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Lycée francais. Collège International. Barcelona, Spain.
State University of New York at Buffalo, 1958-1964. B.A. Cum laude, French.
State University of New York at Buffalo, 1964-1966. M.A. French.
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 1969-1973, Ph.D. French.
Bryn Mawr College. Institut d'Etudes Françaises d'Avignon, France. Summer 1966.
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| Dissertation |
E.M. Cioran, témoin de la décadence européenne, (M.A., 1966). R. Féderman, Director.
La Femme et ses paysages d'âme dans l'oeuvre romanesque d'Octave Mirbeau “Women and Their Mental Landscapes in the Novels of Octave Mirbeau,” (Ph.D., 1973). Lois Boe Hyslop, Director.
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Graduate Director, French. ASU. Fall 1998; Spring 1999; Spring 2006.
Assistant Professor of French, Department of Foreign Languages, Arizona State University, 1973-
Instructor of French, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia, 1971-1973.
Assistant Professor of French, Genesee Community College, Batavia, NY. Summer 1968.
Instructor of French, Rosary Hill College, Buffalo, NY, 1965-1968. Promotion to Assistant Professor, 1968.
Teaching Assistant, Department of French. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1969-1971.
Teaching Assistant, Department of French, State University of New York, Buffalo, Summer 1965.
Resident Director, ASU Study Abroad in Lille, France. Fall 1992; 1994;
Director. ASU Summer Study in Québec: 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002; 2004, 2006.
ASU Correspondence Study. FRE 101-102; FRE 201-202; FRE 205; FRE 321-322. July 1994-2005.
Student teacher. Bennett High School, Buffalo, New York. September - March, 1963-64.
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| MA Theses |
Geneviève Besson, “Trois départs romantiques: Musset, Sand, Michelet," M.A. Research Project, A.S.U., 1981.
Anna Elizabeth Kuntz, “Joris-Karl Huysmans" A Rebours and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray; A Comparative Study in Dandyism and Decadence. November 16, 1984.
Stephen S. Christensen. “Balzac, Becque and Mirbeau; The Theme of Money on the French Nineteenth-Century Stage." December 1988.
Sue Gordon, “Odilon Redon's Dans le Rêve. An Analysis of the Sources of its Imagery." May 1981. [Department of Art. M.A. Committee Member.]
Shi, Xin. “Sand et Beauvoir: Etude de La Confession d’une jeune fille et des Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée [85 pgs]. In French. December 1994.
Bradley, Mary. “In Search of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore’s Poetic Voice [99 pp.].” In English. December 1994.
Smith, Phyllis Kathryn. “The Revolt of Women: (Dis)obedience on the Stage of the Nineteenth-Century French Theater, 1998.
Noudali, Robin. “[Mis]fortunes of the Heart: The Portrayal of Marriage in the Novels of Isabelle de Charrière.” August 1999.
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Books
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Essays on E. M Cioran. Rasinari 1911-Paris 1995. Aleksandra Gruzinska, Editor and contributor. A Publication of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999. |
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[Contributions by Leonid Arcade, Florin Berindeanu, Peter G. Christensen, Andrei Codrescu, Aleksandra Gruzinska, Ovid Hurd, Ingeborg M. Kohn, Sanda Stolojan. Costa Mesa, CA: ARA Publications, The American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999. Gruzinska’s contributions: “How this Anthology Came to Be” (5-6), “Reflections on E.M. Cioran (7-9), “E.M. Cioran et la civilization: le barbare et le décadent” (65-80), “E.M. Cioran, syllogismes de l’amertume” (81-88), “E.M. Cioran, le temps humain et l’éternel présent” (89-100), “E.M. Cioran and the Man Who Gave Up His Name by Jim Harrison” (101-114), “E.M. Cioran and the Idea of Admiration” (115-130), “E.M. Cioran: Face aux instants” (131-132), “Quelques Instants au téléphne avec E.M. Cioran” (133-140), “From Musset to Cioran: Sampling and Taming Solitude” (141-154)]. |
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Pecquet, Antoine. Diverse Thoughts on Man. English Translation of Pensées diverses sur l’homme (Nyon 1738). Murray D. Sirkis and Aleksandra Gruzinska, Translators. New York: Peter Lang, 1999. |
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Book Chapters
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"Structure in Octave Mirbeau's Le Jardin des supplices,” Twentietz-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 55. Gale Research Inc., 1995. Pp. 300-304. Reprinted from Zagadnienia Rodzajow Literackich (Les Problèmes des genres litteraires) 25: 2 (49) (1983): 65-73.
