Annie Smart, Ph.D.
Professor
French
Courses Taught
Beginning French, Intermediate French; Advanced Language/Culture courses (FREN3020, FREN3040), French Literature and the Environment, Age of Enlightenment Exoticism in French Literature
Education
MA, PhD, Brown University (1993): Dissertation: 鈥溾�橲ubversive鈥� Mothers: Statehood and the Ideal of Motherhood from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Flora Tristan.鈥�
Research Interests
- 18th- and early 19th-century literature, culture and political philosophy
- Gender studies
- Literature and the environment
- Exoticism
Publications and Media Placements
Books:
- Citoyennes: Women and the Ideal of Citizenship in Eighteenth-Century France. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011.
Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters:
- 鈥淕eorge Sand鈥檚 r茅alisme vert: Toward an Ecocritical Reading of Le meunier d鈥橝ngibault,鈥� in Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French, ed. Douglas Boudreau and Marnie Sullivan (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016). 41-63.
- 鈥淩e-Reading Nature and Exoticism in Chateaubriand鈥檚 Voyage en Am茅rique: A Case for the Biophilia Effect.鈥� Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 42 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).
- 鈥淏onnes m猫res qui savent penser: Motherhood and a Boy鈥檚 Education in Rousseau鈥檚 Emile and Epinay鈥檚 Lettres 脿 mon fils,鈥� New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century vol. 3, no.1 (Spring, 2006): 21-30.
- 鈥淭丑别 脡cole saint-simonienne鈥檚 Outrage to Public Morals.鈥� Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 33, nos. 3-4 (Spring/Summer 2005): 258-272.
- 鈥淢otherhood and Body Politics in Louis-S茅bastien Mercier鈥檚 L鈥檃n 2440, r锚ve s鈥檌l en fut jamais,鈥� Dalhousie French Studies, vol. 73 (Winter, 2005): 63-70.
- 鈥淟uce Irigaray and the Mutterd盲mmerung.鈥� Psychoanalytic Studies [Great Britain], vol. 2, no. 4 (December 2000): 385-394.
- 鈥淢otherhood, Economy, and the State in Rousseau鈥檚 La Nouvelle H茅lo茂se.鈥� Esprit Cr茅ateur, vol 39, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 64-74.
- 鈥淟e sexe ou la t锚te? Decapitation and Female Identity in 1793.鈥� French Literature Series, vol. 26 (1999): 37-50.
- 鈥淢otherhood and Politics in George Sand and Flora Tristan.鈥� George Sand Studies, vol. 16, no. 1&2 (1997): 83-96. * 鈥淚dentity Politics and Confessional Acts: Suzanne Voilquin's Souvenirs d'une fille du peuple.鈥� Women in French Studies vol. 3 (Fall 1995): 55-63.