Alexandra K Wettlaufer


Alexandra K Wettlaufer
Director, Plan II Honors Program, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
Associate Director, Plan II Honors Program, College of Liberal Arts
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts

Phone: +1 512 471 1442, +1 512 471 6461
Email: akw@austin.utexas.edu

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Alexandra K. Wettlaufer specializes in 19th-century literature, visual arts, culture and gender studies. She is a core faculty member of Comparative Literature, Women's and Gender Studies and European Studies, and serves as the Associate Director of the Plan II Honors Program.

Wettlaufer is currently working on her fourth book "Reading George: Sand, Eliot and the Novel in France and Britain, 1830-1900." Her other books include: "Pen vs Paintbrush: Girodet, Balzac and the Myth of Pygmalion in Post-Revolutionary France" (2001), "In the Mind's Eye: The Visual Impulse in Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin" (2003), and "Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman: Painting and the Novel in France and Britain, 1800-1860" (2011).

Wettlaufer has published numerous articles on Balzac, Sand, Baudelaire, Zola, Manet, Ruskin, Turner, Berlioz, Grandville and Flora Tristan; and her article "She is Me: Tristan, Gauguin, and the Dialectics of Colonial Identity" (Romanic Review,2007) was awarded the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Essay Prize, Honorable Mention. She is the Co-Editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal and serves on the Editorial Boards of European Romantic Review, Nineteenth-Century Studies, George Sand Studies, and Dix-Neuf.

Media Rep Contact

Daniel Oppenheimer (primary)
512-475-9712
email

Lauren Macknight (primary)
512-232-6504
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