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Recent Faculty Books
 

 
  • Distinguished Professor Edouard Glissant's most recent books include:
    Les mémoires des esclavages: Essai. (Gallimard/Documentation Francaise, 2007),
    Quand Les Murs tombent, l’identité nationale hors la loi ?, with Patrick Chamoiseau. (Editions Galaade ; Institut du Tout-Monde, 2007),
    La Terre Magnétique : Les errances de Rapa Nui, l’Ile de Pâques, en collaboration avec Sylvie Sema, Essai. (Seuil, 2007)
    and Les Entretiens de Baton Rouge.  With Alexandre Leupin.  (Gallimard :  March 2008).
  • Professor Marilyn Hacker recently published a translated collection of Guy Goffette's poems in a bilingual edition called Charlestown Blues (University of Chicago Press, 2007). Her translation was reviewed by Library Journal in October.
  • Professor Bernd Renner has published a book entitled: Difficile est saturam non scribere: L’Herméneutique de la satire rabelaisienne. Études rabelaisiennes XLV. Droz, 2007.
  • Distinguished Professor Mary Ann Caws' most recent books include:
    Henry James (Overlook Duckworth, 2006),
    Surprised in Translation (University of Chicago Press, 2006), and
    Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting, Writing, Resisting (Palgrave Macmillan, Dec 2006).
    In addition, Distinguished Professor Caws has translated and co-edited, with Nancy Kline Piore and Patricia Terry, a volume of Paul Eluard's Capital of Pain (Black Widow Books, 2006).
    She has also co-edited and co-translated a revised edition of Poems of André Breton: A Bilingual Anthology (Black Widow Press, 2006; revised edition) with Jean-Pierre Cauvin.
  • Professor Andre Aciman has published Call Me by Your Name (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007).
  • Distinguished Professor Edouard Glissant's complete poetic Oeuvre has been translated into English, by Jeff Humphries, and published by the University of Minnesota Press.
  • Professor Eve Sourian has published two books on George Sand: George Sand, Impressions et Souvenirs, Des Femmes, 2005, and George Sand: Nouvelles Lettres d'un Voyageur, 1877, Des Femmes, 2005.
  • Distinguished Professor Edouard Glissant's latest book has been published: La Cohée du Lamentin. Poétique V. Gallimard, 2005.

  • Professor Andre Aciman was the editor of, and wrote the preface for, The Proust Project, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004.

  • In 2004, Distinguished Professor Mary Ann Caws published: Surrealism, Phaidon, 2004, as well as To the Boathouse:  A Memoir, University of Alabama Press, 2004.

  • Two volumes have recently been published by Yale University Press; one celebrating the life and work of Henri Peyre, edited by John W Kneller and sponsored by our affiliate institute, the Henri Peyre French Institute; and the other, the Yale Anthology of 20th Century French Poetry, prepared and edited by our own Distinguished Professor Mary Ann Caws.