Beverly Evans
Distinguished Teaching Professor & Chair
Welles 213
(585)245-5247
evans@geneseo.edu
Beverly Evans has been a member of the 91亚色 faculty since 1985.

Office Hours
- Mondays: 2:30pm-3:30pm
- Thursdays: 11:20am-12:20pm. Also by appointment.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D., French Literature, University of Pennsylvania.
M.A., French Literature, Bryn Mawr College.
A.B., French, Cornell University.
Affiliations
Executive Director, Pi Delta Phi, The National French Honor Society
Women in French
International Courtly Literature Society
Association of College Honor Societies
American Association of Teachers of French
Publications
Book chapter 鈥淢arie Laurencin: From 鈥楢pollinaire and His Friends鈥 to the Ballets Russes.鈥 Creative Women of the Lost Generation: Women in the Arts in the Wake of the Great War: Professional Trajectories in Times of Crisis. Eds. Kimberly Francis and Margot Irvine. New York and London: Routledge, 2023.
Review of Hamer, Laura. Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919-1939. Routledge, 2018. Women in French Studies 29 (2021).
Review of De Gendt, Anne-Marie, and Alicia C. Montoya, eds. La pens茅e s茅rielle, du Moyen Age aux Lumi猫res. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Dalhousie French Studies 119 (Spring 2021)
Review of Orr, Andrew. Women and the French Army during the World Wars, 1914-1940.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. Women in French Studies 26 (2018).
Review of Leroux, Louis Patrick, and Charles R. Batson, eds. Cirque Global: Quebec鈥檚
Expanding Circus Boundaries. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2016. French Review 91.1 (2017).
鈥淭he Life and Afterlife of French WW I Songs: National Identity Then and Now,鈥 French Cultural Studies 28.2 (2017).
鈥淐ourtly Literature: 鈥榊esterday鈥 is Today.鈥 The Legacy of Courtly Literature: from Medieval to Contemporary Culture. Eds. Rouben Cholakian and Deborah Nelson-Campbell. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
鈥淢ichel Tremblay鈥檚 Les Belles-Soeurs.鈥 The Literary Encyclopedia, 2015.
Review of Findley, Brooke Heidenreich. Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Women in French Studies 20 (2015).
Review of White, Sophie. Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians, Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Dalhousie French Studies 102 (2014).
鈥淰endredi, ou les limbes du Pacifique,鈥 The Literary Encyclopedia, 2011.
鈥淎lfred Jeanroy鈥 and 鈥淕ustave Reese.鈥 Handbook of Medieval Studies. Ed. Albrecht Classen. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
鈥淪eeking 鈥榃oman鈥 in Medieval French Woman鈥檚 Song, or 鈥楲onc tans a que ne vi m鈥檃mi.’鈥 Dalhousie French Studies 82.1 (Spring 2008).
鈥淪ongs of the Women Trouv猫res: Just the Same Old Refrains?鈥 Neophilologus 90.1 (2006).
More About Me
Research Interests
- Medieval French poetry and music
- WW I literature, music and culture
- 20th-Century French literature
- Literature and culture of Qu茅bec
Other Interests
- Travel
- Music
- Documentaries
- Yoga
- Cats