Valerie M. Dionne Instructor in French French and Italian

Office: Lovejoy 313 Phone: 207-859-4659 Email: vmdionne@colby.edu Mailing Address: 8800 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8888 Office Hours: M-W: 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. Semester Schedule

Education

M.A., Ph.D. (by the end of 2007) Princeton University

Areas of Expertise:

Early Modern French Literature & Philosophy Literature and Ethics; Political conciliation Rhetoric; Narratology and the subject status Critical theory: Derrida, Ricoeur, Gadamer, hermeneutic and political responsability

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).