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EducationPh.D., 1982, The Ohio State University, Romance Languages and Literatures
M.A., 1977, The Ohio State University, French
Millersville University of Pennsylvania, summer 1974, secondary education certification in English
B.A., summa cum laude, 1974, Ohio Dominican College, French with secondary education certification
Université de Dijon, 1972-73 (junior year abroad), Diplôme d'études françaises and Diplôme d'études supérieures françaises
Academic
positionsProfessor of French, Saint Mary's College, 1998-present
Associate Professor of French, Saint Mary's College, 1990-98
Assistant Professor of French, Saint Mary's College, 1984-90
Assistant Professor of French, Montana State University, 1982-84
Graduate Teaching Assistant, The Ohio State University, 1975-81
Graduate Assistant Teaching Award, Spring 1979
Presidential Dissertation Fellow, The Ohio State University, 1981-82
Language Arts Teacher, Grades 6-8, Eastern Lebanon County School District, 1974-5
PublicationsBooks
Neurosis and Narrative: The Decadent Short Fiction of Proust, Rachilde, and Lorrain. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 1992.
Creative Life-Writing: Doubrovsky and the 'Autofiction' Conundrum, in preparation.
Chapters in Books
"Rachilde: The Epithalamic Horror," Gale Research: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 67 (1997): 310-23.
"Piety and Pourriture: Huysmans's Women Terrorists," The Play of Terror in Nineteenth-Century France. Eds. J.T.Booker and A.H. Pasco. London: Associated University Presses, 1997: 170-86.
Articles
"Creating the Citizen-Reader in Zola's Vérité," Excavatio, 8.0 (International Journal on Zola and Naturalism) (fall 2000), 243-50.
"Introduction: Mother Deceased," and "Stopping for Coffee: Introject and Abject in Simone de Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death," Psychoanalytic Studies 2.4 (December 2000), 357-61, 373-84.
"Babes from the Cabbage Patch: Hysteria as Ungendered Personality in Zola's Nana,' Psychoanalytic Studies 2.3 (September 2000): 229-40.
"Dangerous Reflections: Mimesis and Narcissism in Serge Doubrovsky's Le Livre brisé," Pluralism and Critical Practice: Essays in Honor of Albert N. Mancini. Italiana VIII. Eds., P.A. Giordano and A.J. Tamburri. West Lafayette: Bordighera Press, 1999: 168-84.
"Serge Analysand," Genre 26.1 (SPring 1993), special issue on Serge Doubrovsky: 51-83.
"Tenuous Bonds: Oedipus and the Object in the Work of Yves Simon," Studies in Psychoanalytic Theory 3.2 (Fall 1994): 76-97.
"With a Knickknack on his Back: Huysmans's 'Sac au Dos' and the Comfy Object," Studies in Psychoanalytic Theory 2.2 (1993): 93-106.
"Romancing the Tome: The Seduction of Intertext in Doubrovsky's Un Amour de soi," SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism 70 (1993): 25-40.
"Colette," Sidelights essay, Contemporary Authors 131. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1991: 115-121.
"After the Nouveau Roman: Some New Names in French Fiction," The Review of Contemporary Fiction 8.2 (1998): 300-12.
"Amazing Grace: A Rebours Twenty Years After," L'Esprit Créateur 27.3 (1987): 68-78.
"André Gide," Sidelights essay, Contemporary Authors 124. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1988: 172-80.
"Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz et après: The Struggle for Signification," French Forum 9 (1984): 98-109.
"Running with the In-Crowd: Proust Pasticheur," Selecta (Journal of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages," 4 (1983): 10-16.
"Dimensions de l'image: 'Présence Réelle' et le baiser maternel," L'Image pluridimensionnelle: IRIS, Actes du Colloque (1982): 167-75.
"Retreat from Discovery: Symbol and Sign in La Symphonie pastorale," Perspectives on Contemporary Literature 8 (1982): 34-41.
With Charles Klopp, "Coupling and Uncoupling in Rebora's 'O Carro vuoto," Italica 56 (1979): 147-71.
Reviews: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Kristeva, Julia. Possessions (novel). Trans. B. Bray. (NY: Columbia University Press, 1998). RCF 18.3 (Fall 1998), 252-3.
