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Marie-Claire Vallois, Associate Professor of French Literature

E-mail: mv46@cornell.edu

Marie-Claire Vallois, Associate Professor of French Literature, received her doctorate from the University of Nice. She teaches courses in French literature, French Culture, and Women's Studies. Her research is devoted mainly to the eighteenth century and the Age of the Revolution, with critical interests in semiotics and narratology, history and ideology and French and Francophone theories and practices of feminism. Author of a book on Germaine de Staël, Fictions féminines: Mme de Staël et les voix de la sybille, Vallois is presently completing another book, Displacing Femininity: Women, Gender, and the Revolution (1650-1850).

Research Interests:

Eighteenth Century French Literature, the Revolution, Romanticism
Narratology
Rhetoric of Ideologies
Feminist Criticism

Recent Courses:

Modern French Literature
Perspectives on the age of Enlightenment
Romance to Revolution
Early Modern French Literature
The Novel as Masterwork
Romantic Sexualities