
Michael Call
1163 E JFSB
Selected Publications
- The Would-Be Author: Molière and the Comedy of Print. Purdue UP, 2015.
- “Gambling by the Numbers: Frain du Tremblay and Barbeyrac on the Moral Uses of Probability.” Early Modern French Studies. Forthcoming.
- “Calculated Losses: Molière, Regnard, and the Changing Comic Gamblers of Seventeenth-Century France.” Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age. De Gruyter, 2019.
- “Of Sceptics and Spectators: Les Amants magnifiques and the Wonders of Disenchantment.” Early Modern French Studies 40.2, 2018.
- “Comedic Wars, Serious Moralists: Genre, Gender, and Molière’s L’École des femmes.” Yale French Studies 130: Guilty Pleasures: Theater, Piety and Morality in 17th-Century France, Joseph Harris and Julia Prest, eds., 2016.
- “Fortuna Goes to the Theater: Lottery Comedies in Seventeenth-Century France.” French Forum 40.1, 2015.
- “L’École des auteurs ? Le mariage, la publication et le risque dans les premières pièces de Molière.” Penser le risque à l’âge classique, Dominique Bertrand, ed. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2014.
Citizenship assignments
• Director of the Office of Digital Humanities (2021 – present)