News from the Department of French and Italian at Emory University

FALL 2013

T H E D E P A R T M E N T O F

French and Italian

In this IssueIn Memoriam: Philippe Bonnefis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Undergraduate Program in French . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Study in France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5French Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5The Graduate Program in French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Graduate Student Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–9Faculty Publications and Conferences . . . . . . . . . 10Undergraduate Alumni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Graduate Alumni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Undergraduate Program in Italian . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Italian Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–15

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Cover: top left, Bramwel Kithuka; top right, Joe Wilkins; bottom left, Bramwel Kithuka; bottom right, Weixuan ZhangTable of contents: top right, Bramwel Kithuka; middle, Joe Wilkins; bottom right, Joe WilkinsPage 5: Christina HinesPage 6: top right, Catherine Dana; bottom left, Joe WilkinsPage 7: Joe WilkinsPages 8 and 9: Joe WilkinsPages 10 and 11: background image, Bramwel Kithuka; foreground image on 11, Joe WilkinsPage 12: Catherine DanaPage 13: Bramwel KithukaPages 14 and 15: Bramwel Kithuka Back cover: Weixuan Zhang

Letter from the ChairThe start of this year brings with it a number of significant changes that are the occasion for both sadness and joy. A mere 18 months after the untimely death of our dear Candace Lang, we now find ourselves grieving the recent loss of our beloved colleague and friend Philippe Bonnefis, who died last May after a period of illness. As we begin this new academic year, we remain saddened by the thought that we must now carry on our work in his absence. In all his roles (mentor, teacher, thinker, writer, and friend), Philippe was unfailingly an inspira-tion to us all. Inimitable and irreplaceable, he has left an indelible mark on this department, and we remember him in everything we do.

Other changes include Holly York’s retirement after many years of dedicated teaching. Although she no longer will teach for us, we are very pleased that she will remain on our faculty in her new capacity as senior lecturer emerita. And, as we look forward, we are delighted that the future of the department has been brightened significantly by the addition of our two new dynamic and talented assistant professors of French: Vincent Bruyère and Subha Xavier. Their energy and expertise will be invaluable as we engage in our exciting new revisions of the undergraduate curriculum in French.

We poached Vincent Bruyère from Penn State University. Vincent received his PhD in French studies from the University of Warwick in 2009. His broad range of research interests includes examinations of early modern travel narratives, archaeological fantasies in Caribbean literature, and autofictional cinema in Western Africa. His book, La différence francophone—Jean Léry à Patrick Chamoiseau was published by the Presses Universitaires de Rennes in 2012. He is currently working on something he calls the “survivability project.” This ambitious project examines narratives of exhaustion, extinction, abandonment, survival, and survivalism in late-liberal culture. Vincent is currently teaching our survey course on medieval and early modern French literature and an upper-level seminar on literatures of the new world.

We lured Subha Xavier away from the University of Miami. Subha holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on the literature of immigration from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Her first book, The Migrant Text: Theory and Practice of a Global French Literature, is forthcoming with McGill-Queen’s University Press. Subha’s research is largely focused on examining “migrant modes” of writing from multiple perspectives. She looks at how novels about immigration relate to the social, economic, and political contexts in which they are written. Subha has a strong interest in film as well as in literary and cultural texts. She already has diversified our undergraduate offerings in French. This fall, she is teaching an exciting freshman seminar, Paris: City of Lights or of Darkness, as well as an upper-level seminar on the politics of Africa’s oral traditions.

In addition to Vincent and Subha, we are also very fortunate to have three visiting assistant professors on our teaching team this year: Audrey Magré Burba, Margaret Keneman, and Charlie Michael will be helping out with our undergraduate courses.

During the last year, the department has been a hive of productive activity of all kinds. Faculty members continued to publish books, articles, textbooks, and creative fiction at an impressive rate; our graduate students gave papers, organized colloquia, got jobs, and completed dis-sertations in record numbers; and the department hosted a dizzying array of events—all of which are highlighted in the following pages.

We are proud that two of our faculty members won prestigious awards: congratulations to Judy Raggi Moore, who received the coveted Winship Fellowship to facilitate her ongoing pedagogical work on the Italian Virtual Classroom, and to Catherine Dana who received a University Research Committee award to work on her novel All Kinds of Jews. Hearty congratulations also to Valérie Loichot, who was promoted to the rank of professor of French, and to Lilia Coropceanu, who was promoted to the rank of senior lecturer of French. We also are pleased to report that Judy Raggi Moore has been appointed to an important leadership role in the university: she is co-chair (with Senior Vice Provost Lynn Zimmerman) of the Faculty Advisory Committee on Online Education.

The Italian section continues to flourish. As always, Italian Studies provides innovative undergraduate teaching and excellent advising. This year, we are pleased to welcome back Simona Muratore after a year spent in Italy. The summer program in Italy remains a major draw. Italian Studies continues its unique collaboration with the School of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This engagement of professionals in the summer humanities curriculum is extremely productive for the participating students and a unique teaching and learning opportunity.

Finally, we offer our gratitude to Valérie Loichot as she steps down from two highly successful terms as director of graduate studies, and we welcome Deborah Elise White, who will serve as joint director of graduate studies in French and comparative literature. Deborah, whose research interests have been the foundation for a longstanding relationship with our faculty and students, is the ideal liaison between the two departments.

