Kristina Roney

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.