Susan Hiner
Title: Assistant Professor of French
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Office: Chicago 111
Phone: 845.437.5728
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Biography
Susan Hiner received her M.A. and Ph.D. in French Literature from Columbia University, after completing her B.A. in French and English (Modern Studies) at the University of Virginia. She teaches a wide range of courses in French language, literature and culture and also participates in the Women's Studies Program. Ms. Hiner's research and teaching interests include women and material culture in nineteenth-century France, fashion studies, and the intersection of literature and social history. She has published articles on various aspects of nineteenth-century French culture and has received grants relating to both her current research in women and fashion in nineteenth-century France and curricular development. Her most recent article "Fan Fashion in Balzac's Le Cousin Pons" (Romance Studies 2007: 25(3)) reflects her current research on women and material culture. She is currently completing a book about women's fashion accessories and their relation to French modernity entitled Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France, to be published at the University of Pennsylvania Press. She is a regular speaker at conferences in the field of nineteenth-century French cultural studies.