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<\/a><\/p>\nKathryn is a\u00a0fifth\u00a0year PhD student working on a cotutelle between Vanderbilt University and Universit\u00e9 Paris 8 (the department of French and Italian and the department of Women and Gender Studies, respectively). She resides in Paris, France where she has been carrying out research and teaching at the Sorbonne Paris III and Universit\u00e9 Paris-Nanterre for the past\u00a03 years.<\/p>\n
Kathryn received a Master\u2019s in French Literature from the University of Kentucky in 2012. After finishing her degree, she was chosen as a French Teaching Fellow for the Alliance Fran\u00e7aise, Deauville Teaching Assistantship in Deauville, France where she taught English to elementary school children and served as ambassador from Lexington, Kentucky. Following this, Kathryn taught English to adults in Paris, France for nine months before beginning Vanderbilt University\u2019s French and Italian Program in the fall of 2014.<\/p>\n
Thanks in no small part to a 2015 Pichois Travel Grant, Kathryn\u2019s current research concentrates on intersections of gender, language, and power in the literature and cinema of the 20th and 21st centuries\u2014 specifically with regards to questions of \u201cmadness.\u201d The Pichois Grant was the capstone of a research project investigating Camille Claudel\u2019s experience as \u2018madwoman\u2019 and artist, and acted as a catalyst for the development of Kathryn\u2019s thesis: \u201cLes femmes, la folie, et le rapport \u00e0 soi-m\u00eame: l\u2019\u00e9criture de l\u2019ali\u00e9nation mentale dans le 21\u00e8me si\u00e8cle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kathryn views her thesis as the exploration of a cultural phenomenon. Her research analyzes the ways in which our philosophical questioning of \u201cmadness,\u201d\u2014 a fundamentally inescapable part of our humanity\u2014 informs and is informed by traditional gender roles, with language acting as the intermediary. In her thesis, Kathryn will explore how divergences in the linguistic patterns portraying the \u201cmadwoman\u201d and the \u201cmadman\u201d\u2014 which function to inform our socio-cultural perception of madness\u2014 demonstrate how madness both evolves and is perceived differently depending on circumstance and context. She believes that by illuminating the essential role of language in the construction of mental illness, we move towards a better understanding of the relationship between our [gendered] perception of madness and how this madness evolves, as being at least propagated, if not created, by the media.<\/p>\n
Some of Kathryn\u2019s other research interests include: autofiction, counter cultural movements, identity construction, the female voice, performative gender roles, and the politics of gender\u2014specifically within the works of authors such as Nina Bouraoui, Ma\u00efssa Bey, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cixous and Annie Ernaux. She looks forward to further exploring these areas and embracing a little madness along the way. CV – Kathryn E. Devine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kathryn is a\u00a0fifth\u00a0year PhD student working on a cotutelle between Vanderbilt University and Universit\u00e9 Paris 8 (the department of French and Italian and the department of Women and Gender Studies, respectively). She resides in Paris, France where she has been carrying out research and teaching at the Sorbonne Paris III and Universit\u00e9 Paris-Nanterre for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3160,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kathryndevine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kathryndevine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kathryndevine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kathryndevine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kathryndevine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kathryndevine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kathryndevine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kathryndevine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kathryndevine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSupervisor:\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller<\/p>\n