Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors161 Notes on Contributors Siobhan Brownlie is a Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. She has published widely in Translation Studies journals and edited volumes. Her main research interests are Translation Studies methodology, the relationship between literary theory and translation, and the translation of 19th and 20th century French literature into English. Simone Grossman est professeure de littérature française et québécoise à l'université Bar Ilan. Ses recherches portent actuellement sur le fantastique contemporain du Québec. Elle a publié plusieurs articles à ce sujet et est l'auteure de Regard, peinture etfantastique au Québec (Québec : L'Instant même, 2006). Elle s'intéresse également aux écrivains migrants du Québec. Diane Duffrin Kelley, an Associate Professor ofFrench at the University of Puget Sound, specializes in French women writers and playwrights ofthe early modern period. She has published articles on Mme de Lafayette and Catherine Bernard. Her most recent work involves Mme de Graffigny and the cultural implications ofcharges ofplagiarism that arose around her 1750 play Cénie. AndreaKing estétudianteaudoctoratenÉtudesfrançaisesàl'UniversitéQueen's (Kingston, Ontario). Ses recherches portent sur la littérature québécoise au féminin, les théories féministes et la psychanalyse. Michel Lantelme dirige le programme des études de français à l'Université de l'Oklahoma. Outre la littérature du vingtième siècle, il enseigne des cours sur la littérature contemporaine, et sur la culture et l'identité européennes. Il a publié La Grande pitié des monuments de France (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 1998,), Petits coins. Lieux de mémoire {Revue des Sciences humaines, 2001, co-edité), Malraux. Portrait avec mains (Septentrion, 2003) etÉcrivains de lapréhistoire(Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2004, co-édité). Il est éditeur de la Revue André Malraux/Review. Catherine R. Montfort is Professor of French and Women's Studies at the University of Santa Clara. She is the author ofthree books (among them Les Fortunes de Mme de Sévigné auXVHème etXVIIIème siècles (1982) and about forty articles published in such venues asAlbineana, Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, French Studies, French Forum, Nottingham French Studies, The French Review , Dalhousie French Studies and WIFStudies. She has edited a volume entitled Literate Women andthe French Revolution ofl 789 {1994) and a Special Section of WIF Studies on "Feminine Friendship" (1999). She has also coedited two Special "orange" volumes forWIF, French andFrancophone Women, 16th-21st Centuries: Essays on Literature, Culture and Society with Bio- 1 62Women in French Studies graphical andMedia Resources (2002) andFrench/Francophone Culture and Literature Through Film (2006). She was President of WIF from 2000 to 2004, and President ofPAMLA(Pacific andAncient Modern LanguageAssociation ) from 2003-2004. For PAMLA she was editor/or co-editor ofthree issues oí Pacific Coast Philology (2002, 2003, 2004). Since January 2005, she has the Executive Editor of Women in French Studies. She is interested in the epistolary genre, women writers and artists, the critical reception of works from the past, and cinema. Geri L. Smith is Associate Professor of French at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Her research interests include late-medieval poetry and theater, evolving concepts ofgenre and author, and women writers and the representation ofwomen in medieval literature. She has published on Christine de Pizan, the poetry ofJean Froissart, and the plays ofAdam de la Halle. Ruth P. Thomas is Professor ofFrench at Temple University. She has published articles on Voltaire, Marivaux, Diderot, and others, as well as on the heroines of eighteenth-century French novels. She has also written on Mme de Lafayette, Scarron, and Constant. Most recently, she has published on Riccoboni, Charrière, and Graffigny. Her current research is on eighteenth-century French novels by women. Elizabeth Richardson Viti is Professor ofFrench at Gettysburg College where she is also Coordinator ofWomen's Studies. Much ofher earlier research concentrated on Proust's images ofwomen and culminated in a book entitled Mothers , Madams and "Lady-like " Men: Proust andthe Maternalwhich provides a feminist reading ofA la recherché du tempsperdu (Summa 1 994). Her interest in feminist...