CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Lise Leibacher-Ouvrard

 

Department of French and Italian

Modern Languages 549

The University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona 85721 

(520) 621-7349

Born January 29, 1952; Flers (Orne), France.

French citizen, permanent U.S. resident.

 

I.  EDUCATION  

 

Ph.D.         Stanford University.  1982.  French.  Dissertation: Voyages utopiques louis­quatorziens (Utopian Imaginary Journeys in the Reign of Louis XIV).  R. Giraud, Director.

M.A.          San Jose State University.  1977.  French.  Thesis on French-Canadian litera­ture: Eléments sartriens et camusiens dans l'oeuvre d'André Langevin (Sartrian and Camusian Elements in the Works of André Langevin).  C. Cook, Direc­tor.

Maîtrise     Université de Lille III, France.  1975.  English.  Thesis on Shakespeare's Timon of Athens (in English).  V. Bourgy, Director.

Licence      Université de Lille III, France.  1973.  English Language and Literature.

 

 

Major        French Literature and Culture of the Seventeenth Century. 

Fields:       Gender Studies.  Utopias/Utopianism.  Libertinism/Libertinage (17th-18th c.). 

                   Medical, confessional and literary discourses on sexuality (17th-18th c.)

 

 

 

II.  ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

 

University of Arizona                   2002--           Professor of French

                                                       1996 (Fall)     Co-Acting Department Head

                                                       1991-1992    Acting Department Head 

                                                       1991--           Associate Professor of French (tenured)

                                                       1985-1991    Assistant Professor of French

                                                       1983-1985    Instructor; Adjunct Assistant Professor

 

Stanford University                      1978-1979    Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Ottawa                    1975-1976    Visiting Instructor of FrenchSan Jose State Univ.     1976-1977   Graduate Teaching Assistant

Queen Ann Grammar School     1973-1974      Visiting Instructor of French

 York, England.


 

 

III.  GRANTS AND AWARDS

 

     Grants:

 

--  Study Grant from the French Government/Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris (Spring 1984) (all expenses paid excluding travel).  

--  Travel Grants from the University of Arizona Committee on Foreign Travel (Fall 1986; Spring 1989; Spring 1995).

--  American Council of Learned Societies.  Grant-in-Aid (Spring 1990). 

--  University of Arizona Small Grant (1990-1991).

--  National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (Summer 1991).

--  Dean's Discretionary Funding Award (Spring 1996) (publication of Sarraute volume).

--  College of Humanities Individual Research Grant (Spring 1998).

--  National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (tenure requested for six-month only; Spring 1999).

--   Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Fall 2004): publication subvention (CAN$ 6.000) for a critical edition of  Michel de Pure, Epigone, histoire du siècle futur (1659).  In collaboration with Daniel Maher, University of Calgary.  50% responsible.  Edition forth­coming in Spring 2005 (see Publications, below).

 

 

     Awards:

 

--  1986 Provost's Teaching Improvement Award for the development and implementa­tion of a new "Business Emphasis Option" within the existing French Major.

--  One of the Five Finalists in the Five Star Faculty Award for outstanding teachers (the only university-wide, student-determined award at the University of Arizona) (Spring 1987).  (Also among official nominees in 1984, 1989 and 1990).

--  1988 Provost's Teaching Improvement Award to further refine the "Business Empha­sis Option" within the French Major.Nominated for a possible Residential Fellowship (nine to twelve months) at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stan­ford University (August 1990).

 

--  Nominated by UA President Pacheco for a Howard Foundation fellowship (Fall 1991).

--  University of Arizona Mortar Board Citation Award ("awarded to select faculty members on the basis of intense devotion to and distinguished academic accom­plishments in one field of endeavor") (Spring 1992).

--  1992 Best Boss Award granted by the UA Beta Group, a UA association of adminis­trative and executive assistants (October 1992).

--  University of Arizona Mortar Board Hall of Fame Award ("recognition of a woman among the university faculty or staff who has demonstrated leadership, promoted high standards in the academic community, and has contributed outstanding serv­ice both to the students and to the overall welfare of the University") (Spring 1995).

