Ekaterina Alexandrova

Education

Ph.D., French, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

M.A., French, University of Pennsylvania, PA

M.A., Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

B.A., French and International Relations, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA

 

Biography

Dr. Ekaterina R. Alexandrova is Associate Professor of French at the University of Wyoming, where she has been teaching since 2012. She moved to Laramie from Paris, where she taught at the Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot. Most recently, she spent a year in Paris working on her research as the recipient of the UW Seibold Award in AY 2021-2022. In 2024, she was UW’s senior nominee to the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend competition. A scholar of Enlightenment French and European literature, culture, and thought, she has published articles on race, gender, and economics in eighteenth and nineteenth-century French and Russian literature. She is currently working on a book project on suicide in eighteenth-century France, titled Une Idée Fatale: The Representation of Suicide in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel.

 

Research Interests

Enlightenment French literature and culture

Women’s writing and representations of gender in Ancien Régime France

Religion and theology in Ancien Régime France

The intersections between literature, philosophy, and medicine in the Enlightenment

Reception of classical antiquity in Enlightenment France

The representation of race in European literature

Utopias in European literature

French Nouvelle Vague Cinema

European Cinema and war films

Translation

 

Courses Taught

FREN 1010 – First Year French I

FREN 2030 – Second Year French I

FREN 3050 – Third Year French I

FREN 3060 – Third Year French II (Cinema for French Conversation)

FREN 3110 – Contemporary French Civilization (Topics vary; most recently taught as “The Food Culture of France”)

LANG/FREN 4080 – Studies in the French Language (Topics vary; most recently taught as “100 Years of French Film”)

FREN 4100 – A Survey of French Literature I

FREN 4200 – Introduction to Research

 

Selected Publications

Alexandrova, Ekaterina. “Voltaire-médecin : le suicide et le savoir-vivre au dix-huitième siècle.” Revue Voltaire 25 (2025): 61-78.

 

Alexandrova, Ekaterina. “Laissez-nous faire: The Female Utopian Model, Collectivity, and Social Engagement in the Work of Leprince de Beaumont.” The French Review Book Series, vol. 3: How to Do Things with Style: Essays in Honor of Joan DeJean. Eds. Amy S. Wyngaard and Roland Racevskis. American Association of Teachers of French (2021): 147-174.

 

Alexandrova, Ekaterina and Conxita Domènech. “Deux morts littéraires: Don Quichotte et Madame Bovary.” Transitions: Journal of Franco-Iberian Studies 13 (2020): 43–68.

 

Alexandrova, Ekaterina. “The Past Recaptured: Dumas Takes On Pushkin’s Genealogy.” European Romantic Review 29.2 (2018): 183-211.

 

Alexandrova, Ekaterina. “Conjugal Utopia: Marriage and Social Transformation in Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse and Leprince de Beaumont’s La Nouvelle Clarice.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 29.4 (2017): 607-34.

 

Alexandrova, Ekaterina. “Founding the Father: Constructing a Paternal Identity in Alexandre Dumas’s Blanche de Beaulieu and Alexander Pushkin’s The Negro of Peter the Great.” Journal of European Studies 46.3-4 (2016): 1-20.

 

Alexandrova, Ekaterina. “A Perfect Union: Female Emancipation and the Marriage Contract in Riccoboni’s Enlightenment Fiction.” Dalhousie French Studies 107 (2015): 43-56.