Education

A.B. cum laude, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1967.

M.A., Duke University, Durham, NC, 1969.

Ph.D., Duke University, 1974; specializing in French literature of the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.

Doctoral Dissertation:  Entretien de Pascal et Sacy sur Epictète et Montaigne:  Montaigne's Influence on the Pascal of 1655; directed by Wallace Fowlie, James B. Duke Professor of Humanities.

Professional Experience

1997-2012    Professor of French, Denison University

2002-2003    Chair, Department of Modern Languages (Spring Semester)

1990-1997     Associate Professor of French, Denison University

1992-1993     Chair, Department of Modern Languages, Denison University

1984-1990     Assistant Professor of French, Denison University

1980-1984     Instructor of French, The Ohio State University

1979-1980     Visiting Lecturer of French, Kent State University

1978-1979     Instructor of French, Youngstown State University

1969-1971     Instructor of French, Youngstown State University

 

Awards and Grants

Woodrow Wilson Scholarship, Duke University, 1967-1968.

NDEA Fellowship (Title IV), Duke University, 1968-1970.

Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, The Ohio State University, 1982.

Carnahan-Jackson Foundation Grant, Denison University, 1985.

Denison University Research Foundation Grant, Denison University, 1986, 1987, 1989.

Denison University Faculty Development Grant, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2000.

Denison University Course Development Grant, 1990, 1995.

Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Grant, 2004.

New Directions Initiative Career Enhancement Grant, 2011.

Courses Designed and Taught and Honors Projects Directed

French Language: Elementary French (regular and accelerated course); Intermediate French; Conversation and Composition; Stylistics and Textual Analysis, Creative Readings and Writing, Advanced Readings and Grammar, Seminar in Creative Writing and Performance.

French Literature: Introduction to French Literature (Middle Ages through the 18th Century; 19th and 20th Centuries); French Literature: 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries; Special Topics: Dada and Surrealism; Madame de Lafayette’s La Princesse de Clèves; Lyric Poetry through the Ages; Literary Translation.

Honors Seminars: Myth of the Hero: The Self as Portrayed in Myth and Literature; Love Themes in Literature; Utopia and Anti-Utopia; Decadence in Literature and the Arts; French Heroines of Four Centuries.

Honors Projects: Rousseau (1987); Dante and Sartre (1992); Baudelaire; (1994); Euripedes and Racine (1996); Proust (1997); Andrée Chedid (2003); A Cultural Study and Translation of Selected Poems of Billy Collins (2005).

 

Presentations at Conferences on Language

“Le Petit Prince: A Collaborative Approach,” Co-Presented with Pat Schramm, Ohio Foreign Language Association, Akron, OH, March 1996.

“Alors Raconte: Sustained Conversation in the Intermediate French Class,” Conference on Foreign Language and Literature, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, October 1986.

“La Bande dessinée comme supplément culturel,” Conference on Foreign Language and Literature, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, October 1982.

“Les Français et les arts,” Conference on Foreign Language and Literature, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, October 1981.  

“The French Culture Class,” Conference on Foreign Language and Literature, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, October 1979.

 

Presentations at Conferences and Colloquia on Literature

« Une cosmogonie du cœur : l’univers poétique d’Andrée Chedid », Congres International du Conseil International d’Études Francophones, Montréal, Canada, June 2010.

“Forging Words against the Night: Andrée Chedid’s Poetic Quest,” Conference of The Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies, Champlain College, Burlington, VT, August 2008.

“Emily Dickinson’s ‘Master’ Letters: An Encounter with the Animus,” Conference of The Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA, July 2007.

“Country of Lilies: A Poetic Journey of Individuation,” Conference of The Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, June 2006.

“Le Jardin terrestre, reposoir de l’éternel féminin,” Congrès International du Conseil International d’Études Francophones, Liège, Belgium, June 24, 2004.

“Andrée Chedid, poète de présence et d’avenir,” Le Printemps poétique de Villetaneuse:  Andrée Chedid, Racine et liberté, Université de Paris 13 (Sorbonne), Paris, France, May 27, 2002.

“L’image de la femme dans l’espace poétique d’Évelyne Wilwerth,” Congrès International du Conseil International d’Études Francophones, Portland, ME, May 2001.

“Dialogues avec Toi": la quête poétique de Lucie Spède,” Congrès International du Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones, Lafayette, LA, May 1999.

“Deux poétiques de fraternité: La poésie de Lucette Desvignes et d'Andrée Chedid,” International Conference on "Lucette Desvignes in the Literary Arena," The Ohio State University, Newark, OH, September 1998.

“La Poésie singulière et plurielle de Colette Nys-Mazure,” Congrès International du Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones, Gosier, Guadeloupe, May 1997.

