Areas of Research/Interest: The body in the 18th-century novel; psychoanalysis and critical theory; the Ideologues; women's studies

External Affiliations: Regular Visiting Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Paris 8, in France.

Select Publications:

"Le personnage, tache aveugle dans Corinne de Madame de Staël", La fabrique du personnage , dir. Françoise Lavocat, Editions Honoré Champion, 2006.

"La république des femmes dans le De l'amour de Destutt de Tracy", Femmes des Lumières, Dix-huitième siècle , 36, 2004.

L'épicurisme. L'épicurisme des Lumières , Dix-huitième siècle , no. 35, coéd., Presses Universitaires de France/CNRS, 2003.

"Marivaux et la pensée du plaisir", Dix-huitième siècle, 35, 2003.

"Meilcour ou le libertin « partagé » selon Crébillon", L'esprit créateur , no. "Le libertin", dir. Jean-Pierre Dubost, 2003 .

"La sémiotisation du corps féminin dans le roman libertin du XVIII° siècle", The Eighteenth century body, éd. Angelica Goodden, Peter Lang, 2002.

"Le roman de la matière dans Pygmalion ou la Statue animée d'A.F.Deslandes", Etre matérialiste au XVIII° siècle , Presses Universitaires de France, 1999.

Volney, Œuvres III : Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte, Corpus-Fayard, coéd. 1998.

Destutt de Tracy et l'Idéologie , revue Corpus, no. 26-27, coéd. 1994.

Destutt de Tracy : Traité de la volonté et de ses effets -De l'amour, 1818, Corpus-Fayard, coéd. 1994.

Ecritures du corps, de Descartes à Laclos , collection Ecriture, Presses Universitaires de France, 1992.

Destutt de Tracy, Œuvres 1798-1802 , Corpus-Fayard, coéd., 1992.

Volney, Œuvres I et II, Corpus-Fayard, coéd. 1990.

Volney , revue Corpus, no. 11-12, coéd. 1989.

The entire collection du Corpus des Oeuvres de philosophie en langue française (Corpus-Fayard) directed by Michel Serres and the review of Philosophy Corpus, was awarded the Prix Spécial de l'Académie Française in 1995. THEATER In 1997, she was selected as a Permanent Member of the experimental branch of the Lincoln Center, The Lincoln Center Director's Lab. There, Anne Deneys-Tunney has worked extensivaly as a Theater Director, with some of the most influential theater Directors in the USA and abroad such as Liviu Cuilei, Michael Khon, Serban, Julie Taymor. Every year she teaches a class at NYU Acting French, where she initiates students to experimental theater through a series of original exercises she has conceived for this class. In 2005, she creates, the experimental Compagny Eye Ball Planet. Its first production was Narcisse , by JJ Rousseau. It was performed at the Jonhson Theater at the Theater for the New City in New York City in April 2005. The American Premiere of Rousseau's play was done as a multi media extravaganza, with original rock music and video, with a combination of professional musicians, designer, actors and dancers and students from NYU. Information and pictures of this show and the Compagny at www.eyeballplanet.com