Sharon D. Larson
Honors Program - Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
Associate Professor
McMurran Hall 109
(757) 594-7109
sharon.larson@cnu.edu
Education
- Ph D in French Studies, Brown University
- MA in French Studies, Brown University
- BA in French Language and Literature, Smith College
Teaching
19th - and 20th- Century French Literature and Culture
All levels of French Language
Women Writers
19th-Century Medical Texts
Naturalism in the French-, Spanish-, and German- speaking worlds
Research
19th-Century Literature and Culture
Decadent and Naturalist Literatures
Gender and Sexuality Studies
French Women Writers
Medical Discourses in Literature
Fin-de-siècle
Biography
Dr. Sharon Larson is associate professor of French at Christopher Newport University. She received her Ph.D. in French Studies from Brown University in 2009 and her B.A. from Smith College in 2001. Her research examines representations of malevolent femininity in Decadent and Naturalist literatures, as well as medical discourses on sexual difference in the late nineteenth century. She has published articles in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Women in French Studies, Dix-neuf, Excavatio, L’Érudit franco-espagnol, Nineteenth-Century Contexts and Nottingham French Studies. Her book Resurrecting Jane de La Vaudère: Literary Shapeshifter of the Belle Époque is available through Penn State Press.