• PHD Comparative Literature, University of Washington, Seattle 1997
World Area Of Focus:
• Africa 10%-24% • Canada 10%-24% • Middle East 10%-24% • Western Europe/European Union (EU) 10%-24%
Languages:
• Arabic (elementary proficiency) • French (native/bilingual proficiency) • Frisian (professional proficiency) • German (native/bilingual proficiency) • Greek (elementary proficiency) • Italian (professional proficiency) • Latin (professional proficiency) • Spanish (limited working proficiency)
Specialization:
Early Modern France; Early Modern Studies; Comparative Religion; Literature and Medicine; History of the Book; (Proto-) Feminisms; Literary Genres: Essay, Dialogue, Novella, Drama; Poetry and Poetics; Literary Theory; Philosophy.
Relevant Experience:
• 2010-2014 Modern Language Association Executive Council, Representative of Fixed-Term Faculty (2010-2014) • 2006-2022 regular Visiting Scholar at Institutions in the US and Europe
Distinctions:
• 2022-2022 Schwab Academic Excellence Award from the UNC-CH Institute for the Arts and Humanities. • 2021-2022 Recipient of a Transatlantic Mobility Grant jointly sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S., NAFSA, the U.S. Embassy in France, and UNC-CH to expand and diversify study abroad programs between UNC-CH and Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3. • 2016-2017 Chapman Family Teaching Award for distinguished undergraduate teaching (sabbatical fall 2016 & two-year research fund).
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
n/a
Relevant Courses Taught:
• FREN 150 Globalization and the French-Speaking World • FREN 203 Intermediate French I • FREN 204 Intermediate French II • FREN 300 French Composition and Grammar Review • FREN 325 Crime et littérature • FREN 370 French and Francophone Studies to 1789 • FREN 378 La France–terre d’asile, terre d’immigration • FREN 402 Intermediate Accelerated French • FREN 501 French for the Health Professions • ROML 89 Déjà vu. Medicine and Narration across Time and Space
Recent Publications:
• 2021 Heitsch Dorothea and Jeremie Korta, (eds.). Early Modern Visions of Space: France and Beyond, Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2021.
• 2017 Heitsch, Dorothea. Writing as Medication in Early Modern France: Literary Consciousness and Medical Culture, Heidelberg: Winter, 2017.
• 2016 “On Health and Death,” The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne, ed. Philippe Desan, Oxford University Press (online December 2015, print forthcoming).
• 2016 “Debate Strategies in Early Modern Dialogue: Jean Bodin’s Colloquium Heptaplomeres in Context,” Erasmus Studies 35 (2015), 154-75.
• 2015 “Soulless Animals?–Some Renaissance Discussions Concerning Women’s Immaterial Parts,” Gender and Disease in Literary and Medical Cultures, ed. by Anne Julia Zwierlein and Iris Heid, Heidelberg: Winter, 2014, 49-69.
• 2014 With Glenn Levine and Karen Lentz Madison, “What You Can Do: A Position Paper by the MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession,” ADE Bulletin 153 / ADFL Bulletin 42.3 (2013), 92-7.
• 2014 “Cross Cultural Adaptation and the Novella: Bandello’s Albanian Knight in France, England, and Spain,” French Connections in the English Renaissance, ed. by Catherine Gimelli Martin and Hassan Melehy, Farnham: Ashgate, 2013, 119-141.
• 2014 Karen Pinkus, Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence (Stanford, 2010) Genre 46.1 (Spring 2013), 106-8.
• 2004 Heitsch, Dorothea and Jean-François Vallée, (eds.). Printed Voices: The Renaissance Culture of Dialogue, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004 (pp.291).
• 2000 Heitsch, Dorothea. Practising Reform in Montaigne’s Essais, Leiden: Brill, 2000 (pp.204).
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