Erec R. Koch

Major Field

17th century French literature

Research Interests

Professor Koch’s research interests in seventeenth-century literature and culture include: Pascal and Jansenism; the history and theory of rhetoric; French Classical theater; the moralists; philosophy and the history of ideas; theories of the passions and the representation of the body

Education

Ph.D., Yale University

Recent Publications

His recent publications include Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Language in the Scientific Treatises, the "Provinciales," and the "Pensées" (1997), Classical Unities: Place, Time, Action (edited, 2002), and The Aesthetic Body: Sensibility, Passion, and Corporeality in Seventeenth-Century France (2008). Professor Koch has also published articles on Pascal, Nicole, Racinian and Cornelian tragedy, polemics on rhetoric and painting, subjectivities, Cartesian ethics, and political theory.

Contact Information

Erec R. Koch
Department Head
701 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-6993
E-Mail: erkoch@utk.edu