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Alice A. Jardine

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Office: Boylston Hall G-24
Phone: 617-495-9199
Email: jardine@fas.harvard.edu
Office hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays 1-2

Academic degrees: A.B., Ohio State University; A.M., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

Research interests: 20th and 21st century French and Francophone Literature; Feminist Theory; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Culture, Arts, and Politics; Postmodern and Transmodern Theories of Culture and Society; The American 1950's.

Publications:

Books:

	The Future of Difference, eds. Hester Eisenstein and Alice Jardine (Boston: G.K. Hall and Company, 1980; paperback, Rutgers University Press, 1985). Cited in the Harvard Guide to Influential Books. Gynésis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985, paperback, 1986.) Several chapters of Gynesis have been reprinted separately; for example, "The Demise of Experience: Fiction as Stranger Than Truth," in Postmodernism: A Reader, ed. Thomas Docherty (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993). Gynésis: Configurations de la femme et de la modernité, translated by Patricia Baudoin, with the author (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1991). Gynesis, translated into Japanese, with the author and with a new introduction. Tokyo, Japan.
Men in Feminism, eds. Alice Jardine and Paul Smith (New York and London: Methuen, 1987); second edition, 1988. Social Control and the Arts, eds. Susan Suleiman, Alice Jardine, Ruth Perry and Carla Mazzio (Cambridge: New Cambridge Press, 1990). Shifting Scenes: Interviews on Women, Writing, and Politics in Post-68 France, eds. Alice Jardine and Anne Menke. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991). Paperback edition, 1993. Living Attention: On Teresa Brennan, eds. Alice Jardine, Shannon Lundeen and Kelly Oliver, with an introduction by Alice Jardine. (New York: SUNY Press, 2007).
	Booming: An Apocalyptic Memoir --a novel in manuscript under revision. In Progress: Mothers Writing: Collected Essays In progress: Visions of Catastrophe: The 21st Century 1950s Style Translation: Julia Kristeva, Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, ed. Leon Roudiez, trans. Thomas Gora, Alice Jardine and Leon Roudiez (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980).

The Future of Difference, eds. Hester Eisenstein and Alice Jardine (Boston: G.K. Hall and Company, 1980; paperback, Rutgers University Press, 1985). Cited in the Harvard Guide to Influential Books.

Gynésis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985, paperback, 1986.) Several chapters of Gynesis have been reprinted separately; for example, "The Demise of Experience: Fiction as Stranger Than Truth," in Postmodernism: A Reader, ed. Thomas Docherty (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).
Gynésis: Configurations de la femme et de la modernité, translated by Patricia Baudoin, with the author (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1991).
Gynesis, translated into Japanese, with the author and with a new introduction. Tokyo, Japan.

Men in Feminism, eds. Alice Jardine and Paul Smith (New York and London: Methuen, 1987); second edition, 1988.

Social Control and the Arts, eds. Susan Suleiman, Alice Jardine, Ruth Perry and Carla Mazzio (Cambridge: New Cambridge Press, 1990).

Shifting Scenes: Interviews on Women, Writing, and Politics in Post-68 France, eds. Alice Jardine and Anne Menke. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991). Paperback edition, 1993.

Living Attention: On Teresa Brennan, eds. Alice Jardine, Shannon Lundeen and Kelly Oliver, with an introduction by Alice Jardine. (New York: SUNY Press, 2007).

Booming: An Apocalyptic Memoir --a novel in manuscript under revision.

In Progress: Mothers Writing: Collected Essays

In progress: Visions of Catastrophe: The 21st Century 1950s Style

Translation:

Julia Kristeva, Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, ed. Leon Roudiez, trans. Thomas Gora, Alice Jardine and Leon Roudiez (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980).

Recent Articles:

"Dolphins, Dying Rooms, And Destabilized Demographics: Or, Loving Anna In A Transmodern World," Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 21, no. 2, Fall 2002.

"Coding the Human in a Transmodern World: A Millennial Conversation With Alice Jardine" and "An Excerpt from Booming" FACS, volume 6, Spring 2003.

Review of Nancy Miller's But Enough About Me. In The Radcliffe Quarterly, Spring 2003.

"The Invisible Woman In the Academy: Or, Murder Still Without A Text." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Volume 24, Number 2, Fall 2005.

"The Game Show," an excerpt from Booming: An Apocalyptic Memoir. Women's Studies Quarterly, Volume 33, Nos. 3&4, Fall/Winter 2005.

"Thinking Wittig's Differences: Or, failing that, Invent," GLQ, vol 13, no 4, 2007.

Courses taught 2008-2009:

French 97. Tutorial—Sophomore Year: The Politics of Poetics: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis (spring)

Romance Studies 201. Approaches to Theory (spring)

WGS 1000gm. IStudies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1000gm. Introduction to WGS: The Gender Mystique (fall)

WGS 1154. I Like Ike, But I Love Lucy: Women, Popular Culture, and the 1950s (fall)

Other courses taught:

[ French 136. Feminist Literary Criticisms ]

For more information go to the Romance Languages and Literatures course catalogue.

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Last updated on October 2, 2008