Pauline De Tholozany, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of French
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Contact
Department of Languages
Office: 512 Strode
Website: http://pdetholozany.weebly.com
Email: pdethol@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D., Brown University (2011); Masters of Arts, Brown University (2008)
Courses
Survey of French Literature; Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism; Band of Sisters: Feminism in French Literature and Culture; Intermediate French
Research Interests
18th- and 19th-century French literature and cultural history; 18th- and 19th-century representations of slavery and colonized groups; Affect theory, emotions in Literature; Social customs, salons and rules of civility; Transatlantic literature, relation between French and Hispanic literature in the 19th and 20th centuries/
Pauline de Tholozany is an Associate Professor in the Languages Department at Clemson University. She specializes in 19th-century French Literature and culture. Her first book, L’école de la maladresse (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2017), is a history of clumsiness in the 18th and 19th centuries. It seeks to understand why clumsiness came to be viewed as a sign of sincerity and/or originality in the 19th century. Dr. de Tholozany also works on 19th-century transatlantic writers (Flora Tristan, José Maria de Heredia) and on the links between their French texts and their Hispanic backgrounds. She has published articles in various journals such as INTI, 19th-Century French Studies, Dix-Neuf, Esprit Créateur and Nineteenth-Century Contexts. She is now working on a book-length project on the history of impatience, in which she argues that the 19th century both valorized impatience (provided it was white, male, and productive) and durably demeaned it: medical descriptions of “agitation” transferred the normative religious discourse about patience (a Christian virtue) into a pathologizing rendering of impatience.
Awards
Clemson Creativity Professorship, 2023-5; Clemson Humanities Hub Research Grant, 2022; Andrew Mellon Fellowship, Wellesley College 2013-5; Princeton University Library Research Grant, 2012.
Selected Professional Works
Books (Published)
L’Ecole de la maladresse : de J.-J. Rousseau à J.J. Grandville, XVIIIe-XIXe siècle. Paris : Honoré Champion (September 2017).
https://www.honorechampion.com/fr/champion/10498-book-08533552-9782745335524.html
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
Forthcoming in 2025: "On the Fragility of Sanity: The Charenton Asylum in and out of Le Livre des cent-et-un."Nineteenth-century French Studies, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, Vol. 53, nos. 1–2, fall–winter 2024–25.
"Enslaved People, Aliénés, and Gradual Freedom: Condorcet and Pinel on Sensibility." Dix-Neuf, Leeds: Society of dix-neuviémistes,Fall 2024, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2024.2381357. Link to article here.
"How to be an Impatient Woman: Patience and Impatience in Indiana and Consuelo,” George Sand Studies, vols. 37–38, 2018–2019. Hofstra University Press, 2019, pp.57-73.
“Teaching Les Misérables in a course on Childhood.” MLA Approaches to Teaching Les Misérables, eds Michal Ginsburg and Brad Stephens, 2017.
