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Women and Gender Studies

Women's and Gender Studies Faculty

 Mary Trouille

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Department Affiliation

Foreign Languages, Professor
Women's Studies, Core Faculty - Professor

Contact Information

College Of Arts & Science
Email @ilstu.edu : mstroui
Phone : (309) 438-7983
Mailing Address : Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61761

 

Biography

Mary Trouille is Professor of French in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. In addition to teaching French literature, culture, and composition courses, she regularly teaches the middle-core Gender in the Humanities course she designed. Her research cuts across literature, social history, legal history, and gender studies. Trouille is the author of Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment: Women Writers Read Rousseau (SUNY, 1997). Her second book Scorned, Battered, and Bruised: Wife-Abuse in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction and Society will be published in January 2009, in the series Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century published by the Voltaire Foundation in Oxford, England. Trouille is also the translator of the first volume of Rethinking France: Les Lieux de Mémoire, a collection of essays on French history and historiography (University of Chicago Press, 2002).

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