Giulia Pacini
Associate Professor of French
Office: Washington Hall 230Phone: (757) 221-7714
Email: [[gxpaci]]
Background
Giulia Pacini has been working at the College since 2001. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a specialist in eighteenth-century French literary and cultural history. She regularly teaches courses on early modern French culture in addition to language classes at all levels of the curriculum. Among her favorites are: "La Révolution Française" (a freshman seminar); "Jeux de Plume, Lettres de Bataille: an Introduction to French Literature in its Cultural Contexts"; "Introduction to French Cultural Studies"; "The Spectacular Culture of Early Modern France"; and "Liberté et Libertins" (a senior seminar).
Prof. Pacini's current research focuses on the political and material significance of trees in early modern France. She is particularly interested in the discourses that surrounded the acts of planting, pruning, felling, transplanting, and grafting. Recent examples of this work include: "Environmental Concerns in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction," forthcoming in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment; "Grafts at Work in Late Eighteenth-Century French Discourse and Practice," forthcoming in Eighteenth-Century Life; "A Culture of Trees: The Politics of Pruning and Felling in Late Eighteenth-Century France," Eighteenth-Century Studies 41:1 (Fall 2007); and "Signs and Sites of Friendship in Delille's Les Jardins," in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscape 23:3 (2003).
