Logan Connors
Assistant Professor of French
at Bucknell since 2010
Ph.D. Louisiana State University, 2010
Contact Information for Academic Year 2012-2013
169 avenue de Choisy, apt. 88
75013 Paris
FRANCE
+33 7 50 30 97 60
logan.connors@bucknell.edu
Teaching and Research Interests
17th- and 18th-century French theater; literary and dramatic criticism of early-modern Europe; French Enlightenment historiography; literature pedagogy; contemporary literary and dramatic theories.
Books
Dramatic battles in eighteenth-century France: philosophes, anti-philosophes and polemical theatre. Oxford University: Voltaire Foundation, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, July 2012. http://xserve.volt.ox.ac.uk/VFcatalogue/details.php?recid=6525
A Critical Edition of Siège de Calais by Pierre-Laurent De Belloy. In the series Patrimoine dramatique du XVIIIe siècle (Thomas Wynn and Pierre Frantz eds.). London: Modern Humanities Research Association (Collection: Phoenix). In progress. http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/phoenix.html
Selected Articles
“‘Initiators of Discursive Practices’: Authorship, attribution, and intent in the debates between philosophes and anti-philosophes.” French Forum, forthcoming, 2013.
“Text(s) and Performance in Charles Palissot’s Les Philosophes (1760).” In The Enlightenment: Critique, Myth and Utopia. Minna Ahokas, Timo Kaitaro & Charlotta Wolff (eds.), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011, pp. 175-191.
“L’esthétique du patriotisme dans la critique théâtrale à l’époque de la guerre de sept ans. Le cas du Siège de Calais (1765).” In Le public et la politique des arts au Siècle des Lumières. Christophe Henry and Daniel Rabreau (eds.). Paris: Université de Paris I and William Blake & Co., 2011, pp. 113-120.
“Performing Criticism during Cultural War: The case of Voltaire’s l’Ecossaise (1760).” Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Vol. 10, no. 1 (November 2010), pp. 61-80.
Selected Presentations
“Redéfinitions du patriotisme à travers les variantes du Siège de Calais, tragédie de Pierre-Laurent de Belloy”. University of Uppsala, Sweden—June 2013.
“Traités tragiques; traités émotionnels? Prescribing emotions in eighteenth-century treatises on tragedy.” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies—Oxford, U.K.—January 2013.
"Expérimenter l’actualité et enseigner la vertu : expériences théâtrales au siècle des Lumières.” Conference Rêves d’autorité dans le discours et la pratique des Lumières—Tours, France—December 2012
“Critique et création dans le monde théâtrale du 18e siècle: La Motte, Du Bos et le problème des poétiques.” French Comparative Literature Society Convention (SFLGC)—Tours, France—October 2012
“Passion with few restraints: affective strategies for teaching the eighteenth-century novel.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference—Lexington, KY—April 2012.
“The Performance Component in Advanced Courses on Eighteenth-Century French Theater.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Convention—San Antonio, TX—March 2012.
“Métathéâtre et critique dramatique: approches théoriques pour le théâtre classique”— Université Paris—Sorbonne (Paris IV)—November 2011.
About Professor Connors
Academic year 2012-2013: I am on pre-tenure leave in Paris, where I am working on my second book, which includes a critical edition of Pierre-Laurent De Belloy’s Le Siège de Calais and an analytical essay on patriotic literature before the French Revolution. Here in Paris, I also have the wonderful opportunity to teach a methodology class on literary criticism and theories from the Anglophone world at the Université Paris—Sorbonne. Although I miss my friends, students, and colleagues at Bucknell and the calm of Lewisburg, I’m happy to be living in the vibrant 13th arrondissement and looking forward to seeing our Bucknell en France students both here in Paris and in Tours!
