Stanford University

Graduate Student, French and Italian

Thesis Title: The Afterlife of the Aristocracy: Nobility in French Literature from Balzac to Proust

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Melanie Conroy is a graduate student in the Department of  French and Italian at Stanford University, specializing in 19th- and early 20th-century French fiction. Her dissertation analyzes the discourse of nobility and aristocracy in nineteenth-century culture through the lens of fiction, including popular theater, satires, caricature, and Romantic theater. She also has an M.A. in comparative literature from SUNY Buffalo and an M.A. in French literature from the University of Paris VIII.

She was the managing editor of Republics of Letters from 2009 to 2010. She is currently editing a volume on investment, finance and economic crises in nineteenth-century French literature. (Submissions and inquiries are welcome at mrconroy@stanford.edu.)

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