Elissa Marder

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In MemoriamWe announce with sadness that Philippe Bonnefis, Asa G. Candler Professor of French, died on Sunday, May 5, 2013, in Lillle, France. The department has been especially blessed that Bonnefis made Emory his home for the past two decades . A beloved and gifted teacher, he trained more than thirty graduate students in French, many of whom have gone on to have illustrious academic careers . Author of more than fifteen books on modern French writers and artists (Céline, Maupassant, Flaubert, Quignard, Michaux, Adami, and Baudelaire), Bonnefis was known for his vast erudition and his incomparable intellectual elegance . His inimitable and unforgettable voice has touched us all . We will miss him terribly .

Philippe Bonnefis was the author of Comme Maupassant (1981); Jules Vallès. Du bon usage de la lame et de l’aiguille (1983); L’Innommable. Essai sur l’oeuvre d’Emile Zola (1984); Mesures de l’ombre. Baudelaire, Flaubert, Verne, Laforgue (1987); Dan Yack: Blaise Cendrars phonographe (1991); Céline. Le Rappel des oiseaux (1992); Parfums: Son nom de Bel-Ami (1995); Giono: Le petit pan de mur bleu (1999); Pascal Quignard. Son nom seul (2001); Métro Flaubert (2003); Le cabinet du docteur Michaux (2004); Sept portraits perfectionnés de Guy de Maupassant (2005); Maupassant. Sur des galets d’Etretat (2007); Sur quelques propriétés des triangles rect-angles (2008); Claude Louis-Combet: D’un trait d’union (2012); Une colère d’orgues. Pascal Quignard et la musique (2013); editor of nu-merous books on Laforgue, Maupassant, Zola, and Vallès; codirector of La Revue des Sciences Humaines and director of the book series Objet, published by Presses Universitaires de Lille.

A memorial celebration was held on November 15, 2013, from 5:30 to 7:00 p .m . in Cannon Chapel at Emory . A reception from 7:00 to 8:00 followed the service. In the early afternoon on November 15, we held a seminar by and for Philippe Bonnefis (by means of taped recording of a lecture and/seminar session) .

“Philosophy begins in wonder,” says Socrates to Theaetetus. For Philippe Bonnefis, literature began in wonder. Wonder, indeed, was Philippe’s mode of approaching literary works. Beholding a page by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jean Giono, Claude Simon, Henri Michaux, Francis Ponge, and so many other modern writers and poets (he knew so many of them seemingly firsthand, or actually firsthand, from Emile Zola to Pascal Quignard), Philippe was like Charles Baudelaire’s artist—puer aeternus, the eternal child. It was as though each text were the dawn of Creation . The tone of wonder in Philippe’s voice now has been lost to his students and colleagues . His was the voice of a teacher, but also of a friend. We felt his wonderment at the strangeness of the most trivial aspects of a world in which he was immersed as if by some improbable odds . Such estrangement of the familiar was for him something only genuine literature would accomplish .

—Bruno Chaouat, Professor of French and Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota

Professor Bonnefis. Professeur Bonnefis. My adviser, mentor, friend. While I was only one of his many students, I felt, truly, as if I were his only. In the last few months of his life (little did we know at the time), he worked tirelessly to help me finish my dissertation and obtain a job, both of which would have been unthinkable without him and his support. Professor Bonnefis was attentive, dedicated, and always there for me even when across the ocean . It was across this abyss that our relationship, incredibly, strengthened over the past six years. I would eagerly await his packages filled with postcards and pages of chapters, opening them to see his loopy, artful handwriting speckling the paper. The handwriting that always, without fail, started with the much anticipated “chère Abbey” and ended with “Dans l’amitié.” In this simple salutation I felt his presence, his support, and the atten-tion he put into me as his student . I always said that he was the type of person who would work with his students until he could no longer. I feel honored to have known him, and to have been one of his.

—Major Abbey Carrico, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages and Cultures, Virginia Military Institute

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Lilia CoropceanuDirector of Undergraduate Programs in French

In May 2013, twelve outstanding seniors graduated with a major in French studies: Jessica Labib, Camille Rogers, Michael Vo, Nayantara Dayal, Caleson Edwards, Alyssa Fournier, Cheong Kim, Sara Levine, Ping Chu Lin, Abion Sumrell, Natalia Venegas, and Daniel Zarama.

Our congratulations go to our exceptional students whose work was honored during the past academic year: Alyssa Fournier and Sara Levine received the department’s annually awarded Mrs . Renée Bray Prize for Excellence in French. This award was estab-lished to recognize—by faculty nomination—those students who completed the year’s “best work in French.”

Fiona O’Carroll received the Emory College Language Excellence Award in French offered by the Emory

Language Center. These awards are presented to one student in each language offered at Emory College . Each student is chosen by his or her respective department and recognized at the ECLC awards ceremony held in their honor each spring .

Three French majors presented papers at the depart-ment’s annual French Undergraduate Colloquium on April 29: Sara Levine, “Les hommes-bêtes dans La Fille aux yeux d’or”; Alyssa Fournier, “La subjectivité féminine: un changement de perspective au dix-huitième siècle”; and Meriem El-Khattabi, ”La Prise de Pouvoir de Louis XIV.”

Margaret Keneman and the French Club organized two performances by Le Théâtre du Rêve: By the Win-dow/Par la fenêtre by Georges Feydeau, adapted by William Hatten; and Le Petit Prince by Antoine de St-Exupéry, adapted by Liz Hartnett, William Hatten, and Caitlin Roe. Immediately following the performance, the actors hosted a directed reading workshop.

Two of our majors—Michael Vo and Albion Sumrell—deserve our warmest congratulations for being selected to participate in the Teaching Assistant Program in France during the 2013–2014 academic year . This competitive French government–sponsored program offers the opportunity to work in France for several months, teaching English to French students of all ages .

As the new academic year begins and all students return to campus, a higher level of energy and enthu-siasm returns with them. We would like to welcome all continuing and new majors and minors in French, and look forward to a new productive year, great col-laborative work, and new accomplishments.

