Alice de Galzain

Postdoctoral researcher at Sorbonne University, specialized in nineteenth-century American literature

Career

Alice de Galzain is a “Marie Skłodowska-Curie Seal of Excellence” postdoctoral researcher at Sorbonne Université. Her research project, entitled “Women Networks and Transcendentalist Utopias: Health, Gender, and Reform,” aims to uncover the feminist subculture that existed within Transcendentalist utopias (Brook Farm and the Fruitlands). More broadly, Alice specializes in nineteenth-century American literature, with a focus on feminist women’s writing. She is the Associate Editor of The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies and the Associate Editor of Margaret Fuller, Periodical and Other Writings, The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Writings of Margaret Fuller. Her work has appeared in Transatlantica: American Studies Journal, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, The Dial: A Journal of the Emerson Society, and Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers