Dr. Sara Pappas
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Profile
Sara Pappas is a scholar of nineteenth-century French literature, art, and culture and twentieth and twenty-first-century critical museum studies. Her work focuses on the connection between the literary and plastic arts in nineteenth-century France and how that history is represented in today’s museum. She has published articles in a range of French studies and interdisciplinary journals.
Pappas is currently working on an edited volume that explores the connection between contemporary artists’ reinterpretations of and challenges to European art and how those challenges are in dialogue with how we exhibit nineteenth-century French art in today’s museum.
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Publications
Books
Naturalism’s Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century (University of Toronto Press, 2024).
Journal Articles“Fragments of the Past: the Petit Palais, the Exposition universelle, and the ghosts of French Imperialism.” Dix-Neuf, Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, Volume 24, Issue 2-3 (October 2020), pp. 245-259.
"The Lessons of Champfleury." Nineteenth-Century French Studies Vol 42, Numbers 1& 2 (Fall/Winter 2013-2014): pp. 51-73.
"The View from the Bridge: Zola's L'Oeuvre and its Many Composites." Word and Image Volume 27:2 (June 2011), pp. 234-245.
"Opening the Door: Reinterpreting Interior Space and Transpositions of Art in La Fille aux yeux d'or via Assia Djebar." Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Volume 64:3 (2010): pp. 169-186.
"All that Glitters: Connecting Baudelaire's Art Criticism to his Poetry." French Forum Volume 33:3 (Fall 2008): pp. 35-53.
"Reading for Detail: On Zola's Abandonment of Impressionism." Word and Image Volume 23, Number 4 (October-December 2007): pp. 474-484.
”Managing Imitation: Translation and Baudelaire’s Art Criticism.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Volume 33, Numbers 3&4 (Spring/Summer 2005): pp 320-341.