Gallouδt delivers paper in Germany
7 December 2009 Gallout delivers paper in Germany
Catherine Gallout, professor of French and Francophone Studies, was invited to the Universitt Koblenz-Landau, Germany for the Seventh Landau-Paris Symposium on the Eighteenth century that took place in October. The theme of the conference was Taste in the Eighteenth Century and Gallout delivered a paper Le got du vin chez Marivaux in which she analyzes the analogy between the love of wine and celebratory story telling in the works of French author Marivaux.
Gallouts interest in wine and its culture is informed by her role in an HWS wine class in which she gives a yearly lecture on French wine and the culture of wine in France. Gallout also just published an essay in Le corps romanesque Images et usages topiques sous lAncien Regime (Montreal, PUL, 2009). Her chapter deals with the representations of the black body in narrative fiction of the French Eighteenth century. This topic is central to the class, Race Society and Culture in the Ancient Regime, that she will teach next semester.
Gallout, who joined the faculty in 1986, holds a bacalaureat with honors from LAcademie de Grenoble in France; a bachelors from Hope College, and her masters and doctorate from Rutgers University.