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Kate Bonin
Assistant Professor, Modern Languages and Cultures
135 Easton (215) 572-4037
About Me
Areas Of Focus
18th and 19th century French novels, French and Francophone film. contemporary Francophone/Sub-Saharan African literature and civilization
Languages
English, French, Spanish
Education History
University of California, Berkeley 2003
Doctor of Philosophy, Major in French
University of California, Berkeley 1997
Master of Arts, Major in French
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Douglass College) 1994
Bachelor of Arts, Major in French and English
Publications
“Troubadours, Taxidermy and Transcendence: Reading Flaubert’s ‘Un cœur simple’ with Sand’s ‘Les ailes de courage'”
“Quintinie, Quarrels and Silence: The arguments in and about George Sand’s roman à thèse.”
“The Edifying Spectacle of a Drowned Woman: Sympathy and Irony in Indiana”
“Signs of Origin: Victor Hugo’s Bug-Jargal”
“Dreams of Dakar, 1973: Reading Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo’s ‘El sueño’ with Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki”
“Indiana and the Literary Island: Enlightenment Ideals, 19th-century Ironies.”
Research Summary
Kate Bonin has one article forthcoming in 2018: “Dreams of Dakar, 1973: Reading Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo’s ‘El sueño’ with Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki,” Research in African Literatures Vol. 49.2 (Summer 2018): a study of Diop Djibril Mambéty’s groundbreaking film Touki Bouki and the zeitgeist of post-independence West Africa in 1973. A book chapter, entitled “Growing up Camille: Pleasure and its Discontents in Mireille Best’s Camille en octobre” (1988), is currently under review at Women In French Studies. In 2016, she published a book chapter, “Indiana and the Literary Island: Enlightenment Ideals, 19th-century Ironies” in Approaches to Teaching George Sand’s Indiana. Eds. Pratima Prasad and David Powell. New York: Modern Language Association Publications, 2016: 127-134. She published two articles in 2014-2015: “Quintinie, Quarrels and Silence: The arguments in and about George Sand’s roman à thèse” in Women in French Studies Vol. 22; and “Troubadours, Taxidermy and Transcendence: Reading Flaubert’s ‘Un cœur simple’ with Sand’s ‘Les ailes de courage’” in French Review Vol. 88.3 Kate is currently working on “Victor Hugo and Haitian Money.” Incorporating archival research conducted at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Harlem, NYC), this article analyzes Victor Hugo’s shifting political convictions and social loyalties in the aftermath of the French and Haitian Revolutions.