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Associate Professor of History
Amy Wiese Forbes teaches courses in Modern European history that emphasize politics and culture, and specializes in the history of nineteenth-century France. She also teaches courses in medical history and European women’s and gender history. She is the author of “’Let’s Add the Stomach’: Satire, Absurdity and July Monarchy Politics in Proudhon’s What is Property” (French Historical Studies Fall 2001); “The Lithographic Conspiracy:  How Satire Framed Liberal Political Debate in Nineteenth-Century France” (French Politics, Culture and Society Summer 2008); and The Satiric Decade:  Satire and the Rise of Republicanism in France, 1830-1840  (forthcoming from Lexington Books November 2009); and  “Accusations of Imposture:  Satire, Gender and the Republican Body Politic in Nineteenth-Century France” (forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century Studies).

 


Amy Wiese Forbes EMAIL

Ph.D., Rutgers University
M.A., University of Georgia
M.Ed., University of Georgia
B.A., Louisiana State University

(601) 974 -1369
Office: CC 29


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