John D. Lyons
Commonwealth Professor of French
Chair, Department of French
354 Cabell Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
434/924-4636
jdl2f@virginia.edu
Ph.D. Yale (1972)
Fall 2009 Office Hours:
M 2:00-3:00
W 11:00-12:00
Personal:
Seventeenth-Century Literature. All-University Award for Outstanding
Teaching (1995-1996); ACLS Contemplative Practice Fellow (2002); J.S.
Guggenheim Fellow (2003). Visiting Professor, University of Paris III
(Spring 2005). Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (2007).
Recent
and Current Scholarship: Before Imagination: Embodied Thought
from Montaigne to Rousseau (2005); “Au seuil du panoptisme général,” in
Dix-Septième Siècle, 223 (2004), pp. 277-287; “Self-Knowledge
and the Advantages of Concealment: Pierre Nicole’s On Self-Knowledge,” in
Culture and Sovereignty in the Baroque, ed. Massimo Ciavolella and Patrick
Coleman (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, in press), pp. 193-207; “La
Vérité tyrannique,” in L’Invraisemblance du
pouvoir, ed. Jean-Vincent Blanchard and Hélène Visentin
(Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne, in press), pp. 53-68.
Courses Recently Taught:
"The Modern Mask: Dissimulation and Self-Presentation in the 17th Century"
"Pascal and the Libertines"
Currently studying chance in tragedy and poetics.