--  College of Humanities Distinguished Advising Award (Spring 1997).

--  One of the Five Finalists in the Five Star Faculty Award for outstanding teachers (Spring 1997).  (Also a finalist in 1987, and among official nominees in 1984, 1989 and 1990).

--  University of Arizona Mortar Board Certificate of Recognition (Spring 1998).

--  University of Arizona Mortar Board Certificate of Appreciation (recognition of "Outstanding Contribution and Dedication to University of Arizona Students") (Spring 2000).

--  Nominated to the Graduate and Professional Student Council as Graduate Advisor of the Year (Spring 2001).

 -- College of Humanities Distinguished Innovation in Teaching Award (with Sustained Contributions to Mentoring) (Spring 2001).

 

 

 

IV.  INTRAMURAL SERVICE

 

Departmental Committees / Service / Outreach:

 

--  Honors Program in French.  Advisor (appointed: 1985-1991; 1993-1996).

--  Annual Second Language Teachers' Symposia (every Fall since 1985-- except for 4 years including sabbatical leaves; latest, F. 2002).  Attendance only.

--  Alliance Française de Tucson.  A member since 1985. 

--      Paper on "Féminin et Idéal au XVIIe siècle" (Dec. 1985).

--  American Graduate School of International Management (AGSIM / "Thunderbird").  Member of the Examination Jury (Dec. 1986).  Oral examination of candidates for the "Certificat" de la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris.

--  Graduate Studies Committee (elected:  1985-1986; 1986-1987; 1987-1988; 1988-1989; 1989-1990; 1990-1991; Fall 1993); (as Dir. of Graduate Studies, appointed:  1994-1998; 1999-2001); (appointed:  2002-2003).

--  Curriculum Committee (elected:  1985-1986; 1986-1987; 1989-1990; 1990-1991; appointed: 2002-2003).

--  Language Instruction Committee (elected:  1985-1986; 1986-1987; 1987-1988; 1988-1989; 1989-1990; 1990-1991).

--  International Programs Liaison Committee.  Chair (1985-1986).

--  Study Abroad Paris Program.  Co-director (1985-1986; with Prof. I. Kohn).  Course design and student recruitment.  Program postponed in May 1986.

--  Departmental Scholarships and (various) Prize Committees (1985-1993); Poetry Prize (S 2000; S 2001).

--  Search Committee: position of Director of Language Instruction (1986-1987).

--  Faculty Annual Performance Evaluation ("Merit") Committee:

         1986-7:   elected alternate member; annual activity reports and teaching evalua-

                           tions of the three regular Committee members.

         1987-8:   elected regular member; same charge as above for entire departmental

                           faculty.

         1988-9:   elected Committee Chair; same as above plus performance tabulation,

                           ranking, and report to Department Head.

         1990-1:   elected member and secretary to the Chair (performance tabulation,

                           ranking, and written report to the Head).

         1995-6:   elected regular member.

         1996-7:   elected regular member.

--  Search Committee:  position in Francophone literature (1988-1989).

--  Search Committee:  position in Italian (Spring 1989).

--  Search Committee:  position in 20th c. French literature (1989-1990).

--  Search Committee:  position in Italian (1989-1990).

--  Ad Hoc Committees (3); Self-Study phase of the Department's Ten Year  Review (Overview of the Program's Academic Quality; Undergraduate Program; Gradu­ate Program) (Spring 1990-1991).

--  Executive Committee (elected:  1990-1991; Fall 1993; 1994-1995; 1995-1996; 1996-1997; 1997-1998; 1999-2000).

--  Acting Department Head.  French and Italian (1991-1992).

--  Search Committee:  Senior Italianist and Department Head (1991-1992).

--  Search Committee:  Senior Francophonist and Department Head (1992-1993)

--  Study Abroad Committee (Fall 1993).  Chair.

--  Search Committee:  Department Head (internal) (Fall 1994).

--  Search Committee:  position in 18th-19th c. French literature (1994-1995)

--  Promotion and Tenure Committee for Dr. B. Bigi (Spring 1995).

--  Search Committee:  position in Applied Linguistics (1995-1996).  Chair.

