Summary
Erin E. Edgington serves as the Associate Dean of Student Affairs in the College of Liberal Arts. She is an Associate Professor of French and has taught French language and literature at Queen’s University Belfast, the University of Michigan, and the University of Nevada, Reno. Since arriving at the University, she has also held appointments as the Assistant Director of the Honors Program (2017–2020), Associate Dean of the Honors College (2020–2022), and Chair of the Department of World Languages and Literatures (2022–2025).
A specialist of 19th-century French and French-Canadian poetry, Edgington is the author of Between the New Country and the Old World: William Chapman and French-Canadian Literary Nationalism (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2025) and Fashioned Texts and Painted Books: Nineteenth-Century French Fan Poetry (U of North Carolina P, 2017). Other research includes articles on the works of Stéphane Mallarmé, Théophile Gautier, Edmond de Goncourt, Octave Uzanne, and second language pedagogy. Her research in the field of honors education includes book chapters on internationalizing the honors curriculum and honors advising.
Born and raised in Sparks, Nevada – and a proud alumna of the College of Liberal Arts – Edgington is passionate about making the richness and diversity of the liberal arts accessible to University of Nevada, Reno students and to residents of her home state more broadly. She sits on the boards of the American Council for Québec Studies, the Alliance Française of Reno-Tahoe, and the Professional Language Association of Nevada.
Research interests
- 19th-century French and French-Canadian poetry
- Visual and material culture
- Second language pedagogy
Selected publications
Publications in French and Francophone Studies
Books
- Between the New Country and the Old World:William Chapman and French-Canadian Literary Nationalism. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025.
- Fashioned Texts and Painted Books: Nineteenth-Century French Fan Poetry. North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, no. 312, University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Articles
- “Emparons-nous du sol!’: Visions of Québec’s Fin-de-siècle Forests.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 53, nos. 3–4, 2025, pp.279–96.
- “Greening the modern languages classroom: Two-eyed seeing and transformative third space as second language pedagogies.” Journal of Romance Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, 2025, pp. 273–94.
- “The Poet and the Philanthropists: William Chapman’s Improbable Bid for the Nobel Prize.” Nottingham French Studies, vol. 60, no. 1, 2021.
- “Re-Orienting the fête galante in Mallarmé’s éventails.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 44, nos. 1–2, 2015–2016, pp. 128–143.
- “Introducing Students to Pre-Nineteenth-Century Poetry in the Language Classroom.” The French Review, vol. 88, no. 2, 2014, pp. 171–184.
Education
- M.A. in Educational Leadership, University of Nevada, Reno, 2018
- Ph.D. in French Literature, Indiana University – Bloomington, 2013
- M.A. in French Literature, Indiana University – Bloomington, 2010
- B.A. in French Language and Literature and Sociology, University of Nevada, Reno, 2008