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Valerie Dionne

Title

Associate Professor of French and Italian, Director of the Oak Institute

Department

French and Italian; Oak Institute

Information

  • (207) 859-4659
  • [email protected]
  • 207-859-4405
  • Lovejoy 316

Address

4650 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
FR126 French II A
FR126 French II B
FR377 Staging Justice: The Theater of Revolt A
FR493M Seminar: Staging Justice: The Theater of Revolt A
GS111 Indigenous Rights in the Global Perspective A
GS113 Indigenous Rights: A Reading Group A
GS125 Health and Human Rights: A Reading Group A

Education

M.A., Ph.D. Princeton University, 2008
B.A. Université de Montréal



Areas of Expertise

  • Early Modern French Literature & Culture

  • Tolerance & War of Religions

  • Human Rights, Law & Literature

  • LGBTQIA+, Intersex rights







Publications

Books/Journals

“Staging Justice”, Early Modern French Studies, co-edited with Michael Meere, Vol. 42, No.2, November 2020.

Montaigne, écrivain de la conciliation (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014).

“Revelations of Character”: Ethos, Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy in Montaigne, Introduction by Mary McKinley, co-edited with C. Noirot (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).

Book/Journals in Progress

Editor, “Decolonizing Montaigne” for Montaigne Studies, vol. 25 (2025).

La Mise en scène de la Justice: Tragédie et Révolte (Staging Justice: The Theater of Revolt in Early Modern France).

Book Chapters/Articles

“La Fonction sociale du sacrifice selon Montaigne”, Montaigne penseur social, ed. Philippe Desan, Paris: Editions Hermann, 2022, pp. 163-181.

“Charles IX et la Justice dans l'Antigone de Jean-Antoine de Baïf”, Early Modern French Studies, ed. with Micheal Meere, Vol. 42, No.2, November 2020, pp. 116-130.

“Guérir par magie avec Montaigne”, in "Montaigne, la maladie et la médecine", Montaigne Studies, ed. Philippe Desan, University of Chicago, XXXII (2), 2020, pp. 83-98.

With Yannik Büchi '17, “La loi du genre: le procès de l'hermaphrodite en France de l'Antiquité au XVIIIe siècle”, La traversée culturelle du genre, ed. A. M. E. Adjoumani, P. B. Dah et L. Troh Gueyes, Le Graal édition, 2018, pp. 623-656. reprinted in La Traversée culturelle du genre : Les figures de l’androgynie, vol. 3, éd. A. Mia Élise Adjoumani et al., Paris, L’Harmattan, 2021, pp. 103-124.

“Is Religious Pluralism a Heresy? What we can gather from Julian the Apostate's and Henri IV's politic of tolerance”,Representing Heresy in Early Modern France. Essays and Studies, vol. 40, ed. G. Scarlatti and L. Radi, Toronto: Center for Reformation and Renaissance, 2017, pp. 257-274.

“"De la physionomie (III, 12)” ou le testament de Montaigne", Lectures du troisième livre des Essais de Montaigne, ed. Ph. Desan, Paris: Honoré Champion, 2016, pp. 331-354.

“Justice and Law”, Oxford Handbook to Montaigne, ed. Philippe Desan, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 471-492

“’Errare humanum est’ ou la monstrueuse errance de l’écriture des Essais”, Colloque Montaigne et l’erreur, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016, pp. 103-118.

“Le sourire canin de Montaigne et de La Mothe Le Vayer ou la vertu cynique du libertin”, Early Modern French Studies, Vol. 37, No.1, July 2015, pp. 2-13.

“Marianne d’Arc ou la sanctification du symbolisme séculier”, ed. Laurence Le Diagon-Jacquin and Florence Fix, Paon d’Héra/Hera’s Peacock, éd. du Murmure, Neuilly-Lès-Dijon, no 8 (décembre 2011), pp. 20-34.

“Montaigne et l’art de la conciliation”, Nouveau bulletin de la société internationale des amis de Montaigne, Paris, no 50 (novembre 2009), pp. 61-77.

“Ethics of ‘De l’amitié’: The Essais as a Gift” in “Revelations of Character”: Ethos, Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy in Montaigne, ed. by C. Noirot with V. Dionne, intr. Mary McKinley (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), pp. 47-67.

“Oubli(s)” in Dictionnaire de Michel de Montaigne, ed. Ph. Desan (Paris: Champion, 2007), pp. 853-855.

“Pardon” in Dictionnaire de Michel de Montaigne, ed. Ph. Desan (Paris: Champion, 2007), pp. 863-865.

“Absence de mémoire et présence de l’oubli dans les Essais de Montaigne”, Romance Review, Boston, XV (Fall 2006), pp. 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, Montréal, Université de Concordia/University, 2003.

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