David Harrison

David Harrison is the Director of Grinnell's Center for International Studies (see http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/cis/ and a Professor of French. He holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on the literature and culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in France, and he has published on Saint-Simon, Molière, Ninon de L’Enclos, and Scudéry.  His work has appeared in Seventeenth-Century French Studies, Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, and The French Review.  He has also contributed chapters to In Memory of Elaine Marks: Life Writing, Writing Death (UW-Madison, 2007) and Options to Teaching Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers (MLA, forthcoming).   He is currently doing research on the relationship between seventeenth-century sociability and memory. At Grinnell, he teaches at all levels of instruction; his advanced seminars include “Power and Resistance in 17th and 18th Century France,” “Comedy in French Literature,” and “Molière: Text and Performance from the 17th to the 21st century.”