Professor of Comparative Literature and French and Francophone Studies

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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 was promoted to the rank of Officer in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French National Ministry of Education in 2017.  She is an elected member of the Executive Board of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) and serves of the Board of the Rousseau Association.

Ourida Mostefai 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) as well as numerous articles on the French Enlightenment. She is the co-editor of 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).

Her critical edition of Rousseau's Lettre à d'Alembert, coedited with Rudy Le Menthéour, has just been published in the new edition of Rousseau's Œuvres completes with Garnier Publishers in France (January 2024).

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