Michael J. Call, Ph.D.

Professor
Humanities
Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature
Brigham Young University

3008B JFSB, Provo, UT 84602

Phone: 801-422-2550
Fax: 801-422-0305
E-mail: michael_call@byu.edu

Background

1983 joined BYU faculty
1982 PhD, Stanford University
1976 MA, Brigham Young University
1971 BA, Brigham Young University

Interests

Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Arts
Romanticism
Impressionism

Courses

Hum 201: Arts in Western Culture 1
Hum 202: Arts in Western Culture 2
Hum 350: Interpretation of Literature and the Arts
Senior seminars:
     Impressionism in the Arts
     Women in the Nineteenth Century
     Romanticism
     The Eden Theme in Western Christian Culture

Selected Publications and Projects

Books

Infertility and the Novels of Sophie Cottin. Newark, New Jersey, and London: University of Delaware Press, 2002.

Back to the Garden: Chateaubriand, Senancour and Constant (Stanford French and Italian Studies 52). Saratoga, CA: Anma Libri, 1988.

Chapters in books

“Atala’s Body: Girodet and the Representation of Chateaubriand’s Romantic Christianity.” Comparative Romanticisms: Gender, Power, Subjectivity. Eds. Larry H. Peer and Diane Long Hoeveler. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1998.

Selected articles

“René in the Garden,” Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol. 134 (2004) 77-95.

“Retreat to Eden: Time and the Cosmos in Monet’s Giverny Images,” Interdisciplinary Humanities 14:2 (Summer-Fall 1997) 311-318.

“Boxing Teresa: The Counter-Reformation and Bernini’s Cornaro Chapel,” Woman’s Art Journal 18:1 (Spring-Summer 1997) 34-39.

“Measuring Up: Infertility and ‘Plenitude’ in Sophie Cottin’s Claire d’Albe.” Eighteenth Century Fiction 7:2 (January 1995) 185-201.

Affiliations

American Conference on Romanticism
National Association of Humanities Education, Board member



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