Mesch Interviewed by CAS
Rachel Mesch, our new Professor of French, was recently interviewed by CAS Communications! In the interview, Prof. Mesch discusses her current research, what drew her to BU, what classes she teaches, and more.
Below is an extract from the interview, Prof. Mesch’s response to a question about what drew Prof. Mesch to her study of the Belle Époque in France:
“So many of the things that we associate with modern pleasures and contemporary forms of entertainment actually started in nineteenth-century France: from photography to shopping in department stores to the explosion of the mass press. I love studying [contemporary forms of entertainment] at their origins to see how many of the questions that continue to preoccupy us—around gender, sexuality, and images of femininity—were explored through these emerging technologies, especially during the Belle Epoque, as it was a moment of transition between the centuries.”