“Toward a Universal Language: Jungian Individuation and the Visionary Tradition in Contemporary French Poetry,” Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 1996.
    

“Mythe et merveille dans la poésie d'Andrée Sodenkamp,” Congrès International du Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones, Charleston, SC, June 1995.

 

“De la guerre à la guérison: le mythe de l'enfant dans l'oeuvre d'Andrée Chedid,” Colloque International, York University, Toronto, Canada, May 1995.

“Le retour aux sources dans l'oeuvre d'Andrée Chedid,” Congrès International du Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones, Québec, Canada, April 1994.

“Prose et poésie d'Andrée Chedid,” Moderator of session, Congrès International du Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones, Québec, Canada, April 1994.

“Le mythe du feu et le principe féminin dans l'oeuvre d'Andrée Chedid,”  Congrès International du Conseil International d'Études Francophones, Casablanca, Morocco, July 1993.

“Double-pays: l'univers poétique d'Andrée Chedid,” Congrès International du Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones, Strasbourg, France, June 1992.

 

“L'Enfant Multiple: The Child in Andrée Chedid's Poetic and Fictional Universe,” Conference on Foreign Literature, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, April 1991.

“Toward a Universal Poetry,” Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, May 1990.

“Spiritual Liberation and Womanhood in the Prose and Poetry of Andrée Chedid,” Conference on Foreign Literature, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, April 1989.

 

“Transformation or Travesty: Translating Andrée Chedid's Poetry,” International Colloquium in Twentieth-Century French Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, March 1987.

“From Feminism to Fraternité de la parole:  The Poetic Voice of Andrée Chedid,” Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, May 1986.
 

“Violette Leduc: A French Feminist's Approach to Illegitimacy and Art,” Women's Studies Colloquium, Denison University, March 1985.

“The Textual, Sexual Self: Self-Consciousness in Violette Leduc's La Bâtarde,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference:  Self and Other, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 1985.

“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Theatricalism in Violette Leduc's La Bâtarde,” Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 1984.
  

“Madness as Liberation in the Feminist Writings of Violette Leduc and Marie Cardinal,” Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, May 1983.

“Le Paysage de l'âme dans la poésie de Paul Verlaine,” Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 1983.

“Jean Giono's Orphic Vision: the Poetic Quest,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference:  Quest and Discovery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 1981.
   

“Jean Giono's Romantic Hero: the Role of the Poet in Jean le Bleu and Pour saluer Melville,” Colloquium on Modern Literature:  The Romantic Presence, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, September 1980.

“Neo-Platonism in Jean Giono's Fiction,” Faculty Colloquium, Kent State University, Kent, OH, April 1980.

Poetry Readings

A Bilingual Reading from Country of Lilies / Pays de lys / Lilienland and L’Instant oblique by Béatrice Libert, visiting poet from Liège Belgium, Tuesday Luncheon Series, Denison University, April 2011.

From Country of Lilies / Pays de lys / Lilienland, Hommage à Andrée Chedid, iReMMO (Institut de Recherche et d’Études Méditérrannée Moyen-Orient), Paris, France, June 15, 2011.

From manuscript Pays de lys, Les Réaux, Soisy-sur-École, France, June 12, 2007.

From manuscript Pays de lys, The Public Library Breakfast Series, Mouscron, Belgium, June 12, 2004.

From manuscript Pays de lys, Unimuse, Tournai, Belgium, June 9, 2004.

“Au Poète” and “Toiles de partage,” 4ème Rencontre Internationale de Poésie Féminine Contemporaine de Langue Française, Paris, France, June 12, 1999.

Selected Poems of Andrée Chedid, reading with Andrée Chedid at International Conference “Usages de la langue française et poétiques contemporaines,” The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, April 1996.

Publications

Books:

Country of Lilies / Pays de lys / Lilienland. Poems in English and French by Judy Pfau, German translation by Rüdiger Fischer.  Rimbach, Germany: Éditions En Forêt / Verlag Im Wald, 2008.

Territories of Breath / Territoires du souffle: Bilingual Translation, translation &  edition. Studies in French Literature 55. Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.

Belgian Women Poets: An Anthology, translation & edition in collaboration with Renée Linkhorn. Belgian Francophone Library, Vol.11.  New York:  Peter Lang, 2000.

Selected Poems of Andrée Chedid, translation & edition. Studies in French Literature 21. Lewiston / Queenston / Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995.

Contributions to Books:

“Brève Invitée” / “So Briefly, My Guest,” translation of Andrée Chedid in collaboration with Renée Linkhorn, in the anthology The Movable Nest: A Mother/Daughter Companion. Edited by Mailyn Kallet & Kathryn Stripling Byer.  Kansas City & Los Angeles: Helicon Nine Editions, 2007.

