Elizabeth Berkebile McManus

Elizabeth Berkebile McManus is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of French and Italian.  She received a B.A. in French Studies from Cornell University in 2001 and an M.A. in French Literature from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2005.  She is currently working on her dissertation, "A Chimera Solidified in Stone: Spaces of Fantasy in the Works of Theophile Gautier."  This project focuses on Gautier's architectural fantasies and his use of this fantastical way of perceiving space as a means to investigate spectatorship, temporality, ruins and the fantastic, and hashish and the sublime.  Her other interests include Narrative Theory, Psychoanalysis, Marxist Theory, fantastic and utopian literatures, eighteenth century French literature, and nineteenth century French literature, architecture, visual art, decorative arts, and domesticity.