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Jason Lewallen, PhD

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Associate Professor of French and French Program Director, Modern Languages

Phone: (972) 721-5373

Email: jlewallen@udallas.edu

Office: Anselm #109

Office Hours: MF 12:00 - 12:50 p.m. / MWF 2:00 - 2:20 p.m. or by Appointment

OFFICE HOURS FALL 2024:  Monday, Friday 12-12:50pm; MWF 2-2:20pm and by appointment

Dr. Jason Lewallen received his PhD in French Literature from Stanford University in 2014. with a dissertation on conversion in novels by Jean-Paul Sartre and Franois Mauriac. He joined the 911爆料网 faculty in the fall of 2014.

  • PhD, French Literature, Stanford University, 2014.
  • M.A., Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 2007.
  • B.A., University Scholars, Baylor University, 2005.
  • Associate Professor of French
  • French Program Director
  • 20th Century French Novel
  • Existentialism
  • Catholic Writers
  • Secularization Theory
  • Religion and Literature.
 
  • Second Year French I (MFR 2311)
  • Second Year French II (MFR 2312)
  • Contemporary France (MFR 3313)
  • French Literary Tradition II (MFR 3342)
  • French Catholic Writers (MFR 4340)
  • French Thought and Culture after 1945 (MFR 4359)
  • Peer-Reviewed Article: 鈥淩ushing to Judgement: Soumissionas Formative Fiction.鈥 French Studies 76, no. 3 (July 2022): 401鈥416.
  • Peer-Reviewed Article: 鈥淚nterpreting Conversion: Hermeneutic Training in Fran莽ois Mauriac鈥檚 Le Noeud de Vip猫res.鈥 Christianity and Literature 68, no. 2 (March 2019): 213鈥32.
  • Peer-Reviewed Article: 鈥淪ecular Conversion: La Naus茅eas Formative Fiction.鈥 Religion and Literature 49, no. 2 (2017): 47-68.
  • "The Apologetics of Suspicion: Secular Conversion in La Naus茅e" (article forthcoming in Religion and Literature).
  • "Pascalian Training in Le Noeud de vip猫res" (article in preparation).
  • The Hermeneutics of Conversion: Fiction and Apologetics in Fran莽ois Mauriac and Jean-Paul Sartre (Dissertation: Stanford University, 2014).
  • "Secular Conversion in Sartre's Early Fiction" forthcoming in Religion and Literature
  • "Albert Camus's Formative Cities": 2016 SCMLA Conference, Dallas
  • "Religion, Violence, and Soumission": 2016 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington  
  • "Fictional Apologetics and the Production of Knowledge in Sartre's La Naus茅e": International Colloquium in 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies, Baton Rouge
  • King/Haggar Scholar Award, 2016
  • Christianity and Literature Travel Grant, 2013
  • Stanford Centennial Teaching Award, 2013
  • Stanford-Ecole Normale Sup茅rieure Visiting Research Fellowship, 2011