Cate 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).