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Reginald J Mcginnis is a Professor at the University of Arizona, affiliated with the Department of French & Italian within the College of Humanities. He holds a Ph.D. in French from Stanford University. As Director of Graduate Studies (DGS), he oversees graduate programs in the department. His research focuses on French literature, 18th-century cultural studies, and intellectual history, with notable works including La prostitution sacrée: essai sur Baudelaire (1994), Mock Ritual in the Modern Era (2022, co-authored), and edited volumes such as Originality and Intellectual Property in the French and English Enlightenment (2008). He has contributed to journals like Romanic Review and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Mcginnis currently teaches FREN 550 (Early Modern France) and FREN 500 (French for Reading).
His editorial work includes co-editing Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France (2021) and guest-editing special issues of the Western Humanities Review on topics like Borders (2006) and Economics and the Humanities (2011). His scholarship bridges literary analysis with interdisciplinary themes, emphasizing historical contexts and cultural dynamics.
