Aurora Wolfgang
(She/Her)
B351 Wells Hall
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
FacultyRomance and Classical Studies
Professor
French
Biography
Aurora Wolfgang is a Professor of French specializing in 17th- and 18th- century literature. She is author of Gender and Voice in the French Novel: 1730-1782 (Ashgate Publishers, 2004) and co-editor and translator with Sharon D. Nell of Jacques Du Bosc’s L’Honnête Femme: The Socially Respectable Woman (1632-36, Selections) and New Collection of Letters by Contemporary Women (1635) (Iter Press, 2014). Most recently, she published an introduction and translation of the original version of Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête, 1740) by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, who was part of the second vogue of women fairy-tale writers publishing in mid-eighteenth century France. For this edition, Wolfgang was the winner of the 2020 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender’s Award for a Scholarly Edition in Translation. In addition, she has published articles on early modern women writers (Sévigné, Villedieu, Villeneuve, Graffigny, Riccoboni, Staël), gender politics, salon culture, and questions of style.
Degree: PhD, 1993, New York University
Research Interest: 17th- and 18th- century novel, women writers, translation, gender politics, fairy tales, salon culture
See CV at aurorawolfgang.com