Brooke Tybush

Visiting Assistant Professor

EDUCATION

Ph.D. French & Francophone Studies/Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Penn State
M.A. Modern Languages and Literatures - French, University of Tennessee
B.A. French and History, East Carlina University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Brooke Tybush is a specialist of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century French and Francophone literature, with a specific focus on representations of race, gender, and sexuality in early modern literature. Her current project combines literary, cultural, and historical approaches to investigate how resistance, solidarity, and subversive sexuality manifest amongst marginalized and oppressed women in literature of the early modern Francosphere. Her courses cover a variety of topics that help students to think creatively and critically about the French-speaking world and the cultures that comprise it. Her “Villainization and Monstrosity” course, for instance, asks students to re-think the representation of villainous characters in popular media through an exploration of the social, cultural, and political ideologies that shape how monstrosity and virtue are defined throughout different time periods in the French and Francophone world.

COURSES TAUGHT

• FR. 492 – The Dark Side: Villainization and Monstrosity in French and Francophone Cultures”
• FR 101 – Beginning French Through Culture I
• FR 102 – Beginning French Through Culture II
• FR 201 – Intermediate French Through Culture I
• FR 202 – Intermediate French Through Culture II

PUBLICATIONS

“Singing of Sex and Freedom: Courtesans and Erotic Arts in ‘Zabet’” in French Review, vol. 97 no. 1, October 2023.
Review of Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France by F. Falaky and R. McGinnis, eds., in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, vol. 35, December 2023.