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19th-century French novel
19th-century
French poetry and theatre
20th-century
French novel
20th-century
French poetry and theatre
19th and 20th-century French literature, Relations among the arts, Literary Journals, Interdisicplinary Studies.
Gardening, hiking, biking, swimming, bird- and bat-watching.
2005-present: Chair,
Department of Modern Languages,
2003-present: Professor,
Department of Modern Languages,
1999-2005:
Associate Dean, College of Arts and
Sciences, University of Oklahoma
1997-2002:
Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages, University of Oklahoma
1991-1997:
Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, University of Oklahoma
1988-1990:
Exchange Instructor ("Lectrice") Universite de Paris IV, La Sorbonne
Books:
Andre Gide dans le labyrinthe de la mythotextualite.
Symbolist Journals: A Culture of Correspondence.
Companion to Contemporary World Literature from the Editors of World
Literature Today, ed. Pamela Genova. 2 volumes.
Articles:
“Gide reformule par Gide: les visages nombreux des Nourritures terrestres.” Bulletin des amis d’Andre Gide 33: 148 (October 2005): 511-32.
“White on Black on White: Yves Bonnefoy’s
Debut et fin de la neige.”
Romance Studies 23:2 (July 2005):
143-56.
"Andre Gide et Paul Valery: a propos de Stephane Mallarme." Le Bulletin des etudes
valeryennes. 95 (Winter 2003): 71-106.
"Marguerite Duras and the
Modalities of Modern Autobiography." Modern Language Studies
33: 1&2 (Spring-Fall
2003): 44-59.
"The Poetics of Visual Cubism: Guillaume Apollinaire
on Pablo Picasso." Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 27: 1
(2003): 49-76.
"The Relationship of poesie and poesie critique: Bonnefoy's
Meditations on Visual Presence." Dalhousie French Studies 60
(Winter 2002): 34-40.
"L'Orphee mal enchaine:
Andre Gide et la polemique
de la musique." Le Bulletin des amis d'Andre Gide.
29:131-132 (July-October 2001): 459-72.
"Theseus Revisited: Gide
and the Myth of Commitment." Gide and
Politics. Ed. Tom Conner. New York: Saint Martin's, 2000. 263-83.
"Satire of the Swamp, Sotie of the Self:
Reflections of the Saugrenu in the Mirror of Paludes." Nineteenth-Century French Studies.
26:3 & 4 (Spring-Summer1998): 417-34.
"Japonisme and Decadence: Painting the
Prose of A rebours. Romanic Review.
88:2 (March, 1997): 267-90.
"Le Dandysme: Terrorism with Style."
The Play of Terror in Nineteenth-Century France. Eds. Booker and Pasco.
Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1997. 74-92.
"Word, Image, Chord: Mallarme and the Iinterrelations among the Arts in Symbolist Literary
Reviews." Dalhousie French Studies. 36 (Fall 1996): 79-102.
"Making a Name for Oneself: Writing as Exploration in Paul Auster's Moon Palace." Lectures d'une oeuvre: 'Moon Palace.' Ed. Francois Gallix. Paris: Editions du Temps,
1996. 56-71.
"Andre Gide: Myth as Individual History." Dalhousie
French Studies. 33 (Winter 1995): 55-70.
"Myth as Play: Andre Gide's Le Promethee mal enchaine."
French Forum. 20:2 (May, 1995): 201-19.
"A Crossroads of Modernity: Andre Gide's Le Traite du Narcisse."
South Central Review. 11;3 (Fall 1994): 1-24.
"How Modern is the Surreal? Modernism, Surrealism, Postmodernism." West
Virginia Philological Papers. 39 (1994): 83-93.
"White on Black on White: Yves Bonnefoy's Debut et fin de la neige." 21st Annual International Colloquium in 20th and 21st-century French Studies. Florida State University. April, 2004.
"Gide Rethinking Gide: The Many Facets of Les Nourritures terrestres." 117th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. San Diego, CA. December 30, 2002.
"The Ironic Community of the fin-de-siecle Literary Review: le fumisme and the Aesthetics of the Joke." 60th Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association. Hot Springs, AR. November, 2003.
"La Derniere Mode: Mallarme and the Modalities of the Popular Press." 29th Annual International Colloquium in 20th- and 21st-century French Studies. University of Illinois. March, 2003.
"Lautreamont's Text: Visual Reception and Response." From Symbolism to Surrealism. Toledo Museum of Art. March 1, 2003.
"Yves Bonnefoy and the Landscape of Art: Poetic Presence and Visual Form." 20th Annual International Colloquium in 20th- and 21st-Century French Studies. University of Illinois. March, 2003.
