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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic Marie Vieux-Chauvet in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoHi Adam, That’s amazing that MVC will be the focus of Yale French Studies… my how times change. Sorry I don’t have time to engage with your thesis, but wish you well. And perhaps my article-length review of the English version of ACF that appeared in 2009 will be of use to you. There’s a link to it on the last page of my website,…[Read more]
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Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo started the topic Caribbean Studies Association 41st annual conference in Haiti in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoCARIBBEAN GLOBAL MOVEMENTS: PEOPLE, IDEAS, CULTURE, ARTS and ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
Hotel Karibe, Pétionville, Haïti, June 5-11, 2016
The Caribbean has always been the site of global interactions and transactions. Movements from one place to the other across diverse geographic locations and spaces (from island to island, the circum-Caribbean a…[Read more]
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Adam Dexter started the topic Marie Vieux-Chauvet in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoI recently discovered that Yale French Studies is devoting an entire issue to the brilliance of Marie Vieux-Chauvet. I’m currently writing my MA thesis on Amour, Colere et Folie. If anyone is interested in reading it/making comments/suggesting sources, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Adam Dexter started the topic CFP (NeMLA 2016) Queer Theory in French DUE 09/30 in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoNeMLA 2016 — Comment dit-on “queer” en français? Queer Theory in French
contact email: adexter@tulane.edu
47th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
17 March – 20 March 2016SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2015
Although French-language theorists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, a…[Read more] -
Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Ameri in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoPlease consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
Organizer: Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University gmontene@binghamton.edu
Co-Organizer: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa
The use and interest…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Member News? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoHi All,
In September, the Commons Wire, your monthly guide to how your fellow members are using the platform, will return from its summer hiatus with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, or received a promotion, please let me know by e-mail or by private message (to @terrains…[Read more]
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoBonjour Corinne et al.
As a former board member of the Haitian Studies Association (based at UMASS Boston) I can highly recommend the upcoming conference in Montreal. Too late to submit a paper, but surely not too late to register. Sorry not to make it this year myself as I have to be at another conference where I’ll be promoting my new…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoHello, all,
I’m joining the virtual party late, but I wanted to add my introduction. I’m currently Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Earlham College where I’ll be teaching language as well as a course on French Caribbean cinema. In French studies, I’m primarily a Haitianist but also work on the rest of the Francophone Caribbean as well…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited The correspondence of the arts in a Fin de Siècle Magazine. The “Livre d’Art” at the crossroads of Modernism in the group
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe main topic of this article is the history of a rare and precious French magazine of the late Nineteenth century, in which a vivid and crucial discussion about arts and their inter-relation grew the more and more intense in the short space of four years (1892-1896). The “Livre d’Art” was first conceived as a simple booklet to be distr…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Etude sur le Symbolisme in the group
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCe livre rassemble huit études sur la littérature symboliste, que Sergio Cigada publia en italien genre 1960 et 2010. Elles sont ici pour la première fois rassemblées, par les soins de ses élèves, et traduites en français. À la lumière d’une conception “interprétative et non didactique” de la critique littéraire, Cigada décèle chez Baudelaire l…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Vers un art total. Synesthésie théâtrale et dramaturgie symboliste in the group
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe object of this article is the idea of theatrical synesthaesia, as it was developed into the relationship between painters and symbolist poets at the “Théâtre d’Art” directed by Paul Fort since november 1890 till march 1892. Aesthaetic theories of two of the most important Nabis painters (Maurice Denis and Emile Bernard) are examined in relatio…[Read more]
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Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo posted an update in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoGood Day,
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica. I teach French, French for Special Purposes, Francophone Literature of the Caribbean (Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe), Francophone women writing, and Translation.
My area of research is mostly in Haitian and French Antillean Literature. I am currently…[Read more] -
Claire Oberon Garcia started the topic Is anyone in Paris for the summer? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues in the Francophone Literature and Cultures Forum~ I was happy to see that, although it took a year, several of our 292 members introduced themselves and their work to our group. Such a range of interesting projects!
I am in Paris until 10 August, researching one of “my” women, the Franco-Congolese journalist, Jeanne Vialle, and…[Read more]
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Jennifer Cazenave replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHello, everyone,
I am a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the French and Francophone Studies Department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. My research focuses on French and Francophone cinema (with a particular focus on film and genocide). Currently, I am working on representations of the Khmer Rouge regime in film and art.
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Corbin Treacy replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoGreetings!
I’m an assistant professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University. My research focuses on contemporary Maghrebi literature and film, with a particular interest in Algerian cultural production. I’m currently working on a book project, Aesthetics and Aftermath in Algeria, which…[Read more]
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Kristin E. Pitt replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHi, everyone,
I’m an associate professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and my research focuses primarily on discourses of the body in the contemporary literature of the Americas. I publish more on Hispanophone, Lusophone, and Anglophone authors in the Americas, but I do incorporate some Francophone American…[Read more]
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Kristin E. Pitt replied to the topic CFPs in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHaiti: Beyond Commemorations & Boundaries (University of Chicago, May 12-14, 2016; Deadline: August 14, 2015)
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Corine Tachtiris started the topic CFPs in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoStarting a new thread for CFPs. Here’s one for the Caribbeanists, co-organized by our colleague here Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo:
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoBy way of introducing myself… I am an independent writer/scholar whose work relates to the Francophone world. I live in German-speaking Switzerland but use French quite a lot and read French all the time. (Am a former French teacher, among other things.) Just finished Kamel Daoud’s spectacular “Meursault, contre-enquete”… working on an article…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoIt has been a year since Claire Oberon García asked members of this forum to introduce themselves, a year in which the forum’s membership has doubled. I would like to invite you all once again to introduce yourselves to the group, and to use this forum to share calls for papers, works in progress or completed papers (see the articles on Aimé C…[Read more]
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