The French Studies Program at Cornell, with the support of the College of Arts & Sciences, was established thanks to a grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy designating Cornell University as a "Centre Interdisciplinaire." The program promotes teaching and research on the French and Francophone worlds and serves as a resource center for teachers of French in upstate New York. Throughout the academic year, the program organizes lectures, colloquia, and other events dealing with various aspects of France and the Francophone countries (art, culture, thought and society). The French Studies Program actively contributes to creative and collective research from all the disciplines at Cornell. In inviting innovative and distinguished speakers from different countries, the program favors an atmosphere of intellectual exchange between undergrads, graduate students and scholars on campus.

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Karen Pinkus

Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature

Publications

Books

  • Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 60s Italian Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 2020)
  • ​Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary. (University of Minnesota Press, 2016); Carburanti. Un dizionario per un pianeta in crisi, translated by Riccardo Donati and Caterina Ragghianti (Verona: Ombrecorte, 2021)
  • Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence (Stanford University Press, 2009)
  • The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini’s Rome (University of Chicago Press, 2003)
  • Picturing Silence: Emblem, Language, Counter-Reformation Materiality (University of Michigan Press, 1996)
  • Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising Under Fascism (University of Minnesota Press, 1995)

Translations

  • Translation and edition of Francesco Adinolfi, Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions and Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation (Duke University Press, 2008)
  • Renato Barilli, A Course in Aesthetics (University of Minnesota Press, 1993)
  • Giorgio Agamben, Language and Death, with Michael Hardt (University of Minnesota Press, 1991)

Selected Shorter Writings

  • (2022) “Materialità e ambivalenza: Arte Povera, Una geneologia alchemica,” in Pensiero in immagine. Forme, metodi, oggetti teorici per un Italian Visual Thought, collana Quaderni della ricerca (Università Iuav di Venezia-Mimesis), editors, Angela Mengoni and Francesco Zucconi.
  • (2021), “Four Theses for the Coming Deserts,” with Hans Baumann. In The Invention of the American Desert, eds. Lyle Massey and James Nisbet. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • (2020) “138, 462 Carbon Pyramids,” co-written with Hans Baumann. Strelka Magazine. 14.08, “The Revenge of the Real”
  • (2020) “Reflections on a Winter Scene,” Collateral Journal, invited contribution for Collisions Series (Belgium)
  • (2018) "They Would have Ended by Burning Their Own Globe." Commissioned afterward to Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire, edited by Nathan Hensley and Philip Steer. Fordham University Press
  • (2018) "Crystalline Basement," Images of Accumulation essay, co-written with artist Hans Baumann. E-flux journal
  • (2016) “Intermittent Grids,” South Atlantic Quarterly special issue on Autonomia and Anthropocene, edited by Bruce Braun and Sara Nelson
  • (2016) “Air,” (excerpt from Fuel) in Dominick Boyer and Imre Szeman, eds. The Energy Humanities Reader. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
  • (2016) “Humans and Fuels, Bíos and Zōe,” chapter in A Cultural History of Climate Change, eds. Tom Ford and Tom Bristow. London: Routledge (environmental humanities series)
  • (2014), “Le missive precarie di Alighiero Boetti,” volume on precariousness edited by Monica Jansen and Silvia Contarini. Verona: OmbreCorte
  • (2014) “Search for a Language: Response to Ian Baucom,” invited respondent to essay by Ian Baucom, “Postcolonial Method and Anthropocene Time,” in Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Studies, eds. Debjani Ganguly, Ato Quayson, Neil ten Kortenaar
  • (2014), “Silent Running: Notes for The Remake,” special issue of Yearbook of Comparative Literature, edited by Paul North and Eyal Peretz on “Ideas of Nature.”
  • (2014) “Risk,” essay for Fueling Culture: Politics, History, Energy, Ed. Imre Szeman, et. al. forthcoming from Fordham University Press
  • (2013)“Thinking Diverse Futures from a Carbon Present,” Symploke vol. 21, nos. 1-2 (special issue on Critical Climate)
  • (2012) “Hybrid Futures from a Carbon Present,” Symploke vol. 21, no. 1 (special issue on Critical Climate–forthcoming)
  • (2012) “Ambiguity, Ambience, Ambivalence, and the Environment,” Common Knowledge 19:1 (December) (Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 4), pp. 88-95.
  • (2012) “Nature (of Betrayal),” New Centennial Review 12.1 special issue on Betrayal, editors Richard Block and Michael du Plessis
  • (2012) “Selling Gasoline in Autarchic Italy,” in Figura umana. Normkonzepte der Menschendarstellung in der italienischen Kunst 1919-1939. Eckhard Leuschner, ed. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag: 151-160
  • (2012) “Dematerialization from Arte Povera to Cybermoney through Italian Thought,” diacritics, vol. 39.3 (2009), 65-77
  • (2011)  “Antonioni, Cinematic Poet of Climate Change,” in Antonioni, Centenary Essays, edited by John David Rhodes and Laura Rascaroli.  London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011
  • (2011) “The Risks of Sustainability,” in Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative. Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk, editor Paul Crosthwaite. London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 62-80
  • (2010) “Sustainability: a Dialogue with Images,” with Cameron Tonkinwise, World Picture Journal (December)
  • (2010) “Carbon Management: A Gift of Time?” Oxford Literary Review 32 (July), 51-70.
  • (2010) “At the End: Cinema After Climate Change” (Udine Permanent Film Studies Conference Proceedings)
  • (2010) “The Rome of Pasolini’s Petrolio,” with Paolo Matteucci, Annali d’talianistica (special double issue on Rome)
  • (2008) “Nothing From Nothing: Alchemy and the Economic Crisis,” World Picture Journal (November)
  • (2008) “On Cars, Climate and Literary Theory,” Technology and Culture (October)
Klarman Hall
K269 Klarman Hall
kep44@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Magali Molinie

