Faculty
Lucien Nouis
Assistant Professor of French
Education
PhD, French, Princeton University
Office:
1328 D
Cathedral of Learning
412-624-6266
nouis@pitt.edu
Curriculum vitae
Research Interests
Professor Nouis specializes in 17th- and 18th-century French literature and philosophy, as well as critical theory. In his dissertation, Politiques de l’hospitalité (1630-1796), he focused on the concept of hospitality in the Enlightenment, and its relationship to questions of sovereignty, territory, law, and cosmopolitanism. He has presented conference papers on topics such as religious tolerance in Pierre Bayle, Foucault on heresy, and Jacques Derrida’s shifting positions towards the philosophy of the Enlightenment. He is currently working on a book-length study exploring gift and sacrifice in Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Teaching
Undergraduate:
- Enlightenment and Modernity (Fall 2006)
- Approaches to French Literature (Fall 2006)
- Tales of Hospitality: France, North Africa, and the Mediterranean (2004)
Graduate:
- Toleration: Emergence of an Idea (Spring 2007)
Selected Publications:
- “Compelle intrare” : Michel Foucault et l’hérésie à l’âge classique, Papers on Seventeenth-Century French Literature. (Forthcoming)
Professional Affiliations
MLA, NEMLA, ASECS