Conferences

"Il Mascheraio: looking at collective creation in commedia dell’arte". Vth EASTAP Conference. Piccolo Teatro. Milan, Italy. (May)

"Le travestissement: comment jouer les types masculins de Léandre ou Arlequin en tant que femme." Journée d’étude "Jouer les textes classiques aujourd'hui?". Théâtre Vitez and Université Aix-Marseille. (Nov.)

"Le Pouvoir du corps féminin: inspiration et réappropriation dans le bijou Art Nouveau." 46th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium (NCFS). "Power" Washington, D.C.

"Arsène Lupin: The many faces of the French literary myth," Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA).  Washington, DC (Mar.)

"Jouer Molière avec des étudiants américains: les leçons du Mariage Forcé,” French through Theater, online and beyond, an event sponsored by The University of Chicago and Francophone Youth Theater. Chicago (Feb.)

"Ethics of Cultural Appreciation: Marie Antoinette’s function in American’s Children Literature," Joint Annual Congress of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) and Northeast American Studies of Eighteenth Century Studies (NEASECS). "Ethic(s) of the Enlightenment," Québec City, Canada (Oct.)

"Illustrations of French Libertine Texts." The British Society for Eighteenth-Century  Studies (BSECS) for the International Congress on the Enlightenment (ISECS).‘Enlightenment Identities.’ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland (Jul.)

"The Art of Masked acting. " Stradford Players Lecture Series. School of Theater and Dance. James Madison University (Mar.)

"Japanese Manga and Anime Culture in France: Learning about a culture through misunderstandings and obsession". Lecture for Ayami Makino’s class on Japanese Culture. James Madison University. Harrisonburg, VA (Apr.)

"The author as fictional character: Sade the ultimate villain or hero?" Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) and Société Canadienne d’Etude du Dix- Huitième  Siècle (SCEDHS). Niagara Falls, Ontario. (Oct.)

"#metoo in France and Québec: backlash and controversies." Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, 16th conference: Courage: The most admirable of  human virtues. James Madison University. Harrisonburg, VA (Apr.)

  "Apollo at the fair: staging a Baroque placard play in the 21st Century." Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (WSECS) and UNLV Baroque Festival "Conversing among the  Ruins:  the Persistence of  the Baroque." Las Vegas, Nevada. (Feb.)

"Le corps féminin dans la joaillerie Art Nouveau : merveille, transfiguration et effacement". 43rd annual meeting of the Nineteenth Century French Studies (NCFS). Charlottesville, VA (Nov.)

"Apollo at the fair: Staging a placard play from the French Fairground Theater". Joint Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) and Northeast American Studies of Eighteenth Century Studies (NEASECS). Toronto, Canada (Oct.)

"Le sexe-machine juste avant la science: mécanismes de la jouissance dans le roman libertin". Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA).  Baltimore, MD (Mar.)

"The Dark side of the Enlightenment: Sade as the hero of horror international pop culture". Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, 15th conference: Fear and Terror: Human Experiences as Old as the World. James Madison University. Harrisonburg, VA (Mar.)

"Emprunts, translation et transgression: le motif du jardin merveilleux dans le roman libertin français du  XVIIIe siècle". Annual Meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (NEASECS). Amherst, MA (Oct.)

"Multiple Migration in Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis (2000-03)". Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, 14th conference: Migrations: A Phenomenon of Human History from Its Ancient Origins to the Present Global Situation. James Madison University. Harrisonburg, VA (Apr.)

"Sade as Fictional Character in Pop Culture". Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS). Pittsburgh, PA (Mar.)

"Colette’s musical world on film: On Tour by Mathieu Almaric or Variety Lights by Fellini?" Annual Meeting  of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA). Portland, OR (Nov.)

"Merchandizing Queen : Marie Antoinette, 1793-2013". Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS). Williamsburg, VA (Mar.)

"Marie Antoinette, icône suprême de la pop-culture du XXIe siècle". Mythologies contemporaines : Révolution française et cultures populaires dans le monde aujourd’hui. Musée de la Révolution française/ Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3 – UMR LIRE-CNRS. Vizille, France (Mar.)

"Through a Camera Lens Darkly: Visions of the Marquis de Sade in Film outside of France," Annual Meeting  of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS). Richmond, VA (Mar.)

"How to use the global simulation approach in a language class," University of Maryland, Office of Information Technology (OIT), Innovations in Teaching conference (Oct.)

"Théâtralité du texte, théâtralité de l’image: le roman libertin français et ses gravures." Annual Meeting of Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (CSECS). Montréal, Québec (Oct.)

"Jouer la parade au XXIe siècle: (Ré)Inventer Léandre." Restitution et création dans la remise en spectacle des œuvres des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. International Conference. Versailles and Nantes, France. (May)

"Le Cabaret, objet spectaculaire non identifié: du lieu au genre." Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century French and Francophone Studies (CFFS). Georgetown University, Washington DC (Mar.)

"Le Music-hall de Colette: perspectives inversées." Annual Meeting of the Nineteenth Century French Studies Society (NCFS). Mobile, Alabama (Oct.)

"Jouer les parades aujourd’hui." Librairie Geronimo, Metz, France (Dec.)

"L’Autre romanesque chez Gautier et Flaubert: processus d’effacement du personnage dans Le Roman de la Momie et Salammbô." French Orientalism: Culture, Politics, and the Imagined Other conference. The Graduate Center, City University of New York (Oct.)

"Erotisme du jardin XVIIIe ou comment la fiction réinvente ironiquement la réalité." Annual Meeting of Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (CSECS). Trois-Rivières, Québec (Oct.)

"Outdoor boudoirs and indoors gardens: mechanisms of pleasure in 18th-century French Novel Writing." Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS). Las Vegas, NV (Apr.).

"Automatons and Automatisms in Eighteenth-Century French Libertine Novels." Works-in-Progress Presentations, Center of Baroque Studies (CBS). University of Maryland (Feb.).

"Le théâtre contemporain en France: Théoriciens, Dramaturges et Metteurs en scène." I.C.I Georges, Lycée Georges de la Tour, Metz, France (Jan.).