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John Boitano is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of World Languages and Culture at Chapman University’s Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. He specializes in 17th-century French literature, interdisciplinary studies, and Francophone literature.
- Education: PhD in French and Romance Philology, Columbia University
- Editorial Roles: General Editor of Cahiers du Dixseptième, former Book Review Editor
His research focuses on the dialectics of rational and occult beliefs in Pascal’s Pensées, seventeenth-century French authors like Gabriel Naudé, and interdisciplinary approaches to French neoclassical tragedy. He has published extensively on these topics and contributed to pedagogical frameworks for teaching French theater through cross-curricular methods.
He has received awards including the Whiting Dissertation Fellowship (1990–1991) and the Outstanding Teaching Award from the North American Society For Seventeenth-Century French Literature (2001). His 2021 co-authored publication explores teaching la Tragédie en Musique, while his 2008 work provides a historical analysis of Pascal’s Pensées.
