Beverly Evans

Distinguished Teaching Professor & Chair

Welles 213

(585)245-5247

evans@geneseo.edu

Beverly Evans has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 1985.

Office Hours

  • Tuesdays: 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  • Thursdays: 11:20am-12:20pm. Also by appointment.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., French Literature, University of Pennsylvania.

M.A., French Literature, Bryn Mawr College.

A.B., French, Cornell University.

Affiliations

Executive Director Emerita, Pi Delta Phi, The National French Honor Society

Women in French

International Courtly Literature Society

American Association of Teachers of French

Publications

“Revisiting la féminité génétique in Thirteenth-Century French Polyphony: Whose Voice Is It Anyway?” Women in French Studies.  Forthcoming.

Book chapter “Marie Laurencin: From ‘Apollinaire and His Friends’ to the Ballets Russes.” Creative Women of the Lost Generation: Women in the Arts in the Wake of the Great War: Professional Trajectories in Times of Crisis. Eds. Kimberly Francis and Margot Irvine. New York and London: Routledge, 2023.

“The Life and Afterlife of French WW I Songs: National Identity Then and Now,” French Cultural Studies 28.2 (2017).

“Courtly Literature: ‘Yesterday’ is Today.” The Legacy of Courtly Literature: from Medieval to Contemporary Culture. Eds. Rouben Cholakian and Deborah Nelson-Campbell. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

“Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles-Soeurs.” The Literary Encyclopedia, 2015.

“Vendredi, ou les limbes du Pacifique,” The Literary Encyclopedia, 2011.

“Alfred Jeanroy” and “Gustave Reese.” Handbook of Medieval Studies. Ed. Albrecht Classen. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010.

“Seeking ‘Woman’ in Medieval French Woman’s Song, or ‘Lonc tans a que ne vi m’ami.’” Dalhousie French Studies 82.1 (Spring 2008).

“Songs of the Women Trouvères: Just the Same Old Refrains?” Neophilologus 90.1 (2006).

More About Me

Research Interests

  • Medieval French poetry and music
  • WW I literature, music and culture
  • 20th-Century French literature
  • Literature and culture of Québec

Other Interests

  • Travel
  • Music
  • Documentaries
  • Cats
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