Research Areas

19th Century French, Russian, and Quebec Literatures

Multilingualism and Standard Language Ideology

Literary treatments of nationalism

Biography

I am currently at work on a dissertation which charts changing literary representations of multilingualism in the long nineteenth century. Taking as my subject Standard French, I interrogate the varying status of linguistic codes in relation to the standard in three geographic locales: France, through the novels of George Sand; Russia, through the shifting fortunes of French among Russia’s elite; and finally, Quebec, where the “language question” is inherently tied to the strategy of la survivance of a French-speaking minority within a larger, mostly anglophone country.