Hobart and William Smith Colleges

9 July 2014 Gallout Awarded Kinghorn Global Fellowship

Catherine Gallout, dean of William Smith College and professor of French and Francophone Studies, is the recipient of the 2014-15 John Readie & Florence B. Kinghorn Global Fellowship.

Established in 1970 and generously endowed by Dr. and Mrs. William Reckmeyer in honor of John Readie and Florence B. Kinghorn, the fellowship honors outstanding faculty at HWS who have exemplified global citizenship on a continued basis.

In recognition of her appointment, Gallout will receive a stipend of $3,000 to be used in the spirit and nature of this award.

As a Kinghorn Global Fellow, she will deliver the Kinghorn Global Fellow Lecture during her appointment period. The lecture topic is to be determined by the Kinghorn Global Fellow, but will be connected to global citizenship and reflective of the work Gallout has done to qualify for the award. The lecture will be open to the HWS and Geneva communities.

Through her involvement with HWS committees and student groups and through her role as an adviser, Gallout has been deeply involved in the fabric of the HWS student experience since 1986 and engaged particularly in global study.

The author and editor of numerous scholarlypublications, Gallouts recent scholarly work focuses on culture and race during the French Enlightenment, particularly how resistance and revolt of African slaves are representedin 18th century cultural productions.

Gallout recently publishedMarivaudage:theories & pratiques dun discours (Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment, 2014), a collection of essays exploring the style of Marivaux as it is discussed by his contemporaries and is remembered today. She also recently published on Nzingha, queen of Angola, in a special issue on Africa in the 18th century French journalDix-Huitime Sicle. The article, reviewed in Angola and in Brazil where Nzingha is a historical heroine, is considered a breakthrough in European studies of the African queen.

Through the fellowship, Gallout will bring her recent research to book form, focusing on 18th century European representations of Africans in literature during the French Enlightenment.

Gallout serves on the organizing committee of the Marivaux conference at the Universite Aix-Marseille through January 2015. She is co-editor of Les representations du Noir dans la litterature, lhistoire et les arts europeens et americains des XVIIIe et XIXe sicles.

Born in Vietnam, Gallout received her doctorate and masters from Rutgers University, her B.A.cum laudefrom Hope College and her Bacalaureat, with honors, from Academie de Grenoble.She is member of Groupe de Recherches sur les Representations Europeennes de lAfrique et des Africains aux 17e et 18e sicles, Societe pour lA TOpique Romanesque, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, North East Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Societe Marivaux, and Modern Languages Association.