Research Interests
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, environmental literature
Publications
"Literary Nature and Socio-Environmental Reality in Early Modern French Critical Writing about the Pastoral." Early Modern French Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, 2024, pp. 105-117.
"Rousseau’s Environmentalism in Pierre Maillard's La Faute à Rousseau. "Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 28, no. 1, 2021, pp. 69-87.
"L’Astrée in the Twenty-First Century: Environment, Education, and Identity." The French Review, vol. 94, no. 1, 2020, pp. 83-94.
"Sustainability and Gender in Rousseau’s Model Families.” Women in French Studies, vol. 28, 2020, pp. 11-22.
" 'Ceding to Bucolic Temptation': Negotiating Fictional and Real Nature in Montpensier's Pastoral Republic.” Romance Notes, vol. 59, no. 2, 2019, pp. 361-369.
Courses Taught
- French 303 French Conversation and Composition I
- French 304 French Conversation and Composition II
- French 322 Contemporary French Culture
- French 331 Introduction to French Literature and Literary Analysis
- French 362 Regional Identity in French Cinema
- French 398 Green Paris (Summer Study Abroad Course)
- French 583 Seventeenth-Century French Literature
- French 584 Eighteenth-Century French Literature
- French 589 Environment in French and Francophone Literature
Education
Ph.D. French, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2011)