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Dr. Aimee Boutin (Ph.D., Cornell University) specializes
in 19th-century French literature, gender studies, poetics and
critical theory. She has published articles on French Romanticism,
women and nineteenth-century poetry and is the author of Maternal
Echoes: The Poetry of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Alphonse
de Lamartine (U of Delaware Press, 2001). This study of maternal
imagery in the poetry of two French Romantic poets draws on psychoanalytic
and feminist theories on the maternal voice to argue that both
poets find a voice of their own by echoing their mother's voice
[Abstract].
Dr. Boutin's research and teaching interests center on the surge
of women's writing in the first half of the nineteenth-century.
She has published on George Sand, Desbordes-Valmore, Louise Colet
and Amable Tastu, and has examined such issues as the notion of
tradition or sisterhood, social and political themes in women's
poetry, gender and narration, the appeal of the exotic and the
history of the anti-slavery movement. She regularly teaches undergraduate
and graduate seminars on French women writers and has directed
dissertations, among other topics, on 19th-century women travelers
(Stael, Tristan, Eberhardt).
Dr. Boutin is also interested in 19th-century cultural history
and has been studying how the sounds of the past are incorporated
in literary and cultural texts. Her work on church bells and street
criers have appeared in Nineteenth-century French Studies and
French Forum.
Dr. Boutin received the First Year Assistant Professor Grant
in 1999, and the American Association of University Women summer
grant in 2000, and the COFRS grant in 2003. In 2001, she participated
in the NEH summer seminar "Revolution and Changing Identity
in France 1787-1799 " directed by Prof. Jeremy Popkin and
held at the Newberry Library, Chicago. In 2005-06, while on sabbatical,
she spent the year in Paris, working at the Bibliotheque nationale
de France, on a new edition of Desbordes-Valmore's 1821 collection
of short stories, Les Veillees des Antilles (L'Harmattan, 2006).
Courses Taught:
- Gender and 19th-century French literature (FRW 5595)
- Baudelaire and modernity (FRW 5595)
- Paris in the Nineteenth-Century (FRW 4460/5595)
- FRT 3561 French Women Writers
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