Allan H. Pasco Curriculum Vitae August 29, 2019
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Hall Family Foundation Distinguished Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures-Department of French & Italian University of Kansas 1445 Jayhawk Boulevard 2053 Wescoe Hall Lawrence, KS 66045-7590 Email Address: [email protected] Office Phone: (913) 796-9936 Message: (785) 864-9068
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Biography Allan H. PASCO, Hall Distinguished Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, specializes in French literature and culture of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries and on ways literary attitudes reflect society, especially regarding crises initiated by wars and social movements. Professor Pasco, whose eleventh book recently appeared, has been appointed to ten editorial boards and awarded both the Outstanding Civilian Service Award by the United States government and the Palmes Académiques by the French government. Listed in the Marquis Who’s Who in America, he was recently recognized for lifetime, scholarly achievement. Of his most recent books, The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story focuses on how art reflects and infiltrates society. It accompanies the second edition of his anthology of French short stories. The preceding Balzac, Literary Sociologist considered how the great novelist made society an integral part of his artistic vision. More than seventy-five articles published in reviews like PMLA, the Revue d’Histoire Littéraire, and the Modern Language Review offer fresh insights into culture and literature. In addition, Professor Pasco regularly gives papers at well-respected conferences, and has frequently lectured across the United States and abroad, from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand to Exeter College, Oxford and the Sorbonne.
Education B.A., French Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
M.A., Romance Languages Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Ph.D., Romance Languages, French University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Dissertation/Thesis: “The Color-Keys to A la recherché du temps perdu”
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Employment History Academic University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Hall Distinguished Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, 1989-Present Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Professor of French, 1979-1989 UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Visiting Professor of French, Fall 1979 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Assistant Professor of French, 1967-1973
Professional Memberships American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Modern Language Association (MLA)
Honors/Awards/Honor Societies Phi Kappa Phi Phi Sigma Iota Chevalier, l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2018) Outstanding Civilian Service Award, United States Government (October 27, 2006) Listed in Directory of American Scholars under English Listed in the Marquis Who’s Who in America (1999-present) Listed in the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Awards (2017-present) Jessie Marie Senor Cramer & Ann Cramer Root Professorship for Outstanding Teaching and Research, (2012-15). Honorable Mention (one of two) in the SEASECS Percy Adams article prize competition (2006). Chancellor’s Outstanding Mentor Award, University of Kansas (May 7, 2004). Graduate and Professional Association’s Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award for the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, in the Humanities, University of Kansas (May 7, 2004). Honored as an outstanding teacher at the fifth annual Teacher Appreciation Banquet, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas (May 9, 2002). Jessie Marie Senor Cramer & Ann Cramer Root Cramer Awards for Outstanding Teaching and Research, U of KS (1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2017). Conference Visitorship, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University (April 1998). Hall Center Humanities Research Fellowship, University of Kansas (Fall 1996). Distinguished Alumnus, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan (1988). Fellowships in support of dissertation student. Purdue University: 1988-1990, 1985, 1976- 1978. Center for Humanistic Studies Fellowship (1985). Summer Grant, Purdue University (1974). Summer Grant, Lilly Library, Indiana University (1974). Summer Grants University of Chicago (1968-69, 1969-70, 1970-71). 3
Teaching Key Words France; culture; literature
Research Interests (Statement) I am particularly interested in the way close reading of literary works reveals not just meaning but also literary attitudes of society, especially regarding crises initiated by wars and social movements.
