Douthwaite's C.V. - Romance Languages and Literatures ...

“Awful Catharsis: Spectacles of Terror from the Literature of Thermidor to Dickens’s Tale of
Two Cities”presented at the Centre for Transnational & Transcultural Research,
University of Wolverhampton, UK (4/6/11)
“The Frankenstein of the French Revolution and Other Missing Links from Revolutionary
France.” University of Tennessee (4/26-4/27/10); College of William and Mary (4/15-
16/10); Wesleyan University (9/28/10); Hope College, MI (9/21/09)
"La Pitié et ses adversaires: La politique de l'émotion dans les écrits révolutionnaires" Emotions
et puissance de la littérature conference, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
(6/12/09)
Keynote speaker, NEASECS conference. “Engendering Difference: How the 1789 Women’s
March on Versailles Left its Imprint on French Literature” Geneva, NY (10/31/08)
“C’est pour quand la révolution?” Why Gender Studies is a Crucial yet Unwelcome Component
of 18th-century studies in France,” University of Illinois Chicago (11/30/07)
"From ‘Mme Vipère’ to Pauliska: Central Europe in the French Revolutionary Imagination,"
University of Zagreb, Croatia (5/15/06)
"The Prehistory of Frankenstein" All-Campus Lecture Series on "The Mutable Body," Indiana
University South Bend (1/30/06)
Keynote Address, "The Eye of the Traveler," graduate student conference on "French
Orientalism," City University of New York, The Graduate Center (10/29/05)
"The Scientist as Hero and Villain: Literary History of a Controversy, 1740-1798," Northwestern
University (5/5/05)
Keynote address, "The Scientist as Hero and Villain: A Literary History of Controversy,"
DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth-Century Studies, Tampa, FL (2/19/05)
Conference presentations in 2010-12
“Putting the 'New Positivism' to Work on Politico-Literary History: The Case of the French
Frankenstein” to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical
Studies, Cambridge, MA (4/04/13—4/06/13)
“Le martyre de Marat: une légende mise à jour pour l’année 2012” ASECS annual meeting, and
video link to conference on « Révolution française et cultures populaires dans le monde
aujourd’hui, » Grenoble, France (3/23/12)
“The Raw and the Cooked: Fish, Fire, and Revolution in Paris,” “Food Networks” conference,
University of Notre Dame (1/26/12)
"An Ironic Take on the Terror; or, How Flaubert Rewrote Dickens," MLA annual meeting,
Seattle, WA (1/06/12)
"Rousseau 2012: Are We Just Yet?" MLA annual meeting, Seattle, WA (1/06/12)
“How to Make and Break a Revolutionary Hero: Robespierre, Marat and Loiserolles,” Terror
and Martyrdom” conference, Notre Dame Center, London, UK (4/9/11)
Chair, roundtable on “What You Must Know about the French Revolution,” ASECS annual
meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada (3/17/11)
“An Object Lesson in the Politics of Celebrity, 1785-1795: Robespierre and Marat,” ASECS
annual meeting, Vancouver, BC (3/17/11)
“The Pitiful King and His Adversaries: The Censorship of Le Cimetière de la Madeleine (1800-
01)” No. Am. Assoc. for Study of Romanticism annual meeting, Vancouver, BC
(8/20/10)
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