"Octave Mirbeau's Madame Hanska in "La Mort de Balzac.” Twentietz Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 55. Gale Research Inc., 1995: 309-313. Reprinted from Nineteenth Century French Studies 15: 3 (Spring 1987): 302-314.
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"Méconnaissances des lieux et connaissance de soi. Une relecture de La Mare au Diable.” In George Sand Today. The Eighth International George Sand Conference. Tours 1989. David Powell, Editor. New York, London: University Press of America, 1992: 131-143. |
"Octave Mirbeau (16 February 1848-16 February 1917).” In Dictionary of Literary Biography. Nineteenth-Century French Fiction Writers: Naturalism and Beyond, 1860-1900 Vol. 123. Catharine Savage Brosman, Editor. Detroit/London: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 1992: 215-231.
“De la Musset la Cioran: asumarea si îmblânzirea singuratajii.” Traducere din engleza de Carmen Maria Andras. In Confluente Romano-Americane (1995): 103-112.
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“Naturalism in France.” In Naturalism: Its Impact on Science, Religion and Literature. Edited by Hyung S. Choi, David F. Siemens, Jr., & Shirley Williams. Phoenix, AZ: Canyon Institute for Advanced Studies, 2001: 93-100. |
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Articles
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“Octave Mirbeau antimilitariste,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, IV, 3 (Spring 1976), 394-403.
“Un Roumain grand moraliste français: E.M. Cioran,” Yearbook of Romanian Studies, 2 (1977), 9-22.
“Le Conte enchassé de Nodier à Villiers de l'Isle-Adam,” Zagadnienia Rodzajow Literackich (Les Problèmes de genres litteraires), XXII, 2 (43) (Lodz, Poland, 1979), 41-51.
“Ovid in Exile in Vintila Horia's Dieu est né en exil,” Miorita, A Journal of Romanian Studies (Rochester, NY and Hamilton, New Zealand), 6: 2 (1979): 65-76.
“De la réalité à la fiction: le calvaire d'Octave Mirbeau.” Cahiers Naturalistes, 56 (1982): 131-143.
“Structure in Octave Mirbeau's Le Jardin des supplices,” Zagadnienia Rodzajow Literackich (Les Problèmes des genres litteraires) 25: 2 (49) (1983): 65-73.
“E.M. Cioran et la civilisation: le Barbare et le Décadent.” Journal of the American Romanian Academy, 5 (1984), 59-60. Reprinted in Southeastern Europe/L'Europe de Sud-Est 10: 1 (1983): 37-47.
“Emile Michel Cioran” [Introduction et bibliographie annotée.] Miorita. A Journal of Romanian Studies (Rochester, New York; Hamilton, New Zealand; ), 10 (1986): 27-53.
“E.M. Cioran: Syllogismes de l'amertume,” Journal of the American Romanian Academy 8-9 (Feb. 1986): 132-141.
“Octave Mirbeau's Madame Hanska in ‘La Mort de Balzac.’” Nineteenth Century French Studies 15:3 (Spring 1987): 302-314.
“E.M. Cioran: le temps humain et l'éternel présent.” Journal of the American Romanian Academy, 10 (l987): 192-201.
“E.M. Cioran in The Man Who Gave Up His Name by Jim Harrison.” Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences 12 (April 1989): 83-93.