Adjunct Associate Professor of French

Publications

Books
 

In Progress: Healing Voices and Transformative Experiences.
2006: Soigner les morts pour guérir les vivants. Paris, Le Seuil.
 

Edited Books
 

2011: Invisibles orphelins. Comprendre, accompagner. Paris, Editions Autrement.
2007: La Psychanalyse. Points de vue pluriels. Auxerre, Editions Sciences Humaines.

Contributions to Collected Books
 

2016: Molinié M., Marie J.-M., “Entendeurs de voix plutôt que schizophrène : une voie vers l’émancipation”, Valérie Boucherat-Hue, Denis Leguay, Bernard Pachoud, Florence Weber, Arnaud Plagnol (Eds) Handicap psychique, actualités, problèmes et perspectives, Toulouse, ERES: 215-231
2016: Molinié M., Demassiet V., “Des groupes d’entendeurs de voix, pour qui, pourquoi, pour quoi faire ?”, Jardri R. Laroi F., Favrod J., Psychothérapies des hallucinations, Issy les Moulineaux, Elsevier Masson: 93-106.
2013: Molinié M., “Grandir orphelin ou l’invisible gestation du parent défunt” (grow up fatherless), Ben Soussan (dir.) L’Enfant confronté à la mort d’un parent (The Child Confronted with The Death of a Parent), Paris, Erès: 47-62
2009: “Pratiques de deuil, fabrique de vie.” Pascal Dreyer (dir.) Faut-il faire son deuil ? Perdre un être cher… et vivre, Paris, Editions Autrement: 24-36.
2006: “L’hôpital, le deuil et la migration des âmes face à la médicalisation du mourir”. Jacqueline Lalouette (dir.) L’hôpital entre religion et laïcité. Paris, Editions Letouzey et Ané.

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K272 Klarman Hall
mm2324@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Tracy McNulty

Professor

Publications

Books

Emancipation by Relay: Transmission in Psychoanalysis (nearing completio).

Libertine Mathematics: Perversions of the Linguistic Turn (nearing completion).

Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014). 

The Hostess: Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007). 