Research Key Fields 18th-, 19th-, 20th-century French culture and literature, French Cultural Studies: 1761-1840
Research/Scholarly Work Publications Reviewed/Refereed Books: Pasco, Allan H. The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story: Masterpieces in Miniature. New York: Routledge, 2019. I am drawn to the force great short stories have, and I consider some of the reasons for their power. Pasco, Allan H. (2016) Balzac, Literary Sociologist. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. *“Balzac, Literary Sociologist, the most important English-language book on Balzac in years, has at last given this author the place he deserves as a social historian. Allan Pasco shows how the myriad details in the structured design of La Comédie humaine build to a unified illustration of the society of Balzac¹s time. This impressive study will be an eye-opener for generations of readers.” Armine Kotin Mortimer (book jacket). *“The eminent Balzacian Allan H. Pasco examines a radically changed France depicted throughout the Scènes de la vie de province. With remarkable finesse, Pasco discerns in closely read texts the symptoms caused by the noxious atmosphere of the Restoration and July Monarchy, with which he composes a masterful clinical chart that allows peering into today’s social problems.” Anne-Marie Baron (book jacket). *In his meticulously conducted research, Allan Pasco argues that Honoré de Balzac was not only a storyteller: he was “a sociologist avant l’heure” (113) and “a competent historian” (234).—Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, Interview, New Books Network,
century novel.”—Owen Heathcote, Included on web site of Les Amis d’Honoré de Balzac. *“One of the most effective innovations of this study is that it considers these ten novels and shorter fictions in the order in which they appear in La Comédie humaine, thereby enabling Pasco to draw out new artistic and ideological connections between them […] Pasco’s fascination with the interconnectedness of the Scènes de la vie de province is illustrated to its best advantage. Impeccably finished and containing an extensive bibliography of critical material, this vibrant interdisciplinary study should prove a valuable reference for students and specialists alike.”—Andrew Watts. French Studies 72.1 (2018): 288-289. *[W]ell served by Pasco’s effortless and joyful erudition, […] the book and each of its individual chapters are invaluable additions to Balzacian criticism, and a timely reconsideration of the Scènes de la vie de province.”—Maxine Gergen. Modern Language Review 113.2 (2018): 406-07. *”Balzac, Literary Sociologist is a significant contribution to Balzac studies, especially for its fine-grained and richly erudite readings of an under-analyzed section of La Comédie humaine. The book artfully combines history, social science, and literary analysis to bring new clarity to Balzac’s view of provincial France and is destined to have broad appeal to expert researchers and novice undergraduates alike.—Scott Springer, Nineteenth-Century French Studies 47:1-2 (2018): 290. *“Eminently readable, this landmark publication shows like no other how Balzac used art as a tool of social inquiry to obtain startlingly accurate and relevant insights into his turbulent society and our own.”—Juliana Starr. French Review 92.1 (2018): 261-62. *“Pasco displays the broad proficiency of a cultural historian and the meticulousness of a literary specialist, securing once again his place amongst top Balzacian scholars and dix-neuviémistes.”—Abbey Carrico, L’Esprit créateur 58.3 (Fall 2018): 144-45. *“Pasco’s monograph is an impressive piece of scholarship and a welcome addition to the world of Anglophone Balzac Studies. The book is an excellent resource not only for the wealth of knowledge that Pasco shares, but also for the new insight it brings to some of Balzac’s most misunderstood works.”— Rebecca Powers, Symposium Pasco, Allan H. (2010) Inner Workings of the Novel: Studying a Genre. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. *“In this highly original work, Allan H. Pasco returns to the central preoccupations of his own oeuvre: novelistic forms and their rhetorics, viewed in the context of history. His close readings are as cogent as ever: powerfully theorized, intimate with the concrete particulars as well as unifying principles of the text, and not only alert to culture but mindful of its myriad latent pressures. Transparently and gracefully written, Inner Workings of the Novel should exercise a wide and positive influence.”—David Lee Rubin, University of Virginia 5
