Faith Beasley

Faith E. Beasley

Faith Evelyn Beasley is a professor of French cultural studies at Dartmouth College. She is known for her work on French cultural history, and the intersection of French history and the voices of women writers.

Education and career

Beasley grew up in Michigan and attended Plainwell High School. ^[1] She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in French from Mount Holyoke College in 1980. She studied abroad in Paris at the École Normale supérieure from 1984 until 1985, ^[2] and then in 1986 she earned her Ph.D. in French from Princeton University. ^[3]

After receiving her PhD, Beasley served as a teaching assistant at the Lycée Berthelot in Toulouse, France, and as a visiting instructor of English at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques in Paris, France. Beasley joined Dartmouth College as an assistant professor of French in 1986. She has been a tenured professor of French since 2008. ^[3]

She served as the editor of Cahiers du dix-septième from 2008 to 2016. ^[3]

Beasley received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012 for her research on Versailles and the Taj Mahal. ^[4]

Selected publications

• Revising Memory: Women's Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France. New Brunswick, N.J.; Rutgers University Press, 1990 ^[5]
• Beasley, Faith Evelyn; Jensen, Katharine Ann, eds. (1998). Approaches to Teaching Lafayette's the Princess of Clèves. New York, NY: Modern Language Assn of Amer. ISBN   978-0-87352-745-3. ^[6]
• Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory. Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006 ^[7]
• Beasley, Faith E., ed. (2011). Teaching seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French women writers. New York: Modern Language Association of America. ISBN   978-1-60329-096-8. OCLC   727610615. ^[8]

• Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal: François Bernier, Marguerite de La Sablière and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018

• Versailles à la rencontre du Taj Mahal: Conversations éclairées sur l’Inde au temps du Roi-Soleil. Translated by Patrick Graille. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024

References

1. "'Good Citizens'". The Kalamazoo Gazette. 1975-12-01. p. 11. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
2. "Faith E. Beasley". The Kalamazoo Gazette. 1984-04-22. p. 68. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
3. "Dartmouth Directory - Faith E. Beasley". Dartmouth College. Archived from the original on January 29, 2025.
4. "Faith E. Beasley". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Lenet. Retrieved August 24, 2024.
5. Reviews of Revising Memory
   • Ranum, Orest (1992). "Review of Revising Memory, Women's Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France; Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France" . MLN. 107 (4): 810–816. doi:10.2307/2904921. ISSN   0026-7910. JSTOR   2904921.
   • Roberts, Warren (1992). "Faith E. Beasley. Revising Memory: Women's Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 1990. Pp. x, 288. $42.00" . The American Historical Review. 97 (4). doi:10.1086/ahr/97.4.1225. ISSN   1937-5239.
   • Dewald, Jonathan (1993). "Reviews : Faith E. Beasley, Revising Memory: Women's Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France, New Brunswick and London, Rutgers University Press, 1991; xi + 288 pp.; US $42.00" . European History Quarterly. 23 (1): 99–101. doi:10.1177/026569149302300118. ISSN   0265-6914.
6. Reviews of Approaches to Teaching Lafayette's the Princess of Clèves
   • Hansen, Helynne H. (1999). "Review of Approaches to Teaching Lafayette's "The Princess of Clèves"" . Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 53 (2): 78–81. doi:10.2307/1348208. ISSN   0361-1299. JSTOR   1348208.
   • Allentuch, Harriet (2000). "Review of Approaches to Teaching Lafayette's the Princess of Clèves". The French Review. 73 (4): 740–741. ISSN   0016-111X. JSTOR   398611.
7. Reviews of Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France
   • Canova-Green, Marie-Claude (2007). "Review of Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory" . The Modern Language Review. 102 (4): 1155–1156. doi:10.2307/20467582. ISSN   0026-7937. JSTOR   20467582.
   • Campbell, Julie; Beasley, Faith E (2006). "Review of Salons, History, and the Creation of 17th-Century France: Mastering Memory, Faith E. Baisley" . Renaissance Quarterly. 59 (4): 1225–1226. doi:10.1353/ren.2008.0464. ISSN   0034-4338. JSTOR   10.1353/ren.2008.0464.
   • Prest, J. (2007), Faith E. Beasley, Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory, OCLC   209438979
8. Reviews of Teaching seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French women writers
   • Klaus, Carrie F. (2014). "Review of Teaching Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers". The French Review. 87 (3): 232–233. ISSN   0016-111X. JSTOR   24550433.
   • Angelini, Eileen M. (2015). "Review of Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers". Dalhousie French Studies. 106: 109–110. ISSN   0711-8813. JSTOR   26380215.