Charles R. Batson
Charles R. Batson
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Union College, USA
Charles R. Batson is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Union College, Schenectady, NY, and currently serves as President of the American Council for Québec Studies. His work on circus has appeared in several venues, including the volume he co-edited with Louis Patrick Leroux, Cirque Global: Québec’s Expanding Circus Boundaries (McGill-Queens University Press, 2016). He served as author and Section Editor for “Freak and Queer” in the 2018 Performance Matters issue devoted to questions of Circus and its Others. He also is the author of Dance, Desire, and Anxiety in Early Twentieth-Century French Theatre (Ashgate, 2005), co-editor of journal issues devoted to a Queer Québec appearing in Québec Studies and Contemporary French Civilization, and co-editor of a special double issue of Contemporary French Civilization on the legacy of Lawrence R. Schehr. He has published work on French and Francophone cultural production and performance in such journals as SITES, Québec Studies, Gradiva, Dance Chronicle, Nottingham French Studies, Contemporary French Civilization, and French Politics, Culture, and Society.