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Course Number	Section	Course Name	Time	Room Number	Course Links
LAN125.0	1	Literary Narrative	T R 15:35 - 16:50	STV 0230	Final 125 Syllabus-spring 12.pdf
LAN214.12	1	Advanced French Conversation and Contemporary Culture	T R 14:00 - 15:15	STV 0230	Syllabus-2012.docx
LAN420.12	1	Slected Topics in French Literature & Culture	M 17:30 - 20:20	STV 0216	420-Rev Syllabus-2012.pdf

Teaching Interests: Mary Trouille is Professor of French and a member of the Women & Gender Studies affiliate faculty. Since joining the Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures in the fall of 1993, Trouille has taught a wide variety of courses on French language, literature, and culture. She especially enjoys teaching courses that draw on her specialization in gender studies and early modern French literature. Among the courses she has developed at ISU are Gender and Power in Contemporary France, The Theater of Molière and the "Woman Question" in 17th-Century France, French and Francophone Women's Autobiography, Marriage and Domestic Violence in 18th-Century French Literature and Society, and The Metamorphoses of the Don Juan Figure in French Literature. In the General Education Program, Trouille regularly teaches Perspectives on Gender in the Humanities (LAN/ENG/COM 128), a course she developed fourteen years ago for the middle core. Research Interests: Mary Trouille's research cuts across literature, social history, legal history, and gender studies. She is the author of two books: Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment: Women Writers Read Rousseau (SUNY, 1997) and Wife-Abuse in Eighteenth-Century France (published in 2009 by the Voltaire Foundation in the series Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century). She is currently preparing a critical edition and English translation of Stéphanie de Genlis's 1782 gothic tale Histoire de la Duchesse de C*** to be published in 2010 by the Modern Humanities Research Association based in Oxford, England. She has also begun research for a book-length project on rape in eighteenth-century French literature, law, and society. Trouille is the translator of the first volume of Rethinking France: Les Lieux de Memoire, a collection of essays on French history and historiography edited by Pierre Nora and David Jordan (University of Chicago Press, 2002). Education: Trouille received her M.A. and Ph.D. in French literature from Northwestern University. Her husband is French and grew up on a farm in northern France near Calais. They have three grown children. Prof. Trouille has had the good fortune of living in France for two year-long periods. After her sophomore year at Oberlin College, she went to France with Oberlin's summer program, which involved three weeks of study in Aix-en-Provence in southern France and three weeks in Paris taking courses in art history at the Louvre. Instead of returning to Oberlin for her junior year, she spent the year studying French literature and history at the Université de Tours in the Loire Valley. More recently, in 1998-99, she spent a sabbatical year in Paris living in the Latin Quarter and during research at the Bibliothèque nationale. Her daughter spent the year as a student at the Lycée Henri IV preparing for the French baccalaureate exam, which gave the Trouilles first-hand experience with the French educational system. Service to the profession American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS): Member, Executive Board (2007–10); Member, Women’s Caucus Planning Committee (2006-2007); Chair, Clifford Prize Selection Committee (2004–2005); Member, Clifford Prize Selection Committee (2003– 2004); Chair, Teaching Prize Selection Committee (2002–2003); Member, Teaching Prize Selection Committee (2001–2002); Editorial Board, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (2000-2003); Co-Chair, Women's Caucus (1995–1998); Member, Women’s Caucus, International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Reviewer of submissions to Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Life, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, PMLA, and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

Teaching Interests:

Mary Trouille is Professor of French and a member of the Women & Gender Studies affiliate faculty. Since joining the Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures in the fall of 1993, Trouille has taught a wide variety of courses on French language, literature, and culture. She especially enjoys teaching courses that draw on her specialization in gender studies and early modern French literature. Among the courses she has developed at ISU are Gender and Power in Contemporary France, The Theater of Molière and the "Woman Question" in 17th-Century France, French and Francophone Women's Autobiography, Marriage and Domestic Violence in 18th-Century French Literature and Society, and The Metamorphoses of the Don Juan Figure in French Literature. In the General Education Program, Trouille regularly teaches Perspectives on Gender in the Humanities (LAN/ENG/COM 128), a course she developed fourteen years ago for the middle core.