“E.M. Cioran and the Idea of Admiration.” Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences 13-14 (1990): 145-161.
“E.M. Cioran et la Littérature. Destruction et création.” Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny (Warsaw, Poland) 37: 2 (1990): 159-169.
“Quelques Instants au téléphone avec E.M. Cioran.” Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991): 76-81.
“From Musset to Cioran: Sampling and Taming Solitude.” Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences 20 (1995): 64-75.
“Une Relecture du Journal d’une femme de chambre. Humiliation, haine et vengeance: le rire de Célestine.” Les Cahiers Octave Mirbeau 4 (Mai 1997): 223-235.
Humiliation, haine et vengeance : le rire de Célestine
“Writing Our Humanity: Cioran on Friendship.” Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences 21-22 (1997): 60-64.
“[Anti]-Semitism 1890s/1990s: Octave Mirbeau and E.M. Cioran.” The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literatue 55:1 (Spring 2001): 13-28. Also in Rocky Mountain E-Review of language and Literature 55:1 (Spring 2001): 1-14 [rmmla@rmmla.wsu.edu].
“E.M. Cioran’s Benjamin Fondane: A Literary Portrait.” ARA Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences 25-27 (2000-2002): 18-22.
“Szymborska and West: Two Critical Apraisals of Germaine de Staël.” OREES 2:3 (2002-2003): 1-8. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. An Online Journal.
http://orees.concordia.ca/numero3/essai/gruzinska.shtml
"E.M. Cioran and Constantin Noica."
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Reviews
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“Carr, Reg. Anarchism in France. The Case of Octave Mirbeau. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1977.” Nineteenth Century French Studies 7:1-2 (Fall-Winter 1978-79): 148-150.
“Aubéry, Pierre. Anarchiste et décadent: Mécislas Golberg, 1868-1907. Biographie Intellectuelle suivie de fragments inédits de son journal. Paris: Minard, 1978.” Nineteenth Century French Studies, 8:3-4 (Spring-Summer 1980): 307-308.
“Bishop, Lloyd. The Romantic Hero and His Heirs in French Literature. 1985.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 14: 3-4 (Spring-Summer 1986): 352-353.
“Thomas, G. Yvette. Au seuil d'un nouveau paradigme. Le Baroque à la lueur des théories lupasquiennes. New York, Berne, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1985. American University Studies.” Journal of the American Romanian Academy 10 (1987): 295-296.
“Cioran Face aux instants. [Illustration d'] Eduardo Chillida. [Châteauroux]: L'Ire des mots, 1985. [Dépôt légal 31-5-1988].” Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences 13-14 (1990): 331-332.
“ [E.M.] Cioran. L'Elan vers le pire. Photographies d'Irmeli Jung. [Paris]: NRF, Gallimard, 1990. [Recueil non-paginé].” Cahiers de l'Archipel 23 (Juin 1990): 15-16.
“Paul Adam. Symbolistes et Décadents Textes littéraires. Collection dirigée par Keith Carmeron, LXX. Articles receuillis, annotés et présentés par Michael Pakenham. Exeter: University of Exeter, 1989. Pp. v-xxviii; 68.” Nineteenth Century French Studies 19: 1 (Fall 1990): 169-170.
“Sora, Mariana. Cioran Jadis et naguère. Cioran, [E.M.]. Entretien à Tubingen. Paris: L'Herne (Méandres), 1988.” Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991): 296-298.
“Octave Mirbeau. Actes du colloque international d'Angers du 19 au 22 septembre 1991. Université d'Angers. Centre de Recherche en Littérature et Linguistique de l'Anjou et des Bocages de l'Ouest. Textes réunis par Pierre Michel et Georges Cesbron. Avec le Concours du ministère de l'Education nationale de Conseil général de Maine-et-Loire de la mairie d'Angers. Angers: Presses de l'Université d'Angers, 1992.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 22: 3 & 4 (Spring-Summer 1994): 578-580.
