French Lecture Series Upcoming Event:

Public Lecture by Professor Kathleen Long, Cornell University, Thursday, October 13, 5:00 PM, DIF 009

"From Monstrosity to Postnormality: Montaigne, Canguilhem, Foucault" (sponsored by the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies)

Kathleen Long is Professor of French in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University, and Director of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.  Her research focuses on concepts of gender, particularly transgender and intersex, in the early modern world, on early modern representations of the monstrous, and on religious violence. She is the author of two books, Another Reality:  Metamorphosis and the Imagination in the Poetry of Ovid, Petrarch, and Ronsard and Hermaphrodites  in Renaissance Europe, and editor of volumes on High Anxiety: Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France, Religious Differences in France, and Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Europe.  She has written numerous articles on the work of Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné, on gender in early modern Europe, and on monsters.  She is preparing a book-length study on the relationship between early modern discourses of monstrosity and modern discourses of disability.