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Natania MeekerAssociate Professor of French and Comparative LiteratureContact Information E-mail: nmeeker@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-3172 Office: THH 155D LINKS Faculty Profile on Departmental Website |
Education
- B.A. Comparative Literature (French and German), University of Chicago, 1/1993
- Ph.D. French literature and philosophy, Duke University, 1/2000
Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
- Associate Professor, University of Southern California,
Description of Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
Natania Meeker's interests include feminist philosophy, the development and reception of Epicureanism in France, libertine literature and thought, and decadent rewritings of the ancien regime. She is the author of _Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment_ (Fordham University Press, 2006). She is currently working on a new book project tentatively entitled _The Female Libertine: Engendering Modernity in Ancien Regime France_.
Research Keywords
Eighteenth-century French literature and philosophy, feminist theory, Epicurean philosophy, libertine novel, history of materialism, decadent aesthetics
Research Specialties
Eighteenth-century French literature and philosophy, feminist theory, Epicurean philosophy, libertine novel, history of materialism, decadent aesthetics
Publications
Book
- Meeker, N. The Female Libertine and the Making of Modern Thought in Ancien Regime France.
- Meeker, N. (2006). Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment. New York: Fordham University Press.
- Meeker, N., O'Barr, J., DeLamotte, E. (1997). Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance, 600 B.C.E. to the Present. New York: Routledge.
Book Chapter
- Meeker, N. (2008). "Sexing Epicurean Materialism in Diderot". Epicurus in the Enlightenment/Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century.
- Meeker, N. (2004). "Sade contre Freud: Stanley Kubrick reevalue le sujet libertin". (Vol. 259-274). Lire Sade/Editions l'Harmattan.
- Meeker, N. (2003). "Les troubles du lecteur selon La Mettrie". (Vol. 243-255). Des Alexandries II. Les metamorphoses du lecteur/Editions Bibliotheque nationale de France.
Encyclopedia Article
- Meeker, N. (2006). "Eighteenth-Century France". (Gaetan Brulotte and John Phillips, Ed.). Vol. 481-488. Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature/Taylor & Francis.
Essay
- Meeker, N. (2007). "My Sade" (review essay). pp. 667-671. Eighteenth-Century Studies/Johns Hopkins University Press.
Journal Article
- Meeker, N. (2007). "'Flowers Strewn on the Way to Volupte': The Materialist Tropes of La Mettrie". The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation/Texas Tech UP. Vol. 48 (3)
- Meeker, N., Thompson, H. (2007). "Introduction: Empiricism, Substance, Narrative". The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation/Texas Tech University Press. Vol. 48 (3)
- Meeker, N. (2006). "'I resist it no longer': Enlightened Philosophy and Feminine Compulsion in _Therese philosophe_". Eighteenth-Century Studies/Johns Hopkins University Press. Vol. 39.3, pp. 363-376.
- Meeker, N. (2006). "Lire et devenir: The Embodied Reader and Feminine Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century France". The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation/Texas Tech UP. Vol. 47 (1), pp. 39-57.
- Meeker, N. (2003). "'All Times are Present to Her'": Femininity, Temporality, and Libertinage in Diderot's 'Sur les femmes'". Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies/Florida State UP. Vol. 3 (2), pp. 68-100.
- Meeker, N. (1995). "Rethinking the Universal, Reworking the Political: Postmodern Feminism and the Enlightenment". Women in French Studies/Association of Women in French Studies. Vol. 3 (1995), pp. 21-33.
Honors and Awards
- Provost's Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Grant, 2008-2009
- USC-Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute Fellowship, Fall 2006
- USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, USC General Education Teaching Award for Arts and Letters 100, 2005-2006
- USC Innovative Teaching Award, USC CET Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching Award, 7/2005-7/2006
- Camargo Foundation Residential Grant, 1/2004-6/2004
- Clark Library Short-Term Fellowship, Fall 2003
- USC Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award, 7/2001-7/2002
- Chateaubriand Fellowship, 1996-1997