CLAIRE NETTLETON

416 N. Catalina Ave Apt 1, Pasadena, California, 91106

Email: Claire.Nettleton@pomona.edu Tel: 1 (909) 660-0358

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Pomona College, Claremont Colleges, July 2016-June 2018
Received outstanding teaching evaluations in all positions (from USC to the Claremont Colleges)
Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Scripps, Claremont Colleges, California, July 2012 -June 2016
Successful formal third-year review by Appointments, Promotion and Tenure committee, May 2015
Joint appointments with Harvey Mudd and Claremont McKenna Colleges, July 2013-June 2015
Instructor of Art History in English, Universit Paris 10 Nanterre, France, September 2011-June 2012
Assistant Lecturer of French, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, August 2004-May 2009

EDUCATION
University of Southern California
Doctor of Philosophy, French, December 2010
Dissertation: The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth Century France
Director: Antonia Szabari and Committee Members: Panivong Norindr and Akira Lippit
Masters Thesis: LIdoltrie et liconoclasme: la Rforme, la Rvolution de 1848 et la Guerre d'Algrie
Bachelor of Arts, French and Communication, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, May 2004
Honors Thesis: Un Bar aux Folies Bergres: Peinture du Salon ou de la vie moderne?, 2004
Honors Thesis: Global Advertising and Postmodern Visual Culture, 2004

Universit Paris IV, La Sorbonne

Superior-level II Certificate, French language and culture, June 2003
Superior-level I and II Certificate, oral and written French, June 2001
Superior-level I Certificate, French language and culture, June 2000

PUBLICATIONS
Manuscript (submitted for second stage of external review): The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth Century
France. The editors of Palgrave Macmillan Animals and Literature Series solicited the manuscript, which
they gave a favorable review and sent to an external reviewer. I incorporated the reviewers suggestions
and submitted a revised version to my acquisition editor on September 29, 2017.

Book chapters and journal articles:

The Fauves of the Faubourg: Ecocritical Aesthetics in Emile Zolas Thrse Raquin. French Ecocriticism. Ed.
Stephanie Posthumus and Daniel Race-Finch. New York: Peter Lang, 2017: 80-98. Print.

A Lost Paradise on the Left Bank: An Ecocritical Study of J.-K. Huysmans La Rive gauche and La
Bivre. Ecopoetics. Spec. issue of Dix-neuf 19.3 (2015): 260-273. Web.

Introduction: The Mad Genius of Mirbeau. Octave Mirbeau. In the Sky. Trans. Ann Sterzinger with
Claire Nettleton and Robert Ziegler. Charleston: Nine Banded Books, 2015. Print.

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Driving Us Crazy: Fast Cars, Madness and the Avant-Garde in Octave Mirbeaus La 628-E8. Nineteenth
Century French Studies 42 (2014). U of Nebraska P: 250-263. Print.

Les hiboux ne sont pas ce que lon pense : Lanimal et le meurtre dans lart de David Lynch. Que la Bte
meure! Spec. issue of Revue Histoire Culturelle et Sociale de lArt (2014). Panthon Sorbonne U : 1-14. Web.

The Caged Animal: The Avant-garde Artist in Edmond and Jules de Goncourt's Manette Salomon.
Animals, Literature, and the Visual. Spec. Issue of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture 24 (2013):
75-88.

L'Animal et l'esthtique nihiliste de Dans le ciel. Cahiers Octave Mirbeau 20 (2013): 63-79. Print.

Postmodern Poodles and Electric Sows: Contemporary Representations of Beaut Animale. The Real
Snake: Proceedings of the Representational Art Conference. California Lutheran UP (2013): 151-161. Print.

Book co-translation:
Octave Mirbeau. In the Sky. Trans. Ann Sterzinger with Claire Nettleton and Robert Ziegler. Charleston:
Nine Banded Books, 2015. Print.

Book reviews:
Octave Mirbeaus Fictions of the Transcendental. Robert Ziegler. French Studies (2016). Oxford UP. Print.

L'Europe en automobile: Octave Mirbeau, crivain voyageur. Eds. lonore, Reverzy and Guy Ducrey. Nineteenth
Century French Studies 41. U of Nebraska P (2013): 345-247. Print.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Steel Birds and Venereal Suns: Machine Aesthetics and Environmental Loss in the Avant-garde Poetry of
Aim Csaire. Pacific Ancient and Modern Association Conference. Pasadena, CA, November 2016.

The Fauves of the Faubourg: Ecological Aesthetics in the works of mile Zola and Francis Bacon.
Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium. Brown University, Providence, RI, October 2016.

LAquarium de Berlin: A Majestic Oasis Within a Contaminated City. Nineteenth Century French
Studies Colloquium. Princeton University, NJ, November 2015.

Buffon vs. the Beast: Taming the Wild Artist in Emile Zolas Thrse Raquin. Cambridge French
Ecocriticism Colloquium. University of Cambridge, England, May 2015.

