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Roxana Verona

Roxana M. Verona
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

My fields of specialization are nineteenth-century French literature and criticism, but my recent scholarship and teaching also draws on other significant areas of interest, such as the cultural interrelations between France and Eastern Europe. My current book project, “Cultural Commuting between Paris-Bucharest (1848-1948),” examines some of the channels of communication between France and Romania, expressed through actual travel (circulation of people) and through cultural diffusion (circulation of ideas).

Presently I am organizing a workshop to be held at Dartmouth College on Nov. 19-20, entitled “Paris as Promised Land: On Eastern European Francophilia.” This workshop will debate contemporary topic such as cultural center / margin, minor literatures, and national identity, and how they relate to the Parisian Diaspora and to the Francophone world outside of France http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/francophilia.html

COURSES

Literary Portraits, Short Genres, Fictional Correspondence (French 40); Oriental Figures, Travel and Literature, French Orientalism (French 55); Romantic Correspondence (French 60); The Cultural Corridor of the Danube, The Gothic Imagination (CL first-year seminar); On the Route of the Orient Express (CL 50); Women Travelers in the Balkans (WS first-year seminar)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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

“’Madame Récamier’: entre portrait et causerie,” Romantisme, Revue du 19e siècle, XXXe année, 109, 2000, 99-106.

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

“The Cultural Landscape of the “Other” Danube. On Boundaries and Bridges," Multiple Europe: Multiple Identity, Multiple Modernity, Monica Spiridon ed., Bucharest: Ararat Publishing House 2002, 55-64.

"Jules Verne in Transylvania" The Comparatist, Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Association, Volume XXVIII, May 2004, 135-150.

Last Updated: 6/15/04