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Alexandra K. Wettlaufer is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also serves as Director of the Plan II Honors Program. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and specializes in 19th-century literature, visual arts, culture, and gender studies in France and Britain.
Her research focuses on the intersection of literature and visual arts in 19th-century France and Britain, with particular attention to gender studies and cultural contexts. Professor Wettlaufer has authored three major scholarly books exploring the relationship between painting and literature, including Pen vs Paintbrush: Girodet, Balzac and the Myth of Pygmalion in Post-Revolutionary France (2001), In the Mind's Eye: The Visual Impulse in Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin (2003), and Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman: Painting and the Novel in France and Britain, 1800-1860 (2011). She is currently working on a book project entitled Reading George: Sand, Eliot and the Novel in France and Britain, 1830-1900.
Her publications demonstrate consistent engagement with major 19th-century figures including Balzac, Sand, Baudelaire, Zola, Manet, Ruskin, Turner, Berlioz, Grandville, and Flora Tristan, with particular emphasis on how visual representation intersects with literary production and gender identity in the 19th century.
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2014-15)
- Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Essay Prize, Honorable Mention
- President's Associates' Teaching Award
- Whiting Foundation Fellowship
- ACLS Fellowship
Professor Wettlaufer serves as Co-Editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal and sits on the editorial boards of European Romantic Review, Nineteenth-Century Studies, George Sand Studies, and Di x-Neuf. She has taught numerous courses on 19th-century literature, Orientalism, metropolitan vision, and gender studies, regularly offering specialized seminars like FR 390M and cross-listed courses in Comparative Literature and Women's and Gender Studies.
As a core faculty member in Comparative Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, and European Studies, she contributes significantly to interdisciplinary scholarship while maintaining active roles in major academic associations including the Modern Language Association and the American Comparative Literature Association.
