Wendy Michallat

Dr Wendy Michallat was born in West Yorkshire. She studied at the Universities of Warwick and Nottingham before joining the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sheffield in 2010.

Dr Michallat's primary teaching focus is French cultural history and popular culture, and has published across a diverse range of subject areas using previously unknown or overlooked archival material to inform highly original, exciting work.

This includes Dr  Michallat's discovery of a lesbian novel written under a pseudonym by Marie-Thérèse Eyquem, Vichy sports administrator, co-founder of the Mouvement démocratique féminin and Socialist politician.

A second journal article covers the hand-written manuscripts of Hélène Brion's La Lutte feministe, which Michallat discovered in a university archive in the United States

Dr Michallat has also published across areas including Francohone cartoon art, women’s football and first-wave French feminism.

The video below discusses the book 320 rue St Jacques: The Diary of Madeleine Blaess, on which Dr Michallat worked as editor and translator.

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