“Cahiers Octave Mirbeau No. 1, 1994. Pierre Michel, Editor. Angers, Société Octave Mirbeau (1994). 320 Pg.” Nineteenth Century French Studies 23: 3-4 (Spring-Summer 1995): 520-521.
“Cahiers Octave Mirbeau No. 2, 1995. Rédacteur en chef: Pierre Michel. Edités par la Société Octave Mirbeau, 16 square des Anciennes Provinces, 49000 Angers. 320 Pg. ISSN: 1254-6879.” In Nineteenth-Century French Studies 24: 3-4 (Spring-Summer 1996): 482.
“Cahiers Octave Mirbeau No. 3, 1996. Rédacteur en chef: Pierre Michel. Edités par la Société Octave Mirbeau, 16 square des Anciennes Provinces, 49000 Angers. 319 Pgs. ISSN: 1254-6879.” In Nineteenth-Century French Studies 25: 3-4 [Spring-Summer 1997]: 457-458.
“Octave Mirbeau. Petits Poèmes Parisiens. Edition établie, présentée et annotée par Pierre Michel. Editions à l’Ecart, 1994.” In Nineteenth-Century French Studies 25: 3-4 [Spring-Summer 1997]: 455-456.
“Octave Mirbeau. Amours Cocasses. Noces Parisiennes. Edition présentée et annotée par Pierre Michel. Paris: Librairie Nizet, 1995. 348 [351] pg. ISBN 2-7078-1201-3.” In Ninettenth-Century French Studies: 483-484.
“Lloyd, Christopher. Mirbeau’s Fictions. Durham Modern Languages Series FM 15. University of Durham 1996. ISBN 0-907310-35-4. Pg. 115.25: 3-4 [Spring-Summer 1997]: 454-455.” In Nineteenth-Century French Studies
“Cahiers Octave Mirbeau 4. (1997). Rédacteur en Chef: Pierre Michel. Edités par la Société Octave Mirbeau, 16 Square des Anciennes Provinces, 49000 Angers. Pg. 416. ISSN: 1254-6879.” In Nineteenth Century French Studies 26: 3-4 (Spring-Summer 1998): 465-467.
“Approaches to Teaching Stendhal’s The Red and the Black. Edited by Dean de la Motte and Stirling Haig. (Approaches to Teaching World Literature, Joseph Gibaldi Series Editor). New York: MLA, 1999.” In The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 54 (Spring 2000): 112-115.
http://rmmla.wsu.edu/ereview/54.1/reviews/gruzinska.asp
“Jack, Belinda. “George Sand. A Woman’s Life Writ Large. London: Chatto & Windus, 1999.” In Les Amis de George Sand [Paris] 22 (2000): 84-85. In French.
“Sanda Stolojan. Au Balcon de l’Exil Roumain à Paris. Avec Cioran, Eugène Ionesco, Mircea Eliade, Vintila Horia. Paris, France; Montreal/Canada: L’Harmattan Inc., 1999.” [In French.] Rocky Mountain E Review (Spring 2002). In French.
http://rmmla.wsu.edu/ereview/56.1/reviews/gruzinska.asp
“Victoria D. Schmidt. Triumph in Exile. New York: Chaucer Press, 2002.” In The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 57: 1 (Fall 2003): 90-93 and in Rocky Mountain E Review Fall 2003.
http://rmmla.wsu.edu/ereview/57.1/reviews/gruzinska.asp
“Linda M. Lewis. Germaine de Staël, George Sand and the Victorian Woman Artist. Columbia and London. University of Missouri Press, 2003. PP. I-XII, 278.” In Women in French Studies 12 (2004): 151-153.
“Maintenon, Madame de. Dialogues and Addresses. Edited and translated by J. Conley, S.J. (Series: The other Voice in Early Modern Europe). Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. ix-xxxiii; 1-117.” Women in French Studies, 2006. Forthcoming.
