Karen Manna
- 410-810-7493
- kmanna2@washcoll.edu
- Goldstein 217
Office Hours
M,W 2:30-3:30pm; T,Th 11:00am-12:00pm
Education
- Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Eighteenth-Century French Literature, Cultural Studies, and Gender Studies
- M.A., Bryn Mawr College. French Literature
- B.S., Pennsylvania State University. French / International Business
Areas of Research
- Gender Studies in French Culture and Literature
- French Enlightenment Philosophy
- Masculinity in French History and Literature
- Germaine de Staël and early Romanticism
Teaching
- The French Revolution
- French Masculinities in Culture and Literature
- The History of French Feminism (in English)
- Elementary French I & II
- Intermediate French I & II
- Advanced French
- Introduction to French Literature I & II
Recent Publications
“Reappropriating Honnêteté: Madame de Staël's comte d'Erfeuil and National Character in
Post-Revolutionary France”. Women in French Studies. Ed. Juliette Rogers. Vol 27. 2019.
"Acting Honnête: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and the Ethos of Social Virtue". Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Eds. Marine Ganofsky and James Fowler. 2019
Review of Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France. Lewis C. Seifert. Modern Language Notes 124:4, September 2009. pp. 1014-18.
Review of Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment. Natania Meeker. Modern Language Notes 123:4, September 2008, pp. 968-71.
En Avant. "Online component". Andersen. McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
Professional experience
Associate Professor of French, University of Central Oklahoma (2021)
Coordinator: Elementary French I and II, Intermediate French I and II (2015 – 2021)
Coordinator: Elementary and Intermediate Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Italian, Turkish I, II (2018-2021)
Visiting Assistant Professor of French. The College of Idaho. (2014)
Affiliate Assistant Professor of French. Loyola University of Maryland. (2013)