French Early Modern women writers and playwrights, 17th century theater, gender stereotyping, representation of female characters, opera.

My research interests include identity and race issues in Caribbean literature as well as in 17th and 19th Century litterature.

My research at the Pennsylvania State University focuses on the various practices of filming theater and the teaching methods of theater through film. My interests also include creative writing as well as the interactions between French cinema and culture, cinema and history.

theater, religion and literature

Foreignness in 17th-century French literature, intersections between fiction and travel literature, translation/adaptation, theories of performance

Theatre history and aesthetics; courtly and public spectacles

genre: novel/romance, epic, pastoral
print and oral culture, history of the book

Ditto

17th Century, Postcolonial Criticism, Theatre, Racine

Irony in 17th century literature and in French Cinema

17th and 18th-century French painting and sculpture; status of the artist

the role of the literary imagination in the development of the disciplines; failure in the arts and sciences, theater.

17th and early 18th French Literature
sub-specializtion in that period:
Women's Literature
Fairy Tales
Preciosity

History of Medicine

early modern literature and culture
print culture
gender studies
visual culture
politics and history

Pastoral literature, theater (Jean Rotrou), histoire comique (Gascon extravagant), French Seventeenth Century studies.

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