*“Pasco brings together a wide range of literary works and theoretical concepts to approach a dizzyingly complex topic of literary theory with his customary ambition, expertise, wit, and deep affection for literature and theory. The reader is constantly engaged by a comfortable and thoughtful eloquence as Pasco leads to the fundamental question raised here: what is at stake in the notion of genre as applied to that unwieldy, ancient, and ever modernizing form, the novel? The book intrigues, engages, and leads to a deeper appreciation of modern literature, with references across languages and historical periods as well as from a wide range of secondary works of criticism and theory. Its readable style, richness of materials, and engaging tone will charm a range of readers from the general educated public to students of various levels, as well as fans and scholars of literature and literary theory, history, and culture.”—Beryl Schlossman, University of California, Irvine. *“With his Inner Workings of the Novel, Pasco brings a lifetime of reading to bear on what he considers to be the principal ways in which novels achieve inner coherence. When different instances are considered collectively, his study, in turn, creates a defining coherence for the genre itself. Pasco chooses his examples from among ‘extreme’ cases of the modern novel: Flaubert’s La Tentation de saint Antoine, Huysmans’s A rebours, and Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu. His analyses perspicaciously support his thesis, certainly, though they are above all a pleasure to read for the many insights that illuminate these important works.”—Marshall Olds, Michigan State University *“In a quest to bring harmony to an oftentimes unwieldy genre, Pasco [...] highlights with characteristic aplomb and resourcefulness some touchstones of 19th- and 20th-century French fiction. Characterizing the novel as ‘a long prose fiction that is unified, coherent, and literary,’ the author offers an abundance of illustrations and counterexamples to tease out the limits and possibilities of a constantly rejuvenating genre [...]. While the author’s broad reading and command of the field is on full display here—comparisons abound to all kinds of disparate novels—he provides specific, lengthy analyses of Proust’s Recherche, Flaubert’s La Tentation de Saint Antoine, and Huysman’s A rebours, three innovative novels that test and stretch the boundaries of the study’s thesis [...]. Highly recommended.”—W. Edwards, Choice 48.10 (2011): item 5575. *“This book will be of special interest to those studying the particular authors Pasco analyzes in great detail but also to anyone who wants to deepen his or her understanding of what unifies the novel as a genre [...]. Although readers and critics alike have tended to focus most of their attention on plot, Pasco expertly shows us that images can play an equally important role in providing novels with their unity and overarching meaning.”—Deborah Houk Schocket, Symposium, 66.1 (2012): 59-61. *“Pasco’s book successfully intertwines reality with literature to explore the transformation of love during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. At times, the arguments are more based on literary sources than on historical 6
evidence; however, the argumentation is very persuasive and interesting.”— Louise Crowther, Modern Language Review, 106.1 (2011): 260-61. Pasco, Allan H. (2009) Revolutionary Love in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century France. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publication. *“This extensively researched and rigorously analyzed book will be of relevance to scholars of Pre-Romanticism and Romanticism, sociology and psychology, literature and history. […] Pasco convincingly reveals that […] literature not only reflected new manners and sentiments but also inspired people to emote and behave in the mode of literary heroes and heroines. [He] skillfully uses literature and historical documents in tandem to reconstruct a fuller vision of eighteenth-century life demonstrating that the legacy of love we live today is rooted in the eighteenth-century.” Alison Hafera: WerkstattGeschichte, 65 (2013); 123-124. *“In this engaging tour de force, Allan Pasco examines the affective life of France in the second half of the eighteenth century and early years of the nineteenth, using literature as an historical archive to inform his study [...]