Cate Talley                                    

assistant Professor of French

Office:  Palamountain 406
Phone: (518) 580-5221
Email:  ctalley@skidmore.edu

Degrees

• Ph.D., French, University of California, Berkeley
• M.A., French, University of California, Berkeley
• B.A., French, Bard College

Teaching and Research Interests

• 19^th- and 20^th-century French literature
• Cultural and intellectual history
• Theories of the everyday and practice
• Politics and aesthetics
• The francophone Atlantic world

Select Publications

• The Psychology of Modern Literature: Gérard de Nerval and the Cultural Politics of Subjectivity (book manuscript in progress)
• “The Politics of Authorial Subjectivity in Nerval’s Les Faux Saulniers.” Forthcoming in French Studies.
• “Sentiment and the Contradiction of Racial Inequality in Beaumont’s Marie or Slavery in the United States.” The Review of Politics 84.3(2022). 
• “The Absurdity of the Aftermath in Daoud’s Meursault, contre-enquête.” French Forum 45.3 (2020).
• “Fashioning Romanticism: The Petit Cénacle and the Art of Dress.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 42.1 (2020).
• “Pratiques traditionnelles, pratiques fictionnelles: les rituels dans la « Sylvie » de Gérard de Nerval” in Rituels en action. Louvain-la-Neuve: EME Éditions, 2017. Esthétique et spiritualité.
• “From Identity to Identifications: Depersonalizing the Subject of the Nervalian Chimère.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 43.1-2 (2015).