Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures;
Director of Graduate Studies in French 2008-09
- Office: Boylston Hall 508
- Phone: 617-495-5823
- Email: beizer@fas.harvard.edu.
- Office hours: Thursdays 11-1, and by appointment
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B.A., Cornell University; Ph.D.,
Yale University
Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century French Literature; Feminist Studies; Narrative Theory; Psychoanalysis and Literature; Cultural Studies; Literature and Medicine; Biography/Autobiography
Major Publications:
Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994
Family Plots: Balzac's Narrative Generations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986
Books in Progress:
Thinking Back Through the Mothers: Rethinking Feminist Biography. Under contract at Cornell University Press.
Between Feather and Quill: George Sand and the Maternal Imaginary.
Recent/Forthcoming Articles and Book Chapters:
“Encore ‘Adieu’: de la repetition à la mort” in L’Année Balzacienne, 2006.
"Autonymies: François la Fraise et le nom du corps" in L’Ecriture sandienne: pratiques et imaginaires, ed. Brigitte Diaz and Isabelle Naginski. (Colloque de Cerisy, Presses Universitaires de Caen), 2006.
"Dévoiler la momie: à la recherche de Kuchuk Hanem" in Lieux litteraires, ed. Christine Planté, 2005.
"History’s Life Story: Nanon as L’Histoire de ma vie" in George Sand et l’empire des lettres, ed. Anne E. McCall-Saint-Saens (New Orleans: Presses Universitaires du Nouveau Monde, 2004).
"Ecoute le chant du labourage: chant et travail de l’écriture dans ‘Les veillées du chanvreur’ de George Sand. Littérature, 134. ed. Jacques Neefs and Martine Reid, June 2004.
"One's Own: Reflections on Owning, Motherhood, and Adoption" in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 21, no. 2 (Fall 2002).
"Au [delà du] Bonheur des dames: Notes from the Underground" in Zola: Contemporary Perspectives (special issue of Australian Journal of French Studies, 2001).
"F/V: Notes sur Le Lys dans la vallée" in L'Erotique balzacienne,ed. L. Frappier-Mazur and J.-M. Roulin (SEDES,2001).
"You Can't Judge a Book by its Cover: Teaching Le Père Goriot and Modernism," in Approaches to Teaching Balzac's Old Goriot, ed. Michal Ginsburg (MLA, 2000).
"Writing Origins: George Sand as The Story of Our Life" in Women Seeking Expression in France 1789-1914, ed. Rosemary Lloyd (Monash French Studies, 2000).
Courses offered 2008-09:
French 70b. Introduction to French Literature II: Representations of Change From the Romantics to the Present (fall term)
French 161. Walk, Look, Write: 19th-Century Flâneurs and Flâneuses (fall term)
French 255. Metamorphoses of the Vampire (fall term)
Other courses offered:
[ French 160. Rereading Romanticism ]
[ French 252. Sounds of Silence ]
[ French 259. The Culture of Hysteria in 19th-Century France
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For more information, go to the Harvard course catalogue.
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