Edited volumes:

Erin Graff-Zivin and Tracy McNulty, guest editors, Women in Theory?, special issue of diacritics with papers by Maria del Rosario Acosta, Kendra Atkin, Natalie Belisle, Karen Benezra, Valeria Campos Salvaterra, Penelope Deutscher, Norah Fulton, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Adriana Johnson, Anna Kornbluh, Christina León, Julia Ng, Erin Graff-Zivin, Elissa Marder, and Rocio Zambrana. Diacritics volume 49, no 2 (2021). 

Tracy McNulty, editor, “Constructing the Death Drive,” special issue of Differences with essays by Willy Apollon, Lucie Cantin, Jeffrey Librett, Tracy McNulty, Steven Miller, and Daniel Wilson. Differences 28:2 (Spring 2017).

Jason Frank and Tracy McNulty, guest editors, “Taking Exception to the Exception,” special issue of diacritics with papers by Susan Buck-Morss, Jason Frank, Dominiek Hoens, Bonnie Honig, Jeffrey Librett, Tracy McNulty, Andrew Norris, Kam Shapiro, and Erik Vogt. Diacritics volume 37, nos. 2-3 (Spring 2008).

Journal Articles and Chapters in Books:

“Language, Hors langage, Act, Aesthetics,” in A Psychoanalysis for the Human: Willy Apollon's Renewal of Metapsychology After Freud and Lacan, ed. Lucie Cantin and Jeffrey Librett. Forthcoming 2023.

“Emancipation by Relay: The Transmission of Political Acts in Freud, James, and Kant,"  forthcoming in Theory & Event (2022).

“The Traversal of the Fantasy as an Opening to Humanity,” in Michelle Rada, editor, 
“Psychoanalysis and Solidarity.” Special issue of Differences (Volume 32, nos. 2-3) (2022). 
198-219.

“The Anxiety at the Heart of Perverse Experience: A Clinical Perspective,” in Lacan’s Cruelty, ed. Meera Lee (London: Palgrave, 2022). 133-161.

“A Mass Psychology Beyond the Ego: Sympathy, Enthusiasm, and Unconscious Transmission in the Age of Revolution,” in a special issue of Psychoanalytische Perspectieven on the centennial of Sigmund Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, ed. Alexander Miller (Fall 2021), 555-576.

“Feeling at a Distance, or the Aesthetics of Unconscious Transmission,” in Parallax: The Dialectics of Mind and World, ed. Dominik Finkelde, Christoph Menke, and Slavoj Žižek (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), 227-237.

“The Bond Uniting Pleasure and Pain,” special issue of Syndicate on Nathan Brown’s Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique, ed. Robert Lehman (October 2021). 
https://syndicate.network/symposia/literature/rationalist-empiricism/

“What if the Fetish could Speak?,” special issue of Syndicate on Jacques Lezra’s On the Nature of Marx’s Things, ed. Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz (July 2020). https://syndicate.network/symposia/literature/on-the-nature-of-marxs-things/

“Untreatable: The Freudian Act and its Legacy,” in Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda, editors, “Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis, Politics, Philosophy and Science.” Special issue of Crisis and Critique, Volume 6, issue 1 (April 2019), 227-251.

“Psychoanalysis and Law,” in The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities, ed. Maksymilian Del Mar, Bernadette Meyler, and Simon Stern (London: Oxford University Press, 2019), 163-180.

“Beyond the Oedipus Complex: Dora, Antigone, and the Gift of the Symbolic Father,” in Ahnki Mukherjee, editor, After Lacan: Literature, Theory and Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2019), 58-73.

“Hysteria," in Jeffrey Di Leo, editor, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literary and Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2018).

“Unbound: The Speculative Mythology of the Death Drive,” Differences 28:2 (2017), 86-115.

“Constructing the Death Drive,” Differences 28:2 (2017), 1-4.

“Speculative Fetishism,” Konturen VIII (2015), 99-132. Special issue on “The Thing.”

“Modernist Political Theologies: Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology and Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’,” in Jean-Michel Rabaté, editor, 1922: Literature, Culture, Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 248-260.

“The New Man’s Fetish,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 51, Spindel Supplement (2013), 17-39.

