January Newsletter, 2006

   

Departmental News:

Two articles by Roy Harris have recently appeared: "Huezi 'dégoût' dans la Bible d'Acre provençale (Ms. BNF, fr. 2426)"in Revue des langues romanes, tome CIX, année 2005, nº 2, pp. 391-412 and "The Occitan Story of Susanna (Ms. BNF, fr. 2426)" in Etudes de langue et de littérature médiévales offertes à Peter T. Ricketts à l'occasion de son 70ème anniversaire (eds. Dominique Billy & Ann Buckley), pp. 153-162. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005.

James Arnold's article "Les lectures de Fanon au prisme américain: des révolutionnaires aux révisionnistes" was published in the January 2006 issue of Les Temps Modernes. In December he was elected Visiting Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, for the Lent Term 2007.

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Cheryl Krueger presented on an a panel entitled “Preparing Prospective Language Program Directors” at the annual ACTFL convention, held this time in Baltimore. Her article "Surgical Imprecision and the Baudelairean poème en prose." French Forum 27:3 (2002) 55-72 was reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, vol 155 (2005). Cheryl ’s textbook Mise en scène: Cinéma et lecture is hot off the press (Prentice Hall, 2006).

Hélène Sicard-Cowan's article entitled "Désir colonial et 'conscience historique authentique': La belle Dorothée de Charles Baudelaire" has been accepted for publication in Nineteenth-Century French Studies. She will be presenting a paper entitled "Intimate Exoticism and the 'Savagery' of 'Civilization' in Gustave Flaubert's Par les champs et par les grèves" at the 2006 ACLA Conference at Princeton University in March, as well as at the 2006 Kentucky Foreign Languages Annual Conference at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, in April. She will also present a paper entitled "La rèinvention des relations post-coloniales en France: Lila dit ça (2005) de Ziad Doueiri" at the 2006 congress of the CIEF in Romania in June.

Graduate Alumni News:

Elsa Conrad (Ph.D. 1998) and Dave Conley announce the birth of Benjamin Zack Conley on November 8, 2005 in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Up-coming Events:

   Friday, February 17 ~ 1:30 pm, Location TBA

Graduate Student Conference

Speakers:

Aline Charles, Isabelle Choquet,Pierre Dairon - group presentation
Nicholas Snead
Diarapha Diallo-Gibert

(Titles TBA)

Reception to follow in Cabell 329

   *Friday May 5 ~ time and location TBA (* please note date change from 3/31 to 5/5)

Roland Simon (Department of French, University of Virginia)

"Les livres que j'aime"

Reception to follow - location TBA

   A message from the French House director:

Please save the following dates!

February 23:
Pierre Assouline, journalist (Le Monde, blog "La République des livres"), biographer, and novelist, will talk on :
" Lutetia, un palace parisien dans la tourmente de l'Histoire"

March 24:
Eric Michaud (Directeur d'Etudes, EHESS, Paris) will talkon:
" Matisse et Picasso".

April 28:
Celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the French House. John Lyons, Cheryl Krueger and Kandioura Drame (French Department, UVA) will conduct a discussion panel on: "Films à voir ou à revoir"

Locations and times TBA.