Janet R. Horne
Associate Professor of French
Department of French
317A Cabell Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
434/924-7742
jhorne@virginia.edu
Ph.D. New York University

Spring 2008 Office Hours:

Thursday 9:00-11:00

 Research: Civilization; Social and Cultural History; Cinema and History.

 Representative Publications: "In Pursuit of Greater France: Visions of Empire among Musée Social Reformers" (1998); "Presenting Modern France: The Rhetoric of Reform at the 1889 Universal Exhibition" (1998); "Le Musée social à l'origine: les metamorphoses d'une idée, 1889-1900" (1995); A Social Laboratory for Modern France: The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State (2002); published in France, by Editions Belin, as "Le Musée
social Aux origines de l’État providence" (2004).

 Teaching Interests: 19th and 20th century social and cultural history; cultural studies; cinema and history; literature in social context.

 Recent Courses Taught:

• France's Mission to Civilize
• French Cultural Studies: A Critical Assessment
• History, Myth, and Memory in French Cinema
• Philanthropy, Reform, and Utopia in 19th Century French Literature
• Constructing the French Past: The Third Republic as an Object of History
• French Society Since 1945
• Civilisation de la France contemporaine: de la Révolution à la Ve République
• La Laïcité: The Secular Tradition in France