. He [...] insists that literature must be subject to the same ground rules and procedures that would apply to any historical archive: use of a large sample, significant congruence in the material considered, and regular testing against other sources. His implementation of this modus operandi is masterful as he elegantly traces the evolution [...] in French society’s attitudes toward love and marriage [...]. His first chapter, on literature as historical archive, could usefully be required reading in graduate or advanced undergraduate [...] courses. This insightful and extraordinarily well-researched book [...] makes a valuable contribution to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French studies.”— Bonnie Arden Robb, Nineteenth-Century French Studies 38.3-4 (2010), 286- 88. *“Pasco’s [...] explanation of the function of literature stands strong [...]. [His] chapters on serial love and divorce speak particularly well to the ways in which people simultaneously wanted and feared change [...]. [H]is analysis should be of interest to specialists and non-specialists alike.”—Giulia Pacini, H-France Review 20 (2010): 599-601. *“Impressively researched, […] Pasco’s study is engrossing, clearly written and of interest to scholars of the period.”—Ruth P. Thomas, XVIII: New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century 8.1 (2011): 86-87. *“In this, his eighth book, Pasco traces the gradual but nonetheless radical transformation in attitudes toward love and marriage during the decades before and after the French Revolution [...]. Pasco draws upon literature, psychology, sociology, and history to define what he calls a ‘mentalité.’ [...] This exceptionally well-researched study advances the thesis that literature provides a reliable resource for understanding the past [...]. Specialists of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France will find that Revolutionary Love has a great deal to commend it. [It] suggests a new field of intellectual inquiry, one that might be called the sociology of literature. And the vast repertoire of literary works that it meticulously documents invites researchers 7
to engage in case studies, close readings, and nuanced interpretations within this field.”—Mary Ellen Birkett, French Review 84.4 (March 2011) 811-12. *“In six chapters, Pasco conducts a fascinating and rigorous inquiry into the transformations in social manners and attitudes as love came to be defined no longer as a duty ruled by familial, religious, and monarchical authorities, but as a web of passionate feelings providing individual satisfaction, utmost pleasure, and more or less lasting happiness [...]. Aiming to reveal how literature ‘can accurately give us insight into the attitudes and point of view of an age’ Revolutionary Love amply fulfills its ambitious goal. Moreover, it also demonstrates that far from being solely a complex reflection of reality, literature also shapes social behaviors and relationships. The wealth of unexplored or little studied popular works represents one of the great strengths of Pasco’s inquiry, which offers promising directions for literary history and fruitful interactions between literature and histoire des mentalités.”— Catherine Nesci, L’Esprit Créateur 51.4 (Winter 2011): 120-21. *“Allan H. Pasco propose une large étude sérieusement documentée sur l’évolution des valeurs attribuées à l’amour en France sous l’Ancien Régime et un peu au-delà [...]. La question du divorce permettant un nouveau mariage avec son pendant fantasmatiques d’amours innocentes goûtées en série, se situe au cœur de ce livre savant avec tout ce que ces perspectives comportement d’angoisses et de rêves [...]. [S]es vastes connaissances le préservent de conclusions hâtives et il sait bien que l’ironie est un écueil pour qui veut traiter la littérature comme une archive (178) [...]. [S]on livre débordant d’idées et de données intéressantes se lit avec plaisir.”—Monique Moser-Verrey, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 24.3 (2012): 546-49. *“Historians are constantly hampered by the problem of incomplete evidence, and we are consequently robbed of the opportunity to write definitive histories. Instead, we are able to create possible and likely histories by utilizing available evidence that, with creative use, can be stretched into logical conclusions regarding our topics. Pasco’s work on romantic love is one of these likely histories. He cleverly uses literature in tandem with social sources to paint a vivid and convincing picture of romantic love’s journey as a concept through the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries.”