| French Department News & Events Posted January/February 2004 Olivier & Christine Zunz honored for their work ************************************************************************* DEPARTMENTAL NEWS: The Teaching Award Committee would like to congratulate Jacqueline Couti, who will receive this year’s departmental Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. In addition, Jacqueline’s interview in French with the Martinican writer Raphael Confiant (translated in English by Scott Allen) will be published this Spring in “Review 68” by Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas. The Department wishes to congratulate Wynne Stuart, who has served as Assistant Provost for Academic Support and Classroom Management, and will now serve as Associate Provost for Academic Support and Classroom Management. The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, Hereford Residential College, Brown Residential College, the University of Virginia Art Museum, Upward Bound, and the Women's Center will all report to her. In a competitive process for faculty applicants and following a review of materials by a Board of Visitors Committee, Gladys Saunders was selected as the next resident of the Pavilion VIII lower apartment. Gladys was finally able to move in mid-semester in the Fall, and we hope she is fully settled and happy there. Congratulations to Natasha Copeland who is the recipient of a Departmental Dissertation Fellowship for the academic year 2004-05. Elisabeth Ladenson gave a lecture at Vassar College on Thursday, February 19, titled "French Lolita." Her lecture, which was co-sponsored by the departments of French, English and Women's Studies at Vassar, discussed the place of Nabokov's Lolita in literary and cinematic censorship history, comparing it to the fate of Madame Bovary, another work that encountered censorship problems in both print and cinematic forms. This lecture was a version of the eighth and last chapter of her forthcoming book, Dirt for Art's Sake: Literature, Sex and Obscenity, 1857-1966. James Arnold lectured on "Public Morality, the Law, and the Making of Modernism: Flaubert and Baudelaire" at James Madison University on Monday 23 February. He was pleased to see three of our M.A. candidates in attendance. They admitted to hoping the lecture would help them with the new M.A. exams! Prof. Arnold's article on Aimé Césaire's "Cahier d'un retour au pays natal: avant, pendant et après la guerre" has been published in Aimé Césaire: Une pensée pour le XXIe siècle (Paris: Présence Africaine, 2003), 257-64. ALUMNI NEWS : Professor Jean-Luc Desalvo (Ph.D. 1995) has just published:
UPCOMING EVENTS & ANNOUCEMENTS: Photographs from the Duo Roland Barthes with speakers |