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Katherine Dauge-Roth is an Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College, specializing in the literature, history, and culture of the early modern Francophone world with a focus on the history of the body and material culture. She is a core faculty member in both the Romance Languages and Literatures department and the Francophone Studies program, teaching across the curriculum from language instruction to advanced seminars.
Professor Dauge-Roth earned her PhD and MA in French Literature from the University of Michigan, a DEUG in Lettres Modernes from Université de Caen, and an AB in French and History from Colby College. Her educational background reflects her dual expertise in French language and historical studies.
Her research examines how the body served as a privileged surface for displaying authority and identity during periods of increased global circulation in the early modern period. She has made significant contributions to understanding skin marking practices including tattooing, branding, stigmata, and other corporeal inscriptions, with particular attention to their intersections with writing and print culture. Her work spans Native American tattooing practices, criminal branding, devotional stigmata, and the representation of race in early modern France.
Professor Dauge-Roth's scholarly impact is evident in her monograph Signing the Body: Marks on Skin in Early Modern France (Routledge, 2020) and the co-edited volume Stigma: Marking Skin in the Early Modern World (Penn State University Press, 2023), which brings together international scholars to examine body marking from a global perspective.
- Karofsky Teaching Prize (2005)
- National Endowment for the Humanities grant (summer 2023)
- Executive Director of the Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies
- President of Bowdoin's Alpha of Maine chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
Professor Dauge-Roth is deeply committed to inclusive pedagogy and developing students' linguistic and cultural fluency. She has co-authored several pedagogical articles on teaching the early modern period and contemporary France. Her teaching portfolio includes innovative courses such as 'Spoken Word and Written Text,' which examines oral and written sources from the Middle Ages through the abolition of enslavement in 1848, and 'Contemporary France through the Media,' where students analyze current French social and political issues.
She is an active member of the Early Modern Race reading group and the Skin Studies reading group, contributing to scholarly conversations that bridge historical inquiry with contemporary concerns about race, embodiment, and cultural representation.
