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Catherine Nesci, Chair
Professor of French
Affiliated with Comparative Literature & Women's Studies
Educational Background
- Ph.D. in French and Comparative Literature, University of Paris-7 (1987)
- Agrégation de lettres modernes (1981)
- M.A, University of Paris-7 (1980)
- Fellow at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (1978-1982)
- French Baccalaureate in Maths, Physics and Chemistry, highest honors (1976)
Academic Distinctions and Awards
- Palmes Académiques from the French Ministry of Education (2000)
- Quarter Scholar-in-Residency Grant, Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation, Inc (1999-2000)
- Grants from the French Cultural Services (New York) and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
(UC Santa Barbara) to organize the 20th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies (1992-1994)- Andrew W. Mellon post-Doctoral Fellowship, Department of French New York University (1989-1990)
- Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (1989-1990)
Research Interests
- Nineteenth-Century French Literature & Cultural Studies
- Literary Theory, Feminist & Gender Studies
- History of French feminism, including French women and politics (1789-present)
- French women writers and film directors
- Colonial and post-Colonial Francophone Literature and Cinema
- Trained as a generalist in the French educational system (see agrégation diploma),
with strengths especially in 16th - 20th century French literature, culture and civilizationMajor Publications
- La Femme mode d'emploi. Balzac, de la Physiologie du mariage à La Comédie humaine. Nicholasville (Kentucky): French Forum Publishers, 1982. 247 pages.
- Special issue, "L'Oeuvre d'identité: Essais sur le romantisme, de Nodier à Baudelaire." Paragraphes 13 (1996). Co-edited with Didier Maleuvre.
- Corps/Décors: Femmes, Orgie, Parodie. [A collection of essays in honor of Lucienne Frappier-Mazur]. With associate editors Gretchen Van Slyke and Gerald Prince. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1999.
- Special issue of The Romanic Review, "Soi-même comme une autre: Flora Tristan et les Pérégrinations d'une paria." 98.1 (January 2007).
- Special issue of Dix-Neuf. Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, "Delphine de Girardin: Une écriture expérimentale." 7 (October 2006). http://www.sdn.ac.uk/dixneuf/previous.htm
- Various articles on Balzac, Chateaubriand, Hugo, Nodier, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Dumas père, Olympe de Gouges, George Sand, Delphine de Girardin, and Flora Tristan, in such journals as SubStance, Michigan Romance Studies, French Forum, L'année balzacienne, and Romantisme.
Work in Press
- Le Flâneur et les flâneuses. Les femmes et la ville à l’époque romantique (Grenoble, France: Ellug, 2007). A book dealing with women, modernity and the city in nineteenth-century Paris, with chapters on Walter Benjamin, Balzac, Delphine de Girardin, Flora Tristan, George Sand, and 19th-century panoramic literature.
Conference organizer
- 20th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth Century French Studies, “The Contours of Identity: Thresholds, Boundaries and Borders,” University of California, Santa Barbara, October 20-23, 1994. Co-host, Didier Maleuvre.
- Co-organizer of the International Colloquium for the Jean-Paul Sartre Centennial Celebration (1905-2005). With Ernest Sturm. Department of French and Italian, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, November 29-December 4, 2005.
- Co-Organizer, 18th International George Sand Studies Conference: “Writing, Performance, and Theatricality in George Sand's Works” Department of French and Italian, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Fall 2008. For call for paper. click here.