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Biography

Dr. Agin joined the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures as Assistant Professor of French in 2005. His research focuses primarily on Denis Diderot and the interrelations among art, literature and philosophy in 18th-century France.

Academic interests include:

17th- and 18th-Century French and Italian Literature and Culture
Early Modern Philosophy
The Enlightenment in Europe
History of Sexuality
Aesthetics and Writing on Art

Education

Ph.D., French, The Johns Hopkins University, 2004
Dipl么me d鈥櫭﹖udes approfondies, French, The University of Geneva, 2001
M.A., French, The University of Kansas, 1996
B.A., English, The University of Kansas, 1993
B.A., French, The University of Kansas, 1993

School

French:

  • French Language (Elementary through Advanced)
  • French Conversation and Composition (changing course theme)
  • Advanced French Grammar
  • Introduction to French Literature and Culture I (Medieval to 17th Century)
  • Introduction to French Literature and Culture II (18th Century to Contemporary)
  • Introduction to 17th- and 18th-Century French Literature and Culture
  • France and Italy through the Lens of the Camera
  • La Philosophie 脿 l鈥櫭e classique (17th- and 18th-century Philosophy)
  • The French Novel in Translation
  • Faith and Reason in the Age of Revolution
  • French for Reading Knowledge
  • Critical Theory and Research Methodologies (graduate seminar)
  • Quarrels and Controversies in the Age of Reason

Italian:

  • Italian Language (Elementary)
  • Introduction to Italian Language and Culture
  • France and Italy Through the Lens of the Camera

Books and Edited Volumes:

Sex Education in Eighteenth-Century France, ed. Shane Agin. SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2011).

Book Translations:

Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism) (and the Futurist Manifestos) by Umberto Boccioni, et al. Co-transl. M.E. Versari. Ed. M.E.Versari. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute Publications, 2016.

Articles and Chapters:

鈥淭he Debate on Judicial Torture in Austrian Lombardy,鈥� Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 46 (2016), forthcoming.

鈥淒iderot et l鈥檃ffaire du musicien disparu: Sur les caprices de l鈥檈xp茅rience esth茅tique.鈥� Actes du colloque Diderot: Th茅芒tre et Musique, Paris: 脡ditions de la Sorbonne (2016) (forthcoming).

鈥淒iderot, Rousseau, and the Historiography of Virtue,鈥� Diderot Studies 32 (September 2011): 381鈥�400.

鈥淓ntre instinct et imagination: l鈥櫭ヾucation sexuelle chez Rousseau,鈥� in La question sexuelle: Interrogations de la sexualit茅 dans l鈥櫯搖vre et la pens茅e de Rousseau, ed. Jean-Luc Guichet (Paris: Garnier-Flammarion) (Collection: L鈥橢urope des Lumi猫res) (2011): 243鈥�64.

鈥淭he Construction and Education of the Sexualized Subject in Rousseau,鈥� in Sex Education in Eighteenth-Century France, ed. Shane Agin. SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2011): 125鈥�48.

鈥淭he Development of Diderot鈥檚 Salons and the Shifting Boundary of Representational Language,鈥� Diderot Studies 30 (2008): 11鈥�29.

鈥淪ketch, Illustration and the Power of Imagination: Aesthetic Production and Reception in 18th-Century France,鈥� in The Ruin and the Sketch in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Peter Wagner, Fr茅d茅ric Og茅e, et al. (Trier: Wissenschaflicher Verlag Trier, 2008): 59鈥�69.

鈥淟e viol au XVIIIe si猫cle: Discours sur l鈥檕rigine et les fondements de la femme sociale,鈥� in Le Viol: Actes du colloque international, ed. Jean-Michel Dev茅sa (Bordeaux, Universit茅 de Bordeaux 3 [L鈥橝.P.R.I.L]).

鈥淟a Physiologie de l鈥檃rt,鈥� in Plaisir, souffrance et sublimation, ed. Jean-Michel Dev茅sa (Bordeaux: Pleine Page Editeurs, 2007): 49鈥�59.

鈥淪ex Education in the Enlightened Nation,鈥� Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 37 (2007): 1鈥�21.

鈥淟e public des ascensions en Montgolfi猫re et la d茅mocratisation de la science au XVIIIe si猫cle.鈥� Cahiers de litt茅rature fran莽aise 5 (2007): 13鈥�25.

鈥淰ers un nouveau Salon : Diderot, Falconet, et le d茅bat sur la critique d鈥檃rt,鈥� Cahiers d鈥橦istoire culturelle (La litt茅rature et les beaux-arts au 18e si猫cle) (2005): 111鈥�19.

鈥溌� Comment se font les enfans? 禄 Sex Education and the Preservation of Innocence in Eighteenth-Century France,鈥� MLN 117 (2002): 722鈥�36.

Article Translations:

Jean M. Goulemot, 鈥淪ex Education in Utopia: An Investigation into the Margins,鈥� in Sex Education in Eighteenth-Century France, ed. Shane Agin. SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2011): 83鈥�104.

Didier Masseau, 鈥淩epresentations of Sexual Awakening in Eighteenth-Century Memoirs,鈥� in Sex Education in Eighteenth-Century France, ed. Shane Agin. SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2011): 171鈥�90. (translated with Diane B. Brown)

Patrizia Veroli, 鈥淟oie Fuller鈥檚 Serpentine Dance and Futurism: Electricity, Technological Imagination and the Myth of the Machine,鈥� in Futurism and the Technological Imagination, ed. G眉nter Berghaus (Amsterdam: Rodopi, December 2009): 125鈥�47.

Reviews:

Fr茅d茅ric Charbonneau, ed., La Fabrique de la modernit茅 scientifique: discours et r茅cits du progr猫s sous l鈥橝ncien r茅gime, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation (SVEC 2015:13) French Studies (2016).

脡lise Pavy-Guilbert, L鈥橧mage et la Langue: Diderot 脿 l鈥櫭﹑reuve du langage dans les Salons, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014, in H-France Review 15 (2015): 1鈥�4.  (in new tab).

Ourida Mostefai and John T. Scott, Rousseau and l鈥橧nf芒me: Religion, Toleration, and Fanaticism in the Age of Enlightenment, in French Review 84.4 (March 2011).

Nicholas Cronk, The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire, in French Review 84.1 (October 2010): 160鈥�61.

Daniel Brewer, The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought, in French Review 83.4 (March 2010): 865鈥�66.

Jean M. Goulemot, Adieu les philosophes: Que reste-t-il des Lumi猫res? in American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Book Reviews On-line.