Michael Winston

Associate Professor, 18th-Century French Literature

Dr. Winston earned his Ph.D. in French literature at Emory University in 1995. He began teaching at the University in 1999. Before coming to OU, he taught at Gerogia State University. He is currently an Associate Professor of French, and serves as the Head of the French Section. In addition to his regular teaching duties, Dr. Winston co-directs a summer study abroad program in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He likes aligot and truffade.

Dr. Winston's research interests include 17th- and 18th-century French literature and culture as well as contemporary non-Metropolitan, French-language literatures, especially works from the Caribbean, the Maghreb, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr. Winston teaches courses ranging from intermediate grammar to advanced literature and civilization. He also teaches an MLLL course on contemporary Francophone literature.

Education

Ph.D. in French Literature, Emory University, 1995
M.A. in French Literature, The Johns Hopkins University, 1990

Selected Publications

"Monsters in Human Shape: Bienville on Nymphomania." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 362 (1998): 127-143.
"Medicine, Marriage, and Human Degeneration in the French Enlightenment." Eighteenth-Century Studies 2005 Winter 38(2) 263-81.
From Perfectibility to Perversion: Meliorism in Eighteenth-Century France. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.
"Spartans and Savages: Mirage and Myth in Eighteenth-Century France." Sparta in Modern Thought: Politics, History and Culture. Ed. Anton Powell and Stephen Hodkinson. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2012. 105-163.