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Strasbourg, France |
Amy S. Wyngaard
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1998
Office: 314 HBC
Office Phone: 315.443.5496
E-mail: aswyngaa@syr.edu
Interests:
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature and cultural history, interdisciplinary studies
Awards:
Meredith Teaching Recognition Award, Syracuse University, 2001
Tolley Curriculum Development Grant, Syracuse University, 1999
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1997-1998
Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1993-1997
Crisp Fellowship for Graduate Study, University of Colorado Phi Beta Kappa, 1992
Publications:
Books:
From Savage to Citizen: The Invention of the Peasant in the French Enlightenment . Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004.
Articles:
"Defining Obscenity, Inventing Pornography: The Limits of Censorship in Rétif de la Bretonne" (forthcoming).
“The Fetish in/as Text: Rétif de la Bretonne and the Development of Modern Sexual Science and French Literary Studies, 1887-1934.” PMLA 121 (May 2006): 663-686.
“Literary Texts or Historical Documents? Revisiting the Debates on Rétif de la Bretonne.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 4 (2005): 171-180.
“Revising Rousseau: Young, Legrand d’Aussy, and the Challenge to Enlightenment Constructions of the Peasantry, 1787-1794.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 31 (2002): 237-253.
“Switching Codes: Class, Clothing, and Cultural Change in the Works of Marivaux and Watteau.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 33 (Summer 2000): 523-541.
“Libertine Spaces: Anonymous Crowds, Secret Chambers, and Urban Corruption in Rétif de la Bretonne.” Eighteenth-Century Life 22 (May 1998): 104-122.
Edited Volumes:
New Perspectives on Rétif de la Bretonne. Symposium 60 (Fall 2006).
Dictionary and Encyclopedia Entries:
“Restif de la Bretonne.” Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 314: Writers of the French Enlightenment, II. Ed. Samia I. Spencer. New York: Thomson/Gale, 2005. 90-99.
Reviews:
Review of Angelica Goodden, ed., The Eighteenth-Century Body: Art, History, Literature, Medicine (New York: Peter Lang, 2002). Symposium 58 (Winter 2005): 272-275.
Review of Armine Kotin Mortimer’s Writing Realism (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). Symposium 56 (Fall 2002): 174-176.
Selected Presentations:
"Unruly Disciplines: Shifting Territories in Rétif Studies." Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Burlington, November 4-6, 2004.
"The Medical Uses of Literature: Rétif de la Bretonne and the Development of Modern Sexual Science, 1887-1930." Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Providence, November 6-9, 2003.
“From Savage to Citizen: Inventing the Peasant in the French Enlightenment.” Western Society for French History Annual Meeting, Baltimore, October 3-7, 2002.
“Serious Shepherds: Marivaux, Watteau, and the Politics of the Pastoral in Eighteenth-Century France.” College Art Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, February 20-24, 2002.
“Illustrating Violence in Rétif de la Bretonne.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 15-18, 2001.
“Fedual (Futile) Time: Medieval Social Models in the Bibliothèque bleue, 1750-1789.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 16-19, 2000.
Courses:
French 300, Grammar and Composition
French 300, French Civilization
French 300, Introduction to French Literature
French 400, Literature and Film
French 400/600, Molière
French 400/600, French Women Writers
French 400/600, Libertine Fictions
French 400/600, Culture in the Age of Louis XIV
French 400/600, Culture and Revolution
Professional Activities:
Editor, Symposium, 2007-
Editorial Board, Symposium 1998-2007
Member, American Association of Teachers of French
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Modern Language Association
Société Rétif de la Bretonne
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