Charlotte Berkery
Research Profile
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 (18301848), 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.
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 (18301848), 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.
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 | |
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Imaginaire et poésie nocturnes de Paris. La nuit parisienne dans les productions culturelles de la monarchie de Juillet (18301848) | National University of Ireland (NUI) |
Peer Reviewed Journals
Year | Publication | |
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(2025) | 'Night Air: Miasma Theory and La Cousine Bette'
Charlotte Berkery (2025) 'Night Air: Miasma Theory and La Cousine Bette'. Revue Balzac / The Balzac Review, [Details] |
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(2025) | 'Passing Presences: Street Lighting as 'Site of Action' in July Monarchy Paris'
Charlotte Berkery (2025) 'Passing Presences: Street Lighting as 'Site of Action' in July Monarchy Paris'. Irish Journal of French Studies, [Details] |
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(2025) | 'Faire passage en contextes francophones'
Charlotte Berkery and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert (2025) 'Faire passage en contextes francophones'. Irish Journal of French Studies, [Details] |
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(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] |
Edited Books
Year | Publication | |
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(2025) | Passages
Charlotte Berkery; Laëtitia Saint-Loubert (Ed.). (2025) Passages Ireland: Irish Journal of French Studies. [Details] |
Book Chapters
Year | Publication | |
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(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] |
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(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] |
Book Reviews
Year | Publication | |
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(2025) | Jessica Tanner. Sex Work, Text Work: Mapping Prostitution in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel. Northwestern University Press, 2023.
Charlotte Berkery (2025) Jessica Tanner. Sex Work, Text Work: Mapping Prostitution in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel. Northwestern University Press, 2023. Book Reviews [Details] |
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(2022) | Courant, Elsa. Poésie et cosmologie dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle: nouvelle mythologie de la nuit à lère 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 lère du positivisme. Droz, 2020. Book Reviews [Details] |
Honours and Awards
Year | Title | Awarding Body | |
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2022 | Society of Dix-Neuviémistes ECR Grant | SDN | |
2015 | NUI Travelling Studentship | National University of Ireland |
Professional Associations
Association | Function | From / To | |
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Society for French Studies | Member | / | |
Société des études romantiques et dix-neuviémistes | Member and international correspondent | / | |
Society of Dix-Neuviémistes | Member | / |
Committees
Committee | Function | From / To | |
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ADEFFI (Association des études françaises et francophones d'Irlande) Executive Committee | Treasurer | / |
Teaching Interests
Module coordinator: FR2202 Literary Seminar I, FR4803 The Changing Face of French Cinema, FR2306 The Theatre of the Absurd.