Brooke Tybush, Ph.D.
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 Carolina 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. 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
Dr. 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
• FR 101 – Beginning French Through Culture I
• FYE FREN 101 – The French Table: Beginning French Through the Food Culture of France
• FR 102 – Beginning French Through Culture II
• FR 201 – Intermediate French Through Culture I
• FR 202 – Intermediate French Through Culture II
• FR 390 – Revolutions in the French and Francophone World
• FR 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.