R. Shane Agin

Dr. Agin joined the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures as Assistant Professor of French in 2005. His research focuses primarily on Denis Diderot and the interrelations among art, literature and philosophy in 18th-century France.

 

"The Development of Diderot's Salons and the Shifting Boundary of Representational Language" in Diderot Studies 30 (2008): 11-29.

"Sketch, Illustration and the Power of Imagination: Aesthetic Production and Reception in 18th-Century France," in The Ruin and the Sketch in the Eighteenth Century, Peter Wagner, Frédéric Ogée, et al., eds. (Trier: Wissenschaflicher Verlag Trier, 2008): 59-69.

"Le viol au XVIIIe siècle: Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de la femme sociale," in Le Viol: Actes du colloque international, Jean-Michel Devésa, ed. (Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux 3 [L'A.P.R.I.L]) (Click here for article.)

"La Physiologie d'art," in Plaisir, souffrance et sublimation, ed. Jean-Michel Devésa (Bordeaux: Pleine Page Editeurs) (2007): 49-59.

"Sex Education in the Enlightened Nation." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 37 (2007): 1-21.

"Le public des ascensions en Montgolfière et la démocratisation de la science au XVIIIe siècle." Cahiers de littérature française 5 (2007): 13-25.

"Vers un nouveau Salon : Diderot, Falconet, et le débat sur la critique d'art." Cahiers d'Histoire culturelle (La littérature et les beaux-arts au 18e siècle) (2005): 111-19.

Nicholas Cronk, The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire in French Review 84.2 (December 2010).

Daniel Brewer, The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought in French Review 83.4 (Scheduled to appear in March 2010).