Elizabeth McManus
Adjunct Lecturer of French
Welles 3C
585-245-6395
mcmanus@geneseo.edu
Dr. McManus has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 2017.
Office Hours: FALL 2025
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D., French Literature, Northwestern University, 2014.
M.A., French Literature, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005.
B.A., French Studies, Cornell University, 2001.
Affiliations
Modern Languages Association
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
Publications
“Illusion and the True: Arcades, Dioramas, and Irony in Théophile Gautier’s Fortunio.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies. 44.3-4 (2016): 218-34.
“Protecting the Island: Narrative Continuance in Lost.” The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 22.1 (2011): 4-23.
Review of Pinson, Stephen C. Speculating Daguerre: Art and Enterprise in the Work of J. L. M. Daguerre, in Nineteenth-Century French Studies.43.1-2 (2014-2015).
“Looking Backward and Forward.” Review of Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010, . Sara Wasson and Emily Adler, inScience Fiction Studies. 39.3 (2012): 547-9.
More About Me
Research Interests:
19th-century French literature and culture, Fantastic, Utopian/Dystopian and Gothic literatures, the fantastic in contemporary short stories and popular culture, film, 19th-century British literature, 18th-century French literature
Other Interests:
- Creative non-fiction
- Film
- Culinary and domestic arts from the 19th century to today