Anne Linton

Anne Linton is a faculty member at San Francisco State University, where she serves as Professor of French in the College of Humanities. Her academic work bridges law, medicine, and literature through the lens of gender and sexuality studies.

• PhD from Yale University
• MA in French from University of Wisconsin, Madison
• BA (summa cum laude) from Washington University in St. Louis in French and International Business

Her research focuses on:

• Interdisciplinary intersections of law, medicine, and literature
• Historical frameworks of gender and sexuality in French culture
• Analysis of canonical and marginalized French writers
• Medical humanities and bodily representation
• Nineteenth-century technological imaginaries

Recent publications explore gender crossings and bodily transformations, with an emphasis on cultural discourses around intersex identities and photographic representations of the body in France. She has received the Marguerite Peyre Prize for her dissertation work.