Elodie Tantet, Ph.D.

Instructional Assistant Professor of Modern Languages

Elodie Tantet teaches French language and culture courses, including a thematic course on Mental Health. She received her Ph.D. in French Studies from Washington University in St. Louis in 2023, a Master’s in French from the University of Memphis in 2016, a Maîtrise in French as a Foreign and Second Language, and a B.A. in Linguistics from Université Lumière Lyon II.

Her current project expands on her dissertation, "Streetwalkers, to Each Their Own Stage: Prostitutes and Philosophers," to investigate how streetwalkers—both real and imagined—embody tensions between autonomy, economic exchange, and cultural performance in Revolutionary-era French literature. Her research explores the intersections of gender, labor, and performance through a sociohistorical lens, with particular attention to the works of Marivaux, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Restif de la Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, and Honoré de Balzac.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Performance and performativity, body politics, gendered marginality and the public sphere in literature, gender and economic exchance