Marylaura Papalas

Marylaura Papalas
Associate Professor
French and Francophone Studies
252-328-5786 (phone)
252-328-6233 (fax)
papalasm@ecu.edu
https://twitter.com/mlpProf
Bate 3322 (office)
Dept. Foreign Languages & Literatures
East Carolina University Mailstop #556
Greenville, NC 27858-4353

Background

  • B.A. French and International Studies, UNC Chapel Hill
  • M.A. Modern Greek Literature, The Ohio State University
  • Ph.D. French Literature, The Ohio State University

Areas of Interest

Marylaura Papalas specializes in women writers and artists of the French avant-garde. She focuses on themes of gender, identity, urbanism, and fashion in their work, and in representations of their work in journalistic, literary and popular culture.

Honors

  • 2017: Winner of the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship in the Field of Foreign Languages

Selected Publications

OrcidID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6548-290X

Books

  • Forthcoming: Wearing Schiaparelli: Culture and Fashion Between the Wars. University of Nebraska Press.
  • 2021. New Directions in Flânerie: Global Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century. Editors Kelly Comfort and Marylaura Papalas. Routledge.

Articles/Chapters

  • Forthcoming. “Women Fashion Designers and 1930s French Cinema
  • 2022. “‘Smartness Aloft’: Flight and Fashion in Interwar Transatlantic Media.” Special Issue on Fashion’s International Borders, English Language Notes (ELN), vol. 60, no. 2, October. 21-36. doi.org/10.1215/00138282-9890747.
  • 2022. “Flânerie in the Time of Covid: French Journalistic References to Walking from 2020.” French Politics, Culture & Society, Vol. 40, No. 2, Summer. 75-89. doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2022.400205.
  • 2021. “Introduction: Tracing the Geography, Genius, and Gender of Flânerie.” Co-authored with Kelly Comfort in New Directions in Flânerie: Global Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century, ed. Kelly Comfort and Marylaura Papalas, Routledge. 1-52.
  • 2021. “Fashionable Flânerie: Walking Women in Interwar Vogue Paris.” New Directions in Flânerie: Global Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century. ed. Kelly Comfort and Marylaura Papalas, Routledge. 89-104.
  • 2020. “Valentine Gross Hugo: Fashion & Performance in Early 20th Century French Magazines.” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. 2:2: 217-234. DOI: 10.5325/jmodeperistud.11.2.0217
  • 2018.”Léona Delcourt and Suzanne Muzard: A Gendered Perspective on Flânerie.” Dada/Surrealism, 22. DOI: 10.17077/0084-9537.1323.
  • 2017. “Fashion in Interwar France: The Urban Vision of Elsa Schiaparelli.” French Cultural Studies 28.2: 159-172. (Winner of the Florence Howe Award).
  • 2016. “Avant-garde Cuts: Elsa Schiaparelli and the Construction of a Surrealist Femininity.” Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture 20.5: 503-522.
  • 2016. “Elsa Schiaparelli and French Vogue: The Fashioning of an Avant-garde Discourse.” International Journal of Fashion Studies 3.1: 69-89.
  • 2015. “Speed and Convulsive Beauty: Trains and the Historic Avant-garde.” Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 39.1. DOI: 10.4148/2334-4415.1818.
  • 2013. “New Orientations for French Language Learning: Is Synchronous Distance Education a Viable Solution?” The French Review 87.2: 99-112.
  • 2013. “Surrealism’s Anti-Muse; Feminine Violence in the work of Joyce Mansour. “ Rebelles et criminelles chez les ecrivaines d’expression française.” Ed. Colette Trout and Frederique Chevillot. Rodopi. 201-215.
  • 2009. “Is Sollers Still Avant-Garde? The New Avant-Garde City and Philippe Sollers’ Un Vrai Roman.” The South Carolina Modern Language Review (PDF). 8.1. 36-45.
  • 2006. “Nicolas Calas’ Surrealism: Liberating the National Greek Identity.” Modernism and Modernity in the Mediterranean World ed. Pietropaolo, Lucas Somigli, Dario Brancato. Legas.103-114.

Courses Taught

  • FREN 4700, Special Topics: Gender and Sexualities in French Literature and Culture
  • FREN 4560, The Contemporary French & Francophone World / The French Avant-garde
  • FREN 3550, Intro to Cultural Analysis
  • FREN 3001, French Conversation
  • FREN 1001-2004, French Language (Traditional & DE)
  • GLST 2000, Fashion Representations
  • CLAS 4000, Seminar: Modern Greek Identities
  • HNRS 2011, Honors Seminar in the Humanities: Fashion, Gender, Literature & Culture