Carolyn Dean

Carolyn J. Dean, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History, is an intellectual and cultural historian of modern Europe, with a particular emphasis on France. She has written on the history of sexuality in interwar Europe and on historical method related to gender studies and queer theory. She is the author of several books, including Sexuality and Modern Western Culture and The Frail Social Body: Pornography, Homosexuality and Other Fantasies in Interwar France.