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Daniel Brewer

Daniel Brewer

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French & Italian 260 Fol H
Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • France
  • language and culture
  • the Enlightenment
  • French cultural studies
  • 17th- and 18th-century French literature and culture

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: French, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1979.
  • B.A.: French, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1971.

Publications

  • The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought. Brewer, Daniel, Cambridge University Press, Author, 2008.
  • The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France: Diderot and the Art of Philosophizing. Brewer, Daniel, Cambridge, 1993.
  • The French Intellectual, History, and the Reproduction of Culture. Brewer, Daniel, 1997.
  • The Work of the Image: The Plates of the Encyclopédie. Brewer, Daniel, Fall 1984.
  • 1751: Ordering Knowledge; Denis Diderot et Jean Le Rond d'Alembert Publish the First Volume of the Encyclopédie. Brewer, Daniel, A New History of French Literature (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), pp. 447-55, 1989.
  • Stages of the Enlightened Sublime: Narrating Sublimation. Brewer, Daniel, Feb-82.
  • Diderot and the Culture of Belatedness: Brewer, Daniel, SVEC, 2005.
  • Constructing Philosophers. Brewer, Daniel, Using the Encyclopédie (SVEC, 2002:05, 21-35), 2002.

Research Activities

  • The Representation of Passion in the 18th-Century French Novel
  • Ruins in the French Cultural Imagination of the 18th Century
  • A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment and Its Aftermath

Professional Activities

  • Co-Editor: L'Esprit Créateur (International Journal of French and Francophone Literature)
  • President: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies , 2001 - 2002
  • Editorial board member: SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) , 2003
  • Director: University of Minnesota Humanities Institute , 1998 - 2000

Awards

  • Fulbright Scholar Award
  • NEH Summer Research Fellowship, 2002

Courses Taught

  • The Economy of Literature
  • The Idea of Paris
  • Rehabilitating the Passions in 18th-Century French Literature
  • Diderot
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