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Background:
A native of France, Marie-Hélène Chabut came to the US as a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, where she earned her Ph.D. She is professor of French in the department of Modern Languages and Literature at Lehigh University. She specializes in eighteenth-century French literature, especially the novel, writers such as Denis Diderot, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire, and women writers such as Charrière, Graffigny and Riccoboni. She has published a book on Denis Diderot entitled Extravagance et Génialité (1998) as well as numerous articles on Diderot, Isabelle de Charrière and other French writers from the Enlightenment period. She is a member of the American, Canadian and French Societies for Eighteenth-Century Studies and several scholarly organizations dedicated to the study of the novel and to gender studies.
Courses taught:
GS 128/MLL 128 Literature and Globalization
French 313 The Age of Enlightenment
French 324 The Outsider in French Fiction.
French 327/WS 327 Women Writing in French
French 259 Getting in Touch with Today’s France
MLL/GCP 006 Globalization and Cultures
French 143 Advanced Written French
French 144 Advanced Oral French
French 11 and 12 Intermediate French
Selected publications:
Book
Denis Diderot: Extravagance et génialité. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi. Fall 1998.
“Les Lettres du Marquis de Roselle d’Anne Louise E. de Beaumont ou l’imposture du genre"Forthcoming in Fictions de l’imposture, impostures de la fiction. Imposture et Fiction dans les récits d’Ancien Régime, Paris: Hermann, Coll. La République des Lettres, 2016.
“Mistriss Henley lectrice de l’Encyclopédie ? Rencontres des discours scientifique et romanesque sur la femme” , in Les discours du corps au XVIIIème siècle:literature, philosophie, histoire, science, Eds Hélène Cussac, Anne Deneys-Tunney, and Catriona Seth. Reprint, Paris: Hermann, August 2015, p. 275-284.
“Quand le privé se fait public: l’accession de l’expérience féminine au domaine public dans quelques romans du 18ème”, Topique du public et du privé dans la littérature romanesque d’Ancien Régime, Louvain et Paris: Peeters, 2015, p 401-412.
“Le féminin en question dans les espaces utopiques de quelques romans et récits du dix- huitième siècle”, in Geographiae imaginariae. Reprint, Paris: Hermann, 2014, 95-105.