Fabienne Moore
associate professor 
Contact info:
Office: FR 424
Phone: (541) 346-4032
fmoore@uoregon.edu
Degrees, years, and locations:
Ph. D., Comparative Literature, New York University 2001
Maîtrise, English, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, France 1989
Research and teaching interests:
The "querelle des anciens et modernes" the Encyclopédie; Enlightenment and
counter-Enlightenment; the evolution of the novel; European romanticism; prose poetry;
French cultural history; genre theory; translation (theory, history, practice).
Courses taught:
FR 301 La France contemporaine
FR 318 Littérature française du Baroque aux Lumières
FR 330 Poésie en prose française
FR 460-560 Etre moderne au dix-huitieme siècle
FR 460-560 Femmes écrivaines et l’émergence du roman
FR 460-560 Rousseau et Diderot: Frères ennemis?
FR 460-560 Libertinage dans la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle
FR 460-560 L’Encyclopédie de Diderot
FR 460-560 Spleen des Lumières
FR 607-L’Age des Lumières
RL 407-507: The Idea of Europe (team-teaching with Professor Evlyn Gould)
Research:
“1711: The Advent of Homer in French Prose. An Anatomy of Madame Dacier’s Ground-Breaking Translation.” SVEC [Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century] (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation). Forthcoming, 2008.
“The Crocodile Strikes Back. Saint-Martin’s Interpretation of the French Revolution.”
Special edition of Eighteenth-Century Fiction on “War/La Guerre.” October 2006, 19:1-2. p.71-97.
“Baudelaire et les poëmes en prose du dix-huitième siècle. De Fénelon à Chateaubriand.” Special edition of the Bulletin baudelairien on Prose Poetry (The W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies, Vanderbilt University). April-December 2005. 113-143.
“Almanach des Muses vs. Almanach des Prosateurs: The Economics of Poetry and Prose at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century.” Dalhousie French Studies. Summer 2004, 67. 17-35.
“Homer Revisited: Anne Le Fèvre Dacier’s Preface to Her Prose Translation of the Iliad in Early Eighteenth Century France.”
Special edition of Studies in the Literary Imagination on “Translation, Imitation, and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination,” Fall 2000, 33:2. 87-107.
“Revolution or ‘Deplorable School’? Chateaubriand’s Analysis of French and British Romanticism in the Mémoires d’outre-tombe.” European Romantic Review, Spring 1999, 10:2. 231-241.
“Chateaubriand’s Alter Egos: Napoleon, Madame de Staël, and the Indian Savage.”
European Romantic Review, Spring 1998, 9:2. 187-200.
- Works in Progress
Chateaubriand’s Lost Paradises . A book-length manuscript.
“Le Temple de Gnide” de Montesquieu (1725). An essay on poetics and politics.
- Forthcoming and Recent Papers
“Un crime de ‘lèse-poésie’: le poëme en prose dénoncé par Voltaire.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Atlanta. March 22-25, 2007.
“Montesquieu’s Le Temple de Gnide (1725): Birth of the Prose Poem? ” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Montreal. March 30- April 2, 2006.
“How to Be a Poet in Prose? The Strange Case of Eighteenth-Century French “Poëmes en Prose.” Session on “Eighteenth-Century Poetic Voice.” James Mulholland, Chair. MLA Convention. Washington DC. December 2005.
“Voie/x du métissage: Atala de Chateaubriand (1801).” Session on French Literature. PAMLA Annual Convention. Pepperdine U. November 2005.
“Poetry as Strategy: Love and War Before and After the Revolution According to Évariste de Parny (1753-1814).” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Las Vegas. March 31-April 3, 2005.
“Pagan Gods vs. Christian Characters. A Sacrilegious War Poem by Parny.” PAMLA Annual Convention. Reed College. November 5-7, 2004.
“Saint-Martin’s Illuminisme. When Theosophy Confronts the Enlightenment.” Session on “The Occult Enlightenment.” MLA Convention, San Diego. December 27-30, 2003.
“1711: The Advent of Homer in French Prose. An Anatomy of Madame Dacier's Ground-Breaking Translation.” Symposium on Classical, Hellenistic, and Late Antique Texts in the Eighteenth Century. Columbia University. New York, September 18-20, 2003.
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