Juliette Cherbuliez
Juliette Cherbuliez is a professor of French at the University of Minnesota. Her research is on premodern literature and culture. Within this field, she has a broad range of interests, including: the ethics of violence, women as political subjects, garden architecture and public space, history of the book, and exile. Current projects include: Cosmopolitan Medea, which examines the relationship among the ethics of violence, the literary imagination, and myths of state formation; an article on public gardens and knowledge in late-seventeenth-century Paris; and a multi-part project on libertinism from Cyrano to Kubrick. In 2004, she received CLA’s Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching award. She has conducted seminars at the graduate and undergraduate levels on space and place in premodern literature, violence and theater, libertinism, and the idea of luxury. On campus, she co-organizes TEMS, a collaborative, interdisciplinary research seminar on early modern Europe.
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