Bruno Penteado , Ph.D. Assistant Professor of French

My research is mainly concerned with 18th- and 19th-century French literature, continental philosophy, and the intersections of literature and philosophy. I am also interested in literary and critical theory, intellectual history, and film studies.

My current book project Wishing to Conclude: Stupidity, Philosophy, and the French Novelinvestigates the legitimization of stupidity as an object of philosophical inquiry in 20th-century and contemporary French philosophy and suggests that such conceptualization is highly indebted to the French novel.

My work has appeared in such journals as Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, and Forum for Modern Language Studies, among other venues.

Education

• Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Brown University
• D.E.A. French, Université de Genève

Courses Taught:

Undergrad Level:

• FREN 2390 French Culture: French Horror(s)
• FREN 3302 Introduction to Literature in French: Comedy, Satire, and Parody in the French Tradition
• FREN 3303 French Conversation: Current Topics in Contemporary France
• FREN 4303 Dialogues in French Culture: Introduction to French Theater

Graduate Level:

• FREN 5311 From the Baroque to the Revolution: The Invention of Modernity
• FREN 5319 19th-Century Literature: Evil, Literature, Painting
• FREN 5321 French Cinema: The Crisis of Representation in French Cinema
• FREN 5329 Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory: What is Literature?