Professor M. J. Muratore, University of Missouri Curators' Distinguished Professor, is author of numerous book-length studies, among which figure: "The evolution of the Cornelian Heroine" ; "Cornelian Theater : The Metadramatic Dimension" : "Mimesis and Metatextuality in Neo-Classical Text". She has as well directed and contributed to multiple essay collections. A wide-ranging spectrum of scholarly articlesappear in international journals and focus on French, European and post-colonial works.