Patrick Riley

Associate Professor of French; Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Department/Office Information

Romance Languages

204 Lawrence Hall

BA, University of California, Berkeley
MA, University of California, Berkeley
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Graduate student instructor, University of California - Berkeley; assistant professor of French, University of Oklahoma

French eighteenth century literature and philosophy, Rousseau, French autobiography

The narrative of conversion in French autobiography, the Libertine novel

Character and Conversion in Autobiography: Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre (University of Virginia Press, 2004)
Introduction to Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (Barnes and Noble, 2009)
Introduction and translation of the preface to Rousseau's Confessions (Barnes and Noble, 2005)
"Fables of the Self and Subject: On Cartesian Autobiography With and Against Augustine" (Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature XXXI, 60, 2004)
"The Inversion of Conversion: Rousseau's Rewriting of Augustinian Autobiography," (Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 28, March 1999)
"Errancy and Libertine Education in Crebillon Fils's Les Egarements du coeur et de l'espirit," (French Forum, v. 20, no. 2, May, 1995)

University of Oklahoma Junior Faculty Fellowship 1997
Marcel Lemer Scholarship, University of California - Berkeley, 1995-96
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California - Berkeley 1994-95