Claudia Nadine

Associate Professor of French with Term

Claudia Nadine earned her doctoral degree in French, with an emphasis in critical theory, from the University of California, Irvine. As a post-graduate, she was selected to participate in an NEH Summer Institute on French Cultural Studies and in a Fulbright to Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire. Dr. Nadine’s teaching experience has ranged from nineteenth- and twentieth-century French and Francophone literatures, to courses in advanced writing. Her research and teaching interests include nineteenth-century French literature (particularly poetry and the question of the “feminine”), women writers, and science and literature. She is currently working on an interdisciplinary book manuscript entitled “Healing Cultures: From 19th-century France to West Africa and Beyond” which examines textual representations of colonized “diseased” bodies, postcolonial maladies, and the work of physicians, midwives, and healers.