Adam Schoene
PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor
Education
- JD Candidate, Law, McGill University
- BCL Candidate, Law, McGill University
- PhD, Romance Studies, Cornell University
- MA, Romance Studies, Cornell University
- MA, Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
- MA, French and Francophone Studies, Tufts University
- BA, French and International Relations, Tufts University
- Certificate, International Studies, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
- Certificate, International and Comparative Law, Cornell Law School and Sorbonne Law School
Selected Publications
- Silence in Eighteenth-Century Arts, History and Philosophy, Francesca Saggini, Dan Poston, and Adam Schoene, eds. (Paris: Honoré Champion, Forthcoming).
- “Despotism,” in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, Robert Spoo and Simon Stern, eds. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025), 148-151.
- Participation, Collaboration, Association, le collectif des chercheurs de la SIEDS, eds. (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2023).
- “Epilogue,” with Noelia López Souto and Renée Vulto, in Participation, Collaboration, Association, le collectif des chercheurs de la SIEDS, eds. (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2023), 269-280.
- “Response to Elena Lioznova,” in Participation, Collaboration, Association, le collectif des chercheurs de la SIEDS, eds. (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2023), 211-212.
- Singular Pasts: The "I" in Historiography, Enzo Traverso, trans. Adam Schoene (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022).
- “Turmoil and Corruption in Joséphine de Monbart’s Lettres tahitiennes,” in Turmoil: Instability and Insecurity in the Eighteenth-Century Francophone Text, Síofra Pierse and Emma M. Dunne, eds. (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2022), 157-173.
- “Scholarship Across the Aisle (Establishing Meaningful Scholarly Relationships Outside of One's Linguistic/Cultural Tradition),” with Logan Connors, Jason Pearl, Rebecca Messbarger, Morgan Vanek, and Jessie Zimble, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 50 (2021): 37-40.
- "Rereading Rousseau’s Essay on the Origin of Languages/L’Essai sur l’origine des langues de Rousseau: une relecture," Rousseau Association Bulletin (2021): 2-4.
- “ASECS at 50: Interview with Pierre Saint-Amand,” with Pierre Saint-Amand, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 53.4 (2020): 563-569.
- “Éloquence muette: Rousseau and le corps morcelé,” in Silence, implicite et non-dit chez Rousseau/Silence, the Implicit and the Unspoken in Rousseau, Brigitte Weltman-Aron, Ourida Mostefai, and Peter Westmoreland, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 122-135.
- “Poverty, Migration, and Sentimental Cosmopolitanism in Riccoboni, Charrière, and Sand,” George Sand Studies, Vols. 37-38 (2020): 189-204.
- “Silence and the Passions in Rousseau’s Julie," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 48 (2020): 209-226.
- “Silence in the Seraglio: Women and Legislation in Montesquieu,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 52.4 (2019): 395-410.
- “Staël’s Cosmopolitan Enthusiasm,” Lumen, Vol. 38 (2019): 89-104.
- “Embodying Law in Diderot’s La Religieuse,” Law and Humanities, Vol. 12.1 (2018): 5-16.
- "Sentimental Conviction: Rousseau's Apologia and the Impartial Spectator," in Adam Smith and Rousseau: Ethics, Politics, Economics, Maria Pia Paganelli, Dennis C. Rasmussen, and Craig Smith, eds. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018), 166-182.
- “Burning the Straits: Indignation and Hospitality in Ben Jelloun,” The Journal of North African Studies, Vol. 23.4 (2018): 557-568.
- “Reuniting Speech and Song: Reading Sebbar with Rousseau,” The French Review, Vol. 90.3 (2017): 39-49.
Courses Taught
- Law and Literature
- Queer Ecojustice
- Politics and Society
- Sovereign Friendship
- Rebellion and Upheaval
- Legends of Enlightenment
- Comparative Government and Society
- Writing the Self in French and Francophone Literature and Film
- Introduction to French and Francophone Literature and Culture
- Languages, Texts, and Contexts
- Advanced French Conversation
- Continuing French
- Intermediate French
- Elementary French