Academic Degrees

Ph.D., M.A., New York University; B.A., University of California, Berkeley

Research Areas

Seventeenth century French literature, especially philosophical literature, theater, and literature and the arts; linguistics

Books

Pascal Geometer: Discovery and Invention in  Seventeenth-Century France. Geneva:
Droz (“Travaux du Grand Siècle”), 1996.

Ed. "Solutions and Dissolutions of the Absolute in Seventeenth-Century French Thought and Politics: Studies on Pascal and Descartes." Romance Quarterly, 50.2 (Spring 2003).

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

“Ronsard, Sonnets pour Hélène 3.” The Explicator 69.2 (2011): 51-55.

“Textual Harmony in le Bourgeois gentilhomme.” Romance Notes 48.1 (2007): 13-22.

“Borges, Inventor of the Pensées; or La busca de Pascal.” Romance Quarterly 52.2.
(Spring 2005): 115-134.

Recent Papers and Presentations

“From the Gazette to the Mercure galant: Journalism and Literature in 17^th-century France.” Western Society for French History annual conference, Portland, Oregon, November 2011.

Commentator for session on ”Rethinking and reclaiming early modern texts.” Western Society for French History annual conference, Albuquerque, NM, November 2007.

”Belphegor: the Mysterious Other in Modernist French Culture.” Western Society for
French History annual conference, Long Beach, CA, October 2006.

“Esthetics and Ethics in L’Ecole des femmes.” North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature annual conference, Portland State University, Oregon, May 2004.

Boston College
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
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140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Phone: 617-552-3833
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Email: stephen.bold@bc.edu

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