Faith E. Beasley

Faith Evelyn Beasley is a professor of French cultural studies at Dartmouth College. She is known for her work on French cultural history, and the intersection of French history and the voices of women writers.

Education and career Beasley grew up in Michigan and attended Plainwell High School. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in French from Mount Holyoke College in 1980. She studied abroad in Paris at the École Normale supérieure from 1984 until 1985, and then in 1986 she earned her Ph.D. in French from Princeton University.

She served as the editor of Cahiers du dix-septième from 2008 to 2016.

Selected publications Revising Memory: Women's Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France. New Brunswick, N.J.; Rutgers University Press, 1990

Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory. Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006

Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal: François Bernier, Marguerite de La Sablière and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018 Versailles à la rencontre du Taj Mahal: Conversations éclairées sur l’Inde au temps du Roi-Soleil.'' Translated by Patrick Graille. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024