Primary concentrations:

Seventeenth-Century French literature and culture; Early-Modern Studies; Women Writers; Critical Theory; Feminist theory; Human Rights

Books:

• Women Writ, Women Writing: Gendered Discourse and Differences in Seventeenth-Century France. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007, forthcoming.
• The Monarchy, The Nation and its Others: France in the Age of Louis XIV. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, forthcoming.
• The Aristocrat as Art: A Study of the "Honnête Homme" and the Dandy in Seventeenth- and Nineteenth-Century.French Literature. New York: Columbia Univer­sity Press, 1980.

Editions:

• Feminisms in the Academy: Rethinking the Disciplines, co-edited and with an introduction. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
• Discourses of Sexuality: From Aristotle to Aids, edited and with an introduction. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, l992;second edition, 1994.
• Women and Memory, co-edited and with an introduction by Peg Lourie, Domna Stanton and Martha Vicinus, special volume of The Michigan Quarterly Review, 1987.
• The Defiant Muse: French Feminist Poems from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Centuries, edited and with an introduction. New York : The Feminist Press, 1986.
• The Female Autograph: Memoirs, Letters, Journals and Autobiographies by Women, edited and with an introduction. New York Literary Forum, 1984; paper­back, The Female Autograph: Theory and Practice of Autobiography from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Selected Articles:

• “On Rooted Cosmopolitanism.” PMLA May, 2006.
• “On Linguistic Human Rights and U.S. ‘Foreign Language’ Policy, ADFL Bulletin, Winter, 2005 (36:2):5-13; reprinted in Profession 2006.
• “The Crisis in Scholarly Publishing and Promotion: A Plan of Action,” Profession, 2004, 32-41.
• “From Imperialism to Collaboration: How Can We Get There?” PMLA, 117, no. 5 (2002): 1266-71.
• "Pour une histoire littéraire contextuelle: Les Etudes françaises aux Etats-Unis," Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France, Colloque du Centenaire, 1995, 117-27. Translated by Katie Jewett for special issue of Contemporary French Studies on "Cultural Studies, Cultural Wars," edited by Jean Francois Fourny and Lawrence R. Schehr, XXI, no 2 (Summer, Fall, 1997): 5-17.
• "Sexual Pleasure and Sacred Law: Transgression and Complicity in Vénus dans le cloître," Esprit Créateur, special issue edited by Abby Zanger, XXXV, no. 2 (1995): 67-83.
• "Francion, néotériste; ou, 'la fabrique du sexe' aristocratique est-elle possible?," special "American" issue of Le Dix-Septième Siècle, 180 (Juillet-Septembre, 1993) 455-64.
• "Classicism Re-constructed and Deconstructed," Continuum I:l (l989) (Inaugural issue on Classicism): l-30.
• "The Demystification of History and Fiction in Villedieu's Les Annales Galantes", Papers in French Seventeenth-Century Literature, Biblio l7, no. 3l (l987): 339-60.
• "On la contestation and le carnaval: A Paradoxical Preface,"Papers in French Seventeenth-Century Literature, Biblio 17, no. 30 (1987): l23-l4l.
• "The Mater of the Text: Barthesian Displacement and its Limits," The Rhetoric of Sexuality, special issue of Esprit Créateur, Summer 1985: 57-72.
• "Pascal's Fragmentary Thoughts: Dis-Order and its Overdetermination," Semiotica Vol 5, no. 1-3, 1984 (Special Issue, The Classical Sign): 211-35.
• "Woman as Object and Subject of Exchange: Marie de Gournay's Le Proumenoir (1594)" Esprit Créateur XXIII, no. 2 (1983): 9-25.
• "The Theory and Practice of Criticism in Seventeenth-Century French Literature," Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature X, no. 18 (1983): 73-78.
• "The Predicatory Mouth: Problematics of Communication in Bossuet's Oeuvres Oratoires," Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature IX (1982): 102-121.
• "The Fear of Women and the Fictions of Préciosité," Yale French Studies, 62 (Fall 1981): 107-34.
• "Playing with Signs: The Discourse of Molière's Dom Juan," French Forum (May 1980): 106-121.
• "Parole et écriture:  Women's Studies, U.S.A. ," Tel Quel 71-73 (Winter 1977): 119-135.
• "The Ideal of 'Repos' in Seventeenth-Century French Literature," From Humanism to Classicism (Memorial volume to Nathan Edelman), Esprit Créateur, Spring-Summer 1975, pp. 79-104.

