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
My work 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. It has appeared in, among others, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, MLN, Nottingham French Studies and Dix-Neuf, Journal of the Society of Dix-neuviémistes.* My current book-length project is tentatively entitled Postcarding the Other: Polynesia and the Nineteenth-Century French Imagination.
* If you are interested in a copy of any of my papers but do not have institutional access to them, please feel free to email me for a copy.
At Gettysburg College, I teach intermediate and upper-level French language courses, as well as topic courses focusing on nineteenth-century culture, society, and literature. I also occasionally teach in the First-Year Seminar Program. My course, "You’re Not Yelping: From the Critique of Judgment to Consumer Rating Culture" (FYS 189-4), has been hailed as "a class that will change the way you think."
On leave fall 2021.
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Article Rewriting French Geographies in Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. Dix-Neuf, Journal de la Société des Dix-Neuviémistes, 2021.
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Article La Preuve par l’image : L’Usage de la photographie dans La Moustache d’Emmanuel Carrère. Nottingham French Studies, vol. 60, n°1, Spring 2021, 98-113
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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