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The Undergraduate Programs in French

A semester, a year . . .Ten Emory students went to Paris with EDUCO (a consortium of Emory, Duke, Cornell, and Tulane Universities): Grace Beggins, Morganne Reid, Sunny Song, Jana Ludwig, Fiona O’Carroll, and Laura Manor took their classes at EDUCO and the University of Paris; Laure Daniela Viteri, Lauren Nerenbaum, Catherine Utomo, and Zhiwei Xu went to Sciences-Po.

O’Carroll and Xu were so happy with their experience in France that they were accepted as EDUCO advisers for 2013–2014 .

A summer . . . Fourteen students—led by Lilia Coropceanu, Cath-erine Dana, and graduate assistant Margaret Ken-eman—participated in our French Studies Summer Program in Paris during summer 2013: Farah Abid, GeeEun Ahn, Alexis Gilbert, Jhane Harris, Francesca Howe, Noah Kaufmann, Drew Kaup, Sasha Mohale, Emily Moore, Cole Owens, Alexandra Palmer, Stepha-nie Van Gelder, Weixuan Zhang, and Zhilin Zheng. It was an intense five-week immersion course of study focused on the exploration of French language,

culture, history, art, and literature. Students took courses at the historic Reid Hall University Center in Paris; they visited and reported on historic sites, museums, and theatrical performances; and, of course, they had the opportunity to enjoy the most sophisticated cuisine in the local cafés and restau-rants. Excursions outside Paris included the cathe-drals of Chartres and Reims, a two-day exploration of the chateaux of the Loire Valley, and a study of the winemaking process in the Loire and Champagne regions .

Study in France

This past academic year, my executive board and I have built a new and stronger foundation for the French Club . We participated in the Student Gov-ernment Association’s fall and spring student activities fairs as well as the Emory Office of Student Leadership and Service’s Wonderful Wednesdays in order to have a larger presence on campus . We also reached out to our sister chapter at the Oxford campus and the French Club at Georgia Tech so that they knew about club events as well as events hosted by the French and Italian Department . We started an online club newsletter

that was published and sent by email every other month .

From these additions to the French Club, we gained new members who participated in the French Conversation group led by third-year graduate student Eric Rottman in the French and Italian Department’s living room every Thursday . We also were able to help host and coordinate performanc-es by Théâtre du Rêve twice this past year under the direction of Margaret Keneman. We started a monthly French movie night that was well received

by Emory students. Finally, we participated in dif-ferent intercultural events that showcased French culture with other clubs, specifically the Vietnamese Student Association and the Italian Club .

We have high hopes for the French Club in the 2013–2014 academic year and believe that the new student leaders will be able to continue to build the French Club and strengthen its role on campus as a showcase for French culture as well as the French language .

The French Club

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Deborah Elise White Director of Graduate Studies As fall semester 2013 gets under way, the PhD program in French welcomes two new graduate students: Angelica So, who comes to Emory with a BA in French and Fran-cophone studies from UCLA; and Marion Tricoire, who comes to Emory with a BA in comparative literature and an MA in cultural translation, both from the American University in Paris . Tricoire is also a recipient of the Laney Graduate School’s prestigious Woodruff Fellowship .

We are very pleased to announce too that Kathryn Miner won the Dean’s Teaching Fellowship for 2013–2014 and that Lauren Upadhyay won a Chateaubriand Fellowship for 2013–2014 to do research in France on Marguerite Duras’s manuscripts . The French PhD students continue to play a key role in the intellectual life of the depart-ment and Emory at large .

In spring 2013, the student-organized speaker series, “Écrivains d’aujourd’hui,” led by Nicolas Rémy, brought Danny Laferrière to campus. In addition, the student-sponsored French Enrich-

ment and Response Assocation (FERA) continues to organize programming by faculty and graduate students . We are grateful to this year’s new FERA committee: Souad Kherbi (incoming president) along with Lauren Ponta, Erik Rottman, and Blair Watson .

We are also delighted to announce a new op-portunity for students: the Montpellier Exchange Program . As a visiting professor at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III in 2011, Valérie Loichot

began exploring the possibility of a collabora-tive program with her colleague there, Judith Misrahi-Barak. The new program will enable selected graduate students from Emory to study at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III for either a semester or a full academic year with a reciprocal

agreement for their counterparts in Montpellier to study at Emory . The program will be open to a limited number of doctoral students in Emory’s PhD prorams in French and Italian, comparative literature, English, and possibly other programs in the humanities and social sciences. Pending final approvals from the Laney Graduate School, the program is expected to begin in spring 2014 or in fall 2014 at the latest .

Academic year 2013–2014 will see some changes in the French PhD program . French and compara-tive literature will be formalizing some of their longstanding intellectual ties, and there is a single graduate director for the two programs . Spring 2013 exemplified their ongoing collaboration with an international conference co-organized by Julie Gaillard (a PhD student in French) and Mark Stoholski (a PhD student in comparative literature) on the work of Jean-François Lyotard. Traversals of Affect/Traversées d’affect gathered scholars from eight countries to give papers on Lyotard’s think-ing about affect and its role across the disciplines . We look forward to more exciting events in the coming year .

The Graduate Program in French

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Emily Asplund-Jortner published “The Foot in Surrealist Art and Theory,” Paragrana 21:1 (2013) .

Bronwyn Averett presented “Où gît la vérité: The death of truth in Abdoulaye Sadji’s Tounka” at the 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, March 28–30, 2013) and “City Limits: Possibilities beyond Violence in the Novels of Abdoulaye Sadji” at the African Literature Association Conference (Charleston, South Carolina, March 20–24, 2013).

