Amy S. Wyngaard specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature and cultural history. The author of From Savage to Citizen: The Invention of the Peasant in the French Enlightenment (U of Delaware Press, 2004) and Bad Books: Rétif de la Bretonne, Sexuality, and Pornography (U of Delaware Press, 2012), she has written articles appearing in PMLA, Eighteenth-Century Studies, MLN, Modern Language Quarterly, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. From 2007-2020, she edited Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, which has been produced by the Department since 1946. She teaches courses on a variety of topics, including the French Enlightenment, libertine fiction, women writers, Molière, and the culture of absolutism.

• NEH Professor of the Humanities, Colgate University, Fall 2014
• Professor, French and Francophone Studies, Syracuse University, 2013-present
• Associate Professor, French and Francophone Studies, Syracuse University, 2004-2013
• Assistant Professor, French and Francophone Studies, Syracuse University, 1998-2004
• Editor, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, 2007-2020
• French Book Review Editor, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, 2004-2007
• Editorial Board, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, 1998-2007

“Lafayette’s Modernity.” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, v. 50, no. 98, 2023, pp. 7-24.

“Reconsidering the French Enlightenment Heroine, Again: Prévost’s Histoire d’une Grecque moderne.” How to Do Things with Style: Essays in Honor of Joan DeJean, edited by Amy S. Wyngaard and Roland Racevskis, American Association of Teachers of French, 2021, pp. 99-118.

“Legacies of Enlightenment: Diderot’s La Religieuse and Its Cinematic Adaptations.” Lumen: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Travaux choisis de la Société canadienne d’étude du dix-huitième siècle, vol. 40, 2021, pp. 147-63.

“Femme Fatale or Feminist Heroine? Interpreting Manon Lescaut.” Romance Notes, vol. 59, no. 3, 2019, pp. 459-70.

“Le Danger des liaisons: Censoring Laclos’s Liaisons dangereuses.” Romance Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 2, 2018, pp. 87-102.

“Sade, Réage, and Transcending the Obscene.” The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature, edited by Bradford K. Mudge, Cambridge UP, 2017, pp. 210-23.