Professor of French
Department of Foreign Languages / ESL / Humanities
York College, City University of New York
Jamaica, NY, 11451
Fax: (718) 262-2087 (Attention Prof. Serrano)
Ph.D. Program in French
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Primary concentrations:
Contemporary Caribbean novel and poetry, women's writing, literature and
psychoanalysis, poetics.
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Books:
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She
Speaks/He Listens: Women on the French Analyst's Couch. (co-authored
with Elaine H. Baruch). New York and London: Routledge, 1995.
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Women Analyze Women: In France England and the
United States. (E. H. Baruch, co-author). New York: NYU Press, 1988;
second édition 1992. London: Harvester Press, 1993.
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Jeux de masques: Essai sur le travesti dérisoire
dans la littérature. Paris: Nizet, 1977/1982.
Selected articles:
- « Lieux du passédans Amour, colère et folie de Marie Chauvet et Le livre d’Emma de Marie-Célie Agnant. » In Territoires féminins.Ed. Sylvie Mongeon. Montréal: UQÀM, (2006): 150-169.
- “Le champ/chant fertile de l’altérité”. In Identitées et altérité dans les littératures francophones. Dalhousie French Studies, Vol 74-75. Spring-Summer 2006: 369-382.
- “La dérive du plaisir dans La danse sur le volcan et Amour,colère et folie de Marie Chauvet.” In Francofonia. Studi e ricerche sulle letterature di lingua francese. Vol 45. (Autunno 2005): 95-115.
- "Elle porte l'enfant comme on porte un bouquet: Fils
de misère de Marie-Thérèse Colimon" and "Les Maux
pour écrire (Jan J. Dominique)." In: Elles Ecrivent des Antilles,
edited by Suzanne Rinne and Joëlle Vitiello. Paris: l'Harmattan, 1997: 71-78 &.79-86.
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"Écrire est une fête créole."
In Le métier à métisser by René Depestre.
Paris: Stock, 1998: 131-180.
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"Les maux qui déparlent: Lecture de Gérard
Etienne." In Littérature Haïtienne Contemporaine. Edited
by Joelle Vitiello (Forthcoming).
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"Intention d'écriture dans Amour, Colère
et Folie de Marie Chauvet." In Europe Plurilingue (1997).
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With E. Baruch. Translation of "Memories of Childhood"
from Marie Bonaparte's
L'Appel des Sèves. In International
Review of Psycho-Analysis, 1996.
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"Marguerite Yourcenar." In: Dictionnaire
littéraire des femmes de langue française. Paris: Karthala,
1996: 635-639.
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"Problématique d'une présence féminine
dans le roman haïtien contemporain." In: Francographies
(Revue de la Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones
d'Amérique), 1993.
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"Illusion et Structure". In Cahiers du Symbolisme.
Mons, Belgique. 21 (1993).
Academic and Professional Recognition:
- PSC/CUNY- “The Triumphant Agonist’s Journey Through the Text.” 7/06-6/07.
- PSC/CUNY Research Award. "Women's writing in Caribbean
Francophone literature." 7/97 - 6/98.
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PSC/CUNY Research Award. "Creative Writing." 7/96
- 6/97.
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York College/Faculty Development Sponsored Program
(with Yanick Morin): "Caribbean Writing and Créolité" (Spring
1998); "Women's Voices in Francophone Caribbean Countries" (Spring 1977).
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PSC/CUNY Research Award. "An Ethno-Psychoanalytic
Approach to Caribbean Literature." 7/94 - 6/95. Renewal 7/95 - 6/96.
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York College/Faculty Committee Award. With Elaine
H. Baruch: "Sexism and Racism in Literature and Psychoanalysis." June 1993.
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Caribbean Studies. With Dean de Filippis: "Women of
Hispaniola." March 1993.
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PSC/CUNY ResearchAward. "Women's Voices in the Contemporary
Haitian Novel." 7/91 - 6/92. Renewal 7/92 - 6/93.
- Francophone
Association of CUNY (FRACUNY). President
of FRACUNY.
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