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Office: 3134-A JFSB

Phone: 422-4484

Email: cropper@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses French 340 Intro to French Literary Analysis
French 363 Contemporary France
BusM 596R Business French

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Website: http://TheSportsAcademic.blogspot.com/

Biography:

Book •Playing at Monarchy: Sport as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Select Articles •“Prosper Mérimée and the Subversive ‘Historical’ Short Story.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 33.1-2 (Fall-Winter 2004-05): 57-74. •“Revolution Under the Mantilla: Mérimée’s Spanish Theatre.” Dalhousie French Studies 66 (2004): 11-19. •“Playing at Monarchy: Le jeu de paume in literature of 19th-Century France.” The French Review 75.4 (April 2002): 720-729. •"Fictional Documentary: The Other as France in Mérimée's Les Mormons." French Literature Series 28 (2001): 51-64. •“Mérimée’s Colomba and the July Monarchy.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 29.1-2 (fall, winter 2000-2001): 35-46. Other Publications •“Blouses jaunes.” Editorial in Libération 28 Jul. 2007. (http://www.liberation.fr/rebonds/269529.FR.php) •Review of Daft Punk Alive 2007. Lingua Romana 6 (2007). (http://linguaromana.byu.edu/cropper6.html) •Paris Walks. BYU Kennedy Center, 2008. Co-authored with Marc Olivier and Robert Erickson. •Website on Prosper Mérimée: frenital.byu.edu/merimee/

Degrees: BA, Brigham Young U, 1993
MA, U of Illinois, 1995
PhD, U of Illinois, 1998

Interests:

Nineteenth Century Mérimée Literature and Political Criticism French Sports and Games

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