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Kathrina LaPorta has recently published an article in the French Studies Bulletin, "Judging a Book by its Cover: The Aesthetics of the Ephemeral in L'Alcoran de Louis XIV, ou le testament politique du Cardinal Jules Mazarin (1695). An excerpt and full citation information for the piece can be found through the following link:

http://fsb.oxfordjournals.org/content/36/136/49.extract

Please join me in congratulating Tiphaine Rolland for the publication of her book, L'atelier du conteur. Les Contes et nouvelles de Jean de La Fontaine : ascendances, influences, confluences, Paris: Honoré Champion, 2014.

You can find more information, such as a summary and the table of contents, on the following site: http://www.honorechampion.com/fr/champion/8569-book-08532663-9782745326638.html

Congratulations to Jakob Willis for three recent publications:

1) Willis, Jakob (2014): Emotions and Affects of the Heroic – An Analysis of Pierre Corneille’s Drama Nicomède,  in: helden. heroes. héros. E-Journal on Cultures of the Heroic. Special Issue 1, pp. 24–35.

2) Willis, Jakob & Posselt-Kuhli, Christina (2015): La Gloire du Val-de-Grâce ou l’artiste en héros chez Molière et Pierre Mignard, in: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Vol. XLII, No. 83, pp. 409–441.

3) Willis, Jakob (2015): Pierre Corneille’s Cinna ou la clémence d’Auguste in Light of Contemporary Discourses on Anger (Le Moyne, Descartes, Senault), in: Karl Enenkel & Anita Traninger (edd.), Discourses of Anger in the Early  Modern Period, Boston: Brill, pp. 331–354.

Please join me in congratulating VK Preston, who was recently hired as Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Department. She has also recently authored two publications on seventeenth-century performance in France and the Atlantic World.

Preston, VK. 2015. “‘How do I touch this text?’ Or, the Interdisciplines Between: Dance and Theatre in Early Modern Archives.” In The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater, edited by Nadine George-Graves. 56-89. New York: Oxford University Press. 

Preston, VK. 2014. “Un/becoming Nomad: Marc Lescarbot, Movement and Metamorphosis in Les Muses de la Nouvelle France.” In History, Memory, Performance, edited by David Dean, Yana Meerzon, and Kathryn Price, 68-82. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Bravo à Jennifer Tamas pour ses articles récemment publiés :

“La mort orpheline: le suicide des mères chez Racine," Papers on French Seventeenth Century Studies, vol. XLII, n° 83 (2015), pp. 301-312.

''De l'alcôve à la tribune: Olympe de Gouges ou le désir d'agir," Lumières, n°23 (2015), « La cause des femmes dans l'Europe du XVIIIe siècle » (Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux), pp. 151-166.