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2023-2024 Jeanne Marandon Fellow in the French Department
Recipient of the Lockwood Prize for Distinguished Accomplishments in Teaching (April 2022)

Dissertation title: "L'héroïsme féminin selon Madeleine de Scudéry: l'affranchissement des modèles."
Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Tamas

Education: Ph.D. candidate in French Literature, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
Masters of Arts in French Literature, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
Licence Lettres, Édition, Médias, Audiovisuel (LEMA), Sorbonne Université (Paris IV)
Movie Editing and Special Effects, MJM Graphic Design (Strasbourg)

Fields of Research: Madeleine de Scudéry's Femmes illustres, ou les Harangues héroïques
Philogyny in the Old Regime
Reappropriation of feminine myths and legends by autrices of the Old Regime
Visibility and transmission of women's writings in literary history
Questions of sororité
Stylistics, grammar, rhetoric
Film studies

Publications:

Nies-Berger, Angeline. "Mariamne l’Hasmonéenne selon Madeleine de Scudéry : réécriture philogyne d’une effrontée." Études Épistémè, n°45, printemps 2024.
Nies-Berger, Angeline. "Mourir au monde: le pouvoir libérateur de la négation dans les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire de Jean-Jacques Rousseau." The French Review, vol. 96 no. 1, 2022, p. 159-172. Project MUSEdoi:10.1353/tfr.2022.0216 

Selected conference presentations:

“Lucrèce, cheffe de guerre : revendication philogyne d’un mythe fondateur dans Les Femmes illustres (1642) de Madeleine de Scudéry,” SE17, October 19-21 2023, Rochester, NY.
“L’absence de sororité comme impasse féministe de La Nouvelle Justine,” 51st annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 11, 2021.

Professional affiliations: MLA - ASECS - SE17 - SIEFAR - SPFFA - ISHR - SSEMWG