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Andrew Billing’s principal research interests include the French��Enlightenment, eighteenth-century political and moral philosophy and political economy, Rousseau,��18th-century French literature, French imperialism in the Pacific, early science fiction, and critical theory.��

Originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand, Professor Billing has a secondary research specialization in francophone literature from the Pacific region. He has published and presented at conferences in this area, in particular on the fiction of Titaua Peu.

At �պ���Ʒ, he has taught courses on the French Revolution and eighteenth-century French political ideas; on the animal/human distinction in the French Enlightenment; science fiction and technology in French literature and film; francophone literature from the Asia/Pacific region; and on colonial and postcolonial writing from Aotearoa/New Zealand, Tahiti, and Hawai’i. He has also collaborated with a student on translations into English of articles from Diderot and D’Alembert’s�����Գ��⳦���DZ�é�徱��.

His book, ��(Routledge, 2024), explores how five important eighteenth-century French political authors—Rousseau, Diderot, La Mettrie, Quesnay, and Rétif de La Bretonne—constructed a “political zoology” in their philosophical and literary writings informed by animal references drawn from Enlightenment natural history, science, and physiology.

Recent publications include “,” in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 35, no. 4 (2023); and “Political Right, Political Economy, and the Economic Cycle in Rousseau, Quesnay, and Condillac,” in (Routledge, 2024).

With Professor Juliette Cherbuliez of the University of Minnesota, he edited a special edition of��L’Esprit Créateur,��titled��Paris, Imagined Capital: Economic Transition and Modernity (17th��to 19th��Centuries).��He also participated in and helped lead a workshop on the Abbé Raynal’s��Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes,��hosted by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World at the University of Minnesota.

Professor Billing received his BA from the University of Otago,��MA from the University of Canterbury and his PhD from the University of California, Irvine, with a doctoral dissertation on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s political fictions.