Dr. Keri Yousif
Education
- Ph.D. - French literature / nineteenth-century French studies, University of Texas at Austin - 2003
- M.A. - French literature / nineteenth-century French studies, University of Texas at Austin - 1996
- B.A. - French / Journalism, Baylor University - 1993
- Other - French, La Sorbonne, Paris IV - 1992
Teaching Interests
- French language, literature, world literature, gender studies, and cultural studies
Research Interests
- nineteenth-century French studies
Dr. Yousif is professor of French. She received her Ph.D. in French, with an emphasis in literature and women's studies, from the University of Texas at Austin. During her graduate work, she spent several years living and working in France, including a year teaching English at a French high school in Normandy and two years as a lecturer at the University of Paris XIII, where she taught English language courses and American literature. In addition to French literature and language, she is active in the University Honors Program and study abroad. She joined the ISU faculty in 2004.
1997-2003 Ph.D., French Literature, University of Texas at Austin
1994-1996 M.A., French Literature, University of Texas at Austin
1989-1993 B.A., French and Journalism, Baylor University
1991-1992 Junior Year Abroad, La Sorbonne, Paris IV
Awards
University Honors College, Faculty of the Year Award, 2018
Tournées Francophone Film Festival Grant from the French American Cultural Exchange, 2017
The Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award, Indiana State University, 2016
Book
Balzac, Grandville, and the Rise of Book Illustration (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012).
Articles
“Fame and Foils: Empress Eugénie, Princess Mathilde, and the Boundaries of Biography,” Dix-Neuf, 23.2 (2019): 118-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2019.1622267
“Confronting the Clichés of Femininity: Contemporary Photographer Eisner-Kleyle’s We Were Not Born Women,” Photography & Culture, 9.3 (November 2016.): 255-270.
“Word, Image, Woman: Gavarni’s and the Goncourts’ Portrayal of the Lorette,” Image & Narrative, 15.3 (2014): 22-37.
“Les liaisons dangereuses: Media, Literature, and l’affaire Strauss-Kahn,” The French Review, 86.5 (April 2013): 52-65.
“The Imperialist Lens: Du Camp, Salzmann and Early French Photography,” Early Popular Visual Culture, 6.1 (April 2008): 1-18.
“Taming the Bourgeoisie: Grandville’s Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux (1840-1842),” EnterText, 7.3 (December 2007): 43-69.
“Modernity’s Meter: The Caricaturist, 1830-1870,” Dix-Neuf, 9 (October 2007): 17-32.
“Contesting the Page: The Author and the Illustrator in France, 1830-1848,” Book History, 10 (2007): 69-101.
Translation
“War on the Demolition Men!” by Victor Hugo and “The Account of the Destructive and Revived Pagan Principle in France,” by le Comte de Montalembert, The Gothic Revival 1720-1870. Ed. Michael Charlesworth. 3 vols. East Sussex: Helm, 2002. 3: 579-610.
Recent Conference Presentations
“Imagining a Life: Empress Eugénie, Biography, and the Enchantment of Illustration,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Florida State University, October 2019.
“Illustration in the Classroom: Perrault and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of California Riverside and Scripps College, October, 2018.
“Fame and Foils: Empress Eugénie and Princess Mathilde,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of California Riverside and Scripps College, October 2018.
“Un peu las”: Zola’s Fashioning of the Empress Eugénie,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Virginia, November 2017.
“Teaching French in the 21st Century: A Baudelairien Survival Guide,” American Association of Teachers of French, Annual Convention, St. Louis, July 2017.
“Seen But Not Heard: Zola, the Empress Eugénie, and the Gender Politics of Fame,” South Central Modern Language Association Conference, Dallas, Texas, November 2016.
2019-2020 Elected board member and treasurer, Farrington Grove Historical District
2018 Volunteer Teacher (French for midde-school students), Saint-Patrick's School, Terre Haute