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Dr. Labio is an associate professor of English, the director of the Center for British & Irish Studies, and the founder and manager of the . She specializes in comparative approaches to the study of literature, art, culture, philosophy, and economics since the seventeenth century.  

Dr. Labio is the author of Origins and the Enlightenment: Aesthetic Epistemology from Descartes to Kant (Cornell University Press, 2004). She has edited Belgian Memories (Yale French Studies 102, 2002) and co-edited The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720 (Yale University Press, 2013). She has published articles in leading journals, including Critical Inquiry, Yale French Studies, Cinema Journal, SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. She is completing a monograph tentatively titled The Architecture of Comics: Moving from the Page to the Museum. 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. 

Dr. Labio has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University. She has taught in the Departments of Comparative Literature and French at Yale University, the English Department of Reed College, and the Masters in Intercultural Management (MIME) of the Brussels Business School (ICHEC). The courses she teaches at ���������� Boulder include “The Global Eighteenth Century,” “History and Literature of Georgian Britain,” “Introduction to Literary Theory,” “Text and Image,” “Global Comics,” and “French-Language Comics” (in French).

Areas of Specialty

• British Literature
• Cultural Studies
• Eighteenth Century Literature
• Literary Theory
• Popular Culture, Film, Digital Media