Notes on Contributors

276Women in French Studies Notes on Contributors NicoleAas-Rouxparis is Professor ofFrench at Lewis and Clark College. Her publications include a monograph on new novelist Claude Oilier and many articles on Frenchand Francophonewriters (Québec-The Caribbean-Africa). Hercurrent research focuses on the literature and film ofthe Maghreb and ofSub-SaharanAfrica. Cecilia Beach is Assistant Professor ofFrench at Alfred University. Her publications focus on women's theater in France, including a two-volume reference work: French Women Playwrights before the Twentieth Century: A Checklist (Greenwood , 1994) and French Women ofthe Twentieth Century: A Checklist (Greenwood , 1996). Her current research is on social protest theater by women during the Third Republic. Aimée Boutin is Assistant Professor ofFrench at Florida State University, where she specializes in nineteenth-century literature and gender studies. Her book, Maternal Echoes: The Poetry of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Alphonse de Lamartine (U of Delaware P, 2001), examines two Romantic poets' use of the maternal voice as source of inspiration and as poetic trope. An article from her new project on cultural representations of sound in nineteenth-century France is forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century French Studies. Tess Do is Lecturer in French at the University of Melbourne in Australia. She received her Ph.D. from the University ofWestern Ontario in 1998 and has completed her post-doctoral studies at the University of Queensland. Her research interests include French literary awards and francophone women writers. She has published articles on Violette Leduc and the Prix Goncourt. She is currently working on Vietnamese francophone writers (Linda Le, Kim Lefèvre) and film directors (Tran Anh Hung, Tony Bui). Tama Lea Engelking is an Associate Professor ofFrench at Cleveland State University . Her scholarship focuses on turn-of-the-century French women writers, and she has published articles on Renée Vivien,Anna de Noaille, Colette, Rachilde, Gérard d'Houville, Natalie Clifford Barney and Lucie Delarue-Mardrus. She is currently writing a book exploring literary representations ofwomen writers from the period 1880-1930. Marie-Cécile Ganne-Schiermeier teaches at Fordham University and specializes in first-person narrative in anonymous writings in the seventeenth century in France. She has already published on Malraux and the "farfelu" in the RevueAndré Malraux Review. Jeannette Gaudet is Associate Professor of French at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She has published articles on Marie-Claire Biais, France Daigle, Liliane Giraudon, and Marie Redonnet. Her book Writing Otherwise : Atlan, Duras, Giraudon, Redonnet and Wittig (Rodopi, 1999) explores the global trends in women's writing in the late eighties. She is currently working on Nina Bouraoui and Amélie Nothomb. Notes on Contributors277 Njeri Githire est doctorante en Lettres Modernes à Penn State University. Elle travaille en littérature comparée et s'intéresse en particulier au thème de l'identité insulaire chez Gisèle Pineau, Nancy Morejon et Edwige Danticat. France Grenaudier-Klijn is a Ph.D student in French literature at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is currently completing her dissertation entitled "Marcelle Tinayre ou le roman hybride. Texte, hors-texte et ambiguïté générique à travers quatre romans féminins français des années 1895-1905." A previous article on the metonymy of clothing in Tinayre's La Rançon was published in The New ZealandJournal ofFrench Studies (vol.21). Anna Gural-Migdal estprofesseure agrégée auDepartmentofModemLanguages and Cultural Studies de l'Université de GAlberta oùelle enseigne la littérature etle cinéma. Elle estl'auteure, en collaboration avec Filippo Salvatore, du Cinéma dePaul Tana:parcours critiques (Montréal: Balzac, 1997). Elle vientde terminerL 'Ecriture duféminin chezZola etdans lafiction naturaliste (àparaître chezPeterLang). Elle a publié surle naturalisme, la littérature française des 19eet 20e siècles, le cinéma et la photographie. Présidente de l'AssociationInternationaleEmile Zolaetle naturalisme(AIZEN) etdirectrice de la revue d'études naturalistes Excavado, elle prépare un livre sur les fonctions de la métaphore dans Le Ventre de Paris d'Emile Zola. Marilyn Hacker has recently published Here There Was Once a Country (Oberlin College P, 2001), fine translations ofKhoury-Ghata's poems, including three long sequences: The Dead Man's Monologue, The Seven...