LYNN A. HUNT

PROFESSOR

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Phone: 310-825-8864
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E-mail: lhunt@history.ucla.edu

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Born in Panama and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, she has her B.A. from Carleton College (1967) and her M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1973) from Stanford University. Before coming to UCLA she taught at the University of Pennsylvania (1987-1998) and the University of California, Berkeley (1974-1987).

Prof. Hunt teaches French and European history and the history of history as an academic discipline. Her specialties include the French Revolution, gender history, cultural history and historiography. Her current research projects include a collaborative study of an early 18th century work on comparative religion that appeared in 7 volumes with 275 engravings by the artist Bernard Picart.

Prof. Hunt’s most recent book examines the origins of human rights in the eighteenth century: Inventing Human Rights (2007). She has written extensively on the French Revolution: Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France (1978); Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (1984); and The Family Romance of the French Revolution (1992). She has also written about historical method and epistemology: The New Cultural History (1989); with Joyce Appleby and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth about History (1994); with Jacques Revel, Histories: French Constructions of the Past (1995); and with Victoria Bonnell, Beyond the Cultural Turn (1999). In addition, she has edited collections on the history of eroticism, pornography, and on human rights; co-authored a western civilization textbook, The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures (2nd ed. 2005); and with Jack Censer co-authored a textbook on the French Revolution which includes a cd-rom and companion website. Her books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Polish and Czech.

Selected Publications

Forums on The Family Romance of the French Revolution (University of California Press, 1992):

Journal of Modern History, 66 (1994): Philip Stewart, "This Is Not a Book Review: On Historical Uses of Literature," pp. 521-538;

Lynn Hunt, "The Objects of History: A Reply to Philip Stewart," pp. 539-546.

societá e storia, 17 (no. 65, 1994): Four essays in "Family Romance of the French Revolution. Un dibattito," pp. 611-644, with Lynn Hunt, "Una riposta," 645-652 [complete debate pp. 611-652].

French Historical Studies, 19 (1995): Madelyn Gutwirth, "Sacred Father; Profane Sons: Lynn Hunt's French Revolution," pp. 261-276; Colin Jones, "A Fine 'Romance' With No Sisters," pp. 277-288; Lynn Hunt, "Reading the French Revolution: A Reply," pp. 289-298.

Forums on Telling the Truth about History (W.W. Norton, 1994):

Journal of the History of Ideas, 1995: Four essays in "Truth, Objectivity, and History: An Exchange," Martin Bunzl, "Pragmatism to the Rescue?", pp. 651-659; Bonnie G. Smith, "Whose Truth, Whose History?", pp. 661-668;

John Higham, "The Limits of Relativism: Restatement and Remembrance," pp. 669-674; Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, "Response," pp. 675-680.

History and Theory, 34 (1995): Essays by Raymond Martin, Joan W. Scott, and Cushing Strout, pp. 320-339.

Forum on Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt,eds., Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (University of California Press, 1999):

American Historical Review, 107 (2002): Ronald Grigor Suny, "Back and Beyond: Reversing the Cultural Turn?" pp. 1476-1499; Patrick Brantlinger, "A Response to Beyond the Cultural Turn," pp. 1500-1512; Richard Handler, "Cultural Theory in History Today," pp. 1513-1520.

FOR PUBLISHER'S INFORMATION:

Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, R. Po-chia Hsia, and Bonnie G. Smith, The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures (Bedford/St. Martin's), Concise ed., 2003; 2nd edition of full text, 2005. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/book.asp?1149000319

The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996). http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/book.asp?1001002820

Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (Penn State University Press, 2001).
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02087-3.html

Edited Volumes

The New Cultural History (University of California Press, 1989).

Eroticism and the Body Politic (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).

The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity (New York: Zone Books, 1993).

Jacques Revel and Lynn Hunt, eds., Histories: French Constructions of the Past, Arthur Goldhammer, tr. (New York: The New Press, 1995).

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Lynn Hunt, and Marilyn B. Young, eds., Human Rights and Revolutions (Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).

SOME RECENT ARTICLES

1995 "Temps et contrainte dans la vie des femmes," Le Débat, #87 (nov.-déc.): 126-130.

1997 "Democratization and Decline? The Consequences of Demographic Change in the Humanities," in Alvin Kernan, ed., What's Happened to the Humanities? (Princeton University Press), pp. 17-31.

1998 "Freedom of Dress in Revolutionary France," in Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg, eds., From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France (U. of California Press), pp. 224-249.

1998 "The Challenge of Gender. Deconstruction of Categories and Reconstruction of Narratives in Gender History," in Hans Medick and Anne-Charlott Trepp, Geschlectergeschichte und Allgemeine Geschichte: Herausforderungen und Perspektiven (Göttingen:Wallstein Verlag), pp. 59-97.

1998 "Psychologie, Ethnologie und 'linguistic turn' in der Geschichtswissenschaft," in Hans-Jü rgen Goertz, ed., Geschichte: Ein Grundkurs (Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verglag), pp. 671-693.

2001 with Margaret Jacob, "The Affective Revolution in 1790s Britain," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 34: 491-521.

2001 "The French Revolution," in N.J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Oxford: Pergamon), pp. 5785-5789.

2002 "Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Historical Thought," in Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza, A Companion to Western Historical Thought (Malden, MA: Blackwell), pp. 337-356.

2003 with Margaret Jacob, "Enlightenment Studies," in Alan Charles Kors, ed., Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, vol 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press): 418-430.

2003 "French Revolution: An Overview," in Alan Charles Kors, ed., Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, vol. 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press): 80-84.

2003 "The World We have Gained: The Future of the French Revolution," American Historical Review, 108 (February): 1-19.

2003 "Le Corps au XVIIIe siècle: les origines des droits de l'homme," Diogène, no. 203 (July-September): 49-67.

2003 "Parcours: Lynn Hunt, de la Révolution française à la révolution féministe," (interview by Laura Lee Downs), Travail, genre et sociétés, 10: 5-26.

2003 "L'histoire des femmes: accomplissements et ouvertures," in Martine Lapied and Christine Peyrard, eds., La Révolution française: au carrefour des recherches (Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence), pp. 281-292.

2005 with Jack Censer, "Imaging the French Revolution: Depictions of the French Revolutionary Crowd," American Historical Review, 100 (2005): 38-45; continued on-line at
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/imaging/essays/introessay.html
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/imaging/essays/censerhunt1.html
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/imaging/essays/conclusions.html

For a review of the project, see http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/?q=node/79

2005 "Relire l'histoire du politique," in Jean-Clément Martin, ed., La Révolution à l'oeuvre: Perspectives actuelles dans l'histoire de la Révolution française (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005), pp. 117-124.

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