Brenna K. Heitzman, Graduate Student Instructor, French

Please note: Brenna has left the "Romance Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Research interests: Seventeenth-, Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Literature, Eighteenth-Century Feminism in France, Motherhood and Female Mentoring, Women’s Writing, Feminist Theory. Teaching interests: Early modern French Literature, The Enlightenment, Romanticism, Sub-Saharan Francophone writing and theories of Francophone literature, Teaching writing, Instructional uses of technology, Feminist theory, Research methodologies. Preliminary Examination Fields: High Classicism of the Seventeenth Century, Representations of the Feminine in the Novel (18th–19th centuries).

Contact Info:

Office Location:	02E Perkins Library
Email Address:

Office Hours:

By appointment.

Specialties:

French
Early Modern
Gender Studies, Feminism, Women Studies, Queer Studies