Susan Maslan
Associate Professor

Professor Maslan works on early modern French literary and political history. She is currently at work on a book-length project called “The Literary Invention of Human Rights in France, 1640-1795”

Publications include:

"'Gotta Serve Somebody': Service, Autonomy, Society," in eds. Sophia A. McClennen and Joseph R. Slaughter, Human Rights and Literary Forms, spec issue Comparative Literature Studies, v.46, no 1 (2009): 45-75.

“The Dream of the Feeling Citizen: Law and Emotion in Corneille and Montesquieu,” SubStance 109 (2006).

Revolutionary Acts: Theater, Democracy, and the French Revolution (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).

“The Antihuman: Man and Citizen before the Declaration of the Rights of Man,” (SAQ:South Atlantic Quarterly)(2004).

“Susannah at her Bath: Surveillance and Revolutionary Drama” Eighteenth-Century Studies (2001).

“La fémininité juive et le problème de la représentation dramatique” Papers on 17th Century French Literature (1999).

“Resisting Representation: Theater and Democracy in Revolutionary France” Representations (1995).