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World Languages and Literatures

Cate Talley                                    Catherine Talley

assistant Professor of French

Office:  Palamountain 406
Phone: (518) 580-5221
Email:  ctalley@skidmore.edu

Degrees

  • Ph.D., French, University of California, Berkeley
  • M.A., French, University of California, Berkeley
  • B.A., French, Bard College

Teaching and Research Interests

  • 19th- and 20th-century French literature
  • Cultural and intellectual history
  • Theories of the everyday and practice
  • Politics and aesthetics
  • The francophone Atlantic world

Select Publications

  • The Psychology of Modern Literature: Gérard de Nerval and the Cultural Politics of Subjectivity (book manuscript in progress)
  • The Politics of Authorial Subjectivity in Nerval Les Faux Saulniers. Forthcoming in French Studies.
  • Sentiment and the Contradiction of Racial Inequality in Beaumont Marie or Slavery in the United States. The Review of Politics 84.3(2022). 
  • The Absurdity of the Aftermath in Daoud Meursault, contre-enquête. French Forum 45.3 (2020).
  • Fashioning Romanticism: The Petit Cénacle and the Art of Dress. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 42.1 (2020).
  • Pratiques traditionnelles, pratiques fictionnelles: les rituels dans la « Sylvie » de Gérard de Nerval in Rituels en action. Louvain-la-Neuve: EME Éditions, 2017. Esthétique et spiritualité.
  • From Identity to Identifications: Depersonalizing the Subject of the Nervalian 󾱳è. Nineteenth-Century French Studies 43.1-2 (2015).