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Natania Meeker
Associate Professor of French

Contact Information
Office: THH 155B
Phone: (213)740-3172
E-mail: nmeeker@usc.edu

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 the development of Epicurean philosophy in France, libertine literature and thought, and eighteenth- and twentieth-century readings of the Enlightenment. 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 and the Making of Modern Thought in Ancien Regime France_.
 

Research Specialties
Eighteenth-century French Literature and Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Epicurean Philosophy, Libertine Novel, History of Materialism
 

Publications

Book
Meeker, N. The Female Libertine and the Making of Modern Thought in Ancien Regime France. 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: Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment/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. Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance, 600 B.C.E. to the Present/Routledge.
 

Book Chapter
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
USC-Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute Fellowship, 8/2006-12/2006  
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  
 
 
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