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Heidi Brevik-Zender
Professor Brevik-Zender's research interests are in French literature and culture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on the study of sartorial fashion, gender, aesthetics and issues of modernity. She received her doctorate in French Studies from Brown University and has taught at Scripps College and UC Santa Barbara. Her recent publications include works on literary and pictorial representations of fashion at the Belle Époque racetrack and on the relationships between garments, furniture, and interior design in the fin-de-siècle texts of the decadent novelist Rachilde. Professor Brevik-Zender's current book project is a study of nineteenth-century modernity and the ways in which French and other European authors, artists, and journalists constructed, understood, embraced and critiqued the notion of the modern through the lens of fashion. |
