Marie-Pierre F Le Hir

Interests

Research

• French literature and culture: 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century• The French in colonial America. Drama: bourgeois, revolutionary, popular, and Romantic (Hugo, Dumas) • Novel (Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Balzac; Flaubert)• French Women writers (Gouges, Hadot, Staël, Sand)• Nationalism• Sociology of writers and intellectuals; cultural history (1789-present), including copyright and the history of the discipline• Critical theory (feminist theory, cultural studies, Bourdieu).

Teaching

General EducationThe French-speaking world; French theater in transaltionFrench Majorall core course and advanced courses in translation, literature and cultureMA programcourses in literature and culture of the modern period as reflected in research interests below.

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Le Hir, M. F. (2017). The National Habitus: Ways of Feeling French, 1789-1871. Boston/Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
• Le Hir, M. F. (2014). The National Habitus. Ways of Feeling French, 1789-1870,.. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter.
• Le Hir, M. F. (2014). The National Habitus: Ways of Feeling French, 1789-1871. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter.

Presentations

• Le Hir, M. F. (2014, October). “Cap sur l’Amérique! L’émigration aristocratique aux Etats-Unis pendant la Révolution française. ». Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium,. University of Puerto Rico: Nineteenth Century French Studies.

Reviews

• Le Hir, M. F. (2016. Rev. of Olmsted, William. The Censorship Effect: Baudelaire, Flaubert, and the Formation of French Modernism. Nineteenth-Century French Studies 45.1–2 (Fall–Winter 2016–17).
• Le Hir, M. F. (2015. Rev. of Schuerewegen, Franc (ed), Chateaubriand et les choses. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013.(pp 232.).
• Le Hir, M. F. (2014. Review of Chollet and Vachon, A l'ecoute du jeune Balzac (2012)(p. 1). The French Review 88:2 (December 2014): 217..
• Le Hir, M. F. (2014. Review of Griffith and Watts, Adapting 19th Cent. France. Modern & Contemporary France.
  More info

  Dear author,We are pleased to inform you that your article "GRIFFITHS, Kate and WATTS, Andrew Adapting Nineteenth-Century France: Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013 288 pp., £95, ISBN: 978 0-70-832594-0" has been published on Taylor & Francis Online. It is available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09639489.2014.926876.
• Le Hir, M. F. (2013. Review of Kathleen Kete, Making Way for Genius(pp 339-341). Nineteenth-Century French Studies 41:3-4 (Spring -Summer 2013).
  More info

  Rev. of: Kete, Kathleen, Making Way for Genius. The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New. New Haven and London (Yale UP): 2012.I didn't put this review in my last APR because I didn't realized it had appeared in print.