Courses Taught
FRE 101-French I (Elementary)FRE 102-French II (Elementary)
MLG 304-French Culture & Civilization
MLG 326-French & Francophone Literature through the Arts
SPA 141-Spanish I (Elementary)
SPA 142-Spanish II (Elementary)
Education
- Ph.D. (Doctorat), French Literature (Honors: "Très honorable avec félicitations du jury"), Université Grenoble Alpes (U. Stendhal, Grenoble III), 2009
- Bachelor of Arts, Modern Languages (French and Italian), University of Puerto Rico, 1999 – Magna cum Laude
Publications
- Sara Aponte-Olivieri, "Emergencia: Cataclysm and Generation in ‘El recipiente/Tsunami’" in S. Bartlett, M. Loyola and J. Boll (Eds.), Sea Change: Representations of Transformation in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press (2026), pp. 228-245.
- Sara Aponte-Olivieri, "De la comparaison à la rivalité dans 'De fuir les voluptez au pris de la vie' (I, 33) des Essais de Montaigne" in C. Gutbub, A. Pouey-Mounou and S. Duval (Eds.), Les Styles de la différence. Mélanges en l’honneur de Jean Lecointe, Paris: Classiques Garnier (2025), pp. 133-151.
Presentations
- Sara Aponte-Olivieri, “Bodin on Almsgiving [Session:"Capital and Capitalisms"].” Paper presented to the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (RSA San Francisco 2026), San Francisco, California on February 21, 2026.
- Sara Aponte-Olivieri, “Enclaves of certainty through Montaigne's prudence. Confronting Uncertainty in Early Modern France.” Panel presented at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (RSA 2025 Boston), Boston, Massachusetts on March 22, 2025.
- Sara Aponte-Olivieri, “Charity in Jean Bodin's Six Livres de la République [Session: "Community and Civility in Bodin, Rabelais, and Navarre"].” Paper presented to the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (RSA 2025 Boston), Boston, Massachusetts on March 21, 2025.
