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Biography

Following an undergraduate degree in International Commerce and French at University College Dublin, I moved to France where I worked for two years as a lectrice at Université Rennes 2 while undertaking a Master in lettres modernes. I subsequently completed my National University of Ireland-funded doctorat at the Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7.

My research specialisms include nineteenth-century French literature, visual culture and nocturnal history. A monograph based on a significant restructuring and translation of my doctoral thesis, Bourgeois Nights: Representing Nocturnal Paris in July Monarchy Culture (1830–1848), is under contract with Liverpool University Press. I have also published elsewhere or have peer-reviewed articles and chapters forthcoming on the history of nocturnal Paris, nineteenth-century women's writing, connections between fashion studies and night studies, Balzac's ecology, and representations of the scene in cultural productions. I am also co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of the Irish Journal of French Studies on the theme of 'Passages'.

I am currently working on a new interdisciplinary literary cartography project 'Mapping the Nightscape: Literary Street Scenes in July Monarchy and Second Empire Paris' which sets out to transform our understanding of the nineteenth-century urban landscape, and thus of the city today, by combining literary studies, social geography, spatial theory and data analytics.


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Research Interests

• Nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture
• Night Studies
• History of Paris and Urban Humanities
• Women Writers
• Digital Humanities

Research Grants

	Project	Funding Body	Start Date	End Date	Award
	Imaginaire et poésie nocturnes de Paris. La nuit parisienne dans les productions culturelles de la monarchie de Juillet (1830–1848)	National University of Ireland (NUI)

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Publications

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Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2025)	'“If the nightcap fits…” Middle-Class Metonymy and Monotony in July Monarchy Cultural Productions' Charlotte Berkery (2025) '“If the nightcap fits…” Middle-Class Metonymy and Monotony in July Monarchy Cultural Productions'. Nineteenth Century French Studies, [Details]

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Book Chapters

	Year	Publication
	(2025)	'The Changing Face of Nocturnal Paris: From the Advent of the Modern Night to the Present Day' Charlotte Berkery (2025) 'The Changing Face of Nocturnal Paris: From the Advent of the Modern Night to the Present Day' In: The Routledge Handbook of the History of Paris since 1789. Oxford: Routledge. [Details]
	(2024)	'Hidden Figures: Women Writing the July Monarchy Night' Charlotte Berkery (2024) 'Hidden Figures: Women Writing the July Monarchy Night' In: Marginal Paris. Representing the Shadows of the City of Light. Leiden: Brill. [Details]

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Book Reviews

	Year	Publication
	(2022)	Courant, Elsa. Poésie et cosmologie dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle: nouvelle mythologie de la nuit à l’ère du positivisme. Droz, 2020. Charlotte Berkery (2022) Courant, Elsa. Poésie et cosmologie dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle: nouvelle mythologie de la nuit à l’ère du positivisme. Droz, 2020. Book Reviews [Details]

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Professional Activities

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Honours and Awards

	Year	Title	Awarding Body
	2022	Society of Dix-Neuviémistes ECR Grant	SDN

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Professional Associations

	Association	Function	From / To
	Society for French Studies	Member	/
	Société des études romantiques et dix-neuviémistes	Member and international correspondent	/
	Society of Dix-Neuviémistes	Member	/

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Committees

	Committee	Function	From / To
	ADEFFI (Association des études françaises et francophones d'Irlande) Executive Committee	Treasurer	/