—J. K. Friefeld. Review of Revolutionary Love, posted in The History Roll: A Forum of History and Culture, 15 February 201.1 *“Pasco argues that the use of literature as a historical archive is especially vital to the study of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in France, as the Revolution created a dearth of historically reliable documents, letters and records. Revolutionary Love offers a valuable response to the recent interest among historians such as Lynn Hunt, William Reddy and Barbara Rosenwein, not just in facts but in the more fluid arena of emotions in the past, insisting that this is precisely the realm in which literature is most useful to the understanding of history.”—Sara Bramsen, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 35.2 (2012): 291. Pasco, Allan H., ed. (2006, 2011) Nouvelles françaises du XIXe siècle: Anthologie. 1st ed., 2nd ed. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press. 8
*“Allan H. Pasco, a seasoned and informed critic of short fiction, has generously assembled an anthology of twenty-six nineteenth-century short stories, each preceded by a solid introduction and a selective bibliography. Moreover, Professor Pasco introduces the volume with a substantial, self-standing theoretical essay, “Qu’est-ce que la nouvelle?,” that is both accessible to students and informative for instructors. The essay’s strength devolves from Pasco’s conjoining of a broad knowledge of the history and form of the genre, not only in France, but also elsewhere in Europe, with genre theory, with which he is totally familiar and which he amply references.”—Emile Talbot, L’Esprit Créateur (Spring 2007) 108. *“The biographical sketches serve to contextualize the [short stories] that follow and really should be read as the short works of analysis that they are. This anthology is particularly well suited for use as a text book in a senior seminar or graduate course focusing on the nouvelle. But Pasco’s anthology is also worthy of a broader public (academic or not) in that it includes many hard to find texts as well as excellent explanatory footnotes. The introductory essay, too, warrants attention from any scholar studying the evolution of criticism regarding the short story as a genre since it offers a good summary of what has come before and provides a well-reasoned argument of what a nouvelle is and why knowing it is important.”—Corry Cropper, Lingua Romana 5.1 (2007): http://linguaromana.byu.edu/cropper5.html *“This collection excels its competitors owing to its substantial theoretical introduction; its sprightly, concise, expressive introductory sketches on each author; its carefully selected bibliographies; and its rich, varied selection of texts [...] a commendable achievement.”—Laurence M. Porter, French Forum 32.1-2 (2007): 265-67. *“Ce texte propose une palette représentative des différentes tendances littéraires du XIX siècle [...]. De plus, l’appareil critique se révèle bien utile pour replacer les auteurs dans leur contexte et pour fournir des pistes de recherche et d’approfondissement.”—François-Xavier Eygun, Dalhousie French Studies 79 (2007): 187. *“Aussi l’ouvrage Nouvelles Françaises du Dix-Neuvième Siècle assume-t-il pleinement sa double fonction: la reconnaissance des chefs d’œuvre du genre et l’expansion de ses limites habituelles [...]. Chaque choix est justifiée par une notice courte préalable à chaque auteur, qui situe celui-ci dans le siècle d’un point de vue historique et littéraire. Cette anthologie témoigne ainsi de la vitalité de la nouvelle au-delà des réflexions théoriques qu’elle soulève. En associant une démarche historique rigoureuse avec une préoccupation théorique souple, le critique consolide la notion de la nouvelle, en réservant une place à la découverte et l’inattendu.”—Christopher Bains, Fabula 3 October 2008
ne fait aucun doute que cette anthologie sera très appréciée de ceux qui enseignent la littérature française du dix-neuvième siècle.”—Marie-Pierre Le Hir. H-France Review Vol. 8 (November 2008), No. 151
