Dr. Stephanie O'Hara
Ph.D. Duke University
M.A. Duke University
B.A. Wellesley College

Phone: 508-999-8336
Location: Group I-352
Email: sohara@umassd.edu

 

Dr. Stephanie O’Hara is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Prior to joining the faculty at UMass Dartmouth in the fall of 2007, she was Visiting Assistant Professor of French at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2004-2007), and Lecturer in French at Iowa State University (2003-2004). She received her Ph.D. from Duke University in 2003 and her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1995.

 

While a graduate student at Duke, Dr. O’Hara spent the academic year 1999-2000 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and the academic year 2000-2001 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines in Lyon. While an undergraduate at Wellesley College, Dr. O’Hara spent her junior year abroad studying at the Université de Provence. During the summer of 2007, she returned to Lyon to help run the Iowa Regents’ Summer Study Abroad Program, at the invitation of a former colleague at Iowa State University.

 

Dr. O’Hara has taught a wide range of language and literature courses, including French literature in translation. She is a specialist of early modern French literature, with a particular emphasis on the seventeenth century. Her research and teaching interests also include early modern European history, women’s studies, and the theory and practice of translation. She is currently at work on two major projects. One is a book manuscript entitled Poison Onstage and Offstage in Early Modern France. The other is a translation of the first European midwifery treatise written and published by a practicing midwife: Louise Bourgeois’ Various Observations concerning sterility, miscarriages, fertility, births, and diseases of women and newborn children (1609).

 

Dr. O’Hara is a member of the American Association of Teachers of French, the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, the Society for Interdisciplinary Seventeenth-Century French Studies, the Northeast Modern Language Association, the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, and the Modern Language Association.

 Dr. O'Hara's Abridged CV

 Last Updated On: 9/23/07