--  Fourth-Year Review Committee for Dr. P. Sanou (Fall 1995).

--  Director of Graduate Studies (Fall 1994-Spring 2001).

--  Fourth-Year Review Committee for Dr. R. McGinnis (Fall 1996).  Chair.

--  Co-Acting Department Head (Fall 1996).

--  Second-Year Review Committee for Dr. D. Ayoun (Fall 1997). 

--  Second-Year Review Committee for Dr. T. Picarazzi (Fall 1997).

--  Promotion and Tenure Committee for Dr. R. McGinnis (Fall 1997).  Chair.

--  Coordinator.  Freshman Colloquium (1996-1997; 1997-1998).

--  French National Contest (Concours National de Français.  Alliance française). Advertising for Contest, administering the tests, screening essays (Nov. 1999; Feb. 2001; Feb. 2002, Feb. 2003, March 2004; February 2005); for the first time in the history of the Con­cours in Tucson, the 2001 Contest involved students from several campuses of Pima Community College.

--  Semaine nationale de la Francophonie (Nov. 1999) (member of screening committee for logo; ordering and paying for 900 brochures, and for present for Santa Rita High School student; letters of commendation).

--  Alliance Française Liaison for the Department of French and Italian, and Member of the Alliance Française Executive Committee.  Generally:  attendance / co-spon­soring of some meetings, announcements on Web and various Lists (1999--).  In S. 2000:  definition of The Albert Anavy and Frank M. Chambers Memorial Scholarship (awarded annually to a UA senior in French).

--  Search Committee:  Department Head (1999-2000).

--  Language Fair (included students from Yuma, Patagonia, Nogales, Maricopa County and the Utah border).  Judge for drama (Spring 2000; Spring 2001) and poetry (Spring 2003); Oral Proficiency, and Poetry (Spring 2004). 

--  Self-Study Committee:  departmental Academic Program Review (Fall 2000).

--  Beattie Scholarship Committee (Spring 2001).

--  Anavy/Chambers Scholarship Committee (Spring 2001).

--  Search Committee:  visiting assistant professor of French (Spring 2001).

--  Search Committee (interviews at MLA): position in 20th c./Francophone literature (Dec. 2001). 

--  Student Affairs Committee (appointed: 2002-2003; all awards and scholarships).

--  Promotion and Tenure Committee for Dr. M.-P. LeHir (Fall 2003). 

--  Faculty Annual Performance Evaluation ("Merit") Committee (Spring 2005).

 

 

  

College Committees/Service:

 

--  Grade Appeal Committee (Fall 1986).  Chair.                 

--  College Curriculum Review Committee:  member (1988-1989; 1989-1990);

         chair (1990-1991).

--  Committee on Research in Using Technology for the Humanities (1988-1989).

--  Faculty of Humanities Affirmative Action Network (1989-1990).

--  Dean's "Buddy" System (to help incoming faculty):  for a faculty member in English (1989-1991); for two faculty members in Spanish and Portuguese (1990-1992); for a faculty member in German (1992-1994).

--  Faculty of Humanities Planning and Policies Advisory Committee (advisory to Heads and Deans, now called DAC) (1990-1991; 1991-1992); (remained on subcommit­tee for P&T Procedures during Acting Headship, 1991-1992).

--  Executive Committee; Program of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory (1991-1992).

--  Promotion and Tenure Committee for the department of German (Fall 1993).

--  Promotion and Tenure Committee for the department of Russian (Fall 1995; sus­pended).

--  Advisory Committee on a possible merger between the departments of French and Italian, and Spanish and Portuguese (Spring 1997).

--  Humanities Research Initiative Advisory Committee (reviewer of research grant applications for COH):  (1995-1996; 1996-1997; Fall 1997).

--  College of Humanities Curriculum Review Committee (Spring 2000).

--  UA Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation (UAMARCC) Scholarships Committee (Prof. Dahood, Chair, Dept. of English) (Spring-Fall 2001).

--  College of Humanities Committee for Teaching, Mentoring/Advising, and Outreach Awards (Spring 2003).

--  College of Humanities Promotion and Tenure Committee (2002-2005).

