Caitlin Dahl

Dr. Caitlin Dahl specializes in queer studies, gender and sexuality studies, and 17th-century studies with an interest in diverse texts from early-modern media to fictional memoirs, to short stories. She earned her PhD in French at the University of Pittsburgh with certificates in Cultural Studies and Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies (GSWS), having defended her dissertation entitled “Queer Galanterie: Accommodating Queer Histories and Bodies in Early Modern France” in April of 2023. Her first article, “Queer Community Strategies: Diversity and Honnêteté in Choisy’s Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville” was published in Cahiers du dix-septième in 2023. A ongoing project of hers interrogates the intersections of galanterie, queerness, and race in early modern France. Dr. Dahl is also one of a group of eight specialists working on a digital, bilingual anthology of selected nouvelles or short stories published in Le Mercure galant, an important early modern periodical under the direction of Jean Donneau de Visé from 1672-1710. Dr. Dahl’s other research interests include modes of femininity under the Ancien régime, visual culture in early modern media, youth and gender fluidity in early modern French literature and thought, and the construction of Nation through literature.

Email: cdahl1@utk.edu