Keri B. Yousif

Courses

• Beginning and Intermediate French
• French and Francophone Literature:  L'Amour et la folie; Paris:  Capitale du XIXe siècle
• Advanced Conversation:  Le monde francophone à travers le cinéma
• Advanced Composition
• Advanced Grammar
• French Phonetics
• Contemporary Issues in France:  Voix d'immigrés
• University Honors courses:  Coming of Age, Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century

Interests

Professor Berg’s research focuses on interdisciplinary nineteenth-century French studies, including Realism, caricature, book illustration and early photography. She is particularly interested in the rise of popular culture during the nineteenth century and its subsequent reshaping of the cultural field.

Publications

Articles:

“Contesting the Page:  The Author and the Illustrator in France, 1830-1848,” Book History,

10 (2007):  69-101.

“Modernity’s Meter:  The Caricaturist, 1830-1870,” Dix-Neuf, 9 (October 2007):  17-32.

“Taming the Bourgeoisie:  Grandville’s Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux (1840-

1842),” EnterText, 7.3 (December 2007):  43-69.

“The Imperialist Lens:  Du Camp, Salzmann and Early French Photography,” Early Popular Visual
               Culture , 6.1 (April 2008): 1-16.

Translations:

“War on the Demolition Men!” by Victor Hugo and “The Account of the Destructive and Revived Pagan        Principle in France,” by le Comte de Montalembert, The Gothic Revival 1720-1870. Ed. Michael Charlesworth. 3 vols. East Sussex:  Helm, 2002. 3: 579-610.

Recent Conference Presentations:

2009:   “L’Habit ne fait pas l’épicier:  Social Portraiture in Les Francais peints par eux-memes,”
           Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 2009.
2008:   “Cleopatra for a Day:  Empress Eugénie and the Opening of the Suez Canal,” Nineteenth-
           Century French Studies, Vanderbilt University, October 2008.
2008:  “The Marked Caricaturist:  J. J. Grandville, Popular Imagery and the Writer in Nineteenth-Century
           France,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Presenter and Co-Chair/Organizer of
           Panel:  “Word and Image from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century,” April 2008.
2007:  “Under the Crinoline:  Empress Eugénie and Photography,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century
           Studies, University of Missouri, Kansas City, April 2007.
2006:  “Between High and Low:  Exploring the Boundaries of the Illustrated Text,” Panel
           Organizer/Chairperson, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, 
           November 2006.
2006:  “Archaeologies from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Century,” Chairperson/Commentator, Society
           for French Historical Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 2006.

Grants and Honors

2009:   University Honors Program Faculty of the Year Award
2008:   Charlotte Zietlow Women Faculty Research Grant, Indiana State University
2008:   Center for Local History and Culture, student/faculty grant, Indiana State University
2007:   Experiential Learning and Community Engagement Grant, Indiana State
2007:   International Travel Grant, Office of International Affairs, Indiana State
2006:   Tournées Francophone Film Festival, French American Cultural Exchange, Co-Investigator,
                 Co-Organizer of Festival, Indiana State University
2006:   Teaching Award, First-Year Program at Indiana State University
2006:    University Research Grant, “Picturing Empire:  Du Camp, Salzmann and the Orient,” Indiana State
                      University
2004:   Information Technology Innovations Mini-Grant, "Immigrant Voices," Office of Information
                Technology, ISU.