Sarraute, Natalie. Here (novel). Trans. B. Wright (Paris: Gallimard, 1995; NY: Braziller, 1997). RCF 18.1 (Spring 1998): 233.
Schoots, Ficke. Passer en douce à la douane: L'écriture minimaliste de Minuit: Deville, Echenoz Toussaint et Redonnet (literary criticism). RCF 18.1 (Spring 1998): 254.
Nimier, Marie. The Giraffe (novel). Trans. M. Feeney. (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995). RCF 16.1 (Spring 1996): 192-3.
Doubrovsky, Serge. L'Après-Vivre (novel; Paris: Grasset, 1994). RCF 14.3 (Fall 1994): 232-3.
Jouet, Jacques. Le Directeur du Musée des Cadeaux des Chefs d'Etat de l'Etranger (novel; Paris: Seuil, 1994). RCF 14.3 (Fall 1994): 233-4.
Saumont, Annie. I'm No Truck (short stories). Trans. C. Leibow. (Marion Bowers, 1993). RCF 14.2 (Summer 1994): 210-11.
Sagan, Françoise. Les Faux-Fuyants (novel; Paris: Julliard, 1991); Germain, Sylvie. L'Enfant méduse (novel; Paris: Gallimard, 1991); Racine, Bruno. Au Péril de la mer (novel; Paris: Grasset, 1991). RCF 13.1 (Spring 1993): 286-88.
Franck, Dan. La Séparation (novel; Paris: Seuil, 1991). RCF 12.3 (Fall 1992): 211-12.
Doubrovsky, Serge. Le Livre brisé (novel; Paris: Grasset, 1989). RCF 12.2 (1992): 239.
Navarre, Yves. Fête des mères (novel; Paris: Albin Michel, 1987). RCF 10.1 (1990): 310-11.
Navarre, Yves. Louise (novel; Paris: Flammarion, 1986). RCF 9.3 (1989): 220-21.
Other Reviews
Forrester, John. Dispatches from the Freud Wars: Psychoanalysis and its Passions. Psychoanalytic Studies 2.1 (2000); 98-100.
Forrester, John. Truth Games: Money, Lies and Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Studies 1.4 (1999).
Corbin, Laurie. The Mother-Mirror: Self-Representation and the Mother-Daughter Relation in Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Marguerite Duras (NY: Peter Lang, 1996). L'Esprit Créateur 32.2 (1999): 85-86.
Fishman, Sarah. We Will Wait: Wives of French Prisoners of War 1940-45 (New Haven: Yale UP, 1992). The French Review 66 (1992): 342-44.
Cohen, Richard I. The Burden of Conscience: French Jewry's Response to the Holocaust (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987). The French Review 62 (1989): 731-2.
Mativat, Daniel. Ram le Robot. Canadian Children's Literature/Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 45 (1987): 87-91.
Bryson, Norman. Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix (Cambridge UP, 1984): The French Review 59 (1985): 322-23.
Harris, Frederick J. Encounters with Darkness: French and German Writers on World War II (Oxford UP, 1983): The French Review 58 (1984): 301-2.
Chevrier, Jean-François. Proust et la photographie (Editions de l'Etoile, 1982). L'Esprit Créateur 24 (1984): 106-7.
Art nouveau: Littérature et beaux-arts à la fin du 19e (Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 1981). Nineteenth-Century French Studies 12 (1983-84): 247-9.
Marchione, Margherita. Clemente Rebora (Boston: Twayne, 1979). Forum Italicum 15. 2-3 (1982): 229-31.
ConferencesPapers delivered
"BS Redux: Papers I Never Finished Writing," Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of California, Davis, March 29-April 1, 2001.
"Of Polars and Polarités: Creating the Citizen-Reader in Zola's Vérité," AIZEN (International Conference on Zola and Naturalism), City College of San Francisco, October 1999.
"Je n'accuse pas, j'ai peur: Male Hysteria in Zola's Nana," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Pennsylvania State University, October 1998.
"L'Anamnès du phallus: Souvenir et impuissance chez Serge Doubrovsky," Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Massachusetts, March 1998.
"L'ailleurs dans les Contes de Perrault," Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, April 17-18, 1997.
"The Writing Machine: Serge Doubrovsky," Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, April 25-27, 1996.
"Piety and Pourriture: Huysmans's Women Terrorists," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Kansas, October 28-31, 1993.
