Faculty Guide

Title

Professor Emerita of Humanities and Women's and Gender Studies

Romance Studies
Women's and Gender Studies

Expertise

Seventeenth- and 18th-century French prose. Cultural studies and comparative literature. Feminism and gender studies.

Profile

Professor Harth engages in a novel combination of scholarly work. She continues to be interested in women in early modern France, but is currently also writing on the wartime internment of Japanese Americans.

Awards and Honors

Whiting Foundation Fellowship (1993)

American Council for Learned Societies Fellowship (1989 - 1990)

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1989 - 1990)

Bunting Institute Fellowship (1988 - 1989)

American Council for Learned Societies Fellowship (1978)

Sachar International Fellowship (1976)

National Endowment for Humanities Junior Fellowship (1970 - 1971)

Ashley Award (publication prize for dissertation) (1968)

Fulbright Fellowship (1959 - 1960)

Courses Taught

COML	160b	Fiction into Film
FECS	157a	French Film
USEM	12a	An American Tragedy: The Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans
USEM	12b	Not for the Fainthearted

Scholarship

Harth,Erica L. Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans. New York: St. Martins/Palgrave, 2001.

Harth,Erica L. Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Harth,Erica L. Ideology and Culture in 17th Century France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Harth,Erica L. Cyrano de Bergerac and the Polemics of Modernity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.