SCOTT  GUNTHER

229B Green Hall
Wellesley College

Wellesley College, Department of French:  Assistant Professor (fall 2003 – present)

EDUCATION

Ph.D., 2001                 New York University, Institute of French Studies

Dissertation:      The Elastic Closet:  Legal Censure and Auto-Censure of Homosexuality in France

D.E.A., 1995               Ecole Normale Supérieure &
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France

Thesis:            La Construction de l'identité homosexuelle dans les lois aux
Etats-Unis et en France

J.D., 1993                   New York University, School of Law

Admitted to New York State Bar, First Judicial Department, 1994

B.A., 1990                   Cornell University
Double Major in Philosophy and in Government

BOOK 

The Elastic Closet: A History of Homosexuality in France, 1942-present, (Palgrave, 2009).

ARTICLES

"A New Identity for Old Europe: How and Why the French Imagined Françallemagne in Recent Years," to appear in French Politics, Culture and Society.

"Not 'communautaire' but 'identitaire': Linguistic Acrobatics on France’s PinkTV," Contemporary French Civilization, Winter-Spring 2008, volume 32, no.1.

"Alors, Are We 'Queer' Yet?," The Gay & Lesbian Review, Volume XII, Number 3, May-June, 2005.

"Building a More Stately Closet: French Gay Movements since the Early 1980s," Journal of the History of Sexuality, Volume 13, Number 3, 2004.

"The assimilationist strategies of French homosexuals," in Farewell to Heteronormativity, University of Gothenburg Press, 2002.

"Ghetto ou Village?" Le Nouvel Observateur, February 28, 2002.

"Le Marais: The Indifferent Ghetto," Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Volume VI, Number 1, Winter 1999.

"France:  Law," Reader's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Studies, ed. Timothy Murphy, Chicago:  Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999.

"France:  History and Politics," Reader's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Studies, ed. Timothy Murphy, Chicago:  Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999.

REVIEWS

Review of Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship in France, Denis Provencher, H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 9.

Review of La politique culturelle en débat: Anthologie 1955-2005, Geneviève Gentil and Philippe Poirrier, Eds., H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 102.

Review of Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century, Graham Robb, American Historical Association Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Newsletter, Spring 2006.

Review of Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris, William Peniston, American Historical Association Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Newsletter, Fall 2005.

Review of Liberté, égalité, sexualités, Clarisse Fabre and Eric Fassin, French Politics, Culture and Society, Volume 23, Number 3, Fall 2005.

Review of The Pink and the Black, Frédéric Martel, Journal of Homosexuality, Volume 42, Number 2, 2001-2002.

Review of Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century, eds. George Robb and Nancy Erber, American Historical Association Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Newsletter, Spring 2000.

CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS

"There's Nothing Queer about Gay Media in France," Rhetoric of the Other, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 28-29, 2008.

“Station Identification: the role of the television channel ARTE in the construction of a Franco-European identity,” Society for French Historical Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 20-23, 2006.

“PinkTV: How a Gay and Lesbian Television Station was Made in France,” 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University of Miami, April 1, 2006.

“Not communautaire but identitaire: Linguistic Acrobatics on France’s PinkTV,” Lavender Languages, American University, Washington D.C., February 10, 2006.

"Laïcité and religious cultures in France," Franco-German Dialogue and the New Europe, Cornell University, November 19, 2005.

Invited Speaker: "The demise of radicalism: how French homosexuals learned to be gay,"  Cornell University, November 18, 2005.

“Making sense of the French riots,” Discourse lecture series, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, November 16, 2005.

Radio Interview:  Radio France Internationale, Sophie Torlotin, "RFI soir:  Peut-on parler d'une culture gay et lesbienne en France?" Paris, France, June 23, 2005, 7:40-8:00pm.

“Representations of Jean-Paul Sartre in The New York Times, 1945–1964,” Society for French Historical Studies, Stanford University, March 17-19, 2005.

Invited Speaker: “The exceptional strategies of French gay activists,” Institute of French Studies, New York University, February 22, 2005.

Panel Chair: “Crossed Signals: France and America’s representations of one another in the Early Cold War,” Society for French Historical Studies, Paris, France, June 17-20, 2004.

“An update on the queer (qu’ouïr?) movement in France,” Queer Matters, King’s College, London, England, May 28-30, 2004.

Invited Speaker: “France and the Hijab,” Women in Islam Series, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, April 26, 2004.

“Un Papa, Une Maman: Uses of gender in debates over same-sex partnerships in France,” Playing the Field: the Politics and History of Gender & Sexuality, Columbia University, New York City, April 23-24, 2004.

Panel Chair: "A New Look at French Attitudes toward Diversity," Western Society for French History, Newport Beach, October 30-November 1, 2003

“Same-Sex Marriage: Can American Activists Learn Anything from the French Model of Same-Sex Partnerships?" Over the Rainbow, Arizona State University, March 27-29, 2003.

"Building a more stately closet: The assimilationist strategies of French homosexuals," Farewell to Heteronormativity, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 23-25, 2002.

"Locating Sodomy's Victim: The Construction of Homosexuality as a Public Threat in 19^th-Century French Medical and Legal Memoirs," Narrative: An International Conference, Michigan State University, April 11-14, 2002.

Panel Chair: "Uses of America," Western Society for French History, Indianapolis, November .1-3, 2001

"Toward Auto-Censure:  The Shape of the French Closet after 1981," Western Society for French History, U.C.L.A., November 8-11, 2000.

"The Notion of Victim in 19th-Century French Criminal Law," Graduate Colloquium for French and Francophone Studies, Penn State, October 27-28, 2000.

"Assimilationist Stategies in France," The Future of the Queer Past, University of Chicago, September 14-17,2000.

"Foucault's Panopticon and Obligatory Visibility," New York City Gay and Lesbian History Workshop, May 26, 2000.

"Inversions and Amitié: The Culture of French Homosexuals Between the Wars," Imagining the Space Between:  Constructing Literature And Culture, 1914-1945, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, May 18-20, 2000.

Invited Speaker: "Le Coming Out, La Gay Pride, Le Queer and Other French Things," Spring 2000 G.L.B.T. Lecture Series, University of Connecticut, Storrs, February 8, 2000.

"Comment Dit-On 'Queer' en Français?" U.C.L.A. French Graduate Students' Fourth Interdisciplinary Conference, Le Corps et l'Esprit, April 16-17, 1999.

“American 'Gay Pride' in a French Context”, Pride and Prejudice:  5th Annual Symposium on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues, University of Rhode Island, April 8-10, 1999.

“The Public-Private Distinction in French and American Law and Life,” French Studies Graduate Students’ Workshop, Institute of French Studies Graduate Students’ Association, November 13, 1998.

"Interpreting Silence:  French Law and Homosexuality in the 19th Century," Queer Theories:  A National Conference on Gay & Lesbian Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, October 9-11, 1998.

"The Law and Society Movement," French Studies Doctoral Workshop, Director: Nicholas Wahl, April 16, 1996.

"L'Etonnement d'un historien américain face à la loi de 1942," Etats-Unis:  Histoires sexuelles, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Département de Sciences Sociales, May 25, 1995.