Robyn Banton presented “Revisiting the Harem: Crossing Frontiers in Works by Fatema Mernissi and Lalla Essaydi,” Société des profes-seurs français et francophones d’Amérique Col-loquium (New York University, New York, April 2013) and “Imagining the Past: Textual, Oral, and Visual Techniques in Leïla Sebbar’s La Seine était rouge,” 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, March 28–30, 2013).

Julie Gaillard co-organized the international conference Traversals of Affect/ Traversées d’affect on the works of Jean-François Lyotard (March 21–23, Emory University). During this conference she presented “From Affect to Representation, from Representation to Affect: Lyotard’s Reading of the Fort/Da.”

Roselyne Gérazime gave a paper titled “Bound to Secrecy: The Laws of Silence in San-teria and Voodoo Practice” at the Afro Cuban Myths Conference (Emory University, 2012).

Souad Kherbi presented “Le Chevalier au lion ou le roman d’Yvain : écrire le défaut de langue” at FERA (Emory University, October 2012) and “Lire, dit-elle: le in et le off du sémi-naire,” Colloque International “Mireille Calle-Gruber ou les Promesses de la littérature et des arts,” Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris III, Paris, June 20–21, 2013. She initiated and coordinated the Ciné-Club discussion series and animated a selection of Claire Denis’s films in preparation for “Claire Denis at Emory” (2012).

Kris Aric Knisely has published a book chapter titled “Social Networking Websites in College Foreign Language Courses” in H. Tinmaz, ed., Cases on Social Networking Websites for Instructional Use as well as a textbook review of Rêvez: le français sans frontières in the French Review. Additionally, he has given con-ference presentations related to his dissertation research on gendered language attitudes, learn-er identity, and language learning motivation at the Southeastern Conference on Language, the Studies in Sexualities Conference, and the Lavender Languages Annual Conference.

Kate Miner presented “Miss Representations: L’Ève Future and the Feminine Fragment” at the Graduate Student Colloquium (Emory University, February 2013) and “An Open Wound: Tristan’s Traumatic Injury” at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate Student Conference (October 2012) .

Nicolas Rémy presented “Failles et faillite de l’homme célinien: de l’identité masculine dans Mort à crédit” at FERA (Emory University, April 2013) . He organized and led the roundtable and workshop in relation to Dany Laferrière’s visit, which he organized (Emory University, April 2012) . He animated a Ciné-Club discussion of a Claire Denis film in preparation for “Claire Denis at Emory” (2012).

Eric Rottman presented “Emancipation in Practice: Rancière and Education” at FERA (Emory University, November 2012). He also led the Emory French Club conversation group every week.

Gina Stamm presented “Forgetting Tatiana Karl: Ripples of Suffering in Lol V. Stein” at the Graduate Student Colloquium, Emory University (February 2013) and “Mesurer le drap, couper le fil: la mesure dans l’oeuvre de Jean Giono” at FERA (Emory University, September 2012).

Lauren Upadhyay presented “Lol V. Stein en fragments” at Traces Fragments Remains—20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium (Georgia Insti-tute of Technology, Atlanta, March 28–30, 2013) and “An Elusive Vision: Genesis and Apocalypse in Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein” at the UCLA French and Francophone Graduate Student Conference, October 2012.

Graduate Student Research

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Judith Misrahi-BarakVisiting from the Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, Misrahi-Barak gave a seminar on October 29, 2012, titled, “Exploring Trauma through the Memory of Text: Ed-widge Danticat Listens to Jacques Stephen Alexis, Rita Dove, and René Philoctète,” in which she brought together three novels and a poem about the massacre of Haitians that was ordered by General Trujillo in 1937 .

Traversals of Affect/Traversées d’AffectIn spring 2013, French graduate student Julie Gaillard teamed up with comparative literature graduate student Mark Stoholski and launched a highly successful bilingual international conference, Traversals of Affect/Traversées d’Affect devoted to the work of (our former colleague) philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. This confer-ence attracted speakers from all over the world (including the UK, Australia, and France). French professors Geoffrey Bennington and Claire Nouvet gave featured presentations. The keynote talk, “An-amnesis,” was presented by Anne Tomiche, professeur de littérature générale et comparée at Paris IV (Sorbonne). One of the conference highlights was the dedication and naming of the department’s seminar room in Lyotard’s honor.

Pascal Quignard In March 2013, Pascal Quignard, accompanied by Quignard scholars Agnès Cousin de Revel and Dominique Viart, visited the department. Quig-nard touched us by giving a lecture in honor of Philippe Bonnefis (“Hom-mage to Philippe Bonnefis”) attended by many of Bonnefis’s former students, who came from a number of locations to be present. In addition, Quignard performed “Quatre Chants,” a piece that consisted of readings from his multivolume work Dernier Royaume with the music of four recorded songs .

Claire DenisIn fall 2012, we partnered with colleagues in Film and Media Studies and the French Cultural Services to invite renowned French filmmaker Claire Denis to Emory. In preparation for the visit, Catherine Dana and Matthew Bernstein (from Film and Media Studies) organized a film series of some of Claire Denis’s major films that were followed by discussions led by graduate students in French and Film Studies . Denis’s visit attracted large audiences and generated excitement for the department.

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Dany LaferrièreThe department’s “Ecrivains d’Aujourd’hui” series hosted the visit of Canadian/Haitian writer Dany Laferrière in April 2013. On April 18, he introduced a screening of the recently released film La Dérive douce d’un enfant de Petit-Goâve, a documentary on his life and literary path. Laferrière also participated in a lively Q&A session following the showing. On April 19, he presented a seminar organized around his award-winning book, L’énigme du retour, also in French. This event was organized by French graduate student Nicolas Rémy . Rémy received sponsorship and financial support from the Consulate General of Haiti in Atlanta and Délégation du Québec as well as several Emory sources .

