Keynote

Dr. Rachel Mesch received her BA from Yale College (1993), her MA from Columbia University (1995), and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (2000). A specialist in nineteenth-century French literature and culture, Dr. Mesch conducts research and teaches on the French novel, women writers, gender studies, visual and media culture, the history of photography, the French Enlightenment, and the Belle Epoque.

Dr. Mesch is the author of Having It All in the Belle Epoque: How French Women Writers Invented the Modern Woman (Stanford UP, 2013), and The Hysteric's Revenge: French Women Writers at the Fin de Siècle (Vanderbilt U. Press, 2006). Her most recent book, Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France was published by Stanford University Press in March 2020. 

Dr. Mesch has participated in numerous podcasts and online interviews about her work, including New Books in French Studies (Before Trans and Having It All)  The French History Podcast, A Bit Lit, Pandemonium U, and the Tel Aviv Review. Her writing can also be found in the LA Review of Books, Slate.com, Slate.fr, Tablet, Lilith, and the Wonders & Marvels history blog.

https://rachelmesch.com/

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