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Dr. Jason Lewallen received his PhD in French Literature from Stanford University in 2014. with a dissertation on conversion in novels by Jean-Paul Sartre and Franois Mauriac. He joined the UD faculty in the fall of 2014.
- PhD, French Literature, Stanford University, 2014.
- M.A., Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 2007.
- B.A., University Scholars, Baylor University, 2005.
- Associate Professor of French
- French Program Director
- 20th Century French Novel
- Existentialism
- Catholic Writers
- Secularization Theory
- Religion and Literature.
- Second Year French I (MFR 2311)
- Second Year French II (MFR 2312)
- Contemporary France (MFR 3313)
- French Literary Tradition II (MFR 3342)
- French Catholic Writers (MFR 4340)
- French Thought and Culture after 1945 (MFR 4359)
- Peer-Reviewed Article: “Rushing to Judgement: Soumissionas Formative Fiction.” French Studies 76, no. 3 (July 2022): 401–416.
- Peer-Reviewed Article: “Interpreting Conversion: Hermeneutic Training in François Mauriac’s Le Noeud de Vipères.” Christianity and Literature 68, no. 2 (March 2019): 213–32.
- Peer-Reviewed Article: “Secular Conversion: La Nauséeas Formative Fiction.” Religion and Literature 49, no. 2 (2017): 47-68.
- "The Apologetics of Suspicion: Secular Conversion in La Nausée" (article forthcoming in Religion and Literature).
- "Pascalian Training in Le Noeud de vipères" (article in preparation).
- The Hermeneutics of Conversion: Fiction and Apologetics in François Mauriac and Jean-Paul Sartre (Dissertation: Stanford University, 2014).
- "Secular Conversion in Sartre's Early Fiction" forthcoming in Religion and Literature
- "Albert Camus's Formative Cities": 2016 SCMLA Conference, Dallas
- "Religion, Violence, and Soumission": 2016 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington
- "Fictional Apologetics and the Production of Knowledge in Sartre's La Nausée": International Colloquium in 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies, Baton Rouge
- King/Haggar Scholar Award, 2016
- Christianity and Literature Travel Grant, 2013
- Stanford Centennial Teaching Award, 2013
- Stanford-Ecole Normale Supérieure Visiting Research Fellowship, 2011