Professor Byron R. Wells

Chair, Wake Forest Professor of Romance Languages

Professor of French

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Office: Greene 532

Phone: (336) 758-5489

E-mail: wells@wfu.edu

Education

• Ph.D., French and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1984
• M.A., Romance Languages, University of Georgia, 1977
• B.A., French, University of Georgia, 1974

Research Interests

• Rousseau
• Eighteenth-century French prose fiction
• The French Enlightenment
• The Grand Tour

Courses Taught

• French 213: Introduction to French Literature
• French 219: Composition and Review of Grammar
• French 329: Introduction to Business French
• French 330: Advanced Business French

Departmental Activities

• Coordinator, Semester-in-France
• Coordinator, Certificate in Business French
• Wine-tasting for graduation majors and minors in French

Representative Publications

• Skuncke, Marie-Christine et Byron R. Wells, eds., Centre(s) et peripheries. Les Lumières de Belfast à Beijing, Champion, 2003
• “Julie, ou la Nouvelle Clarisse. Amour, vertu et la question du moi,” Annales Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 2002
• “Liberté et monstruosité à l’âge des Lumières,” Entre Dieu et diable, 2003
• “From Revery to Confession: Reading and Writing a Life Story,” Approaches to Teaching Rousseau’s Confessions and Reveries of a Solitary Walker,” 2003
• “Language and Solitude: Paradox of the Dialogues,” Etudes sur les Dialogues, 2003