Beverly Evans has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 1985.
Office Hours: FALL 2024
- Tuesdays: 2:30pm-3:30pm
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Thursdays: 11:30am-12:30pm
Also by appointment.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D., French Literature, University of Pennsylvania.
M.A., French Literature, Bryn Mawr College.
A.B., French, Cornell University.
Affiliations
Executive Director, Pi Delta Phi, The National French Honor Society
Women in French
International Courtly Literature Society
Association of College Honor Societies
American Association of Teachers of French
Publications
Book chapter "Marie Laurencin: From 'Apollinaire and His Friends' to the Ballets Russes." Creative Women of the Lost Generation: Women in the Arts in the Wake of the Great War: Professional Trajectories in Times of Crisis. Eds. Kimberly Francis and Margot Irvine. New York and London: Routledge, 2023.
Review of Hamer, Laura. Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919-1939. Routledge, 2018. Women in French Studies 29 (2021).
Review of De Gendt, Anne-Marie, and Alicia C. Montoya, eds. La pensée sérielle, du Moyen Age aux Lumières. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Dalhousie French Studies 119 (Spring 2021)
Review of Orr, Andrew. Women and the French Army during the World Wars, 1914-1940.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. Women in French Studies 26 (2018).Review of Leroux, Louis Patrick, and Charles R. Batson, eds. Cirque Global: Quebec’s
Expanding Circus Boundaries. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016. French Review 91.1 (2017)."The Life and Afterlife of French WW I Songs: National Identity Then and Now," French Cultural Studies 28.2 (2017).
“Courtly Literature: ‘Yesterday’ is Today.” The Legacy of Courtly Literature: from Medieval to Contemporary Culture. Eds. Rouben Cholakian and Deborah Nelson-Campbell. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
"Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-Soeurs." The Literary Encyclopedia, 2015.
Review of Findley, Brooke Heidenreich. Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Women in French Studies 20 (2015).
Review of White, Sophie. Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians, Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Dalhousie French Studies 102 (2014).
"Vendredi, ou les limbes du Pacifique," The Literary Encyclopedia, 2011.
"Alfred Jeanroy" and "Gustave Reese." Handbook of Medieval Studies. Ed. Albrecht Classen. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
"Seeking 'Woman' in Medieval French Woman's Song, or 'Lonc tans a que ne vi m'ami.'" Dalhousie French Studies 82.1 (Spring 2008).
“Songs of the Women Trouvères: Just the Same Old Refrains?” Neophilologus 90.1 (2006).
More About Me
Research Interests
- Medieval French poetry and music
- WW I literature, music and culture
- 20th-Century French literature
- Literature and culture of Québec
Other Interests
- Travel
- Music
- Documentaries
- Yoga
- Cats
Classes
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FREN 102: Elementary French II
Communication-based language course. Continuation of the development of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Intensive practice of real-world communication and cultural knowledge.
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FREN 301: Written Expression
This course offers practice in expository writing with emphasis on clarity, structure and idiomatic expression, focusing on a variety of topical and practical issues. Students are introduced to practical applications and provided a review of selected grammar topics. This course must be taken in residence.