Professor, Undergraduate Director & Associate Chair, UTSG
SS 3117
416-946-0187
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Political Theory
Areas of Interest
- History of Political Thought
- Eighteenth Century French Political Thought
Biography
She is author of Public Passion. Rethinking the Grounds for Political Justice (2011), Montesquieu and the Parlement of Bordeaux (1996), and she has edited several volumes as well as published numerous articles in the history of political thought. She is now working on a book entitled Plutarch’s Prism exploring the legacy of this classical thinker in the development of European political thought. She is Life Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and recent holder of the RBC Oxford Bodleian Fellowship.
Education
BA (Hons), University of Toronto
MA, l'Université de Paris- IV Sorbonne
PhD, McGill University
Publications
- Plutarch’s Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800 (Cambridge University Press : 2022)
- The Book of the City of Ladies and Other Writings (Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. : 2018)
- Emotions, Community and Citizenship: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (University of Toronto Press : 2017)
- Bringing the Passions Back In: The Emotions in Political Philosophy (University of British Columbia Press : 2008)
- Montesquieu and His Legacy (State University of New York Press : 2008)