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djkelly@bu.edu |
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Professor Kelly is on sabatical Fall 2009
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Dorothy Kelly
Professor of French
Background
- BA, Smith College
- MA, Yale University
- PhD, Yale University
Research
Professor Kelly's research and teaching interests include nineteenth-century French literature and the French novel, gender and literature, literary theory, and psychoanalysis and literature. Her new book, Reconstructing Woman (2007), examines the nineteenth-century literary theme of the construction of an artificial woman. Her other publications include Telling Glances: Voyeurism in the French Novel (1992), Fictional Genders: Role and Representation in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative (1989), "Emma's Distinctive Taste" (Australian Journal of French Studies), and "Experimenting on Women" in Spectacles of Realism: Gender, Body, Genre, edited by Christopher Prendergast and Margaret Cohen (1995).
She teaches courses on psychoanalysis and literature, the French novel, gender and the novel, nineteenth-century French literature, literature and transgression, and the literary construction of identity.
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