Faculty Profile for Dr. Flore Chevaillier

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Flore Chevaillier attended Lehigh University, where she earned her Master's, and Florida State University, where she earned her PhD with a certification in Critical Theory. She also earned her undergraduate degree and graduate degrees (MA and PhD) from the Universite d'Orleans in France. She taught French at Lehigh University, and writing and literature courses at Florida State University, The University of Dayton, and Central State University.

Teaching Interests

In addition to American Literature in its political and cultural contexts, Dr. Chevaillier's teaching interests include transnationalism, ethnicity, and race; gender and sexuality; new literary media; and word and image studies.

Research Interests

Flore Chevaillier's work focuses on the correlations between narrative, corporeality, and textual materiality. The Body of Writing: an Erotics of Contemporary American Fiction (The Ohio State University Press, 2013) examines readers' experience of sensuality in their engagement with the language of fiction. Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers (The Ohio State University Press, 2017) explores the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction through a series of interviews with some of today's most cutting-edge fiction writers.