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Michele Longino

Professor Emerita of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
Box 90257, Dept. of Romance Studies, Durham, NC 27708-0257
205 Languages, BOX90257 Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours By appointment. Generally available 2:40-4:40 p.m. T, Th  

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

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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 · 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