Courses
French Literature II: Narrative Voices: Fiction and Nonfiction; Enlightenment Energy: Comedy, Eroticism, and the Grotesque; Art, Revolution, and Society

Research Interests
18th-century French literature and music; aesthetics, ideology, and social critique.

Selected Publications:

Narrative Interludes: Musical Tableaux in Eighteenth-Century French Texts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.

"La Vraisemblance du merveilleux: Operatic Aesthetics in Cazotte's Fantastic Fiction." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 34 (2005): 173-195.

"The Sublime and the Grotesque: Opera and the Romantic Aesthetic." European Romantic Review 13, no. 2 (2002): 161-167.

"Women Performing Music: Staging a Social Protest." Women in French Studies 8 (2000): 40-54.

"The Devil in Drag: Moral Injunction or Social Leaven?" Paroles Gelees 17, no. 2 (1999): 30-42.