Patrick Coleman

Teaching & Research Interests

• Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought, especially Rousseau
• Canadian Studies, Quebec Literature
• Early French Romanticism (Constant, Staël)

Background

Ph.D. Yale University, 1976
Assistant Professor, UCLA 1975-82
Associate Professor, UCLA 1982-93
Professor, UCLA 1993-

Selected Publications

• Rousseau's Political Imagination: Rule and Representation in the "Lettre à d'Alembert." Geneva: Droz, 1984. 196pp.
• The Limits of Sympathy: Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute. Toronto: ECW Press, 1993. 101pp.
• Editor, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, trans. F Philip. Oxford: OUP, 1994. xxxv + 127pp.
• Reparative Realism: Mourning and Modernity in the French Novel 1730-1830. Geneva: Droz, 1998. 159 pp.
• Editor, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, trans. A. Scholar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xxxviii + 676pp.
• Editor (with J. Lewis and J. Kowalik), Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. xii + 284pp.
• Editor, Benjamin Constant, Adolphe, trans. Margaret Mauldon. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001. xxxiv + 86pp.
• Editor (with David W. Carrithers), Montesquieu and the Spirit of Modernity. Oxford: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (2002) (SVEC 2002:09). 257pp.
• Editor (with Massimo Ciavolella), Culture and Authority in the Baroque. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 255pp.

Professional Activities

• Editorial Board, Québec Studies
• Editorial Board (from Fall 2006), Eighteenth-Century Fiction

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