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Michele L Longino, Professor, Romance Studies; French, Director, Center for French and Francophone Studies, and Campus Director, Duke-in-France

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August - December 2010:
Michele Longino
Professor, French Studies, Duke University
August - December 2010:
School of Social Sciences & Humanities
Venice International University
Isola di San Servolo
30100 Venice
Italy
h: 39-041-523-2045

Office Location:	220 Franklin Center
Office Phone:	919-668-1937
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• FRENCH 361.01, FRENCH LOVE STORY Synopsis

  Languages 305, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as WOMENST 208.01)

• FRENCH 590S.01, SEM FRENCH LIT (TOPICS) Synopsis

  TBA, W 04:40 PM-07:00 PM

Office Hours:

Thursdays: 4:00pm - 5:30pm and
By appointment

Education:

PhD in French Literature	University of Michigan	1984
M.A.	Claremont Graduate School	1972
BA	Rosary College	1968

Specialties:

French
Italian
European Studies
Gender Studies, Feminism, Women Studies, Queer Studies
Comparative Studies: Translation, Travel Narratives, Trans-Culturality
Early Modern

Research Interests:

17th Century French Literature, History of Theater, Feminist Criticism, Travel Writing, The Epistolary Genre, Early Modern Mediterranean Studies

Keywords:

Europe • France • Mediterranean • Literature • Theater • Feminism

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Kartina "Kadji" J Amin  
• Micah True  
• Tabitha Spagnolo  
• Stephanie O'Hara  
• Jennifer Perlmutter  
• Doris Garraway  
• Robin Simpson  
• Elise MacMahon  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. M. Longino, L'Apprentissage épistolaire de Madame de Sévigné, Œuvres et critiques, vol. XXXV no. I (2010), pp. 29-49
2. M. Longino, Jean Thévenot: ethnographe des îles du Levant, Actes du CIR 17 : “L’Ile au XVIIe siècle: réalités et imaginaire.” (April, 2009), pp. 59-68, Centre International de Recherches sur le 17e siècle
3. M. Longino, Le "Mamamouchi" ou la colonisation de l'imaginaire français par le monde ottoman, in Théâtre et voyage (2011), pp. 71-83, Presses universitaires de Paris - Sorbonne
4. M. Longino, Antoine Galland: Voyageur et passeur, in Récits d'orient dans les littératures d'Europe, edited by Anne Duprat et Emilie Picherot (2008), pp. 341-347, Presses universitaires de Paris - Sorbonne IV
5. M. Longino, Jean Chardin, Traveler: Freedom in the Margins,”, in Marginalités classiques; Mélanges en l’honneur de Madeleine Alcover, edited by Patricia Harry, Alain Mothu, and Philippe Sellier (2006), Paris: Honoré Champion

Michèle Longino received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 1984, and taught at Rice University before coming to Duke in 1989. Her interests in the epistolary genre and in women’s writing have led to the publication of Performing Motherhood: The Sévigné Correspondence (1991). She has also published articles on the writings of other seventeenth-century authors, including Mme d'Aulnoy, Marie de Gournay, Poullain de la Barre, Mme de Lafayette, Corneille, Boileau, Molière, and Racine. Her current research interests include travel accounts, questions of genre, feminist theory, and seventeenth-century French literature in a cultural studies context. She has recently published a book on the staging of exoticism in seventeenth-century France: Orientalism and French Classical Drama (2002). Currently serving as Director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies in the John Hope Franklin Center.