Daniel Brewer

dbrewer@umn.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: French, The Johns Hopkins University, 1979 - none
B.A.: French, Yale University, 1971 - none

Specialties

France
language and culture
the Enlightenment
French cultural studies
17th- and 18th-century French literature and culture

Publications

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Publications

Brewer, Daniel. The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France: Diderot and the Art of Philosophizing. Cambridge, 1993 (reprint 2007).
Brewer, Daniel. "The Work of the Image: The Plates of the Encyclopédie." Stanford French Review 8:2-3 (1984): 229-44.
Brewer, Daniel. "The French Intellectual, History, and the Reproduction of Culture." L'Esprit Créateur 37:2 (1997): 16-33.
Brewer, Daniel. "1751: Ordering Knowledge; Denis Diderot et Jean Le Rond d'Alembert Publish the First Volume of the Encyclopédie." A New History of French Literature (1989): 447-55.
Brewer, Daniel. "Stages of the Enlightened Sublime: Narrating Sublimation." Theatre Journal 38:1 (1982): 5-18.
Brewer, Daniel. "Diderot and the Culture of Belatedness." Diderot and European Culture (2005): 183-96.
Brewer, Daniel. The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Brewer, Daniel, Brewer, Daniel, editor. Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Brewer, Daniel, Brewer, Daniel and Patricia Lorcin, co-editors. Spaces of War in France: Experience, Memory, Image. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Brewer, Daniel, Julie Candler Hayes, co-editor. Using the Encyclopédie: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Reading. SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), 2002.
Brewer, Daniel. "Voltaire, War Correspondent At-Large." PMLA 124:5 (2009): 1847-50.
Brewer, Daniel. "The Voltaire Effect." The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire (2006): 205-17.
Brewer, Daniel. "Lights in Space." Eighteenth-Century Studies 37:2 (2004): 171-86.
Brewer, Daniel. "Thinking History Through Montesquieu." Montesquieu and the Spirit of Modernity (2002): 215-33.
Brewer, Daniel. "Le Désir de l'interprétation: en lisant Stendhal." Travaux de littérature 20 (2007): 337-47.
Brewer, Daniel. "(Re)Constructing an Eighteenth-Century Interior: The Value of Interiority on Display." Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors (2010): 215-32.
Brewer, Daniel. "The Encyclopédie: Innovation and Legacy." New Essays on Diderot (2011).

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Director: University of Minnesota Humanities Institute. 1998 - 2000
President: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2001 - 2002
Associate Editor: SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century). 2003 - 2013
Co-Editor: L'Esprit Créateur (International Journal of French and Francophone Literature). none - none

Research

The Representation of Passion in the 18th-Century French Novel none - none
Ruins in the French Cultural Imagination of the 18th Century none - none
A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment and Its Aftermath none - none

Awards

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Awards

Fulbright Scholar Award, none - none
NEH Summer Research Fellowship, 2002 - none
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, University of Kent, UK, January 16, 2014 - April 15, 2014
Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, awarded by the French government

Courses

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