J. H. MAZAHERI
Professor of French, Auburn University

EDUCATION

• 1989: Ph.D in French, Brown University. Dissertation: La Conception épicurienne du bonheur chez Molière et La Fontaine. Advisor: Prof. J.-J. Goux. (Defense: September 1988)
• 1984: Maîtrise de Lettres Modernes (= M.A. in French Lit.), University of Provence, France (Faculté des Lettres d'Aix-en-Provence.) Thesis: Paul-Louis Courier. L'Armée. La Guerre. Advisor: Prof. H. Coulet.
• 1976: Diplôme Supérieur d'Arts Plastiques (= M.F.A in Printmaking), Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.
• 1970: Baccalauréat Philosophie-Lettres, Lycée Henri IV, Paris, France.

TEACHING

• 1999-Present: Professor of French at Auburn University (Castanoli Professor, 2004-2007)
• 1994-1999: Associate-Professor of French at Auburn University
• 1989-1994: Assistant-Professor of French at Auburn University 
• 1988-1989: French Lecturer at Clark University 
• 1984-1986: French Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts/Boston
• 1976-1983: French Teacher at the Institut Français de Téhéran in Iran
• 1976-1980: Assistant-Professor of Printmaking, College of Decorative Arts, Teheran

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Essais sur la religiosité d’Honoré de Balzac. Préface d’ Edgard Pich. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008 [Review in Nineteenth-Century French Studies]
• Myth and Guilt-Consciousness in Balzac’s La Femme de Trente Ans. Preface by Henry Majewski. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1999 [Reviews in French Studies and Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de la France]
• La Satire démystificatrice de La Bruyère. Préface de Roland Desné. New York: Peter Lang, 1995 [Reviews in Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de la France, and Studi francesi]

Articles

• “Calvin's and Augustine's Interpretations of the ‘Father in Heaven’,” Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique (Belgium) 106, 3-4, 2011, 440-451.
• “The Evangelical Conception of Children in Silas Marner,” Literature and Belief (USA) 31.2. 2011, 97-111.
• “The Allegorical Ending of The Mill on the Floss,” Literature and Belief (USA) 31.1. 2011, 53-70.
• “J. Calvin and J. Wesley on the Image of God, or Man before the Fall” Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa (Italy) 46, 1, 2010, 161-69.
• “The Religion of the Good Samaritan in Silas Marner,” George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies (USA) 58-59, 2010, 77-94.
• “Superstition and Prejudice in the Beginning of Silas Marner,” Connotations (Germany) 19, 1-3, 2009/2010, 238-58.