"Writing from the Psych Ward: Yves Simon's La Dérive des sentiments," Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, April 1993.
"Sac au dos: Huysmans's Comfy Objects Go to War," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, SUNY Binghamton, October 22-24, 1992.
"The Je is Back, or Is It? Language and the Body in the Works of Yves Navarre and Mathieu Bénézet," Midwest Modern Languages Association, Columbus, Ohio, November 1987.
"Romancing the Tome: The Seduction of Intertext in Serge Doubrovsky's Un Amour de soi," Midwest Modern Languages Association, Chicago, November 1986.
Respondent to "Remarking the Inconceivable: Deflection out of Historical TIme in Blanchot's La Folie du jour," Midwest Modern Languages Association, Indiana University, November 1-3, 1984.
"Kiss and Tell: The Language of Transgression in Proust's Les Plaisirs et les jours," Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Association, Phoenix, Arizona, October 20-22, 1983.
Participant, School of Criticism and Theory, June 27-August 6, 1983.
"Running with the In-Crowd:Proust Pasticheur," Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages, University of Oregon, May 14-16, 1983.
"Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz et après: A Semiotics of Slavery," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 25-27, 1983.
"Telling Tales without a Text: Orality in Boccaccio's Decameron," Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages, University of Cincinnati, May 14-15, 1982.
"Thorns among the Roses: Representation and Narration in Proust's 'La Mélancolique villégiature de Mme de Breyves,'" Cincinnati Conference on Romance Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 14-15, 1981.
"Retreat from Discovery: Symbol and Sign in La Symphonie pastorale," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 26-28, 1981.
Sessions chaired
"L'autofiction: Théories et pratiques" (2 sections, including reading and discussion with Serge Doubrovsky), Twentieth-Century French Studies, University of Pennsylvania, April 2000.
"Les Règles du Je: Female Subjectivity in French Literature," Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, April 25-27, 1996.
"Mea Culpa: Guilt and Morality in French Literature," organized with Lisa Algazi (Hood College), Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, April 1995.
"'Mère décédée. . . Sentiments distingués': Mothers' Deaths in French Literature," Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, April 22-24, 1994.
"Discourse of the Unconscious/Unconscious Discourse," Midwest Modern Languages Association, Chicago, November 1986.
"The Female in the Text 1: Duras," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 20-22, 1985.
"Autobiography: The Personal Past," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 24-26, 1982.
"Reshaping Traditional Forms--French," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 22-23, 1979.
Public
Lectures"Piety and Pourriture: The Semiotic Structures of Huysmans's Misogyny," Distinguished Alumni Lecture, Department of French and Italian, The Ohio State University, November 4, 1994.
"Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism," University of Notre Dame, October 14, 1994; October 18, 1995; October 27, 1998.
"Whatever Happened to Simone de Beauvoir?" Brown Bag Luncheon Series, Saint Mary's College Women's Studies, March 14, 1994.
"Piety and Pourriture: The Semiotic Structures of Huysmans's Misogyny," Romance Languages Faculty Colloquium Series, University of Notre Dame, March 17, 1994.
"The Mind According to Garp," Life of the Mind Lecture Series, Saint Mary's College, October 30, 1990.
Graduation Address, Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Catholic High School, June 2, 1987.
"The Triumph of Form in Late Nineteenth-Century French Culture," Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, Indiana, February 10, 1985.
"Freud et la critique littéraire moderne," Alliance Française de South Bend, Indiana University at South Bend, October 3, 1984.
Acting Chair, Department of Modern Languages, Saint Mary's College, Spring 1998
"Webmaster," Department of Modern Languages, Saint Mary's College, 1998-present
French Section Coordinator, 1988-95
Chair, Faculty Assembly, Saint Mary's College, 1990-91
Vice-Chair, Faculty Assembly, Saint Mary's College, 1987-88
Secretary, Faculty Assembly, Saint Mary's College, 1986-87
Faculty Mentor, 1992-93; 1998-99
President's Task Force on Diversification, Saint Mary's College, 1987-88
Search Committee, Multicultural Affairs Director, Saint Mary's College, 1988-89
Writing Committee, Charles Culpeper Foundation Grant, Department of Modern Languages, Saint Mary's College, 1987 ($76,000 grant awarded for development of Language Learning Center)
Invited expert reader for Rocky Mountain Review, November 1993.
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