Poster Presentations

11 am – 12:30 pm | Student Center Piedmont Room

Lunch

12:30 pm – 1 pm | Student Center Piedmont Room

Reading Against the Grain of the Voice: Flaubert’s Madame Bovary

3:30 pm – 5 pm | Student Center Northside Room

In Gustave Flaubert’s own words, each sentence in Madame Bovary (1857) was put through the ultimate test of his “gueuloir,” a nickname for his private study that was derived from the vulgar verb “gueuler” (to bellow, holler). Using a genetic approach, this talk considers the drafts of Madame Bovary as if they were visual scores to be performed out loud. Inspired by Salomo Friedländer’s imaginative use of Goethe’s larynx to filter and resound the echoes of his voice lingering in his study in Weimar, we will listen to a polyphonic chorus of male voices bring Flaubert’s relentless, guttural act of literary creation to life—back through the gueuloir.

Renée Altergott is a visiting assistant professor of French at Wabash College in Indiana. She completed her Ph.D. in French and Francophone Literature at Princeton University in 2022. Her work examines the cultural and literary history of sound recording in France and the former French Colonial Empire. Recent publications on sound, technology, and colonialism have appeared in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, French Forum, and Contemporary French Civilization Intersections.

What is the Voice+ Research Lab?

Housed in the School of Modern Languages, thanks to support from the Atlanta Global Studies Center and the IPaT/GVU Research and Engagement Grants, Villa Albertine and International Education Week, the Voice+ Research Lab is an Interdisciplinary Voice Studies Lab that explores the human voice from a variety of perspectives and integrates knowledge and methodologies from different disciplines. It encompasses a wide range of topics related to the voice, including vocal production, vocal health, cultural and historical aspects of vocal expression, and the artistic and expressive use of the voice.

Interdisciplinary voice studies aim to provide a holistic understanding of the voice and its multifaceted aspects, fostering collaboration among experts in various fields to explore sound and structures of the human voice. Interdisciplinary voice studies often draw on the expertise of scholars and practitioners from fields such as, but not limited to: music, technology, business and marketing, speech and communication, linguistics, medicine and health sciences, cultural studies, theatre and performance studies, and psychology.