Literatures and Cultures
Kimpel Hall,
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: 479.575.2951
Fax: 479.575.6795
Email the department:
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Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
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french Faculty
NANCY ARENBERG
(B.A., Grinnell College, 1982; M.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1989; Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1996) came to the Department of Foreign Languages in 1996 as an Assistant Professor of French. She has published various articles of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature. Her area of specialization focuses on epistolary fiction, feminist theory, and Francophone literature.
HOPE CHRISTIANSEN
Publications
Editorship
--Review Editor, Literary Criticism, The French Review (2002-2010)
Book Chapter
--"Masters and Slaves in Le Rouge et le noir and Indiana." Pp. 197-208 in The Play of Terror in Nineteenth-Century France. Eds. John T. Booker and Allan H. Pasco. U of Delaware Press, 1997.
Articles
--“L’Oiseau, le vent, la vague: Baudelairian Resonances in Colette’s La Vagabonde.” Forthcoming in Spring 2013 in Romance Notes.
--"'May I Have This Waltz?': Madame Bovary and Nélida." Dalhousie French Studies 55 (2001): 31-39.
--"Finding a Room of Her Own in Colette's La Vagabonde." Dalhousie French Studies 44 (1998): 81-96.
--"Exchanging Glances: Learning Visual Communication in Balzac's Eugénie Grandet." European Romantic Review 6 (1996): 153-61.
--"Two Simple Hearts: Balzac's Eugénie and Flaubert's Félicité." Romance Quarterly 42 (1995): 195-202.
--"Writing and Vagabondage: Renée Néré and Emma Bovary." Symposium 48 (1994): 3-15.
--"Learning to See: Visual Education in Les Egarements du coeur et de l'esprit." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 319 (1994): 151-67.
--"The Rhetoric of Self-Deprecation in Montaigne's Essais." Chimères 17.2 (1984): 15-38.
Bibliography
--Bibliographer for the Romantic Movement Bibliography, 1994-1998
Book Reviews
--42 reviews for various journals (The French Review, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Dalhousie French Studies, etc.)
Conference Papers
--“Feminist Prophets in Novels by Marcelle Tinayre, Colette Yver, and Victor Margueritte”
South Central Modern Language Association, November 2012
--“’Vomiting Glory’: Colette Yver’s Troubled Feminism”
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2012
--“Belle Epoque Rebels in Colette’s La Vagabonde and Marcelle Tinayre’s La Rebelle”
South Central Modern Language Association, October 2011
--“Men in Skirts, New Amazons: Women Doctors in Colette Yver’s Princesses de Science”
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2011
--“Son and Lovers: The Child as Narrative Linchpin in Marcelle Tinayre’s La Rebelle”
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2010
--“Educating Nélida and Valentia: Female Mentorship in Two Works by Marie d’Agoult”
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2009
--“Plotting Suicide in George Sand’s Indiana and Marie d’Agoult’s Nélida”
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2008
--“’May I Have this Waltz?’: Flaubert Reading Nélida”
Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, May 1995
--“The Look of Love in La Chartreuse de Parme”
Missouri Romance Languages and Literatures Conference, March 1994
--“Masters and Slaves in Le Rouge et le noir and Indiana”
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October 1993
--“Educating le regard in Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet”
South Central Modern Language Association, October 1993
--“See(k)ing Love: Educating the regard in Les Egarements du coeur et de l’esprit”
Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, May 1993
--“Vagabondage and Writing in Colette’s La Vagabonde and Flaubert’s Madame Bovary”
Missouri Romance Languages and Literatures Conference, March 1993
--“Two Simple Hearts: Balzac’s Eugénie and Flaubert’s Félicité”
Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, May 1992
--“Changing Perceptions of the Lady in La Mort le roi Artu”
Mid-America Medieval Association, February 1987
B.A., Kansas State University, 1979; M.A., Kansas State University, 1981; Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1990) Hope joined the faculty in 1990 and is currently Associate Professor of French. Her research areas are nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction; in recent years she has focused on Belle Epoque novels by women. She has an article forthcoming in Romance Notes. She presents papers every year at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference and at the South Central Modern Language Association. Hope served as review editor of the Literary History & Criticism rubric in the premier journal for French studies, French Review, from 2002-2010. She regularly publishes book reviews for several journals. She was Vice Chair of the department for four years. She received the Fulbright College Master Teacher award in 1994, the Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor award in 2006, and the University of Arkansas Faculty Gold Medal for mentoring in 2012.
KATHY COMFORT
Publications
Articles
--Matéo Maximoff’s La Septième fille: A Roma Testimony of Internment.” Modern and Contemporary France 203. (August 2012): 337-56.
--“Navigating Cape Horn: Negative Near-Death Experiences in Philippe Labro’s La Traversée.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 25.1 (Summer 2010): 32-46.
