Florian Vauléon
Visiting Assistant Professor of French
Director, Multimedia Language Center
Ph.D. Ohio State University - 2008
Native of France
Specialty areas
> French 18th-century literature and culture, critical approaches to literature and culture
> French cinema
> Second language acquisition
> Instructional Technology
Articles in Refereed Journals
> "Philosophizing the Game: The Morals of Chess in Rameau's Nephew by Diderot," 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 18 (2011).
> "Le concept du désert dans l'Amérique de Baudrillard," The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 8 (January 2011).
> "Chess in the Coffee House: The Philosophical Pastime of an Enlightened Nation," XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century 6 (2009).
Book Chapters
> "Caribbean Coffee in Eighteenth-Century Paris: The Bitter Taste of Slavery" in Amy Clukey and Jeremy Wells, eds., Plantation Modernity. New Southern Studies (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2012), forthcoming.
Other Publications
> "The Revival of Enlightenment Values in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis" in Selected Proceedings of the 2010 Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Films (Boca Raton: Brown Walker Press, 2010).
Work in Development
> Chess and Philosophical Systemization in the Age of Reason. (book).
Conferences
> "Caribbean Coffee in Eighteenth-Century Paris: The Bitter Taste of Slavery" in the panel "Integrating the Enlightenment Canon: The Century of Equiano, Wheatley and Toussaint Louverture," The 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) in Vancouver, Canada. March 19, 2011.
> "Power of Seduction or Seduction of Power: Madame de Merteuil and Sexual Politics in Dangerous Liaisons" in the panel "The Eighteenth-Century Fatal Woman," The South Atlantic Modern Language Association in Atlanta, Georgia. November 7, 2010.
> "Persepolis et l'actualité des Lumières," in the panel "Literature of Cinema: Adapting novel into film," 19th Southeast Conference for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Film in Tampa, Florida. February 26, 2010.
> "Rousseau et le Jeu d'Échecs: Le Jeu et l'Écriture," South Atlantic Modern Language Association in Atlanta, Georgia. November 6, 2009.
> "L'Algérie Féminisée dans Pépé le Moko (1937) ou le côté obscur des Lumières," in the panel "Regards, images et représentations dans les cultures francophones," 23e Conseil International d'Études Francophones in New Orleans, Louisiana. June 25, 2009.
> "Eighteenth-century Virtual Warfare in France: The Chessboard as a Philosophical Battle Ground," in the Panel "La Guerre: Mémoire, Représentation et Théorie," 50th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota. November 15, 2008.
> "Chess in the Coffee House: The Philosophical Pastime of an Enlightened Nation" in the Panel "The Parisian Café," The 34th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS) in Auburn, Alabama. February 15, 2008.
> "Enhancing the learner's attention: An online study of textual enhancement," in the SLA Panel of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) in Costa Mesa, California. April 22, 2007. Co-presentation with Wynne Wong and Mark H. Overstreet.
> "L'Illusion dans la Nouvelle Héloïse: De la Volonté Didactique à l'Assujettissement des Volontés," in the panel "17th and 18th Century French Literature," 26th Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures in Cincinnati, Ohio. May 12, 2006.