Alexandra K Wettlaufer
Professor — PhD, Columbia University
Professor of French and Comparative Literature

Contact
- E-mail: akw@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-1442
- Office: CLA 2.102, HRH 3.104C
- Campus Mail Code: G7600
Interests
19th-century literature, visual arts, culture, and gender studies in France and Britain
Biography
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Courses
T C 358 • Decentering Culture/Power
41720 • Spring 2020
Meets W 2:00PM-5:00PM RLP 2.606
C L 381 • Metropolitan Modernities
33478 • Fall 2019
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM HRH 2.106C
(also listed as FR 390M)
FR 390L • Mobility/Iden/19th Cen Fictn
36430 • Spring 2019
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM HRH 2.106C
T C 358 • Decentering Culture/Power
42550 • Fall 2018
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM RLP 0.122
FR 391K • Francophone Women Writers
36323 • Spring 2018
Meets W 2:00PM-5:00PM HRH 2.106C
EUS 347 • Fictions Of The Self/Other
36450 • Spring 2017
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BEN 1.122
GCWr
(also listed as C L 323, CTI 345, F C 349, WGS 345)
FR 391K • Gender, Genre, Power
36800 • Spring 2017
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM HRH 2.106C
C L 381 • Metropolitan Vision/Modernity
33593 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM CLA 0.124
(also listed as FR 390M)
EUS 347 • Fictions Of The Self/Other
35640 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM WEL 3.260
GC
(also listed as CTI 345, F C 349, WGS 345)
FR 390M • Dandies/Divas/Demi: Mondaines
35980 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM PAR 214
C L 381 • Metropolitan Vision/Modernity
33965 • Fall 2014
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM PAR 305
(also listed as FR 390M)
FR 390M • Revolutions In Gender & Genre
37370 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM BEN 1.118
(also listed as WGS 393)
EUS 347 • Fictions Of The Self And Other
36450 • Fall 2012
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CAL 200
Wr
(also listed as C L 323, CTI 345, F C 349, WGS 345)
FR 390M • Gender/Space/Place 19-C France
36765 • Spring 2012
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM HRH 2.106C
(also listed as WGS 393)
EUS 347 • Fictions Of The Self And Other
36310 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CAL 200
Wr
(also listed as C L 323, CTI 345, F C 349, WGS 345)
FR 180P • Intro To Studies In Lit & Cul
36695 • Fall 2011
Meets W 5:00PM-6:00PM HRH 2.112
(also listed as ITL 180P)
UGS 302 • Caribbean Lit, Music, And Film
63535 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MAI 220B
Wr
C L 386 • Women In French Fiction & Film
34050 • Spring 2011
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BEN 1.106
(also listed as FR 382L)
EUS 347 • Fictions Of The Self And Other
36045 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CAL 21
Wr
(also listed as C L 323, CTI 345, F C 349, WGS 345)
UGS 302 • Caribbean Lit, Music, And Film
63180 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MAI 220B
Wr
FR 390M • Gender/Genre Revol In 19-C Lit
36725 • Spring 2010
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM HRH 2.106C
T C 603B • Compos And Read In World Lit
43545 • Spring 2010
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM CRD 007B
EUS 347 • Fictions Of The Self And Other
36505 • Fall 2009
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM CAL 21
(also listed as F C 349, WGS 345)
FR 390M • Revol In Lit In 19th-C France
37285 • Fall 2008
Meets W 3:30PM-6:30PM HRH 2.106C
(also listed as WGS 393)
FR 390M • Gender/Genre Revol In 19-C Lit
36395 • Spring 2007
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM HRH 2.106C
WGS 393 • Women On The Verge
49862 • Fall 2006
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CAL 200
FR 390M • Ident & Performnc In 19th Cen
35035 • Fall 2005
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM HRH 2.106C
(also listed as WGS 393)
FR 326L • Intro Fr Lit II: Fr Rev-Pres
33860 • Spring 2005
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM BEN 1.108
WGS 393 • 19th-C Women's Lit & Painting
46355 • Spring 2005
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM CAL 221
FR 390M • Crossing Gender/Genre Borders
34705 • Fall 2004
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM HRH 2.106C
FR 390M • Ident & Performnc In 19th Cen
32410 • Spring 2003
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM HRH 2.106C
FR 390M • Revol In Lit In 19th-C France
33250 • Fall 2001
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM HRH 2.106C
FR 390M • Realism To Decadence
32435 • Spring 2001
Meets M 4:00PM-7:00PM BAT 106
Publications
Wettlaufer, AK (2011) Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman: Painting and the Novel in France and Britain, 1800-1860 (Columbus: Ohio University Press).
Wettlaufer, A.K. (2010) Artistic Self-Fashioning and Female Community: Travel Narratives and the Construction of Female Artistic Identity in the Nineteenth Century. In T. Mangum (Ed.), A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Empire. Oxford: Berg.
Wettlaufer, A.K. (2010, March) Sisters in Art: Shaping Artistic Identity in Anna Mary Howitt's Fiction and Painting. Victorian Review
Wettlaufer, A.K. (2008, April) Hands Off: Gender, Anxiety, and Artistic Identity in the Atelier in Boilly, Mayer and Balzac. XIX: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviemistes, 10, 1-11.
Wettlaufer, A.K. (2007, September) She is Me: Tristan, Gauguin and the Dialectics of Colonial Identity. Romanic Review, 98(1), 23-50.
Wettlaufer, A.K. (2007, September) Composing Romantic Identity: Berlioz and the Sister Arts. Romance Studies, 25(1), 45-58.
Wettlaufer, A.K. (2004, September) Dibutades and her Daughters: The Female Artist in Post-Revolutionary France. Nineteenth-Century Studies, 18, 9-38.
Wettlaufer, A.K. (2004) Sand, Musset and the Empire of Genius: Painting Difference in Elle et lui. In McCall-Saint-Saens (Ed.), George Sand et l'empire des lettres New Orleans: Presses Univ.
Wettlaufer, A.K. (2004, September) Girodet/Endymion/Balzac: Representation and Rivalry in Post-Revolutionary France. World & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, 17(4), 401-411.
Wettlaufer, A.K. (2003) In the Mind's Eye: The Visual Impulse in Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi.
Wettlaufer, A.K. (2001) Pen vs. Paintbrush: Girodet, Balzac and the Myth of Pygmalion in Postrevolutionary France. New York: Palgrave/St.Martin.
Wettlaufer, A.K. (2000, September) The Sublime Rivalry of Word and Image: Turner and Ruskin Revisited. Victorian Literature and Culture, 28(1), 211-231.
Wettlaufer, A.K. (2000, September) Balzac and Sand: Sibling Rivalry and the Sisterhood of the Arts in Le Chef-d. George Sand Studies, 18, 65-85.
Wettlaufer, A.K. (1999, September) Absent Fathers, Martyred Mothers: Domestic Drama and (Royal) Family Values in A Graphic History of Louis the Sixteenth. Eighteenth Century Life, 23(3), 1-37.
Wettlaufer, A.K. (1999, September) Metaphors of Power and the Power of Metaphor: Zola, Manet and the Art of Portraiture. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 21(3), 435-461.
Wettlaufer, A.K. (1996, September) Paradise Regained: The Flaneur, the Badaud, and the Aesthetics of Artistic Reception in Le Poeme du haschisch. Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 24(3-4), 388-397.
Wettlaufer, A.K. (1995, September) Ruskin and Laforgue: Visual/Verbal Dialectics and the Poetics/Politics of Montage. Comparative Literature Studies, 32(4), 514-535.