Renée A. Kingcaid, Ph.D.Professor of French124 Regina South219-284-5371 |
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Bonjour à tous et à toutes! Professor Kingcaid has been a member of the Saint Mary's College faculty since 1984, having previously taught at Montana State University and The Ohio State University. Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 1990, she was appointed Professor of French in 1998. She is currently (Fall Semester 1998) on sabbatical leave to pursue her research into French autobiographical fiction, specifically the autofiction of Serge Doubrovsky. In addition to her regular teaching duties, Professor Kingcaid has served as Coordinator of the French Section, Acting Chair of the Department of Modern Languages, Chair of the Faculty Assembly, and faculty mentor. Her articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French fiction have appeared in such journals as French Forum, SubStance, Genre, Studies in Psychoanalytic Theory, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction, to which she is a regular contributor. Her first book, Neurosis and Narrative: The Decadent Short Fiction of Proust, Lorrain, and Rachilde was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 1992. Besides writing her monograph on Serge Doubrovsky, she is currently editing a collection of essays on "Mothers' Deaths in French Literature."
Professor Kingcaid is married to Michael Langthorne, an administrator with the Office of Information Technology at the University of Notre Dame. They have two children, Philip Michael (b. 1988), and Sarah Theresa (b. 1991). They are members of Saint Joseph's Parish in South Bend, and Renée and the children are active performers with the South Bend Civic Theatre.
