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Biliana Kassabova Biliana Kassabova Curriculum Vitae Department of French and Italian [email protected] 450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 260 1-773-939-2430 Stanford, CA 94305 Academic Positions Lecturer in French, Stanford University 2015 - Education Stanford University: Ph.D. in French literature 2008-2015 Dissertation Title: The Tribune and the People: Revolutionary Leadership in France, 1789-1871 (advisor: Dan Edelstein) London Summer School in Intellectual History, University College London September 2013 Institute for French Cultural Studies, Dartmouth College June-July 2011 University of Chicago: B.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures, French (with 2003-2007 honors), B.A. in Economics Publications “The Louvre in Ruins: A Revolutionary Sublime” (L’Esprit Créateur, Summer 2014, Vol. 54, No. 2). “Where Are Voltaire’s Letters Concerning the English Nation? An Intellectual Geo-History of the French Enlightenment,” with Dan Edelstein (under review, Journal of the History of Ideas). “Frenchmen into Peasants into Frenchmen: Revolutionary Past and Future in George Sand’s Nanon.” (revised and resubmitted, George Sand Studies). “Tribunes of the People: The French Revolution Beyond Popular Sovereignty.” (under review, French Historical Studies) Works in Progress The Tribune and the People: Revolutionary Leadership in Nineteenth-Century France (book manuscript) “The Sentimental Education of Revolution: Flaubert’s Erasure of the June Days.” (revise and resubmit, Nineteenth Century French Studies). “What Was to be Done? The Case of the Missing Revolutions in Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme.” Talks and Conference Presentations “Doux commerce revisited: The Case of Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet.” March 2018 Market societies and alternative economies: Literature and market effects (seminar co- organizer), American Comparative Literature Association, Los Angeles, CA “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Narrative and Rupture in Flaubert’s November 2017 Education Sentimentale.” Western Society for French History, Reno, NV “‘Les ouvriers de la pensée’: Education and Revolution in Blanqui’s Thought.” June 2017 Society for the Study of French History, University of Strathclyde, UK “Schwärmerei and Enthousiasme: Kant and de Staël’s Concepts of Enthusiasm.” March 2017 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Minneapolis, MN “From Comrade to Apostle: Popular Revolution and Personal Glory in Zola’s March 2016 Germinal.” Great Leaps Forward: Literature and Revolution (seminar co-organizer), American Comparative Literature Association, Cambridge, MA “ ‘C’est le présent qui m’a révélé le passé’: 1848 in Blanqui’s Thought.” March 2016 Society for French Historical Studies, Vanderbilt University “How Not to Make a Revolution: The Revolution of Naples According to Cuoco.” January 2016 18th century French Association panel, Modern Language Association, Austin, TX “Frenchmen into Peasants into Frenchmen: Rewriting Revolutionary Past and January 2016 Future in Nanon.” George Sand Association panel, Modern Language Association, Austin, TX “Publishers, Tribunes, Dictators.” December 2015 Talk at the Seminar for Enlightenment and Revolution, Stanford University “Éclairer le zèle des bons citoyens: Tribunes of the People and the Construction of June 2015 Revolutionary Leadership.” Society for the Study of French History, University of St. Andrews, UK “Escaping Spectacle, Escaping History in Flaubert’s Education sentimentale.” October 2014 Nineteenth Century French Studies, San Juan, Puerto Rico “The Sentimental Education of Revolution: Flaubert’s Erasure of the June Days.” March 2014 The Emotions, Society of dix-neuviémistes, University of Sheffield, UK Panel on “Revolutionary Afterlives: Why Do We Continue to Care about the January 2014 French Revolution?” Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL “Toward Leaderless Revolution: Zola, Vallès, and the Paris Commune.” November 2013 Talk at the Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University, CA “Ni dieu, ni roi, ni tribun. Jules Vallès and the Utopian Project of Anonymous April 2013 Revolution.” Heaven and Hell, Society of dix-neuviémistes, University of Exeter, UK “‘Parce que.’ The Inexorable Logic of History in Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize.” March 2013 Kassabova 2 Northeast Modern Language Association, Tufts University, MA “From Secret Societies to Revolutionary Dictatorship.” February 2013 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, University of North Texas, Ft. Worth, TX “Make Love, not Revolution: Allegories of the July Revolution in Sand and Balzac.” March 2012 American Comparative Literature Association, Brown University, RI “Reading the Ruins: Hubert Robert’s La Grande galerie en ruines.” March 2012 Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, UNC Chapel Hill, NC “The French Revolutionary Novel.” February 2012 Talk at the French Culture Workshop, Stanford University, CA “Second-Person Narrative, or the Disappearing I in Perec’s Un Homme qui dort.” April 2011 Agency and its Limits, Stanford University, CA “Where Are the Letters Concerning the English Nation? Voltaire’s March 2011 Correspondence.” (with Dan Edelstein) Republic of Letters, Fondazione Cini, Venice, Italy Teaching Experience, Stanford University French 270/370: Les Misérables (advanced undergraduate and graduate seminar) Winter 2018 Frenlang 250: Reading French Spring 2018 ESF 3/3A: Education as Self-Fashioning: How to be a Public Intellectual (Freshman writing Fall 2015, Fall seminar), writing instructor 2017 French 241: Far from Paris: The Provinces in 19th century French Fiction (advanced Spring 2017 undergraduate and graduate seminar) French 204: Revolutions in Prose: the 19th century French Novel (advanced undergraduate Spring 2016 and graduate seminar) French 120: Coffee and Cigarettes: The Making of French Intellectual Culture Spring 2016, (undergraduate gateway seminar) Winter 2017 French 131: Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution in 17th and 18th Century France Winter 2016, (undergraduate survey seminar) Spring 2018 Frenlang 21C, 22C, 23C: Second-Year French, Cultural Emphasis 2015-2017 Frenlang 1, 2, 2A: First-year French 2016-2017 Teaching Experience as a Graduate Student French 131: Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution in 17th and 18th Century France Spring 2015 Created syllabus, taught all classes, graded all work French 204: Revolutions in Prose: the 19th century French Novel (graduate seminar) Winter 2013 Restructured syllabus, co-taught all classes, graded all work with Professor Dan Edelstein, Dr. Melanie Conroy French 132: Literature, Revolutions, and Changes in 19th and 20th Century France Spring 2012, Fall Kassabova 3 Created syllabus, taught all classes, graded all work 2012 Frenlang 21C, 23C: Second-year French: Cultural Emphasis Fall 2010, Fall Taught all classes, developed activities, assignments and tests, graded all work 2014, Winter 2015 Frenlang 1, 2, 3: First-Year French 2009-2010, Taught all classes, developed activities, assignments and tests, graded all work Summer 2012, Summer 2014 Other Teaching Experience “What Is Literature For?” Hope House Scholars Program, Redwood City, CA Summer 2014 4-week course at state-run rehabilitation facility for women. Designed and taught all classes sessions with Michæla Hulstyn Reading Bulgarian, independent study at Stanford University Winter 2010, Designed and taught all classes Spring 2010 Academic Service and Professional Activities Maison Française : theme affiliate 2014-2015 History of Human Rights Workshop : coordinator May 2013 French Republicanism Workshop : coordinator January 2013 ACTFL Writing Proficiency training November 2012 Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies : web manager 2011-2013 French Culture Workshop : coordinator 2010-2013 Mapping the Republic of Letters : coordinator 2010-2011 Republic of Letters online journal : managing editor 2009-2010 ACTFL Oral Proficiency Training May 2009 Awards and Fellowships Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center 2013-2014 Centennial Teaching Award, Stanford University 2013 Graduate Research Opportunity Award (dissertation research), Stanford University Summer 2013 Teagle Foundation Teaching Grant (with Dan Edelstein, Melanie Conroy) 2012-2013 Fellowship for the Institute for French Cultural Studies in Dartmouth College, awarded 2011 by the Department of French and Italian at Stanford University Theodore L. Neff Award for best graduating senior in French Literature, The 2007 University of Chicago International student scholarship, The University of Chicago 2003-2007 Covers four years of tuition, housing, and fees Kassabova 4 Languages Bulgarian (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), German (intermediate reading, writing, speaking), Russian (intermediate reading, writing, speaking) Membership in Professional Organizations Modern Language Association, Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Western Society for French History References Dan Edelstein, Professor of French and, by courtesy, History, Stanford University [email protected] 650-724-9881 Keith M. Baker, Professor of History and, by courtesy, French, Stanford University [email protected] 650-723-2791 Elizabeth Bernhardt, Director of the Language Center and Professor of German Studies, Stanford University [email protected] 650-723-7013 Margaret Cohen, Professor of Comparative Literature and, by courtesy, French, Stanford University [email protected] 650-724-0106 Marie Lasnier, French Language Coordinator and Lecturer of French, Stanford University [email protected] Kassabova 5 .
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