Florence Vatan

Credentials: PhD, University of Chicago

Position title: Professor of French

Email: fvatan@wisc.edu

Phone: 262-4075

Address:
658 Van Hise

PRIMARY LANGUAGE

French

SPECIALTIES

19th-century French fiction and poetry; literature and science (psychology, medicine, biology); literature and philosophy; 20th-century Austrian literature; European intellectual and cultural history; intellectual and cultural transfers

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Robert Musil. Le “virtuose de la distance.” Paris, Belin, 2013, 272p.
  • Robert Musil et la question anthropologique. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, April 2000, 281p.

Edited volumes and guest-edited journal issues

  • “Entre savoir et fantasme: le corps et ses énigmes” Arts et Savoirs. Co-edited with Anne Vila, 11, 2019 https://journals.openedition.org/aes/1695
  • “L’Esprit (dé)réglé: Literature, Science, and the Life of the Mind in France, 1700-1900,” special issue of L’Esprit créateur. Co-edited with Anne Vila, 56:4, Winter 2016
  • Memory and Postwar Memorials: Confronting the Violence of the Past. Co-edited with Marc Silberman. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, December 2013, 256p.
  • “Flaubert et les sciences.” Revue Flaubert, n° 4 (2004) https://flaubert-v1.univ-rouen.fr/revue/revue4/index.php

Articles

Book Chapters

  • “Des singes et des hommes: hybridations flaubertiennes,” in Littérature française et savoirs biologiques au XIXe siècle: traduction, transmission, transposition. Eds Thomas Klinkert and Gisèle Séginger, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019: 247-264 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110665833-017/html.
  • “Au prisme des métamorphoses: Michelet, Flaubert et les insectes,” in Les Métamorphoses, entre fiction et notion. Eds Gisèle Séginger and Juliette Azoulai. Paris: Laboratoire LISAA, 2019: 189-207 https://books.openedition.org/lisaa/1093?lang=en.
  • “Le Sublime et le grotesque dans Bouvard et Pécuchet,” in Le Grotesque et le sublime. Ed. Jan Miernowski. Genève: Droz, 2014: 269-295

Extensive Publication List

DISTINCTIONS

  • University of Wisconsin Halverson-Bascom Professorship, 2021-2024
  • Vilas Associate Fellowship Award, 2017-2019
  • Carol Mason Kirk Professorship, 2016-2019