Mary McAlpin

Major Field

18th-century French literature and culture

Research Interests

Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the history of medicine, and gender theory

Education

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1994

Recent Publications

• Gender, Authenticity, and the Missive Letter in Eighteenth-Century France: Marie-Anne de La Tour and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Bucknell University Press, 2006)
  
  
• “Gender and Sex in the Enlightenment,” Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, Ed. Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007)
  
  
• “Julie’s Breasts, Julie’s Scars: Physiology and Character in La Nouvelle Héloïse,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 36 (March 2007): 1-20
  
  
• “Utopia in the Seraglio: Feminist Hermeneutics and Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes,” in Gender and Utopia in the Eighteenth Century, Eds. Nicole Pohl and Brenda Tooley (London: Ashgate Press, 2007): 87-106
  
  
• “Goethe’s Number-One Fan: A Neo-Feminist Reading of Bettina Brentano-von Arnim, with Balzac and Kundera,” Comparative Literature: Journal of the American Comparative Literature Association, 57.4 (Fall 2005): 294-311
  
  
• “Religion in Diderot’s La Religieuse,” XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century 2.1 (Spring 2005): 3-15

Contact Information

Mary McAlpin
Associate Professor
610A McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-6097
E-Mail: mmcalpin@utk.edu