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Born and educated in France, Martine Gantrel graduated in Classics from the École Normale Supérieure (Sèvres) in 1979 and joined the faculty of Smith College in 1980. She earned her Doctorate in Modern French Literature at the Sorbonne-Paris IV University in 1987.
Her field of specialization is the French novel of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the intersection of Literature and History. She has written on the representation of domestic servants in modern French fiction and on the regionalist movement at the turn of the twentieth century. Her articles on Lamartine, Michelet, the Goncourt Brothers, Zola, Proust, Michel Tournier and Marguerite Yourcenar have appeared in leading journals in French and English. Martine Gantrel regularly teaches Literary Visions: Love Triangles, Images of the ‘Other’: Female domestic servants in French Fiction, To Be or Not to Be (French): Cultural Constructs of French National Identity, and French Cinema: Paris on Screen. |