literary interpretation [...]. All readers stand to benefit from his choice of issues and the connections he draws between allusion and other literary procedures. Even a quick review of the remaining chapters will suggest Pasco’s very considerable range, subtlety, and insight [...]. I can say confidently that every thinking reader of his book will find as much pleasure as profit in attending to what he writes.”—Earl Miner, The Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 42 (1994): 165-67. *“Allusion: A Literary Graft is a summative and innovative contribution. It clarifies and (more importantly) integrates the most viable elements of past research, even as it creates a new tool eminently suited to future inquiry [...]. Every page of Allusion: A Literary Graft illustrates the powers and affords the pleasures of active engagement with first- order artistic creations; of steady focus on the problems, both current and perennial, that these works pose [...]; of openness to methods, old as well as new, that are apt to solve such problems; and of personal reflection that is self-aware, self-assessing, and self- correcting.”—David Lee Rubin, The Virginia Quarterly Review 71.3 (Summer 1995): 570-73. *“In this very approachable and rewarding book, Allan Pasco studies the limitless potential of allusion [...]. His excellent literary examples of allusion [...] are insightful and thought provoking.”—L. A. Russell, Choice 32.7 (1995): 1125. *“[I]n his illuminating new study [...] Allan Pasco is an amiable and able guide [...]. With his abundant references to works of world literature, from King Lear to Light in August, the Decameron to Peer Gynt, Pasco proves admirably that he practices what he preaches. Well-researched and provocative, this text will be appreciated both for its individual readings of well-known narratives and its helpful codification of different forms of allusion.”—Mary Donaldson- Evans, Nineteenth-Century French Studies 23 (Summer 1995): 497-98. *“[T]his book consummates 25 years of Professor Pasco’s reflections on intertextuality. It remains strongly coherent, despite his vast erudition. [H]e helps restore our fading awareness of the classical and Christian traditions that nurtured all educated Western writers until World War II.”—Laurence M. Porter, L’Esprit Créateur 35.3 (1995): 93-94. *“The clear and coherently argued idea that allusion is integrative whereas devices such as satire, irony, and parody are rejective serves to make this study an antidote to the catch-all and obfuscatory term which ‘intertextuality’ has […] become. Pasco’s book therefore can be recommended for its rigour and its lively return to issues of rhetoric.”—Forum for Modern Language Studies 31.3 (July 1995): 286. *“[W]e would be derelict in our duty not to mention that an eye-opening study of intertextuality and reference, Allusion, [. ] would be of incomparable value to everyone interested in Renaissance or any other literary texts [. ]. Anyone reading texts written with other texts in mind needs to read Allusion. It may be added that this is a pleasant as well as profitable experience and one that the modern emphasis on the relations between texts and the canonization of theory renders inescapable.”—L. R. N. Ashley, Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 57 (1995): 452. 11
*Quoted positively (“his eloquent explanation of reading”): Sean Hudson. “The Title: The Aesthetic Significance of the Unique Position of Title.” Warwick Constellations 28 Nov. 2011. Pasco, Allan H. (1997) Sick Heroes: French Society and Literature in the Romantic Age, 1750-1850. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. *Selected for indexing and analysis in the H. W. Wilson Co.’s The Essay and General Literature Index. Only about 300 English-language books (the majority of which are multi-authored collections) are selected each year for inclusion in this index, which allows researchers and librarians to get subject, title, and author access to the individual essays. *“A penetrating rethinking of the heroes and heroines of French romantic literature which carefully situates their plight within the broader contexts of social and cultural change in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.”—Richard D.E. Burton *“Path-breaking stud[y] of Allan Pasco.” Lesley H. Walker, A Mother’s Love: Crafting Feminine Virtue in Enlightenment France (Lewis burg: Bucknell UP, 2010) 23. *“Meticulously documented, written in a clear and witty manner, Sick Heroes is [. ] a valuable addition to the criticism of the Romantic novel because of the fresh insights it brings to well-known works and for the wealth of information it provides on lesser- known literature. Its most significant contribution to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French studies, however, is the coherent and convincing psychological portrait it paints of an age.”