Alexandra K. Wettlaufer
Professor — PhD, Columbia University
Professor, Director of Plan II, French and Comparative Literature, French Studies

Contact
- E-mail: akw@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-1442
- Office: HRH 3.104C
- Office Hours: T, Th 3:30-5
- Campus Mail Code: G7600
Interests
19th-century literature, visual arts, culture, and gender studies in France and Britain
Biography
Alexandra K. Wettlaufer is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature, specializing in 19th-century literature, visual arts, culture, and gender studies. A recipient of a 2014-15 Guggenheim Fellowship, Professor Wettlaufer is currently working on a book project entitled "Reading George: Sand, Eliot and the Novel in France and Britain, 1830-1900." She is the author of three previous books: Pen vs Paintbrush: Girodet, Balzac and the Myth of Pygmalion in Post-Revolutionary France (2001), In the Mind's Eye: The Visual Impulse in Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin (2003), and Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman: Painting and the Novel in France and Britain, 1800-1860 (2011). She has published numerous articles on Balzac, Sand, Baudelaire, Zola, Manet, Ruskin, Turner, Berlioz, Grandville, and Flora Tristan; her article "She is Me: Tristan, Gauguin, and the Dialectics of Colonial Identity" (Romanic Review,2007) was awarded the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Essay Prize, Honorable Mention. Professor Wettlaufer has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, ACLS, Bourse Marandon, the Clark Art Institute, and the National Humanities Center. Her teaching awards include a President's Associates' Teaching Award, the Blunk Memorial Professorship in Teaching and Advising, a Raymond Dickson Centennial Endowed Teaching Award, a Liberal Arts Council Teaching Award, and University Coop Award for Undergraduate Thesis Advising. She is the Co-Editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal and serves on the Editorial Boards of European Romantic Review, Nineteenth-Century Studies, George Sand Studies, and Dix-Neuf. Professor Wettlaufer has also served on the Advisory Boards of the American Comparative Literature Association, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, and on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association. Professor Wettlaufer is a core faculty member of Comparative Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, and European Studies. She is the Associate Director of the Plan II Honors Program.
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Courses
FR 390M • Thresholds Of Identity
37279 • Fall 2021
Meets W 1:00PM-4:00PM HRH 2.106C
T C 125K • Comm Conn Persp Self & Soc
42780 • Fall 2021
Meets W 5:00PM-6:00PM MEZ 1.306
FR 382L • Women In French Fiction/Film
36920 • Spring 2021
Meets W 2:00PM-5:00PM BEN 1.122
Hybrid/Blended
(also listed as C L 386, WGS 393)
T C 358 • Decentering Culture/Power
41720 • Spring 2020
Meets W 2:00PM-5:00PM RLP 2.606
FR 390M • Metropolitan Modernities
35840 • Fall 2019
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM HRH 2.106C
(also listed as C L 381)
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
F C 349 • Fictions Of The Self/Other
36920 • Spring 2017
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BEN 1.122
GCWr
(also listed as C L 323, CTI 345, EUS 347, WGS 345)
FR 391K • Gender, Genre, Power
36800 • Spring 2017
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM HRH 2.106C
FR 390M • Metropolitan Vision/Modernity
36655 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM CLA 0.124
(also listed as C L 381)
F C 349 • Fictions Of The Self/Other
36100 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM WEL 3.260
GC
(also listed as CTI 345, EUS 347, WGS 345)
FR 390M • Dandies/Divas/Demi: Mondaines
35980 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM PAR 214
FR 390M • Metropolitan Vision/Modernity
37030 • Fall 2014
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM PAR 305
(also listed as C L 381)
FR 390M • Revolutions In Gender & Genre
37370 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM BEN 1.118
(also listed as WGS 393)
F C 349 • Fictions Of The Self And Other
36970 • Fall 2012
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CAL 200
Wr
(also listed as C L 323, CTI 345, EUS 347, 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)
F C 349 • Fictions Of The Self And Other
36830 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CAL 200
Wr
(also listed as C L 323, CTI 345, EUS 347, 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
FR 382L • Women In French Fiction & Film
36945 • Spring 2011
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BEN 1.106
(also listed as C L 386)
F C 349 • Fictions Of The Self And Other
36625 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CAL 21
Wr
(also listed as C L 323, CTI 345, EUS 347, 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
F C 349 • Fictions Of The Self And Other
37170 • Fall 2009
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM CAL 21
(also listed as EUS 347, 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.