A Lost Paradise on the Left Bank: An Ecocritical Study of Huysmans, the Author of Against Nature.
Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium. San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2014.

The Spirit of A Long Lost River in Huysmans La Rive Gauche. Pacific Ancient and Modern
Association Conference. Riverside, CA, October 2014.

Feline Fatale: The Thresholds of Animality and Womanhood in Rachildes LAnimale. Nineteenth Century
French Studies Colloquium. Richmond, VA, October 2013.

Poupe de Cire and the Puppet Master: Corrupting the Youth in the film Gainsbourg, vie hroique. Pacific
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 Ancient and Modern Association Conference. San Diego, CA, October 2013.

Street Walkers and Alley Cats: Prostitution in Rachildes LAnimale. South Central Modern Language
Association Conference. New Orleans, LA, October 2013.

Celestial Eden or Urban Inferno: The Jardin des Plantes in Manette Salomon. Society of Dix-Neuvimistes
Conference. University of Exeter, England, April 2013.

Driving Us Crazy: Fast Cars, Madness and Avant-garde Art in Octave Mirbeau's La 628-E8.
Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference, Fresno, CA, March 2013.

Postmodern Poodles and Electric Sows: Contemporary Representations of Beaut Animale.

The Representational Art Conference. California Lutheran U. Ventura, CA, October 2012.

Les hiboux ne sont pas ce que l'on pense: l'animal et le meurtre dans l'art de David Lynch. Colloque Que
la Bte meure! Lanimal et lart contemporain. Institut National dHistoire de lArt and the
Universit Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne, Paris, France, June 2012.

The Artist-Animal in Laforgue's Poetry. Minding Animals, Newcastle, Australia, July 2009.

Aquatic Visionaries: The Artist as Animal and Eastern Sage in Jules Laforgue's Oeuvre. Association
of Pacific Rim Universities Conference, University of Kyoto, Japan, July 2009.

In Vespa and on the Streets: The Flneur in the Films of Moretti and Pasolini. American Culture
and Midwestern Popular Culture Associations Conference, Cincinnati, OH, September 2008.

CONFERENCES CO-ORGANIZED OR SESSIONS CHAIRED

Performing the Self, Performing Foucault in the 21st Century. Conference Co-organizer and Session
Chair. Scripps College, Claremont, CA, November 2015.

Ecocriticism (Co-sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature & Environment). Session
Chair. Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Convention. Riverside, CA, October 2014.

Vulnerable Victorians: Identity and Deviance. Session Chair. Modern Language Association Convention.
Chicago, IL, January 2014.

MANUSCRIPT SUMMARY
The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth Century France traces the evolution of the fictional relationship between
artists and animals from the Second Empire to the fin de sicle, which, in many ways, transforms from
ambivalent to empowering. I examine Edmond and Jules de Goncourts Manette Salmon (1867), mile
Zolas Thrse Raquin (1867), Jules Laforgues LAquarium de Berlin (1895) and LImpressionnisme
(1883), Octave Mirbeaus Dans le ciel (1893) and Rachildes LAnimale (1893), which depict vanguard visual
artists as like animals, whose unique vision was uncontaminated by stifling traditions. These works of
fiction were published after Darwins The Origin of Species (1859), which decentralized anthropocentric views
about the natural world and forced humans to consider their place within a larger web of existence. The
portrayal of artists as animals helped satisfy an increasing cultural interest in wildlife as it disappeared from
the industrial metropolis and also represented the epitome of liberation from social constraints
demolishing the vestiges of Monarchical authority. Juxtaposing these literary works with contemporary

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animal theory (McHugh, Deleuze, Guattari and Derrida) zoo studies (Berger, Rothfels and Lippit) and
intersectional feminism (Weil, Braidotti, Donovan, Carol and Haraway), I examine the extent to which the
nineteenth-century dissolution of the human subject contributed to a radical, modern aesthetic. I argue that
while simultaneously inducing anxiety regarding traditional humanist structures, the artist-animal, an
embodiment of artistic liberation within an urban setting, is a paradigmatic trope of modernity.

UNIVERSITY COURSES TAUGHT

Pomona College, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Claremont Colleges
French 165: From Mermaids to Catwomen: Animal Transformations in French Literature and
Culture, Spring 2018
French 44: Advanced French: Libert, cologie, Modernit, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018
French 33: Intermediate French (through film) (2 courses), Fall 2017
French 22: Intensive Elementary French, Fall 2016
French 2: Continued Introductory French, Spring 2017
French 1: Introductory French, Fall 2016

Scripps College, Department of French Studies, Claremont Colleges

French 170: The Marginalized Artist in French Literature (1830-1930), Fall 2014
French 165: From Mermaids to Catwomen: Animal Transformations in French Literature and
Culture (2 courses), Spring 2013, Spring 2016
French 126: Paris: Capitale des Arts (1850-1930), Spring 2014
French 33: Intermediate French, Fall 2013
French 22: Intensive Introductory French (4 courses), Fall 2012, Fall 2015
French 2: Continued Introductory French (6 courses), Spring 2013, Spring 2015 and Spring 2016
French 1: Introductory French, Fall 2013

