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Heidi Bostic
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MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America
(414) 288-3224

Professor of Modern Languages

My research spans eighteenth-century French literature, contemporary feminist theory, narrative studies and higher education. All of my work is animated by basic questions: who are we and how ought we to live? My most recent publications focus on the power of interdisciplinary collaboration and how best to prepare students to thrive after graduation.

My teaching has included all levels of French language and culture as well as French literature, Business French, Francophone Cultures and topical courses like French Women Writers and Technology in Literature and Film. In addition, I have taught elementary Spanish as well as graduate courses (in English) on topics such as narrative identity and gender studies. As a Fulbright Scholar to Chile, I taught courses in Spanish on Womens Literature and U.S. Culture and Society. More recently I have taught interdisciplinary courses including a section of the 51做厙 Core Curriculum culminating course on the Service of Faith and Promotion of Justice as well as Arts & Sciences Influentials, a course for juniors and seniors that features alumni speakers and focuses on professional formation and career discernment.

Education

  • Purdue University, Ph.D. in Foreign Languages and Literatures
  • cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, D.E.A. (Dipl繫me dtudes Approfondies) en Sciences du langage, avec mention tr癡s bien
  • Purdue University, M.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures
  • University of Nebraska Omaha, B.A. in French, summa cum laude 

Publications

  • (with Annmarie Ca簽o, Bonnie Gunzenhauser, Michelle Maldonado and Danielle Press) Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, September 28, 2022.
  • (with Annmarie Ca簽o, Bonnie Gunzenhauser, Michelle Maldonado and Danielle Press) Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, September 3, 2021.
  • , The EvoLLLution, January 15, 2020.
  • (with Diane E. Boyd), Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) News, Perspectives, October 2019.
  • To Address the Anthropocene, Engage the Liberal Arts. (with Meghan Howey) Anthropocene 18 (2017): 105110.
  • Greimas and Gender: Mere Recipe or Real Meal?, Semiotica: Journal of the International Association of Semiotic Studies 219 (2017): 3354.
  • (with Ross Gittell), New Hampshire Business Review, September 29, 2017.
  • ,The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 30, 2016.
  • Chairing Stories in Academic Leadership in Higher Education: From the Top Down and the Bottom Up. Ed. Robert J. Sternberg et al. Lanham, MD: Rowman-Littlefield, 2015. 233238. 
  • F娶勳梗紳餃莽堯勳梯, 幛硃勳紳矇硃紳喧勳莽梗, and Fraternal Correction in Graffignys Letters to Devaux 175253, Eighteenth-Century Fiction 26.3 (2014): 35574.
  • Graffignys Self, Graffignys Friend: Intimate Sharing in the Correspondance 175052, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 42, ed. Lisa Cody. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013: 21536.
  • Literary Women, Reason, and the Fiction of Enlightenment, The French Review 85:6(2012): 102438.
  • Guest Editor for The Recent Work of Luce Irigaray, special issue of LEsprit cr矇ateur 52.3 (September 2012). Includes introductory essay, pp. 110.
  • The Difference She Makes: Staging Gender Identity in Graffignys Phaza, Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature 29.2 (2010): 291309.
  • The Fiction of Enlightenment: Women of Reason in the French Eighteenth Century. Newark: The University of Delaware Press, 2010.
  • Between Truth and Fiction: Telling the Stories of Eighteenth-Century Women, Cahiers Isabelle de Charri癡re/Belle de Zuylen Papers 4 (2009): 4565.
  • Thinking Life as Relation: An Interview with Luce Irigaray (with Stephen Pluh獺ek), Conversations, ed. Luce Irigaray. London: Continuum, 2008. 119. Reprint, originally published 1996.
  • Translator of Jacques Fontanille, S矇miotique du discours, 2nd ed.  Limoges, France: Presses universitaires de Limoges, 2003, as The Semiotics of Discourse, series Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
  • Sexual Education as Enlightenment in Riccobonis Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd Mylord Charles Alfred and Histoire du Marquis de Cressy, Women in French Studies12 (2004): 3244.
  • Que faire pour 礙tre raisonnable?: La R矇union du bon sens et de lespritde Fran癟oise de Graffigny, SVEC: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 12(2004): 33744.
  • Reading in Translation: Luce Irigarays The Way of Love, Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy 49 (2003): 4464.
  • The Light of Reason in Graffignys Lettres dune P矇ruvienne, Dalhousie French Studies 63 (2003): 311.
  • Luce Irigaray and Love, Cultural Studies 16.5 (2002): 60310.
  • Translator of Luce Irigaray, La voie de lamouras The Way of Love (with Stephen Pluh獺ek). London: Continuum, 2002.

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