"Vox clamantis in deserto: Gide's Prometheus and the Equivocal Reception of the Modern Authorial Voice." 116th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. New York, NY. December 30, 2002.
"Gustave Moreau: The Complex Art of Text and Imgae." 28th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies. Ohio State University. November, 2002.
"The Body of Presence: Yves Bonnefoy and the Dynamics of Douve." 59th Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association. Austin, TX. November 1, 2002.
"La Revue Blanche: The Interdisciplinary Solution." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY. April 19, 2002.
"Musical Dynamics in the fin-de-siecle." Annual Convention of the Society for French Historical Studies. Toronto, Canada. April 12, 2002.
"Michel Tournier's Vendredi: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary Metaphysics." International Colloquium in 20th- and 21st-Century French Studies. University of Connecticut. March 29, 2002.
"Against the Grain: Si le grain ne meurt and the Ambiguities of Autobiography." 115th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. New Orleans, LA. December 27, 2001.
"Inscribing Insanity: Lautreamont and the Madness of Writing." Annual Convention of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, GA. November 11, 2001.
"The Art of the Literary Review: Interdisciplinarity and the French fin-de-siecle." 58th Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association. Tulsa, OK. November 2, 2001.
"The Parody of Discourse: Views from the Ironic Mirror of the fin-de-siecle French Literary Review." 27th Annual Colloquium in 19th-Century French Studies. University of Wisconsin. October 22, 2001.
"The Art of Self-Construction: Ingenious Dandy Bricolage." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, April 20, 2001.
"L'Orphee mal enchaine: Andre Gide and the Polemics of Music." Gide en Floride. Colloquium at New College of the University of South Florida. Sarasota, Florida. January 19, 2001.
"Le Fumisme and the Aesthetics of the Joke." 114th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. Washington, DC. December 28, 2000.
"Fin-de-siecle Aesthetics and the Strucggle for Critical Authority: Poet, Artist and Art Critic." 57th Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association. San Antonio, TX. November 9, 2000.
"The Decentralization of Power and the Individual Voice: Critical Responses to Nineteenth-Century French Art." 26th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies. Univeristy of Illinois. October 20, 2000.
"Guillaume Apollinaire on Pablo Picasso." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky. April 24, 2000.
"Michel Tournier and the Oulipo Legacy." 17th Annual Colloquium in French and Francophone Studies. University of Pennsylvania. March 30, 2000.
"The Reflection of Humor: Paludes as Gide's Response to Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics." 113th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. Chicago, Illinois. December 29, 1999.
"The Aesthetics of Journalism: Cultural Discourse and Artistic Exchange in the fin-de-siecle Literary Review." 25th Annual Colloquium of Nineteenth-Century French Studies. University of Western Ontario. October 22, 1999.
"Guillaume Apollinaire on Pablo Picasso: Interdisciplinary Aesthetics of the Avant-garde." 56th Annual Conference of the South Central Modern Language Association. Memphis, TN. October 29, 1999.
"Meditations on Visual Presence: Bonnefoy's Metaphysical Wanderings in a Landscape of Concrete Form." International Colloquium on Yves Bonnefoy and Contemporary Poetry. Dalhousie University. September 26, 1999.
"Actes de la machine ronde: Histoire(s) d'une mythologie moderne." 16th Annual Colloquium in French and Francophone Studies. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. March 26, 1999.
"Andre Gide on Richard Wagner: 'Le Cas Wagner' at La Nouvelle Revue Francaise." 112th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. San Francisco, CA. December 27, 1998.
"An Interdisciplinary Reconsideration of Symbolism: Gustave Moreau and Fin-de-siecle French Poetics." 24th Annual Colloquium of Nineteenth-Century French Studies. Pennsylvania State University. October 24, 1998.
"The 'I' in Autobiography: Marguerite Duras and the Myth of the Modern Self." Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL. November 8, 1997.
"Theseus Revisited: The Two Faces of Gide's Last Hero." 111th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C. December 30, 1996.
"Identity of Self and Other: Japonisme, Decadence, and Aesthetic Translation." 22nd Annual Colloquium of Nineteenth-Century French Studies. University of Toronto. October 26, 1996.
"Marguerite Duras: The 'Delicious Torment' of Writing on the Self." Annual Conference of the South Central Modern Language Association. San Antonio, TX. October 31, 1996.
"Japonisme and Decadence: Painting the Prose of A rebours." Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of French. Lyon, France. July 16, 1996.
"Satire of the Self, Sotie of the Swamp: Comic Reflections in the Mirror of Gide's Paludes." 110th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL. December 27, 1995.
