Dorothy Dallas was a long-time member of the Department of French at the University of British Columbia, where she taught seventeenth-century French literature from 1933 to 1967.
When she passed away, in 1992, she left a bequest to the Department, specifying that the income from the endowed fund created in her name be used to promote research in seventeenth and eighteenth-century French studies.
The Dorothy Dallas Centre for Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century French Studies is a means of honouring her contribution to UBC and bringing together all of the activities that are made possible by the Dorothy Dallas Fund: invited speakers, conferences, a PhD fellowship, research assistantships, and original pamphlets from the French Revolution.
Conferences
- 2015: Sade: réflexions à chaud sur un bicentenaire encore tiède
- 2006: Littérature et libertinage au XVIIe siècle
- 2000: La femme au XVIIe siècle
- 1999: Writing the Body in Early Modern France
- 1997: Sexualité, mariage et famille au XVIIIe siècle
Visiting Speakers
- 2013: Ugo Dionne (Université de Montréal)
- 2012: Geoffrey Turnovsky (University of Washington)
- 2011: Julia Douthwaite (University of Notre Dame)
- 2010: Dan Edelstein (Stanford University)
- 2010: Isabelle Moreau (King’s College, London)
- 2010: Michel Delon (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne)
- 2009: Benoît Melançon (Université de Montréal)
- 2007: Pierre Saint-Amand (Brown University)
- 2006: Michèle Rosellini (ENS, Lyon)
- 2004: Delphine Denis (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne)
- 2002: Franck Lestringant (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne)
- 2002: Patrick Dandrey (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne)
- 2001: Jean-Charles Darmon (Versailles Saint-Quentin)
- 2001: Georges Forestier (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne)
- 2000: Christie McDonald (Harvard University)
- 2000: Domna Stanton (University of Michigan)
- 1999: Jean Serroy (Université Stendhal, Grenoble)
- 1999: Cynthia Skenazi (University of Cal. at Santa Barbara)
- 1999: Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani (Université Paris VII)
- 1998: Mireille Rosello (Univeristy of Nottingham)
- 1998: Lawrence Kritzman (Dartmouth University)
- 1997: Louis Van Delft (Université Paris X)
- 1997: Christian Biet (Université Paris X)
- 1997: George Van Den Abbeele (University of Cal. at Davis)
- 1995: Béatrice Didier (ENS, Paris)
- 1995: Jean-Marie Apostolidès (Stanford University)
Visiting Professors
- 2009: Françoise Gaillard (U. Paris VII)
- 1997: Christian Biet (U. Paris X)