Katherine Terry

Credentials: PhD Candidate in French

Email: kblackman@wisc.edu

Address:
632 Van Hise Hall

EDUCATION

  • B.A., Elizabethtown College
  • M.A., French Civilization, Middlebury College
  • M.A., French literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The French novel of the 18th and 19th centuries; memory and forgetting; trauma and memory and/or forgetting; memory and melancholy; polyphony; narrative authority

DISSERTATION TITLE

Shame and Memory: Exploring Identity in the French Novel from 1760-1840

COURSES TAUGHT

  • French 101
  • French 102
  • French 203
  • French 204
  • Guest Instructor: French 271 (Fall and Spring 2017)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • “Who’s in charge here? Authority and Frustration in Diderot’s Jacques le Fataliste.” MMLA. Loyola University, in Cincinnati, OH. November 10, 2017.
  • “From Shame and Innocence to Transparent Struggle: ‘Révolution Subite’ in Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse.” Annual Symposium of Graduate Association of French & Italian Students, University of Wisconsin-Madison. March 31, 2017.
  • “Remembering Shame: ‘La fausse honte’ in Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse.” Departmental Research Seminar. University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 29, 2017.
  • “Jacques le Fataliste et son Maître: Authorial Authority?” Annual Graduate Student Conference. Department of French, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. November 2015.