Keynote

Lewis C. Seifert is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Brown University. Among his publications are the books Fairy Tales, Sexuality and Gender in France, 1690-1715: Nostalgic Utopias and Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France; edited collections Men and Women Making Friends in EarlyModern France (with Rebecca Wilkin) and Entre Hommes: French and Francophone Masculinities in Culture and Theory (with Todd Reeser); translations Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Storiesfrom the French Decadent Tradition (with Gretchen Schultz) and Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales bySeventeenth-Century French Women Writers (with Domna Stanton); and numerous articles. His current research is focused on two projects, provisionally titled Plant Feelings: Affective Relations with Vegetal Life in Seventeenth-Century France andUnsettling Mischief: Tricksters and the Reordering of Nature in the Francophone Atlantic World.