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Caroline Weber
Associate Professor of French
Caroline Weber, Associate Professor of French, joined the faculty of Barnard in 2005. In addition to her teaching duties for the French department, Professor Weber is affiliated with Barnard's Comparative Literature Program. Before coming to Barnard, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Weber is a specialist in eighteenth-century French literature and culture, with particular emphasis on the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Additional research and teaching interests include critical theory, gender studies, and costume history.
Her essays have appeared in a wide variety of academic and mainstream publications. She has published articles on eighteenth-century authors such as Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, Sade, Charrière, and La Chaussée, and on contemporary thinkers like Lacan and Lyotard. She writes regularly for The New York Times Book Review.
Professor Weber's book, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution, was selected by both The New York Times and The Washington Post as a Notable Book of the Year.
She is working on a book about ideology in bourgeois drama.Selected Publications:
Staging Commerce: Bourgeois Drama and the Cunning of Virtue (work in progress).
Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (New York: Henry Holt, 2006).
"French Fashion," Columbia Dictionary of Twentieth-Century French Thought, L. D. Kritzman ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005).
"Rewriting Rousseau: Isabelle de Charrière's Domestic Dystopia," In Gender and Utopianism in the Eighteenth Century, N. Pohl and B. Tooley eds. (New York and London: Routledge, 2004): 335–351.
"Dreams of Stone: Femininity in the Eighteenth-Century Sculptural Imagination," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Vol. 33 (Spring 2004): 1–29.
Terror and Its Discontents: Suspect Words in Revolutionary France (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003).
"Fashion," French Popular Culture: An Introduction, H. Dauncey ed. (London: Hodder Arnold, 2003): 193–205.212.854.2084
cweber@barnard.edu
EDUCATION:
AB, Harvard University
MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale UniversityRELATED LINKS:
SPECIALIZATIONS:
Eighteenth-century French literature and cultural history