James Paul Gilroy

At least half of my research and publications have been devoted to the works of the eighteenth-century French novelist, the Abbe Prevost. I have studied the mentor theme in all of his major works, and I have more recently studied the role of feminism in his characterizations of male and female personages. I am also working on the images of English life, society and history in his novels, periodicals, and historical works.I have written on several more recent French authors, including Balzac and Proust, as well as the authors of the French revolutionary period.A good deal of my teaching and research has been devoted to the works of French-speaking writers who live outside of France. These include Quebecois authors as well as black authors of French expression from Africa and the Caribbean. In the early 1980's I edited a volume of essays on "Francophone Literatures of the New World."I have had a great deal of experience teaching non-French, literatures (Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, English, ancient Greek) in translation in undergraduate humanities courses.Finally, I am a frequent reviewer of books on French literature and civilization for The French Review and other major journals.My foreign interests are:France;Canada (Quebec);England;Haiti;French-speaking Africa;ItalyMy cross-departmental interests are:French Revolution;Napoleon;opera;theater;18th century novels;cultural history.

French/American literacy and political relations from 1750 to 1850; The Theme of Napoleon in world literature; the methodology of teaching literature; women writers of France, from the Middle Ages to the present; opera; culinary history;Knight of the Academic Palms, France, 1992;University Scholar/Teacher of the Year, University of Denver/on behalf of United Methodist Church, 1992