Christie McDonald
Director of Graduate Studies in French
Smith Professor of French Language and Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
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Academic degrees: B.A., Mount Holyoke College; Ph.D. Yale University Research 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. |
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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 2009-2010:
Comparative Literature 278. Failure and Change (Graduate Seminar in General Education) - (New Course) [fall term]
French 139b. The 18th Century: Ethical Dilemmas [fall term]
Romance Studies 201. Approaches to Theory [spring term]
Other
Courses Taught:
[French 139a. The 18th Century: Self and Society]
[French 165. Marcel Proust]
[French 238. Failure and Change: Rereading Enlightenment]
[HAA 270m. The Ethnographic Imagination (co-taught wtih Ewa Lajer-Burcharth)]
[Literature 129. Reading the 18th Century Through 21st-Century Eyes]
For more information, go to the RLL course catalogue.
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Last updated on September 29, 2009
