Anne McCall earned her B.A. in French and German at the University of Virginia and her masters and doctoral degrees in letters modernes at the Université de Strasbourg. After starting her career with a visiting appointment at Vassar College, she came to Tulane University, where she joined the Department of French and Italian. She has taught courses, including “Plotting the Maternal,” “Revolutionary Women,” “Re-writing the Classics,” “Epistolarity,” and “Dangerous Spaces.” She is also an associate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program and has taught core courses ranging from the introductory course to the senior seminar. She was a co-founder of “Intensive Newcomb” and directed the Women’s Studies Program from 1999-2004.
Her research centers on fictional and autobiographical narratives in postrevolutionary France. Publications focus on the use of gender in the representation of textual and authorial constraint. These include a book, De l'être en lettres. L'autobiographie épistolaire de George Sand; an edited volume, George Sand et l’empire des lettres; and introductions to works by Sand and Balzac. Articles on texts by d’Agoult, Allart, Desbordes-Valmore, and Flora Tristan have appeared in journals such as Romanic Review, Esprit créateur, Romantisme, and a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, as well as in essay collections. She is currently writing a book-length study examining the intersection of the law, letters, and literature in nineteenth-century France.
During the 2005-2006 academic year, she served as Associate Dean for the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences; since the implementation of Tulane’s post-Katrina renewal plan in July 2006, she has continued on in the Associate Dean position in the newly formed School of Liberal Arts. |
