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Professor, Director of Graduate Studies (Fall '08)
email Wendelin Guentner
557 Phillips Hall
335-2259
After earning Masters degrees from the Université de Paris/Sorbonne and the University of Delaware, Professor Wendelin Guentner was awarded her doctorate degree at the University of Chicago in 1982. She taught at Marquette University before coming to The University of Iowa in 1985.
Areas of graduate teaching expertise include: 19th-century French literature and culture, especially Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism; the novel, non-fictional prose (the travel narrative, the preface, the salon, the letter); aesthetics and interarts discourse; the relationships between literature and the plastic arts.
She has written two books, Stendhal et son lecteur: Essai sur les "Promenades dans Rome" (Gunter Narr, 1989) and Esquisses littéraires: Rhétorique du spontané et récit de voyage au XIXe siècle (Nizet, 1997).
She is also the author of numerous book chapters, articles and encyclopedia entries which have appeared in scholarly publications in the United States and abroad. They include: Romantisme, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Romanic Review, Stendhal Club, Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France, Rivista di Letterature moderne e comparate, Art Journal, French Literary Studies, Romanische Forschungen, Les Amis de Flaubert, L'Information littéraire, Australian Journal of French Studies, Neophilologus, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth-Century, European Romantic Review, Nineteenth-Century Prose, Contemporary French Civilization, Romanistiche Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte, H.B., Revue internationale d'études stendhaliennes and the Bulletin de la Société Chateaubriand. These studies focus on the history and rhetoric of the travel narrative, interpretative stategies and reader reception, photography and book illustration, the discourse of the preface and of salon criticism, the literary fragment and the pictorial sketch in literary and aesthetic discourse. Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Hugo, Michelet, Sand, Flaubert, Fromentin, the Goncourt Brothers and Taine are among the authors discussed.
Professor Guentner is currently completing a book, The
Sketch in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Discourse in France, which examines
the pictorial sketch in theoretical, critical and literary discourse. She has
recently
begun publishing in the area of women art critics in 19th-century France, and
is editing a collection of essays by art historians and literary critics entitled
Vanishing Acts: Women and the Art World in Nineteenth-Century France.
Professor Guentner has given papers at universities and colloquia in North America and Europe. She is on the advisory board of Nineteenth-Century French Studies and also serves on the editorial board of H. B. Revue internationale d'études stendhaliennes.
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