Departments

• French and Italian
• Women's and Gender Studies

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~frandit/faculty/beasley.html

Contact Information

Email: faith.beasley@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-2406
Office: 6087 Dartmouth Hall

Education

B.A. Mount Holyoke College; Paris, L'Ecole Normale Supérieure; Ph.D. Princeton University

Areas of Expertise

17th and 18th century French literature; literary politics of 17th-century France; influence of salons on literary genres and criticism; French national identity, women writers; feminist theory; autobiography; French cultural studies; travel narratives; the relationship between India and France in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Selected Works

• Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory, (2006).
• "Roger Chartier," in Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought, L Kritzman (ed.), (2005).
• "Memoirs" in Companion to Women's Historical Writing, M Spongberg (ed.), (2005).
• Approaches to Teaching the Princess of Clèves, co-edited with K A Jensen, (1998).
• Revising Memory: Women's Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France, (1990).

Current Projects

Editor of Options for Teaching Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers, book project on the relationship between France and India in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries