Education and Academic Degrees:

New York University, Ph.D. 1993, M.A. 1984; University of California, Berkeley, B.A. 1981

Fields of Research:

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

Recent Publications and Papers:

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

"L'Usage de la raison: A Brief Literary Survey from Mersenne to Pascal," Romance Quarterly, 50.3 (Summer 2003): 163-175.

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

"Hyperbole in Pascal." In Wetsel, David (ed.); Canovas, Frédéric (ed.); Sellier, Philippe (ed. and preface); Force, Pierre (ed.), Studies on Pascal and Port-Royal in Honor of Jean Mesnard. Tübingen: Gunther Narr, 2003. 181-187.

"D'une Phèdre à l'autre." Proceedings of NASCCFL 2002.

"The Anxiety of Senecan Influence in Racine's Phèdre." Romanic Review, 92.4 (Nov. 2001): 417-432.

"Marcel Proust's Du côté de chez Swann," The Explicator 56.4 (Summer 1998): 204-207.

"Labyrinths of Invention from the New Novel to OuLiPo," Neophilologus 82.4 (October 1998): 543-557.

"Ma(s)king Names: Onomastics in the Theater of Rotrou," French Forum, 20:3 (Fall 1995): 279-97.

"'Ce Nœud subtil': Molière's Invention of Comedy from l'Etourdi to les Fourberies de Scapin," Romanic Review, 88.1 (January 1997): 67-88.

"Molière and Authority from la querelle de l'Ecole des femmes to the affaire Tartuffe," Romance Quarterly. 44.2 (Spring 1997): 80-92.

"Port-Royal, mode d'emploi: or the future of a 17th-century convent," Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, Vol. XXIV, No. 46 (1997): 189-97.



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