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Emily Wieder (she/hers) came to the University of Iowa after earning her B.A. in French and history at Elizabethtown College, located in her home state of Pennsylvania. While working on her M.A. (2021) and her Ph.D. (projected completion 2026) at the University of Iowa, Emily has enjoyed teaching in the French department, presenting at conferences, and exploring Iowa City. She had the wonderful opportunity to teach in Pau, France during the 2022-23 school year and will happily talk about the exchange program! She is currently a graduate editorial assistant for Dance Research Journal. Emily's dissertation will tentatively focus on the women Surrealists who resisted the Nazis. She has additional interests in early-20th-century French cinema and in the use of periodicals, like Tropiques and La Ruche, to advocate for total freedom. 

Publications:

• [Forthcoming]. “Germaine Dulac. Maryann De Julio.” Book review in The French Review. 
• "Media Affects in Dulac’s La Cigarette.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: SITES, vol. 27 (August 2023). 
• “Book Review: Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance.” Dada/Surrealism, vol. 24 (2023). 
• “Writing Desire on the Lesbian Body: Baudelaire’s Fantasies and Vivien’s Realities,” Tête-A-Tête, no. 1 (January 2022).  
• Co-translator (English to French) with Catherine Soulé-Sandic, “Unusual Library Things in the United States [Les ‘Bibliothèques d’objets’ aux États-Unis]” by Mark Robison and Lindley Shedd Francoeur, La Revue de la BNU, no. 18, fall 2018. 

Conference presentations:

• [Forthcoming] “’Episti-colère’ in La Ruche: Letters, Rage, and the 1946 Haitian Revolution.” Independence. 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 22-24 Feb. 2024.
• “Lucie Thésée: Martinique’s 'Cannibal' Poetesse.” Surrealisms. International Society for the Study of Surrealism [ISSS]. Houston, Texas. 9-11 Nov. 2023. 
• [Digital poster] “Lucie Thésée: Tropiques’ Cannibal Poetess.” Postgraduate Poster Competition: Caribbean Generations Conference, Queen’s University Belfast. 24-25 June 2022. Second place winner. 
• “The Covert Resistance of Openly-Queer Surrealist Claude Cahun.” Margins, Marginalia, Marginalized. Craft, Critique, Culture Conference. University of Iowa English Department. 14-16 April 2022. 
• “Writing as Relation: Naomi Fontaine’s Kuessipan and Canadian-Autochthone Reconciliation in 2021.” Identity, Inclusion, and Exclusion in the Francophone World. Society for French Historical Studies 67th Annual Conference. Charlotte, North Carolina. 24-26 March 2022. 
• “Media Affects in Germaine Dulac’s La Cigarette.” Mediums. 20^th- and 21^st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. University of Pittsburgh, 24-26 March 2022. Hybrid conference. 
• “Perverting the Church to Reveal Masculine Anxieties: Sade’s Philosophy in the Bedroom.” Postgraduate Symposium [Journée des doctorantes de l’ADEFFI], Association for French and Francophone Studies in Ireland, 04 Sept. 2021. 
• [Video] “Baudelairean Correspondances in Dulac’s La Souriante Madame Beudet.” Society for French Studies annual conference, postgraduate session, June 2021. 
• "‘C’est à moi’ [It’s mine]: Racial Melancholia and Resilience in Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire de….” Resistance and Resilience: Envisioning the Future, University of Maryland: College Park. 5-6 March 2021. Online graduate conference. 
• “The Lesbian Body: Imagined by Charles Baudelaire, Lived by Renée Vivien.” Bodies that Matter. Louisiana State University. 4-6 March 2021. Online conference. 
• “Breaking Down the Being-Seeming Binary: Claude Cahun’s Performative Resistance.” Postgraduate Symposium [Journée des doctorates de l’ADEFFI], Association for French and Francophone Studies in Ireland, 18 Sept. 2020. 
• “Using Instagram to Collate a Personal Dictionary.” Lightning Talk, Midwest Association for Language Teaching Technology, the University of Iowa’s Language Media Center, 8 Feb. 2020. 
• “From Harlem to Paris and Pittsburgh: Double Consciousness in the African Diaspora.” Porosity and Reciprocity, University of California- Los Angeles (UCLA), 24-25 Oct. 2019.  
• “Visibility in Art and Politics: Breton, Dalí, and Picasso in the 1930s.” Forbidden, Forgotten, Erased, University of Maryland- College Park, 5-6 April 2019. 
• “Acculturation in the Twentieth-Century Francophone Classroom.” Migrations of Culture, University of Pittsburgh, 30-31 March 2017.   

Emily Wieder is also the winner of the 2020 Obermann Humanities 3 Minute Thesis competition, click here to watch her presentation.