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Rachel
Mesch

Professor of English and French

rachel.mesch@gmail.com
212-960-5400 x6868

Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#508

BA, Yale College,
MA, Columbia University,
PhD, University of Pennsylvania,

Dr. Rachel Mesch received her BA from Yale College (1993), her MA from Columbia University (1995), and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (2000). A specialist in nineteenth-century French literature and culture, Dr. Mesch conducts research and teaches on the French novel, women writers, gender studies, visual and media culture, the history of photography, the French Enlightenment, and the Belle Epoque.

Dr. Mesch is the author of Having It All in the Belle Epoque: How French Women Writers Invented the Modern Woman (Stanford UP, 2013), and The Hysteric's Revenge: French Women Writers at the Fin de Siècle (Vanderbilt U. Press, 2006). Her most recent book, Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France was published by Stanford University Press in March 2020. 

Dr. Mesch has participated in numerous podcasts and online interviews about her work, including New Books in French Studies (Before Trans and Having It All)  The French History Podcast, A Bit Lit, Pandemonium U, and the Tel Aviv Review. Her writing can also be found in the LA Review of BooksSlate.com, Slate.fr, Tablet, Lilith, and the Wonders & Marvels history blog.

https://rachelmesch.com/

National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Fellowship, 2017-18.

Finalist, National Library in Paris Book Award, 2020

Silver Medal, Independent Publishers Book Award, 2020

The Hysteric's Revenge: French Women Writers at the Fin de Siècle (Vanderbilt UP, 2006).

Having it All in the Belle Epoque: How French Women's Magazines Invented the Modern World (Stanford UP, 2013).

Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France. (Stanford UP, 2020).

rachel.mesch@gmail.com
212-960-5400 x6868

Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#508

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Fall 2019

Senior colloquium

Parisian Views

France and Its Others

 

 

 

Fall 2017
Awakenings: Modernist Fictions
ENG 2073

 

First Year Writing
FYWR 1020

 

Parisian Views
INTC 1005H

 

Spring 2017
First Year Writing
FYWR 1020H

 

France and its Others
CUOT 1009

 

French Novel (in Translation)
ENG 2188