Beth Gerwin

Beth Gerwin serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics within the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Lethbridge, maintaining active office hours on Tuesdays (11:00 AM-12:00 PM) and Wednesdays (3:00 PM-4:00 PM), with primary contact via beth.gerwin@uleth.ca.

Her academic credentials include:

• B.A. in Literary Studies and Philosophy
• DEA in French Literature
• Ph.D. in Comparative Literature

Dr. Gerwin's research centers on nineteenth-century French literature, particularly Balzac and Flaubert, with groundbreaking investigations into representations of difference through gender and sexual lenses. Her interdisciplinary methodology synthesizes feminist critiques of psychoanalysis (including Freud and Lacan), continental philosophy, and literary theory to decode power structures in realism. This approach reveals how textile metaphors and urban spaces function as critical sites for exploring alterity and androgyny in nineteenth-century thought.

Analysis of her 2007-2012 publications demonstrates consistent thematic evolution: early work examined urban circulation in Balzac's narratives, progressing to power dynamics through the flâneur figure, culminating in investigations of historical erasure in La Duchesse de Langeais. All publications exhibit rigorous engagement with French realism while integrating feminist and psychoanalytic frameworks to interrogate difference.

Her research program has secured competitive funding including:

• $10,000 University of Lethbridge Arts & Science Research Grant (2006-2008) for manuscript development on Balzac and representations of difference
• Mark Diamond Research Fund award (2003) for "Unveiling the Feminine: Text and Textile as Critical Nineteenth-Century Metaphor"

No formal student supervision or laboratory affiliations are documented in the available materials.