--  Western Humanities Alliance, Local Conference Planning Committee (2003-2005).

 

 

University Committees/Service:

 

--  Provost's Search Committee for Vice Provost (1985).

--  Translator for the Office of International Programs (Spring 1985). (Mauritania Grant Proposal) (approx. 80pp.).

--  Office of International Programs:  preliminary planning of a series of new French courses aimed at training UA faculty and staff intending to spend extended periods of time in Francophone African countries (1985-1986).

--  Committee on Teaching Support Services and Instructional Facilities (April 1987-May 1988).

--  A.C.E.S. Faculty Mentor (advisor to undecided majors) (1988-1989).

--  French and Italian Liaison with the Research Support Office (Campus Research and Scholarship Database and Directory) (1990-1992).

--  Member of the University Review Committee for the Academic Program Review of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Fall 1991); analysis of Self-Study Report; interviews with FOH Dean, faculty, staff, students; final report.

--  International Business Task Force for a Center for International Business Education and Research to be established at UA in partnership with the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) (Spring 1992-1993).

--  Search Committee for the position of Dean of the Faculty of Humanities (1992-1993).

--  University Committee on Graduate Studies (representative of the Graduate College in the conduct of doctoral examinations and dissertation defenses) (Fall 1990-1991; 1993-; whenever requested).

--  Mortar Board Award Committee (Spring 1996).

--  Sub-Committee of the Graduate Council (Scoring of Fellowship Proposals submitted by all UA departments and colleges) (Fall 1997).

--  Graduate College Council (1997-1998). 

--  Selection Committee for UA Distinguished Professor awards (2002-2003).

--  Steering Committee.  Group for Early Modern Studies (2003-).

--  Fulbright Faculty Committee (interviews) (2004).

 

 

 

V.  EXTRAMURAL SERVICE

 

--  Executive Committee (1983-1984) of the North-American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (NASSCFL). 

--  Co-organizer (with Professor J.-J. Demorest) of the 16th Annual Convention of NASSCFL held in March 1984 at the University of Arizona.

--  Steering Committee of the Société d'Analyse de la Topique Romanesque (S.A.T.O.R.): a Paris-based international association (Henri Coulet, President) aiming at the study and computerized data management of literary topoï in French narrative fiction prior to the Revolution (elected for two consecutive two-year terms; 1986-1988, 1988-1990).

--  North-American Society for Utopian Studies:

           Chair of the Publications Committee (1988-1989);

           Member of the Steering Committee (1988-1998);

           Secretary (1994-1996); reelected (1996-1998).

--  Advisory and Nominating Committee of the Midwest-Modern Language Association (M/MLA) (1988-1989).  Division:  French I. 

--  Advisory Board of the Series "Utopianism and Communitarianism" (1988-1995).  Syracuse University Press.

--  On-screen proofreading and corrections of Diderot's La Religieuse (pp. 39-127 of the Garnier-Flammarion edition), from text input at the University of Toronto as part of S.A.T.O.R. enterprise (Spring 1989).    

--  Editorial Board.  Utopian Studies (first published by the University of Missouri at St. Louis, now by the University of Alaska):

         Associate Editor (Fall 1989-Fall 1991); Acting Editor-in-Chief (Spring 1991);

         Advisory Board (1992-1994);

         Editorial Board (Spring 1994-).

--  National Endowment for the Humanities.  Reviewer of NEH Fellowships applica­tions and proposals (Summer 1992).

--  Co-organizer of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies (Balti­more, November 19-22, 1992).  Program organizer (calls for papers to approx. 1050 members; organization of approx. 30 panels; Fall 1991-Fall 1992). 

--  National Endowment for the Humanities.  Reviewer of NEH Fellowships applica­tions and proposals (Summer 1993).

--  National Endowment for the Humanities.  Reviewer of NEH Fellowships applica­tions and proposals (Summer 1994).

--  Chair of the Sessions Committee.  1995 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS); the conference, held in Tucson, was organ­ized by Prof. S. Martinson (German Studies); planning took three years:  respon­sible for 110 panels (of 3-4 papers each; approx. 25 invited panels; 4 plenary lectures; approx. 420 active participants; typing/editing of program) (1992-1995). 

