Contact Information

Office: 3127 JFSB

Phone: 422-4484

E-mail: cropper@byu.edu

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

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