Heidi Brevik-Zender is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature.  Her research interests are in French and Francophone literature, visual media, and material culture from the nineteenth century to the present. She has published widely on fashion in relation to a range of subjects including gender, space, the body, exile, and modernity. While she continues to research in these areas Dr. Brevik-Zender’s focus has expanded to architecture and its intersections with other artforms and fields such as poetry, photography, and archeology.  Her current book project, supported by a U.K. Fulbright Visiting Professorship held at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, is on the intersections of architecture and gender in nineteenth-century France.

Books:

Ed. Fashion, Modernity, and Materiality in France: From Rousseau to Art Deco. State University of New York (SUNY) Press, 2018.

Fashioning Spaces: Mode and Modernity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Paris. University of Toronto Press, 2015.

Awards and Honors:

2017-2018 Fulbright Scholar to the U.K. – Visiting Professorship, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Borchard Foundation Grantee and Convener, International Colloquium in France, July 2015, Château de la Bretesche, Missillac, France

Borchard Foundation Scholar in Residence, January – May 2013, Château de la Bretesche, Missillac, France

2011-2012 University Honors Faculty Mentor of the Year