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Dan Edelstein

Department of French and ItalianStanford, CA 94305-2010

Stanford UniversityOffice telephone: (650) 724-9881

Current Position

Assistant Professor of French, Department of French and Italian, Stanford University2004-

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Ph.D. in FrenchMay 2004

Dissertation: “Restoring the Golden Age: Myths in Revolutionary Culture and Ideology”

Université de Genève

Licence ès Lettres (French, English, Latin)July 1999

Prizes and Awards

William Koren, Jr. Prize, Honorable Mention for best published article in French history 2009

Society for French Historical Studies

Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford University2006

Naomi Schor Prize for best graduate student paper presented2003

at Nineteenth-Century French Studies colloquium

Fellowships and Grants

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at a Digital Humanities Center 2009

The ARTFL project, University of Chicago

Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities Grant, Stanford University2008-2011

Hewlett Faculty Grant, Freeman Spogli Insitute, Stanford University2008

Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship2008-9

Humanities Research Network Grant, Stanford Humanities Center2008-09

VPUE Faculty Grant for Undergraduate Research, Stanford University2006-07

Fulbright Fellowship (at Université Paris III) 2002-03

Books and Edited Volumes

The Enlightenment and France (work in progress).

Republicanism in Eighteenth-Century France, with Keith Baker, Andrew Jainchill, James Swenson,

and Kent Wright (work in progress).

The Super-Enlightenment: Daring To Know Too Much, editor (Oxford: SVEC/Voltaire Foundation,

forthcoming 2010).

The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism in Eighteenth-Century France, 1699-1794

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2009).

Myth and Modernity, ed. with Bettina Lerner, Yale French Studies 111 (New Haven: Yale University

Press, 2007).

Articles

“Historiographie américaine récente de la Révolution française,” in La République et son droit (1870-

1930), ed. Annie Stora-Lamarre (Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, forthcoming).

“Terreur et droit naturel,” in La République et son droit (forthcoming).

“Humanism, l’Esprit Philosophique, and the Encyclopédie,” Republics of Letters 1, no. 1 (forthcoming).

“Introduction to the Super-Enlightenment,” in The Super-Enlightenment (forthcoming).

“The Egyptian French Revolution: Freemasonry, Antiquarianism, and the Mythology of Nature,”

in The Super-Enlightenment (forthcoming).

“Law and Disorder,” in “Thinking Twice: Terror,” Stanford Report (March 4, 2009):

“War and Terror: The Law of Nationsfrom Grotius to the French Revolution,” French Historical Studies

31.2; issue on “War, Culture, and Society,” ed. David A. Bell and Martha Hanna (2008): 229-62.

“The Birth of Ideology from the Spirit of Myth: Georges Sorel among the Idéologues,” in Joshua Landy and Michael Saler, eds., The Re-enchantement of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age

(Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2008).

“Hostis HumaniGeneris: Devils, Natural Right, Terror, and the French Revolution,”

Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought 141 (2007): 57-81.

“The Law of 22 Prairial: Introduction and Translation,” Telos 141(2007): 82-100.

“Editors’ Preface: Mythomanies,” with Bettina Lerner, in Myth and Modernity, 1-4.

“The Modernization of Myth, from Balzac to Sorel,” in Myth and Modernity, 32-44.

“Hyperborean Atlantis: Jean-Sylvain Bailly, Madame Blavatsky, and the Nazi Myth,” ed. Jeffrey S. Ravel

and Linda Zionkowski, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 35 (2006): 267-91.

“Antonin Artaud,” The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought, ed. Lawrence Kritzman

(New York: Columbia University Press, 2005).

“Expositions,” in Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought.

“Between Myth and History: Michelet, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, and the Structural Analysis of Myth,”

Clio:A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 32.4 (2004): 1-18.

“Moving Through the Looking-Glass: Deleuzian Reflections on the Series in Mallarmé,”

L’Esprit Créateur 40.3 (2000): 50-60.

Book Reviews

Terror and Its Discontents: Suspect Words in the French Revolution by Caroline Weber.

French Forum (forthcoming).

Scènes d’aumône: misère et poésie au XIXe siècle by Anne-Emmanuelle Berger.

French Forum,30.3 (2005): 145-147.

Balzac, romancier du regard by Takao Kashiwagi.

Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 33.3-4 (2005): 15-16.

