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Prof. Gabrielle Verdier

Gabrielle Verdier, Professor

Office: Garland 111; Curtin 778
Phone: (414) 229-2512
Email: verdier@uwm.edu

Degree: Ph.D., Yale University, 1976

Current Research Interests:
Fiction in 17th and 18th-century France
Women writers
Theater of the French Revolution
French in Wisconsin

Current Teaching Interests:
French culture to 1800
French literature to 1800
Fairy tales
Women writers
Food and culture

Other Relevant Activities:
Associate Director, Center for International Education
Director, Wisconsin's French Connections Project
Coordinator, SWAAF (Southeast Wisconsin Academic Alliance in French)

Recent Publications:
"Vivre de lecture, mourir de lire: le cas de madame de Staal-Delaunay." In Lectrices d'Ancien Régime, sous la direction d'Isabelle Brouard-Arends. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2003. 143-152.

"Femmes-objets? Femmes de tête? L'indécidable sexe féminin dans l'Histoire comique de Francion." Littératures classiques 41 (hiver 2001): 109-121.

"Olympe de Gouges et le divorce sur la scène révolutionnaire: Adieu au mariage d'Ancien Régime?" Dalhousie French Studies 56 (Fall 2001) 154-64.



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