"Rimbaud, Democracy, and the The End of Vision," Chapter in Histories of Representation. Forthcoming Category: Article
2008
Edmond Jabès, Jacques Hassoun, and Melancholy: The Second Exodus in the Shadow of the Holocaust," MLN (French Issue). September 2008. Category: Article
2008
The History and Culture of the Jews of Egypt in Modern Times. Category: Book
2005
Published "Godard, Rohmer and Rancière's phrase-image," SubStance, A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism. SubStance #108, Vol. 34, no. 3, 2005. Category: Article
Peer reviewed
2005
Published Ann Jefferson, Stendhal. La Chartreuse de Parme, Critical Guides to French Texts, Dalhousie French Studies, Vol. Seventy-two, Fall 2005. Category: Review
Book reviews
Presentations and Projects
"Modern Egyptian-Jewish Writers: Preserving and Promoting Culture,"
World Congress of Jews from Egypt, University of Haifa, Israel, July 3-6, 2006.
"Readings: Edmond Jabès, Paula Jacques, Victor Teboul,"
World Congress of Jews from Egypt, University of Haifa, Israel, July 3-6, 2006.
Moderator of panel on "Languages and Artifacts,"
World Congress of Jews from Egypt, University of Haifa, Israel, July 3-6, 2006.
"Literary History and the Democratic Idea: Guizot, Taine, Brunetière,"
Colloquium in Nineteeth-Century French Studies, University of Texas at Austin, October 27-29, 2005.
"Godard, Rohmer, Ernaux and Rancière's phrase-image,"
20th and 21st Century International French and Francophone Studies Colloquium, March 31-April 3, 2005 University of Florida, Gainesville.
"Identité culturelle et création littéraire chez Annie Ernaux et Adeline Yzac,"
16e Congrès International d'Etudes Francophones, 26 May-2 June, 2002 Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
"Rimbaud in the Twentieth Century,"
27th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2001.
"The Mother's Gaze: Rimbaud's Theater,"
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 2000.
"Rimbaud's Realism,"
Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, October 1999.
"Moral Imperatives: Imperialism and the French Child in de Ségur,"
Cincinnati Conference in Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati University, May 1999.
Chair of section "Verne: Dans l'enfance des futurs,"
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Pennsylvania State University, October 22, 1998.
"Crimes of Fashion: Identity in the French Realist Novel"
Cincinnati Conference in Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati University, May 1998.
"The Representation of Women in Business in the French Realist Novel,"
Brown Bag Lecture Series, UTA, Spring 1996.
"Zola: Fear and Loathing in the Grand Magasin"
Research Enhancement Lecture, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Texas at Arlington, February 1994.
"Fear and Loathing in the Grand Magasin: Zola's Au bonheur des dames,"
Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, October, 1993.
"Rimbaud's Reader and the Tyranny of the Writing Subject,"
Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, State University of New York at Binghampton, October, 1992.
"Impressionism: Art/Lit./ Music,"
Theory Symposia, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, May 6, 1992.
"Rimbaud's Impressionist Aesthetics,"
Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Oklahoma, October 1990.
Demystifying Difference: Rimbaud's Passions for Poetry and Money,"
Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1988.
"Maeterlinck and Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande,"
University of Rochester, Eastman School, May 1987.
"Reading the Feminine: Flaubert's 'Un coeur simple,'"
Humanities Colloquium, University of Rochester, Eastman School, December 1986.
"An Allegorical Reading of Flaubert's 'Hérodias',"
Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Harvard University, October, 1983.
"Desire and Writing: Reading Flaubert's 'Hérodias',"
32nd Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Wake Forest University, October 1982.
Flaubert's ' Saint Julien's : An Allegory of Language
35th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 1982.
Appointments
Duration
Rank
Department / School
College / Office
University / Company
1993-Current
Associate Professor
Department of Modern Languages
College of Liberal Arts
The University of Texas at Arlington
1993-2003
Section Head - French
Department of Modern Languages
College of Liberal Arts
The University of Texas at Arlington
1990-1993
Associate Professor of French
Eastman School of Music
The University of Rochester
1982-1990
Assistant Professor of French
Eastman School of Music
The University of Rochester
1980-1982
Instructor and Coordinator
French Language Instruction
Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge
1976-1979
Instructor
French
Rutgers University
1972-1976
Teaching Assistant
Rutgers University
1968-1969
Assistante d'anglais
Lycée Stéphane Mallarmé, Paris
Synergistic Activities
Selected College and University Service
Mentor / Mentee Program 2004 - 2005 HURCA Judge (2003, 2004) CCTP, College COmmittee on Tenure and Promotion (Fall 1999) (2002-2003) Board Member of UTA Women's Studies Program (2000 - Present)
Selected Department Service
Faculty Advisor Société Francophone (the French Club) (2003 - Current) Section Head of French (1993 - 2001) (2002 - 2003) Foreign Language Curriculum Committee (1999 - Present)
Community and Professional Service
PTA Board at Shakelford Junior High. Chair of Arts in Education (2003-2005) Judge at the "Fête Française" for the AATF in Ennis (April 5, 1997) Science Committee, The Montessori Academy (1997) Judge of French Poetry Competition for Arlington School District (Spring 1995) Currriculum Committee of Country Day School of Arlington (1995-1996)
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