I am a Queer scholar of Francophone literatures and cultures with a focus on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theater and performance. I am particularly interested in representations and (ab)uses of violence in its many forms (physical, symbolic, metaphorical, verbal, sexual, and so on), and how the pre-1800 Francophone world gets 'replayed' in the twenty-first century. At Wesleyan, I teach all levels of French language courses as well as seminars in French and English, such as "Love, Sex, and Marriage in Renaissance Europe," "Forbidden Love from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution," and "Spectacles of Violence." I am also the House Advisor for the Maison Francophone.