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Margaret Waller

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Margaret "Peggy"[1] Waller (born 1954)[2] is an American scholar of 19th-century French literature.[3] She is the Mary Ann Vanderzyl Reynolds Professor of Humanities and Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Pomona College in Claremont, California.[3]

Early life and education

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Waller graduated summa cum laude from Lawrence University in 1976 with a degree in French. She then earned a doctorate in French from Columbia University, finishing in 1986.[3]

Career

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Waller's works include a translation of Revolution in Poetic Language, a book by Julia Kristeva, and The Male Malady: Fictions of Impotence in the French Romantic Novel, published in 1993.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ Pinkham, Hannah (February 28, 2014). "When In France, Do What The Typical American Doesn't". The Student Life. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
  2. ^ "Waller, Margaret, 1954-". id.loc.gov. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d "Margaret Waller". Pomona College. May 29, 2015. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  4. ^ Rogers, Nancy E. (1993). "Review of The Male Malady: Fictions of Impotence in the French Romantic Novel". Nineteenth-Century French Studies. 22 (1/2): 237–239. ISSN 0146-7891. JSTOR 23537447.
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