"Painted Image, Written Word: Mallarme and the Interrelations of the Arts in Fin-de-siecle French Literary Reviews." Annual Conference of the South Central Modern Language Association. October 26, 1995.
"Mythopoesis and the Silent Other: Andre Gide and Narcisse." 109th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. San Diego, CA. December 27, 1994.
"Decadence from Eastern Eyes: Japonisme and Fin-de-siecle French Poetics." Annual Conference of the South Central Modern Language Association. New Orleans, LA. November 10, 1994.
"The Fantastic Narcissus." 19th Annual Colloquium of Modern Literature and Film. West Virginia University. September 29, 1994.
"'La Guerre des petites revues': Mallarme and the Fin-de-siecle Literary Review." Colloquium on Mallarme: Music, Art, Letters. Indiana University. September 25, 1994.
"Dandysme: Terrorism with Style." 19th Annual Colloquium of Nineteenth-Century French Studies. University of Kansas. October 28, 1993.
"An 'Other' Paris, Fine and Dandy." Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association. Indiana University. March 24, 1993.
"Myth as Play: Andre Gide's Le Promethee mal enchaine." 21st Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Uniersity of Louisville. February 25, 1993.
"Andre Gide: Myth as Individual History." 108th Ceonvention of the Modern Language Association. New York, NY. December 27, 1992.
"A Crossroads of Modernity: Andre Gide's Le Traite du Narcisse." 17th Annual Colloquium of Nineteenth-Century French Studies. University of New Orleans. October 19, 1991.
"The '-isms' of Art: How Modern is the Surreal?" 16th Annual Colloquium of Modern Literature and Film. West Virginia University. September 20, 1991.
"The Wagner Case: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry in the Symbolist
Review." 16th Annual Colloquium of Nineteenth-Century French Studies.
University of Oklahoma. October 13, 1990.
National Endowment for the Humanities Sabbatical Fellowship. 2005
Camargo
Foundation (
South Central Modern Language Association Book Award. 2003
Presidential Professorship, University of Oklahoma. 1997-2001.
Regents' Award for Superior Teaching, University of Oklahoma. 2003.
Cecil B. Woods Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Oklahoma. 1994.
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. 1997-1998.
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Fellowship. 1997.
American Philosophical Society Research Grant. 1997.
President's Travel Fellowship, University of Oklahoma. 1996.
Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities Grants. 1995, 1996.
Junior Faculty Fellowships, University of Oklahoma. 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995.
Research Council Travel Grant, University of Oklahoma. 1994, 1995.
Faculty Enrichment Grants, University of Oklahoma. 1993, 1994.
South Central Modern Language Association Travel Grant, 1993.
National Endowment for the Humanities Grants, 1993.
General Academic Service
South Central Modern Language Association, President, 2005.
Senior Contributing Editor, World Literature Today,
2001-present.
South Central Modern Language Association, Executive Committee, 1998-2000.
Reviewer for Faculty Research Proposals. CUNY Graduate School, 1996-present.
Reviewer for Mosaic, 1998-present.
University Service
Provost’s Advisory Committee on General Education Oversight, 2005-present.
Faculty Senate, 1993-1996.
University Libraries Committee, 1994-1995.
Campus Awards Committee, 1995-1996.
Campus Fulbright Adviser, 1996-1997.
OSLEP Advisory Committee, 1996-1999.
International Programs Center Advisory Committee, 1996-1999.
Faculty Advisory Committee, Division of Student Affairs, 2001-present.
Premedical Advisory Interview Committee, 2000-present.
Arts and Sciences College Service
Associate Dean, January, 1999-2005.
Policy Committee, Chair, 1994-1995.
Academic Misconduct Board, 1991-1999. Chair, 1994-1999.
Executive Committee, 1993-1994.
Scholarship Committee, 1992-1999.
Advising Committee, 1993-1994.
Study Abroad Interview Committee, 1991-present.
Saxon Professorship Search Committee, 1993-1994.
Departmental Service
Committee A, 1998-1999.
French Section Coordinator, 1998-1999; 2000-present.
Graduate Liaison, 1998-1999.
Scholarship Committee, 1991-1992. Chair, 1992-1999.
Graduate Studies Committee, 1996-1997. Chair, 1998-1999.
Program Review Committee, Chair, 1998-1999.
Puterbaugh Conference Committee, 1992, 1994, 1996.
Course and Catalogue Committee, 1993-1995.
Departmental Committee, 1991-1992, 1994-1995, 1998-1999.
Undergraduate Adviser for French, 1993-1998.
Faculty Adviser for French Club, 1996-1997.
Search Committees: 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000.