Beverly J. Evans

Department Chair & Distinguished Teaching Professor of French
Welles 213
585-245-6343
evans@geneseo.edu

Beverly Evans has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 1985.

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Evans portrait

Office Hours: FALL 2024

  • Tuesdays: 2:30pm-3:30pm
  • Thursdays: 11:30am-12:30pm

    Also by appointment.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D., French Literature, University of Pennsylvania.

  • M.A., French Literature, Bryn Mawr College.

  • A.B., French, Cornell University.

Affiliations

  • Executive Director, Pi Delta Phi, The National French Honor Society

  • Women in French

  • International Courtly Literature Society

  • Association of College Honor Societies

  • American Association of Teachers of French

Publications

  • Book chapter "Marie Laurencin: From 'Apollinaire and His Friends' to the Ballets Russes." Creative Women of the Lost Generation: Women in the Arts in the Wake of the Great War: Professional Trajectories in Times of Crisis. Eds. Kimberly Francis and Margot Irvine. New York and London: Routledge, 2023.

  • Review of Hamer, Laura. Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919-1939. Routledge, 2018. Women in French Studies 29 (2021).

  • Review of De Gendt, Anne-Marie, and Alicia C. Montoya, eds. La pensée sérielle, du Moyen Age aux Lumières. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Dalhousie French Studies 119 (Spring 2021)

  • Review of Orr, Andrew. Women and the French Army during the World Wars, 1914-1940.
    Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. Women in French Studies 26 (2018).

  • Review of Leroux, Louis Patrick, and Charles R. Batson, eds. Cirque Global: Quebec’s
    Expanding Circus Boundaries. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016. French Review 91.1 (2017).

  • "The Life and Afterlife of French WW I Songs: National Identity Then and Now," French Cultural Studies 28.2 (2017).

  • “Courtly Literature: ‘Yesterday’ is Today.” The Legacy of Courtly Literature: from Medieval to Contemporary Culture. Eds. Rouben Cholakian and Deborah Nelson-Campbell. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

  • "Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-Soeurs." The Literary Encyclopedia, 2015.

  • Review of Findley, Brooke Heidenreich. Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Women in French Studies 20 (2015).

  • Review of White, Sophie. Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians, Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Dalhousie French Studies 102 (2014).

  • "Vendredi, ou les limbes du Pacifique," The Literary Encyclopedia, 2011.

  • "Alfred Jeanroy" and "Gustave Reese." Handbook of Medieval Studies. Ed. Albrecht Classen. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010.

  • "Seeking 'Woman' in Medieval French Woman's Song, or 'Lonc tans a que ne vi m'ami.'" Dalhousie French Studies 82.1 (Spring 2008).

  • “Songs of the Women Trouvères: Just the Same Old Refrains?” Neophilologus 90.1 (2006).

More About Me

Research Interests

  • Medieval French poetry and music
  • WW I literature, music and culture
  • 20th-Century French literature
  • Literature and culture of Québec

Other Interests

  • Travel
  • Music
  • Documentaries
  • Yoga
  • Cats

Classes

  • FREN 388: Exp: French Culture & Music
  • LANG 150: Intro to World Languages

    This course, taught in English, introduces the student to the Languages and Literatures academic and co-curricular programs and will provide opportunities for interaction with members of a diverse body of instructors from different languages and cultural backgrounds. Using a variety of instructional methods such as presentations, workshops, and discussions, the student will explore contemporary topics, career opportunities, ways to maximize global language and soft skills in professional and personal life, as well as learn about research, international work, and study abroad opportunities. This class is open to any first year or transfer student at the college interested in majoring in French or Spanish or concentrating in these languages (Elementary Education majors), minoring in French, German, or Spanish or studying global languages at the elementary/intermediate level. The course will also provide advising, planning, and problem-solving assistance to the student while navigating the first semester at Geneseo.