Louis. Her area of specialization is eighteenth-century French literature, philosophy, and the arts. She is the author of Narrative Interludes: Musical Tableaux in Eighteenth-Century French Texts (Torronto University Press, 2006). She has contributed to Forum for Modern Language Studies, Opera Quarterly, and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture as well as the collected volumes The Super-Enlightenment: Daring to Know Too Much (Voltaire Foundation, 2010), Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries (Ashgate, 2006) and Phrase and Subject: Studies in Music and Literature (Legenda, 2006). She is currently working on a book-length project entitled Divining Nature: French Ventures in Fiction, Imagery, and Stagecraft.