People
Catherine Perry
Associate Professor
of French
Degrees
B.A., M.A., Indiana University, Bloomington; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Research Profile
"Chevalier" (knight) in the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques since 2006, Professor Perry works on French and Francophone literatures from the 19th century to the present. Her interests include intellectual history, literary theory, gender studies, representations of North Africa in European literature and painting, and francophone literatures from the Maghreb. She has published articles on a variety of French and Francophone writers and composed an Introduction to French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen, a bilingual anthology of women’s poetry in French from the Middle Ages to the present (Baltimore UP, 2008). Her book, Persephone Unbound: Dionysian Aesthetics in the Works of Anna de Noailles (Bucknell UP, 2003), studies Noailles' poetry and prose in relation to philosophical and aesthetic currents in early 20th-century Europe. Perry is actively involved in the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. She is also a fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. 2003-2005 President of the association Conseil International d'Études Francophones, she now serves as Editor in Chief of CIÉF's refereed journal, Nouvelles Études Francophones.
Teaching
Professor Perry has recently offered courses on Marcel Proust, literature of the fin de siècle and the Belle Époque, Symbolist and Modernist poetry, French travelers to North Africa, 20th-century women writers, contemporary French and Francophone literatures and, for seminars in English, European fiction at the turn of the twentieth century, and rebels, vagrants, and outsiders in French literature and film.
Contact Information
343
O'Shaughnessy Hall
631-6472
cperry@nd.edu
