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Camille Leclère-Gregory is an assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies at 51����. Her teaching and research explore how cultural forms – literary, theatrical, and social – construct, reinforce, and sometimes threaten systems of power. Her work centers on seventeenth-century France, examining how representations of non-conforming and transgressive figures expose the tension between individual agency and collective order. By studying both theatrical texts and the broader social structures that shaped them, she explores how the performance of hierarchy, prestige, and gender became essential to the organization of Early Modern society.

Her publications have appeared in Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, Symposium, The French Review, and L’Esprit Créateur. Her current book project, Under the Influence: How Louis XIV’s Court Society Shaped Contemporary Western Culture, extends this inquiry beyond the Early Modern period. Drawing on sociological, political, and feminist theory, it traces how the spectacle of Louis XIV’s court produced enduring models of visibility, prestige, and distinction – structures which continue to shape today’s economies of influence, from celebrity culture to politics, fashion, and digital media.

Through her teaching and scholarship, she seeks to shed light on the social imagination that links past and present: how rebellion and conformity are staged, how authority performs itself, and how alternative voices challenge the norms that define belonging and power.

Select publications: 

• “Le Mythe comme palimpseste: Phèdre vue par Jean Racine et Wajdi Mouawad.” L’Esprit Créateur, vol. 64, no.4, 2024, pp. 31-46. .
• “Reinstating Olympe de Gouges? A Graphic Odyssey.” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal of Modern Literatures vol. 78, no.4, 2024, pp. 255-265.
• “P���������&�Բ�����;��ǰ��Ա𾱱�����’s&�Բ�����;��é��é��:&�Բ�����;����dz�&�Բ�����;�Ѵdzٳ�����Ǵǻ�&�Բ�����;�ٴ�&�Բ�����;�´dz����Գ�Ǵǻ�.”&�Բ�����;Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, vol. XLVIII, no. 94, 2021, pp. 85-99.