Smith Professor of French Language and Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
- Office: 431
Boylston Hall; Library study: Pusey 201
- Office
hours fall 2008: to be announced
- Phone:
Office: 617-496-3826; Study 617-496-7127
- Fax: 617-496-4682 (attn: Prof. McDonald)
- E-mail:
cmcdonal@fas.harvard.edu.
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Academic degrees: B.A., Mount Holyoke College; Ph.D. Yale University
Interests: 18th- and 20th-Century French literature; Literary theory and Cultural Studies; Feminism; Questions of Change in Thought; The Dialogue of Literature and Criticism with Other Disciplines. |
Selected Publications:
The Extravagant Shepherd. A Study of the Pastoral Vision in Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse. SVEC. Banbury, Eng: The Voltaire Foundation. Reprint, 2007.
Ed., Images of Congo: Anne Eisner's Art and Ethnography, 1946-58 , Milan : 5 Continents Editions, 2005;
"Hommage to Jacques Derrida," PMLA (March, 2005)
"Notes on an Unfinished Question," Differences 16.3, A special issue "Derrida's Gift," eds. Elisabeth Weed and Ellen Rooney
"Notes sur l'entre-deux: de la biographie à l'autobiographie des femmes." Bonheur de la littérature, Presses Universitaires de France (2005)
Ethnography, Literature and Art in the Work of Anne Eisner (Putnam): Making Sense of Colonial Life in the Ituri Forest," Research in African Literatures 35/4 (Winter), 2004
"Banishing Intolerance, Bringing Change," Passages (2003); "Changing the Stakes: Pornography, Privacy, and the Perils of Democracy," Yale French Studies (2001)
"The Anxiety of Change" in Eighteenth-Century Literary History (l999); "The Proustian Revolution", The Cambridge Companion (1997)
Transformations in Personhood and Culture After Theory, co-ed. (l994)
The Proustian Fabric (1991)
The Ear of the Other: Otobiography, Transference, Translation, ed. (1988)
Dispositions: Quatre essais sur les écrits de Rousseau,Mallarmé, Proust et Derrida autour de textes et musique (1986)
The Dialogue of Writing: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Literature (1985)
Courses
taught 2008-2009:
French 139a. The 18th Century: Self and Society (fall)
French 165. Marcel Proust (spring)
HAA 270m. The Ethnographic Imagination
Literature 129. Reading the 18th Century Through 21st-Century Eyes (spring)
Other
courses taught:
[ French 139b. The 18th Century: Ethical Dilemmas ]
[ French 238. Failure and Change: Rereading Enlightenment ]
For
more information, go to the
Romance Languages and Literatures course catalogue.
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Last
updated on
June 10, 2008
