Assistant Professor of French
jrs2052@columbia.edu
503 Philosophy Hall
(212) 854-4567
Joanna Stalnaker received her Ph.D. in French from New York University in 2002, and her B.A. from Swarthmore College. She works on the Enlightenment, with a focus on the relationship between philosophical and scientific knowledge and its literary representations. Her first book, on the theory and practice of description in Enlightenment France, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. Her articles, on Diderot, Buffon and Mercier among others, have appeared or are forthcoming in Diderot Studies, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and Cahiers de l’Association internationale des études françaises. She is currently working on a new project on literary testaments at the end of the Enlightenment. Her courses include Sexual Enlightenment, Enlightenment / Counter-Enlightenment, Writing Revolution, and the End of Enlightenment.
Publications:
The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of Encyclopedia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming.
“Diderot’s Literary Testament.” Diderot Studies, forthcoming.
“The Post-Enlightenment Sketch: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Études de la nature.” Landau-Paris Studies on the Eighteenth Century. Vol. 2. Eds. Peter Wagner, Frédéric Ogée and Achim Hescher. Trier: WVT, 2008. 97-105.
“Staël dans le Panthéon de Sainte-Beuve.” Cahiers staëliens. 58 (2007).
“L’écriture du moi dans Le Nouveau Paris.” Cahiers de l’Association internationale des études françaises. No. 58. 2006.
“The New Paris in Guise of the Old: Louis-Sébastien Mercier from Old Regime to Revolution.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Vol. 35. Ed. Jeffrey Ravel. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2006. 233-52.
“Painting Life, Describing Death: Problems of Representation and Style in the Histoire naturelle.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Vol. 32. Eds. Ourida Mostefai and Catherine Ingrassia. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2003. 193-227.
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