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Mylène Priam

Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures

  • Office: Boylston Hall 507
  • Phone: 617-495-9209
  • Office hours fall 2008: on leave. By appointment only.
  • Email: mpriam@fas.harvard.edu
 

Degrees: Ph.D.: University of Illinois, Urbana; Maîtrise, D.E.A.: Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France.
Research interests: The French Caribbean; Francophone Maghreb, Machreq Africa; French Culture and Civilization; Contemporary Francophone Literature; Metropolitan French 18th- to 20th-Century Literature

Most recent conferences:

  • "D'Ile en En-ville: Insularite, urbanisation et canevas discursif creole dans 'Texaco' de Patrick Chamoiseau", 20th and 21st Century International French and Francophone Studies Colloquium, Gainsville, Florida, March 30- April 2 2005
  • Rites catholiques et quimbois: Representations et fonctions dans 'La Vierge du Grand Retour' de Raphael Confiant", Colloque International "Liturgie, Art et Theatralite", Sept 8-10 2005, Valenciennes, France.
  • Qui a tue Romule Beausoleil?: Le roman policier ou la mort d'un mythe dans 'Le Meurtre du Samedi-Gloria' de Raphael Confiant", International Colloquium on French and Francophone Studies, Nov 3-5 2005, Manchester, UK.
    Articles:
  • "La Creolisation du monde--Presentation du Domaine", in 'Peuples et Monde', Summer 2005.
  • "L'Ile est un texte: Discours creole, de l'insularite du monde dans 'Texaco' de Patrick Chamoiseau", in 'Peuples et Monde', Summer 2005.
  • "Le Mythique et l'anecdotique: Le Roman autobiographique antillais a la croisee des dires, 'Chemin d'ecole' de Patrick Chamoiseau", in 'Theorie', Spring 2005.

  • Courses taught 2008-09: on leave

    Other courses taught:

  • [French 185. National Identity and Narrative Representation in 20th-Century Francophone Literature]
  • [French 274. Hybridization, Intertextuality and Metissage in Literatures from Mauritius, La Reunion & the Caribbean]
  • French 42. French 42. Introduction au monde francophone
  • Freshman Seminar 31o. Negotiating Identity in Postcolonial Francophone Africa and the Caribbean


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  • Last updated on June 10, 2008