VOLKER SCHRÖDER (Dr. phil., Univ. Tübingen, Germany) is an Associate Professor of French specializing in the literature and culture of the seventeenth century. He has taught at the Universität Salzburg (Austria) and at Duke University. At Princeton, he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on classical drama (Molière, Corneille, Racine), women writers, fairy tales, satire, and the conjunction of art and absolutism at the palace of Versailles. Most of his publications to date have focused on tragedy, including an in-depth study of Racine’s Britannicus (La Tragédie du sang d’Auguste, 1999), the essay collection Présences de Racine (Œuvres & Critiques XXIV, 1, 1999), and an annotated critical edition of Marie-Anne Barbier’s tragedy Cornélie, mère des Gracques (2005). His recent articles have experimented with various comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to a wide range of topics, such as the mystical intertext of the Lettres portugaises, the postmodern operatic afterlife of Marie-Antoinette's Versailles, and the relations between satire and sermon in the work of Boileau. Schröder is currently working on a book-length study of verbal violence and civility in the age of Louis XIV, examining in particular the status and strategies of satirical writing.

Personal webpage
www.princeton.edu/~volkers