Research Interests:

Mary Trouille's research cuts across literature, social history, legal history, and gender studies. She is the author of two books: Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment: Women Writers Read Rousseau (SUNY, 1997) and Wife-Abuse in Eighteenth-Century France (published in 2009 by the Voltaire Foundation in the series Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century). She is currently preparing a critical edition and English translation of Stéphanie de Genlis's 1782 gothic tale Histoire de la Duchesse de C*** to be published in 2010 by the Modern Humanities Research Association based in Oxford, England. She has also begun research for a book-length project on rape in eighteenth-century French literature, law, and society.

Trouille is the translator of the first volume of Rethinking France: Les Lieux de Memoire, a collection of essays on French history and historiography edited by Pierre Nora and David Jordan (University of Chicago Press, 2002).

Education:

Trouille received her M.A. and Ph.D. in French literature from Northwestern University. Her husband is French and grew up on a farm in northern France near Calais. They have three grown children. Prof. Trouille has had the good fortune of living in France for two year-long periods. After her sophomore year at Oberlin College, she went to France with Oberlin's summer program, which involved three weeks of study in Aix-en-Provence in southern France and three weeks in Paris taking courses in art history at the Louvre. Instead of returning to Oberlin for her junior year, she spent the year studying French literature and history at the Université de Tours in the Loire Valley. More recently, in 1998-99, she spent a sabbatical year in Paris living in the Latin Quarter and during research at the Bibliothèque nationale. Her daughter spent the year as a student at the Lycée Henri IV preparing for the French baccalaureate exam, which gave the Trouilles first-hand experience with the French educational system.

Service to the profession American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS): Member, Executive Board (2007–10); Member, Women’s Caucus Planning Committee (2006-2007); Chair, Clifford Prize Selection Committee (2004–2005); Member, Clifford Prize Selection Committee (2003– 2004); Chair, Teaching Prize Selection Committee (2002–2003); Member, Teaching Prize Selection Committee (2001–2002); Editorial Board, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (2000-2003); Co-Chair, Women's Caucus (1995–1998); Member, Women’s Caucus, International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Reviewer of submissions to Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Life, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, PMLA, and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

