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Specializations

Realism and Naturalism (France, US, UK)
Literature and Philosophy
Modern French history in Literature

Rod Cooke specializes in modern French literature and culture. A national of France and the UK, his research draws on interdisciplinary perspectives in history, philosophy and politics. His publications in American and European journals discuss authors such as Zola, Flaubert, Céline, Baudelaire, Maupassant and Perec. His current book manuscript takes a new approach to writers' engagement in the Dreyfus Affair, arguing that their earlier aesthetic ideas were an important source for their political discourse during the crisis. Other ongoing research deals with Stendhal and Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s uses of history as a narrative object, George Sand and George Eliot's appeals to visual art, and Maupassant's cultural geography.

Rod Cooke specializes in modern French literature and culture. A national of France and the UK, his research draws on interdisciplinary perspectives in history, philosophy and politics. His publications in American and European journals discuss authors such as Zola, Flaubert, Céline, Baudelaire, Maupassant and Perec.

His current book manuscript takes a new approach to writers' engagement in the Dreyfus Affair, arguing that their earlier aesthetic ideas were an important source for their political discourse during the crisis. Other ongoing research deals with Stendhal and Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s uses of history as a narrative object, George Sand and George Eliot's appeals to visual art, and Maupassant's cultural geography.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Theorizing the Scapegoat in Maupassant and Zola. French Forum 41.3 (Winter 2016), 177-191. doi:10.1353/frf.2016.0028

Baudelaire Vampirizes Racine. Neophilologus 101.1 (January 2017), 39-52. 

Utopia Banished: Reading Zola through Heidegger. Nineteenth-Century French Studies 45.1-2 (Fall/Winter 2016), 64-81. doi:10.1353/ncf.2016.0017

Bardamu's Triangular Trade: the Modern Slavery of Voyage au bout de la nuit. Modern Language Review 112.4 (forthcoming 2017), 875-891.

The Parrot and the Braid: Flaubert and Rodenbach's Transitional Objects. Orbis Litterarum (forthcoming).

Le Schopenhauer de Huysmans et Céard: Deux avatars littéraires de la résignation. Studi Francesi (forthcoming)

The Ethics of Citation in Modiano's Dora Bruder and Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance. Studies in Twentieth-and Twenty-First Century Literature (forthcoming).

Corroding the Canon in Tintin and the Naturalist Novel. European Comic Art 3.2 (2010). 

Conference Proceedings

Le Jeu de l'Emprunt et les Enjeux Cachés dans Le Devoir de Violence. Interstudia 5 (2009). 

Courses Taught at FAU

FRW 6938: French Visions
FRW 6938: Realism and its Discontents
FRW 6938/4930: La Poésie Moderne
FRW 6938/4930: French Horror in Literature and Film
FRW 4930: Art and Literature in Modern France
FRW 3001: Introduction to the Study of French: Language and Literature
FRW 3122: French Literature and Civilization: 19th and 20th Centuries
FRW 3102: French Civilization and Literature: Medieval – 18th Century
FRE 3393: Culture et Société: Cinéma
FRE 3400: Advanced French Language and Culture 1
FRE 3401: Advanced French Language and Culture 2