Paula Schwartz

Lois B. Watson Professor Emerita of French & Francophone Studies

Professor Paula Schwartz
Professor Paula Schwartz

Paula Schwartz holds an A.B., from Duke University; an M.A. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from the Institute of French Studies, New York University.

Her teaching and research interests include twentieth-century France, French civilization and history, World War Two, the French Resistance, gender studies, and food and culture studies.

See below for a list of some of her recent publications.

Publications

Today Sardines Are Not For Sale” published 2020.

Winner of the 2020 Prix Philippe-Viannay / Défense de la France

“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.