Background
Hoffmann, Kathryn Ann was born on October 26, 1954 in Rockville Centre, New York, United States. Daughter of Manfred and Catherine (Nanko) Hoffmann.
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In the days of Louis XIV, the experience of pleasure was as much a social and political tool as an essential ingredient in personal life. This volume explores this "society of pleasures" by studying the couplings of pleasure, power and knowledge which took shape within it.
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Hoffmann, Kathryn Ann was born on October 26, 1954 in Rockville Centre, New York, United States. Daughter of Manfred and Catherine (Nanko) Hoffmann.
Bachelor summa cum laude, State University of New York Buffalo, 1975; Master of Arts, The Johns Hopkins University, 1979; Doctor of Philosophy, The Johns Hopkins University, 1981.
Assistant professor French literature and language, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1981-1988; assistant professor French literature and language, U. Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, 1992-1997; associate professor, U. Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, since 1997; managing partner, Yuval Design Partnership, Chicago, 1988-1992.
(In the days of Louis XIV, the experience of pleasure was ...)
Member of Modern Language Association (Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione prize for French and Francophone studies 1998), History of Science Society, Society for Interdisciplinary Study Social Imagery, Society for Interdisciplinary French 17th Century Studies (executive committee 1994-1996), North America Society for 17th Century French Literature, American Society for 18th Century Studies, International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Brook Ellis, November 25, 1987.