Directory

Valerie M. Dionne
Assistant Professor of French
French and Italian


Office: Lovejoy 313
Phone: 207-859-4659
Email:
vmdionne@colby.edu

Mailing Address:
4650 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8846

Office Hours:
M-W: 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.

Semester Schedule

Education

M.A., Ph.D. Princeton University 2008

Areas of Expertise:
  • Early Modern French Literature & Philosophy
  • Literature and Ethics, Political conciliation
  • Rhetoric, Narratology and the subject status
Publications

Book
(co-editor)“Revelations of Character”: Ethos, Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy in Montaigne , intro. by Mary McKinley, ed. by C. Noirot and V. Dionne (Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).

Articles
“Ethics of ‘De l’amitié’: The Essais as a Gift” in "Revelations of Character": Ethos, Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy in Montaigne.


“Oubli(s)” and “Pardon” in Dictionnaire de Michel de Montaigne, ed. by Ph. Desan (Paris : Champion, 2007).


“Absence de mémoire et présence de l’oubli dans les Essais de Montaigne”, Romance Review, Boston, XV (Fall 2006) 30-46.


“La Résonance des lois somptuaires dans les Essais de Montaigne : réflexions sur les paradoxes du luxe”, Cahier du groupe de recherches sur les Entrées solennelles (Montreal: University of Concordia, 2003).