Virginia Krause is Associate Professor of French Studies at Brown University. She received a research fellowship from the Newberry Library in 1999 and has been invited to speak at universities in the United States (Harvard, Cornell, University of Virginia, Dartmouth, University of Indiana, and Brandeis University), France (Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Universite de Toulouse), and the United Kingdom (University of Hull). Krause currently serves on the external editorial committee of French Forum. She is the author of Idle Pursuits: Literature and 'Oisivete' in the Fren...