Events

Jacques RancièreOn April 25, 2012, French philosopher Jacques Rancière spoke to an audience of more than 300 stu-dents and faculty members from Emory and other institutions through a lecture titled “Telling, Show-ing, Doing: The Poetics and Politics of Fiction.” Drawing examples from a range of writers including Virginia Woolf, Honoré de Balzac, and Gustave Flaubert, he discussed the evolution of fiction writing, principally the novel, and its implications for other forms of discourse such as political dialogue.

Claire Nouvet, associate professor of French, coordinated the visit with Philippe Bonnefis. In her introduction to the talk that evening, she noted that “with the acute vigilance of someone who refuses to be reconciled with the state of things, he has shown how both politics and aesthetics can break with what is given or, rather, imposed as ‘the world,’ how they emancipate themselves from it by reconfiguring it—each, however, in its own distinct way.”

Jacques Rancière is professor emeritus, Université de Paris VIII; professor of philosophy, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

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Geoffrey Bennington coedited Jacques Der-rida, Séminaire la peine de mort (1999–2000) as part of Bennington, Crépon, Dutoit, Kamuf, Lisse, Mallet and Michaud (series ed.), Les séminaires de Jacques Derrida (Paris, Editions Galilée, 2013). In addition to talks and lectures at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, Milan, DePaul University, University of Sussex, University of Salerno, and Emory University, among others, he gave the keynote address at Traces Fragments Remains—20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, March 28–30, 2013). His articles appeared in Paragraph, Oxford Literary Review, and the Southern Journal of Philosophy .

Lilia Coropceanu was at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Convention and World Languages Expo 2012 in Philadelphia, where she organized—with Hong Li and Noriko Takeda—the panel “Incorporating Sustainability into Foreign-Language Curriculum: Best Practices and Reflections,” featuring Emory courses in Chinese, French, and Japanese that incorporate sustainability and environmental issues in the foreign-languages curriculum .

Catherine Dana presented “The Fragmented Faces of Claire Denis,” at Traces Fragments Remains—20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, March 28–30, 2013).

Dalia Judovitz published “Une sorte de pédérastie artistique: Accouplement créatif chez Duchamp et Picabia,” Itinéraires: Languages, Littératures, Cultures 78:91 (Fall 2012) . She presented a talk on Lyotard and Duchamp at the Wilson Humanities Center (University of Georgia, Athens, April 18, 2013) and “Image and Incarnation: The Early Modern Doctrine of the Pictorial Image,” Emory University, September 20, 2013. She was elected to the Editorial Board of Dada/Surrealism, an interdisciplinary journal focused on the Dada and Surrealist movements . She was faculty collaborator with principal Walter Melion for a Sawyer Seminar, Andrew J. Mellon Foundation Grant, which awarded $175,000 for 2012–2014.

Valérie Loichot published a new book, The Tropics Bite Back: Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2013). She edited an issue of La Revue des Sciences humaines: Entours d’Edouard Glissant (Spring 2013) and published articles on Lafcadio Hearn, Victor Anicet, and William Faulkner in various academic journals .

Elissa Marder published “The Elephant and the Scaffold: Response to Kelly Oliver” in Southern Journal of Philosophy 50 (Spindel Supplement, 95–106). She also published “Force of Love,” which appeared in German translation as “Die Kraft der Liebe” in Sammelband: Hélène Cixous: Das Lachen der Medusa, ed. Esther Hutfless, Gertrude Postl, and Elisabeth Schäfer (Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 2013) 71–81; “Real Dreams,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 51 (2013): 196–213; and “Force and Translation; or, the Polymorphous Body of Language,” philoSOPHIA 3:1 (2013): 1–18. She gave a keynote address at the Spindel conference, “Freudian Futures,” at the University of Memphis as well as talks spon-sored by the Université Paris VIII and the Center for the Humanities at CUNY . She published a book review: “The Maternal Turn: Elissa Marder and Andrew Parker,” http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1451&fulltext=.

Claire Nouvet gave a talk at Traversals of Af-fect/Traversées d’affect International Conference called “Emma: A Case of Differend” (Emory, March 21–23, 2012), and at the 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium she presented “La vie secrète de Salvador Dalí: une enfance pompéi-enne” (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, March 28–30, 2013).

Judy Raggi Moore organized the faculty professional development workshop: “Italian Virtual Class: How We Teach” (January 2013) and participated in a five-day symposium “Humanities and Healthcare,” which resulted in an article “Communicating through the Arts: Lessons for Medicine and the Public” (Spring 2013) . She copresented with Christine Ristaino “Italian Virtual Class, Digital Studies” at the New Media Symposium (Emory University, April 5, 2013); at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, she also copresented with Christine Ristaino, Daniela Cunico Dal Pra, and Domenica Newell-Amato in two panels on virtual education .

Angela Porcarelli participated in Oxford Col-lege’s Center for Academic Excellence at the annual Institute for Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts (May 14–17, 2013). She presented “La tradizione della beffa in Boccaccio e la novella del grasso Legnaiuolo” at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference: (Durham, North Carolina, November 2012). At the American Association of Teachers of Italian Annual Conference in Strasbourg, France (May 30–June 4, 2013), she chaired a panel titled “Lo sguardo delle donne /Women’s Gaze” and also presented “La fuga di Clorinda ed Erminia da ‘gli abiti molli e i lochi chiusi’: identità e travestimento nella Gerusalemme liberata.”

