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Ourida Mostefai
associate professor of french
Education and Academic Degrees:
Ph.D., New York University; M.A., New York University; Licence de Lettres, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle
Fields of Research:
18th-century French Literature; Rousseau; Pamphlets and Polemical Literature; Strategies of Reading and Censorship
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Prof. Mostefai was honored by the French National Ministry of Education with the award of Chevalier (Knight) in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques. François Gauthier, Consul general of France, decorated Professor Ourida Mostefai at a ceremony hosted by Provost and Dean of Faculties Bert Garza on January 29th 2009. | |
Recent Publications and Papers:
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Prof. Mostefai co-edited Rousseau and l’Infâme: Religion, Toleration, and Fanaticism in the Age of Enlightenment, with John T. Scott. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi [Faux Titre, 326], 2009. For more information, click here. |
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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. |
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Approaches to Teaching Rousseau’s “Confessions” and “Rêveries,” co-edited with John C. O’Neal, Modern Language Association (MLA) Publications, 2003. |
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.
Rousseau Bulletin / Bulletin Rousseau, a biannual publication of the Rousseau Association, ed., 1999-2001.
Lectures de "la Nouvelle Héloïse" / Reading "la Nouvelle Héloïse" Today. Ottawa, ed., Pensée libre no. 4, 1993.
“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.” Rousseau, Music & Language. Ed. Claude Dauphin. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth-Century, 2004: 88-92.
“Les infortunes de la célébrité: diffamation et défiguration dans Rousseau Juge de Jean-Jacques.” In Lectures de Rousseau Juge de Jean-Jacques, Dialogues. Ed. Isabelle Brouard-Arends. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2003: 129-139.
“The Author as Celebrity and Outcast: Authorship and Autobiography in Rousseau.” Approaches to Teaching Rousseau’s “Confessions” and “Rêveries.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Publications, 2003, pp. 68-72.
“Rêves d’un citoyen: mythe et mémoire de l’antiquité chez Rousseau.” Pensée Libre No. 8, Eds. Ruth Grant & Philip Stewart, 2001 pp. 221-229.
“La Violence pamphlétaire et ses stratégies en France à l’époque des lumières.” Violence et progrès au siècle des Lumières. Paris: Champion, 2001, pp. 281-295.
“Du Citoyen de Genève au Citoyen par excellence: Rousseau en marge des Lumières.” In Rousseau: Politique et Nation. Paris: Champion, 2000 pp. 595-602.
Recent Papers and Presentations:
“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 française.¨ 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.
“Fiction et combat philosophique chez Voltaire.” International Congress on the Enlightenment (ISECS), Los Angeles, August 3-10, 2003.
“L’analyse de la Lettre à d’Alembert sur les spectacles.” International Congress on the Enlightenment (ISECS), Los Angeles, August 3-10, 2003.
Roundtable participant, “ ‘Une liaison curieuse’: Alliances and Cultural Battles of France and America Since the Enlightenment, or Anti-Americanism Then and Now.” International Congress on the Enlightenment (ISECS), Los Angeles, August 3-10, 2003.
‘Tolérance civile ou tolerance théologique.” Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association. St Hugh’s College, Oxford, June 26-29, 2003.
“Les Lettres du citoyen: correspondance et polémique chez Rousseau.” Colloque Lire la Correspondance de Rousseau, November 27-29, 2002, Paris, France.
“The Spectacle of Childhood: Public Celebrations and Republican Festivals in Rousseau.” Conference on Rousseau and the Visual. UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, October 4-5, 2002.
“Célébrité et marginalité chez Rousseau.” Co-Presenter in the Colloquium on Reflections on Rousseau and his Reception, Harvard University Humanities Center & French and Francophone Studies, April 11, 2002.
“Inventer un langage nouveau: Rousseau et la polémique.” Rousseau Association Biennial Colloquium, Université du Québec à Montréal, May 2001.
Invited Speaker, Interdisciplinary Panel on Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency 1688-1804 by Srinivas Aravamudan, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Convention, New Orleans, April 2001.
“Les figures de la cité: le rôle de l’imaginaire dans la construction de la citoyenneté chez Rousseau.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Convention, Philadelphia, April 2000.
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