Rudy Le Menthéour
Assistant Professor, Graduate Adviser
Ph.D. Université de Grenoble
Office: Thomas Hall 147
Phone: 610-526-5674
rlementheo@brynmawr.edu
Rudy Le Menthéour has studied the polemics of Rousseau and the main philosophers of the French Enlightenment. His work also focuses on the rise of hygiene and medical anthropology in the Eighteenth Century. He is the author of La Manufacture de maladies: la dissidence hygiénique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Paris: 2012) and the editor of an anthology on Seventeenth Century French Literature (2003). He is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and has taught both in France and in the United States.
Recent Publications
- “De la ruche au polype: figures de l'organisation sociale,” Dix-huitième Siècle, no. 41, 2009: 205-221
- “De l’ingratitude volontaire: Rousseau, Mirabeau et les paradoxes de l’hospitalité moderne,” Theatrum historiae, 4, Vydavatelství Univertzity Pardubice, 2009: 47-58
- “Rousseau, médecin du moi,” in Archéologie du moi, eds. Gisèle Berkman and Caroline Jacot Grapa, Saint-Denis, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2009: 83-94
- “Cendrillon: portrait de la jeune fille en vestale,” La grande oreille, no. 33 (Winter 2007): 33-39