“Robert Ziegler. The Mirror of Divinity. The World and Creation in J.K. Huysmans. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004. Pp. 1-385. ISBN 0-87413-873-6." The Rocky Mountain Review or Language and Literature. Winter 2005. And RMMLA E-Review (12/19/2005). http://rmmla.wsu.edu/ereview/59.2/reviews/gruzinska.asp
“Gombrowicz, Witold. A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes. Translated by Benjamin Ivry. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. 109 pgs. ISBN 0-300-10409-X (Cloth: alk. paper), $22.” RockyMountain Modern Language Review (Spring 2006). And RMMLA E-Review. Forthcoming.
“Gombrowicz, Witold. Polish Memories. Translated by Bill Johnston. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2004. 191 Pgs. ISBN: 0-300-10410-3. $24.” RockyMountain Modern Language Review (Spring 2006). And RMMLA E-Review. Forthcoming.
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| Conferences |
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International
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“The Man Who Gave Up His Name; Nordstrom's Temptation to Exist.” Congress of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences. La Sorbonne. Paris, June 25, 1987.
“Méconnaissance des lieux et connaissance de soi. Une Relecture de La Mare au Diable.” 8th International George Sand Conference. Hofstra University and the Friends of George Sand at the Université François Rabelais at Tours. July 5-8, 1989. Paper read July 6.
“Romantic Elements in E.M. Cioran's Essays.” Fifteenth A.R.A. Congress. Ecole Polytechnique. Université de Montreal, Canada. June 14-18, 1990.
“Une Relecture du Journal d’une Femme de Chambre: le paysage d’âme de Célestine.” Colloque International Octave Mirbeau. Sept. 19-22, 1991. Angers, France.
“Humiliation, Haine et vengeance: le rire de Célestine.” Troisième Colloque International: Octave Mirbeau et la Modernité.” Université de Caen. France. 4: 2-6, 1996. [Published]
“The 1957 Letters of E. M. Cioran and Constantin Noica.” 21st A.R.A. Congress. University of Victoria, British Colombia, Canada. September 26-29, 1996.
“Women’s Voices in Wislawa Szymborska’s Poetry.” 58th Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences (PIASA). Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. June 2000. Supported by a Women and Studies Summer Research Grant (June 2000).
“Rendez-vous parisiens avec E.M. Cioran.” 26th ARA Congress (July 2001), Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada.
“From Play, to Novel, to Film: Rediscovering the Discovery of Radium in Les Palmes de M. Schutz.” PIASA [Polish Insitute of Arts and Sciences in America]. McGill University: Montreal, Canada, June 8-10, 2003.
“The Sand/Flaubert letters: Their Friendship, The Sunset of Her Life and the Franco-Prussian War.” Congrès Mondial des Professeurs de Francais. XI Congrès de la FIPF/77 Congrès de la AATF. Atlanta, Georgia. July 19-24, 2004.
“A Literary Portrait: Samuel Beckett seen by E.M. Cioran.” 78th Congrès Annuel in Québec (Canada) of the American Association of Teachers of French, October 9, 2005.
“The Role of the on Site Director at Laval University.” 78th Congrès Annuel in Québec (Canada) of the American Association of Teachers of French, October 9, 2005.
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National
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“Octave Mirbeau antimilitariste.” Conversation in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Fredonia, New York, October 30, 1975. (Published)
“Un Roumain grand moraliste français: E.M. Cioran.” Modern Languages Association, Chicago, Dec. 29, 1977. (Published)
“Ovid in Exile in Vintila Horia's Dieu est né en exil.” Modern Languages Association, New York, Dec. 28, 1978. (Published)
“E.M. Cioran et la Civilisation: le barbare et le décadent.” VIIIth Congress of the American Romanian Association. University of California at Davis, April 1983. (Published)
“E.M. Cioran et la littérature: destruction et création,” IXth Congress of the American Romanian Academy. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, May 4-6, 1984.
