Bernadette Fort
Department of French and Italian

Bernadette Fort, (Agrégée de l'Université [German] and Docteur en littérature française, Paris IV-Sorbonne). Her research and teaching interests are: literature and visual arts in the eighteenth century, French art criticism, the cultural history of the Ancien Régime and the Revolution, Enlightenment print culture, libertine literature and art, and the works of Hélène Cixous. Her publications include: Le Langage de l'ambiguïté dans l'oeuvre de Crébillon fils (1978); Fictions of the French Revolution (1991); The Mémoires secrets and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-Century France (with J. Popkin, 1998); critical editions of Les Salons des Mémoires secrets (1999) and of Crebillon's Lettres de la Duchesse de xxx au Duc xxx (forthcoming); The Other Hogarth: Aesthetics of Difference (co-ed with A. Rosenthal, 2001); translation of Hélène Cixous, La Ville parjure ou le réveil des Erinyes (forthcoming). Fort participated for six years in the project of the publication of the critical edition of the Complete Works of Claude Crébillon under the direction of Jean Sgard. She is a "chevalier de l'ordre des palmes académiques" and a past recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Camargo Foundation, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Northwestern University Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. She has also received two Distinguished Teaching Awards from Northwestern University.

b-fort@northwestern.edu