Gerwin, Beth
Faculty
Modern Languages and Linguistics Department
- Phone
- (403) 332-4572
- beth.gerwin@uleth.ca
Office Hours
mardi: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
mercredi: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PMCurrent Research
| Title |
Location |
Principal Investigator | Co-Researchers | Grant Agency |
Grant Amount |
Grant Time Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manuscript on Balzac and representations of difference | ||||||
| Manuscript on Balzac and representations of difference | University of Lethbridge Arts & Science Research | $10,000 | 2006-08 |
Previous Research
| Title | Grant Agency | Completion Date |
| “ Unveiling the Feminine: Text and Textile as Critical Nineteenth-Century Metaphor ” | Mark Diamond Research Fund | 2003 |
Publications
"Un enlèvement peut en cacher un autre: Kidnapping the Past in La Duchesse de Langeais."
Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Issue 41, nos. 1-2 (Fall-Winter 2012), 25-47.
"Révision et subversion: Balzac et le mythe de Napoléon." @nalyses (forthcoming).
"Power in the City: Balzac's flâneur in La Fille aux yeux d'or." In Institutions and Power in
Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture. Ed. David Evans & Kate Griffiths
(Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2010): 101-114.
"Circulation et Exception: La Ville dans La Fille aux yeux d'or." In La Métropole et la
modernité. Ed. Jelena Jovicic (London, ON: Mestengo Press, University of Western Ontario,
2007): 67-81.
Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Issue 41, nos. 1-2 (Fall-Winter 2012), 25-47.
"Révision et subversion: Balzac et le mythe de Napoléon." @nalyses (forthcoming).
"Power in the City: Balzac's flâneur in La Fille aux yeux d'or." In Institutions and Power in
Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture. Ed. David Evans & Kate Griffiths
(Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2010): 101-114.
"Circulation et Exception: La Ville dans La Fille aux yeux d'or." In La Métropole et la
modernité. Ed. Jelena Jovicic (London, ON: Mestengo Press, University of Western Ontario,
2007): 67-81.
Degrees
B.A. (Literary Studies and Philosophy); DEA (French Literature); Ph.D. (Comparative Literature)
Research Interests
I work primarily on French nineteenth-century literature, particularly the writings of Balzac and Flaubert. My main interest is in representations of difference, and especially of gender and sexual difference. I am also interested in nineteenth-century continental philosophy (such as phenomenology) and literature, twentieth-century French literature (such as Marguerite Duras), twentieth-century literary theory, ethical philosophy, feminist theory, and theories of psychoanalysis.
Research Areas
Sexual difference and psychoanalysis
Feminist critiques of Freud and Lacan
Representations of femininity in psychoanalysis and in nineteenth-century thought
French realism
Nineteenth-century ideas of difference
Balzac and sexual difference
Balzac and androgyny
Balzac and alterity
Expertise
Theories of psychoanalysis
Feminist theory
Ethical philosophy
Twentieth-century literary theory
Twentieth-century French literature (such as Marguerite Duras)
Nineteenth-century continental philosophy (such as phenomenology) and literature
Representations of difference gender and sexual difference
French realism
French nineteenth-century literature (in particular Honoré de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert)
Languages
French some German