--“Elzéard Bouffier, Jean Giono’s Ecological Saint.” Neophilologus 95.3 (2011): 403-414.
--“’Sœur-des-Pauvres’: A Saint’s Legend à la Zola.” Neophilologus 92.3 (2008): 417-28.
--“Lycanthropic Frenetism in Pétrus Borel’s ‘Don Andréa Vésalius: L’Anatomiste.’ European Romantic Review 19.1 (January 2008): 51-61.
--“Jean Cayrol’s Les Corps Etrangers: Résistancialisme Confronted.” The French Review 80.4 (March 2007): 846-59).
--“Sin, Disease, Possession: The Case of the Curé d’Ambricourt in George Bernanos’s Journal d’un curé de campagne.” Renascence 57.1 (2004): 29-46.
--“Folkloric Resonances in Jean Giono’s Un Roi sans divertissement.” Dalhousie French Studies 66 (2004): 53-62.
--“Divine Images of Hysteria in Emile Zola's Lourdes.” Nineteenth-Century French
Studies 30, no. 3-4 (2002 Spring-Summer): 329-45.
--"André Gide's L'Immoraliste: Portrait of a Male Hysteric." Romance Notes 41 (2000):87-96.
--"Images of Flora as Emblems of Health in Balzac's Le Lys dans la vallée." Dalhousie French Studies 44 (1998): 31-38.
--"Blood Memory: Hereditary Metaphors in Emile Zola's Le Docteur Pascal." Romance Quarterly 45 (1998): 195-202.
--Annotated bibliographic entries on Champfleury, Marie D’Agoult, Benjamin Constant, Eugène Fromentin, Alfred de Musset, Madame de Staël, for Romantic Movement Bibliography. A Selective and Critical Bibliography, 1998 and 1999.
--Translation into English of articles originally in French, and of French quotes used in articles written in English, The Play of Terror in Nineteenth-Century France. Ed. John T. Booker and Allan H. Pasco. University of Delaware Press, 1997.
Encyclopedia Entries
--“Germinal.” The Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, Ed. M. Keith Booker. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.
--“Zola, Emile.” The Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, Ed. M. Keith Booker. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.
Papers Given
-What Would Fabrice Do? Channeling Stendhalian virtú in Charlotte Delbo's Spectres, mes compagnons. South Central Modern Language Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 2012.
--The Betrayal of Memory in Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s D’un Château l’autre. The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, in Lexington, KY, April 2012.
--“Love and Identity in a Time of War: Clara Malraux’s La Maison ne fait pas crédit” The South Central Modern Languages Conference, in Hot Springs, AR, October 2011.
--“Reconstituting Identity in Evelyne Le Garrec's La Rive allemande de ma mémoire.” The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, in Lexington, KY, April 2011.
--“Proustian Resonances in Annie Guéhenno’s L’Épreuve.” The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, in Lexington, KY, April 2010.
--Panel chair, "Memory, Memoire and Remembrance (II),” The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference in Lexington, KY, April 2009.
--“Resurrecting René: Marie Chaix’s Les Lauriers du Lac de Constance and Marie Gatard’s La Guerre, mon père,” April 2009.
--Panel organizer and chair, ““Reading Resistance in French and Francophone Literature” The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference in Lexington, KY, April 2008.
--“The Heart of the Resistance: Lucie Aubrac’s Ils partiront dans l’ivresse,The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference in Lexington, KY, April 2008.
--“Bad Blood: Coming to Terms with Seropositivity in Vincent Ravalec’s Hépatite C,” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, February 2008.
--“Lazare des Tziganes: Rebirth in Matéo Maximoff's La Septième fille.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 2007.
--“Recovered Memory in Patrick Modiano’s Accident Nocturne.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, February 2007.
--“Les Illusions (révolutionnaires) perdues: Prosper Chalas’s ‘Un Décoré de juillet.” Presented at the Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, April 2006.
--Panel chair, "Twentieth-Century French Fiction I." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 2005.
--“Shades of Lazarus in Jean Giono’s “L’Homme qui plantait des arbres.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 2005.
--“Résistance au féminin in Marguerite Duras’s La Douleur.” at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 2005.
--“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Representation of Near-Death Experience in
Philippe Labro’s La Traversée.” Twentieth-Century Literature, Louisville, KY, February 2004.
--“’Sœur-des-Pauvres’: A Zolian Fairy Tale.” Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference Lexington, KY, April 2004.
--“(Re) Structuring the Self: The Question of Identity in Jean Cayrol’s Les Corps Etrangers.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 2003.
--“Weird Science: The Representation of Physiology in Champfleury’s ‘Les Enfants du Professeur Turck’ and Borel’s ‘Don Andréa Vésalius. L’Anatomiste’.” Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington, KY, April 25, 2003.
