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Jennifer Tamas

Associate Professor of French and Director of Graduate Studies

I am an Associate Professor of French at Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA). My teaching interests range from the Old Regime to the French Revolution and explore the boundaries between passions and politics

I left France in 2006 after I passed the concours to become a professor of Literature (CAPES and Agrégation de Lettres Modernes). I was granted a Fulbright fellowship to study in the USA.

I now hold a PhD from Stanford University (2013). My dissertation [A Revolution in Rhetoric: Claiming the Authority to Speak in Early Modern France (1643-1793)], explored the intersection between politic, religious and theatrical texts through the lens of “declaration.” I also hold a PhD in Literature and Stylistics from Paris IV Sorbonne (2012) [Dire et ne pas dire. Du silence éloquent à l’énonciation tragique des déclarations d’amour chez Racine]. This study focused on the implications of the unsaid in Racine’s dramaturgy.

Publications

  • L’Éloquence du silence: dramaturgie du non-dit sur la scène théâtrale des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Hélène Bilis and Jennifer Tamas (eds.), Jennifer Tamas, (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014)

  • Madame de Sévigné: les Lettres de 1671, Frédéric Calas, Nathalie Freidel, Cécile Lignereux, Jennifer Tamas, Jennifer Tamas, (Paris: Nathan, 2012)

  • Ken : le regard masculin a encore frappé !, L’Obs, Jennifer Tamas, August 30th, 2023

  • Ovidie, nouvelle princesse de Clèves des temps modernes? Une ou deux vertus de l'anachronisme, Jennifer Tamas,