Impact 2003-04

Conference Presentations

Natalya Stepanova presented De la mer-maid a la sea-reine: la recherche de la langue feminine dans Les fous de Bassan d'Anne Herbert at the 2004 GRA Colloquium, Trajectories, Transformations, Progressions at the University of Pennsylvania, March 19-20, 2004.

Mickael Rozwarski presented The Interplay between the Fictive Character, the Audience, and the Silver Screen. at the 39th Annual Comparative Literature Conference in Los Angles, CA, March 18-19, 2004.

Wakaba Futamura presented The Perpetual Prison in La nuit sacree and Femmes d'Alger at the 13th Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference on States of Perversion at the University of Michigan, March 12-14, 2004.

Natalya Stepanova presented Requiem aeternam for Man: Genetic Mutations as an escape from Foucault's Triangle of Life, Language, and Work in Michel Houellebecq's "Les Particules Elementaires" and Marie Darrieussecq "Truismes" at the First Annual French and Italian Graduate Student Conference at the University of Texas, February 27-28 2004.

Madalina Akli presented Proust: voyage au bout de la conscience at the 20th-Century Literature Conference: When is post modernism? at the University of Louisville, February 26-28 2004.

Melissa Bailar presented The Mirrored Stage: Courtesans Acting Out at the Modern Language Association Conference, December 27-30, 2003.

Melissa Bailar presented Stages of Change: The Comedienne, the Theater, and 19th-Century France at the 29th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium at the University of Arizona, October 23-25, 2003.

Melissa Bailar presented Nana and the Mirror's Tain at the 12th Annual AIZEN Conference in San Antonio, TX, October 9-11, 2003.

Madalina Akli presented Les mots et les couleurs en mouvement. R. Delaunay et G. Apollinaire at the Camera Ou Stylo: A Problematic Dialogue Conference at the University of California, Los Angles, October 3-4, 2003.

Susannah Tysor presented Proust, le grand chroniqueur {fin de si'ecle}: pourquoi est-il 'a la mode au de'but du 3'eme mille'naire? at the Les Rencontres du Consulat in Houston, TX, September 30, 2003.

Graduate Student Awards

President's Fellowship
      Ciprian Socaciu
      Lu Zheng

Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughan Fellowship
      Jacques Sagot