--“A Werewolf in Provence: Folkloric Elements In Jean Giono’s Un Roi sans divertissement.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 2002.
--“Folie à deux: Hysterical Contagion in Emile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin.” The Modern Language Association Conference, December 2000.
Book Reviews
--Will, Barbara. Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ and the Vichy Dilemma. NY: Columbia UP, 2011. Publication forthcoming, The French Review.
--Wilson, Susannah. Voices from the Asylum : Four French Women Writers, 1850-1920. Oxford : Oxford UP, 2010. The French Review 86.1 (October 2012): 193-94.
--Romestaing, Alain. Jean Giono: Le Corps à l’œuvre. Paris: Champion, 2009. The French Review 85.3 (February 2012): 565-66.
--Marquer, Bertrand. Les Romans de la Salpêtrière: Réception d’une scénographie clinique: Jean-Martin Charcot dans l’imaginaire fin-de-siècle. Vol. 438. Histoire des idées et critique littéraire. Genève: Droz, 2008. The French Review 84.3 (February 2011): 596-97
--Tortonese, Paolo, ed. Image et pathologie au XIXème siècle. Cahiers de littérature française VI. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2008. The French Review. 83.6 (May 2010): 1355-56.
--Goulet, Andrea. Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the of Modern French Fiction. Philadelphia: U of PA P : 2006. The French Review 82.4 (March 2009): 851-852.
--Van Zuylen Marina. Monomania: The Flight From Everyday Life in Literature and Art. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2005. The French Review 82.4 (February 2009): 620-21.
--Trout, Colette, and Derk Visser. Jean Giono. Amsterdam: Collection monographique Rodopi, 2006. The French Review 82.6 (May 2009): 1324-25.
--Kemp, Simon. Defective Inspectors: Crime Fiction Pastiche in Late-Twentieth-Century
French Literature. London: Legenda, 2006. The French Review 83.2 (December 2009): 422-23.
--Arrouye, Jean. D’Un seul tenant: Manières et matières gioniennes. Aix-en-Provence:
Publications de l’Université de Provence, 2003. The French Review (April 2007): 1133-34.
--Harris, Trevor. Maupassant: Quinze Contes. London: Grant& Cutler, 2005. The French Review 81.2 (December 2007): 380-81
--Madeleine Bertaud, éd. Les Grandes Peurs, I. Diable, fléaux, etc. Travaux de littérature
46-16. Genève: Droz, 2003. The French Review 7.9.5 (April 2006): 1054-55.
--Boulé, Jean-Pierre. HIV Stories: The Archaeology of AIDS Writing in France, 1985-
1988. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2002. The French Review 78.6 (May 2005): 1252-53.
--Granby, Françoise. Le Corps de l’artiste. Discours médical et représentations littéraires de l’artiste au XIXe siècle. Lyon : Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2001. The French Review 78.5 (April 2005): 1006-07.
--Thiher, Allen. Fiction Rivals Science. The French Novel From Balzac to Proust. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2001. The French Review 77.6 1237.
--Spoiden, Stéphane. La Littérature et le SIDA. Archéologie des représentations d’une maladie. Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Mirail, 2001. The French Review 77.1 (October 2003): 163.
--Haavik, Kristof H. In Mortal Combat. The Conflict of Life and Death in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart. Birmingham: Summa Publications, Inc., 2000. The French Review 77 (April 2003): 1011.
--Gorilovics, Tivadar, ed. Lectures de Zola. Studia Romanica de Debrecen. Series Litteraria Fasc. XXI. Debrecen, Hungary: Debrecen Egyetem, 1999. The French Review 76.3 (February 2003): 603-04.
--Donaldson-Evans, Mary. Medical Examinations. Dissecting the Doctor in French Narrative Prose, 1857-1894. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. The French Review 75.6 (May 2002): 1256.
(B.A., Illinois State University, 1982; M.A., Illinois State University, 1983; Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1997) joined the faculty in 2001. Her research focuses on French Naturalism and the French novel of the 19th- and 20th-centuries. She has given papers at national and international conferences and published articles on the representation of illness in Balzac, Zola, Gide, and Labro. In the past, she was a contributor to the "Romantic Movement Bibliography". Her current interests include the French regional novel, the roman noir, and the 19th century short story.
RAYMOND EICHMANN-- Emeritus
Publications
Articles
- "Holes, Cavities, and Grottoes in Zola's L'Assommoir," Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association, Vol. I, No. 2, 1975, pp. 21-27.
- "The Lion in Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain: A Recapitulation." Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association, Vol. II, No. 2, Spring 1976, pp. 26-32.
- "Les Eléments dramatiques dans Courtois d'Arras" Revue du Pacifique. Sacramento, CA., Vol. II, 2, 1976, pp. 83-93.