—M. A. O’Neil, Philosophy & Literature 22.1 (April 1998): 253-55. *“[...] ground-breaking major thesis [. ]. Pasco offers an impressive, harmonious blend of ‘hard scholarship’ (investigation of original sources) and imaginative synthesis. One can anticipate that this study, like his important overview that opens Allusion, will become widely influential.”—Laurence M. Porter, Nineteenth-Century French Studies 27.1 & 2 (Fall-Winter 1998): 215-16. *“An excellent and persuasive interpretation of French Romantic literature [. ] this readable volume is recommended for all undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty interested in Romantic literature.”—J. E. Parker, Jr., Choice 36.1 (September 1998): 138. *“Pasco’s achievement stems from his ability to perceive social history in literature and conversely to read literature as social history [...] to give new insight into both literary works and social circumstances [...]. Pasco is extraordinarily shrewd and skillful in documenting his hypothesis. He commands vast knowledge, having scrutinized more than 200 works written between 1750 and 1850 [...]. Yet despite the strength of its scholarship, Sick Heroes is no mere piece of erudition. Vividly presented, generally well written in a straightforward manner without rebarbative jargon, and furnished with illuminating illustrations, it is eminently readable [...]. Sick Heroes is a substantial book the enriches our knowledge of French Romanticism by showing us a rewarding way of contextualizing literature in the society to which it was embedded.”—Lilian R. Furst, “In a Sick Society,” The Virginia Quarterly Review 75.1 (Winter 1999): 200-03. 12
*“This attractively written and thoroughly researched and documented study redefines Romanticism as primarily a cultural phenomenon and paints a sweeping portrait of the French people’s collective mentality during the period extending from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century [...]. This is a remarkably rich, informative, and in many ways innovative examination of a crucial period in French literary and cultural history.”—Gita May, French Review 72.4 (1999): 754-55. *“Exceedingly well informed not just in contemporary sources but in modern psychological and sociological studies, it presents a pleasing and fascinating contrast with the kind of criticism that never strays from the literary summits.”—James A. Hiddleston, Symposium (Spring 2000): 57-59. *“[…] truly original criticism [...] this fascinating book [...]. His erudition is obvious. Examples abound, and they include historical studies, works by contemporary physicians, psychologists and sociologists, and [...] legions of fictional works [...]. Although there are insightful readings of Stendhal’s La Chartreuse de Parme and Le Rouge et le noir and of Balzac’s Catherine de Médicis, for the most part the literary allusions take the form of exempla to buttress the theoretical arguments [...]. When obscure works are evoked, concise plot summaries are provided, a feature that, together with the author’s often tongue-in-cheek humor, makes this study both accessible and thoroughly enjoyable to read.”—Mary Donaldson-Evans. French Forum 25.2 (May 2000): 233-35. *“[D]ans cette étude remarquablement menée au cœur même de l’esprit romantique. . . . [l]a pensée et l’esprit romantiques sont mis à nu et portés au grand jour Un important appareil de notes placé à la fin du volume apporte une aide considérable à la compréhension de cette intéressante étude dont la lecture ne se révèle pas toujours aisée, par la complexité des sujets abordés et par l’originalité de certains points de vue qu’il serait toutefois difficile de ne pas partager.”—Pierluigi Ligas. Studi Francesi 127.1 (1999): 181. *“Pasco opens up new and interesting perspectives, as well as suggesting a number of avenues which merit further exploration [. ]. Pasco’s definition [of Romanticism] has a good deal to say about the peripheral and worrying features of Romanticism, and the particular choices of form and substance [. ]. [This book] provides a new stimulus for debate among those who are well acquainted with the field.”—John R. Whittaker, Nineteenth-Century Contexts 24.1 (2002): 102-05. Booker, John T., and Allan H. Pasco (eds.) (1996) The Play of Terror in Ninteenth- Century France. Newark: University of Delaware Press. *“Individual essays in this collection will appeal to those interested in the authors discussed; the work as a whole will be useful to those interested in literary examinations of the terror.”—J. E. Parker, Jr. Choice 34 (May 1997): 1505. *“Taken as a whole, this volume may not definitively assuage the anxieties that beset us, but it does contain ample cause for future hope.”—Peter Starr, Nineteenth-Century French Studies 26.3 & 4 (Spring-Summer 1998): 435-36. 13
