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Anne Beate Maurseth
Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Educational Background
- Ph.D., University of Trondheim, NTNU, Norway (2003)
- Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies in philosophy, Université de Paris VIII, France (1997)
- Cand. Philol. (Master of Arts): comparative literature, University of Trondheim (1998)
- Cand. Mag. (Bachelor): philosophy, history, comparative literature, University of Trondheim (1995)
Academic Distinctions and Awards
- Prize from the Royal Norwegian Society of Science and Letters for Doctoral Dissertation: L'analogie et le probable: deux configurations dans la pensée et l'écriture de Denis Diderot (2004)
- Vice-President of the Norwegian Society For Eigtheenth-Century Studies (1998-2001)
Research Interest
- Eighteeenth-Century French and Comparative Literature
- Enlightenment Studies
- Literary Theory
- Aesthetics
- Epistemology and Science
Publications
Books:
& over 20 articles on eighteenth-century literature and intellectual history, and contemporary philosophy and aesthetics, including:
- L'Analogie et le probable: pensée et écriture chez Denis Diderot. Collection: “Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century." Oxford, U.K.: the Voltaire Foundation, forthcoming 2007.
- Opplysningens sjonglor: Denis Diderot (1713-1784) [the Enlightenment Acrobat: Denis Diderot). Oslo: Humanist Forlag, 205. 250 pages.
- Estetiske Teknologier vol 2 [Aesthetic technologies] vol 2. Ed. Anne Beate Maurseth & Erik Østerud. Oslo: Spartacus, 2004.
- Fabrikkens sted bilde og idé [ The Factory: place, image and idea]. Ed. Anne Beate Maurseth & T. Borgersen. Trondheim: NTNU, 2003.
- Entries for "Analogie, Comparaison, Exemple, Fable, Harmonique, Idée, Imagination (with Franck Cabane), Poétique, Raisonnement," for Encyclopédie du Rêve de d'Alembert de Diderot. Ed. Sophie Audidière, Jean-Claude Bourdin, Colas Duflo. Paris: Collection CNRS Dictionnaires, 2006.
- "Du bon sauvage à l'exotisme domestique ? Autour du Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville de Diderot." Cahiers d'Exotisme (2006).
- Bilboquet : fra tremaskin til tekstmaskin i Marivaux' fortelling" (Bilboquet: from woodmachine to textmachine in the story of Marivaux). In Eliassen/Fauskevåg (ed.), Frihetens århundre 6 (2003).
- "La Règle de trois – l'analogie dans le Rêve de d'Alembert." Recherches sur Diderot et l'Encyclopédie 34 (2003): 165-183.
- "Les Bijoux indiscrets – un roman du divertissement." Recherches sur Diderot et l'Encyclopédie 33 (2002): 63-72.
- "Historie for ettertiden: Encyklopediens historiske bevissthet” [History for posterity: The historical conscience of the Encyclopedia]. Ed. Ida Bull et ali. Historie, kritikk, politikk. Series: Skriftserie fra Historisk institutt 37 (2002): 77-89.
- "Stonesense – sensibility and analogy in Diderot's Le Rêve de d'Alembert."The Nordic Journal on Aesthetics 24 (2002): 119-131.
Work in Progress
- A book-project on Game and Literature.
- A collective editorial project on the figures of mankind in eighteenth-century culture.