Jason Lewallen, Ph.D.

• Ph.D., 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

• 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)

Research interests are in 20th Century French Novel, Existentialism, Catholic Writers, Secularization Theory, Religion and Literature.

• 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