Julia Caroline Knowlton
Professor of French
Contact Information
Phone: 404.471.6236
Email: jknowlton@agnesscott.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday, 3:30-4:15
Friday, 2:15-3:45
and by appointment
Academic Degrees
B.A., Duke University
Institut d'Etudes Francaises d'Avignon
M.A., University of North Carolina
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Teaching and Scholarly Interests
Professional Activities
Recent Publications:
Books:
Body Story. Ohio University Press. 2004. Creative nonfiction. Lead title in Ohio University Press spring 2004 list. General/trade audience. Reviewed nationally (Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and Foreword magazine). Named an outstanding title for 2004 by the American Library Association.
The Ravishment of Persephone: Epistolary Lyric in the Siècle des Lumières. North Carolina Series in Romance Languages and Literatures, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Articles:
"New York, New York." Convietuirea: Revista românilor din Seghedin. 6, 1-2 (2002): 156-158. Essay on New York City written two months after 9/11.
"La Fausse Couche: Failed Potential and the Anti-Enlightenment." Romance Quarterly 49, 1 (2002): 30-35.
"Filles Perdues? French Literature in Search of the Maternal." (Solicited article). Intertexts 5, 1 (2001): 23-31.
"Looking Back": Rousseau's Orphic Turns Romance Notes XLI, 2(2001): 235-242.