Rousseau and l’Infâme: Religion, Toleration, and Fanaticism in the Age of Enlightenment, co-edited with John T. Scott. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi [Faux Titre, 326], 2009.
Ourida Mostefai
Professor of French
Professor of French
romance languages and literatures
Academic Degrees
Ph.D., M.A., New York University; Licence de Lettres, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle
Research Areas
18th-century French Literature; Rousseau; Pamphlets and Polemical Literature; Strategies of Reading and Censorship
Honors and Awards
Professeur Invitée, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), Paris, April 2010.
Chevalier (Knight) in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.
Elected Member, MLA 18th Century French Literature Division, 2010-2015.
Member, Advisory Board, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College.
Books
Approaches to Teaching Rousseau’s “Confessions” and “Rêveries,” co-edited with John C. O’Neal, Modern Language Association (MLA) Publications, 2003.
Le Citoyen de Genève et la République des Lettres: étude de la controverse autour de la “Lettre à d’Alembert” de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. New York: Peter Lang [Collection: the Age of Revolution and Romanticism], 2003.
Lectures de "la Nouvelle Héloïse"/Reading "la Nouvelle Héloïse" Today. Ottawa, ed., Pensée libre no. 4, 1993.
journals edited
Women's Credit; Viewing Bodies; Politics & History: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 32, co-edited with Catherine Ingrassia, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 31, co-edited with Catherine Ingrassia, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
The Geography of the Enlightenment: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 30, co-edited with Timothy Erwin, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Allegories in Healing: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 29, co-edited with Timothy Erwin, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
“Illumination et Historia Calamitatum: Postures de l’échec chez Rousseau.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau en 2012: “Puisqu'enfin mon nom doit vivre.” Ed. Michael O’Dea. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, SVEC 2012:01, pp. 29-43.
“Désunion nationale et rêve de réconciliation: correspondances d’émigrés dans le roman de la Révolution française.” Débats et écritures sous la Révolution, eds. Huguette Krief & Jean-Noël Pascal. Louvain, Paris, Walpole: Peeters, 2011, pp. 223-238.
“Dall’immaginario libertino alla filosofia politica: la presenza del corpo nelle Lettres Persanes di Montesquieu.” Il corpo e la sensibilità morale nella letteratura del settecento in Francia e Inghilterra, eds. Gianni Iotti & Maria Grazia Porcelli. Pisa: Pacini, 2011, pp. 61-76.
“Une dette non avouée: Rousseau, Diderot, et l’Encyclopédie.” Rousseau & the Philosophes, ed. Michael O’Dea. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, SVEC 2010: 12, pp. 141-50.
“Les petits livres du grand homme: polémique et combat philosophique chez Voltaire.” In An American Voltaire: Essays in Memory of J. Patrick Lee, eds. E. Joe Johnson and Byron R. Wells, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, pp. 285-296.
“Singularité et exemplarité du cas Jean-Jacques: théorie et expérience du fanatisme chez Rousseau.” In Rousseau and l’Infâme: Religion, Toleration, and Fanaticism in the Age of Enlightenment, co-edited with John T. Scott. Amsterdam: Rodopi (Faux Titre Series), 2009, pp. 98-112.
“Les Lettres du citoyen: correspondance et polémique chez Rousseau” in Annales de la Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau (volume 47) 2008: 365-379.
"De Vincennes à Ménilmontant: promenade et projet autobiographique dans les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire.' In the Nature of Rousseau's "Rêveries": Physical, Human, Aesthetic. Ed. John C. O'Neal. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2008: 03, 197-208.
“Inventer un langage nouveau: Rousseau et la polémique.” Musique et langage chez Rousseau, ed. Claude Dauphin. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, SVEC 2004: 08, pp. 88-92.
Recent Papers and Presentations
“Jean-Jacques en Oriental: l’inquiétante étrangeté de l’habit d’Arménien de Rousseau,” Rousseau et la Turquie, Colloque international, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2-4, 2012.
