Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures,
Associate Professor of French
Andrea Thomas comes from Alameda, California. Her research interests include nineteenth- through twenty-first- century French and Belgian literature, comparative literature, and book history. She especially loves to teach theater and public speaking classes (in French)! Dr. Thomas served as the Director of Loyola’s Leuven Program, accompanied a student group to France, and now leads an immersion weekend in Montreal each year. She hopes all students can experience life abroad at least once during their time at Loyola.
Education
- New York University, BA, Comparative Literature
- Columbia University, MA, MPhil, PhD, French and Romance Philology
Courses Taught
- FR104 Intermediate French II
- FR216 Highlights in French and Francophone Studies
- FR320 Speak Up!
- FR359 The Fantastic 19th Century
- FR360 Topics in French Theatre—20th century
- FR362 CENSORED [Censorship in 19th-Century France]
- ML307D Topics in Comparative Cultures and Literary Studies
Publications
Books
- Lautréamont, Subject to Interpretation. Amsterdam: BRILL | Rodopi, 2015.
Articles
- “Published Belgian-Style: Albert Lacroix, Charles De Coster, Henry Kistemaeckers, Camille Lemonnier, and the Belgian Contribution to French Decadent Aesthetics.” Modern Language Review (MLR) 117.3 (July 2022) 352-370.
- “Judith Gautier, Vers Libre,and the Faux East.” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 72.2 (May 2018) 77-88.
- “Lautréamont Électro: une musique faite par tous, non par un.” Revue des Sciences Humaines 314 (avril-juin 2014) 145-160.
- “Michel de Ghelderode, the Wooster Group, and postmodernist revisions of La Tentation de saint Antoine.” Orbis Litterarum 67.2 (April 2012) 136-153.
Book Reviews
- Review of Victor Hugo, Jean- Paul Sartre, and the Liability of Liberty byBradley Stephens. Oxford: Legenda, 2011. Nineteenth Century French Studies 41.3-4 (2013): 326-328.
- Review of Le Roman symboliste: un art de l’“extrême conscience” by Valérie Michelet Jacquod. Geneva: Droz, 2008. Romanic Review 101.4 (2010): 861-863.
- Review of Ducasse et Lautréamont: L’envers et l’endroit, by Michel Pierssens. Tusson: Presses universitaires de Vincennes et du Lérot, 2005. Romanic Review 100.3 (2009): 398-400.
Areas of Specialization
- 19th - 21st Century French and Francophone Literature
- Adaptation
- Textual History and Criticism
- French Theatre
Presentations
Presentations at Scholarly Conferences
- Nineteenth-Century French Studies (NCFS) Conference, “Cosmopolitans vs. Chauvinists in the Second Empire,” New York, New York, November 3-5, 2022.
- Nineteenth-Century French Studies (NCFS) Conference, “‘Putrid Literature’ Revisited,” Manhattan Beach, California, October 25-27, 2018.
- International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference, “Publishing and the Woman Question in the French Second Empire,” Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 4-6, 2018.
- Nineteenth-Century French Studies (NCFS) Conference, "Naturalism, Published Belgian-Style,” Charlottesville, Virginia, November 9-11, 2017.
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), “Diversifying the Fourth Semester College-Level French Course,” Boston, Massachusetts, November 18-20, 2016.
- Nineteenth Century French Studies (NCFS), “Judith Gautier and Armchair Escapism,” San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 16-18, 2014.
- Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies. "Publish, Perish: Fictional Representations of the Éditeur,” New York, New York, March 6-8, 2014.
- Nineteenth Century French Studies (NCFS), “Fictional biographies of Rimbaud and Lautréamont,” Richmond, Virginia, October 24-26, 2013.
Service Activities, Memberships in Academic Societies
Service: College Activities (Representative assignments)
- Faculty Development Advisory Board (2017-2018)
- Honor Council (2013-2015)
- Faculty Handbook and Academic Policies (2013-2015)
- French Club Moderator (2009-2014)
Memberships in Academic Societies
- Modern Language Association
- American Association of Teachers of French
- Greater Washington Association of Teachers of Foreign Language