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Laura Balladur is Lecturer of French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures where she is teaching for her sixth year. In her doctoral thesis "Imagination, Physiology, and the Dynamics of Representation in Enlightenment France," she studies how, over the course of the eighteenth-century, an emerging proto-biological paradigm redefined imagination from a once strictly physiological internal sense into an abstract quality. Although the Enlightenment period speaks to her for its rich intellectual life and shifting scientific paradigms, she also pursues teaching interests in cinema and encourages her students to explore the cultural and intellectual richness of contemporary France. This winter term at Bates she will teach a class on the representation of scientific theories in French literature. Her current research is focused on dance as a metaphor for apost-Enlightenment rational subject. When she is not teaching,researching, or translating, she loves to dance Argentine Tango, and occasionally teaches a tango class here at Bates.
Professor Balladur's complete curriculum vitae
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Balladur, Laura C.
Visiting Assistant Professor
207-786-8318
Canham House, Room 208
lballadu@bates.edu
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