“Desuturing Desire: The Work of the Letter in the Miller-Leclaire Debate,” in Peter Hallward and Knox Peden, editors, Concept and Form Volume II: Interviews and Essays on the Cahiers pour l’Analyse (London: Verso, 2012), 89-104.

“Enabling Constraints: Toward an Aesthetics of Symbolic Life,” Umbr(a) (2010), 35-63.

“Demanding the Impossible: Desire and Social Change,” Differences Volume 20, no. 1 (Spring 2008), 1-39.

“The Event of the Letter: Two Approaches to the Law and its Real” [on Alain Badiou], Cardozo Law Review Volume 29:5 (April 2008), 2209-2238.

“The Gap in the Law and the Border-Breaching Function of the Exception” [on Carl Schmitt and Jacques Lacan], Konturen volume I, 2008. (http://konturen.uoregon.edu/volume1.html)

“The Commandment Against the Law: Writing and Divine Justice in Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’,” diacritics volume 37, nos. 2-3 (Spring 2008), 34-60.

“Weibliche Liebe und der Paulinische Universalismus,” in Verschränkungen von Symbolischem und Realem. Zur Aktualität von Lacans Denken in den Kulturwissenschaften, eds. Jochen Bonz, Gisela Febel, Insa Härtel (Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2006).

“Mit dem Engel ringen,” in Wieder Religion ? Christentum im zeitgenössischen kritischen Denken (Lacan, Zizek, Badiou u.a.), eds. Marc De Kesel and Dominiek Hoens (Wenen: Turia + Kant, November 2005), 66-80.

“Feminine Love and the Pauline Universal,” in Alain Badiou: Philosophy and its Conditions, ed. Gabriel Riera (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005), 185-212. 

“Hospitality after the Death of God” [on Pierre Klossowski], diacritics volume 35, no. 1 (Spring 2005), 71-98.

“The Exceptional Father,” in (a): a journal of culture and the unconscious, volumes I and II (2005), 23-33. 

“Wrestling with the Angel” [on Emmanuel Lévinas and Saint Paul], Umbr(a), 2005, 73-84.

“Signed, Dionysus: Nietzsche’s Lost Letter to Freud,” (a): a journal of culture and the unconscious, Volume II, no. 1, Fall 2002, 7-24.

“Solving the Sexual Impasse: Female Orgasm, Viagra, and the ‘Natural Law’ of Jouissance,” Savoir Volume 5, no. 1, September 2000, 75-100.

“Klossowski, ce soir,” (a): a journal of culture and the unconscious, Volume I, no. 1, Spring 2000,  81-103.

“Israel as Host(ess): Hospitality in the Bible and Beyond,” Jouvert: A Journal of Post-Colonial Studies, Volume 3, issues 1 and 2, 1999 (unpaginated).  

“The Other Jouissance, a Gay Sçavoir,” in Qui Parle, Volume 9, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1996, 126-159.

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266 Klarman Hall
tkm9@cornell.edu

Education

PhD in Comparative Literature, University of California Irvine

Departments and programs

Kathleen Perry Long

Professor of French

Publications

Recent Publications

Books

Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe (Ashgate, 2006; Reprint, Routledge, 2016)

Edited volumes

Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture (Ashgate, November 2010; Reprint, Routledge, 2016)

Religious Differences in France (Truman State University Press, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies series, 2006)

High Anxiety:  Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France (Kirksville, MO:  Truman State University Press, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 2002)

Articles and Book Chapters (since 2017)

“Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Ethics and Politics of Environmentalism in Early Modern France,” Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes, special issue on La question environnementale (forthcoming, 2024).

“Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592): Elephant Theologians,” for a volume on Animal Theologians, Clair Linzey, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2023).

“Disorientation as a Conversion Machine in The Island of Hermaphrodites (1605) and the Scenographiae of Hans Vredeman de Vries (1560-1601),” for the volume, Conversion Machines, Bronwen Wilson and Paul Yachnin, eds. (University of Edinburgh Press, 2023).