--  Promotion and Tenure Reviewer for the department of Modern and Classical Lan­guages.  Texas A&M University (Summer 1996).

Ruth Larson

--  Promotion and Tenure Reviewer for the department of Romance Languages.  Uni­versity of Oregon (Summer 1996).

Alexandre Albert-Galtier

--  Advisory Board.  Exhibit on the History of utopianism (Bibliothèque Nationale de France/New York Public Library) (Fall 1997-1998) (very limited input).

--  Promotion and Tenure Reviewer for the department of Romance Languages.  Uni­versity of Oregon (Summer 1998).

--  Book manuscript  reviewer for The University of Pennsylvania Press (Spring 1999).

--  Editorial Board.  Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (Seattle/Tübin gen) (Spring 1999-).

--  Editorial Board.  French Forum (The University of Pennsylvania) (Fall 1999-).

--  Promotion and Tenure Reviewer for the Department of Romance Languages.  Uni­versity of California-Berkeley (Summer 2000).

--  Book manuscript  reviewer for The University of Chicago Press (May 2001).

--  Book manuscript reviewer for Wesleyan University Press (Fall 2003).

--  Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association.  Elected to the Assembly as a representative of the Division on 17th c. French Literature; a three-year term (2003-2005).

--  Promotion and Tenure Reviewer for the department of French.  The Pennsylvania State Uni­versity (Fall 2004).

 

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VI.  PUBLICATIONS

 

Scholarly Books / Editions of Collected Essays / Editions in Print or Forthcoming:

 

--  Libertinage et utopies sous le règne de Louis XIV.  Paris-Genève:  Droz, 1989.  246pp.  (Series:  "Histoire des idées et Critique littéraire").

          (Reviews have appeared in Bulletin Critique du Livre Français (Aug.-Sep. 1989); Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Oct. 1989); Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature (XVII, 32, 1990); Utopian Studies (I, 1, 1990); Dix-Septième Siècle (Jan.-Mar. 1990); Cahiers du Dix-septième (IV, 1, Spring 1990); French Forum 15, 3 (Sept. 1990); The French Review (64, 3, Feb. 1991); Romanische Forschungen (103, 1, 1991);  Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France 91, XCI (Nov. 1991); Studi Francesi (36, 1, 1992); Religious Studies Review (18, 3, July 1992); Theoretische Geschiedenis (Dec. 1993).  Forthcoming reviews (advance copies courtesy of reviewers) in

 

--  Pascal. Corneille.  Désert, Engagement, Retraite.  Tübingen:  Biblio 17, PFSCL, 1984.  322pp.  Essays co-edited with Jean-Jacques Demorest.

--  Utopian Studies IV.  Lanham-New York-London:  University Press of America, 1991.  100pp.  Essays co-edited with Nicholas D. Smith.

--  L'Imaginaire utopique.   Esprit Créateur XXXIV, 4 (Winter 1994). 134pp.  Essays co-edited with Peter Fitting.

--  Nathalie Sarraute et le texte du for intérieur.  Esprit Créateur XXXVI, 2 (Summer 1996). 126pp.  Essays co-edited with Monique Wittig.

--  Benserade, Isaac de.  Iphis et Iante.  A critical edition by Anne Verdier, in collabo­ration with Christian Biet and Lise Leibacher.  Vijon:  Lampsaque, 2000.  159pp. [Leibacher's contribution is to the Preface and the Annexes].

--  Iphis et Iante.  Revised and augmented edition (a 30-page addition of updated mate­rial; not a reimpression; 50% responsible).  Vijon:  Lampsaque, 2004. 215pp.  

--  Pure, Michel de.  Epigone, histoire du siècle futur (1659).  Québec: Presses Uni­versitaires de Laval, under contract; submitted Fall 2003.  A critical edition, in collaboration with Daniel Maher, University of Calgary.  50% responsible. Forth­coming in Spring 2005.

 

 

Refereed Articles in Print or Forthcoming:

 

--  "L'Un et le Double:  Hermaphrodisme et Idéologie dans La Terre Australe connue (1676) de Gabriel de Foigny."  French Forum 9, 3 (Sept. 1984): 290-304.

