Cate Talley 
assistant Professor of French
Office: Palamountain 406
Phone: (518) 580-5221
Email: ctalley@skidmore.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D., French, University of California, Berkeley
- M.A., French, University of California, Berkeley
- B.A., French, Bard College
Teaching and Research Interests
- 19th- and 20th-century French literature
- Cultural and intellectual history
- Theories of the everyday and practice
- Politics and aesthetics
- The francophone Atlantic world
Select Publications
- The Psychology of Modern Literature: G茅rard de Nerval and the Cultural Politics of Subjectivity (book manuscript in progress)
- 鈥淭he Politics of Authorial Subjectivity in Nerval鈥檚 Les Faux Saulniers.鈥� Forthcoming in French Studies.
- 鈥淪entiment and the Contradiction of Racial Inequality in Beaumont鈥檚 Marie or Slavery in the United States.鈥� The Review of Politics 84.3(2022).
- 鈥淭he Absurdity of the Aftermath in Daoud鈥檚 Meursault, contre-enqu锚te.鈥� French Forum 45.3 (2020).
- 鈥淔ashioning Romanticism: The Petit C茅nacle and the Art of Dress.鈥� Nineteenth-Century Contexts 42.1 (2020).
- 鈥淧ratiques traditionnelles, pratiques fictionnelles: les rituels dans la 芦 Sylvie 禄 de G茅rard de Nerval鈥� in Rituels en action. Louvain-la-Neuve: EME 脡ditions, 2017. Esth茅tique et spiritualit茅.
- 鈥淔rom Identity to Identifications: Depersonalizing the Subject of the Nervalian 颁丑颈尘猫谤别.鈥� Nineteenth-Century French Studies 43.1-2 (2015).