Christine Ristaino published “Lucrezia Mari-nella” in Paola Malpezzi-Price, ed., Mary Hay’s Six Volume Biography Project (London: Pickering and Chatto Publishers, 2013). She presented “The Reggio Emilia Approach: A Student-Driven Model” at the seventh-annual Interdisciplin-ary Conference in the Humanities: Systems of Control/Modes of Resistance (University of West Georgia, Carrollton, November 2012) and “The Conference Paper as Genre” at the South Atlan-tic Modern Language Association Conference: (Durham, North Carolina, November 2012). At the same conference, she also copresented with Judy Raggi Moore, Daniela Cunico Dal Pra, and Domenica Newell-Amato in two panels on virtual education .

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Andrew G. Burry (BA 08) . I graduated with a major in French literature and philosophy . I am currently working for the Department of State as a foreign service officer stationed in Kyiv, Ukraine. I was fortunate enough to get twenty-six weeks of intensive Russian training at the Foreign Service Institute. In Kyiv, opportunities to use my French are rare, but most certainly will increase as I take on assignments throughout the world. My next assignment is Lusaka, Zambia, where I will work in the consular section issuing visas and providing services to Americans. I hear that Zambia may provide opportunities to use French as there are a lot of Congolese visa applicants .

Clara Canon (BA 11) . I recently returned to the States from my seven-month teaching contract in Bourges, France. It was a beyond-words-amazing and eye-opening experience, and I easily consider Bourges my new home . Now I am off to the Uni-versity of Edinburgh to earn an MSc in Translation Studies (French and English, of course), where I will expand upon research I previously conducted at Emory and explore the role of language and translation in international and cross-cultural conflict.

Gina Chirillo (BA 12) . I graduated as a political science and French major . I am currently a project assistant on the Women’s Political Participation team at the National Democratic Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide. My French skills have been invaluable in my field. I am currently working on programs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cote d’Ivoire, and so my French is very helpful. A lot of organizations in the human rights, democracy, and women’s rights fields want their employees to have a second language, especially French, so I could not be happier that I decided to continue my French studies through college .

Ashley S. Freeman (BA 08) . Since my gradu-ation with a major in French, I have waited for the Certificate in Translation program at Georgia State to open up, but they never have had enough interested students. I feel that, without getting a secondary degree I do not qualify for any French job other than teaching high school French, which I do not want to do. In the meantime, I have been employed full time at Emory in the School of Medicine and have been tutoring French students in my free time to retain my knowledge. I now have about four years of tutoring experience and really enjoy it . Perhaps one day I will be able to use it as part of my day job .

Sarah Lackert (BA 12) . After completing my degree at Emory, I went to graduate school. I am currently getting my master’s in public health at Yale and doing my summer internship in Mexico City . If there are any students interested in getting an MPH after a BA in French, I would be happy to talk to them.

Chi Chi Okezie (BA 98) . I attended the Emory 2013 International Alumni Leadership Conference June 7 to 9 as the career service representative of the Emory Alumni Board . It was a three-day conference for alumni chapter leaders around the world. Last week I did a short video clip for Center for International Programs Abroad promoting study abroad. I spoke about my foreign experience and traveling to Paris in 1999 as well as my con-nections with the French-American Chamber of Commerce and the Consulate General of France, both in Atlanta. Once edited and produced, the video clip will be used as a marketing tool to encourage students to consider studying abroad .

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Stephanie Boulard (PhD 06) was promoted to associate professor at Georgia Tech . Boulard published Rouge Hugo (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, fall 2013) and two book chapters as well as authoring two articles on Hélène Cixous and Victor Hugo.

Abbey Carrico (PhD 13) finished her disser-tation “Pour une écopoétique de l’eau dans les oeuvres de Gustave Flaubert et de Guy de Maupassant” (Director: Philippe Bonnefis). She also published “Décomposition et re-composition: Présence et absence des corps noyés dans Lélia (1833) de George Sand et L’Education sentimentale (1845) de Gustave Flaubert,” Quêtes Littéraires, “Aux Confins de l’absence,” 2 (2012) and “Sur l’eau: Pour une lecture écocritique de Guy de Maupassant,” Les Cahiers naturalistes (2013) . Carrico is assistant professor of modern languages at Virginia Military Institute with the rank of major .

Sébastien Dubreil (PhD 03) was promoted to associate professor at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville where, in addition to directing the French Language Program, he also will assume the role of French sec-tion chair for three years . Dubreil published Alliages Culturels: La Société Française en Transformation (Cengage, 2013), an advanced-level textbook on contemporary French culture with Heather Willis Allen (a former Emory graduate) .

Ziad Elmarsafy (PhD 92) is the graduate chair in the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, Hes-lington, UK. Elmarsafy has published Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel (Edin-burgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Debating Orientalism, coedited with Anna Bernard and David Attwell (Houndmills, Bas-ingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Jeanne Fourneyron (PhD 98) was joint di-rectrice for the Institute of European Studies in Paris and now is the resident director for the Tufts program in Paris . Aymeric Glacet (PhD 03) is associate professor of French and French studies at Sewanee: The University of the South . He coedited Camus au Quotidien with André Benhaïm (Lille: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2013) as well as publishing articles and chapters on Albert Camus and Claude Simon .

Marilène Haroux (PhD 13) completed her dissertation “Jules Michelet, Romain Rolland, et Pascal Quignard ou les ombres du temps” (Director: Philippe Bonnefis). Her contract as visiting assistant professor of French at University of Minnesota–Duluth was re-newed for three years . She published “A New Approach to the Reading of Colas Breugnon” in Rereading Romain Rolland, ed. Chinmoy Guha (Calcutta: University of Calcutta Press, 2012) .

