Andrea Goulet
Office: 2150 FLB
Phone: 265-0774
Email: agoulet@illinois.edu
Andrea Goulet (PhD Yale 1999) is an Associate Professor of French and of Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Her book "Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction" is published at the University of Pennsylvania Press. It brings the discourse of optics to bear on three popular currents of the 19th-century novel: Balzac's realism, the early romans policiers of Gaboriau and Leroux, and the "optogram fictions" of Villiers, Verne, and Claretie.
Professor Goulet has been awarded a Mellon Faculty Fellowship for 2005-2006 for research on her second book project, "Mapping Murder: Geographies of Violence in French Detective Fiction from 1860 to the Present."
In 2001, through a grant from the Committee for the Future of French Studies in the United States, Professor Goulet led a faculty seminar at UIUC on modern Cartesian legacies and organized a one-day conference on the topic "Rethinking Descartes."
Professor Goulet has co-edited two special issues of journals: "Visual Culture," Contemporary French Civilization, with Michael Garval (North Carolina State); and "Crime Fictions," Yale French Studies, with Susanna Lee (Georgetown).
She has published articles on Balzac, detective fiction, and the nouveau roman in journals such as Romanic Review and French Forum; her seminars and graduate courses include "Crime and the City in 19th-century French Fiction," "Vision and Visual Theory in 20th-century French Literature," and "Science and Literature in 19th-century France."
Professor Goulet's research interests include 19th and 20th century literature; History of Optics; Modern Visual Culture; Science and Literature; Detective Fiction; and Critical Theory.