--  "Sauvages et Utopies: l'exotisme alibi."  French Literature Series 13 (1986): 1-12.

--  "Du Mythe à l'Histoire: Voltaire, Candide et le Voyage et avantures de Jaques Massé."  Studi Francesi 96, Anno 32, fasc. 3 (1988): 471-479.

--  "Fallacy and Deception:  The Utopian Discourse of Equality.  D. Veiras' Histoire des Sévarambes."  Utopian Studies II.  Lanham-New York-London:  University Press of America, 1989, pp. 88-93.

--  "Métaphore, Idéologie et Utopies libertines au temps de Louis XIV."  Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 16, 31 (1989): 431-443.   

--  "Discourir:  Raison et persuasion dans quelques voyages utopiques libertins (1675-1715)."  In La Naissance du roman en France.  N. Boursier and D. Trott eds.  Paris-Seattle-Tübingen: Biblio 17, 54, 1990, pp. 55-66. 

--  "Subversion and Stasis in the Utopian Journeys of Foigny, Veiras and Patot."  In Utopia e Modernità:  Teorie e prassi utopiche nell'età moderna e postmoderna.  G. Saccaro Del Buffa e A.O. Lewis eds.  Roma: Gangemi Editore, 1990, pp. 827-835. 

--  "L'Envers de l'écrit: romans et paratextes chez D'Aubignac."  Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France 2 (1990): 147-164.

--  "Au Monde parallèle des bourgeois-gentilshommes:  L'Idée d'un règne doux et heureux (1703)."  Neophilologus 74 (1990): 510-519.

--  "(Pseudo)féminocentrisme et ordre (dis)simulé: La Satire sotadique (1658/78) et l'Académie des dames (1680).  In Ordre et contestation au temps des classiques.  Paris-Seattle-Tübingen:  Biblio 17, 1992: 193-202.

--  "Sexe, simulacre et libertinage honnête:  la Satyre sotadique (1658/1678) de Nicolas Chorier."  Romanic Review 83, 3 (May 1992): 267-280.

--  "Casanova et l'utopie de l'indifférence."  The French Review 67, 3 (February 1994): 432-444. 

--  "Sans Cause ni conséquence: Casanova et le refus de l'autorité."  Symposium XLVIII, 1 (Spring 1994): 63-77.

--  "L'Imaginaire utopique:  paradigmes, formes et fonctions."  With P. Fitting. In P. Fitting and L. Leibacher-Ouvrard co-eds.  Esprit Créateur, XXXIV, 4 (Winter 1994):  5-17. 

--  "Transtextualité et construction de la sexualité:  la Satyra Sotadica de Chorier." Esprit Créateur XXXV, 2 (Summer 1995):  51-66.

--  "Telemachus Revived".  A review article of several recent books on Fénelon, based on Telemachus.  P. Riley ed. and trans.  Cambridge Texts in the History of Politi­cal Thought.   Cambridge, England:  Cambridge University Press, 1994.  Utopian Studies 7, 1 (1996):  103-107.

--  "Femmes d'esprit ou substance étendue?:  L'Ecole des filles ou la Philosophie des dames (1655)".  L'Esprit en France au XVIIe siècle.  Paris-Seattle-Tübingen:  Biblio 17, 1997: 187-196.

--  "Tribades et gynanthropes (1612-1614):  Fictions et fonctions de l'anatomie traves­tie." Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XXIV, 47 (1997): 519-536.

--  "L'Eunuque anathème et prétexte:  Economie libidinale et construction de l'hétéro­sexualité."  In Sexualité, Mariage et Famille au XVIIIe siècle.  O.B. Cragg (ed).  Laval:  Presses Universitaires de Laval, 1998, pp. 11-26.

--  "'Ni de ce monde ni de ce siècle": Michel de Pure et la science-fiction des salons".  L'Autre au XVIIe siècle.  R. Heyndels et B. Woshinski (ed).  Paris-Seattle-Tübin­gen:  Biblio 17, 1999, pp. 293-304.

