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FRANCIS B. ASSAF Distinguished Research Professor of French Dr. Francis B. Assaf has research interests in 17th and early 18th-century French prose fiction, especially histoires comiques, picaresque novels, theories of kingship, the representation of royal power in 17th century France, the death of Louis XIV as rhetorical, literary, and history-generating event, and travel accounts. He is the author of three books: Lesage et le picaresque (1984), La Mort du roi; une thanatographie de Louis XIV (1999), and 1715: le Soleil s'éteint (2002). He has also authored three critical editions: César-François Oudin de Préfontaine's L'Orphelin infortuné (1661—Toulouse,1991), François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif's Les Avantures de Zéloïde et d'Amanzarifdine (1715—Tübingen, 1994) and La Motte's Iliade (1714--Toulouse, 2006). His articles on 16th, 17th, and 18th century French literature have appeared in major U.S. and international journals. Assaf has read papers at conferences in the United States, Canada, Europe and North Africa. He is the founder of the Society for Interdisciplinary French 17th-century Studies (formerly the Southeast American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Studies) and the founder of Cahiers du Dix-septième, an online journal of French 17th century studies. In 2001, Professor Assaf was awarded by the French government the medal of "Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques." In 2007, he was promoted to "Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques". |
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