Julia Simon
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Julia Simon received a B.A. in French from the University of Northern Iowa, an M.A. in French from the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. in French literature from the University of California, San Diego. She is a specialist in eighteenth-century French literature and culture and editor of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Before coming to UC Davis, she taught at Emory University, Washington University, and The Pennsylvania State University. Professor Simon is the author of Mass Enlightenment: Critical Studies in Rousseau and Diderot and Beyond Contractual Morality: Ethics, Law, and Literature in Eighteenth-Century France. She has published articles on Rousseau’s music theory in SVEC, The Journal of the History of Ideas and Eighteenth-Century Music. She is currently working on a book-length study of Rousseau’s “modernity” through the lens of his music theory. For more information on Julia Simon, please visit her Web page. A blues enthusiast and drummer, Professor Simon regularly teaches a humanities course on the Cultural History of the Blues. |