4. At-Large Seat #1

Tili Boon Cuillé is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, where she co-convenes the Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon with Rebecca Messbarger. She is a specialist of eighteenth-century French literature, philosophy, and aesthetics with a particular interest in the visual and performing arts. Her book Divining Nature: Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France, made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor, has just been published by Stanford University Press. She is also the author of Narrative Interludes: Musical Tableaux in Eighteenth-Century French Texts (Toronto, 2006) and co-editor with Karyna Szmurlo of Staël’s Philosophy of the Passions: Sensibility, Society, and the Sister Arts (Bucknell, 2013). Her articles on natural history, opera, painting, and the novel have appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Opera Quarterly, among others. She has served on the MLA Division Executive Committee for Eighteenth-Century French Literature and on the Editorial Board of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Her current research is on magical objects, material culture, and book illustration in French libertine fiction.

Ourida Mostefai is Professor of Comparative Literature and French Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Le Citoyen de Genève et la République des Lettres (2003) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau écrivain polémique (2016). She has edited Lectures de “la Nouvelle Héloïse” (1993) and co-edited Approaches to Teaching Rousseau’s “Confessions” and “Rêveries” with John C. O’Neal (2003); Rousseau and l’Infâme: Religion, Toleration, and Fanaticism in the Age of Enlightenment with John T. Scott (2009); and Silence, the Implicit and the Unspoken in Rousseau with Brigitte Weltman-Aron and Peter Westmoreland (2020). Her recent work includes a contribution to the MLA Volume on Teaching Representations of the French Revolution, which is part of a larger project on the literature of emigration in the age of Revolutions. She has recently served as the President of the Rousseau Association (2015-2019) and is preparing a critical edition of Rousseau’s Lettre à d’Alembert in collaboration with Rudy Le Menthéour. For ASECS, she was the co-Chair with Larry Wolff of the annual meeting of the Society in Boston (2004) and has served on a number of committees, including as Chair of the Clifford Prize Committee and as Associate Editor and Editor of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (1998-2002). She currently serves as a member of the editorial board of Eighteenth-Century Studies.