Ken Loiselle is a Visiting Associate Professor in Modern Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins, and is also an Associate Professor of History at Trinity University in San Antonio. His research has been funded by numerous organizations, including the Fulbright foundation, the NEH, and the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. He is also a longstanding affiliated member of the Centre de la M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e Moderne et Contemporaine (CMMC) at the Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur. Professor Loiselle received his BA in French and history from Middlebury College, and his MA in French literature and PhD in French history from Yale.<\/p>"],"ecpt_research":["
An interdisciplinary scholar of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Ken Loiselle\u2019s research focuses on masculinity, sociability and the complex relationship between non-human and human animals from the Old Regime to the modern era. His first book, Brotherly Love<\/em> (2014), examines the ideals and practices of male friendship in French Freemasonry. He is currently completing a second monograph with Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, The Masonic Experience in Enlightenment France<\/em>, which investigates the ways in which men and women from various social and regional backgrounds integrated their masonic engagement into their daily lives from 1750 to the nineteenth century. He has also co-edited the volume, Diffusions et circulations des pratiques ma\u00e7onniques XVIIIe<\/sup>\u2013XXe<\/sup> si\u00e8cle<\/em> (Classiques Garnier, 2013), which examines the political implications of Freemasonry in the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds from the French Revolution to the Great War.<\/p>"],"ecpt_publications":[" \u00a0Monographs:<\/p>\r\n Brotherly Love: Freemasonry and Male Friendship in Enlightenment France<\/em> (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014).<\/p>\r\n Edited Volumes:<\/p>\r\n Diffusions et circulations des pratiques ma\u00e7onniques, XVIIIe<\/sup>\u2013XIXe<\/sup> si\u00e8cle<\/em>, eds. Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Kenneth Loiselle, Jean-Marie Mercier & Thierry Zarcone (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013).<\/p>\r\n Refereed Articles<\/strong><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n \u201cFreemasonry and the Catholic Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France,\u201d in The Journal of Modern History <\/em>(September 2022). Accessible online at: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1086\/721027<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n \u201cLiving the Enlightenment in an Age of Revolution: Freemasonry in Bordeaux, 1788-1794,\u201d in French History<\/em> (March 2010). Accessible online at: http:\/\/fh.oxfordjournals.org\/cgi\/reprint\/crp067<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n \u201c\u2018Nouveaux mais vrais amis:\u2019 la Franc-ma\u00e7onnerie et les rites de l\u2019amiti\u00e9 au dix-huiti\u00e8me si\u00e8cle,\u201d in Dix-huiti\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle <\/em>39 (2007): 303-318. Accessible online at: http:\/\/www.cairn.info\/revue-dix-huitieme-siecle-2007-1-page-303.htm<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Refereed Chapters in Edited Volumes (Selected)<\/strong><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n \u201cMasonic Drinking and Toasts in Old Regime and Revolutionary France,\u201d in Political Drinking and the Politics of Drinking in Eighteenth-Century Europe<\/em>, eds. R\u00e9my Duthille and Martyn Powell (New York: Palgrave, 2024).<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n \u201cFriendship in the Age of Enlightenment,\u201d in A Cultural History of Love<\/em>, eds. Katie Barclay and Sally Holloway (London: Bloomsbury, 2023).<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n \u201cFranc-ma\u00e7onnerie et culte de l\u2019amiti\u00e9 en Angleterre et en France,\u201d in La fabrication de la franc-ma\u00e7onnerie fran\u00e7aise: Histoire, sociabilit\u00e9 et rituels, 1725-1745<\/em>, ed. Thierry Zarcone (Paris: Dervy Livres, 2017).<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n \u201cDe l\u2019honn\u00eate homme \u00e0 l\u2019homme sensible: l\u2019\u00e9volution de l\u2019amiti\u00e9 ma\u00e7onnique au si\u00e8cle des Lumi\u00e8res,\u201d in L\u2019Amiti\u00e9 dans les \u00e9crits du for priv\u00e9 et les correspondances, du Moyen Age \u00e0 1914<\/em>, ed. Maurice Daumas (Pau: Presses Universitaires de Pau, 2014).<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n With Gilles Mont\u00e8gre and Charlotta Wolff, \u201cAutorepr\u00e9sentation et partage affectif dans les correspondances europ\u00e9ennes de l\u2019\u00e2ge classique aux Lumi\u00e8res,\u201d in Circulations, territoires et r\u00e9seaux en Europe de l\u2019\u00e2ge classique aux Lumi\u00e8res<\/em>, ed. Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire (Paris: Belin, 2014).<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n \u201c\u2018Un n\u0153ud d\u2019amiti\u00e9\u2019 entre un cur\u00e9 et un m\u00e9decin botanistes. Amiti\u00e9 et circulation du savoir en Dauphin\u00e9 pr\u00e9r\u00e9volutionnaire,\u201d in Circulations, territoires et r\u00e9seaux en Europe de l\u2019\u00e2ge classique aux Lumi\u00e8res<\/em>, ed. Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire (Paris: Belin, 2014).<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n \u201cTo Enter into Communication is to Uphold a Friendship: Affectivity and the Communication of Knowledge between Dominique Chaix and Dominique Villars, 1772-1799,\u201d in Entrer en communication de l\u2019\u00e2ge classique aux Lumi\u00e8res, <\/em>eds. Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire and H\u00e9lo\u00efse Hermant (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013).<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n \u201cLa correspondance entre francs-ma\u00e7ons au si\u00e8cle des Lumi\u00e8res: t\u00e9moignage sur l\u2019histoire de l\u2019amiti\u00e9, \u201d in Colloque: Archive \u00e9pistolaire et Histoire<\/em>, eds. Mireille Bossis and Lucia Bergamasco (Paris: Editions Connaissances et Savoirs, 2007), 189-202.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>"],"ecpt_cv":[""],"_ecpt_cv":["field_61e0871dac8e2"],"cv_file":[""],"_cv_file":["field_61e088d12999e"],"ecpt_job_abstract":[""],"_ecpt_job_abstract":["field_61e0873bac8e3"],"abstract_file":[""],"_abstract_file":["field_61e088f52999f"],"ecpt_expertise":["Freemasonry, secret societies and political revolutions; La Nouvelle France; male homosociality; 18th- and 19th-century egodocuments; interspecies relations"],"ecpt_books_cond":["on"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/8338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/8338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8398,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/8338\/revisions\/8398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/role?post=8338"},{"taxonomy":"filter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter?post=8338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}