Faculty Profile
Adeline Soldin
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies (2015)
Contact Information
Bosler Hall Room M7
Bio
Adeline Soldin’s scholarship focuses on textual, sexual and social transgressions in France’s long 19th-Century. Her monograph, "Proust's Snobs, Inverts, and Jews: Performing and Subverting Identity in la Recherche” was published in 2025 with Bloomsbury Academic. She has published in peer-reviewed journals including French Studies, MLN, L'Esprit Créateur, and the The French Review, among others. Her research and teaching interests include women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; performance theory; visual culture; food studies; and modernism.
Education
- B.A., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2002
- M.A., Middlebury College in Paris, 2005
- Ph.D., Boston University, 2014
2025-2026 Academic Year
Fall 2025
FREN 232 Professional French
This course prepares students for professional work in a Francophone context. Students will learn about the job search and application process as well as cultural norms and practices in Francophone workplaces. Emphasis is placed on developing professional communication and intercultural skills specific to professional contexts. As a WID class, this course develops students’ written expression with a focus on professional genres such as CVs and cover letters, publicity, memoranda, and business proposals. It further advances students’ linguistic and intercultural proficiency by teaching them how to use specialized vocabulary and appropriate registers to conduct business in French and Francophone working environments. Students will learn about different types of organizations from various sectors of the economy, preparing them for work in a range of fields. This course also contains experiential learning components that develop oral communication including interaction with francophone companies and institutions and mock job interviews.Prerequisite: FREN 202, 225 or equivalent.
WGSS 301 Sex and the City of Light
Cross-listed with FREN 364-01. This course in comparative literature and visual culture investigates the city of Paris as a site of sexual and artistic exploration, liberation, and confrontation for women of the early 20th-Century. Students will study a variety of literature, visual art, performance art, and haute couture created and produced by women from diverse backgrounds who came to Paris in search of free self-expression. Most of these writers, journalists, artists, dancers, and designers knew each other; many collaborated professionally and mingled socially; and some became involved romantically. We will discuss the implications of their professional, social, and intimate relationships and consider to what extent these networks may have fostered artistic creation as well as political activism. To facilitate these investigations, students will read feminist and queer theory to deepen and strengthen our analyses.
FREN 364 Sex and the City of Light
Cross-listed with WGSS 301-01. This course in comparative literature and visual culture investigates the city of Paris as a site of sexual and artistic exploration, liberation, and confrontation for women of the early 20th-Century. Students will study a variety of literature, visual art, performance art, and haute couture created and produced by women from diverse backgrounds who came to Paris in search of free self-expression. Most of these writers, journalists, artists, dancers, and designers knew each other; many collaborated professionally and mingled socially; and some became involved romantically. We will discuss the implications of their professional, social, and intimate relationships and consider to what extent these networks may have fostered artistic creation as well as political activism. To facilitate these investigations, students will read feminist and queer theory to deepen and strengthen our analyses.