Research Interest(s): Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cultural
History, Music
Julia Simon specializes in eighteenth-century French
literature and culture with special emphasis on the
relevance of Enlightenment social, political, moral, and
aesthetic theory today. She also works in music,
specifically on the cultural history of the blues. She is the
author of Time in the Blues; Rousseau among the
Moderns: Music, Aesthetics,
Politics; Beyond Contractual Morality: Ethics, Law, and
Literature in Eighteenth-Century
France and Mass Enlightenment: Critical Studies in
Rousseau and Diderot. Her current book project examines
calls for justice in the blues through a historical analysis of
economic relations and, specifically, the imposition of debt on
African Americans.