--  "Sacrifice et politique satyrique.  Madame de Maintenon dans les libelles diffama­toires."  Autour de Françoise d'Aubigné.  Actes des journées de Niort, réunis par A. Niderst. Albineana/Cahiers d'Aubigné 10-11 (1999): 107-122.

--  "L'Icosameron (1788) de Casanova:  Nature et culture de l'ambiguïté."  EMF: Studies in Early Modern France 5, Utopia 2:  The Eighteenth Century.  Ed. David Lee Rubin, in collaboration with Alice Stroup.  Charlottesville:  Rookwood Press, 1999, pp. 103-126. 

--  "Epigone, Histoire du siècle futur (1659).  Première uchronie et politique-fiction nostalgique."  French Forum, 25, 1 (Jan. 2000): 23-41.

--  "Michel de Pure.  Epigone, histoire du siècle futur (1659)";  and

--  "Casanova.  Icosameron (1788)".  Invited dictionary entries.  Dictionary of Literary Utopias.  V. Fortunati and R. Trousson (eds).  Paris:  Champion-Slatkine, 2000: 200-201; 297-298.

--  "Decadent Dandies and Dystopian Gender-Bending: Artus Thomas' L'Isle des hermaphrodites (1605).  A review article of L'Isle des hermaphrodites.  Edition, introduction and notes by Claude-Gilbert Dubois.   Genève: Librairie Droz, 1996.  204pp.  Utopian Studies 11, 1 (2000): 124-131.

--  "Querelles d'autorité: les romans palimpsestueux de l'abbé de Pure."  Classical Unities:  Place, Time, Action.   E. Koch (ed.).  Tübingen:  Biblio 17, 131-Gunter Narr Verlag, 2001, pp. 225-239.

--  "Voiles de sang et amazones de Satan: La Querelle des nudités de gorge."  La Femme au XVIIe siècle.   R. Hogdson (ed.).  Tübingen: Biblio 17-Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002, pp. 255-267.

--  "Le Conforme et l'Incongru: L'Éclaircissement de Pierre Bayle sur les Obscénités (1701).  Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XXIX, 57 (2002): 451-463.

--  "Casanova und die Utopie der Indifferenz". Excerpt of an article first published as "Casanova et l'utopie de l'indifférence."  The French Review 67, 3 (February 1994): 432-444.  Translated and reprinted in Mythos Casanova.  Texte von Heine bis Bunuel.  Herausgegeben von Hartmut Scheible. Leipzig: Reclam Verlag, 2003. pp. 208-209.

--  "Speculum de l'Autre Femme: Les avatars d'Iphis et Iante (Ovide) au XVIIe siècle". Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XXX, 59 (2003): 365-377.

--  "Mystifications libertines et Marges récalcitrantes: L'Autre Monde guadeloupéen de 'Corneille, poète galérien'".  Forthcoming in J. DeJean, P. Harry et Ph. Sellier (éd.). Marginalités classiques.  Mélanges en l'honneur de Madeleine Alcover  Paris : Champion, 2005.

--  "Libelles-pharmakon et justice d’Etat : La vindicte discursive de Pierre Corneille Blessebois." Forthcoming in Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature (2005).

 

Special Category:

 

--  "L'Héliosismologie dévoile l'intérieur du Soleil."  La Recherche, February 1987, pp. 274-7.  In collaboration with J.W. Leibacher. 

--  Reprinted in La Recherche en astrophysique.  Paris: Editions du Seuil, Collection Points-Sciences, 1990, pp. 130-137.

--  Translation into French of an article by L. Tower Sargent.  "Les Directions de re­cherche actuelles sur l'utopie."  Lettres Actuelles 3 (Oct.-Nov. 1993): 87-90.

 

 

 

Invited Book Reviews in Print or Forthcoming:

 

--  Alkon, Paul K. Origins of Futuristic Fiction.  Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1987.  341pp.  In French Forum, 14, 2 (May 1989): 253-5.

--  Hudde, Hinrich and Peter Kuon.  De L'Utopie à l'uchronie.  Formes, Significations, Fonctions.  Tübingen:  Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988.  178pp.  In Utopian Studies (I, 1, 1990): 142-3.

