Assistant Professor 
Porter 203D
Phone: (219) 989-2034
florian.vauleon@purduecal.edu
Education
M.B.A., Master of Business Administration, Stetson University, 2012
Ph.D., Francophone Cultural Studies, The Ohio State University, 2008
B.A., English Linguistics and Literature, Université Rennes 2, 2001
Selected Publications
Book
Chess and Systemization in the Age of Reason. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (forthcoming 2013).
Articles in Refereed Journals
“Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Science of Management: The Illusion of Free Will,” The Journal of Management History (2013): forthcoming.
“Marivaudage et philosophie dans La Mère confidente,” L’Érudit franco-espagnol (LEF-E) An Electronic Journal of French and Hispanic Literatures (2013): forthcoming.
“Philosophizing the Game: The Morals of Chess in Rameau’s Nephew by Diderot,” 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 20 (2013): forthcoming.
“Le concept du désert dans l’Amérique de Baudrillard,” The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 8 (January 2011).
“Chess in the Coffee House: The Philosophical Pastime of an Enlightened Nation,” XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century 6 (2009): 9-16.
Book Chapter
“Caribbean Coffee in Eighteenth-Century Paris: The Bitter Taste of Slavery” in Amy Clukey and Jeremy Wells, eds., Plantation Modernity. New Southern Studies (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2013), forthcoming.
Other Publication
“The Revival of Enlightenment Values in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis” in Selected Proceedings of the 2010 Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Films (Boca Raton: Brown Walker Press, 2010), 79-91.





