Abigail Stahl

Abigail Stahl is a graduate student in French and Italian. She received her B.A. in Political Science and French and Francophone Studies from the University of Notre Dame. After a year of working as an assistante d'anglais at a high school in Lorraine, she returned to Notre Dame to complete an M.A. in French and Francophone Studies as part of a BA/MA program. Her primary research interests include 18th and early 19th century French literature. She is particularly interested in questions of aesthetic theory and art criticism in the works of Denis Diderot, especially the Encyclopédie, and also in ways in which the 19th century interpreted and adapted the philosophy of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution and how this is reflected in the literature of the period.