Julia Douthwaite

Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Assistant Provost for International Studies

Degrees

B.A., M.A., University of Washington; Certificat de Maitrise, Faculte des Lettres, Universite de Nantes, France; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Research Profile

Douthwaite focuses on 18th- and early 19th-century French literature, the French Revolution, women's writing, intersections between literature and science, and Franco-English literary relations. She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Lilly Endowment. She is author of The Wild Girl, Natural Man and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press, 2002); and Exotic Women: Literary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancien Regime France (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992).  She is co-editor of three volumes of theoretical and applied studies on the eighteenth century: with Mary Vidal, The Interdisciplinary Century: Tensions and Convergences in Eighteenth-Century Art, History and Literature (SVEC, 2005), and with David Lee Rubin, the two-volume issue of EMF: Studies in Early Modern France on 'Cultural Studies' (2000, 2001). She is membre associée of CELAM (Centre d'etudes des litteratures anciennes et modernes) at the Universite de Rennes 2, Rennes, France, and serves on the Editorial Board of Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Eighteenth-Century Life.  Her current book project (in progress) is entitled A Literary History of the French Revolution. 

Contact Information

120 Decio Faculty Hall
631-5203
Julia.V.Douthwaite.1@nd.edu