“De Manon à Julie: de la passion sans ordre à l’ordre sans passion,” Le modèle de Julie, Sources et Postérités de la Nouvelle Héloïse: Hommage à Henri Coulet, Aix-en-Provence, May 5-7, 2011.
“Violence, terrorisme, et legs des Lumières: querelles autour de Jean-Jacques Rousseau dans la Révolution,” Colloque Violence au Tournant des Lumières / Conference on Violence in the Late Enlightenment: Representations, Ideas, Sensibility, Institut Français, London, April 8-9, 2011.
“Rousseau in Venice: Music, Religion, and Politics in the Enlightenment,” Rousseau-Fest, Boston College, October 22, 2010.
“Polémiques dans la République des Lettres: querelles, disputes et controverses autour de la figure de Jean-Jacques Rousseau,” Invited lectures at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, April 2010.
“Taking Sides in French Epistolary Quarrels,” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 18-21, 2010.
“Rousseau’s Paradoxical Legacy,” Invited Talk, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College, February 10, 2010.
“Postures du maître et du disciple: Candide et le dialogue entre Voltaire et Rousseau,” Les 250 ans de Candide: lectures et relectures (International Conference on the 250th Anniversary of the Publication of Voltaire’s Candide), Oxford, UK, September 16-18, 2009.
“Portrait du philosophe en Arménien: la postérité des figures de la marginalité chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau,” Rousseau Association Biennial Colloquium, Los Angeles, June 25-28, 2009.
“Responding to Censorship: the Case of Jean-Jacques Rousseau,” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008.
“De Manon à Suzette: le ‘déménagement social’ en révolution,” International Colloquium in Honor of Professor Malcolm Cook: Le Tournant des Lumières, Institut français, London, December 10-12, 2008.
"Ecriture parisienne et écriture genevoise dans La Lettre à d'Alembert." Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, Oregon, March 28-30, 2008.
"Désunion nationale et rêve de réconciliation: correspondances d'émigrés dans le roman de la révolucion fran aise." French-American International Conference on "Débats et Ecritures sous la Révolution française: Politique, Esthétique, Ethique," Aix-en-Provence, October 19-20, 2007.
Panelist, "Whither the Republic? Are we still the children of the French Revolution?" Symposium on the Marquis de Lafayette and the Spirit of Revolution. Meridian International Center and French Embassy, Washington, September 26-27, 2007.
"Rousseau lecteur critique de l'Encyclopédie." Rouseau Association Biennial Colloquium, Lyons, June 28-30, 2007.
Co-Presentation on Creating and Designing an Academic Integrity Tutorial, Conference on Academic Integrity. Boulder, Colorado, October 2006.
“De l’imaginaire libertin à la philosophie politique: la place du corps oriental dans la philosophie des Lumières.” International seminar on “Sensibility in the Literature of the XVIIIth Century in France and in England.” Associazione Sigismondo Malatesta, Rimini, Italy, September 20-21, 2006.
“Rousseau's Parisian Walks: Urban Space in the Rêveries.” Annual Meeting of the Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Athens, Georgia, March 2-5, 2006.
Roundtable Participant, “Crisis in the French Social Model?” The French Library/Alliance Française of Boston, Monday, November 28, 2005.
Seminar Participant, “Strategies for Teaching Eighteenth-Century French Studies in the Twenty-first Century,” Dartmouth College, November 8, 2005.
Co-Presentation on Creating and Designing an Academic Integrity Tutorial, Conference on Academic Integrity, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, October 21-22, 2005.
“Vérité de la nature et nature de la vérité dans les Rêveries de Jean-Jacques Rousseau.” Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association. Hamilton College, June 9-12, 2005.
“Ill-Husbandry and Mis-ménagement: Domestic Spending in Manon Lescaut.” Annual Meeting of the Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Savannah, Georgia, March 3-7, 2004.
“Polémique et combat philosophique chez Voltaire.” Annual Meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, January 3-5, 2004.
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