Katherine Dauge-Roth

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages

Fall 2008

  • Advanced French I (FR 205A)
  • Witches, Monsters, and Demons: Representing the Occult in Early Modern France (FR 325)
Phone (207) 725-3915
Title Associate Professor
Department ROMANCE LANGUAGES
Work Location 206 Sills Hall
E-Mail kdauge@bowdoin.edu
Bowdoin College: Katherine Dauge-Roth

Education:

A.B. Colby College
D.E.U.G. Université de Caen
M.A., Ph. D. Michigan-Ann Arbor

Teaching Interests

French Language, Culture, and Society
Medieval and Early Modern Literature, History, and Culture
Women and Gender
Medicine and Literature

Research Interests

Literature and the body
Early modern medicine (madness, female maladies)
Narratives of demonic possession, religious and mystical writing
Women's memoirs

Selected Publications and Exhibits

Articles

"The Shape and Form of Writing:  Pastoral Graffiti in Early Seventeenth-Century France." In preparation for Formes et formations au dix-septième siècle. Ed. Buford Norman. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006.

"Ventriloquism and the Voice of Authority:  Nuns, Demons, and Exorcists in Early Seventeenth-Century France." Forthcoming in Early Modern Convent Voices:  The World and the Cloister. Ed. Thomas M. Carr, Jr. EMF: Studies in Early Modern France 11 (2005).

"Crossing Lines, Encouraging Ownership:  Teaching the Occult Early Modern." Forthcoming in Cahiers du Dix-Septième Siècle (2005).

"Textual Performance:  Imprinting the Criminal Body." Forthcoming in Intersections. Eds. Faith Beasley and Kathryn Wine. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2005.

"Femmes lunatiques:  Women and the Moon in Early Modern France." Forthcoming in Dalhousie French Studies 71 (2005).

"Médiations, figures et expériences de l'autre vie:  Jean-Joseph Surin à la rencontre du démoniaque." In L'autre au dix-septième siècle. Eds. Ralph Heyndels and Barbara Woshinsky. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1999. 375-84.

Exhibit

The Vampire (Le Styrge)"Witches, Monsters, and Demons:  Representing the Occult." Exhibit in the John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, September 30-November 2, 2003, created in conjunction with French 325 students.

Editorial Position

Contributing editor, January 2003 to present:  French 17. An Annual Bibliography of French Seventeenth-Century Studies 51 (2003) and 52 (2004). Survey and write entries throughout the year on work appearing in academic journals in the field

Links

Image: CHARLES MERYON The Vampire (Le Styrge) from the collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art