Kristina Roney

Kristina Roney

Kristina Roney

Assistant Professor of French

Kristina Roney returned to her passion for French literature following a career in finance and accounting. In addition to her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in French literature, she holds a Master’s of Taxation and maintains active licensure as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Kristina leverages her diverse academic background by studying literature from an historical-economic perspective. Her monograph in-progress focuses on the 19th century and the Industrial Revolution, looking at the birth of modern finance through the literature of Honoré de Balzac.

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Kansas
  • M.A. University of Kansas
  • MTAX Arizona State University
  • B.A. Lehigh University

Research

  • French novel
  • 19th through 20th-century French literature
  • Honoré de Balzac
  • French for business purposes
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Economic history and finance
  • Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Teaching

  • Balzac & Money
  • Advent of the Arriviste
  • French for Business and Journalism
  • Invitation au voyage
  • Conversation et composition - Cours avancé
  • Intermediate French I & II / Advanced Intermediate French

Selected Publications

  • “A Tale of Two Bankruptcies: César Birotteau and La Maison Nucingen.” The Balzac Review/Revue Balzac, Classiques Garnier, vol. 4, 2021, pp 197-213.

  • “The Bible and the Balance Sheet in Pilhes’s L’Imprécateur.” The French Review, vol. 91, no. 3, 2018, pp 110-23.

Reviews

  • “Brooks, Peter. Balzac’s Lives.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 50, no. 1-2, 2021.

  • “Éric Bordas, ed. Balzac et la langue.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 49, no. 1-2, 2020.

  • “Owen Heathcote and Andrew Watts, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Balzac.” Chimères, vol. 34, 2020.