Maria Teodora is a Lecturer in French with the Stanford Language Center. Her specialization is French literature of the 17^th and 18^th centuries, with an emphasis on theater. 

Publications

• “Society Theater’s Self-Criticism: the Anti-Theatrical Discourse in Moncrif’s Les Abdérites and Piron’s La Métromanie,” Restoration & Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, Volume 29, Issue 2 (Winter 2014), “Writing Against the Stage: Anti-Theatrical Discourse in Early Modern Europe,” Part 2 of 2, Guest-Edited by Logan J. Connors, Bucknell University

• Society Theater: a Laboratory for Esthetic and Social Change (1715-1815), Thesis (Ph.D.), Stanford University, 2014.

• Le Burlador de Suzanne Lilar: mythe et tragédie féminine (2008). Master's Theses: Paper 3491.

   

Conference Presentations

• “Casanova and the Performance of Belief,” Seminar in Enlightement and Revolution 2014-15, Stanford Humanities Center.
• “Society Plays as Testimony of Social Change,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Williamsburg,VA, March 2014
• “Society Theater.db,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Williamsburg, VA, March 2014
• “Love in French Society Theater,” Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, UC Davis, CA, February 2014
• “French Society Plays and Playwrights in the Press,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Cleveland, OH, April 2013
• "Le Malentendu du Deuxième Sexe: Une attaque du livre guide du féminisme; Autrefois et maintenant,"Simone de Beauvoir Society's 17^th International Conference, San José State University, San José, CA, June 2009
• "Don Juan as Incarnation of the Feudal," Northern California Renaissance Conference, San José State University, San José, CA, May 2009

Languages

English, French, Romanian, Spanish