Selected Publications: Books Wife-Abuse in Eighteenth-Century France in the series Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (SVEC) published by the Voltaire Foundation in Oxford, England, January, 2009. Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment: Women Writers Read Rousseau. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1997. Book Translations Rethinking France: Les Lieux de Mémoire, ed. Pierre Nora and David Jordan. University of Chicago Press, October, 2001, volume 1: The State. English translation of first volume of four-volume collection originally published as Les Lieux de Mémoire, ed. Pierre Nora. Paris: Gallimard, 1984-92. [Eleven essays, 500 p.] The Writing of Melancholy: Modes of Opposition in Early French Modernism. University of Chicago Press, 1993. Translation of Ross Chambers' Mélancolie et Opposition: Les Débuts du Modernisme en France. Paris: Librairie José Corti, 1987. Articles published: "Challenging Male Violence and the Double Standard in the Courts: The Separation Case of Dame D* (Paris, 1788)." SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) 2007: 06 (June 2007): 209–38. "Buried Alive: Genlis's Gothic Tale of Marital Violence in Histoire de la Duchesse de C" SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) 2005:12 (December 2005): 77-114. The Conflict between Good and Evil, Faith and Irreligion, in Sade's Marquise de Gange." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 17, 1 (October 2004): 53-86. "Truth Stranger than Fiction: Wife-Abuse in Restif de la Bretonne's Ingénue Saxancour." SVEC 2003: 1 (January 2003): 311-44. "Conflicting Views of Marriage and Spousal Abuse in Pre-Revolutionary France." SVEC 2001: 12 (December, 2001): 253-85. "Marriage and Domestic Violence in Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Society." In Teaching the Eighteenth Century 8 (2001): 73-99. "Toward a New Appreciation of Madame de Genlis: The Influence of Les Battuécas on George Sand's Political and Social Thought." The French Review 71, 4 (March, 1998): 565-76. "Eighteenth-Century Women Writers through the Eyes of Sainte-Beuve: Gender Ideology and the Politics of Literary History." Romance Notes 37, 1 (Fall 1996): 3-16. "Sexual/Textual Politics in the Enlightenment: Diderot and d'Epinay Respond to Thomas's Essay on Women." Romanic Review 84, 2 (March 1994): 98-116. Reprinted in Transactions of the Ninth International Congress on the Enlightenment [July 1995] British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 19, 1 (Spring 1996): 1-15. "La Femme Mal Mariée: Madame d'Epinay's Response to Julie and Emile." Eighteenth-Century Life 20, 1 (February, 1996): 42-66. "Strategies of Self-Representation: The Influence of Rousseau's Confessions and the Woman Autobiographer's Double Bind." SVEC 319 (1994): 313-39. "A Bold New Vision of Woman: Staël and Wollstonecraft Respond to Rousseau." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 292 (Winter 1991): 277-319. "The Failings of Rousseau's Ideals of Domesticity and Sensibility." Eighteenth-Century Studies 24, 4 (Summer 1991): 451-83. "Revolution in the Boudoir: Madame Roland's Subversion of Rousseau's Feminine Ideals." Eighteenth-Century Life 13, 2 (May, 1989): 65-86. Chapters in Books "Giving Voice to Women’s Experience: Marital Discord and Wife-Abuse in Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Society.” In Options for Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. [MLA Options for Teaching Series.] Ed. Faith E. Beasley. New York: MLA, 2009. [ "Gouges, Olympe de." Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. Alan Charles Kors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, v. 2, pp. 143-44. "Roland, Marie-Jeanne." Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. Alan Charles Kors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, v. 32, pp. 467-68. "La Femme Mal Mariée: Madame d'Epinay's Response to Julie and Emile." In Writing the History of Women's Writing: Toward an International Approach. [Proceedings of the International Conference on European Women Writers, 1500-1850, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, September, 1998]. Ed. Suzan van Dijk et al. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2001, pp. 171-82. "Louise d'Epinay." In Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women. From Marie de France to Elizabeth Vigée-LeBrun, ed. Colette Winn and Anne R. Larsen. New York: Garland Publishers, 2000, pp. 509-32. Translation of two texts by Louise d'Epinay --"La Fille Amazone" from Les Conversations d'Emilie and letter to Galiani of 14 March 1772--with commentary on the texts. "The Enlightenment Debate on Women: Diderot and d'Epinay Respond to Thomas's Essai sur les femmes." In Women Writers in Pre-Revolutionary France: Strategies of Emancipation, ed. Colette Winn and Donna Kuizenga. New York, NY: Garland Publishers, 1997, pp. 163-83. "Women's Autobiography in Eighteenth-Century France: The Emergence of a Feminine Voice in d'Epinay's Histoire de Madame de Montbrillant," in Autobiographik von Frauen, ed. Michaela Holdenried. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1995, pp. 109-18. "'The Circe of the Republic': Madame Roland, Rousseau, and Revolutionary Politics," in Literate Women andthe 1789 Revolution, ed. Catherine Montfort. Birmingham, Alabama: SUMMA Press, 1995, pp. 81-109. "Eighteenth-Century Amazons of the Pen: Stéphanie de Genlis and Olympe de Gouges." In Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers and Intellectuals, ed. Roland Bonnel and Catherine Rubinger. New York: Peter Lang, 1994, pp. 341-70.

Selected Publications:

Books

Wife-Abuse in Eighteenth-Century France in the series Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (SVEC) published by the Voltaire Foundation in Oxford, England, January, 2009.

Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment: Women Writers Read Rousseau. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1997.

Book Translations

Rethinking France: Les Lieux de Mémoire, ed. Pierre Nora and David Jordan. University of Chicago Press, October, 2001, volume 1: The State. English translation of first volume of four-volume collection originally published as Les Lieux de Mémoire, ed. Pierre Nora. Paris: Gallimard, 1984-92. [Eleven essays, 500 p.]

The Writing of Melancholy: Modes of Opposition in Early French Modernism. University of Chicago Press, 1993. Translation of Ross Chambers' Mélancolie et Opposition: Les Débuts du Modernisme en France. Paris: Librairie José Corti, 1987.

Articles published:

"Challenging Male Violence and the Double Standard in the Courts: The Separation Case of Dame D* (Paris, 1788)." SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) 2007: 06 (June 2007): 209–38.

"Buried Alive: Genlis's Gothic Tale of Marital Violence in Histoire de la Duchesse de C" SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) 2005:12 (December 2005): 77-114.

