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Office: Guilford 214
216-368-8983
email: mhl5@case.edu
Marie Lathers is Treuhaft Professor of Humanities and French. She received her Ph.D. in 1990 from Brown University. Her areas of specialization are 19th-century French literature and art, the relationship between literature and the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, film), and feminist theory. She has published articles in The French Review, Mosaic, Woman's Art Journal , and Contemporary French Civilization , and two books: The Aesthetics of Artifice: Villiers' 'L'Eve future' (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages, 1996) and Bodies of Art: French Literary Realism and the Artist's Model (U of Nebraska, 2001). She is currently at work on a study of the Venus de Milo in 19th-century French culture, and another study of the representation of women in outer space in contemporary culture. She has received the NEH Fellowship for College Teachers and the NEH Summer Stipend. She teaches a range of courses in French language, culture, and literature, and just taught an advanced undergraduate and graduate course on artists and models in French literature. She is the Director of the interdisciplinary Program in French Studies and Director of Graduate Studies (French MA) in the Department.
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