Caroline Ferraris-Besso
Assistant Professor
French
Contact
Address
Room 32
300 North Washington St.
Gettysburg, PA 17325-1400
Education
PhD Cornell University, 2012
MA Cornell University, 2008
MA Université Savoie-Mont Blanc, 2004
Academic Focus
Nineteenth and twentieth-century French literature; Postcolonial studies; Polynesian studies; Visual culture
Caroline Ferraris-Besso received her licence, maîtrise and master’s degrees in French literature from the Université Savoie Mont Blanc. She complemented her studies with coursework in contemporary European culture in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Exeter (UK). She then came to the United States to pursue doctoral work in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University, where she completed her PhD in 2012. Before coming to Gettysburg, she held visiting assistant professorships at Miami University, UCLA, and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Caroline’s research is concerned with the ways in which literature and art have been used as tools to shape racial, social, and sexual minorities in the French Colonial Empire. Her current book-length project is tentatively entitled Postcarding the Other: Polynesia and the Nineteenth-Century French Imagination.
Spring 2020 Office Hours: MW 11am-12pm; F 12pm-1pm; and by appointment
Courses Taught
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Article Littérature Coloniale and The Failure of the Novel MLN, vol. 133, n°4, September (French Issue), 2018, 974-999
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Article “Quelque chose de noir:” Depicting the Petit Savoyard Nineteenth Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 40, n°3, 2018, 255-280
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Article La Subversion par l'image : La Perse, la Chaldée et la Susiane de Jane Dieulafoy Women in French Studies, Special Issue, vol. 7, 2018, 241-258
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Article “D’après Loti”: d’un changement de sujet Romance Notes, vol. 57, n°1, April, 2017, 133-144
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Article “Dans le passé mort”: Pierre Loti, Images, and Time Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 43, n° 1-2, Fall-Winter, 2014-2015,112-127
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Article La Fabrique des crétins: Souvenirs de Tahiti Labyrinthe, Atelier interdisciplinaire, vol. 37, n°2, 2011, 163-179