Peter Shoemaker

Peter Shoemaker received his PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University in 1997, where he was a Jacob Javitts Fellow and the recipient of a French Government Fellowship (Bourse Chateaubriand), which allowed him to study at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1994-5. Before coming to The Catholic University of America in 2000, he taught at Princeton University and Macalester College. At CUA, he taught numerous courses French language, literature, and culture at the graduate and undergraduate level and in the Honors Program. He has published primarily in the field of seventeenth-century French literature. His book Powerful Connections: The Poetics of Patronage in the Age of Louis XIII was released by the University of Delaware Press in 2007, and he has authored a critical edition of Donneau de Visé's Les Costeaux (1665/2013) as well as journal articles on a range of topics, including rhetoric and literature, the social history of literature, the novel, and early modern food culture. In 2010, Dr. Shoemaker was appointed Director of the University Honors Program at CUA, and in 2014, he assumed the additional title and responsibilities of Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies.

In 2016, Dr. Shoemaker was appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Seton Hall University.
Supervisors: Lionel Gossman
Address: United States