Scholarly Presentations “Love and Eroticism in Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve’s Beauty and the Beast (1740).” Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of California, Davis. Forthcoming Feb. 2014. “The Problem of Singularity in Graffigny’s Phaza, or the Useless Education.” Queer People VI: Art & Lives, Studies in the History and Representation of Sexualities, Cambridge, UK. 7 July 2012. “Lessons in Gender and Sexual Identity in Graffigny’s Fairy-Tale Theater,” American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, BC. 17-20 March 2011. “Between Humanism and Feminism: Jacques Du Bosc on Discerning Love and Friendship,” Sixteenth Century Societies and Conference, Montreal, CA, 14-16 Nov. 2010. “Early Modern Women Writers: Issues of Authorship.” CSU Long Beach, Women Writers Series. 6 Oct. 2009. “Theory and Practice of ‘Honnêteté’ in Jacques Du Bosc’s L’Honnête femme and Nouveau recueil des lettres des dames de ce temps.” 2008 Meeting of the Western Society for French History, Quebec City, Canada. 8-10 Nov. 2008. “Reclaiming the Works of Early Modern Women: The Problem of Authorship, Gender, and Interpretation in the Nouveau receuil des lettres des dames de ce temps (1635).” Meeting of the Western Society for French History, Albuquerque, NM. 7-9 Nov. 2007. “The Lesbian Allure of the Femme Savante: The Cases of Scudéry, Sévigné, and Graffigny,” 2007 Meeting of the International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France. July 2007. “Une carte de tendre à la féminine: Female Community and Exchange in Madeleine de Scudéry’s Lettres amoureuses de divers autheurs de ce temps (1641).” 2006 Meeting of the Society for French Studies, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland. July 2006. “Rhetoric and Ridicule: Intertextuality and Lesbian Identity.” Fifth Biennial Feminism(s)/ Rhetoric(s) Conference, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI. 7-9 Oct. 2005. “Putting Off Mlle du Pléssis: Intertextuality in the letters of Sévigné and Graffigny.” QP2: Queer People in the Early Modern World, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. 22-25 July 2004. “Mme de Sévigné in the Letters of Françoise de Graffigny et François-Antoine Devaux.” 2003 Meeting of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (WSECS), Pasadena, CA. 15-17 Feb. 2003. “Women in the Age of Overseas Expansion.” Conference on Attending to Early Modern Women, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Nov. 2003. “‘Notre Vieille Amie’: Mme de Sévigné dans la correspondance de Françoise de Graffigny et François-Antoine Devaux.” 2002 International Graffigny Conference, Oxford University, Oxford, England. 19-22 Sept. 2002. “Cherchez la femme: Women’s Writing in Eighteenth-Century French Print Culture.” Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Scottsdale, AZ. 11-13 April 2002. “Publish and Perish: Women and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century France.” 2002 Meeting of WSECS, Chapman University, Orange, CA. 15-17 Feb. 2002. “From Conversation to Publication: Reassessing the Role of Women in the Literary Field.” Western Society for French Historians, UCLA, Los Angeles. 8-11 Nov. 2000. “French Salonnières: Women of Influence in the Literary Field?” 2000 Meeting of WSECS, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 25-27 Feb. 2000. “Women, Talk, and Print Culture in Ancien Régime France.” The 33rd Annual Texas Tech University Literature Symposium: Women in the Eighteenth Century, Lubbock, TX. 27-29 Jan. 2000. “Men and Women in Conversation: Shaping the Language of Eighteenth-Century Literature.” Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. 25-31 July 1999. “Eighteenth-Century French Women, Real and Imaginary.” Annual Meeting of the Western Association of Women Historians, The Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA. 15-17 May 1998. “La duplicité d’un roman par lettres: Le Portefeuille de Mme de Villedieu.” Réflexion/Reflexivité: Les textes des femmes de l’Ancien Régime, Montreal, Quebec. 20-26 May 1997. “Parisian Salons and Peruvian Letters: Madame de Graffigny’s Peruvian Letters.” International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Utrecht, Netherlands. August 1996. “The Dream of a Common Language: Mme de Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne.” 1996 Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Austin, TX. March 1996. “Words and Worlds of Difference: Graffigny’s Letters from a Peruvian Woman.” CSU San Bernardino Conference on “Strangers in Paradise: Voices in Exile,” Palm Springs, CA. 6-8 April 1995. “Inscribing the Body of the Text: The Case of Cécile in Laclos’s Liaisons dangereuses.” 1995 Meeting of WSECS, Irvine, CA. 17-19 Feb. 1995. “The Pleasure of the Female Text: Marivaux’s La Vie de Marianne.” 1994 Meeting of the Aphra Behn Society, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA. 7-9 Oct. 1994. “Autobiographie et Écriture dans Enfance de Nathalie Sarraute.” Eleventh Annual Wichita State University International Conference on Foreign Literature, Wichita, KS. 7-9 April 1994. “Between Friends and Lovers: Germaine de Staël and Juliette Récamier.” 1994 Meeting of ASECS, University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. 9-13 March 1994. “Intertextual Conversations: The Love Letter and the Footnote in Madame de Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne.” 1993 Meeting of the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS), Baton Rouge, LA. 11-14 March 1993. “The Feminization of Literature and the First-Person Narrative in Eighteenth-Century France.” CSU San Bernardino Winter Symposium on Multicultural Diversity, San Bernardino, CA. 4 March 1993. Teaching Presentations “Technology and University Teaching,” on the use of Photostory 3. CSU San Bernardino Teaching Resource Center. 16 Feb. 2007. “Teaching to the Standards: Strategies for Success” (with Terri Nelson). 2004 Meeting of the California Language Teachers Association, Monterey, CA. April 2004. “Learning Culture: Comparing Text- and Task-Based Activities.” 2000 Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Boston, MA. 16-19 Nov. 2000. “Increasing Productivity through Web-based Foreign Language Instruction.” CSU San Bernardino Teaching Resource Center Spring Colloquium. April 1998. “Teaching the Eighteenth Century.” 1997 Meeting of the Northeast Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS), Boston, MA. 11-14 Dec. 1997.

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