Mary Ellen Birkett
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Mary Ellen Birkett
received her B.A. from Smith |
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A specialist in French literature and culture of the early nineteenth
centuy, she is the author of Lamartine and the Poetics of Landscape and of chapters in Cabeen's Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century French
Literature, Relire Lamartine Aujourd'hui, and Approaches
to Teaching Stendhal's The Red and The Black and Approaches to Rousseau's Confessions and Reveries of the Solitary Walker. She has contributed
numerous entries to The Romantic Movement: A Selected and Critical
Bibliography and has written for journals such as The French Review, The Hawaiian Journal of History, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Romance Notes, Romance Quarterly and Romantisme. Currently, she is co-editing two collections of essays: Approaches to Teaching Claire de Duras’s Ourika and Religious Tolerance and Intolerance, the first volume of the Occasional Papers of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute. She teaches French literature and culture of Romantic period, the Enlightenment, Classical era, Renaissance, and Middle Ages. She has an additional interest in contemporary French detective fiction, which she emphasizes when teaching Readings in Modern Literature. |
Phone: 413-585-3351
Building: Wright 215
E-mail: mebirket@smith.edu |
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