(Ph.D., Princeton University)

Professor Douthwaite focuses on 18th- and early 19th-century French literature, the French Revolution, women's writing, intersections between literature and science, and Franco-English literary relations.

Each year, she teaches a new course on the French Enlightenment and/or the Revolution. In Spring semester 2008, she will teach ROFR 63433, "Métamorphoses en prose, 17e-19e siècles."
E.mail - Julia.V.Douthwaite.1@nd.edu.

In 2007, Douthwaite was on sabbatical from teaching and administration as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to pursue research on her book project, A Literary History of the French Revolution.

She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Lilly Endowment. She is the author of The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment (2002), and Exotic Women: Literary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancien Régime France (1992). Professor Douthwaite's article, "Rewriting the Savage: The Extraordinary Fictions of the `Wild Girl of Champagne'," won the 1995 Clifford Prize for the Best Article on an 18th-century topic, from the American Society for 18th-Century Studies.

She is co-editor of three volumes of essays that address crucial issues in her field today: theoretical essays on interdisciplinarity, cultural studies, and the future of French, as well as exemplary case studies. Titles include The Interdisciplinary Century: Tensions and Convergences in Eighteenth-Century Art, History, and Literature (with Mary Vidal; 2005) and the special two-volume issue of EMF: Studies in Early Modern France on "Cultural Studies" (2000, 2001).

Professor Douthwaite's book, The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster, has received the following reviews:

• Yves Citton, in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 38, 2 (Winter 2005): 381-85.
• Jessica RIskin, in The Journal of Modern History, 76 (2004): 451-53.
• Jonathan Lamb in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 17: 1 (October 2004): 130.
• Frank Palmeri in CLIO, June, 2004.
• Nanette LeCoat, in Is is, 94 (2003): 729-31.
• Rikka Forsström, in Utopian Studies , vol. 14, no. 1 (2003).
• Adriana S. Benzaquén, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences , vol. 39, no. 4 (Fall 2003): 405-406.
• Barbara Beijun Kaplan, in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences , vol. 58 (October 2003): 473-474.
• Allen Reddick, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 , vol. 43, no. 3 (Summer 2003).
• Olivier Postel-Vinay, review in L'Histoire 277 (June 2003): 19-20.
• Jan Golinski, review in The American Historical Review 108, 2 (April 2003):586.
• John Iverson, review in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 40: 5 (January 2003).
• Sarah Bakewell, review in Times Literary Supplement, London (December 6, 2002): 5-6.
• Martin Staum, review in H-France (December 2002).
• Patricia Fara, review in History Today (November 2002)
• Mark Welch on "Metapsychology: Mental Help Net's Bookstore"
• Seminary Coop Bookstore, "Front Table Review" (August/September 2002).
• Nina C. Ayoub, "New Scholarly Books: Nota Bene," in The Chronicle of Higher Education (July 5, 2002).

Recent articles include:

• "La République a-t-elle besoin de savants? Le Jugement des romans," in Littérature et engagement pendant la Révolution française, eds. Isabelle Brouard-Arends and Laurent Loty (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007): 121-36.
• "The Dix-huitiémiste as Detective" in Etre dix-hiutiémiste II, ed. Carol Blum (Ferney: Centre International d'étude du XVIIIe siècle, 2007): 115-26.
• "Rousseau et ses lecteurs: le cas de l'Emile," in L'Engagement littéraire, ed. Emmanuel Bouju (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005): 321-335.
• “"Les sciences de l'homme au 18e siècle: Le parcours de la jeune fille sauvage de Champagne.” Pour l’'histoire des sciences de l’'homme 27 (automne-hiver 2004):  46-53.
• Review Essay:  "In Search of a New Paradigm: Recent Work in Revolutionary History, Literature, and Art," Eighteenth-Century Studies 37.2 (Winter 2004): 285-91.
• "Visions du temps passé: Rousseau, Chardin, et Greuze," Annales de la Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau 45 (2003): 427-56.

Douthwaite is currently organizing, with Prof. Lesley Walker (IUSB), an international colloquium to be held in South Bend in October 2008 on "New Paradigms in Revolutionary Studies." As part of a Franco-American collaboration launched in Aix-en-Provence in October 2007, this colloquium will bring together Francophone and Anglophone scholars to discuss new approaches to the literature, art, and history of French Revolution. For more information on the Colloquium, see: http://www.nd.edu/~colloque/index.html.

Professor Douthwaite regularly teaches courses such as: early modern French literature and culture, including "History and Fiction, Scudéry to Tocqueville," "Metamorphoses in Prose, 17th-19th century," "The French Revolution: A Cultural Approach," "Dialogues Across the Channel: French, English, and Irish Women Writers."

As part of her service to the College of Arts and Letters, Douthwaite is founded the Women of Notre Dame series, an intergenerational outreach program designed to bring alumnae of the College of Arts and Letters back to campus in order to educate, assist, and inspire current female students.

From July 2001-2003, Douthwaite served as Director of Notre Dame's study abroad program in Angers, France.  While in Angers, she taught two new courses, ROFR 275/462AF: "La Littérature et la cuisine françaises," and ROFR 271/452AF:  "La Révolution et la contre-révolution: L‚histoire et la littérature."  Details about these courses can be found on the Angers SUNDEF program website.

From August 1999 to July 2001, Professor Douthwaite served as Associate Dean of Faculty and Research for the College of Arts and Letters and Director of ISLA, the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts.

Among her responsibilities to the profession, Douthwaite serves on the editorial boards of Eighteenth-Century Studies and Eighteenth-Century Life. Since 2003, she has been membre associé of CELAM (Centre d'études des littératures anciennes et modernes) at the Université de Rennes 2, Rennes, France.

In May 2001 Professor Douthwaite received a Presidential Award for her outstanding contributions to the intellectual life of the College of Arts and Letters.

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