Present rank: Associate Professor of French, 1987- .

Previous Purdue rank: Assistant Professor of French, 1984-1987.

Academic Record

Degree	Year	Institution	Years attended
Ph.D.	1978	The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	1973-1978
M.A.	1973	The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	1972-1973
B.A.	1972	The University of Northern Iowa	1968-1972

General Information

Academic appointments:

1980-1984 Assistant Professor of French, Marquette University.
1978-1980 Instructor of French, The Ohio State University.
1973-1978 Teaching Assistant in French, The University of Michigan.

Memberships in Academic, Professional, and Scholarly Societies:

Modern Language Association, 1973-
Midwest Modern Language Association, 1984-
American Association of Teachers of French, 1980-
American Comparative Literature Association, 1976- <BR> North American Society for Seventeenth Century French Literature, 1980-
Société d'Analyse des Topoï Romanesques, 1983-
Society for Seventeenth Century Studies (U.K.), 1986-
CMR 17 (Centre Méridional des Recherches sur le 17e siècle), 1989-

Publications

Books:

Literary Satire and Theory: A Study of Horace, Boileau, and Pope. New York: Garland, 1985. 119 pp.

Le Mythe de Phèdre: Les Hippolyte français du dix-septième siècle, ed. Allen G. Wood. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1996. 384 pp.

Book section:

"Voiture" in La Poésie française du premier 17e: Textes et contextes (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1986), 299-312. An anthology of French baroque poetry.

Articles:

1."The Régent du Parnasse and Vraisemblance," French Forum, 3, 3 (Sept. 1978), 251-262.

2."Murder in the Seraglio: Orientalism in Seventeenth Century Tragedy," Papers in French Seventeenth Century Literature, 12 (1979-1980), 91-107.

3."The End of Dawn: Poetic Closure in the Baroque 'Belle Matineuse'," Esprit créateur, 20, 4 (Winter, 1980), 64-75.

4."Les Noms placés dans les niches: Satires and Sermons," Papers in French Seventeenth Century Literature, 9, 16 (1982), 89-101.

5."L'Alouette canadienne de Cyrano," Actes de Montréal (Paris: Jean- Michel Place, 1984), 121-131.

6."Authority and Boileau," Actes de Baton Rouge (Paris: Biblio 17, 1986), 217-226.

7."The Marquis' Black Box: Generic Parody in the Roman bourgeois," Actes de Banff (Paris: Biblio 17, 1987), 361-371.

8."Boileau and the Persistence of Lyric," Papers in French Seventeenth Century Literature, 14, 27 (1987), 621-636.

9."Phèdre, Queen of Hearts, in the Classroom," Foreign Language Annals, 20 (1987), 51-55.

10."Boileau and Affective Response," Cahiers du Dix-Septième, I, 2 (1987), 61-73.

11."Epistolary Style in Voiture and Madame de Sévigné," Papers in French Seventeenth Century Literature, 15, 28 (1988), 229-238.

12."Decor and Decorum in Andromède," Papers in French Seventeenth Century Literature, 15, 29 (1988), 685-699.

13."Libertin/Citadin: The Paris of Claude Le Petit," Continuum, 3 (1991), 159-169.

14."Boileau, l'équivoque, et l'oeuvre ouverte," Ordre et contestation au temps des classiques, éd. Roger Duchêne. Marseille: CMR 17, 1992, pp. 275-85.

15."La Poétique de l'épître chez Boileau", L'Epître en vers au XVIIe siècle, Littératures classiques, 1993, pp. 289-99.

16."Foreward: Teaching Lyric Poetry", Papers in French Seventeenth Century Literature, 21, 40 (1994), 189.

17."Bussy, Boileau et la verve satirique," Bussy-Rabutin: L'Homme et l'oeuvre, éds. Noblat-Rérolle et al. Dijon: Jany, 1995, pp. 131-141.

18."Suicide and Classical Theatre", Actes de Lexington, Paris: Biblio 17, 1995, 331-343.

19. "Boileau, the Croix Blanche, and Satire I," OEuvres et critiques, 20, 3 (1995) p. 263-272.

20. "Of Kings, Queens, and Musketeers," Papers in French Seventeenth Century Literature, 24, 46 (1997), 163-171.

Encyclopedia entry:

"Je ne sais quoi" and "Préciosité" in New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton: U. Princeton P., 1993.

Notes, Responses:

"L'Inde fabuleuse de La Fontaine," Et in Arcadia Ego, éd Antoine Soare, Paris: Biblio 17, (1997) 133-135.