Brooke Tybush, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor of French | Affiliate Faculty - Women's and Gender Studies

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Penn State
M.A., University of Tennessee
B.A., East Carolina University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Brooke Tybush, Ph.D., is a specialist in 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. Most recently, her research has focused on how these ideas appear in rare and traditionally underrepresented mediums such as song and oral literature. This research investigates how these literary forms might challenge existing and historical conceptualizations of the early-modern literary archive.  

COURSES TAUGHT

Tybush’s 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 while helping students improve their French expression for academic, professional, and social settings

• FREN 101: Beginning French Through Culture I
• FYE FREN 101: The French Table: Beginning French Through the Food Culture of France
• FREN 102: Beginning French Through Culture II
• FREN 201: Intermediate French Through Culture I
• FREN 202: Intermediate French Through Culture II
• FREN 390: Revolutions in the French and Francophone World
• FREN 492: The Dark Side: Villainization and Monstrosity in French and Francophone Cultures

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.