Julia Douthwaite

Professor Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

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

From 2003-09, as Assistant Provost for International Studies, Douthwaite oversaw undergraduate programs in 40+ countries around the world, and initiated the strategic planning process for internationalizing the university. As a teacher-scholar, Douthwaite focuses primarily on 18th- and early 19th-century French literature and the French Revolution. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim 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), and co-editor (with Mary Vidal), The Interdisciplinary Century: Tensions and Convergences in Eighteenth-Century Art, History and Literature (SVEC, 2005), and (with David Lee Rubin), 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 SVEC. In 2009 she was elected Member-at-Large of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (membership 2,000+) for a three-year term. Her current book project is entitled The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Missing Links of Revolutionary France. For an avant-premiere of this new work, see article by Douthwaite, with Daniel Richter (MA, Univ. Notre Dame '08): "The Frankenstein of the French Revolution: Nogaret's Automaton Tale of 1790," European Romantic Review, 20, 3 (July 2009): 381 - 411. For more on her teaching and research, see Douthwaite's weblog.

Contact Information

120 Decio Faculty Hall
631-9302
Julia.V.Douthwaite.1@nd.edu
http://revolutioninfiction.wordpress.com