Eleonora Mancuso is a PhD Candidate in French Literature at Boston University studying under the direction of Professor Rachel Mesch. Her areas of interest include nineteenth-century French literature, gender studies, medical humanities, and disability studies.<\/p>\n
Through an interdisciplinary approach to nineteenth-century French literature, she explores the topic of medical spectacles. Her research investigates the literary representation of disability in nineteenth-century novels and poetry. In particular, she is interested in how selected nineteenth-century writers (Balzac, Zola, Flaubert, Baudelaire, and others) exploited disability in their narratives (narrative prosthesis<\/em>) and turned it into spectacle.<\/p>\n Before arriving at BU, Eleonora earned her Bachelor\u2019s degree in English, French and Spanish Language, Literature and Culture from the Universit\u00e0 di Catania (Italy). She also holds a master\u2019s degree in French literature with a minor in Spanish literature from the University of Delaware.<\/p>\n Eleonora completed the Graduate Certificate in Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies,\u00a0and she is currently pursuing the Graduate Certificate in Pedagogy through BU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1714,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26882,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23138\/revisions\/26882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}