Beverly J. Evans

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

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

A.B., French, Cornell University.

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

Women in French

International Courtly Literature Society

Association of College Honor Societies

American Association of Teachers of French

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.

Review of Hamer, Laura. Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919-1939. Routledge, 2018. Women in French Studies 29 (2021).

Review of De Gendt, Anne-Marie, and Alicia C. Montoya, eds. La pensée sérielle, du Moyen Age aux Lumières. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Dalhousie French Studies 119 (Spring 2021)

Review of Orr, Andrew. Women and the French Army during the World Wars, 1914-1940.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. Women in French Studies 26 (2018).

Review of Leroux, Louis Patrick, and Charles R. Batson, eds. Cirque Global: Quebec’s
Expanding Circus Boundaries. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016. French Review 91.1 (2017).

“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.

Review of Findley, Brooke Heidenreich. Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Women in French Studies 20 (2015).

Review of White, Sophie. Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians, Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Dalhousie French Studies 102 (2014).

“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).