Associate Professor of French Cheryl Morgan gave an invited talk, "Entre le vrai et le vraisemblable: enjeux de l'écriture romanesque de Sophie Gay, 1830-1845" on March 25 in Toulouse, France, at the international colloquium, "La littérature en Bas-Bleus. Romancières sous ls Restauration et la Monarchie de Juillet."
This colloquium was organized by research teams at the University of Toulouse le Mirail and the University of Bordeaux and was attended by specialists in 19th-century French women's writing from Canada, France, Italy and the United States. Morgan's talk investigated the play of fiction and historical referent in a sub-corpus of novels by the author Sophie Gay within the context of the rise of the historical novel in France at the time.
Morgan also presented a paper at the Modern Language Association annual colloquium in December in San Francisco titled, ""American Women and the City in the French roman noir au féminin: Andréa Japp and Dominique Sylvain."