• “George Eliot and War,”Krieg und Literatur/War and Literature (Germany) XIII, 2007, 64-74.
• “John Calvin on Theft,” Études Médiévales (France) 8, 2006,81-89.
• “Religion and Work in Adam Bede,” George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies (USA), Nos. 48-49, September 2005, 64-74.
• “La Vision de la guerre dans Le Colonel Chabert de Balzac,” Romance Notes (USA), XLIV, N13, 2004, 317-325.
• “La Nostalgie dans les Enluminures de Max Elskamp,” Bulletin d’Etudes Parnassiennes et Symbolistes (France), 32, 2003, 3-14.
• “La Conversion du Dr. Minoret dans Ursule Mirouët de Balzac,” Les Lettres Romanes (Belgium), vol. LV – nº1-2, 2001, 53-66.
• “Autorité, transgression, et conscience du mal dans Les Amours de Pyrame et Thisbé de Théophile de Viau,” Revue d'Histoire du Théâtre (France), 3, 2000, 243-258.
• “L'Apologétique et le mythe du Juif dans les Pensées de Pascal,” Cahiers du Dix-Septième (USA), vol. VII, 2, 2000, 131-139 [Corrected version in Cahiers du Dix-Septième VIII.1. 2003, 107-119.]
• “La Symbolique de l'Orient dans Le Lys dans la Vallée,” Dalhousie French Studies (Canada) 43, Summer 1998, 161-172.
• “Marmontel et le mythe du classique,” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature (Germany), XXIV, 46, 1997, 157-162.
• “La Conception matérialiste de la mort dans La Mort d'Agrippine de Cyrano de Bergerac,” Cahiers du Dix-Septième (USA), VI, 1, 1996, 55-66.
• “La Bruyère et le mythe royal,” Revue Romane (Denmark) 29, 2, 1994, 249-260.
• “L'Animal dans Les Caractères de La Bruyère,” Cahiers du Dix-Septième (USA) V, 2, 1993, 135-146.
• “La Bruyère: de la nostalgie à l'espoir,” Romanische Forschungen (Germany) 105, 1/2 1993, 102-109.
• “L'Ironie antireligieuse de La Mothe Le Vayer,” Esperienze Letterarie (Italy) XVIII, 4, 1993, 3-15.
• “Dom Juan ou le libertin martyr: le rôle de la statue et la fin symbolique du héros,” Revue d'Histoire du Théâtre (France) IV, 180, 1993, 45-56.
• “La Bruyère: enfance et utopie,” Romance Notes (USA) XXXII, 3, 1992, 241-245.
• “Le Fétichisme de la marchandise dans Les Caractères de La Bruyère,” Europe (France), Août-Sept. 1991, 144-149.
• “La Portée politique de la fable selon La Fontaine: pour une analyse du Pouvoir des Fables,” L'Information littéraire (France) 3, 43, 1991, 4-12.
• “Les Réflexions de La Bruyère sur Molière et le langage comique,” Revue Romane (Denmark) 26/1, 1991, 101-107.
• “Les Obsèques de la Lionne ou l'art de survivre sous le despotisme,” Les Lettres Romanes (Belgium) XLV, nº 1-2, 1991, 3-11.
• “Sur la pensée politique de La Fontaine d'après la fable Le Bassa et le Marchand,” Esperienze Letterarie (Italy) XV, 3, 1990, 79-84.

