• PhD The Johns Hopkins University, 1980
• MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1976
• BA (cum laude) Davidson College, 1969

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Summer Research Grant, Duke University Arts and Sciences Research Council, 1999
• Fellowship for University Professors, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1999-2000
• Summer Research Grant, Duke University Arts and Sciences Research Council, 1998
• Joseph K. Lublin Distinguished Award for Teaching Excellence, Duke University, 1995
• Fellow, National Humanities Center, 1990-91
• Fellowship for University Professors, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990-91
• Faculty Development Grant, Duke University, Spring semester, 1987
• Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, Duke University, 1985-86

Major Grant Support

AT&T Univeristy Equipment Donation Program, $107,000 computer equipment grant for the Carr Building Language Laboratory, Duke University (co-authored with Prof. Clate Tufts and Ms. Pegge Abrams), 1993.
European Union Center Grant, $200,000 grant in conjunction with the University of North Carolina to establish a joint center for European Union studies, 1998-2000.

• Associate Dean of the Graduate School, September 2005 - October 2006
• Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate School, October 2006 - present
• Member, PMLA Advisory Committee, 2006 - 2009
• Co-Editor of the journal SubStance, 1999 - present
• ex officio member and agenda organizer, Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty, 2005 - present
• Member, Assessment working group: SACS reaccrediation, 2007 - 2008
• Editorial staff of the journal French Studies, 2001 - present
• University Committee on Communication Issues, 2003 - 2004

Selected Recent Talks and Lectures

• ""Bunker Busting and Bunker Mentalities, or, Is It Safe To Be Underground?"," Symposium on Speaking Safety and Security, Brandeis University, October 12, 2007.
• ""Interdisciplinary Quandaries"," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of South Alabama, October 19, 2007.
• "Stocking Information: Au Bonheur des dames," Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Indiana University, October 19, 2006.
• "Anarchy/Speed: La Bande à Bonnot," MLA Convention, Washington, DC, December 27, 2005.
• "La Communication instantanée: Au Bonheur des dames," Émile Zola: Mémoire et sensations, Université du Québec à Montréal, September 23, 2005.
• "Cinematic Pervision: Ideology and the Look in Cahiers du cinéma in the Early Seventies," 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University of Florida, Gainesville, April 02, 2005.
• "Jacques Rancière on Balzac: Le Curé de village through the Lens of La Chair des mots," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Washington University, St Louis, MO, October 29, 2004.
• "Insuffisances Technologiques: Gustave Le Rouge et la surenchère des machines," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Arizona, Tucson, 25 October 2003.
• "Archives via Derrida, Kittler, et al.," Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 28 March 2003.
• "Technologies of Speed, Technologies of Crime," MLA Convention, New York, 27 December 2002.
• "Hotmail," Nineteenth-Century French Colloquium, University of Winsconsin-Madison, 19 October 2001.
• "Confession of an Almost-Thematic Critic," Colloquium on "The State of the Art", University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 12 October 2001.
• "Going Places, Getting Messages: Speed and Communication in Le Comte de Monte-Cristo," University of Pennsylvania, 22 March 2000.
• "Going Places, Getting Messages: Speed and Communication in Le Comte de Monte-Cristo," Harvard University, 16 March 2000.
• "Of Telegraphs in Stendhal," MLA Convention, Chicago, 28 December 1999.
• "Collateral Damage," Colloquium "Balzac: familles de chair, familles d'esprit, familles de papier," New York University, 19 November 1999.
• "Moving, Mapping: Balzacian Topographies," Colloquium "Après Balzac/ After Balzac." Aarhus University, Denmark, 14 October 1999.
• "Mimetic Desire in La Regenta," National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on "Authority, Text, and Context in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Realism: Leopoldo Alas's La Regenta (1884-85)," Duke University, 22 July 1999.
• "Technologies of Communication in Early Nineteenth-Century France," French Cultural Studies Summer Institute on "Science and Culture in France," Dartmouth College, 6 July 1999.
• "Roads, Routes, Streets: Balzac on the Move," University of California at Berkeley, 29 January 1999.

Laura Balladur, (defended spring, 2005)

Publications and Professional Lectures (listed separately)