Jean Mainil
Department of French and Italian

Jean Mainil, (Ph.D. Michigan), Associate Professor of French. His main interests are the French and English novel of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially popular, banned, licentious, and "frivolous" literature; French popular culture; Beur novel; and Belgian literature of French expression. He is the author of Dans les Règles du plaisir...Théorie de la différence dans le discours obscène, romanesque et médical de l'Ancien Régime (Kimé, 1996); Madame d'Aulnoy et le rire des fées: Essai sur la subversion féerique et le merveilleux comique sous l'Ancien Régime (Kimé, 2001); editor of a special issue of Nottingham French Studies on French Erotic Fiction; and co-editor of a special issue of Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, entitled L'Abbé Prévost au tournant du siècle. He is currently working on his next book project, The Mad Woman in the Library: Quixotism and the Irony of Reading Characters in French, English and American Narratives (1670-1986). Mainil was a Fellow at the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities in 1999-2000.

j-mainil@northwestern.edu