Curriculum
Vitae
Peter William Shoemaker
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC 20064
(202) 319-5240
(202) 319-6077 (fax)
email: shoemaker@cua.edu
http://faculty.cua.edu/shoemaker/PeterShoemaker/
Education
September 1, 1991 to June 2, 1997: Princeton University
Ph.D. in Romance Languages, June 1997
M.A. in Romance Languages, November 1995
September 1, 1994 to June 30, 1995: Ecole Normale
Supérieure, Paris
September 1, 1986 to December 13, 1990: University of
Chicago
B.A. in French (with Honors), 1990
September 1, 1989 to June 30, 1990: Paris X/Nanterre, Paris
IV/Sorbonne (Junior Year Abroad)
Dissertation
"Guez de Balzac and the Eloquence of Patronage" (under the
supervision of Professor J. Lionel Gossman)
Academic
Appointments
September 1, 2007 to present: Associate Professor, The
Catholic University of America
September 1, 2000 to August 31, 2007: Assistant Professor,
The Catholic University of America
September 1, 1999 to May 31, 2000: Visiting Assistant
Professor, Macalester College
June 15, 1996 to June 30, 1999: Lecturer, Princeton
University
Awards and Fellowships
Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching, The Catholic
University of America, 2007
Honors Program Teaching Award, The Catholic University of
America, 2006
Bourse Chateaubriand (French Government), 1994-1995
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1991-1994 and 1995-1996
Service to the Catholic
University of America
Fall 2007-present: CUA Press Editorial Board
Summer 2007: CUA in Paris, Director
Fall 2006-present: Faculty Grievance Committee
Spring 2003-2008: Honors Program in Paris (Spring Break)
Fall 2002-Spring 2004/ Crisafulli Award Committee
Fall 2005-present
Spring 2002-Spring 2004/ Modern Languages and Literatures
Technology
Fall 2005-present Committee
Fall 2001-Spring 2002 : Secretary, School of Arts and
Sciences
Spring 2001-Spring 2004/ French Undergraduate Advising
Coordinator
Fall 2005-present
Spring 2001: Co-Chair, Departmental Graduate Colloquium
Fall 2000-Spring 2004/ Supervisor, French 101, 102, 104
(variously)
Fall 2005-present
Fall 2000-Spring 2004/ Language Teaching Committee
Fall 2005-present
Fall 2000-Spring 2004/ Organizer, Nicolich Lecture
Fall 2005-present
Publications
1) Review
of Un Professionnel
des lettres au XVIIe siècle, by Nicolas Schapira forthcoming
in Revue d'histoire
moderne et contemporaine.
2) Powerful Connections: The Poetics of
Patronage in the Age of Louis XIII. Newark: University of Delaware Press,
2007.
3) "Learning to Drink:
Attitudes toward Drinking in Seventeenth-Century Guides to
Manners." Cahiers
du dix-septième 11:1 (2006): 283-295.
4) "His Master's Voice: Authorship and Patronage in
Théophile de Viau and Charles Sorel." Forthcoming in
Nottingham French
Studies.
5) "Patronage 'Behind the Scenes': Du Ryer's Les Vendanges
de Suresnes." Forthcoming in Seventeenth-Century French
Studies, 2006.
(see #4, Papers Delivered)
6) "Violence and Piety in Jean-Pierre Camus's histoires
tragiques." French
Review, February
79:3 (2006): 549-560. (see #6 & #8, Papers Delivered)
7) "Les déplacements de la voix au XVIIe siècle" in
Présence et
Représentation,
ed. Jacques Gilbert, El Moncef, Salah. Bern: Peter Lang
2005. 371-85. (see #9, Papers Delivered)
8) Review of The
Poet and the King,
by Marc Fumaroli. Journal of Modern History
76:3 (2004): 689-91.
9) "'Republics of Letters' and Epistolary Communities:
Reading the Lettres of Guez de Balzac" in
La Spiritualité /
L´Epistolaire / Le Merveilleux au Grand Siècle: Tome III
des Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American
Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Arizona
State University (Tempe), May 2001. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2003. 131-8.
(See #11, Papers Delivered)
10) "Au-dela de la 'Charrette': Les 'Lecons' de La
Rochefoucauld." Oeuvres & Critiques: Revue
Internationale de la Reception Critique des Oeuvres
Litteraires de Langue Française. 27:1 (2002) 240-51.
11) "Lafayette's Confidence Game: Plausibility and Private
Confession in La Princesse de Cleves and
Zaide.” French Forum. 27:1 (2002): 45-58.
12) Review of Le
labyrinthe de Versailles, ed. Martine Débaisieux.
Cahiers du
dix-septième 8.1.
13) Review of Les
cérémonies de la parole, by Pierre Zoberman.
Cahiers du
dix-septième 8.1.
