Participant Info
- First Name
- Holly
- Last Name
- Grout
- Country
- United States
- State
- hlgrout@ua.edu
- Affiliation
- Professor University of Alabama
- Website URL
- https://history.ua.edu/faculty/holly-grout/
- Keywords
- Modern France, Gender, Culture, Beauty, Celebrity, Consumer Society, Fashion
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
- Recent Publications
Playing Cleopatra: Inventing the Female Celebrity in Third Republic France (Baton Rouge, LSU Press: February 2024).
The Force of Beauty: Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic (Baton Rouge, LSU Press: June 2015).
“‘Le miracle et le mirage’: Beauty institutes and the making of modern french women”, Business History, (2020) DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2020.1820989
“Authorizing Fictions: Narrating a Self in Mistinguett’s Celebrity Memoir,” French Historical Studies (2019) 42 (2): 295-322. .
“European Celebrity in Historical Perspective.” Contemporary European History 28, no. 2 (2019): 273–82. doi:10.1017/S0960777318000565.
“Celebrity Matters” Aeon 16 July 2019. https://aeon.co/essays/the-history-of-celebrity-is-a-history-of-the-concept-of-self
“Between Venus and Mercury: The 1920s Beauty Contest in France and America,” French Politics, Culture, and Society Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring 2013): 47-68.
H-France Salon
Volume 12 (2020), Issue 8, #1232020 George Rudé Society and the Society for French Historical Studies Panel 31 – Dressing-Up: Costume and Image Creation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century France
Holly Grout, University of Alabama
Presentation: Dolls of the Grand Revue: Mistinguett, Josephine Baker and the Commodification of Celebrity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9M9qRmcrYk
- Media Coverage
- https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/what-is-cellulite-definition-fat-shaming-history, Deseret News 25 July 2021: https://www.deseret.com/2021/7/25/22575849/why-you-can-get-canceled-and-celebrities-never-do-bill-oreilly-jeffrey-toobin-chrissy-teigen
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- France
- Expertise by Geography
- France, United States, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Sexuality, Women
