Lewis Carl Seifert (born February 1, 1962) is a professor of French Literature at

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. Seifert holds a DEA from the Université de Paris III (1986) and a PhD from the Department of Romance Languages at the

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(1989). He is the author of two books; ''Fairy tales, sexuality, and gender in France, 1690-1715 : nostalgic utopias'' (Cambridge UP, 1996) and ''Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France'' (University of Michigan Press, 2009), and articles such as "Marvelous in Context: The Place of the Contes de Fées in Late Seventeenth Century France".

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