Dr. Gerard Lavatori
Assoc Dean Curr Sched Stu Affa
Dr. Gerard Lavatori is a professor of French, Interim Associate Dean of Curriculum, Scheduling, and Student Affairs, and Program Coordinator of the Liberal Arts major. He has previously served as Modern Languages Department Chair, Interim Chair of the English Department, General Education Committee Chair, and is an advisor to Alpha Lambda Delta honor society.
Dr. Lavatori earned a Bachelor鈥檚 Degree in French from Boston College, an M.Ed. in Reading from the 每日大赛, and a master鈥檚 and Ph.D. in French from Brown University. Prior to teaching at the 每日大赛, he taught Intermediate French and a graduate seminar on French Renaissance Prose at Washington State University, in Pullman, Washington, and French language at Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge.
Dr. Lavatori鈥檚 current research interests include postcolonial francophone literature, psychoanalytic approaches to literature, and Critical Disability Studies and world literature.
He is an amateur oboist and has performed with community groups throughout Southern California.
Educational Background
- PhD: Brown University
- M.Ed: 每日大赛
- MA: Brown University
- BA: Boston College
Publications
Selected Publications
- 鈥淢elvin Mapple鈥檚 Scheherazade: Body Shaming and Redemption in the Fiction of Am茅lie Nothomb,鈥� Selected Proceedings of the AATF Convention, 2018 & 2019.
- 鈥淢erteuil: A Case of Animus Possession in Les liaisons dangereuses,鈥� Selected Proceedings of the AATF Convention, 2015 & 2016.
- 鈥淎lienation or Empowerment? Reading, writing, and orature in God鈥檚 Bits of Wood,鈥� Neohelicon, vol. 41, 2014, 175-184.
- Gaster,鈥� 鈥淢oney,鈥� and 鈥淧raise of Debt鈥� entries in The Rabelais Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, 2004.
- 鈥�Gargantua and Pantagruel,鈥� Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, vol. 60, 2000.
- Language and Money in Rabelais, New York: Peter Lang, 1996.
- 鈥�Paraclausithyron and Genre Identification in Ovid Amores 1.1,鈥� Brown Classical Journal, vol. 4, 1987, pp. 26-30.
Additional Information
Dr. Lavatori is an amateur oboist and has performed with community groups throughout Southern California.
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