Harvey Mudd College, Claremont Colleges

French 33: Intermediate French, Fall 2013
French 1: Introductory French (3 courses), Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015

Claremont McKenna College, Department of French Studies, Claremont Colleges

French 33: Intermediate French, Fall 2014

Universit Paris X, Nanterre, Departments of Art History and Engineering

Advanced Art History in English: Animal Art, Spring 2012
Advanced Art History in English: Ethics in Contemporary Art, Fall 2011
American English and Culture (300 hours), Fall 2011-Spring 2012

University of Southern California, Department of French and Italian

French 020: Reading and Translation for Doctoral Students, Summer 2008
French 220: Advanced French (2 courses), Fall 2007, Spring 2008
French 150: Intermediate French (2 courses), Summer 2006, Fall 2006
French 120: Beginning French (9 courses), Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007,
Fall 2008, Spring 2009
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GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS
Wig Travel for Teaching Conferences Grant from Pomona College to attend ACTFL, 2017
Faculty Conference Travel Grant from Pomona College to present research on Haitian animal art to the
editors of Animal/Animalit in Paris, France, 2017
Worked with Professor Eric Haskell to write a grant proposal in English to help secure Clark and J.C.
Harper lecture funds for Haitian author Kettly Mars to speak at Scripps as part of the French
Consul Generals speaker tour, 2016
Josephine de Karman Final Year Dissertation Fellowship, 2009-2010
Association of the Pacific Rim Universities Conference Award, Kyoto, Japan, July 2009
USC International Research Grant to the Jardin des Plantes and Bibliothque nationale, Paris, 2008
USC Wall of Scholars, 2007
Rockwell Dennis Hunt Scholastic Award for outstanding graduate student, 2007
USC Departmental Award for to study Italian language and art history in Verona, Italy, 2005
Honors Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Golden Key, Alpha Lambda Delta

Claremont Colleges (Pomona, Scripps, Harvey Mudd and Claremont McKenna Colleges)
Pomona Oldenborg French Corridor Housing Selection Evaluator, 2016-2017
Fulbright Interview Committee and French Language Evaluator, 2012-2017
Phi Beta Kappa Selection Committee, 2015-2016
Scripps French Corridor Housing Selection Coordinator, 2014-2016
Performing Foucault Colloquium with keynote speaker Roland Huesca, Co-organizer, 2015
Leader and Organizer of the Harvey Mudd French Language Table, 2013-2015

Directed Research
Second Reader: Senior Thesis, French and American Studies: Jinna Johnson, Scripps College, 2016
Director: Senior Honors Thesis, French: Hannah Rose Swan, Scripps College, 2015
Second Reader: Senior Honors Thesis, French: Vittoria Mollo, Scripps College, 2015
Second Reader: Senior Honors Thesis, French: Rose DuCharme, Scripps College, 2014
Director: Senior Honors Thesis, French: Tess Sewell, Claremont McKenna College, 2014
Director: Senior Thesis, French: Peyton Batrice Scott, Scripps College, 2013
Second Reader: Senior Thesis, Foreign Languages and French: Jessica Fong, Scripps College, 2013
Second Reader: Senior Honors Thesis, History: Willa Oddleifson, Scripps College, 2013

University of Southern California

Assistant to the Chair, Department of French and Italian, 2008-2009
Departmental Representative, Graduate Student Senate, 2006-2007

LANGUAGES
Englishnative
Frenchnear native
Italianadvanced

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AREAS OF INTEREST
19th-21thCentury French and Francophone Literature Cultural Studies
19th Century-Contemporary Art and Visual Culture Animal and Environmental Studies
Womens Studies French Language (all levels)

ADDITIONAL FRENCH EXPERIENCE

ETS, The College Board
French Advanced Placement (AP) test grader, summers 2011-2013
Alliance Franaise d'Albuquerque, NM
Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Conversational French, summer 2011
Lyce International de Los Angeles (administration and teaching)
Language, Literature and Culture, fall 2010-spring 2011

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Nineteenth Century French Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Society of Dix-Neuvimistes,
Modern Language Association, ACTFL, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, South Central
Modern Language Association, American Association of Teachers of French, Socit Octave Mirbeau

REFERENCES
Dr. Jack Abecassis, Chair and Edwin Sexton & Edna Patrick Smith Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Pomona College
(909) 621-8950
Jabecassis@pomona.edu

Dr. Nathalie Rachlin,

Margaret McKenzie Distinguished Professorship in Modern Foreign Languages
Professor of French, Scripps College
(909) 697-4260
NRachlin@scrippscollege.edu

Dr. Robert Ziegler, Emeritus Professor

Montana Tech of the University of Montana
1(406) 490-5106
Robert.earl.ziegler@gmail.com

Dr. France Lemoine, Chair

Department of French Studies, Scripps College
1(909) 607-8093
Flemoine@scrippscollege.edu

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