Book Reviews

• Eric H. Du Plessis. An English Translation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel ‘Wann-Chlore.’ Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. [Les Lettres Romanes 3-4, vol. 60, 2006, 420-421; Nineteenth-Century French Studies 35, 2007.]
• Jacques Le Brun. La Jouissance et le trouble. Recherches sur la littérature chrétienne de l’Âge Classique. Genève: Droz, 2004. [Seventeenth-Century News nº 1-2, vol. 64, 2006, 78-82.]

Conference papers   

• “Le Chrétien et l’engagement politique dans le théâtre de Gabriel Marcel,” M.I.F.L.C., Auburn, AL, Sept.-Oct. 2011.
• “The Allegorical Ending of The Mill on the Floss,” SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association), Atlanta, GA, November 2010.              
• “Calvin and the ‘Father in Heaven’,” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 2010.
• “George Eliot on the Fragility of Faith,” American Academy of Religion (Eastern International Region), Ottawa, Canada, May 2010.
• “On the Notion of Miracle in George Eliot,” Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Houston, TX, October 2009.
• “J. Calvin and J. Wesley on the Image of God,” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2009.
• “The Misery of Man without Faith: a reading of Silas Marner,” Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Dallas, TX, March 2009.
• “Vautrin et Dieu,” Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington, KY, April 2008.
• “Superstition and Prejudice in Silas Marner,” American Academy of Religion (Southeast Region), Atlanta, GA, March 2008.
• “Le Pouvoir terrestre et le rire balzacien dans Pierrette,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 2007.
• “George Eliot and War,” Christianity and Literature Conference (Northeast Region), Weston, Massachussetts, October 2007.
• “The Image of God in Calvin’s Institutes,” American Academy of Religion (Pacific Northwest Region), Lethbridge, Alberta (Canada), May 2007.
• “Maladie mentale et religion dans Le Médecin de campagne,”Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Harrisonburg, VA, October 2006.
• “Calvin’s Sermon on Deuteronomy:5:19,” American Academy of Religion (Eastern International Region), Quebec City, Quebec (Canada), May 2006.
• “John Calvin on Theft,” International Colloquium  on Medieval Studies, Auburn, AL, April 2006.
• “La Transposition symbolique du lieu dans Le Médecin de campagne,” West Virginia University Colloquium on Literature and Film, Morgantown, WV, September 2005
• “Ambiguïté et paradoxe dans La Messe de l’Athée,” North Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2005.
• “Nostalgia in The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton,” American Academy of Religion Conference (Southeastern Region), Winston-Salem, NC, March 2005.
• “Autour des Victimes dans Le Curé de Tours,” Mountain Interstate Foreign Languages Conference, Knoxville, TN, October 2004.
• “La Double réalité de la religion chez Balzac: le cas de Jésus-Christ en Flandre,” Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington, KY, April 2004.
• “La Vision de la guerre dans Le Colonel Chabert,” West Virginia University Colloquium on Literature and Film, Morgantown, WV, September 2003.
• “John Calvin on Scriptural Authority and Style,” American Academy of Religion Conference (Eastern International Region), Erie, PA, March 2003.
• “Work and religion in Adam Bede,” American Academy of Religion Conference (Southeast Region), Chattanooga, TN, March 2003.
• “Holy Space in Balzac’s Le Curé de Village,” American Academy of Religion Conference (Southeast Region), Atlanta, GA, March 2002.
• “Money versus God in Eugénie Grandet and Silas Marner,” British Association of Comparative Literature Conference, University of Wales/Swansea, Great Britain, July 2001.
• “Conversion in Le Curé de Village and Adam Bede,” American Academy of Religion Conference (Northeast Region), New Brunswick, N. J., March 2001.
• “La Nostalgie dans les Enluminures de Max Elskamp,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, October 1999.
• “La Conversion du Dr. Minoret dans Ursule Mirouët de Balzac,” Mountain Interstate Foreign Languages Conference, Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN, October 1999.
• “Autorité, transgression, et conscience du mal dans Les Amours de Pyrame et Thisbé de Théophile de Viau,” The Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies, New Bern, North Carolina, October 1997.
• “La Symbolique de l'Orient dans Le Lys dans la Vallée,” Mountain Interstate Foreign Languages Conference, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, October 1997.
• “Mythical forms in the beginning of La Femme de Trente Ans,” Mississippi Foreign Languages Conference, November 1996.
• “Marmontel et le mythe du Classique,” Modern Languages Association, Chicago, IL, December 1995.
• “L'Analyse pascalienne du mythe,” Mountain Interstate Foreign Languages Conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October 1994.   
• “L'Apologétique et le mythe du Juif dans les Pensées de Pascal,” Southeast American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans, October 1994.
• “La Référence à Théophraste chez La Bruyère,” Mountain Interstate Foreign Languages Conference, Clemson University, South Carolina, October 1993.
• “Les Disproportions sociales et la vision allégorique de La Bruyère,” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, October 1992.
• “Entre Descartes et La Fontaine: l'animal dans Les Caractères de La Bruyère,” North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature/Southeast American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Studies joint Conference, Athens, Georgia, October 1992.
• “La Conception matérialiste de la mort dans La Mort d'Agrippine de Cyrano de Bergerac,” Southeast American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, October 1991.
• “Encore sur le Commandeur et la fin du Dom Juan de Molière,” Mountain Interstate Foreign Languages Conference, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, October 1991.
• “L'Idée de Progrès dans Les Caractères de La Bruyère,” Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages, Spokane, Washington, May 1991.
• “Les relations entre la femme, la religion et la mode dans Les Caractères de La Bruyère,” Southeast American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Studies, University of South Carolina/Columbia, October 1990.
• “Les réflexions de La Bruyère sur Molière et le langage comique,” Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 1990.