Harriet Stone

Harriet Stone received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University. She is currently Chair of the Committee on Comparative Literature and Professor of French. Her research interests include seventeenth-century French studies; text and image; science and aesthetics in early modern Europe; literature and ethics. Her books include Tables of Knowledge: Descartes in Vermeer's Studio (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006), The Classical Model: Literature and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century France (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996), and Royal DisClosure: Problematics of Representation in French Classical Tragedy (Birmingham: Summa Publications, 1987). In addition, she served as co-translator with Gerhild Scholz Williams of Pierre de Lancre, On the Inconstancy of Witches (1612) (Tempe: Arizona Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006). She edited Racine: A Tricentennial Issue. Esprit Créateur 38.2 (Summer 1998).