- Co-author. "Foreign languages at the Pre-School Level," ERIC, October issue RIE, Access, No. F.L. 008580
- "The Question of the Variante and the Fabliau," Fabula Göttingen, Germany, Band 17, Heft 1/2, 1976, pp. 40-44.
- "The Survey of Medieval Literature: An Economical Dilemna." Ralph, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1977.
- "The Search for Originals in the Fabliaux and the Validity of Textual Dependency," Romance Notes, Vol. 19, No. 1, Fall, 1978, pp. 90-97.
- The Fabliau in the first Branch of the Roman de Renart," Publications of the Missouri Philological Association, Vol. III, 1978, pp. 12-15.
- "The Anti-Feminism in the Fabliaux," French Literature Series Vol. VI, 1979, pp. 26-34.
- "Oral Compostion. A Recapitulatory Review of its Nature and Impact," Neuphilogische Mitteilungen. Helsinki, Finland, Vol. 80, 1979, pp. 97-109.
- "The Artistry of Economy in the Fabliaux," Studies in short Fiction, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1980, pp. 67-71.
- "The Artistry of Economy in the Fabliaux," Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1980, pp. 57-71.
- "The 'Her(m)ities' of the Bouchier d'Abevile." South Central Review, Vol. 2, No. 4. Winter 1985, pp. 1-8.
- "The Failure of Literary Language in Guillaume au Faucon", in Reinardus. Annuaire de la Société Internationale Renardienne, 1988, Vol. 1, pp. 72-78.
- "The 'Prêtres Concubinaires' in The Fabliaux." Australian Journal of French Studies. (Forthcoming) 27, No. 3 (1990), pp. 208-213.
-"'Cil ne fait mie savoir/Qui de nuit met sa feme hors. Assumptions about the Marital Status in the Fabliaux". French Studies Bulletin, No. 45. Winter 1992/93, pp. 11-13.
-Ten 'Comportements' Applied to Taching a Unit on the French Economy, in Making Business French Work, eds. Steven J. Loughrin-Sacco and Jayne Abrate, San Diego State University: AATF, 1998, pp. 17-101.
Book Publications
- Cuckolds, Clerics, &Countrymen - Medieval French Fabliaux, University of Arkansas Press, 1982. (Translation by J. DuVal)
- Medieval French Fabliaux - The B.N. 832 Manuscript. Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Vol. 16, Series A. Garland Press, N.Y. (Translation by J. DuVal). Vol. I, 1984.
- Medieval French Fabliaux - The B.N. 832 Manuscript. Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Vol. 17, Series A. Garland Press, N.Y. (Translation by J. DuVal (Vol. II), 1985.
- Fabliaux, Fair and Foul, MRTS, Center for Medieval & Early Renaissance Studies, University of New York-Binghampon, 1992. (with John DuVal)
Book Reviews
- Henri Rey-Flaud's "Le Cercle magique. Essai sur le theatre en rond a la fin du Moyen Age, in "The French Review", Vol. XLVIII, No. 4, March 1975, 778-779.
-Cooke, Thomas D. and Benjamin L. Honeycutt, eds. "The Humor in the Fabliaux: A Collection of Critical Essays." Columbia, Mo., University of Missouri Press, 1974, pp. 216 in "The French Review, V.L., No. 1, October 1976, p. 147.
-Amiens Eustache D'. "Du Boucher d'Abevile", ed. By Jean Rychner. (Textes Litteraires Francais) Geneva: Droz, 1975, pp. 109. In "The French Review", Vol 1, No. 6, December, 1976, p. 332-333.
-"L'Ironie", Lyon: P.O. de Lyon, 1978 in "Style", 1980.
-Fr. Ponge's "The Making of the Pre", Tr. and ed. by Lee Fannestock. Columbia: The University of Missouri Press, in "Landscape Architecture". July/August, Vol. 73, No. 4, pp. 100, 101.
-Julius W. Friend's "The Linchping: French-German Relations, 1950-1990. Foreword A. W. DePorte. (CSIS Washington Papers Series.) New York: Praeger, 1991, in "German Studies", Vol. XIX, No. 3, October 1996, pp. 600-602.
-Rogers Brubaker's "Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany". Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992, in "German Studies, forthcoming.
(B.A., University of Arkansas, 1965; M.A., University of Arkansas, 1967; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1973) joined the University of Arkansas in 1969. He is currently a Professor of French as has served as Department Chair (1988-2003). He is the co-author of four books on medieval French fabliaux and one on Old French drama. He has written over fifteen articles in national and international journals and has presented numerous papers at national and international conferences. He has served on several editorial boards and also served on the executive board of the South Central Modern Language Association. His research interests are medieval French fabliaux and drama, 20th-century French drama, and French culture.