, history and the history of medicine in France and
other European countries, esp. during the early-modern period.
Interdisciplinary literary theory and cultural studies.
COURSES USUALLY TAUGHT:
French courses, undergraduate: Conversation, Survey of French
Literature, 17th-century French literature, 20th-century French
theater.
