Professor of French
Ph.D., University of Southern California
- 355 Pugh
- bweltman@ufl.edu
- 352.392.9766
- Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Office Hours — Fall 2024
- Wednesdays from 12:50 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. or by appointment.
Biography
Brigitte Weltman-Aron is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Florida and does research on the Enlightenment and on Francophone literature and culture from the Maghreb.
Publications – Recent publications include
Books, Edited Volumes
- Algerian Imprints: Ethical Space in the Work of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015)
- On Other Grounds: Landscape Gardening and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century England and France (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001).
- Silence, Implicite et Non-Dit chez Rousseau/Silence, the Implicit and the Unspoken in Rousseau. Co-edited with Ourida Mostefai and Peter Westmoreland (Leiden: Brill, 2020). With an introduction by B. Weltman-Aron (1-10).
- Disciples of Flora: Gardens in History and Culture, co-edited with Victoria Pagán and Judith W. Page (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015).
- Rousseau and Emotions/De l’émotion chez Rousseau, co-edited with Laurence Mall, L’esprit créateur vol. 52, no. 4 (Winter 2012)
Book Chapters, Articles
- “L’Algérit: Le rire d’Assia Djebar,” Le Rire. Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine [in press].
- “Outside for Girls in Madame d’Epinay’s Conversations d’Emilie,” Enlightened Mind. Ed. Amanda Strasik. Wilmington: Vernon Press, 2022. [85-99]
- “La consolation dans la pensée de Diderot,” Diderot, la religion, le religieux. Sylviane Albertan, Marc Buffat, Florence Lotterie, eds. L’Atelier, autour de Diderot et de l’Encyclopédie, 2022: 147-57.
- “Greffe, Griffe et Graphe: Sarah Kofman et l’autobiogriffure,” Sarah Kofman: philosopher autrement. Ed. Ginette Michaud et Isabelle Ullern. Paris: Editions Hermann, 2021. [251-263]
- “’Le style, c’est la femme : la mode et ses marchandes à Paris au XVIIIe siècle,’’ Etre Parisienne : des femmes dans la ville (Moyen-Age-XVIIIe siècle). Ed. Jeanne Chiron et al. Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2020. [225-37].
- “Nom de plume,” Hélène Cixous, Corollaires d’une écriture. Ed. Marta Segarra. Saint Denis: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2019. [293-304]
- “L’être du livre : Hélène Cixous et Frédéric-Yves Jeannet,” Ententes: A partir d’Hélène Cixous. Ed. Stéphanie Boulard et Catherine Witt. Paris : Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2019. [187-96]
- “Ennemi du Système: Voltaire et la philosophie,” in Systems. Ed. Maria Scott. Irish Journal of French Studies 17 (2017): 23-44.
- “Repenser la marge: Djebar lit Camus,” in Hommage à Assia Djebar. Ed. Nelly Noury-Ossia, CELAAN Review Vol. 12, No. 3 (Fall 2015): 97-112.
- “‘Il y a de la différence’: Hélène Cixous et la différence sexuelle” in Le Rire de la Méduse. Regards critiques. Eds. Martine Reid and Frédéric Regard. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015. [73-86].
