Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Ph.D., New York University
- 236 Dauer Hall
- ribloom@ufl.edu
- 352.273.3769
- Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Office Hours — Fall 2024
- Tuesdays: Periods 3 and 8
Area of Specialization
Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French literature and culture
Biography
Rori Bloom is a scholar of seventeenth and eighteenth-century French literature and culture. Her research interests include fairy tales, the rococo aesthetic, and libertinism. She is currently working on eighteenth-century food writing. She is also director of the France-Florida Research Institute, one of the centers of excellence supported by the French Embassy.
Selected Publications
Books
- Making the Marvelous: Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022).
- Man of Quality, Man of Letters: The Abbé Prévost between Novel and Newspaper (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2009).
Selected Articles
- “Painting in Casanova’s Histoire de ma vie: Paris, 1750-1752,” submitted to Symposium (January 7, 2022)
- “Rewriting the Family Romance: Prostitution and Revolution in Restif de la Bretonne’s Le Palais Royal,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 43 (2014): 153-168.
- “Un Sopha rose brodé d’argent: Crébillon fils and the Rococo,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 51:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2010): 87-102.