| MARIE-HÉLÈNE HUET (Doctorat ès Lettres, Université de Bordeaux, France) is M. Taylor Pyne Professor of French. She has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, where she chaired the Department of French (1982-85), Amherst College, the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan. She has published articles on 18th- and 19th-century French literature, cultural history, historiography, and the history of medicine. She is the author of L’Histoire des voyages extraordinaires, Essai sur l’oeuvre de Jules Verne (1973); Le Héros et son double, Essai sur le roman d’ascension sociale au XVIIIe siècle (1975); Rehearsing the Revolution: The Staging of Marat’s Death, 1793-1797 (1982); Monstrous Imagination (which was awarded the 1993 Harry Levin Prize in Comparative Literature); and Mourning Glory: The Will of the French Revolution (1997). Marie-Hélène Huet was a Guggenheim Fellow (1987-88), a Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellow at Bellagio (1989), and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study (University of Virginia, 1993-94). She served on the editorial board of PMLA and Eighteenth-Century Studies. Marie-Hélène Huet is working on questions of aesthetics and political thought from 1780 to 1848. She will be Chair of the Department of French and Italian beginning in July 2003. |
