Dr. Jennifer Vanderheyden
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
My research and teaching interests include eighteenth-century French Literature, History and Culture, and theories of theatrical and artistic representation (mimesis). I also teach courses on the representation of women in writing, art and film. My approach to research is multidisciplinary: philosophical, anthropological, artistic and psychoanalytical.
I have a doctorate in French Literature from the University of Washington, and a Master鈥檚 Degree in French Literature and Civilization from the University of Cincinnati. I also hold an undergraduate degree in French and Education from Otterbein College, as well as a Supervisor鈥檚 Certificate in secondary Foreign Language Education from the University of Cincinnati. I teach courses that range from Elementary and Intermediate French language instruction to advanced courses on French classical theatre, the representation of French and Francophone women in Film and Literature, French History and Culture, and The History of French Feminism.
I have published two books on the eighteenth-century writer, philosopher and art critic Denis Diderot, and I am presently working on a comparative study of Jeanne d鈥橝rc and Olympe de Gouges: Engendered Heroines: The Trials, Sacrifices and Legacies of Jeanne d鈥橝rc and Olympe de Gouges
Education
Ph.D, Eighteenth-Century French Literature, University of Washington
Dissertation title: The Body as a Disjunctive Syllogism in the Works of Diderot.
Director: Dr. Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
MA, French Literature and Civilization, University of Cincinnati
BA, French and Education, Otterbein College
Courses Taught
- Elementary French
- Intermediate French
- Intensive Intermediate French
- French Conversation and Composition
- Advanced Grammar and Written Expression in French (University core)
- The Evolution of French Feminism (University Core)
- Francophone and French Heroines in Film (University core)
- 鈥淒isorderly Women, Novel Heroines鈥�
- 鈥淭he Paradox of Theatre: Passionate Reason or Unreasonable Passion?鈥�
- 鈥淔rom Feudalism to Fanaticism: France in Evolution鈥�
- 鈥淭he Three 鈥淰鈥濃�檚 in Post-Revolutionary French Literature: 鈥淰ice, Vertu et V茅rit茅鈥�
- "Theatre and Cinema: The Importance of the Mise"
- 鈥淭he Novels of Chr茅tien de Troyes鈥�
Research Interests
The works of Denis Diderot, theories of artistic mimesis, gender-related issues, genocide and post-genocide studies in Rwanda
Specialization
- Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Civilization
Publications
- , Routledge Series in Eighteenth-Century Studies, January 2019.
- Perla: Co-translation with Sarah Gendron (Fr茅d茅ric Brun, winner of the Prix Goncourt for first novel). The University of Nebraska Press. October 2017.
- Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., in Dr. Gita May鈥檚 series, 鈥淭he Age of Revolution and Romanticism: Interdisciplinary Studies,鈥� June 2004.
- 鈥淭he Resilience of Women in the Face of Trauma,鈥� in 鈥淨uint: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly from the North,鈥� selected to be re-published in a ten-year anniversary issue: Volume 11, Issue 1, 376-399. 2020 (originally published in 2016 in 鈥淨uint: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly from the North.鈥� Volume 8, Issue 3, 48-72).
- 鈥淓xtraordinary Forgivenes鈥� (chapter) Perspectives on Evil: From Banality to Genocide, Brill Press, The Netherlands. October 2019, 93-113.
- Le Bizarre et le D茅cousu in the Novels and Theoretical Works of Denis Diderot: How the Idea of Marginality Originated in Eighteenth Century France, Barbara Lise Abrams, Preface by Jennifer Vanderheyden, Edwin Mellen Press, 2009, i-iv.
- Book Review: Le D茅sir selon l'autre: 脡tude du Rouge et le Noir et de la Chartreuse de parme 脿 la lumi猫re du "d茅sir triangulaire" de Ren茅 Girard (Annika Alling), Nineteenth-Century French Studies: Volume 33, no 3 & 4, Spring-Summer 2005, 443-445.
CREATIVE WRITING
- 鈥淪oul Cleaning,鈥� Published in The Bending Genres Anthology, Robert Vaughan, Editor, Bending Genres Press, p. 196. 2020. Previously published in: Bending Genres, Issue 7, February 2019.
- 鈥淢oi Aussi,鈥� Micro-Fiction print publication: Blink-Ink, December 2018.(Nominated for best Micro-Fiction Publication 2018).
- 鈥淐ogito(e),鈥� (novella), in 鈥淭he Writing Disorder,鈥� Fall 2016.
- 鈥凄辞濒濒蝉,鈥� Flash Fiction Fridays, Robert Vaughan, Editor. Lulu Press. PP 43-44
- 鈥淐larity,鈥� Prose poem, Ranfurly Review, Issue 21.
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