Selected Chapters in Books:

• “Les Etudes de femmes, de genres et de séxualité,” Colloquium: Un Dialogue avec la critique américaine dix-septiémiste, ed. by Hélène Merlin, Paris: Editions de la Sorbonne, 2006.
• “The Monarchy, the Nation and its Others,” Acts of colloquium on Imagology: The Other, Mugla University, Turkey , ed Michel Bareau, Alta Press, 2005, 1-21.
• “Autogynography," Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, ed. Lorraine Code, Routledge, 2000, 34.
• "From the Maternal Metaphor to Metonymy and History: Seventeenth-Century Discourses of Maternalism and The Case of Sévigné, The Mother In/And French Literature, ed. Buford Norman , Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2000, 1-32.
• "Recuperating Women and the Man Behind the Screen," Gender and Sexuality in Early-Modern Europe , James Turner, ed. Cambridge: University Press, l993, 247-65.
• "l685. Louis XIV Revokes the Edict of Nantes. Religious Controversies," A History of French Literature, Denis Hollier ed. Harvard University Press, l989, pp.358-64; translated for the French edition, l993.
• "Autogynography: The Case of Marie de Gournay's Apologie pour celle qui escrit," Autobiography in Literature, A. Maynor Hardee, ed.; University of South Carolina Press , 1985, pp. 18-31.
• "Autogynography: Is the Subject Different?," The Female Autograph, Domna C. Stanton, ed. New York: New York Literary Forum, 1984, pp. 5-22; reprinted in The Female Autograph. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, l987, pp.3-20; translated by Angel G. Loureiro for inclusion in El Grand Desafio: Feminismos, Autobiografia y Postmodernidad, ed. Angel G. Loureiro (Madrid: Megazul-Endymion, 1994), 71-100; reprinted in Theorizing Women's Autobiography: A Reader, ed. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998).
• "What's in a Name?: The Case for Author-Anonymous Reviewing," Change, March 1981, pp. 8-11. An expanded version of this article appears in Women in Print, Joan Hartman and Ellen Messer-Davidow, 2 Vols., New York : The Modern Language Association, 1982, pp. 65-77.
• "Language and Revolution: The Franco-American Dis-Connection," The Future of Difference, Alice Jardine and Hester Eisenstein, eds., G.K. Hall, 1980, pp. 73-87; Paperback, Rutgers University Press, 1985.

Editorships:

• “Human Rights and the Humanities,” co-edited with Judith Butler, PMLA, Fall, 2006
• Member, Advisory Committee, Women’s Studies Quarterly 2005-
• Member, Editorial Board, Women in French, 2000-
• Member, Editorial Board, Pedagogy, Duke UP, 1999-
• Editor, PMLA, l992-l997.
• Member, Advisory Board, PMLA, 1983-1985
• Editorial Board, 1985-1987.
• Associate Editor, Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, a quarterly published by the University of Chicago Press, 1974-1980.

Fellowships and Awards:

• NEH Grant (5000) to support research and preparation of volume on Gabrielle Suchon and on fairy tales by l7th-century women writers, for Chicago University Press, 2003-4

• 2000: Recipient, John D’Arms Mentoring Award (mentoring of graduate students), University of Michigan
• 1997-2002 Program Director of Presidential Initiative Grant on Gender Based Censorship, University of Michigan
• 1994-1995: Differences Among Women Project, Women's Studies Program, funded by Presidential Initiatives Grant, University of Michigan
• 1985-l994: Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities
• 1978: Ford Foundation Travel and Study Grant

Professional Activites:

• Elected, Second Vice President, Modern Language Association, 2003, First Vice-President, 2004, President, 2005. Concurrently, Chair Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, 2004-2005.
• Member of the Advisory Committee, Center for Social Inclusion, 2005-
• Member of the Board, Bella Abzug Leadship Institute (Bali), 2005-
• Member of the Board, Human Rights Watch, 1996-; Chair of Communications Committee; Member of the Campaign Finance Committee; Member, Development Committee; Member of the Executive Committee (-2005); Chair, New York Council (1996-2000); Member, Task Force on Advocacy (2000); Chair, Archives Committee; Member, Policy Committee (2005-); Member joint Columbia/Human Tights Watch Committee on Archives (2005); member LGBT Advisory Board (2004-)
• Member, Advisory Committee of the Women's Rights Project of Human Rights Watch, 1995-
• Member of the Board, The National Book Foundation, l989-97
• Member, Executive Committee, Division on Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 1985-1989, Chair l988-l989.
• Executive Council, Modern Language Association, l989-l992.