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Dr. Labio is an associate professor of English, the director of the听Center for British & Irish Studies, and the founder and manager of the听. She specializes in comparative approaches to听the study of literature, art, culture, philosophy, and economics since the seventeenth century. 听
Dr. Labio is the author of听Origins and the听Enlightenment: Aesthetic Epistemology from Descartes to Kant听(Cornell University Press, 2004). She has edited听Belgian Memories (Yale French Studies听102, 2002) and co-edited听The Great听Mirror of Folly: Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720听(Yale University Press, 2013).听She has published articles in leading journals, including听Critical Inquiry,听Yale听French Studies,听Cinema Journal,听SVEC听(Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), and听Eighteenth-Century Fiction. She is completing a monograph tentatively titled听The Architecture of Comics: Moving from the Page to the Museum.听Other projects include a book-length study of the impact of the Mississippi Bubble on French and transatlantic cultures and an edited collection of bubble plays.听
Dr. Labio has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University. She has taught听in the Departments of Comparative Literature and French at Yale University, the English听Department of Reed College, and the Masters in Intercultural Management (MIME) of the听Brussels Business School (ICHEC). The courses she teaches at CU Boulder听include 鈥淭he Global Eighteenth Century,鈥� 鈥淗istory and Literature of Georgian Britain,鈥澨�淚ntroduction to Literary Theory,鈥� 鈥淭ext and听Image,鈥� 鈥淕lobal Comics,鈥� and 鈥淔rench-Language Comics鈥� (in French).