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Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Professor of French & Italian
Chair, Department of French and Italian (2005-2008)
Recent Scholarship:
Co-edited with Pierre Taminaux, Surrealism and its Others, Yale
French Studies, Vol. 109 (2006).
"Surrealism and Outsider Art in Breton's 'Automatic Message'."
Yale French Studies, Vol. 109 (2006).
"Claude Cahun's Counter-Archival Heroines," in Don't Kiss Me,
The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, edited by Louise Downie
(London: Tate Publishing, New York: Aperture, 2006).
"Claude Cahun's Iconic Heads: From "The Sadistic Judith" to
Human Frontier," Papers of Surrealism 2 (2004):
www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/publications/papers/journal2/index.htm.
"Moving into the Third Dimension: Nicole Brossard's Picture
Theory," In Nicole Brossard: Essays on Her Works, edited by
Louise Forsythe. (Guernica Editions, 2005).
Automatic Woman: The Representation of Women in Surrealism
(University of Nebraska Press, 1996)
La Femme s'Entête: La Part du Féminin dans le Surréalisme,
co-edited with Georgiana Colville (Lachenal & Ritter, 1998)
Robert Desnos pour l'an 2000, co-edited with Marie-Claire Dumas
(Gallimard, 2000)
Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life,
(University of Nebraska Press, 2003).
Interests:
Writing and Art by women in the 20th Century, particularly in relation to
the Surrealist movement.
Courses:
Women's and Gender Studies Freshmen Seminar
Surrealist Women Artists and Writers
French and Francophone Feminist Theory and the Practice of Writing.
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