Dr. Jason Lewallen received his Ph.D. in French Literature from Stanford University
in 2014. with a dissertation on conversion in novels by Jean-Paul Sartre and François
Mauriac. He joined the UD faculty in the fall of 2014.
Education
Ph.D., French Literature, Stanford University, 2014.
B.A., University Scholars, Baylor University, 2005.
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor of French
French Program Director
Recent Courses
Second Year French I (MFR 2311)
Second Year French II (MFR 2312)
Contemporary France (MFR 3313)
French Literary Tradition II (MFR 3342)
French Catholic Writers (MFR 4340)
French Thought and Culture after 1945 (MFR 4359)
Research Interests
Research interests are in 20th Century French Novel, Existentialism, Catholic Writers,
Secularization Theory, Religion and Literature.
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Article: “Rushing to Judgement: Soumissionas Formative Fiction.” French Studies 76, no. 3 (July 2022): 401–416.
Peer-Reviewed Article: “Interpreting Conversion: Hermeneutic Training in François Mauriac’s Le Noeud de Vipères.” Christianity and Literature 68, no. 2 (March 2019): 213–32.
Peer-Reviewed Article: “Secular Conversion: La Nauséeas Formative Fiction.” Religion and Literature 49, no. 2 (2017): 47-68.
"The Apologetics of Suspicion: Secular Conversion in La Nausée" (article forthcoming
in Religion and Literature).
"Pascalian Training in Le Noeud de vipères" (article in preparation).
The Hermeneutics of Conversion: Fiction and Apologetics in François Mauriac and Jean-Paul
Sartre (Dissertation: Stanford University, 2014).
"Secular Conversion in Sartre's Early Fiction" forthcoming in Religion and Literature
"Religion, Violence, and Soumission": 2016 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington
"Fictional Apologetics and the Production of Knowledge in Sartre's La Nausée": International Colloquium in 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies,
Baton Rouge
Awards & Honors
King/Haggar Scholar Award, 2016
Christianity and Literature Travel Grant, 2013
Stanford Centennial Teaching Award, 2013
Stanford-Ecole Normale Supérieure Visiting Research Fellowship, 2011