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Dany Jacob
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Assistant Professor
Global Cultures & Languages
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Dany Jacob Pronouns: He/Him/His
Assistant Professor
Global Cultures & Languages
Specialty area(s)
Dandyism, European fin-de-siècle, modern and postmodern masculinities, sociocultural identities and their performativity, fetishization and affect in popular culture, construction of cultural myths
Brief biography
Originally from Luxembourg, Europe, Dr. Jacob has received his Ph.D. from SUNY at Buffalo in French and Francophone Studies after receiving his undergraduate degree in European Cultures in Luxembourg and France. His research focus around the figure of the dandy and dandyism during the end of the 19th century/beginning of the 20th century and how it impacted our contemporary conceptions of modernity, aesthetics and masculinities through the lens of fetishism. Dr. Jacob's latest publications center around nontraditional identities and the affect on reader experience.
Other research and teaching interests are the role of fetishization and affect in popular culture, the construction and performativity of sociocultural identities (mainly male identities), and the construction of cultural myths.
Current courses at UWL
French 102 French in a Global Society II
French 202 French Language and Cultures in Action II
French 307: French for Professional Communication
French 317: Practice in Translation
French 337: French 3.0, Focus on Science and Technology
French 351: French Cinema
French 395: Literary Voices in Translation (Theme: Feminsim and Patriarchy Across Centuries)
FRE 403: Studies in French and Francophone Literature
FRE 430 French Connections
Education
- Bachelor's in European Cultures (specialization in French), University of Luxembourg
- M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo
- Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Career
Teaching history
French Composition & Conversation
Topics in French and Francophone Literature and Culture: Feminism and Patriarchy across genres; The Francophone World
Topics in World Cinema: Asking Big Questions in French and Francophone Film
Independent Study: “Otherness in French and Francophone Culture”
Comparative Literatures
Studies in the Novel– “Interpersonal Relationships in the Franco–German Novel”
Communicating Across Cultures
Diversity Studies
Introduction to Diversity Studies
Gender and Culture – “Transforming Masculinities”
Topics in Diversity Studies – “Engineering the Gaze”
Grad Seminars
Critical Perspectives on Globalization
Professional history
2023– present Assistant Professor of French, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
2021– 2023 Associate Teaching Professor, French and Gender Studies, Michigan Technological University
2017 – 2021 Assistant Teaching Professor, French and Gender Studies, Michigan Technological University
2016 – 2017 Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Michigan Technological University
2014 – 2016 Research Assistant for Melodia E. Jones Chair (Dr. Jean-Jacques Thomas), State University of New York at Buffalo
Research and publishing
Book chapters
Fragile Masculinities in The Nightmanager: How ‘The Worst Man in the World’ Brings out the Best”, in War, Espionage and Masculinities in the British Novel, edited by Susan Austin, Vernon Press, 2022.
“L’écriture affective proustienne comme ancrage”, in Ces lieux qui nous affectent, edited by Denis Martouzet and Georges-Henry Laffont. Editions Hermann, 2021.
“Cherchez la femme: Fetishization of the Woman in Lovesick”, Cinema Invites Other Gazes, edited by Luciana Silveira and Dago Schelin, Prismas, 2016.
Journal Articles
"Habiter l’artifice : l’esthétique de l’espace dans À rebours de Joris-Karl Huysmans”, Loxias 88, 2025. (Open Access, article)
“Meme-ing Jay Gatsby or Dandyism à l’Américaine: Cultural Declination of The Great Gatsby”, Cinephile 15.1, 2021. (Open Acces, Cinephile, 15.1)
“Le Dom Juan de Molière, qui a lancé la première pierre ?” [Molière’s Dom Juan, Who Cast The First Stone?], Acta Iassyensia Comparationis, 15 (1/2015): Héros et Antihéros/Heroes and Antiheroes, 2015. (Open Access, article)
“Pélagie-la-Charrette or The Claim of the Earth”, The Context Journal of Language, Literature, Cultural Studies Volume 1, Issue 3, Magnus Publishing, India, 2014.
Under review
“Le pouvoir du mot, la trahison de l’image : Magritte et la pensée picturale du surréalisme”, Loxias, volume 89, juin 2025.
“Entre le pouvoir et le social : Gilberte Swann et l’esthétique du dandysme féminin”, Revue Études littéraires, 2025.
“The Complex Faces of Age: Redemptive Arcs and Villainy in Ocelot’s Animated World” Imagining the Impossible, Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025) Theme: Old.
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