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Coordinator of French
As a literary historian specializing in French cultural history, my goal is to help students learn to read texts on multiple levels, analyzing not only their content, but also their form and style. My classes are designed to encourage students to look beyond what a text communicates overtly in the plot, focusing instead on how ideas are embedded and repeated as narrative patterns that are generally unconsciously produced by the author. Unearthing an author’s implicit cultural biases enables us to learn more about the ways in which people related to the world around them during the time period in which the text was created. Before arriving at UNC-Charlotte, I taught at Bucknell University from 2002-2007.
Education
Education Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2002 (French Literature)
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1999 (French Literature)
A.M., Dartmouth College, 1997 (Comparative Literature; French, Italian, Spanish)
A.B., magna cum laude, Dartmouth College, 1996 (Comparative Literature; French, Italian)
Appointments
Professor of French, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2019-present)
Associate Professor of French, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2011- 2019)
Assistant Professor of French, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2007-2011)
Assistant Professor of French and Italian, Bucknell University (2002-2007)
Specific Research Interests
Seventeenth-Century French Literature
The Mind-Body Connection in Early-Modern France
Hybrid Literature Gender Studies
Literature and Medicine
Translation (English <-> French, English <-> Italian)
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