“Bringing up the Dead: The Role of the Grotesque in Literature after the Wars of Religion in France,” Violence, Trauma and Memory: Warfare from the Hundred Years’ War to the Thirty Years’ War, ed. Alexandra Onuf and Nicholas Ealy (Lexington Books, 2022) 67-94.

“Dining with the Hermaphrodites: Courtly Excess and Dietary Manuals in Early Modern France,” Romanic Review, special issue on literature and medicine, Colette Winn and Julia Singer, editors (May 2022).

“Shaping Bodies, Reimagining the World: Sartorial Prosthesis in L’Isle des hermaphrodites (1605),” L’Esprit Créateur, special issue on Disability’s Worldmaking (December 2021)

“Intersex and Transgender: The Case of Marin le Marcis,” for a volume on Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern, Anna Klosowska, Greta LaFleur, and Masha Raskolnikov, eds. (Cornell University Press, 2021).

“Styling Sedition in The Island of Hermaphrodites (L’Isle des Hermaphrodites, 1605),” for a volume on Sedition.The Spread of Controversial Literature and Ideas in France and Scotland, c. 1550-1610, ed. Marc Schachter and John O’Brien (Brepols, 2021).

“Monsters and the Monstrous: Witches and Werewolves in Early Modern French and Italian Tales,” in A Cultural History of Fairy Tales (The Age of the Marvelous), Suzanne Magnanini, ed. (Bloomsbury Press, 2021).

“Rereading Space in The Island of Hermaphrodites,” Early Modern Visions of Space: France and Beyond, Dorothea Heitsch and Jeremie Korta, eds. (University of North Carolina Press, 2021).

“La Mollesse cultivée dans L’Isle des Hermaphrodites,” Mollesses renaissantes. Défaillances et assouplissement du masculine, Daniele Maira et Teodoro Patera, eds. (Droz, 2021).

“Montaigne, théoricien de la monstruosité,” Théories critiques et littérature de la Renaissance, Todd W. Reeser and David LaGuardia, eds. (Garnier, 2021).

“Cities of the Dead: Utopian Spaces, the Grotesque, and the Work of Melancholy,” for the Lovis Corinth Colloquium IX, Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500-1700, Walter Melion and Karl Enenkel, eds. (Brill, 2020).

“Afterword,” Exceptional Bodies in Early Modern Culture, Maja Bondestam, ed. (Amsterdam University Press, 2020).

“‘The Beauty of Violence in the Seventh Tale of François de Rosset’s Histoires tragiques and Jules Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly’s ‘Une Page d’Histoire.’” The Dark Thread: From Histoires tragiques to Gothic Novel, John Lyons, ed. (University of Delaware Press, 2019).

“From Monstrosity to Postnormality: Montaigne, Canguilhem, Foucault,” for a volume on Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World, Asa Mittman and Rick Godden (Palgrave, 2019).

“Violent Words for Violent Times: Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Tragiques,” in Polemic and Literature Surrounding the French Wars of Religion, Katherine S. Maynard and Jeff Kendrick, eds. (Medieval Institute Publications, 2019).

“Illegible Bodies: Reading Intersex and Transgender in Early Modern France (The Case of Isaac de Benserade’s Iphis et Iante),” Transversions of Iphis and Ianthe, Valerie Traub, Peggy McCracken, and Patricia Badir, eds. (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).

“Intersex/ Transgender.” Bloomsbury Handbook of Twenty-First Century Feminist Theory, Robin Truth Goodman, ed. (Bloomsbury, 2019).

“‘Trans*historicities’: A Roundtable Discussion,” with M. W. Bychowski, Howard Chiang, Jack Halberstam, Jacob Lau, Marcia Ochoa, and C. Riley Snorton, Transgender Studies Quarterly, 4 (November 2018), 658-685.

“L’épopée au féminin,” Les Tragiques: 1616-2016. Littérature, violence, et politique. Actes du Colloque Internationale de Niort, 21-23 Septembre 2016, Jean Raymond-Fanlo, ed. (Albineana, December, 2018).

