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.
Ph.D.
in French and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1993
M.A.
in French, Columbia University, 1987
B.A.
in Comparative Literature, Princeton University, 1982
19th-century literature, visual arts, culture, and gender studies in France and Britain
Project Evaluator,
ANR (2013 - 2014)
Project Evaluator,
NEH (2013)
Project Evaluator,
American Academy in Berlin (2013)
Treasurer and Board Member,
George Sand Association (2011 - Present)
Chair,
Local Organizing Committee for Conference, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (2010)
1st Vice-President,
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (2009 - 2011)
Executive Council,
Modern Language Association (2008 - 2012)
Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee,
Modern Language Association (2008 - 2012)
Application evaluator,
National Humanities Center (2008 - 2012)
2nd Vice-President,
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (2007 - 2009)
Chair,
Prize Committee, interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (2007 - 2011)
Delegate Assembly,
Modern Language Association (2006 - 2008)
Board Member,
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (2005 - 2008)
Steering Committee,
Nineteenth-Century French Studies (2004 - 2007)
Member of Advisory Board and Executive Committee,
American Comparative Literature Association (1991 - 1994)
International Member,
Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, Durham University
Editorial Board,
Nineteenth-Century Studies, European Romantic Review, Nineteenth-Century Contexts: an Interdisciplinary Journal, George Sand Studies
Fellowship
- John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2014)
Endowed Teaching Award
- Liberal Arts Council (2013 - 2014)
Humanities Research Award
- The College of Liberal Arts, UT Austin (2013 - 2016)
Distinction in Teaching Award, Second Runner-up
- Phi Beta Kappa (2012)
Article Prize, Honorable Mention for She is Me: Tristan, Gauguin and the Dialectics of Colonial Identity
- Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (2008)
Florence Gould Foundation Fellowship
- National Humanities Center (2007 - 2008)
Dean's Fellowship
- The University of Texas at Austin (2007 - 2008)
