Office Hours:
FALL 2009
Tues/Thur 3:00-4:00
& by appointment

Paula Schwartz
Associate Professor of French
LaForce Hall 009
Email: schwartz@middlebury.edu
Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
A.B., Duke University
M.A., Columbia University
Ph.D. Insititute of French Studies, New York University

Teaching and Research Interests

Twentieth-century French studies
World War Two, French Resistance, gender studies
Contemporary France
Food and culture studies
French civilization and history; contemporary France

Recent Publications

“Occuper les occupants: Maedelarbeit ou le ‘travail de jeunes filles’,” in Amours, guerres et sexualité, 1914-1945, Musée de la Bibliothèque de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine-Musée de l’Armée, Gallimard, 2007.

“ ‘On vit mal’: Food Shortages and Popular Culture in Occupied France, 1940-44,” Food, Culture & Society 10:2, summer 2007: 262-295 (with Kenneth Mouré, coauthor).

"Partisanes and Gender Politics in Vichy France," French Historical Studies 16:1, Spring 1989. Reprinted in: The Home Fronts, International Library of Essays in Military History, volume IV, Ashgate Press, 2007; The Second World War, International Library of Essays in Military History, Ashgate Press, 2006; The World War Two Reader, Routledge, 2004. 
SEE ALSO : « Les Partisanes et la politique du genre dans la France de Vichy, » in France Bloch et Frédo Sérazin : Un couple en Résistance [dossier pédagogique, CD, DVD], Sérén-CRDP, Paris, Poitiers, 2009.

"Resistance et différence des sexes: bilan et perspectives," Mechtild Gilzmer et al., eds., Les femmes dans la Résistance en France, Tallandier, 2002.

"Women's studies, gender studies: le contexte américain," Vingtième siècle. Revue d'histoire 75, juillet-septembre 2002.