Jennifer Tsien

Associate Professor

E-mail:
Phone: 434-243-8711
Office: 208 Levering Hall
Spring 2012 Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30 - 3:30

Research Interests:

Eighteenth-century literature, especially Voltaire, satire, aesthetics. Colonial Louisiana.

Education:

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Tulane University
• Master of Arts (MA), University of Virginia
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Princeton University

Publications:

• Voltaire and the Temple of Bad Taste: A Study of la Pucelle d'Orléans.
  Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2003:05. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2003.
• The Bad Taste of Others: The Construction of French Cultural Standards in the Eighteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvannia Press, 2011.