The Conflict between Good and Evil, Faith and Irreligion, in Sade's Marquise de Gange." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 17, 1 (October 2004): 53-86.

"Truth Stranger than Fiction: Wife-Abuse in Restif de la Bretonne's Ingénue Saxancour." SVEC 2003: 1 (January 2003): 311-44.

"Conflicting Views of Marriage and Spousal Abuse in Pre-Revolutionary France." SVEC 2001: 12 (December, 2001): 253-85.

"Marriage and Domestic Violence in Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Society." In Teaching the Eighteenth Century 8 (2001): 73-99.

"Toward a New Appreciation of Madame de Genlis: The Influence of Les Battuécas on George Sand's Political and Social Thought." The French Review 71, 4 (March, 1998): 565-76.

"Eighteenth-Century Women Writers through the Eyes of Sainte-Beuve: Gender Ideology and the Politics of Literary History." Romance Notes 37, 1 (Fall 1996): 3-16.

"Sexual/Textual Politics in the Enlightenment: Diderot and d'Epinay Respond to Thomas's Essay on Women." Romanic Review 84, 2 (March 1994): 98-116. Reprinted in Transactions of the Ninth International Congress on the Enlightenment [July 1995] British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 19, 1 (Spring 1996): 1-15.

"La Femme Mal Mariée: Madame d'Epinay's Response to Julie and Emile." Eighteenth-Century Life 20, 1 (February, 1996): 42-66.

"Strategies of Self-Representation: The Influence of Rousseau's Confessions and the Woman Autobiographer's Double Bind." SVEC 319 (1994): 313-39.

"A Bold New Vision of Woman: Staël and Wollstonecraft Respond to Rousseau." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 292 (Winter 1991): 277-319. "The Failings of Rousseau's Ideals of Domesticity and Sensibility." Eighteenth-Century Studies 24, 4 (Summer 1991): 451-83.

"Revolution in the Boudoir: Madame Roland's Subversion of Rousseau's Feminine Ideals." Eighteenth-Century Life 13, 2 (May, 1989): 65-86.

Chapters in Books

"Giving Voice to Women’s Experience: Marital Discord and Wife-Abuse in Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Society.” In Options for Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. [MLA Options for Teaching Series.] Ed. Faith E. Beasley. New York: MLA, 2009. [

"Gouges, Olympe de." Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. Alan Charles Kors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, v. 2, pp. 143-44.

"Roland, Marie-Jeanne." Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. Alan Charles Kors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, v. 32, pp. 467-68.

"La Femme Mal Mariée: Madame d'Epinay's Response to Julie and Emile." In Writing the History of Women's Writing: Toward an International Approach. [Proceedings of the International Conference on European Women Writers, 1500-1850, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, September, 1998]. Ed. Suzan van Dijk et al. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2001, pp. 171-82.

"Louise d'Epinay." In Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women. From Marie de France to Elizabeth Vigée-LeBrun, ed. Colette Winn and Anne R. Larsen. New York: Garland Publishers, 2000, pp. 509-32. Translation of two texts by Louise d'Epinay --"La Fille Amazone" from Les Conversations d'Emilie and letter to Galiani of 14 March 1772--with commentary on the texts.

"The Enlightenment Debate on Women: Diderot and d'Epinay Respond to Thomas's Essai sur les femmes." In Women Writers in Pre-Revolutionary France: Strategies of Emancipation, ed. Colette Winn and Donna Kuizenga. New York, NY: Garland Publishers, 1997, pp. 163-83.

"Women's Autobiography in Eighteenth-Century France: The Emergence of a Feminine Voice in d'Epinay's Histoire de Madame de Montbrillant," in Autobiographik von Frauen, ed. Michaela Holdenried. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1995, pp. 109-18.

"'The Circe of the Republic': Madame Roland, Rousseau, and Revolutionary Politics," in Literate Women andthe 1789 Revolution, ed. Catherine Montfort. Birmingham, Alabama: SUMMA Press, 1995, pp. 81-109.

"Eighteenth-Century Amazons of the Pen: Stéphanie de Genlis and Olympe de Gouges." In Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers and Intellectuals, ed. Roland Bonnel and Catherine Rubinger. New York: Peter Lang, 1994, pp. 341-70.