Des pendus de brume / Wisps of Shadow / Nebelfetzen, trilingual edition with Anne-Marie Derèse and Rüdiger Fischer. Rimbach, Germany: Éditions En Forêt / Verlag Im Wald, 2007.

“Andrée Chedid, poète de présence et d’avenir” in Andrée Chedid: Racines et liberté. Edited by Jacques Girault & Bernard Lecherbonnier (Université Paris 13).  Paris, France: L’Harmattan, 2004: 109-17.

“Andrée Chedid” in Multicultural Writers since 1945, co-authored with Anne D. Craver. Edited by Alba Amoia & Bettina L. Knapp.  Westport, CT / London, England.  Greenwood Press, 2004: 150-54.

“De la guerre à la guérison: le mythe de l'enfant dans l'oeuvre d'Andrée Chedid” in Andrée Chedid: Chantiers de l'écrit.  Edited by Sergio Villani. Ontario, Canada: Albion Press, 1996: 181-90.
   

Women Writing in Dutch, chapter of translations of Dutch poetry by Henriette Roland Holst-vanderSchalk in collaboration with Gary Baker. Women Writers of the World 1. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994: 370-419.

Articles:

“L’image de la femme dans l’espace poétique d’Évelyne Wilwerth.” La Revue générale (avril 2004) No.4 : 65-71.

“Andrée Chedid,” Le Journal des Poètes, No. 4 (Janvier/Février/Mars 2004): 2.

“Andrée Chedid: Poet of Flesh and Destiny,” Antemnae, Rome, Italy (octobre 2002): 93-102.

“Dialogues avec Toi: la quête poétique de Lucie Spède” La Revue générale, Brussels, Belgium (mai 2000): No.5: 39-44.

“La quête poétique d'une terre promise dans l'oeuvre de Colette Nys-Mazure,” in Sources, Maison de la poésie, Namur, Belgium (février 1999): 160-65.

“Andrée Chedid: A Poetry beyond Words,” translated into Spanish as “Un altra mara,” El malpensante (1999).

“A Jungian Perspective on French Visionary Poetry from Arthur Rimbaud to Andrée Chedid,” in Conference Proceedings of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, CD ROM MIT University Press, 1998.

“From Subjugation to Re-Creation: Images of Woman in the Prose and Poetry of Andrée Chedid,” in Continental, Latin-American and Francophone Women Writers 3 (1997): 221-28.

“Le Mythe du feu et le principe féminin dans 'Paysages' et Les Marches de sable d'Andrée Chedid,” LittéRéalité 8.1-2 (1995): 41-47.

“Double-pays: l'univers poétique d'Andrée Chedid,” Revue Francophone 8.2 (Automne 1993): 39-50.

“Jean Giono's Hero-Poet: Mythic Man Made Whole,” Studi Francesi 31 (1987): 397-406.

“The Textual, Sexual Self: Self-Consciousness in Violette Leduc's La Bâtarde,” Atlantis 3.1 (Fall 1987): 47-52.

“Parole de femme, parole d'amour: le language féministe d'Annie Leclerc,” Helicon 6.1 (Autumn 1982): 9-13.

Reviews:

Territoires du souffle, Andrée Chedid.  Paris: Flammarion (1999); World Literature Today 74.2 (Spring 2000): 391-92.    

L'ajour, André du Bouchet.  Paris: Gallimard (1998); World Literature Today, (Winter 2000): 108.

Lucy: La femme verticale, Andrée Chedid. Paris: Flammarion (1998); in World Literature Today 73.1 (Winter 1999): 106.

Annabahébec, Nancy R. Lange. Québec: Trois Rivières (1995); in Etudes Francophones 11.2 (Hiver 1996): 212-214.

Poetry:

“Je te cherche” and “Vêpres,” Le Journal des Poètes, numéro 1 (Janvier/Février/Mars 2003): 4. Publication of  the Maison internationale de la Poésie, Brussels, Belgium.

“Earth Woman,” Antemnae (octobre 2002), Rome, Italy: 103.

“Au Poète” and "Toiles de partage” (forthcoming in anthology of readings from the 4ème Récital de Poésie Féminine  de Langue Française)

“Acceptance,” translated by Renée Laurentine, Inédit 85 (octobre 1994): 7.

“Childsong,” translated by Renée Laurentine, Inédit 78 (janvier 1994): 6.

“So Briefly, My Guest,” translation in collaboration with Renée Linkhorn, The Journal 14.1 (Summer 1990): 42.

“Poèmes,” Helicon 5.1 (Autumn 1980): 5-6.

“Poèmes,” Helicon 5.2 (Spring 1981): 27.

Editor:

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