--  Baczko, B.  Utopian Lights.  J.L. Greenberg trans. (translation of Lumières de l'Utopie.  Paris: Payot, 1978).  New York: Paragon House, 1989.  376pp.  In Utopian Studies I, 2 (1990): 151-3.

--  Le Bovier de Fontenelle, B.  Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds.  Trans. by H.A. Hargreaves.  Introduction by Nina Rattner Gelbart.  Berkeley-Los Angeles-Oxford:  University of California Press, 1990. xlix + 82pp. In Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XIX, 36 (1992): 244-246.

--  Niderst, A.  Fontenelle.  Paris: Plon, 1991.  438pp.  In Oeuvres et Critiques, XVII, 1 (1992): 95-97.

--  Foigny, G. de.  La Terre Australe Connue (1676).  Edition établie, présentée et annotée par Pierre Ronzeaud.  Paris: Société des Textes Français Modernes. 1990.  242pp.  In Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France (Nov-Dec. 1992): 1068-1069. 

--  Gilbert, Cl.  Histoire de Caléjava ou de l'Isle des Hommes raisonnables.  Edition critique par Marc Serge Rivière.  Exeter:  University of Exeter Press, 1990.  xxxiv + 113p.  In Utopian Studies (Fall 1993): 205-207. 

--  Godard de Donville, L.  Le Libertin des origines à 1665: Un Produit des apolo­gètes.  Paris-Seattle-Tübingen:  Biblio 17 - 51, 1989.  443pp.  In EMF.  Studies in Modern France 1 (Dec. 1994): 185-188. 

--  Foigny, G. de.  The Southern Land, Known.  Translated and edited by David Fau­sett.  Syracuse:  Syracuse University Press, 1993.  l + 152pp.  In Eighteenth-Century Fiction 7, 1 (Oct. 1994): 85-87. 

--  Fausett, D.  Writing the New World:  Imaginary Voyages and Utopias of the Great Southern Land.  Syracuse:  Syracuse University Press, 1993.  x + 237pp.  In Eighteenth-Century Fiction 7, 2 (Jan. 1995): 206-207.

--  Stewart, P.  Engraven Desire:  Eros, Image and Text in the French Eighteenth Century.  Durham/London:  Duke University Press, 1992. xiv + 380p.  In Esprit Créateur XXXV, 2 (Summer 1995):  104-105.

--  Tobin, R. W. ed.  Le Corps au XVIIe siècle.  Paris/Seattle/Tübingen:  Biblio 17, 1995, 409 pp.  In Cahiers du Dix-Septième VI, 2 (1992): 225-228 (published in 1996).

--  Bareau, M.L. and S.A. Viselli, eds.  Parabasis 7.  Utopie et fictions narratives.  Edmonton, Canada:  Alta Press, 1995.  270pp. In Utopian Studies 8, 2 (1997): 116-118.

--  Wagstaff, P. Memory and Desire:  Rétif de la Bretonne, Autobiography and Utopia.  Amsterdam/Atlanta:  Rodopi, 1996. 177pp.  In Eighteenth-Century Studies 31, 3 (Spring 1998):  367-8.

--  Nativel, C. ed.  Femmes savantes, savoirs des femmes.  Du Crépuscule de la Renais­sance à l'aube des Lumières.  Actes du Colloque de Chantilly (22-24 Sept. 1995).  Genève:  Droz, 1999.  268 pp.  Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XXVII, 53 (2000): 641-643.

--  Rubin, D. L. ed., and A. Stroup, co-ed. "Utopia 1:  16th and 17th Centuries."  EMF: Studies in Early Modern France.  Charlottesville:  Rookwood Press, 1998. pp. 224.  Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XXVII, 53 (2000): 646-648.

--  Meek, C. (ed.).  Women in Renaissance and early modern Europe.  Dublin:  Four Courts, 2000.  230 pp.  Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XXVIII, 54 (2001): 207-210.

--  Mylne, V.  Le Dialogue dans le roman français de Sorel à Sarraute.  Préface de Jean Sgard.  Paris: Universitas, 1994.  246 pp.  Forthcoming in The Eighteenth Century:  A Bibliography.