Faith Evelyn Beasley is a professor of French cultural studies at

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. She is known for her work on French cultural history, and the intersection of French history and the voices of women writers.

Education and career

Beasley grew up in Michigan and attended Plainwell High School. She received her

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degree in French from

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in 1980. She studied abroad in Paris at the

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from 1984 until 1985, and then in 1986 she earned her Ph.D. in French from

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. After receiving her PhD, Beasley served as a teaching assistant at the Lycée Berthelot in Toulouse, France, and as a visiting instructor of English at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques in Paris, France. Beasley joined

as an assistant professor of French in 1986. She has been a tenured professor of French since 2008. She served as the editor of ''Cahiers du dix-septième from 2008 to 2016.'' Beasley received a

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in 2012 for her research on Versailles and the Taj Mahal.

Selected publications

* ''Revising Memory: Women's Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France.'' New Brunswick, N.J.; Rutgers University Press, 1990 * * ''Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory.'' Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006 * Reviews of ''Teaching seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French women writers'' * * * ''Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal: François Bernier, Marguerite de La Sablière and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France.'' Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018 * ''Versailles à la rencontre du Taj Mahal: Conversations éclairées sur l’Inde au temps du Roi-Soleil.'' Translated by Patrick Graille. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024

References

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