Rice-DeFosse, Mary T.

Professor Rice-DeFosse specializes in French woman writers and French in Maine.

Mary Rice-DeFosse, Ph.D Yale University

Mary Rice-DeFosse is Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages. She also teaches in the programs in Women and Gender Studies and American Cultural Studies. She did her doctoral work at Yale University and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. She specializes in French literature of the nineteenth century, revolution, and social change and has published on George Sand, Flora Tristan, Marie d’Agoult, Charles Nodier and Gustave Flaubert. She was a co-editor for the nineteenth-century for A Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature and more recently, co-edited a special volume of Women in French Studies, with Cathy Yandell. She is past President of Women in French, an international professional organization, allied to the Modern Language Association, that supports research on women writers of French expression, and serves on its Executive Committee.