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Giulia Pacini

French & Francophone Studies Program Director, Professor of French & Francophone Studies

Office: Washington Hall 230
Phone: (757) 221-7714
Email: [[gxpaci]]

Giulia Pacini is Professor of French & Francophone Studies at William & 玛丽. She is a specialist in French eighteenth-century literary and cultural history, and holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.

Secondary research interests include early modern women's writing and discourses of women's rights. For a list of relevant publications see here.

Giulia Pacini also enjoys teaching interdisciplinary seminars in French & Francophone cultural studies, as well as language classes at all levels of the curriculum. In 2024 she received an Arts & Sciences Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. Some of her favorite courses include:

FREN 100: "Fictions of Nature" (in English)

FREN 150: "Slow Living, ou l'art de végéter" (in French)

FREN 314: "Introduction to French Cultural Studies" (in French)

FREN 315: "Provocative Texts: French Literature in its Cultural Contexts" (in French)

FREN 316: "The French Revolution" (in French)

FREN 316/ 321: "The Spectacular Culture of Early Modern France" (in French)

FREN 316/ 321: "Versailles" (in French)

FREN 316/ 390: "Politics of Nature" (in French)

FREN 332: “Scandalous Women” (in French)

FREN 332: "The Tribunal of Public Opinion" (in French)

FREN 450: "Liberté et Libertins" (in French)