The Department of French & Italian presents a lecture by
Christie McDonald
Failure and Change: Rereading Enlightenment?
Monday, March
24, 2008
3:30 pm
College Arts & Humanities
Institute
1211 E. Atwater Avenue
Christie McDonald is Smith Professor of French Language and Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. A literary and cultural critic and theorist, Professor McDonald is also on the faculty of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. Her research and teaching focus on eighteenth- and twentieth-century French literary and philosophical thought. She has also published in the areas of ethics, feminist theory, and the arts. Her publications include The Extravagant Shepherd: A Study of the Pastoral Vision in Rousseau’s Nouvelle Héloïse (1973, 2007); The Dialogue of Writing (1985), Dispositions (1986), and The Proustian Fabric (1991). She is co-editor of Transformations: The Languages of Culture and Personhood after Theory (1994), as well as editor of The Ear of the Other (1988) and Images of Congo: Anne Eisner’s Art and Ethnology, 1946–58 (2005). She is currently co-editing a book about Rousseau and freedom, and a project titled French Global.
Lecture to be followed by discussion and refreshments.
Made possible through the support of the Mary-Margaret Barr Koon fund of the Department of French and Italian.
If you have a disability and need assistance, accommodations can be made to meet most needs. Please call 855-5458
