R. Agin

French:

• French Language (Elementary through Advanced)
• French Conversation and Composition (changing course theme)
• Advanced French Grammar
• Introduction to French Literature and Culture I (Medieval to 17th Century)
• Introduction to French Literature and Culture II (18th Century to Contemporary)
• Introduction to 17th- and 18th-Century French Literature and Culture
• France and Italy through the Lens of the Camera
• La Philosophie à l’âge classique (17th- and 18th-century Philosophy)
• The French Novel in Translation
• Faith and Reason in the Age of Revolution
• French for Reading Knowledge
• Critical Theory and Research Methodologies (graduate seminar)
• Quarrels and Controversies in the Age of Reason

Italian:

• Italian Language (Elementary)
• Introduction to Italian Language and Culture
• France and Italy Through the Lens of the Camera

Books and Edited Volumes:

Sex Education in Eighteenth-Century France, ed. Shane Agin. SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2011).

Book Translations:

Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism) (and the Futurist Manifestos) by Umberto Boccioni, et al. Co-transl. M.E. Versari. Ed. M.E.Versari. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute Publications, 2016.

Articles and Chapters:

“The Debate on Judicial Torture in Austrian Lombardy,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 46 (2016), forthcoming.

“Diderot et l’affaire du musicien disparu: Sur les caprices de l’expérience esthétique.” Actes du colloque Diderot: Théâtre et Musique, Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne (2016) (forthcoming).

“Diderot, Rousseau, and the Historiography of Virtue,” Diderot Studies 32 (September 2011): 381–400.

“Entre instinct et imagination: l’éducation sexuelle chez Rousseau,” in La question sexuelle: Interrogations de la sexualité dans l’œuvre et la pensée de Rousseau, ed. Jean-Luc Guichet (Paris: Garnier-Flammarion) (Collection: L’Europe des Lumières) (2011): 243–64.

“The Construction and Education of the Sexualized Subject in Rousseau,” in Sex Education in Eighteenth-Century France, ed. Shane Agin. SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2011): 125–48.

“The Development of Diderot’s Salons and the Shifting Boundary of Representational Language,” Diderot Studies 30 (2008): 11–29.

“Sketch, Illustration and the Power of Imagination: Aesthetic Production and Reception in 18th-Century France,” in The Ruin and the Sketch in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Peter Wagner, Frédéric Ogée, et al. (Trier: Wissenschaflicher Verlag Trier, 2008): 59–69.

“Le viol au XVIIIe siècle: Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de la femme sociale,” in Le Viol: Actes du colloque international, ed. Jean-Michel Devésa (Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux 3 [L’A.P.R.I.L]).

“La Physiologie de l’art,” in Plaisir, souffrance et sublimation, ed. Jean-Michel Devésa (Bordeaux: Pleine Page Editeurs, 2007): 49–59.

“Sex Education in the Enlightened Nation,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 37 (2007): 1–21.

“Le public des ascensions en Montgolfière et la démocratisation de la science au XVIIIe siècle.” Cahiers de littérature française 5 (2007): 13–25.

“Vers un nouveau Salon : Diderot, Falconet, et le débat sur la critique d’art,” Cahiers d’Histoire culturelle (La littérature et les beaux-arts au 18e siècle) (2005): 111–19.

“« Comment se font les enfans? » Sex Education and the Preservation of Innocence in Eighteenth-Century France,” MLN 117 (2002): 722–36.

Article Translations:

Jean M. Goulemot, “Sex Education in Utopia: An Investigation into the Margins,” in Sex Education in Eighteenth-Century France, ed. Shane Agin. SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2011): 83–104.

Didier Masseau, “Representations of Sexual Awakening in Eighteenth-Century Memoirs,” in Sex Education in Eighteenth-Century France, ed. Shane Agin. SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2011): 171–90. (translated with Diane B. Brown)

Patrizia Veroli, “Loie Fuller’s Serpentine Dance and Futurism: Electricity, Technological Imagination and the Myth of the Machine,” in Futurism and the Technological Imagination, ed. Günter Berghaus (Amsterdam: Rodopi, December 2009): 125–47.

Reviews:

Frédéric Charbonneau, ed., La Fabrique de la modernité scientifique: discours et récits du progrès sous l’Ancien régime, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation (SVEC 2015:13) French Studies (2016).

Élise Pavy-Guilbert, L’Image et la Langue: Diderot à l’épreuve du langage dans les Salons, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014, in H-France Review 15 (2015): 1–4. www.h-france.net/vol15reviews/vol15no181agin.pdf (in new tab).

Ourida Mostefai and John T. Scott, Rousseau and l’Infâme: Religion, Toleration, and Fanaticism in the Age of Enlightenment, in French Review 84.4 (March 2011).

Nicholas Cronk, The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire, in French Review 84.1 (October 2010): 160–61.

Daniel Brewer, The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought, in French Review 83.4 (March 2010): 865–66.

Jean M. Goulemot, Adieu les philosophes: Que reste-t-il des Lumières? in American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Book Reviews On-line.