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Roxana Verona

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Associate Professor of French

302 Dartmouth Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
(603) 646-2588
roxana.m.verona@dartmouth.edu

Ph.D. French, University of Bucharest, Romania, 1979

Areas of specialization: 19th and 20th century French literature; French literary criticism; French culture and society; Romanian-French cultural relations; Eastern-European literary history; East-West cultural dialogue.

Courses

Literary Portraits, Fictional Correspondence; Romantic Correspondence; French Orientalism, Travel and Literature, The Gothic Imagination; Decadent Literature; Paris and Literary Modernity

Selected Publications

Les “salons”de Sainte-Beuve: le critique et ses muses, Paris, Honoré Champion, 1999.

"Bucharest at the Crossroads," PMLA, Jan. 2007, vol. 122/1, 275-80.

"In the Francophone Zone: The Romania Case," The Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, vol. 52, 2005-06, 115-26.

"Anna de Noailles et Marcel Proust, une amitié par lettres," L'épistolaire au féminin.  Correspondances de femmes (XCIIIe-XXe siécle), Actes du Colloque de Cerisy-La-Salle, 1-5 octobre 2003, Brigitte Diaz and Jürgen Siess eds., Caen: Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, 2006, 109-119.

"The Intercultural Corridor of the "Other" Danube," History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe.  Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer eds., Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2006, vol. 2, 232-243.

"Jules Verne in Transylvania" The Comparatist, Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Assoc., XXVIII, May 2004, 135-146.

“Cosmopolitan Orientalism: Paul Morand Goes East,” Sites. The Journal of 20th century/ Contemporary Studies, "Travel and Travelers" 5/1, Spring 2001, 157-169.

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