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Research Interests

• Cultural theory and anthropology in Enlightenment thought. More Information>>
• French cultural and intellectual history 1750-1870. More information here and here
• Sentimentalism and the representation of interiority. More Information>>
• Nineteenth-century interpretations of Enlightenment (Baudelaire, Hugo)
• Intercultural studies.
• The debate on Enlightenment.
• Theories of culture and interculturality.
• Multiculturalism, ethics, relativism and universalism.

Recent Publications:

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• 'Baudelaire et les Lumières', in Le Travail des Lumières, ed. Caroline Jacot-Grappa et al, Paris:Champion, pp.717-743.
• 'Sensibility' and 'Imagination' in Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Enlightenment, New York: Oxford University Press
• 'Citizenship Education: Introductory Remarks' in Report on the Forum on Media and Interculturalism, DCU, 21-22 March 2002, ed. Maeve Connolly, Debbie Ging and Jackie Malcolm, DCU, 2002
• 'Sensualisme, esthétique sentimentale et démocratie', in Dix-huitième siècle, 31, pp.123-139
• (with Heinz Lechleiter and Annette Simon), 'Critical Thinking and Language Learning' in Intercultural Communication and Language-Learning, ed. A. Chambers and D. O Baoill, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy/IRAAL, 1999, pp.59-70.
• 'Crise des Lumières, crise de la modernité?', Dix-huitième siècle 30 (1998), pp. 256-268.

Recent Conference Papers:

• 'Squaring the Circle: Nationalism and Universalism in Revolutionary France', Annual Conference of Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, Dublin, 3-4 May 2003
• 'Enlightenment travel accounts: Constantin de Volney', Royal Irish Academy Symposium, NUI Galway, 10 November 2002
• 'La préparation au voyage: les Considérations sur les diverses méthodes à suivre dans l'observation des peuples sauvages de J.M. de Gérando (1800)'. International conference on the groupe de Coppet , Florence, Italy, 6-9 March 2002