“E.M. Cioran: Syllogismes de l'amertume,” University of West Virginia's IXth Colloquium on "Rebels, Aliens, and Outsiders: The Nonconformist in Society,” Sept. 27-29, 1984. Published in the Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences 8 (Feb. 1986).
“E.M. Cioran: Le Temps humain et l'éternel présent.” Modern Languages Association, Washington, DC, Dec. 29, 1984. (Published)
“E.M. Cioran.” The Xth Congress of the American Romanian Association, Berkeley University, California, May 2-6, 1985.
“E.M. Cioran and Time.” XIth Congress of ARA. Boulder, Colorado, May 1986.
“Octave Mirbeau's Madame Hanska in 'La Mort de Balzac.'” Scripps College, Claremont, CA, March 21-22, 1986. (Published)
“Tracking Down the Elusive ‘I’ in Cioran's Aveux et anathèmes.” XIIIth American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences Congress. Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, May 5, 1988.
“Cioran and Admiration in Exercices d'Admiration.” XIVth Congress of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, April 20-23, 1989. (Published)
“Cioran and Music.” Sixteenth A.R.A. Congress; University of California at Northridg, June 1992.
“The Taming of the Shrew. Solitude Revisited: The Case of E.M. Cioran.” 19th A.R. A. Congress; Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts, Nov. 1995. (Published)
“Writing Our Humanity : E.M. Cioran on Friendship.” 20th A.R.A. Congress; University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, August 22-27, 1995. (Published)
“An Epistolary Dialogue Between Two Romanian Writers: E.M. Cioran and Constantin Noica.” Session on “Readings, Writings and Representation of the ‘Other.’” The 17th Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures; Univ. of Cincinnati, May 8-10, 1997.
“Preparing to Teach the Poetry in Translation of Wislawa Szymborska.” PIASA (Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America); 55th Annual Meeting; Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, June 2021, 1997.
“(Anti)-Semitism 1890s/1990s: Octave Mirbeau and E.M. Cioran.” Section on Jewish Identidy. Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium. Peripheries and Centers. University of Georgia. October 18-20, 1997. (Published)
“Deux Portraits de Beckett par E.M. Cioran.” 18th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages. University of Cincinnati. May 8, 1998.
“Szymborska on Madame de Staël.” 56th Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., May 12, 1998.
“Rewriting Literary Criticism: Szymborska and West on Madame de Staël.” The 19th Annual Cincinnati Conferencce on Romance Languages and Literatures. May 6, 1999.
“Cioran On Becket: Friendship and Admiration.” 23rd ARA Congress. University of Rochester, New York, August 6-9, 1998. (Romanian public)
“Cioran On Fondane: A Literary Portrait.” Modern Languages Association Convention. San Francisco, Dec. 1998. Session on “Rediscovering Fondane”, sponsored by the Romanian Studies Association of America. Published.
“E.M. Cioran as portraitist: Benjamin Fondane.” 25th ARA Congress (July 12-16, 2000). Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio.
“Demain dès l’aube and Les Djinns as an Introduction to French Poetry.” 25th Conference of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), Boston, July 11-14, 2002. Session on “Celebrating Victor Hugo.”
“Forbidden Objects of desire. The Case of Octave Mirbeau’s Sébastien Roch.” Session: “Literature and Taboo." 57th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 14-18, 2004. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
“Sand and Flaubert: The Sunset of Her Life, Their Friendship, and the Franco-Prussian War.” Session on Commémoration de George Sand pour marquer le bicentenaire de sa naissance. Congrès mondial 2004 d’Atlanta. The American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), July 18-23, 2004.
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Regional
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“Who was Antoine Pecquet? : Translating Antoine Pecquet’s Diverse Thoughts on Man (1738).” French Literature before 1800. RMMLA Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 14-16, 1999. [Published as an introduction to Antoine Pecquet’s Diverse Thoughts on Man.]