“Montaigne’s Mercurial Masculinity:  The Alchemy of Gendered Identity in the Essais.”  Monstrous Borders, Jana Byars and Hans Broedel, eds. (Routledge, 2018).

“Montaigne, Monsters, and Modernity,” Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature, Jeff Persels, Kendall Tarte, and George Hoffman, eds.  (Leiden: Brill, 2017).

“Using Cruelty to teach Empathy in Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Tragiques,” Emotional and Affective Narratives in pre-Modern Europe/ Late-Medieval and Renaissance France, Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier and Andreea Marculescu, eds. (Palgrave, 2017).
 

Grants and Awards (2008-present)

  • Faculty Fellow in Engaged Learning (2020-2021)
  • The Mellon-Mowat Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library (2019-2020)
  • The Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award (2019)
  • Central New York Humanities Corridor/ Mellon Foundation Grant: Scientific Norms and the Concept of the Normal (2018-present)
  • The Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Award for Excellence in Advising (2008)
     

Administrative Service to the College (current)

  • Director, Global Early Modern Studies Colloquium (GEMS 2017-)


Service to the Profession (current)

  • Series editor (with Luke Morgan), Monsters and Marvels: Alterity in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, Amsterdam University Press https://www.aup.nl/en/series/monsters-and-marvels-alterity-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-worlds (2018-)
  • Member of the Board, ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018-)
  • Member, Early Modern Conversions research team (SSHRC funded), 2014-2019
  • Member, Committee for the Lois Roth Award/ Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work, Modern Language Association (2017-2019)
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270 Klarman Hall
kpl2@cornell.edu
607/351-7449

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

French Renaissance literatures and cultures; history of science, gender, and sexuality studies (hermaphrodites, early modern transexuality and religious violence)

Cary Howie

Professor of Romance Studies

Klarman Hall
K112 Klarman Hall
caryhowie@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Keywords

French and Italian middle Ages in relation to literacy theory, theology and queer studies

Mitchell Greenberg

Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Romance Studies

Publications

Books

  • A Cultural History of Tragedy, ed. vol. 4 1650-1800 (Bloomsbury/Methuen, 2019)
  • Des Corps Baroques: Sexualité et Politique au 17ème siècle (Classiques Garnier, 2019)
  • Racine: From Ancient Myth to Tragic Modernity (University of Minnesota Press, 2010)
  • Baroque Bodies: Psychoanalysis and The Culture of French Absolutism (Cornell University Press, 2001)
  • Canonical States, Canonical Stages: Oedipus, Othering and Seventeenth-Century Drama (University of Minnesota Press, 1994)
  • Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth Century Drama and Prose: The Family Romance of French Classicism (Cambridge University Press, 1992)
  • Corneille, Classicism and the Ruses of Symmetry (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
  • Detours of Desire: Readings in the French Baroque (Ohio State University Press, 1984)

Select Articles

  • “La mort comme héros dans les tragédies de Corneille” in Héros et Personnages, ed. M. Dufour-Maitre, Presses des Universités Rouen-Le Havre (PURH), 2014.
  • “Corneille et la Mort Absolue” in Japanese. Special issue the Acts of the International Corneille conference  “L’Univers théâtral de Corneille," held at Sophia University, Tokyo, Nov. 9-11, 2006, pp.222-240, edited by H. Ogura, Tokyo, Sophia University Press, 2010.
  • “La modernité de Racine" in La littérature, le xviie siècle et nous: dialogue transatlantique, ed. H. Merlin, Paris: Presse de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2008. pp.269-283.
  • “Corneille/Racine: French Neo-Classical Tragedy” in A Companion to Tragedy, ed. R. Bushnell, (Oxford, Blackwell) 2005.
  • “Molière’s Body Politic” in High Anxiety: Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France, edited by K. Long (Kirksville, Truman State Universtiy Press, 2002) pp. 139-165.
  • “Racine, Tragedy and Absolutist  Fantasies.” Diacritics, vol 28, Fall 1998, pp. 40-62.
  • “Racine’s Oedipus.” L’Esprit Créateur, edited by H. Stone, Summer, l998, pp. 105-117.
  • “Molière: Corpus Politicum”  Le Labyrinthe de Versailles: Festschrift in Honor of A. Eustis, ed. M. Debaisieux, Rodopi, Paris, l998, pp. 85-101.
  • "Absolutism and Androgyny: the Abbé de Choisy and the Politics of Trompe-l’oeil" in Repossessions: Psychoanalysis and the Phantasms of Early Modern Culture, eds. T. Murray, A. Smith, University of Minnesota Press, 1998,  pp.221-260.
  • “Molière’s Tartuffe  and the Scandal of Insight”  in Literature and Criticism From 1400- 1800, ed. by J. Person, Gale Research, l996. Reprinted  from Subjectivity and Subjugation... (Cambridge University Press, l992).
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K267 Klarman Hall
mdg17@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Laurent Dubreuil

