Anne T. Quartararo, Professor

Modern France; European Social History

Email:  quartara@usna.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. - University of California, Los Angeles
• M.A. - University of California, Los Angeles
• B.A. - University of Santa Clara

Selected Publications:

Discovering the Signs: A History of the Deaf Community in Nineteenth Century France.  Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2007 (forthcoming).

Women Teachers and Popular Education in Nineteenth Century France.  Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1995.

"The Life and Times of the French Deaf Leader, Ferdinand Berthier: An Analysis of His Early Career," Sign Language Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, Winter 2002, 182-196.

"Treating Illness in the Nineteenth Century: The Work of Doctors Itard and Blanchet and the Medicalization of the French Deaf Population," in Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, Barry Rothaus, ed. Greely, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2001, 241-250.

"Celebrating Abbé de l'Epée's Birthday: Investigating Cultural Ritual in the French Deaf Community in the Early Twentieth Century," in Collage: Works on International Deaf History, ed. by Fischer/Vollhaber/Zeinart.  Signum: Hamburg, 1997, 233-241.

"The Perils of Assimilation in Modern France: The Deaf Community, Social Status, and Educational Opportunity, 1815-1870," Journal of Social History, vol. 29, Fall 1995, 5-23.

"The Revolutionary Ideal and the Deaf Community in France, 1792-1795," in The Deaf Way, Carol Erting, et al., ed. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1994, 167-171.

"Republicanism, Deaf Identity and the Career of Henri Gaillard in late nineteenth century France," in Deaf History Unveiled: Selections from the New Scholarship, John Van Cleve, ed.  Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1993, 40-52.

"Integration or Segregation: The Dilemma of the French Deaf Community and the Goals of Republican Education, 1880-1900," in Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, Norman Ravitch, ed. Riverside, Calif.: University of California, 1993, 315-23.

"Clean and Decent Students: Health Care Practices inside Women's Normal Schools, 1830-1900," in Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, John F. Sweets, ed. Lawrence, Kansas: The University of Kansas, 1984, 394-403.

Selected Book Reviews:

Reviews of grant proposals for Graduate Research Institute, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. (1999-present).

Rita Hofstetter et al. (eds).  Une Ecole pour la Démocratie: Naissance et développement de l'école primare publique en Suisse au 19e siècle (Bern: Peter Lang, 1999), for History of Education Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, Spring 2002, 138-140.

Susan Plann, A Silent Minority: Deaf Education in Spain, 1550-1835 (Berkeley: CA: University of California Press, 1997) for Journal of Social History, vol. 32, Spring 1999, 705-707.

A.E, Cornebise, Soldier-Scholars: Higher Education in the AEF, 1917-1918 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997) for History of Education Quarterly, Summer 1998, 195-197.

Nicholas Mirzoeff, Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign and Visual Culture in Modern France (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995) for American Historical Review vol. 102, no. 2, April 1997, 462-463.

Mary Jo Maynes, Taking the Hard Road: Life Course in French and German Workers' Autobiographies in the Era of Industrialization (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1995) for History of Education Quarterly, vol. 28, Winter 1988, 658-661).

Martine Sonnet, L'Education des filles au temps des Lumières (Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1987) for History of Education Quarterly vol. 28, Winter 1988, 658-661).

Ralph Albanese, Jr., Molière à l'Ecole républicaine: De la critique universitaire aux manuels scolaires, 1870-1914 (Saratoga, Calif.: Anma Libri, 1992) in History of Education Quarterly, vol. 34, Spring 1994, 108-110.

Professional Meetings:

Papers presented at the following conferences:

"The Poetry of a Minority Community: The Deaf Poet Pierre Pélissier and the Formation of Deaf Identity in the 1850s," Western Society from French History, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, October 2006.

Roundtable discussion: Western Society for French History, Colorado Springs, October 2005, "Disability and French History."

"Social Images of the French Deaf: the culturally constructed meaning of difference in the early nineteenth-century," Western Society for French History, University of California, Irvine, October 2003.

"Rediscovering the First French Deaf Teachers in Mid-Nineteenth Century France," Deaf Way II, Washington D.C., July 2002.

"The Challenge of Schooling Deaf Children: Possibilities and Realities in Mid-nineteenth-Century France," Western Society for French History, Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, November 2001.

"Writing Minority History in French history: Creating a Deaf Community in early nineteenth century France," Western Society for French History, University of California, Los Angeles, November 2000.

"The Life and Times of Ferdinand Berthier: A Historical Analysis," 4th International Conference on Deaf History, Washington, D.C., June 2000.

"Treating Illness in the Nineteenth Century: The Work of Doctors Itard and Blanchet and the Medicalization of the French Deaf Population," Western Society for French History, University of California, Santa Cruz, November 1999.

"Creating a Deaf Community in Revolutionary France, 1789-1799," for the American historical Association, Washington, D.C., January 1999.

"Deaf Autonomy, Deaf Pathology: The Crisis of Cultural Identity for the Deaf Community in fin-de-siècle France," for the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, University of Liverpool, Great Britain, 9-11, September 1997.

"In the Shadow of Milan's Congress: The Question of Deaf Education in the Third Republic, 1870-1914," for the Society from French Historical Studies, Boston, 21-23 March 1996.