Marylaura Papalas

Marylaura Papalas
French and Francophone Studies Coordinator
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
252-328-5786 (phone)
252-328-6233 (fax)
papalasm@ecu.edu
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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 twentieth-century French and transatlantic modernism in literature, the fashion press, visual media, and performance cultures, with particular attention to the 1930s and questions of gender, urban identity, and cultural authority. 

Editorships

Honors & Research Awards

  • 2025: Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Research Award, THCAS.
  • 2019: Research and Creative Activity Award, ECU.
  • 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

  • In Press. Wearing Schiaparelli: 1930s Couture and Transatlantic Interwar Culture. 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