BA, University of California, Berkeley MA, University of California, Berkeley PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Teaching Experience
Graduate student instructor, University of California - Berkeley; assistant professor of French, University of Oklahoma
Specialties
French eighteenth century literature and philosophy, Rousseau, French autobiography
Interests
The narrative of conversion in French autobiography, the Libertine novel
Publications
Character and Conversion in Autobiography: Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre (University of Virginia Press, 2004)
Introduction to Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (Barnes and Noble, 2009)
Introduction and translation of the preface to Rousseau's Confessions (Barnes and Noble, 2005)
"Fables of the Self and Subject: On Cartesian Autobiography With and Against Augustine" (Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature XXXI, 60, 2004)
"The Inversion of Conversion: Rousseau's Rewriting of Augustinian Autobiography," (Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 28, March 1999)
"Errancy and Libertine Education in Crebillon Fils's Les Egarements du coeur et de l'espirit," (French Forum, v. 20, no. 2, May, 1995)
Distinctions
University of Oklahoma Junior Faculty Fellowship 1997
Marcel Lemer Scholarship, University of California - Berkeley, 1995-96
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California - Berkeley 1994-95
