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FRENCH 123 - Colonizing the Early Modern Body

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How do early modern texts, images, and maps contribute to — or resist — colonization and extractivism? How are notions of ’nature’ and the ‘wild’ or ’savage’ mobilised in justifying the exploitation of land and indigenous peoples, and what symbolic and...

FRENCH 160 - The Laboratory Island

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Islands, because of their size, boundedness by the sea and supposed isolation, have served and continue to serve as laboratories for experiments including military, nuclear, touristic, scientific and ecological ones, as well as for forms of forced labor...

FRENCH 072 - Forms of Desire: Pre-Modern French Voices

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What voices can we hear in pre-modern literature? How did literary forms (the novel, tragic drama, lyric poetry) emerge or evolve over the course of several centuries? In this class, we will examine a wide range of texts from the 12th to the 18th...

FRENCH 088 - Comic Relief: The Power of Humor in Social Fiction

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Comic Relief focuses on fictional works in French which use humor to dorer la pilule , or make more palatable, the social ills and political dangers they reveal. With naïfs and rebellious women as protagonists, these coming-of-age stories raise questions...

Kelly Kamrath

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Research interests: early 20th century, popular romance, affect theory, feminism, gender and sexuality, politics of the personal, folklore, mythology, creative writing

Ege Olgac

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Research Interests: 19th–21st century French and Francophone literature, environmental humanities, phytopoetics, vegetal identity and individuality, vegetal kinship, zoopoetics, colonial and decolonial ecologies, eco-critical theory

 

Elizabeth Harper

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Academic Degrees: University of Virginia, Ph.D, University of North Carolina, B.A.

Research Interests: 13th-, 14th-, and 15th-century French Literature and Culture; Historical Poetics; History of the Book; Sound Studies; Gender Studies; Ecofeminism...