About
I am interested primarily in the nineteenth-century French novel and short story and specifically in the fin-de-siècle comic. Other areas of interest include representations of economic relations in the realist and naturalist novel, the novel in Quebec, and the Victorian novel. Education
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Univ. of Michigan, 1989. Publications
“Silencing Scandal: Hector Malot’s Les millions honteux,” Dix-Neuf 26.2 (2022): 110-119.
“Entre illusion et réalité, le corps dans ‘Le jeûne’ et ‘La mort d’un paysan’ d’Émile Zola,” Roczniki Humanistyczne 70.5 (2022): 51-61.
“Dédoublement, séduction et idéal chez Catulle Mendès,” in Romanciers fin-de-siècle, ed. Edyta Kociubińska (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2021), pp. 165-173.
“Testament, loi et justice chez Malot,” in Hector Malot: la morale et le droit, ed. Francis Marcoin (Paris: Magellan, 2014), 185-198.
“Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Pater, and the Hard, Gemlike Flame,” in Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences, ed. Rosina Neginsky (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010 [appeared in 2011]), 328-335.
“Le rire de l’ogre : comique et grotesque dans le roman et conte québécois,” in Culture québécoise et valeurs universelles, ed. Yvan Lamonde et Jonathan Livernois (Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2010), 387-395.
“Arthur Symons and the Intransitivity of French Decadence,” in Regards des Anglo-Saxons sur la France au cours du long XIXe siècle, ed. Odile Boucher-Rivalain and Catherine Hajdenko-Marshall (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2008), 195-204. Projects
Book-length study of late nineteenth-century comic narrative. Memberships
Société des Études Romantiques et Dix-neuviémistes
American Assn. of Teachers of French
Modern Language Assn.
