University of Rochester
Thomas DiPiero

Thomas DiPiero

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1988
Professor of French and Visual and Cultural Studies
Senior Associate Dean of Humanities
thomas.dipiero@rochester.edu
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Department of Modern Languages & Cultures
427 Lattimore
(585) 275-5524

  • Interests:
  • Psychoanalysis of race and gender
  • Theories of the gaze
  • Contemporary European critical thought
  • 17th- and 18th-century literature
  • Publications:
  • White Men Aren't, Duke University Press, 2002
  • Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions: The Evolution of the French Novel, 1569-1791, Stanford University Press, 1992
  • Illicit Sex: Identity Politics in Early Modern Europe, ed. with Pat Gillis, Georgia, 1996
  • Currently working on a book on ambivalence