Scott M. Sanders

Selected Publications

• Books

• Voices from Beyond: Physiology, Sentience and the Uncanny in Eighteenth-Century French Literature, University of Virginia Press, (April 2022). Walker Cowen Memorial Prize.

      Review by Logan J. Connors, The French Review, vol. 96 no. 4, 2023, p. 200-200.

      Review by Nathalie Vuillemin, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 35, no. 4, 2023, pp. 559-562

      Review by Ellen Welch, Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 57, no. 3, 2024, pp. 404-406

• Deirdre Loughridge and Scott Sanders, special issue editors; Fayçal Falaky and Zeina Hakim, volume editors. Voice and Sound in Diderot/Diderot entre son et voix, Diderot Studies, vol. 41, Geneva: Droz, 2025.

• Peer-Reviewed Articles

• "Figures of Sound: Metaphors of Acoustics in Early Modern France," in Literature as Sound Studies. Edited by yasser elhariry and Liesl Yamaguchi, 159-176. Bloomsbury, 2025. 

• "Singing through the Pain: Murat riffing on Montaigne," Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 35, no. 4 (2023), 445-462

• "Between Novels and Songs: Eliza Haywood's French Romance," Studies in the Novel, 54, no. 3 (Summer 2022), 139-158.

• "Beastly Variations: Allegories on Race, Migration and Marriage," The Opera Quarterly, 34, no. 3-4 (Fall 2020), 1-31.

• Co-Authored, "Distant Approaches to the Printed Page," Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, 12, no. 1 (2022), 1-28.

• "Code Noir in Marivaux's Theater," Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 32, no. 2 (2020): 272-296.

• "On Chanting, Wailing, and Spell-Casting: Haunting Voices in Jacques Cazotte's Le Diable Amoureux," Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. 57, no. 4 (2016): 469-90. 

• "Flying the Colonial Skies during the French Enlightenment," in Rediscovering French Science-Fiction: In Literature, Film and Comics, From Cyrano to Barbarella. Edited by Philippe Mather and Sylvain Rhéault, 41-64. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. 

• Co-Authored, "Multimedia in the Long Eighteenth Century," Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Libraries for Musicology, 2 (June 2015) 29-32.

• "Sound and Sensibility in Diderot's Le Neveu de Rameau," Music & Letters. 94 (May 2013): 237-62.

• Reviews

• "Reading Drama in Eighteenth-Century France. By Thomas Wynn," Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 47:4 (December 2024) 470-472.

• "Théâtre en guerre: acteurs, auteurs, publics en temps de conflits armés. Sous la direction de Sandra Cureau, Anne Debrosse, Yann Lagadec, Valeria Pansini et Giovanna Sparacello," French Studies, 78, no. 3 (April 2024).

• "Ellen R. Welch, A Theater of Diplomacy: International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press," H-France Forum 12, no. 3 (May 2017): 1–6. 

• Review of Denis Diderot, Ed. Marian Hobson, Tr. Kate Tunstall and Caroline Warman, Denis Diderot's Rameau's Nephew: A Multi-Media Edition, Eighteenth Century Music. 13:1 (March 2016): 130-32.

• Encyclopedia Entries

• "Perturbations dans les théâtres nantais au 18e siècle," Nantes Patrimonia, July 2023.

• "Denis Diderot, Lettres sur les sourds et muets," Lexikon Schriften über Musik: Vol. 2. Musikästhetik in Europa und Nordamerika. Eds. Wörner, F. & Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (Kassel/Stuttgart: Bärenreiter/Metzler, 2023) 225-28.

• "Denis Diderot, Diderots Beitrag zur Querelle des Bouffons," Lexikon Schriften über Musik: Vol. 2. Musikästhetik in Europa und Nordamerika. Eds. Wörner, F. & Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (Kassel/Stuttgart: Bärenreiter/Metzler, December 2023) 222-23.

• "Friedrich Melchior Grimm, Le petit prophète de Boehmischbroada," Lexikon Schriften über Musik: Vol. 2. Musikästhetik in Europa und Nordamerika. Eds. Wörner, F. & Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (Kassel/Stuttgart: Bärenreiter/Metzler, 2023) 298-300.