Professor of French

Hunter College
Department of Romance Languages, West Building, Suite 1326
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Tel. (212) 772 5104

Ph.D. Program in French
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016

Primary concentrations:

Nineteenth and twentieth-century English and French literatures, Literary theory (narratology, poetics), Feminist criticism and gender, Memory studies.

Books:

• Architexts of Memory: Literature, Science, and Autobiography. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, 2005.
• Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, November 1995.

   

Edited Volume:

• Editor of “Reading otherwise? la critique des femmes,” Compar(a)ison: An International Journal of Comparative Literature (1/1993), Bern: Peter Lang, 1993.

Selected Articles:

• “Unwrapping the Ghost: The Design behind Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove.” In Companion to Henry James, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, ed. by Greg Zacharias, forthcoming 2007.
• “Henri-Frédéric Amiel : le philosophe et le (beau) sexe” In Actes du colloque “La connaissance de soi au XIXième siècle, littérature et sciences humaines” , ed. Daniel Sangsue and pref. Alain Corbin. Genève : Metropolis, 2006.
• “A feeling of ‘déjà-vu’: memory-science in Gérard de Nerval and Marcel Proust.” Science in Context (special 2005 issue on literature and science), 18 (4), 2006.
• “Geneva School” (revised and updated) In The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, revised edition. Dec. 2004.
• “Lou Andreas-Salomé, Virginia Woolf, and Annie Ernaux: Towards a Feminist Theory of Narcissism.” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, special issue Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: Latest Trends and Perspectives (April 2004).
• “Le triomphe de l’éros dans François le Champi ”George Sand Studies, special issue ed. by Lucienne Frappier-Mazur (vol. 21, 2002).
• “’Une femme qui rêve n’est pas tout à fait une femme’: Lélia en rupture d’identité.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 29 (Spring-Summer 2001).
• "'Speculating Carnally' or Some Reflections on the Modernist Body" Yale Journal of Criticism, 12 (1999).
• "Les échecs mis en échec: Thomas Hardy (A Pair of Blue Eyes), Marcel Proust et Julian Barnes" In Echiquiers d'encre: le Jeu d'échecs et les Lettres (XIXe-XXs.), ed. Jacques Berchtold, Geneva: Editions Droz, 1998.
• "Intervals and their Truths in Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf". In special issue on Interval, Compar(a)ison: An International Journal of Comparative Literature. Bern: Peter Lang, 1 (1995).
• "Les lectures d'Emma Bovary: éléments d'une critique féministe". In Etudes de lettres: La crise des théories, 4 (1995).
• "Ecrire: Virginia Woolf et le manque d'amour" Cifali, Mario (ed), Le Bloc-Notes de la Psychanalyse: Les traumatismes, Geneva: Georg, 1993.

Translations:

• Beizer, Janet. “Ecoute le chant du labourage” : chant et travail de l’écriture dans “Les Veillées du chanvreur.” Littérature: George Sand, le génie narratif, No 134, 2004.
• Gregory T. Polletta, "Villette ou un autre regard sur le texte", Cahiers de la Faculté des Lettres, Geneva, June 1990.
• George Steiner, "Comment taire" (in English "A Conversation Piece"), Cavaliers Seuls, 1987.
• George Steiner, "Les rêves participent-ils de l'histoire: Deux questions adressées à Freud", Débats, no 25, ma 1983. Gallimard.