{"id":4,"date":"2016-08-30T21:37:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T21:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/baileycj\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2020-01-19T16:25:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T21:25:01","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/baileycj\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2200\/2016\/08\/Me.jpg\" alt=\"Me\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Cara Bailey is a current PhD candidate in French at Vanderbilt University. She completed a Master of Arts degree in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Florida in 2016. She has a dual B.A.\u00a0in French and English with a concentration in creative writing from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She began to study French at the age of eleven, and her passion for language and literature have grown out of a desire to interact with French culture and history. Without her love of Charles Dickens, she might never have discovered an interest in French nineteenth century studies. Her MA thesis, entitled &#8220;French National Education on Trial in\u00a0<em>V\u00e9rit\u00e9<\/em>\u00a0by Emile Zola\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Les d\u00e9racin\u00e9s<\/em> by Maurice Barr\u00e8s,&#8221; treats the similar didactic dramatizations of national education in these two novels as evidence of how each author employs the novel both as a means to stage perceived limitations of <em>l&#8217;\u00e9cole nationale\u00a0<\/em>and as a form of public education.<\/p>\n<p>Her areas of research interest center primarily on the relationship\u00a0of journalism\u00a0and literary\u00a0production in the nineteenth century, in particular with regards to the representations of female criminals in fiction and in the popular press during the <em>fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em>. Her dissertation, titled &#8220;&#8216;Cherchez la femme&#8217;: Female criminals in <em>fin de<\/em> <em>si\u00e8cle<\/em> France,&#8221; examines the paradoxical treatment of women criminals in several novels and true-crime cases. She is also interested in representations of education\u00a0in France&#8217;s Third Republic,\u00a0in\u00a0the creation national identity (identities),\u00a0and the dialogue between cinema and literature. As part of her doctoral studies, she will also complete a certificate in Second Language Studies.<\/p>\n<p>During the academic year of 2017-2018, she served as the Assistant Course Coordinator for the beginning French sequence of courses, where she aided in the curriculum design for the first two introductory French courses.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/carajeanbailey.wixsite.com\/mysite\">here <\/a>to visit her personal website or contact her at cara.j.bailey@vanderbilt.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cara Bailey is a current PhD candidate in French at Vanderbilt University. She completed a Master of Arts degree in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Florida in 2016. She has a dual B.A.\u00a0in French and English with a concentration in creative writing from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She began to study&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6026,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/baileycj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/baileycj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/baileycj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/baileycj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6026"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/baileycj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/baileycj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/baileycj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/baileycj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/baileycj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}