Luc Monnin

French Department

REED COLLEGE

         E-mail:   luc.monnin@reed.edu

        

Education

1999- 2004             Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

Ph.D. 2004. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Dissertation: "Analytic Genesis in Eighteenth-Century Thought."

Director:   Professor Wilda Anderson, JHU; co-director: Professor Béatrice Didier, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

1997-19 99             University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Graduate Studies in the « Programme d'études supérieures », Département de langue et littérature françaises, Faculté des Lettres, Université de Genève.

1997                         University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Licence es Lettres, Faculté des Lettres, Université de Genève

(Specialization: French, Linguistics, Classical Studies)

Master's thesis: "Condillac and Eighteenth-Century Language."

Dissertation Topic

"Analytic Genesis in Eighteenth-Century Thought.":   The analysis and reconstruction of origin(s): a rhetorical and epistemological problem found in philosophical, historical and literary works of the 18 th century.

Fellowships and Awards

2003-2004	Gilman Fellowship
2002-2003	Center for Research on Culture and Literature (CRCL) Fellowship.
2002-2003	Dean's Teaching Fellowship.
2001-2002	Kenan Grant (To develop a course website for La France contemporaine for the language program).
1999-2000	Gilman Fellowship.

          

Teaching experience (syllabi available)

2004-2005	Visiting Assistant Professor, Reed College, Portland, OR. •  First-Year French •  French Narrative and the Novel Prior to Realism •  Early Modern French Literature and Culture (16 th -17 th Centuries).
Spring 2004	PhD Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara : in charge upper-level undergraduate courses: •  Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis (12 th -20 th Centuries).   •  History of French Culture (17 th -18 th Centuries) .
Spring 2003	Dean's Teaching Fellow, Johns Hopkins University: •  The History of Language in French Literature (16 th -20 th Centuries).
1999-2002	Teaching Fellow for French Language and Culture undergraduate courses at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD: •  French Elements I and II. •  Intermediate French I and II. •  Conversation and Composition I and II.
1998-1999	Teaching Assistant in the French Department of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in charge of two courses of introduction to French Composition.

                  

Papers Read

« Fontenelle, l'Infini et la langue des Encyclopédistes. » Paper presented at the University of California, Santa Barbara, April, 2004.

« Les Limites de la critique de Marivaux. » Paper presented at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentuck y, Lexington, April 2003.

Publications            

«  Condillac: Le rêve d'un réductionniste. » Modern Language Notes, Vol. 119/4 (French Issue), Baltimore, September 2004.

Abstract at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mln/toc/mln119.4.html

Research interests

French Literature and Culture. Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture.

Subsidiary interests in History and Theory of Language, History of Ideas, Comparative Literature, Computer Theory, Visual Arts.