Invited Lectures

“In 1795: Of Gods and Revolution.”June 2009

Historisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

“Inventing the Enlightenment.”February 2009

Department of French and Italian, University of Minnesota

“The Super-Enlightenment.”February 2009

Theorizing Early-Modern Studies (TEMS), University of Minnesota

“Was the Enlightenment French After All?”December 2008

Department of History, Johns Hopkins University

“Terreur et droit naturel.”November 2008

Ecole normale supérieure (ENS), Paris

“Historiographie américaine récente sur la Révolution française.”November 2008

Department of History, Université de Besançon, France

“The Tyrant and the Outlaw: Inventing the Terror.”May 2007

Modern France Workshop, University of Chicago

“Ideology and the End of the Enlightenment.”November 2004

Department of Romance Languages, Johns Hopkins University

Presentations

“Ancients, Moderns, and the Branding of the Enlightenment.”May 2009

North-American Society for 17th-Century French Literature (NASSCFL), NYU

“Naturalizing Philosophy: Myth and Enlightenment.”May 2009

Seminar on Enlightenment and Revolution, Stanford University

“Myth and Nature in the French Enlightenment.”December 2008

Modern Language Association, San Francisco

“La république naturelle des Jacobins.”November 2008

La République et son droit (1870-1930), Université de Besançon

“The Egyptian French Revolution:Freemasonry, Antiquarianism, and the Mythology of Nature.” Oct. 2008

New Paradigms in Revolutionary Studies: French-American Colloquium, South Bend

“A Modern Script for Revolutionary Terror.”October 2008

Terrorism and Modernity: Global Perspectives on Political Violence

in the Nineteenth Century, German Historical Institute/Tulane University

“The Jacobin Republic of Nature.” July 2008

Society for the Study of French History, University of Aberystwyth(UK)

“Two Concepts of Exceptionality: On Political Violence during the French Revolution.”April 2008

Terror and the Making of Modern Europe, Stanford University

“Humanism in the Encyclopédie.”March 2008

Research conference on the Encyclopédie, University of Chicago

“Voltaire’s Republicanism.”March 2008

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Oregon

“Humanist Encyclopedism and l’esprit philosophique.”November 2007

The Republic of Letters: Between Renaissance and Enlightenment, Stanford University

“The Case of the Missing Constitution.”October 2007

Western Society for French History, University of Colorado

“Humanities Research and the Future of the Library” (w. Michael A. Keller and Charles Henry)Oct. 2007

Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University

“Beyond the bornes de l’esprit humain: Traditional Authority and the Super-Enlightenment.”July 2007

International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montpellier (France)

“Enemies of Humanity: Violence and Natural Right.”July 2007

International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montpellier

“Natural Right and Total War: On a Liberal Genealogy of the Terror.”December 2006

Modern Language Association, Philadelphia

Commentator for Jessica Riskin, “Mechanical Christs, Hydraulic Brutes and the Invention December 2006

of Consciousness.” Stanford Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society

“The Terror of Natural Right: Droit des gens in Revolutionary France.”October 2006

Western Society for French History, California State University, Long Beach

“Terror and Territory: National Sovereignty and Natural Right.” July 2006

Society for the Study of French History, University of Sussex (UK)

“Off With Their Heads: Death and the Terror.”May 2006

French Culture Workshop, Stanford University

“The Metaphysical Panopticon: The Great Terror and the Festival of the Supreme Being.” April 2006

Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky

Panel organizer and chair, “The Super-Enlightenment: Pushing the Limits April 2005

of Human Knowledge.”

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Nevada

“Restoring the Golden Age: The French Revolution and the Mythical Ideology of Nature.” February 2005

Debartolo Conference, University of South Florida

“The Golden Age of Atlantis: Revolution, Science, and Millenium.”October 2004

Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Washington University

“The Atlantis Theory: Jean-Sylvain Bailly and the Rise of Occult Orientalism.”April 2004

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Boston College

“The Re-invention of Mythology: Court de Gébelin and the Masonic Code.”December 2003

Modern Language Association, San Diego

“Balzac and the Invention of Mythical Modernism. Rewriting Faust in Le Père Goriot.”October 2003

Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Arizona

“Filling Saussure’s Shoes: C. S. Peirce and Literary Theory.”April 2002

Twentieth-Century French Studies, University of Connecticut

“Reimagining the Romantic Imagination.” October 2001

Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison

“L’Amérique dans la poésie française du vingtième siècle.”April 2001

French Institute of Culture and Technology, University of Pennsylvania

“Against Bricolage as a Theory of Cultural Transmission.” March 2001

Twentieth-Century French Studies, University of California at Davis

“La traversée des mythes dans The Waste Land de T. S. Eliot.”March 1999

Groupe d’études du XXe siècle, Université de Genève

Digital Projects

Mapping the Republic of Letters (primary investigator, with Paula Findlen): funded by a three-year Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities grant, this project will use a variety of GIS programs to map the correspondence networks, travel itineraries, imaginary geographies, and book distribution paths of early-modern Europe and America.

