Faculty
Chloé Hogg
Visiting Assistant Professor of French
Office: 1328 D Cathedral of Learning
Tel: 412-624-6266
E-mail: hoggca@pitt.edu
Education
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
MA, New York University
BA, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests
17th-century French literature and culture; Louis XIV's wars; early modern political thought; 17th and 18th-century French women writers; historical novels; print culture
Teaching
Undergraduate:
- French Civilization: Cultural History to 1789
- Introduction to French Literaty Studies: Reading Theater
- Scenes of Violence: French Wars from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
- France in the Age of the Enlightenment
- Literature and Philosophy from Classicism to the Enlightenment
Graduate
- French Contemporary Thought in Translation: Violence, Resistance, Alternatives (undergraduate/graduate seminar)
- Absolutism and its Pathologies
Selected Publications
Absolutist Affections: Love and War in Louis XIV's France. (book manuscript in progress)
"New Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy: Elisabeth of Bohemia and Descartes, Scudery and Pascal." Options for Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers, MLA Options for Teaching Series, ed. Faith Beasley. (forthcoming)
"The Power of Frivolity: Villedieu, La Force, and the Nouvelle historique." Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature. Ed. Rainer Zaiser. (forthcoming)
"Useful Wounds." EMF: Studies in Early Modern France. Eds. Anne L. Birberick and Russell J. Ganim. 12 (2008).
"Pour une esthétique des tablettes: Clélie et les tablettes à écrire au XVIIe siècle." Seventeenth-Century French Studies 28 (2006): 117-33.
"Jouissance, or Villedieu's Art of Pleasing." Formes et formations au dix-septième siècle. Ed. Buford Norman. 168 (2006): 39-50.
"War Relations: A Journalist Writes the Sun King's Wars." Relations & Relationships in Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Ed. Jennifer R. Perlmutter. PFSCL/Biblio 17 166. Tubingen: Gunter Narr, 2006. 197-208.
"Staging Foucquet: Historical and Theatrical Contexts of Villedieu's Le Favory." A Labor of Love: Critical Reflections on the Writings of Marie-Catherine Desjardins (Mme de Villedieu). Ed. Roxanne Decker Lalande. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2000. 43-63.
"The Philosopher as Tramp and Female in the Writings of Graffigny." Women in French Studies 6 (1998): 3-15.
"Strong Women, Illustrious Men: Constructing History and Civic Virtue in the Grand Siècle." Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature 26.50 (1999): 19-27.
Professional Affiliations