Professor of Comparative Literature and French and Francophone Studies

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Professor Mostefai will be a Faculty Fellow at the Cogut Institute in Fall 2026.

Professor Mostefai holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Comparative Literature and French & Francophone Studies at Brown University.  She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University, and a Licence de Lettres from the Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle.  She holds the rank of Officer in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (awarded by the French National Ministry of Education). She is an elected Board Member of the Rousseau Association and an Associate member of the Centre d’étude de la langue et des Littératures françaises at Sorbonne Université. She also serves as External Reviewer for Dix-Huitième Siècle, the journal of the French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

In addition to numerous articles on the Enlightenment, she is the author of two books on Rousseau: Le Citoyen de Genève et la République des Lettres (2003) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau écrivain polémique (2016) and the coeditor of Rousseau’s Lettre à d’Alembert for the new critical edition of Rousseau’s Complete Works at Classiques Garnier in France. She has co-edited Silence, Implicite et Non-Dit chez Rousseau/Silence, the Implicit, and the Unspoken in Rousseau (2020); Rousseau and l’Infâme: Religion, Toleration, and Fanaticism in the Age of Enlightenment (2009); and Approaches to Teaching Rousseau’s “Confessions” and “Rêveries” (2003) and has edited Lectures de la Nouvelle Héloïse (1993).

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