David Alain Rafoni
Graduate Student

Principal field of research is on the 18th French literature in regards to the libertine movement & the question of confinement (prison, convent, or inside oneself) as both could be seen in the works of Crébillon, the Marquis de Sade, & Restif de la Bretonne;


Enlightment philosophy (Jean-Jacques Rousseau); political and religious history;

Lévi-Strauss; Bourdieu; Foucault.