Andrew S. Curran, Assoc. Prof of French
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT 06459
(860) 685-3107
EDUCATION:
1990-95: New York University, Ph.D., French Literature, 1996
1993-94: Ecole Normale Supérieure (Fontenay-Saint Cloud)
Littérature et Linguistique Françaises
1988-89: New York University in Paris, M.A., French Literature, 1990
1982-86: Hamilton College, B.A., Honors, 1986
EMPLOYMENT:
2004-: Assoc. Professor of French: Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
1998-04: Assistant Professor of French: Wesleyan University
1996-98: Assistant Professor of French: Union College (Schenectady, NY)
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Sublime disorder:
physical monstrosity in Diderot’s universe
Oxford: SVEC, 2001.
Faces of Monstrosity
in Eighteenth-Century Thought,
Guest Editor,
Eighteenth Century Life, May 1997.
RECENT ARTICLES:
![”Afterward: Monstrous Bodies/ Political Monstrosities”

”Imaginer l’Afrique au siècle des Lumières” [online]
”Diderot and the Encyclopédie’s construction of the Black African”
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FULL REFERENCES:
“Imaginer l’Afrique au siècle des Lumières,” Bibliopolis (forthcoming). Simultaneously published in Cromohs (Cyber Revue of Modern Historiography – Rivista Elettronica di Storiografia Moderna), an electronic journal produced by the universities of Florence and Trieste.
“Diderot and the Encyclopédie’s Construction of the Nègre,” in Diderot and European Culture, Anthony Strugnell and Frédéric Ogée, eds., Oxford: Voltaire Foundation (forthcoming).
“Afterword: Anatomical Readings in the Early Modern Era” in Monstrous Bodies, Political Monstrosities,” Laura Lunger Knoppers and Joan B. Landes, eds., Cornell University Press, 2004
“Diderot’s Revisionism: Blindness and Enlightenment in the Lettre sur les aveugles,” Diderot Studies XXVIII, 2000, 75-93.
“The Faces of Eighteenth-Century Monstrosity,” Introduction to Faces of Monstrosity in Eighteenth-Century Thought, Eighteenth-Century Life (May 1997), 1-15, (co-authored with Patrick Graille).
“Exhibiting the Monster: Nicolas-François et Geneviève Regnault’s Les écarts de la nature,” Eighteenth-Century Life (May 1997), 16-22, (co-authored with Patrick Graille).
“Monsters and the Self in the Rêve de d’Alembert,” Eighteenth-Century Life (May 1997), 48-69.
REVIEWS:
Review of Travels, Explorations, and Empires in Eighteenth-Century Studies (forthcoming).
Review of Arthur Donovan, Antoine Lavoisier: Science, Administration, and Revolution in Dix-huitième siècle, 29 (1998): 201-202.
Review of Marie-Hélène Huet, Monstrous Imagination in L'Esprit Créateur, 33, 4 (Winter 1993): 102-103.
EXHIBITION:
Exhibition Co-curator/Writer, “Africa in the Enlightenment Imagination: Visions of the Kongo, Angola, and Matamba 1600-1750”; An interdisciplinary exhibition of iconography examining representations of colonial West Africa. Mandeville Gallery, Union College (4/97-6/97)
FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS:
2005 Mellon Foundation Summer Research Grant; Summer
2002 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; Spring
2001 Center for the Humanities Fellow (Wesleyan University); Fall
Wesleyan University Project Grant for research; 1999, 2000
1997-98 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor (Union College);
1995 The Paris-American Club of New York Research Fellowship;
1994 Chateaubriand Fellowship