14) "'Mentir (pas très) subtilement': Hyperbolic Discourses
in Early-Modern France." Papers on French Seventeenth-Century
Literature 27
(2000): 527-551.
15) "Retheorizing the Paratext: Guez de Balzac and the Art
of the Narrative Preface." Forthcoming in
Cahiers du
dix-septième. (see
#13, Papers Delivered)
16) Greco, Gina L., Toby Paff, Peter Shoemaker. "The
Charrette Project: Manipulating Text and Image in an
Electronic Archive of a Medieval Manuscript
Tradition." Computers and the
Humanities 30
(1997): 407-415. A version of this paper was presented at
the MLA Convention in San Diego in 1994. (See #14, Papers
Delivered)
17) Greco, Gina L., Peter Shoemaker. "Intertextuality and
Large Corpora: a Medievalist Approach," Computers and the
Humanities 27
(1993): 349-355. (See #15, Papers Delivered)
18) "AWK for Humanities Programming," Computers and the
Humanities 26
(1992): 293-297.
Papers
Delivered
1) "The Science of the Particular and the Art of 'Almost
Imperceptible Things' in Seventeenth-Century Sociability."
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, 21
April, 2007.
2) "Les ridicules qui séduisent: Bodily Performance in Méré
and Crébillon." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference,
Lexington, KY, 22 April, 2006.
3) "Learning to Drink: Attitudes toward Drinking in
Seventeenth-Century Guides to Manners." SE17 Convention,
Brunswick, ME 8, October 2005.
4) "Patronage Behind the Scenes: Du Ryer's Les Vendanges de
Suresnes." NASSCFL Convention. Portland, 8 May, 2004.
5) "The Maximes of La Rochefoucauld in the Age of Digital
Reproduction." 2nd International Charrette Colloquium,
Princeton, NJ, October 16, 2003. (Also presented in
modified form at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference,
Lexington, KY, 18 April, 2004)
6) "Sacred and the Profane in the histoires tragiques de
Jean-Pierre Camus." CUA Symposium on the Symbolism and
Politics of the Sacred, Washington, DC, 21 March, 2003."
7) "Les corps éloquents: Rhetoric, Sociability, and the
Body." SAMLA Convention, 15 November, 2002.
8) "Excesses of Violence in Camus' L'Amphithéâtre sanglant
and Les spectacles d'horreur." SE17 Convention,
Minneapolis, 18 October, 2002.
9) "Les déplacements de la voix au XVIIe siècle."
Colloquium on Presence and Representation. Nantes, France,
14 December 2001.
10) "Displacements of Eloquence: Politics, Culture, and the
Early-Modern State." GEMCS Convention. Philadelphia, 16
November, 2001.
11) "'Republics of Letters' and Epistolary Communities:
Reading the Lettres of Guez de Balzac." NASSCFL Convention.
Tempe, 3 May, 2001.
12) “The Uses of Exile.” Symposium on
Absolutism and Exile in Seventeenth-Century France,
Macalester College, St. Paul, 26 April, 2000.
13) "Retheorizing the Paratext: Guez de Balzac and the Art
of the Narrative Preface." SE17 Convention, Lexington, 12
November, 1999.
14) Greco, Gina L., Toby Paff, Peter Shoemaker. "The
Charrette Project: Manipulating Text and Image in an
Electronic Archive of a Medieval Manuscript Tradition." MLA
Convention, San Diego, 1994.
15) Greco, Gina L., Peter Shoemaker. "Intertextuality and
Large Corpora: a Medievalist Approach." MLA Convention, New
York, 1992 & ACH/ALLC Convention, Washington, DC, 1993.
Other Conference
Activities
Session Organizer and Chair. "Rhetoric and the Body."
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, 22
April, 2006.
Session Organizer and Chair, "Teaching the Seventeench
Century." SE17 Convention. Williamsburg VA, 30 October
2004.
Co-Organizer, CUA Symposium on the Symbolism and Politics
of the Sacred, Washington, DC, 21 March, 2003.
Other Professional
Activities
2003-present Member, CERCI (Centre d'études et de
recherches sur les conflits d'interprétations), Nantes,
France.
2002-2005 Member-at-Large, Executive Committee, SE17 (The
Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century
Studies).
Summer, 1997 Participant, Summer Institute for French
Cultural Studies, Dartmouth College: "Print Culture in
France."
Literary
Computing
July 31, 1999 to present: Associate Director, "Charrette
Project," Princeton University
http://www.princeton.edu/~lancelot
June 1, 2001 to present: Author and Director, "E-Maximes"
Project
Catholic University of America
http://www.maximes.org/
References
Professor J. Lionel Gossman (Thesis Advisor, Retired),
Department of French and Italian, Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ 08544. (609) 258-4500
Professor François P. Rigolot, Department of French and
Italian, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. (609)
258-4500
Professor Virginia Schubert, Department of French,
Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105. (651) 696-6380
