Associate Professor of French (Barnard College)
ceweber@barnard.edu
305 Milbank Hall
(212) 854-5455
Caroline Weber received her Ph.D. in French literature from Yale University (1998) and her BA in Literature from Harvard University (1991). Before coming to Barnard/Columbia, she taught for seven years at the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in eighteenth-century French literature and culture, with particular emphasis on the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, she is the author of Terror and its Discontents: Suspect Words and the French Revolution (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), and the co-editor of a special issue of Yale French Studies, Fragments of Revolution (Yale University Press, 2001). She has published articles on eighteenth-century authors such as Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, Sade, Charrière, and La Chaussée, and on contemporary thinkers like Lacan and Lyotard. She recently published Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the French Revolution (Henry Holt, 2006), and is at work on a study of ideology and the drame bourgeois. Additional research and teaching interests include eighteenth-century fiction and philosophy; psychoanalysis and critical theory; and gender studies.
Books and Edited Volumes:
Terror and Its Discontents: Suspect Words in Revolutionary France. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Fragments of Revolution. A special issue of Yale French Studies 101. Co-edited with Howard Lay (Spring 2002).
Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the Revolution.New York: Henry Holt, 2006.
Staging Commerce: Bourgeois Drama and the Cunning of Virtue [in progress]
Articles:
“French Fashion.” Columbia Dictionary of Twentieth-Century French Thought. Ed. Lawrence D. Kritzman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
“On the Hardness of Virtue, or Fetishizing Disinterest inBeaumarchais’ Les Deux amis.” MLN 119.4 (September 2004): 800-818.
“Rewriting Rousseau: Isabelle de Charrière’s Domestic Dystopia.” Gender and Utopianism in the Eighteenth Century. Ed. Nicole Pohl & Brenda Tooley. New York & London:Routledge, 2004. 335-351.
“Dreams of Stone: Femininity in the Eighteenth-Century
Sculptural Imagination.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 33 (Spring 2004): 1-29.
“Voltaire’s Zaïre: Fantasies of Infidelity, Ideologies of Faith.” South Central Review 20.4 (Winter 2003): 11-32.
“Fashion.” French Popular Culture: An Introduction. Ed. Hugh Dauncey. London: Hodder Arnold, 2003. 193-205.
“The Sins of the Father: Colonialism and Family History in Diderot’s Le Fils naturel.” PMLA 18.3 (May 2003): 488-501.
“The Sexist Sublime in Sade and Lyotard.” Philosophy and Literature 26.2 (October 2002): 397-404.
“Freedom’s Missed Moment.” Fragments of Revolution. A special issue of Yale French Studies 101. Ed. Caroline Weber & Howard G. Lay (Spring 2002): 9-31
“The Giver Giveth, and the Giver Taketh Away.” Lacanian Ink 16 (Spring/Summer 2000): 54-63.
“Overcoming Excess: Jouissance and Justice in Nivelle de la Chaussée’s École des mères.” MLN 14.4 (Fall 1999): 719-742.
“Madame de Mistival’s Differend: Animality and Alterity in Sade’s Philosophie dans le boudoir.” Utah Foreign Language Review 1997 (Spring 1997): 49-61
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