Professor of French

Hunter College, and the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY

PhD Program in French 
City University Graduate Center 
365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016-4309
Telephone: (212) 817-8365
Fax: (212) 817-1602
fsautman@gc.cuny.edu

Hunter College
Department of Romance Languages
695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10065

Primary concentrations:

Medieval and 16th Century Literature and Folklore, Queer Theory, French and Francophone Cultural Studies, Historical Anthology, Folklore

Books:

• Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender . General Editor, Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Assoc. eds: Francesca Canadé Sautman, Jamsheed Choksy and Judith Roof. 4 vols. NY: Scribner/Gale/Macmillan, 2007.

• Same-Sex Love and Desire Among Medieval Women, ed., with Pamela Sheingorn. New York: St. Martins' Press/Palgrave, 2001.
• Telling Tales: Medieval Narratives and the Folk Tradition (with Diana Conchado and Giuseppe di Scipio). New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
• La Religion du Quotidien: Rites et croyances populaires de la fin du Moyen Age, Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, Biblioteca di Lares, 1995.

Journal Editor:

• Medieval Folklore, (the Edwin Mellen Press). Francesca Canadé Sautman and Madeleine Jeay, editors. An international, interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of folklore in the Middle Ages and the XVIth century, published yearly, indexed. Vol.1, no.1, Spring 1991; Vol.2, Fall 1992; Vol. 3, Fall 1994.
• Merveilles et Contes-Marvels and Tales (University of Colorado at Boulder), Jacques Barchilon and Francesca Canadé Sautman, co-editors, May 1987-May 1994.
• Editor, special issue (with guest editor Veronika Görög-Karady), Approaches to the African Folk Tale: Marriage Tests and Marriage Quest in African Oral Tradition, 6, 2 (December 1992).

Selected articles:

• “Reclaiming the Human against Pure Evil: Walter Mosley’s The Man in my Basement and Human Rights Doctrine.” Eds. Derek Maus and Owen Brady. Finding a Way Home: Critical Essays on Walter Mosley. University of Mississipi Press, Fall 2008.
• “Queer Medieval Studies and the Disciplines,”(contribution), Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages, New Series Volume 4, April 2005.
• "’Our Town’ and Inscribing the Other: Early Ethnographic Discourse from Laurent Joubert to Guillaume Bouchet.” The Origins of Modern Ethnography: Describing the ‘Other’ in the Renaissance. Ed. Andreas Motsch. Toronto: Center for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, University of Toronto, 2005.
• “The Race for Globalization: Modernity, Resistance and the Unspeakable in Three African Francophone Texts.” French and Francophone/Yale French Studies 103 (May 2003): 106-22.
• “Ombre grige, toni neri: Gli italo-americani, razza e razzismo nel cinema americano.” Scene italoamericane. Ed. Anna Camaiti Hostert and Anthony Julian Tamburri. Roma: Luca Sossella Editore, 2002. 13-40. [translation]
•  “Les Cultural Studies: Genèse et évolution.” Le Français à l’ Université (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie). Nvelle série (4e trim. 2002): 2-4.
• "Grey Shades and Black Tones: Italian Americans, Race, and Racism in American Film." Screening Ethnicity: Cinematographic Representations of Italian Americans in the United States. Ed. Camaiti and Tamburri. Bordighera, 2001.
• With Pamela Sheingorn, "Introduction: Charting the Field." Same-Sex Love and Desire Among Medieval Women, 2001, 1-47.
• "Response: 'Just Like a Woman': Queer History, Womanizing the Body, and the Boys in Arnaud's Band." Queering the Middle Ages. Ed. Glenn Burger and Steven Kruger. Minneapolis, London: U. of Minnesota Press, 2001. 168-189.
• "Hip-Hop/Scotch: Postcolonial Theory and the Ambiguities of Francophonie.” France/USA: The Cultural Wars, ed. Ralph Sarkonak. Special issue of Yale French Studies, 100 (Fall 2001): 119-44.
• "Arab Literature," and "Myth of Lesbian Impunity," in Encyclopedia of Homosexualities, Volume I, Lesbian Histories and Cultures, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman, NY: Garland, 1999.
• "A Troubled History: Folklore and Competing Texts in Baudouin de Sebourc, a Fourteenth-Century Chanson de Geste," Telling Tales: 231-248.
• "Invisible Women: Retracing The Lives of French Working-Class Lesbians, 1880-1930," in A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, ed. Martin Duberman, N.Y.: NYU Press, 1997: 236-247.
• "Hassiba Boulmerka's Raised Fist: The Body of Evidence and Muslim Herstory", Found Object, 7 (Fall 1997).
• "Invisible Women: Lesbian Working Class Culture in France, 1880-1930," in Jeffrey Merrick and Bryan T. Ragan, Jr., eds., Homosexuality in Modern France, New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996: 177-201.
• "Women of the Shadows: Italian American Women, Ethnicity and Racism in American Cinema", Differentia: Review of Italian Thought, Special Issue on Italian American Culture, 6-7 (Spring-Autumn 1994): 219-246.
• "Veiled Women: Images of Traditional Female Headdresses", Italian Journal, 1, 5 (1991): 31-35.
• "Rituels de dérision et langage symbolique dans les dayemans lorrains", Cahiers de littérature orale (Institut national des langues orientales-CNRS), 28 (1990): 97-126.
• "Woman as Birth-and-Death-Giver in Folk Tradition: a Cross-cultural Perspective," Women's Studies, 12 (1986): 213-239.
• "The Quick and the Dead in the Communal Feasts of Carnival and Ashura," Comparative Civilizations Review (Fall 1983): 45-85.

Works in progress:

• Striking Out on their Own: Women, Same-Sex Affective Networks and Working Class Culture in France, 1880-1930.
• Food Fights: Food Symbolism, Gender and Class in Early Modern Popular Culture, research generated by PSC-CUNY grant, 1986-1987 and 1988-1989.
• Women, Time, Resistance: Essays on Women and Traditional Society in France (includes former Hiding her Head, generated by PSC-CUNY grant, 1989-1990, 1990-1991).
• Shifting Margins: Marginality and Communities of Difference in Late Medieval French Culture, funded by PSC-CUNY grant, 1993-4, 1995-6.