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Dan Edelstein joined the Department of French and Italian in July 2004. He received his Ph.D. in May 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he wrote a dissertation on mythology and mythography in the French Enlightenment and their role during the French Revolution ("Restoring the Golden Age: Myths in Revolutionary Culture and Ideology"). His recent publications include "Moving Through the Looking-Glass: Deleuzian Reflections on Mallarmé" in L'Esprit Créateur; "Between Myth and History: Michelet, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, and the Structural Analysis of Myth" in Clio; and "Hyperborean Atlantis: Jean-Sylvain Bailly, Madame Blavatsky, and the Nazi Myth" in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. He is currently working on a book that examines the roles of natural right, antiquarianism, and the golden age myth in eighteenth-century culture and in the politics of the Terror. Other research interests include Freemasonry, Orientalism, Illuminism, German Romanticism, and political theory.

Professor Edelstein teaches courses and seminars on Enlightenment political theory, libertine and philosophical literature, Rousseauism, nineteenth-century poetry, and the French Revolution. He is the co-director of the French Culture Workshop. In 2002-03 he had a Fulbright Fellowship at the Université Paris-III. In 2003 he was awarded the Naomi Schor Prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Nineteenth Century French Studies colloquium. His undergraduate degree is from the Université de Genève.

Current courses

FRENGEN 251. Killing Romanticism: Nineteenth-Century French Poetry

FRENLIT 131. Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France

FRENLIT 236. The World According to Jean-Jacques: Rousseau, Rousseauism, and Enlightenment

IHUM 3. Epic Journeys, Modern Quests

Recent courses

FRENGEN 49N. Kings and Philosophers: Ruling and Writing in the Age of Englightenment

FRENGEN 248. European Romanticsim

FRENLIT 221. Give me Libertinage or Death: The Politics of Pleasure

IHUM 3. Epic Journeys, Modern Quests

Other affiliations
Department of French and Italian