Charles Batson, assistant professor of French, has signed with Ashgate Publishing for his book, Dance, Desire, and
Anxiety in Early Twentieth-Century French Theater: Playing Identities,
to be published in 2005. This work shows the performing bodies in Paris' dance theaters to carry culturally dense messages of
national, sexual, and gender identity. Batson also recently presented papers on
two other performance pieces: “Panique celtique, ou, Fest-noz in Paname: Manau, Celtic Rap, and Breton Cultural Expression,” at the
International Colloquium on 20th- and 21st-century French
Studies in Tallahassee, Fla., and “Versions of the Image: Yasmina
Reza, Contemporary Theater, and Ambiguous Subjectivity,” at the International
Conference on Women in French in Claremont, Calif.