Lauren Pinzka

Lauren Pinzka, senior lecturer emeritus of French, specializes in the nineteenth-century French novel, with a particular focus on cultural history and gender studies. Initially, she dedicated her research to psychoanalytic criticism and gender studies but has subsequently chosen to return to her undergraduate passion for history.  She is particularly interested in questions of myth and historical memory. After teaching at Oberlin and Connecticut Colleges, she joined the French department in 1992. She has dedicated much of her time to the field of pedagogy, exploring effective methods for teaching fiction, as well as designing language and introductory literature courses. She is currently revising an article on the 1857 trials of Gustave Flaubert and Charles Baudelaire. 

Her publications include “Teaching Historical Myth and Memory in Indiana,” in Approaches to Teaching Sand’s Indiana; “Olivier, Armance, and the Unspeakable,” in Altered Narratives; “A Psychoanalytical Approach to Madame Bovary,” in Approaches to Teaching Madame Bovary; “Unmasking Indiana: George Sand and the French Revolution(s),” in Literate French Women and the 1789 Revolution; and “Teaching the French Revolution as Myth and Memory,” in Teaching Representations of the French Revolution.