Dean, College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Modern Languages
My research spans eighteenth-century French literature, contemporary feminist theory, narrative studies and higher education. All of my work is animated by basic questions: who are we and how ought we to live? My most recent publications focus on the power of interdisciplinary collaboration and how best to prepare students to thrive after graduation.
My teaching has included all levels of French language and culture as well as French literature, Business French, Francophone Cultures and topical courses like French Women Writers and Technology in Literature and Film. In addition, I have taught elementary Spanish as well as graduate courses (in English) on topics such as narrative identity and gender studies. As a Fulbright Scholar to Chile, I taught courses in Spanish on Women鈥檚 Literature and U.S. Culture and Society. More recently I have taught interdisciplinary courses including a section of the 向日葵视频Core Curriculum culminating course on the Service of Faith and Promotion of Justice as well as Arts & Sciences Influentials, a course for juniors and seniors that features alumni speakers and focuses on professional formation and career discernment.
Education
- Purdue University, Ph.D. in Foreign Languages and Literatures
- 脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, D.E.A. (Dipl么me d鈥櫭塼udes Approfondies) en Sciences du langage, avec mention tr猫s bien
- Purdue University, M.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures
- University of Nebraska Omaha, B.A. in French, summa cum laude
Publications
- 鈥溾�� (with Annmarie Ca帽o, Bonnie Gunzenhauser, Michelle Maldonado and Danielle Press) Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, September 28, 2022.
- 鈥溾�� (with Annmarie Ca帽o, Bonnie Gunzenhauser, Michelle Maldonado and Danielle Press) Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, September 3, 2021.
- 鈥�,鈥� The EvoLLLution, January 15, 2020.
- 鈥溾�� (with Diane E. Boyd), Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) News, 鈥淧erspectives,鈥� October 2019.
- 鈥淭o Address the Anthropocene, Engage the Liberal Arts.鈥� (with Meghan Howey) Anthropocene 18 (2017): 105鈥�110.
- 鈥淕reimas and Gender: Mere Recipe or Real Meal?,鈥� Semiotica: Journal of the International Association of Semiotic Studies 219 (2017): 33鈥�54.
- 鈥溾�� (with Ross Gittell), New Hampshire Business Review, September 29, 2017.
- 鈥�,鈥�The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 30, 2016.
- 鈥淐hairing Stories鈥� in Academic Leadership in Higher Education: From the Top Down and the Bottom Up. Ed. Robert J. Sternberg et al. Lanham, MD: Rowman-Littlefield, 2015. 233鈥�238.
- 鈥淔谤颈别苍诲蝉丑颈辫, 贵补颈苍茅补苍迟颈蝉别, and Fraternal Correction in Graffigny鈥檚 Letters to Devaux 1752鈥�53,鈥� Eighteenth-Century Fiction 26.3 (2014): 355鈥�74.
- 鈥淕raffigny鈥檚 Self, Graffigny鈥檚 Friend: Intimate Sharing in the Correspondance 1750鈥�52,鈥� Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 42, ed. Lisa Cody. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013: 215鈥�36.
- 鈥淟iterary Women, Reason, and the Fiction of Enlightenment,鈥� The French Review 85:6(2012): 1024鈥�38.
- Guest Editor for 鈥淭he Recent Work of Luce Irigaray,鈥� special issue of L鈥橢sprit cr茅ateur 52.3 (September 2012). Includes introductory essay, pp. 1鈥�10.
- 鈥淭he Difference She Makes: Staging Gender Identity in Graffigny鈥檚 Phaza,鈥� Tulsa Studies in Women鈥檚 Literature 29.2 (2010): 291鈥�309.
- The Fiction of Enlightenment: Women of Reason in the French Eighteenth Century. Newark: The University of Delaware Press, 2010.
- 鈥淏etween Truth and Fiction: Telling the Stories of Eighteenth-Century Women,鈥� Cahiers Isabelle de Charri猫re/Belle de Zuylen Papers 4 (2009): 45鈥�65.
- 鈥淭hinking Life as Relation: An Interview with Luce Irigaray鈥� (with Stephen Pluh谩膷ek), Conversations, ed. Luce Irigaray. London: Continuum, 2008. 1鈭�19. Reprint, originally published 1996.
- Translator of Jacques Fontanille, S茅miotique du discours, 2nd ed. Limoges, France: Presses universitaires de Limoges, 2003, as The Semiotics of Discourse, series Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
- 鈥淪exual Education as Enlightenment in Riccoboni鈥檚 Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd 脿 Mylord Charles Alfred and Histoire du Marquis de Cressy,鈥� Women in French Studies12 (2004): 32鈭�44.
- 鈥溾�楺ue faire pour 锚tre raisonnable?鈥�: La R茅union du bon sens et de l鈥檈spritde Fran莽oise de Graffigny,鈥� SVEC: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 12(2004): 337鈭�44.
- 鈥淩eading in Translation: Luce Irigaray鈥檚 The Way of Love,鈥� Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy 49 (2003): 44鈥�64.
- 鈥淭he Light of Reason in Graffigny鈥檚 Lettres d鈥檜ne P茅ruvienne,鈥� Dalhousie French Studies 63 (2003): 3鈥�11.
- 鈥淟uce Irigaray and Love,鈥� Cultural Studies 16.5 (2002): 603鈥�10.
- Translator of Luce Irigaray, La voie de l鈥檃mouras The Way of Love (with Stephen Pluh谩膷ek). London: Continuum, 2002.
Dr. Heidi Bostic向日葵视频