Anna Igou (PhD 13) completed her disserta-tion “Dangerous Appetites: Violent Consump-tion in the Works of Flaubert, Baudelaire, and Césaire” (Directors: Philippe Bonnefis and Valérie Loichot). She was invited to attend Dartmouth College’s Summer Institute in the Humanities, for which she received partial funding from the James T. Laney Graduate School . She published “Nothing Consumed: The Dangerous Space of Food in Madame Bovary,” French Forum 38:1–2 (2013) . She presented “Starving Art: The Trouble with Food in Madame Bovary” at the 38th-annual 19th-Century French Studies Colloquium (Raleigh, North Carolina, October 2012).

Margaret Keneman (PhD 13) completed her dissertation “Poetry, Politics, and Pedagogy: Defining and Developing Critical Literacies in Intermediate-Level College French” (Direc-tors: Valerie Loichot and Hiram Maxim). She accepted the position of visiting assistant professor in the Department of French and Italian at Emory . Karl Pollin (PhD 07) is assistant profes-sor of French and comparative literature at University of Tulsa . He published Alfred Jarry: L’Expérimentation du Singulier (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013).

Starra Priestaf (PhD 13) completed her dissertation “Ruptures in Address: The Letter as Technical Device in Guilleragues, Sévigné, and Lafayette” (Director: Dalia Judovitz). She presented “Ruptured Encounters: Death, De-sire, and Non-Correspondence in La Princesse de Clèves” at the Central Modern Language Association 69th-Annual Convention (San Antonio, Texas, November 2012).

Zrinka Stahuljak (PhD 00) has been promoted to professor of French and comparative literature at UCLA.

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The Undergraduate Program in Italian

Judy Raggi Moore Director of Undergraduate Studies

Even though I am officially on leave this semester, it gives me great pleasure to report on some of the recent accomplishments of our Italian Studies faculty members since the publication of our department’s last newslet-ter .

Christine Ristaino again has been recog-nized for her outstanding teaching and work with students. In spring 2013, she received the Division of Campus Life’s Friends in Fac-ulty Award and was a Phi Beta Kappa Hon-oree, in both cases for mentoring. Ristaino also received a grant from both the Center for Community Partnerships and a Summer Research Partner Program grant from Schol-arly Inquiry and Research at Emory, which gave her additional opportunities to work closely with Emory undergraduates outside the classroom .

We are delighted to welcome back Simona Muratore, who was on personal leave this past year in Florence and are glad to have, once again, her imaginative help orchestrat-ing our popular film series Serate di Cinema

italiano and guiding our very active Italian Club. While in Florence, Muratore guest-taught at the Center for Educational Travel

(CET), Academic Programs, creating two new courses: Fine Young Cannibals and Other Stories in Contemporary Literature and The History of Italian Cinema from Neorealism to Postmodernism . She plans to bring the history of Italian cinema course to our students next year. Also while in Florence, Muratore organized and led two professional develop-ment workshops for CET faculty: Engaging Today’s Students and New Technologies in Italian Language Classes. She recently received a grant from the Center for Community Partnerships to work on a project with Emory undergraduates and the Italian speakers of the Somali community of Clarkston, Georgia.

Angela Porcarelli’s talents for bringing Ita-ly’s cultural life into her classroom have been evident in several ways. Through her efforts, our students saw Theater Emory’s production of Dario Fo’s Mistero Buffo, were treated to a special concert of humorous music by the

Vega String Quartet in conjunction with her class Something to Laugh About: Comedy and Human Nature, and they are currently immersed in the study of Rome in connection with the special exhibition Antichità, Teatro, Magnificenza: Renaissance and Baroque Im-ages of Rome at the Carlos Museum .

In addition, our faculty members had a very active year in conference presentations as noted on p . 10 .

Italian Studies began a new tradition last spring of celebrating graduating minors and majors (official and non) with a festive dinner at La Tagliatella. Approximately forty students and four faculty members enjoyed conversing in both Italian and English throughout a very joyful evening . This will definitely become an annual event.

Finally, as a recipient of an Emory College Winship Award last spring, I am currently writing volume three of the Italian Virtual Class, Chiavi di Lettura, language-immersion series and will be working with Information Technology to enhance the online platform further . Other activities this fall include being a guest lecturer at the Alumni College in Sor-rento, Italy, and teaching a faculty workshop on assessment at I.E.S. Rome. I also look

forward to participating in the Carlos Reads series by presenting the book Artemisia in conjunction with the exhibit Antichità, Teatro, Magnificenza: Renaissance and Baroque Im-ages of Rome .

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Italian ClubDuring the last two semesters, club officers (new and outgoing) Jennifer Rocks, Ryan Helkowski, Michelle Rosenthal, Simone Khouzam, Rebecca Blei, Ali Warrack, Jasmin Ortiz, Emma Mustafa, and Ross Shulman organized a series of outings and events tied to the regions of Italy studied in classes . They included a foray into gelato making with a demonstration by Atlanta’s well-known Venetian gelato maker Paolo, who is also a host of dinners and cooking demonstrations based on Italian cuisine. This semester, the group looks forward to an in-depth, docent-led tour of Antichità, Teatro, Magnificenza: Renaissance and Baroque Images of Rome at the Carlos Museum, a cooking class featur-ing dishes from Sicily and Campagna, and a group meal at Sapori di Napoli, chosen regu-larly for its authentic approach to regional cuisine . The Italian Club continues to offer Caffè Conversazioni: informal, small-group evening conversations in Italian for all levels of students held every other week in the de-partment’s “living room.” Any member of the Emory community interested in the Italian language is welcome to join the group .

