Pamela Cheek
Associate Professor of French
Co-Director of Comparative Literature/Cultural Studies

Contact Information
Ortega Hall 327B
University of New Mexico
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1146
Phone: (505) 277-3810
Fax: (505) 277-3599
Email: pcheek@unm.edu

Research Areas:

France and Great Britain 1660-1830; history of sexuality; postcolonial studies

Short Biographical Paragraph:

I have taught courses on travel literature, utopian writing, the French 18 th-Century novel, feminist theory, literary theory, 17th- and 18 th-Century French theater, the rise of “civility,” Paris, comparative literature, as well as French phonology and composition. My book Sexual Antipodes: Enlightenment Globalization and the Placing of Sex considered how Enlightenment print culture built modern national and racial identity out of images of sexual order and disorder in public life. My current work focuses on the migration of stories and people in the eighteenth century. I have been involved in promoting interdisciplinary exchange through the Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies.

Curriculum Vitae:

PAMELA CHEEK

EDUCATION AND HONORS

Stanford University . Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1994.
Ph.D. dissertation, Sexual Records. Dissertation Chair: John Bender.
Lurcy Fellowship, 1993-94.
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1987 cohort.
Dept. of Comparative Literature, Graduate Fellowship, 1988-1994.

Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges. A.B. in Literature, 1987, magna cum laude.

POSITIONS HELD SINCE 1994

8/02 – present: Associate Professor of French, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of New Mexico.

8/96 – 8/02: Asst. Prof. of French, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, UNM.

7/94 – 7/96: Asst. Prof. of French, Dept. of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Sexual Antipodes: Enlightenment Globalization and the Placing of Sex . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.

“The Festival of Incest in Le paysan perverti,” Symposium. Forthcoming, Summer 2006.

“The Mémoires secrets and the Actress: Tribadism, Performance and Property,” The Mémoires secrets and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-Century France eds. Jeremy Popkin and Bernadette Fort. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1998. 107-28.

“Prostitutes of ‘Political Institution’,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 28: 2 (Winter, 1994-95). 193-219.

Review of James Turner, Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London in Modern Languages Quarterly, 65:2 (June 2004). 310-16.

CURRENT SERVICE

Director, Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Aug. 2005—present.
A & S Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2006-07.
Research Policy Committee, 2006-07.
Member, Search Committee for Islam/ Arabic joint position in CL/CS and Religious Studies, 2006-07.
Member, Graduate Committee, 2005-07.