Fellowship Recipient

Paul de Morais (they/them) studies and teaches literature and culture of the Romantic period (French, German, British, Anglo-American, Spanish, and Portuguese), focusing especially on prose and the novel. In their dissertation they analyzed the fiction of George Sand, Honoré de Balzac, and Bettine von Arnim in relation to discourses about genre framing the authors' works and the interwoven topics of gender, politics, aesthetics (idealism and realism), nature, and idealist philosophy. They show how the novel writing practices and literary ideologies of Sand, Balzac, and Arnim, which took...