Selected Presentations & Appearances
French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire
· October 2015
Invited Talk
Newhouse Center,
Wellesley College
Symposium on Travel Writing
· June 2015
Invited Talk
University of Tilburg,
Tilburg, Holland
Laurent D’Arvieux: Self-Fashioned Envoyé Extraordinaire
- Modern Language Association Conference
· January 2014
Lecture
Modern Language Association,
Chicago
The Traveler, the Eunuchs, and the Seraglio: A Borrowed View and Double Vision" (Jean-Baptiste Tavernier 1605-1689
· September 26, 2013
Lecture
Yale University French Department
Travel, or the Benefits of Discontent: Marseilles – Constantinople (1650-1700)
- The Book in Progress
· July 23, 2012
Invited Talk
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center
Jean Thévenot: Travels, Adventures, and Observations of a Voyager to the Levant
- The Huntington Library Symposium: Portraits of the Traveler: The Art of Mediating between East and West
· May 11, 2012
Invited Talk
Huntington Institute, San Marino, CA
La France mise en scène : Bajazet, La Communication et le Détour
· March 20, 2012
Lecture
Maison de la Recherche de Paris-Sorbonne,
Invited Lectures ; Littérature des voyages II. L'Orient Théâtral : Séminaire de A. Duprat and F. Moureau (dir.)
Le Récit de Voyage: Laurent d’Arvieux et ses aventures
· February 14, 2011
Lecture
Camargo Foundation,
Cassis
Travel, or the benefits of Discontent: Marseilles-Constantinople (1650-1700)
· November 21, 2010
Lecture
University of Sidney, Australia
Voir, savoir, pouvoir: l'eunuque, le voyageur et le sultan: Jean-Baptiste Tavernier et sa Nouvelle Relation du Serrail du Grand Seigneur.
· October 22, 2010
Lecture
Harvard University
The Trouble with Travel Writing
· April 5, 2010
Invited Talk
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans
The Trouble with Travel Writing
· March 8, 2010
Lecture
Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
Le Littéraire avant la Littérature
· December 27, 2009
Lecture
Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA
Le littéraire avant la littérature
· December 1, 2009
Lecture
MLA Philadelphia
Maalouf et Le Périple de Baldassar: L’impossibilité du Récit de voyage
· November 1, 2009
Invited Talk
Invited Lectures ; “Ottomania and Al Andalus,” Duke University Romance Studies Colloquium, November 2009.
Introduction to Pascale Casanova's lecture Remarques sur la production du temps littéraire: vieillissement et consécration
· February 16, 2009
Invited Talk
Duke University Romance Studies, Durham, NC
Love, or, 'The French Love Story
- Introduction to French Film Series, Love, Past and Present
· February 1, 2009
Invited Talk
Duke University Center for French & Francophone Studies, Durham, NC
Mediterranean World: The Making of a Symbol
· December 1, 2008
Lecture
Modern Languages Association Conference, San Francisco
Réflexions sur "La Galanterie française" de Claude Habib: hier et aujourd'hui
· June 5, 2008
Lecture
Université Paris IV - Sorbonne
Jean Thévenot: ethnographe des îles du levant
· April 1, 2008
Lecture
CIR 17 - University of Corsica, Corte
Antoine Galland::Voyageur et Passeur
- SE 17 Conference
· November 2007
Lecture
Yale University
Constantinople: The Telling and the Taking
· November 2006
Invited Talk
Catholic University
Le Journal de voyage de Antoine Galland : histoire d’un passe
- Colloque Récits d’orient en occident
· March 18, 2006
Invited Talk
G.R.A.L. – Centre de recherches en littérature comparée ,
University of Paris IV - Sorbonne
ur
Sur l’orientalisme et le théâtre classique
- Séminaire du G.R.A.L. Centre de recherches en littérature comparée
· January 27, 2006
Invited Talk
University of Paris IV – Sorbonne
Derrière “le présentisme, du regard lointain, La Critique dix-septièmiste américaine
- Colloque du Cercle
· June 17, 2005
- June 21, 2005
Invited Talk
University of Paris III - Sorbonne nouvelle
Yesterday’s Classics / Today’s Films
- Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference
· April 2005
Lecture
Madame Bovary, or the Dangers of Reading
- Adventures in Ideas Seminar
· April 2005
Invited Talk
UNC Chapel Hill
Jean Chardin, voyageur: liberté dans les marges
