performance; politics; theater; French History; Racine; performative theories; pragmatics and stylistics;
rhétorique amoureuse, conversion religieuse, discours politiques et tout ce qui a trait au pouvoir des mots et à l'indicible.

Current: Travel Writing

Seventeenth-Century theater, the Précieuses

cultural and intellectual history; history of the book; theater history

My research interests include seventeenth-century libertinage, reception of literary and philosophical texts, political theory and intellectual history, and methodological approaches in the history of ideas.

Early Modern Spirituality, Christian Sacraments, Classical Pragmatism, Sign Theory

Classical Theatre, La Fontaine, Courtly Love Literature and Francophone Caribbean Literature

European literature of the Renaissance and 17th century, especially French

baroque poetry, theater, literature

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, fairytales, material culture, history of the book, health in wellness/concepts of the body and maternity, connections between 17th-century and medieval literature

Courtly and public spectacles in the early modern period

18th-19th Century European Art

France and Mediterranean slavery; early modern relations with North Africa

French culture, tragedy

early modern theater and theatricality, theories of sovereignty and resistance, practices of self-fashioning, structures of belonging, political approaches to literature

Literature and the body
Graffiti and writing practices
Early modern medicine
Narratives of demonic possession, religious and mystical writing
Superstition and magic
Science and literature

Early Modern Theater; Classical Tragedy; Racine; History of the Performance Arts; Visual Culture; Intersection of Drama and Painting; Representations and Social Uses of the Body.