Education

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
PhD. Aug. 2015.

Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
M.A. 2009 French Literature and Language
B.A. 2004 Political philosophy, major

Other Publications

“Michelet, History of the French Revolution.” Bloomsbury History: Theory & Method. Ed. Stefan Berger. Bloomsbury Digital Resources, 2022. Full Text

“« Ce que la révolution doit à la littérature » : une polémique de 1848” (with Judith Lyon-Caen), 1848 et la littérature. Eds. Véronique Samson and Mathieu Roger-Lacan. Fabula Colloques. (March 2021) Full Text

“Embodying History for Social Change in Jules Michelet’s Le Peuple.Nineteenth-Century French Studies. 47.3–4 (2019): 151-164. Full Text (paywall)

“From Explication to Emancipation: The Radical Pedagogy of George Sand’s Le Compagnon du tour de FranceNineteenth-Century Contexts. 41.2 (2019): 173-184. Full Text

“Review: Balzac Literary Sociologist by Allan Pasco.” Symposium: a Quarterly Journal of Modern Literatures. 2018 Full Text

Translation of Catherine Nesci, “Introduction” to Mystères de Paris et Mystères urbains américains. Du récit des bas-fonds au film noir et au « Steampunk » (1840-2015). Medias19.org.  Full Text

“Review: Inventing the Popular: Printing, Politics, and Poetics by Bettina R. Lerner.” H-France Review. 19.9 (2019). Full Text

 

“Review: Jenny l’ouvrière: drame en cinq actes by Adrien Decourcelle and Jules Barbier. Edited by Janice Best and Nicole Corbett.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 46.1-2 (2017). Full Text

“Charles Testut and Les Mystères de la Nouvelle-Orléans: Journalism in Exile.” Les Mystères Urbains au XIXe Siècle: Circulations Transferts Appropriations. Eds. Dominique Kalifa and Marie-Ève Thérenty. 24 Feb. 2015. Full Text

“Charles Testut, «Les Mystères de la Nouvelle-Orléans», Commenté par Rebecca Powers.” Medias19. Anthologies, Les Mystères Urbains: Etats-Unis. 19 Feb. 2015. Full Text

L’Education Sentimentale: Passivity and Violence.” Narrative is the Essence of History:Essays on the Historical Novel. Ed. John Cameron. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2012.19-30.

“Review: Splendeurs et misères de la grisette by Alain Lescart.” MLN Modern Language Notes 126.4 (2011): 922-925.

Blog Posts

    Projects

    Book Project: “Droit au Travail!” The Literary Origins of the Right to Work in 19th Century France. Forthcoming, May 2024 at the University of Virginia Press

    Undergraduate Research Project (as supervisor): “Tracking Labor in Popular Literature: France, England, and the United States in the Nineteenth Century”

    Upcoming Talks and Conferences





    November 19, 2019 (EHESS, Paris) “Les origines littéraires du « droit au travail ! » : Une fiction économique ?” Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l’Histoire du Littéraire (GRIHL) Séminaire Commun. Seminar details.

    Memberships

    ▪ EHESS-GRIHL (Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l’Histoire du Littéraire), membre associée
    ▪ Nineteenth Century French Studies, member
    ▪ Modern Language Association (MLA), member
    ▪ Societé des Études Romantiques et Dix-neuviémistes, member

     

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