Italian Studies Film NightEvery month, Serate di Cinema italiano, popularly known as Italian Movie Night, showcases the best of classic Italian cinema and new releases, each with an introduc-tion by one of our faculty members . Recent screenings have included Respiro (2002, Emanuele Crialese); Matrimonio all’italiana (1964, Vittorio De Sica); Divorzio all’italiana (1961, Pietro Germi); Ho Voglia di te (2007, Luis Prieto); Profumo di Donna (1974, Dino Risi); Io e te (2012, Bernardo Bertolucci); L’ultimo bacio (2001 Gabriele Muccino); and Libero (2006, Kim Rossi Stuart).

EventsDuring the last academic year, Italian Studies organized a series of lectures engaging the Italian community of Atlanta in conversation about Italian culture and current events in the ongoing series “A tu per tu.” Participants from other institutions and the Atlanta com-munity included attorney Tito Mazzetta, who led a conversation about the controversy

between the small village of Monteleone in Italy and the Metropolitan Museum of Art over the famous Etruscan golden chariot; and a presentation on Neorealism cinema by Luca Barattoni, assistant professor at Clemson University .

Contributions by Emory faculty members included a conversation about Italy through the photos of Mario DiGirolamo, emeritus professor in geriatric medicine; a discus-sion about Galileo Galilee with Roberto Franzosi, professor of sociology; a lecture about mathematics and medicine led by Alessandro Veneziani, associate professor in mathematics and computer science; and a conversation about science under the fascist regime in Italy led by Michele Benzi, professor of mathematics and com-puter science .

For the current academic year, Italian Studies is organizing, in collaboration with Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts, a lecture on inter-national marionettes . It will focus on Sicilian puppets known as I Pupi siciliani, a unique kind of large and heavy marionettes covered with knightly armor—the traditional form of epic popular theater that developed in Sicily in the early 1800s . November featured a lecture by Eric MacPhail, professor of French at Indiana University titled “Ars impia ludi: Rome as the Theater of Violence.” His talk focused on the ancient Roman gladiatorial games exercised as a topic of antiquar-ian research but also as a motif of art and literature .

Summer Study AbroadBeginning in Rome and covering some forty-seven towns, cities, and islands in the regions of Lazio, Umbria, Tuscany, Liguria, Emilia Romagna, Veneto, Campania, Sicilia, and

Basilicata, the Italian Study Abroad program once again offered participants an unforget-table six-week immersion in Italian culture, history, art, literature, current events, and medical humanities . Even with the variety and intensity of their curriculum, most of the twenty-eight undergraduate students partici-pating probably did not anticipate spending a day with a leading ethnobotanist at her fieldwork site in southern Italy. But one day in June, in the Vulture-Alto Bradano region of Basilicata province, they were greeted by Cassandra Quave, a researcher with Emory’s Center for the Study of Human Health and visiting faculty member in the Department of Biology . The students’ day-long immersion into ecosustainability contributed to one of the themes of the program: the Mediter-ranean diet as a cultural tradition and a science. As they walked through the country-side, Quave taught students how to identify

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traditional medicinal plants, introduced them to a shepherd who described pastoral life and also to truffle hunters who demonstrat-ed how they use dogs in their hunt for Italy’s famous delicacy . For the full story reported

on the Emory News Center site, visit http:// esciencecommons .blogspot .com/2013/06/a-taste-of-traditional-italian-medicine .html .

Medicine and CompassionEmory’s Italian Summer Study Abroad Program, founded and directed by Judy Raggi Moore, is well known on campus as a life-changing experience. The program, which includes site visits to all parts of Italy, is char-acterized by its pedagogical commitment to an intensive immersion in Italian language, culture, literature, art, history, religion, and also the medical humanities . The program has, for many years, included a “Medicine and Compassion” component developed in conjunction with Ruth Parker of Emory’s School of Medicine . It is open to a small number of medical students and residents who join the undergraduates on the program and engage in class discussions on how the arts inform health care ethics and practices .

Building on that collaboration, in the sum-mer of 2012 the program hosted a student-centered symposium in southern Italy on the theme of “Communicating through the Arts: Lessons for Medicine and Public Health.”

Participants included S. Wright Caughman, executive vice president for health affairs and CEO of Woodruff Health Sciences Center; Ruth M. Parker, professor of medicine, pediatrics, and public health, Emory Uni-versity School of Medicine (who was also a co-organizer); and other national authorities in health care policymaking and research. The following description is taken from the symposium proceedings:

“Inspired by the spirit of engaged discus-sions that characterized the symposia of the ancient world, and born out of the Medicine and Compassion course that has been a part of the Italian summer abroad program for the last decade (Carlisle et al., 2010), the Communicating through the Arts sympo-sium gathered visiting faculty from a variety of academic and professional disciplines . Teaching and visiting faculty joined with twenty-five undergraduate students on site

in Paestum, Caserta, and Matera, Italy, as they explored the lessons that medicine and public health can glean from the arts and the humanities . Three themes were introduced to guide the exchange: (1) beauty, harmony, and

balance; (2) death, dying, and suffering; and (3) communication and compassion . By the end of the symposium, participants agreed that new approaches to medicine to address problems of the current system are needed . The arts reminded the group that people are complex, and cookie-cutter explanations and approaches often reduce people to simple categories rather than properly respond to the challenges that this complexity lays down . The arts inspired students and faculty alike to begin—foremost—with those chap-ters of the human narrative that resonate within everyone: suffering, dying, vulnerabil-ity, ambiguity, beauty, harmony, balance, and compassion . “

A followup symposium with an emphasis on ethics is being planned for summer 2014 .

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