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2006-2007 Fellows


Christy Pichichero

Stanford University
Department of French and Italian

Christy Pichichero is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of French and Italian at Stanford University. She received her Bachelor’s of Arts in Comparative Literature from Princeton University (1998) and a Bachelor’s in Music (2000) in opera singing and musicology from the Eastman School of Music. Last year, Pichichero was a recipient of the Georges Lurcy Fellowship for academic research in France and was awarded visiting researcher fellowships at both King’s College, Cambridge University and at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Project Summary

Pichichero’s dissertation entitled Battles of the Self: War and Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century France is a genealogy of war, society and selfhood over the long eighteenth century. In it, she examines the interplay between military and literary narratives to trace an evolution in philosophical parameters (epistemology, authority and personal autonomy) to reveal a new perspective on the development of what we understand to be the modern individual.