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 Cathy
J. West
Associate Professor of French and Italian and
Director of the Women’s
Studies Program
cathy.west@converse.edu
Phone:
(864) 596-9107
Office:
Carmichael Hall, Room 305C |
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Dr. Cathy Jones West is a
native French speaker who spent her childhood in
France, Belgium and Morocco. She holds a M.A. in
French and Philosophy and a Ph.D. in French and
Italian from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, where she was a Pogue Scholar and
Harvard Young Fellows Nominee. Her doctoral
dissertation, entitled Le Je(u) du narrateur
dans la préface de roman, studied the
deference of textual authority in prefaces to
novels.
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| A professor of
French and Italian at Converse since 1989, her
research has since focused on autobiographical
works by women from mainland France and from the
francophone Caribbean. She has several book
chapters and articles on authors ranging from
Nathalie Sarraute to Simone Schwarz-Bart, and
has completed a translation of Christine de
Pizan’s Lavision—Christine, which is
soon scheduled to be published. Currently she is
working on a book entitled Lyme Lessons:
Thoughts on Chronic Illness, Disconnectedness
and Renewal. |
| A few years
ago, Cathy Jones West was part of a team of
professors who developed a minor in Women’s
Studies, and she now teaches Introduction
to Women’s Studies, in addition to
French and Italian, and directs the minor. She
also regularly leads trips to French and Italian
speaking regions – to Martinique in the French
West Indies, to Cajun country in Louisiana, and
to Tuscany. In January of 2002, she and Dr. Zan
Schuweiler-Daab led a trip to Barcelona,
the region of Provence, and Paris. |
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