Brian Martin

Assistant Professor of French

At Williams since 2004
Brian.Martin@williams.edu

[Areas of Expertise and Interest]:

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century French Literature
Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Studies
War Narratives and Military Fiction
Scandinavian and Comparative Literature

[Courses Taught]:  (RLFR)

Elementary French (RLFR 101)
Intermediate French (RLFR 103)
War and Resistance: Two Centuries of War Literature in France, 1804-2004 (RLFR 110)
Sexuality and Seduction in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century France (RLFR 310)

[Education]:

A.B. Harvard University, 1993
M.A. University of California Los Angeles, 1996
A.M. Harvard University, 1999
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2003, ìUniform Manhood: NapolÈonic Friendship and Military Literature in France from Balzac, Stendhal, and Hugo, to Zola and Proustî

[Recent Publications]:

"Corporal Affairs: French Military Fiction from Zola to Proust," Aesthetics and Modernity, ed. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004). Forthcoming.
"European Masculinity and Nineteenth-Century Narcissism," Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Bergen: University of Bergen, 2000).
“Going to Pieces: Paul Monette and the Fragments of the Tribe,” Journal of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity, January 1996.