Laura Balladur

Laura Balladur

Promoted to Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies

Terminal degree and institution: Ph.D., Duke University

Scholarly and creative work: Translation in theory and practice, French and Francophone cinema, the relationship between literature and science, critical theory, and the embodied mind. Currently, she is working on a creative nonfiction project that blends personal memoir with the history and present-day realities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, focusing on both its colonial past and its contemporary context.

Work, Machines, and Vapors in Late Eighteenth-Century France

Work, Machines, and Vapors in Late Eighteenth-Century France

Dotted lines and fountain diagrams in descartes's treatise on man

Dotted lines and fountain diagrams in descartes's treatise on man