Associate Professor of French
French Area Chair
World Languages and Literatures, French
Contact
| Office: | Clements 308D |
| Phone: | 214-768-1691 |
| Email: | mfoerster@smu.edu |
Educational Background
Ph.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
About
Areas of Interest
- Modern and contemporary France
- Vampirism
- Social Justice
- Love in French Romanticism
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Minorities
Publications
- “Les femmes transgenres face au sida dans Le Gai cimetière de Marie-Pierre Pruvot,” in Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 46, no. 2, June 2021. 197-211.
- “La bromance dans la littérature française au XIXesiècle,” in Littératures, vol. 81, June 2020. 89-102.
- “On Feeling Mighty Real: Devenir gay à Montréal pendant l’ère disco dans Funkytown, de Daniel Roby,” in Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 43, no. 3-4, 2018. 373-389.
- “Découverte de la sexualité dans Le pain nu de Mohamed Choukri et L’armée du salut d’Abdellah Taïa,” in Revue d’Histoire de l’Enfance “Irrégulière, October 2018. 105-122.
- “A New Catalogue of Perversions: Sexology and Decadence,” in States of Decadence, On the Aesthetics of Beauty, Decline and Transgression across Time and Space, ed. Barstad, Guri and Karen P. Knutsen. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, November 2016. 266-279.
- “Suicide et enthousiasme chez Germaine de Staël,” in Romantisme, no. 173, 3/2016. 125-137.
- “Du 'Familles, je vous hais!' au transfuge de classe: le cas Eddy Bellegueule,” in Critical Review of Contemporary French Fixxion no. 12, 2016. 72-83.
- The Politics of Love (2018, University of Massachusetts Press).
Courses Taught
- FREN 4361: French Decadence
- FREN 4372: Vampirism in French Literature and Cinema
- FREN 4375: French Civilization
- FREN 4362: Social Justice in 19th-century French Literature
- FREN 4377: French Culture Conversation Class
- FREN 4395: French and Francophone Women Writers
- HIST/HRTS 3317: Sexual Minorities and Human Rights
- FREN 3386: Love in French Literature and Philosophy
- WL 3327: Les Misérables
