Books by Venita Datta (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)

Venita Datta, Professor of French at Wellesley College, where she has taught since 1991, is a specialist of French cultural and intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of Birth of a National Icon (1999) and has published articles in various journals, including French Historical Studies, the Journal of Contemporary History, Historical Reflections/Reflexions historiques, French Cultural Studies and CLIO: Histoire, Femmes et Societe. Professor Datta is a recipient of the Chateaubriand Fellowship, awarded by the French government.