- séminaire d’anthropologie, François Pouillon
· March 16, 2005
Invited Talk
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Tropes of Colonization
- Respondent. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting
· April 2004
Invited Talk
New York, NY
Constantinople: The Telling and the Taking
· March 2004
Invited Talk
University of Virginia
Constantinople: The Telling and the Taking
· February 2004
Invited Talk
Northwestern University
Respondent
- The Arab-Muslim Mediterranean: An International Colloquium
· September 2003
Lecture
Duke University
La représentation, la narration et la conquête: Guillaume-Joseph Grelot et son voyage au Levant, Pollux, ou le profil nouveau de l’anthropologue
- Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
· May 2003
Invited Talk
Paris
The ‘Mamamouchi,’ or the Ottoman Colonizing of the French Imaginary
- The Ottoman Empire Conference
· March 2002
Lecture
Folger Library
The ‘Mamamouchi,'or the Ottoman Colonizing of the French Imaginary
· March 2002
Invited Talk
Princeton University
Mythifying / Mystifying French Identity
- Modern Language Association Conference
· December 2001
Invited Talk
New Orleans
Orientalism in French Classical Drama
· October 2001
Invited Talk
The University of Colorado – Boulder
Creüse: Corneille’s Material Girl
- La femme au dix-septième siècle Conference
· October 2000
Lecture
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada
Ranimer les Maures, ou Le Cid revisité
· May 2000
Invited Talk
The University of Paris III,
Paris, France
Mediterranean Local Others and the World of the French Classics
- Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference
· April 2000
Lecture
Orienter le monde, désorienter l’Orient: la mise-en scène de l’ambition mercantiliste à travers le 17e siècle
- C.I.R. 17:Les Méditerranées du dix-septième siècle
· April 2000
Lecture
Bari, Italy
Understandings of the Ottoman Eunuch
- The Renaissance Society of America
· March 2000
Lecture
Florence, Italy
Ranimer les Maures, ou Le Cid revisité
· November 1999
Invited Talk
The University of Lausanne,
Switzerland
The Uses of Exoticism in Seventeenth-century France
- France: History / Story Conference
· July 1999
Lecture
Birmingham, U.K.
Constantinople: The Telling and the Taking
- Crossings: Mediterraneanizing the Politics of Location, History and Knowledge Conference
· May 1999
Lecture
Duke University
Show and Tell: Taking Constantinople
- American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference
· April 1999
Lecture
Montreal, Canada
Médée and the Traveler Savant
· March 1999
Invited Talk
Smith College,
Northampton, MA
The Mother-Daughter Subtext
- Approaches to Teaching Lafayette's The Princesse of Clèves (MLA Publications Committee) MLA Convention
· December 1998
Lecture
Modern Language Association,
San Francisco, CA
Show and Tell: Taking Constantinople
- Modern Language Association Convention
· December 1998
Lecture
San Francisco, CA
Constantinople: The Telling and the Taking, by Tale and Illustration
· November 1998
Lecture
Western Society for French History,
Boston, MA
Mimicry, Mockery, Menace: Molière’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme and the Colonizing of the French Imaginary
- The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference
· November 1998
Lecture
Newport, RI
Staging Exoticism in Early Modern France
· September 1998
Lecture
Association of Independent Scholars,
National Humanities Center, R.T.P., NC
'Getting to Know You:' The Early Modern French in Constantinople
- Keynote lecture for the Studies in Visual Culture: Representations Symposium
· January 1998
Invited Talk
Department of Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Seventeenth-Century Constantinople: How to Find the Words
- Sites of Culture Conference
· December 1997
Lecture
The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mithridate, or La Cour de France turbanisée
- XXIXth Annual Conference of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature
· April 1997
Lecture
Victoria, BC, Canada
Bajazet à la lettre
- Racine Conference
· October 1996
Invited Talk
Washington University,
St. Louis