Professor of French, Francophone & Comparative Literature

Publications

Books

Articles

Edited Journal Issues

 

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K260 Klarman Hall
ld79@cornell.edu
607/255-3675

Education

  • Agrégation (French & Comparative Literature), 1996
  • Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, 1994-1999
  • Doctorate (French, Francophone & Comparative Literature), University of Bordeaux, France, 2001
  • Doctorate (Philosophy & Women Studies), University of Paris, 2002

Departments and programs

Naminata Diabate

Associate Professor

Publications

Monograph

Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa. Duke University Press, 2020. https://www.dukeupress.edu/naked-agency

Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

 “Nudity and Pleasure." Nka:  Journal of Contemporary African Art 46, May 2020.

“The Forms of Shame in African Literature.” Routledge Handbook of African Literature, ed. Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee. New York: Routledge, 2019. 339-353.

“African Queer African Digital: Reflections on Zanele Muholi’s Films4peace and Other Works.” African Literature Today ALT 36 (2018): 17-37 (Queer Theory in Film & Fiction).

“The Cinematic Language of Naked Protest.” Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture 11.3 (2017): 248-268

“Genealogies of Desire and Radical Queerness in Frieda Ekotto’s Chuchote Pas Trop and Francophone African Literature.” Research in African Literatures 47. 2 (2016): 46-65.

“Women’s Naked Protest in Africa: Comparative Literature and Its Futures.” Fieldwork in the Humanities, ed. Debra Castillo and Shalini Puri. New York: Palgrave, 2016. 51-71.

“Jean Pierre Bekolo’s Les Saignantes and the Mevoungou: Ambivalence towards the African Woman’s Body.” Women, Gender and Sexualities in Africa, ed. Toyin Falola and Nana Akua Amponsah. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. 21-39

“Re-Imagining West African Women’s Sexuality: Jean Pierre Bekolo’s Les Saignantes and the Mevoungou.” Development, Modernism and Modernity in Africa, ed. Augustine Agwuele. New York: Routledge, 2012. 166-181.

“African Women and Missionary Writings: Nineteenth-Century Boloki Women of the Congo in John H. Weeks’ Among Congo Cannibals (1913).” Intersections: Women’s and Gender Studies in Review across Disciplines 5. (2007): 44-51.

Literary Interviews

“From Women Loving Women in Africa to Jean Genet and Race: A Conversation with Frieda Ekotto.” Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA) 4. 1. (2010): 181-203.

“From Research in African Literatures (RAL) to Ira Aldridge: An Interview with Bernth Lindfors.” The Ethnic and Third World Literatures Review of Books 8. (Fall 2008): 38-42.

Encyclopedic Entries

"Ousmane Sembene." The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Ed. Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.

"Yvonne Vera." The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Ed. Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.

“Côte d’Ivoire Pre-Independence Protest and Liberation.” The International Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution: 1500-Present, ed. Immanuel Ness. London: Blackwell, 2009.

“Côte d’Ivoire Post-Independence Era Protest.” The International Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution: 1500-Present, ed. Immanuel Ness. London: Blackwell, 2009.

 Book Reviews

The Amputated Memory by Werewere Liking, The Ethnic and Third World Literatures Review of Books 10. (2010): 67-69.

Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers of the Third World by Ketu Katrak, The Ethnic and Third World Literatures Review of Books 9. (2009): 92-94.

The Bernth Lindfors Papers at the Harry Ransom Center. The Ethnic and Third World Literatures Review of Books 8. (2008): 42-44.

Postcolonialisms, Edited by Gaura Desai and Supriya Nair. The Ethnic and Third World Literatures Review of Books 7. (2007): 18-20

News

"Cornellians Explore Stories of Sexual Violence Around the World." The Cornell Daily Sun. March 10, 2019. https://cornellsun.com/2019/03/10/cornellians-explore-stories-of-sexual-violence-around-the-world/ 

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K206 Klarman Hall
nd326@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at Austin (2011)

Portfolios in African Diaspora Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies

M.A., Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at Austin (2006)

Advanced Degree, Maitrise, B.A, Universite de Cocody a Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) (1998- 2001)

Departments and programs

Keywords

 

 

Agency, Resistance, Social Media, Digitality, Sexuality, Body, Pleasure, Shame, Biopolitics, Africa, Postcolonislism, Gender, Cinema

 

Anne Berger

Adjunct Professor of French Literature

Publications

Books

  •  Scènes d’aumône. Misère et Poésie au XIXe siècle, Paris: Champion, 2004
  •  Le Banquet de Rimbaud. Recherches sur l’oralité, Champ-Vallon, France, Coll. L’or d’Atalante, Spring 1992. (287 pp.)

Edited Collections

  • Algeria in Other(s)’ Languages, Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002 (246pp.)
  • Lectures de la différence sexuelle, Conference Proceedings, coedited with Mara Negron, Paris, Des Femmes, 1994. (317 pp.)

Articles, Prefaces and Interviews

  • “Popularity of Language: Rousseau and the MotherTongue,” in Emergencies, M.McQuillan ed., Routledge, 2004.
  • “Pas de deux,” spécial Derrida, Cahiers de l’Herne, M.L. Mallet and G.Michaud, eds, Paris: 2004.
  • “L’amour sans hache,” special issue on George Sand, Littérature, Spring 2004.
  • “The Impossible Wedding: Nationalism, Languages and the Mother-tongue in Post-Colonial Algeria,” in Algeria in Others’ Languages. Cornell UP, 2002.
  • “The Newly Veiled Woman: Irigaray, Specularity and the Islamic Veil,” Diacritics, Spring 1998, vol.28. Pp.93-120.
  • “Comment peut-on être Persanse?,” Contretemps n.2/3, Paris:Galilée, 1997.
  • “The Latest Word from Echo” (translation of “Dernières nouvelles…” by R.Gabarra), New Literary History, 1996, Vol.27. Pp.621- 40.
  • “Le sexe du coeur. Essai de stéthoscopie de la poésie lyrique” (on Rimbaud, Rilke and Hofmannsthal), in Lectures de la différence sexuelle, op.cit, pp.125-138.
  • “Comment un hérisson de paroles” (on Derrida and poetry), in Le Passage des Frontières. Autour de Jacques Derrida, Paris, Galilée, 1994. (Pp.111-119.)
  • “L’idole maternelle en régime poétique bourgeois,” in Du Féminin (Actes du Colloque international de Kingston), Montréal/Presses Univ. de Grenoble, Coll. “Trait d’Union”,1992. Pp. 203-220.
  • “L’apprentissage selon George Sand,” Littérature No 67, Paris, Oct, l987. (Pp. 73-83.)
  • “Celui qui fait éclore la fleur travaille si simplement” (on India, Satyajit Ray and Tagore), Fruits, No.4, Paris (l986). (Pp. 3-9.)
  • “Une conversation avec Jacques Derrida,” Fruits, No. 1, Paris, (l983). Pp. 74-91 (republished in Points de suspension, Entretiens de Jacques Derrida, Paris: Galilée, 1992. (Pp. 141-165)
Klarman Hall
aeb4@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Ti Alkire

Senior Lecturer of French and Italian Language

Publications

Klarman Hall
K150 Klarman Hall
alkire@cornell.edu

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