“Probing the Masks: Nature and Upbringing in Antoine Pecquet’s Diverse Thoughts on Man.” Annual Convention of the RMMLA in Boise, Idaho. October 14, 2000.
“Balzac and His Admirers: Octave Mirbeau, Auguste Rodin and the Statue of Balzac.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada), October 11-14, 2001.
“The George Sand/Gustave Flaubert Frienship: Optimism/Pessimis in the 1870s.” Pacific Modern Language Association. University of Santa Clara, November 9-11, 2001.
“Women’s Voices in Wislawa Szymborska’s poetry: ‘Lot’s Wife’ and ‘Coloratura’.” The 66th Annual Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Conference. Scottsdale, September 10-14, 2002.
“The Discovery of Radium in Les Palmes de M. Schutz.” Pacific Modern Language Conference (PAMLA). Washington State University. Bellingham, Washington, Nov. 8-10, 2002.
“E.M. Cioran’s Samuel Beckett: A Literary Portrait.” 56th RMMLA annual Convention, Missoula, MN, Oct. 8-10, 2003.
“Cioran and Noica: Friends despite the Iron Curtain.” Session: “E.M. Cioran: Philosophy, Genre and Style.” 55th Annual Convention of the RMMLA. September 30-October 2, 2004. Boulder Colorado. I chaired the session.
“Looking at the Early Eighteenth Century through the Prism of Mémoires secrètes pour servir à l’histoire de Perse.” Session on French Literature and History.” Sponsored by French Women in Society (WIF). Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association, Reed College, Porland, Oregon. Nov. 5-8, 2004.
“The Cold War Years: An Eistolary Dialogue Between E.M. Cioran and Constantin Noica.” Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium.” Second Annual Conference. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. October 7, 2005.
“Octave Mirbeau’s ‘Le Duel de Pescaire et de Cassaire’.” 59th Annual Conference. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. October 20, 2005.
“Women Readers, Impressionist Paintings, Impressionist Novels.” Pacific ancient & Modern Language Association [PAMLA]. Pepperdine University, Malibu, California. November 13, 2005.
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Local
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“Mirbelian Mental Landscapes: 'La Mort de Balzac'." Foreign Languages Symposium, Arizona State University, March 1975.
“Chroniques de France in the Classroom.” Spring Meeting of the AATF, Arizona Chapter, Tempe, April 4-6, 1974.
“L'Education Sentimentale: Flaubert's Treatment of Time.” Foreign Languages Symposium, Arizona State University, February 19, 1976.
“Le Jardin des supplices or A Chinese Torture Garden?” Foreign Languages Symposium, Arizona State University, April 18, 1977. (Published).
“E.M. Cioran,” Foreign Languages Symposium, Arizona State University, March 21, 1978.
“Respondent to Inga Kohn's Feminist Criticism: Theory and Practice According to Cixous, Irigaray, and Kristeva.” June 1983. Flagstaff, Arizona. University of Northern Arizona.
“From Virginia to Arizona: Thoughts on Polish American Heritage.” Honorary Chair and guest speaker. Polish American Heritage Month. Sheraton Inn, Phoenix, Arizona. Oct. 17, 1986.
Award presentation. “Arthur L. Waldo [1896-1985].” Polish American Heritage Month. Metro Holiday Inn. Phoenix, Arizona, October 17, 1987.
“Octave Mirbeau’s Le Journal d’une femme de chambre: le rire de Célestine.” French Faculty Symposia. Spring [March 26] 1997. [Published]
AZLA Conference, Tempe, AZ. Session Chair on “Excursions in 19th-Century French Literature. Paper on “Szymborska on Madame de Staël.” Sept. 16, 1998. [Published]
“Balzac and His Admirers: Octave Mirbeau, Auguste Rodin and the Statue of Balzac.” French Week celebration at Arizona State Universit,. November 9, 1999.
