Martine Debaisieux

Position title: Professor Emerita of French, Department of French and Italian

Email: baisieux@wisc.edu

Languages: French, English.

Research Interests: Late 16th-century and 17th-century literature: fiction, women writers, “libertins”; grammar and stylistics.

Education: Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley; M.A., New York University.

Departments: Department of French and Italian (departmental profile here).

Teaching: Early modern literature and intellectual history; French cinema.

Selected Publications:
Books and Book Sections
Le Procès du roman: Ecriture et contrefaçon chez Charles Sorel, Anma Libri, “Stanford French and Italian Studies”, 1989. Republication, Orléans: Editions Paradigme, 2000.

Violence et fiction jusqu’à la Révolution. Travaux du IXe colloque international de la SATOR. Ed. with G. Verdier. Etudes Littéraires Françaises. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1998.

Le Labyrinthe de Versailles: Parcours critiques de Molière à La Fontaine. Ed. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1998.

Critical edition — Charles Sorel, Description de l’île de portraiture. Genève: Droz, 2006.

« Memoirs of an Indocile Daughter’: Encounters with Elaine Marks ». In Life Writing, Death Writing: The Legacy of Elaine Marks. Ed. R. Goodkin (U. of Wisconsin Press, 2006), pp. 31-56.