November
Newsletter, 2004
Congratulations to Terri Smith, who received an Arts & Sciences
Outstanding Performance Award from the University of Virginia.
Elisabeth Ladenson is pleased to report that Proust lesbien,
with a garish cover featuring neon pink and yellow madeleines, is now
out in France. On November 6 she participated in a day-long colloquium
at the Maison de l'Europe in Paris (rue des Francs-Bourgeois) devoted
to the book and issues raised by it. The event, titled Mauvais genre,
attracted almost 150 people (most of them Lacanian psychoanalysts). On
the evening of November 10 there was a discussion and book-signing held
at Violette & Co, a bookstore in the 11th Arrondissement, attended
by around 30 people, one of them our own Rebecca Crisafulli, who
had made the trip from Lyon, accompanied by another UVA student.
Marva Barnett and Dorothe Bach from the Teaching Resource
Center presented U.Va.'s Excellence in Diversity Fellows Program in a
session entitled “Intellectual Community and Professional Growth
for New Faculty from Underrepresented Groups” at the 29th Annual
Conference of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network
in Montréal in November.
On November 7, Maggie McColley presented a paper titled: « L'Equivoque
Epistolaire et la Correspondance d'Alexandra David-Neel » at Reed
College, Portland. Her paper was part of a special session, « Les
voyageuses et les lettres » at the meetings of the Pacific Ancient
& Modern Language Association.
Jacqueline Couti's article « Baudelaire à fleur de
peau » has been accepted by Equinoxes: A graduate journal of French
and Francophone studies, La Peau/The Skin, Issue 4, Fall 2004.
Lisette Luton (Ph.D. 1997) will be giving a paper entitled "Literature
in Translation is Not an Oxymoron" at the MLA conference in Philadephia.
Her paper will be presented at session 604 at 7:15 p.m. on Wednesday,
December 29th.
   
Undergraduate News:
CHAPEAU ! to fourth-year (ECHOLS) Comparative Literature and French major
(English minor), Jaclyn DiLauro, and to second-year Drama and French
major, Scottie Caldwell, for their compelling performance in Chekhov's
"The Cherry Orchard" (Jaclyn as "Varya", and Scottie
as "Anya"), which ran at the Culbreth Theatre, 18-20 November
and 1-4 December.
Lesley Park, teaching assistant in France (dans trois écoles
primaires sur Dole : des classes de CE2, CM1, CM2.), through the French
Embassy: Service Culturel Program, sends her regards to the department.
She also adds that she is more than willing to answer questions about
her work and experiences, from students who are planning to teach English
in France next year. Contact the French Department for her email address,
if your would like to write to Lesley.
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