Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Federica K. Clementi is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of South Carolina. Her most recent articles "The JAP, the Yenta and the Mame in Aline Kominsky Crumb's Graphic Imagination" and "Helena Janeczek's Lessons of Darkness: Uncharted Path Uncharted Paths to Shoah Memory through Food and Language" are forthcoming in The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and Contemporary Women's Writing respectively. She is presently completing a book on the representation of the "Jewish Mother" in women's memoirs.
Mary Jane Cowles is Professor of French at Kenyon College. Her research focuses primarily on the image of the mother in French Romantic literature, and she has published on Rousseau, Mme de Staël, Mme de Duras, Balzac, Nodier, and Nerval. Her interest in psychoanalytic approaches to literature has also inspired her study of Francophone women writers such as Nothomb and Hébert.
Adleen Crapo is a third-year doctoral student in Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation focuses on disability and femininity in seventeenth-century European prose. Her academic interests include feminism, women's lifewriting, and embodiment.
Carole Edwards est diplômée des universités de Reims, de Caen, de Texas Tech et de Purdue (Ph.D. en études francophones). Maître de Conférences à Texas Tech University, elle reçut deux premiers Prix d'analyse littéraire pour ses articles sur la Caraïbe francophone. Elle a également publié sur le Maghreb et l'Afrique Sub-saharienne et est l'auteure d'une monographie aux éditions l'Harmattan : Les Dramaturges antillaises : Cruauté, Créolité, Conscience féminine (Février 2008) et d'un collectif à paraître sur Le sacrifice dans les littératures francophones. Elle travaille actuellement sur la notion de transgenre, le passage de l'oralité au théâtre dans l'œuvre de Mimi Barthélémy.
Marijn S. Kaplan is an Associate Professor of French at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. She has published extensively on eighteenth-century women writers, notably Marie Jeanne Riccoboni and Françoise de Graffigny. Her most recent book, Translations and Continuations: Riccoboni and Brooke, Graffigny and Roberts, just appeared with Pickering & Chatto in London, England. [End Page 162]
Jeff Kendrick is an advanced lecturer and coordinator of the first-year French program at the University of Kansas. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation, "The Music of Mary and Martha: Tension and Dissonance in Marguerite de Navarre's Chansons spirituelles," which he will be incorporating in a manuscript project that explores religious and musical tension in sixteenth-century French poetry. He is also working on articles dealing with landscapes and poetic theory in the Renaissance. His research interests include medieval and Renaissance lyrical and spiritual poetry.
Dominique Laporte est professeur associé à l'Université du Manitoba et responsable des recensions pour la revue Francophonies d'Amérique. Il a participé à la nouvelle édition des Œuvres complètes de George Sand en procurant des éditions critiques du Pressoir, de La Famille de Germandre, de Malgrétout et de La Tour de Percemont (à paraître chez Honoré Champion Éditeur). Il dirige présentement un projet international d'édition critique du Théâtre complet d'Eugène Labiche pour le compte des Éditions Classiques Garnier. Ses articles sur le roman et le théâtre français du XIXe siècle ont paru, entre autres, dans George Sand Studies, Romance Notes, French Forum, Nineteenth-Century French Studies et The Romanic Review.
Aaron Prevots is Associate Professor of French at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. He specializes in 19th-21st century French poetry and has published articles on writers such as Arthur Rimbaud, Walt Whitman, Jacques Réda, Philippe Jaccottet and Yves Bonnefoy. He has translated three volumes of Réda's poetry and prose - Return to Calm (Host Publications, 2007), Thirteen Songs of Dark Love (VVV Editions, 2008) and Europes (Host Publications, 2009), as well as Bernard Vargaftig's poetry collection As Breathing (VVV Editions, 2010). He currently serves as the invited writer of the French Review's annual "Year in Poetry" article and is completing a monograph on Réda for Rodopi. He has also been involved with music through...