Republics of Letters (founder and editor) is an online scholarly journal dedicated to the study of knowledge, politics, and the arts, in their changing historical and cultural configurations; sponsored by the DLCL at Stanford University (to be launched in early 2009).

The Super-Enlightenment Project, in collaboration with Stanford University Libraries: a full-text searchablearchive of “illuminist” late-eighteenth-century texts, with scholarly apparatus (forthcoming 2009).

The French Revolutionary Digital Archive, in collaboration with Stanford University Libraries, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Institut d’Histoire de la Révolution française (Paris-Sorbonne I): full-text searchable versions of the Archives parlementaires,the Moniteur universel, the Baudouin collection of revolutionary legislation and an image gallery of 14’000 prints (forthcoming).

Recent Courses

“Texts in History: Enlightenment to the Present”Spring 2008

HUMNITIES/FRENGEN163, Stanford University

“Revolutions in Prose: The 19th-Century French Novel”Fall 2007

FRENLIT 204, Stanford University

“Research Seminar on the digitized Encyclopédie”Spring 2006

FRENGEN/HISTORY 345, Stanford University

“Introduction to the Humanities: Epic Journeys, Modern Quests”2004-2008

IHUM 3, Stanford University

“Machiavelli and Sons”Fall 2006

FRENGEN 49N, Freshman Seminar, Stanford University

“The World According to Jean-Jacques: Rousseau, Rousseauism, and the Enlightenment”Spring 2006

FRENLIT 236, Stanford University

“Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution in 17th- and 18th-Century France”Winter 2006

FRENLIT 131, Stanford University

“Killing Romanticism: Nineteenth-Century French Poetry”Winter 2006

FRENGEN 251, Stanford University

“Give me Libertinage or Death: The Politics of Pleasure”Winter 2005

FRENLIT 221, Stanford University

“Theological Poets: Gods, Laws, and Rhythms in European Romanticism”Winter 2005

FRENGEN 248, Stanford University

“Kings and Philosophers: Ruling and Writing in the Age of Enlightement”Fall 2004

FRENGEN 48N, Freshman Seminar, Stanford University

Professional Service and Activities

Co-Director, French Culture Workshop, Stanford University2005-

Co-Director, Seminar and Enlightenment and Revolution, Stanford2007-

Research Affiliate, Forum on Contemporary European, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford 2006-

Affiliated Faculty, Mediterranean Studies Forum, Stanford2005-

Organizer, “French Republicanism” workshop, Stanford University2008

Organizer, “The Republic of Letters: Between Renaissance and Enlightenment,” StanfordNov. 2007

Planning and Personnel Committee, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages 2006-2007

Steering Committee, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Stanford2006-2007

Committee in Charge, Program in Modern Thought and Literature (MTL), Stanford2005-2006

Co-organizer, “Empire Lost: France and Its Other Worlds,” Colloquium, StanfordApril 2006

Sophomore Advisor, Undergraduate Advising Program, Stanford2005-2006

Publicist, Department of French and Italian, Stanford2005-

Graduate Recruitment Committee, Department of French and Italian, Stanford2004-

Curriculum Committee, Department of French and Italian, Stanford2004-2006

Academic Advisor, Undergraduate Advising Program, Stanford2004-2006

Co-organizer, Poetry, Poetology and Poetics Research Group, DLCL, Stanford2004-2005

Screener, Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships, Stanford2004-

Interviewer, Franco-American Fulbright Commission2003

Peer reviewer for the University of Chicago Press (2008), French Historical Studies (2008), Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (2005, 2007), Cincinnati Romance Review (2007),PMLA (2005), Columbia University Press(2005),Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History (2004), and the American Philosophical Society (2004).

Languages

Native speaker of English and French; proficient in German and Italian; reading knowledge of Latin.

Membership in Professional Organizations

Modern Language Association; American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; Society for French Historical Studies.