Jérôme Brillaud
• Assistant Professor
of French
• Director of Graduate
Studies, French Literature
Office: Ballantine Hall
618
Office phone: 855-6596
Email: jbrillau @indiana.edu
Research areas:
17th and 18th century theater, philosophies of the 18th century
Education:
- PhD, French literature, Harvard University, 2004
- Agrégation, Paris III, 1996
Background:
I have completed a book manuscript entitled Sombres Lumières, essai sur le retour à l’antique et la tragédie grecque au dix-huitième siècle (under review), in which I examine the emergence of the tragic as a philosophical concept in the 18th century. In my second book project provisionally entitled La Simplicité à l’âge classique, I study the philosophical and aesthetic variations of the idea of simplicity from Pascal to Rousseau.
Selected awards:
- Trustees Teaching Award. Indiana University, 2006
- Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. Harvard University
Courses recently taught:
- La Tragédie aux 17e et 18e siècles (Graduate Seminar)
- Le Théâtre classique (Graduate Seminar)
- Le Roman libertin (Undergraduate Seminar on 18th century literature and culture)
- Les Moralistes (Undergraduate seminar on 17th century literature and culture)
- Introduction historique à la civilisation française II (1610-1870)
- What Is Tragedy? From the Greeks to Hollywood (Freshman Seminar)
Publication highlights:
Articles
“La Coupe d’Atrée: Crébillon et la réinvention du théâtre tragique,” Dalhousie French Studies 78 (Spring 2007)
“La Jouissance de la vérité ou le plaisir tragique selon le Chancelier d’Aguesseau,” French Studies, 62 (April 2008)
“If you please! Theater, Verisimilitude and Freedom in the Letter to d’Alembert,” in Rousseau and the Concept of Freedom, eds. Christie McDonald and Stanley Hoffman, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2009.
"Theater in the Ancien Régime," in French Global: A New Approach to French Literary History, eds. Christie McDonald and Susan Suleiman, Columbia University Press, forthcoming in 2009.
