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Before coming to Case to teach French in 2005, Maryse Laffitte was Sorbonne ( Paris ) educated in “Lettres classiques” (French literature, Latin and Ancient Greek), and finished her studies with an M.A., a DEA (a research degree in the XIXth and XXth centuries French literature) and a CAPES (a degree making her a member of the French “Education Nationale”). She moved to Denmark in the seventies and was an associate professor in French culture and literature at the University of Copenhagen from 1980 to 2005. She has vast experience in teaching literature: the XVIIth century -Baroque and Classicism - , the XVIIIth century – the philosophy of the Enlightenment, the libertinage - , the XIXth century's literature – realism and naturalism - , the XXth century - surrealism, theatre of the Absurd, the French intellectuals. In 1990, she initiated a new subject in the French Department, called “French culture and History of the ideas”.
During her stay at the University of Copenhagen , she was in charge of various posts. Among other things, she was the Chair of the French Department (1993-1996), the literary editor of Revue romane , the literary and linguistic journal of the French Department, in the eighties, and from 1990 to her departure from Copenhagen , the coordinator of a European network (Erasmus-Socrates) of students and teachers exchange.
She has published various papers in French and Danish journals; her main areas of interest in research are the XVIIIth century (the philosophy of the Enlightenment) and, in general, the relation between religion and culture.
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