“French Naturalism.” Mini Conference at CTNS SRCP On “Naturalism: Its Impact on Science, Religion, and Literature.” Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, Arizona, April 8, 2000. Respondent. [Published]
“Sand and Flaubert: The Sunset of Her Life, Their Friendship, and the Franco-Prussian War.” French Week at Arizona State University. November 8, 2004.
“Women Readers, Impressionist Paintings, Impressionist Texts: Theodore Robinson and Claude Monet.” Gallery Talk. Phoenix Art Museum. April 21, 2005.
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| Classes Taught |
- FRE 494/598 “French Women in Society and the Arts.” Coordinator and Instructor. Team-taught by 9 faculty members from the departments of Languages and Literatures, Women and Gender Studies, Herberger School of Art, History, and the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. Spring 1976 (instructor); Coordinator & Instructor: 1978; 2001; 2003; 2006
http://www.asu.edu/languages/fre/FrenchWomen/frewomen/
- FRE 453 19th-Century French Theater 1997, 1999,
2005]
- FRE 452 19th-Century French Novel [Fall 1995, Spring
1998, Spring 1999]
- FRE 451 19th-Century French Poetry [Spring 1996,
Fall 1998]
- FRE 322 Introduction to French Literature - 19th and
20th Centuries [Spring 1997, Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Fall 2005,
Spring & Fall 2006]
- FRE 312 French Composition [Spring 1997, Fall
2005]
- FRE 311 French Conversation [Spring
1999]
- Correspondence Courses: FRE 101-102; FRE 205; FRE
321-322.
- Director: ASU Lille Studies Abroad. Fall
1992.
- Director: ASU French Summer Program at Université
Laval, Québec, Canada.
- Summer 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006.
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http://www.frick.org/information/index.htm
http://www.meca.polymtl.ca/ion/ARA-AS/members.htm - ARA
http://www.public.asu.edu/~gzl747/News2000.htm - Newsletter Vol 12-Summer 2000
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/ - Ministre des Affaires Etrangères
http://www.bnf.fr/ - Biblithèque Nationale de France
http://www.ipfw.edu/ilcs/WIF/ - WIF – Women in French
http://www.pamla.org/ - PAMLA – Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
http://www.piasa.org/welcome.html - PIASA – Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America
http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/david_a_powell/gsa/sand-studies.htm
The Geroge Sand Association: Friends of George Sand
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues96/dec96/georgesand.html
Robert Wernick. “A Woman Writ Large in Our History and Hearts” – The Smithonian. Dec. 1996
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5115 - George Sand-Gustave Flaubert – Gutenberg Project.
http://www.infoshop.org/mirbeau.html - Octave Mirbeau Page
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/mirbeau/mirbeau.html
Anarchy Archives – Octave Mirbeau
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3Dstripbooks%26field-keywords%3Doctave%20mirbeau%26results-process%3Ddefault%26dispatch%3Dsearch/ref%3Dpd%5Fsl%5Faw%5Ftops-1%5Fstripbooks%5F6145397%5F2/104-9011792-1573513
Octave Mirbeau Books – Recent Translations
http://www.comedie-francaise.fr/biographies/mirbeau.htm
Octave Mirbeau à la Comédie Francaise
http://membres.lycos.fr/octavemirbeau/
http://www.bmlisieux.com/litterature/mirbeau/mirbeau.htm
Short Stories by Mirbeau to download
http://bu.univ-angers.fr/EXTRANET/OctaveMIRBEAU/mirbeau.htm
Fond Oc tave Mirbeau at the Université d’Angers
http://bu.univ-angers.fr/EXTRANET/OctaveMIRBEAU/cahiersmirbeau/cahiers.html
Download Humiliation, haine et vengeance : le rire de Célestine by Aleksandra Gruzinska
http://membres.lycos.fr/octavemirbeau/ - Site Octave Mirbeau
George Sand (1804-1876) http://www.georgesand.culture.fr/
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