Le Cid and the Acting-Out of Politics
· April 1996
Invited Talk
Brown University, Providence
The Staging of Exoticism in 17th-century France
- Triangle French Studies seminar
· April 1996
Lecture
Re-Orienting Readings of Le Cid
· December 1995
Lecture
MLA,
Chicago
Sévigné aujourd’hui
- Femmes de l’ancien régime Conference
· April 1995
Lecture
Washington University,
St. Louis
Le Cid: La politique sur scène
- L'Ecole des chartes
· December 8, 1994
Invited Talk
Paris
The Staging of Exoticism in 17th-century France
- Camargo Foundation: Cassis
· October 1993
Lecture
French Studies: A la recherche de la marque de la marquise
- Colloquium: Canon Fodder: In Search of French Studies
· February 1993
Invited Talk
University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA
Fact and Fiction in 17th-century France: Response on Presentism, Text/Context and Selection Problems in Methodology
· December 1992
Lecture
MLA,
New York City
Tallemant des Réaux: Portraitist, Gossip, Historian, Social Critic? Response
- SE17 and NASSCFL Meetings
· October 1992
Lecture
Athens, Georgia
Reading a Mother's Letters
- Duke Women's Studies Faculty Seminar
· December 1991
Lecture
Duke Unbiversity,
Durham, NC
The Sévigné Correspondence
- American Association of Teachers of French
· July 1991
Lecture
Minneapolis, MN
Dom Juan et l'économie sociale
- 21ème colloque du CMR 17
· June 1991
Lecture
Marseille, France
Mirroring Maternality: the Sévigné Mother-Daughter Letters
- René Bellé Memorial Lecture
· November 1990
Invited Talk
Department of French and Italian, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA
Writing Letters, Telling Tales, Making History: Vatel's Death Told and Retold
- Western Society for French History 18th Annual Meeting
· November 1990
Lecture
University of California at Santa Barbara
Women and Letters - Gender and Genre in 17th-Century France
· April 1990
Invited Talk
Rice University Women's Studies Workshop of the Center for Cultural Studies and the Department of French and Italian,
Houston, TX
Readers in Correspondence: The Politics of Consensus
· December 1989
Lecture
MLA,
Washington, DC
La double mort de Vatel: Le vrai et le vraisemblable
· December 1989
Lecture
MLA,
Washington, DC
Double Vision: Reading the Sévigné Correspondence
· October 1989
Invited Talk
SE17,
Athens, Georgia
Tensions of Taste between Mother and Daughter in the Sévigné Correspondence
· December 1988
Lecture
MLA,
New Orleans
Celebration and Repression of Feminine Desire in The Fairy Tale Narratives of Mme. d'Aulnoy
· December 1987
Lecture
MLA,
San Francisco, CA
Sévigné: The Art of Vicarious Living
· November 1987
Lecture
SCMLA,
Houston, TX
Sévigné: The Art of Vicarious Living
· November 1987
Lecture
SCMLA,
Houston, TX
Theorizing on Equality: Marie de Gournay and Poullain de la Barre
- Southeast American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Studies
· September 1987
Lecture
SE17,
Athens, Georgia
Philippe Lejeune's Pact: Reading Sévigné's Correspondence as Autobiography
· December 1986
Lecture
MLA,
New York
Praise, in Theory . . . and in Practice: The Case of La Bruyère and Sévigné
- Southeast American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Studies
· September 1986
Lecture
SE17,
charleston, SC
Perrault's Griselidis: Issues of Gender, Genre and Authority
- North American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Literature Meetings
· April 1986
Lecture
Banff
Patterns of Excellence: Sévigné in the Classical Maternal Tradition
· December 1985
Lecture
MLA,
Chicago
Anne Hébert: A Woman's Voice
· December 1985
Lecture
MLA,
Chicago
Measuring Maternity: Sévigné's Drive to Excel
· November 1985
Lecture
SCMLA,
Tulsa
Bringing up Pauline: A Seventeenth-Century Concept of Grandmothering
· December 1984
Lecture
MLA,
Washington, DC
Service to the Profession
Professor : Duke in Venice - Venice International University faculty
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November 12, 2010
Committee Service
Venice, Italy
member, Chair 2010 : Phi Beta Kappa Jenson Fellowship Committee
·
2008
- 2011
Committee Service
member, Executive Programs Committee : MLA
·
2008
- 2010
Committee Service