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Associate Professor of English
Research and teaching interests
Eighteenth-century literature and culture; comparative European literatures; economics and literature; visual culture; comic books; literary theory; twentieth-century Belgian culture
Education
Ph.D., New York University, 1992
M.Phil., New York University, 1988
Licence (Germanic Philology), Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1981
Candidature (Germanic Philology), Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels, 1979
Publications
Books
Co-ed with William N. Goetzmann, K. Geert Rouwenhorst, and Timothy Young, "The Great Mirror of Folly": Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720. Yale Univ. Press, forthcoming
Origins and the Enlightenment: Aesthetic Epistemology from Descartes to Kant. Cornell Univ. Press, 2004
Ed., Belgian Memories. Yale French Studies 102, Yale Univ. Press, 2002
Essays
“Three Cultures: Representing the Scene of Folly in the Dutch Republic, France, and England”. "The Great Mirror of Folly": Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720. Ed. W. Goetzmann, C. Labio, K. Rouwenhorst, and T. Young. Yale Univ. Press, forthcoming
“Introduction.” Word & Image (catalogue of the student-curated exhibit on view in Sterling Memorial Library, December 9, 2008 – March 8, 2009): 3-7
“The Solution Is in the Text: A Survey of the Recent Literary Turn in Adam Smith Studies.” The Adam Smith Review 2 (October 2006): 149-76
“Reading by the Gold and Black Clock, Or, the Recasting of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Paul et Virginie.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 16 (2004): 671-694
“Editor’s Preface: The Federalization of Memory.” Belgian Memories, Yale French Studies 102 (2002): 1-8
“Epistolarité et épistémologie: La Fayette, Descartes, Graffigny et Rousseau.” SVEC - Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2002.6 (June 2002): 79-91
“Woman Viewing a Letter.” L'Esprit créateur 40:4 (Winter 2000): 7-12
“’What's in Fashion vent’: Behn, La Fayette, and the Market for Novels and Novelty.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 28:1 (Winter 1998): 119-39
“The Aesthetics of Adam Smith's Labor Theory of Value.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 38.2 (1997): 134-149
“Reading Catharine MacKinnon in Europe.” The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 1:3 (1996): 1004-1009
“Can 25% of GDP Remain an Afterthought?” Preface to Taal, Vertaling, Management: Verkenningen in een economisch niemandsland, by Johan Hermans and Peter Simoens. Publications of the CERA Chair for Translation, Management, and Culture No. 1. Leuven, 1994
Selected honors and awards
Faculty Fellowship, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, 2005-2006, 2007-2008
Senior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University, 2004-2005
Junior Faculty Fellowship, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, 2002-2003
Morse Fellowship, Yale University, 2001-2002
Current projects
Fictions of Capital: Literature, Economics, and the Art of Speculation (book)
Comics: A Total and Global Art (book)
“Between Literature and Economics: Anatomy of a Divorce?” (article)
“The Architecture of Comics” (article)
“Against ‘Graphic Novels’” (article)
“Turning to Art: Comic Books or Artists’ Books?” (article)