Expertise

Dr. Mayer specializes in 19th-century French literature, and many of her publications have focused on Zola.

Research Areas

  • Cultural History (maternity, sport, solar power, auxiliary language, utopianism)
  • Genetic Criticism (the study of notes, plans, and correspondence to understand the emergence and development of authorship and great works)
Communities
Language Studies, French
Degrees
PhD, University of Oregon, 2000
Keywords
modern language or literature
Languages
French, German, Middle High, Italian, Spanish
Honors

Research Advisory Committee Summer Grant (Zola contre Kipling), Office of Sponsored Programs (University of Alabama), 2006-2008

Faculty Development Research Funding Project (Evlyn Gould: Visiting Scholar in Nineteenth-Century Studies), College of Arts & Sciences (University of Alabama), 2005

Research Advisory Committee Summer Grant (Manuscript research: Flaubert, Zola), Office of Sponsored Programs (University of Alabama), 2003-2005

Arts and Sciences Teaching Grant (Curricular Development at the 300-level), College of Arts & Sciences (University of Alabama), 2003-2004

Associations
AAFLT, American Association of Foreign Language Teachers
AATF, American Association of Teachers of French
AIZEN, Association Internationale de Recherches Multidisciplinaires et d'Etudes Comparées: Emile Zola et son Temps, le Naturalisme, Ecrivains, Artistes et Cinémas naturalistes à travers le Monde
MLA, Modern Languages Association
Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Society of Dix-Neuviemistes