*“The standard of the contributions shows the continuing vitality of nineteenth- century French studies.”—P. W. M. Cogman. French Studies 52.3 (1998): 349-50. Pasco, Allan H. (1991) Balzacian Montage: Configuring La Comédie humaine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Chosen for digital publication by U of Toronto P, July 2007. *“This fine study is [...] [a]ppropriate for a wide range of readers; it is recommended for academic libraries—community college through university—and public libraries.”—L. A. Russell, Choice, November 1991: 239. *“In its totality, this is a convincing and satisfying view of Balzac [...]. [I]ts authoritative, consistent, and logical discourse is instructive and constructive, and a pleasure to read.” —Armine Kotin Mortimer, “A Painterly View of Balzac,” Virginia Quarterly Review 68 (1992): 390-95. *“I would urge Balzacians to [...] read this book.”—Martin Kanes, Nineteenth- Century French Studies 20 (1992): 488-90. *“[A] remarkably successful defense and illustration of the claim that the Comédie humaine is a work unified by its author’s skill and his determination to draw the portrait of his age.”—Alexander Fischler, Philosophy & Literature 16.1 (1992): 198-200. *“With this fine study, Pasco has rendered a service, not only to Balzacian scholars, but to students of nineteenth-century French literature [...] for whom Pasco’s book will serve as a reliable guide for future travels.”—Mary Donaldson-Evans, L’Esprit Créateur 32.3 (1992): 102-03. *“Balzacian Montage is original, persuasive, clearly written, and critically informed. All scholars interested in Balzac and narrative literature stand to derive much benefit from a careful reading of Pasco’s book.”—Doris Y. Kadish, French Forum 17.3 (Sept. 1992): 346-48. *“refreshingly aesthetic rather than thematic...”—Forum for Foreign Language Studies 29.3 (July 1993): 289. *“...crucial to our understanding of Balzac.”—Nicolae Babuts, Symposium 46.4 (Winter 1993): 300-02. *“...une pierre bien taillée.”—Stéphane Vachon, Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de la France 93.5 (1993): 746-47. *“...perspicacious readings [...]. All students of Balzac will appreciate Pasco’s fine synthesis of a great deal of fictional, critical and scholarly material in Balzacian Montage.”—James T. Day, French Review 67 (March 1994): 687- 88. *“[U]ne analyse perspicace [...]. Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu et Sarrasine . . . La Maison Nucingen, Un prince de la bohème, Facino Cane [...] fournissent à A. Pasco de solides analyses et d’importantes conclusions auxquelles on se ralliera.”—L’Année Balzacienne 15 (1994): 459-62. *“La riche compréhension de La Comédie humaine que nous apporte ainsi A. Pasco va à l’encontre de bien des lectures contemporaines.”—Catherine Nesci, Romanic Review 85.3 (May 1994): 490-92. *Quoted in Wikipedia article on Balzac’s “Z. Marcas.” 14
Pasco, Allan H. (1987). Novel Configurations: A Study of French Fiction--Stendhal, Balzac, Zola, Gide, Huysmans, Proust, Robbe-Grillet, and Others. Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications. Second printing, 1989; second edition, 1994. *“Pasco proposes a new system of fictional classification [...] against a singularly well documented background [...] giving all the more strength to certain of Pasco’s highly original viewpoints.”—W.L McLendon, Choice July-August 1988: 177-78. *“The readings are sensitive and mature [...] and may have laid the foundations for a major contribution to our understanding of the novel form.”—Patrick Brady, Philosophy and Literature 13 (April 1989): 172-73. *“Pasco demonstrates a broad knowledge of modern criticism as well as his own perceptions.”—Carol Rigolot, French Review 62 (March 1989), 673-74. *“The commendable erudition and careful scholarship that support this investigation inspire the reader’s confidence, and its views on fictional structure have much to recommend them. The direct, candid style is appealing.”—Catharine Savage Brosman, L’Esprit Créateur 28 (Fall 1988): 95-96. *“Allan Pasco’s refreshingly casual and unpretentious prose is deceptive, for the issues with which he deals are complex [...]. [H]is extraordinary erudition and vast knowledge of Biblical and mythological traditions are everywhere in evidence.”—Mary Donaldson-Evans, Nineteenth-Century French Studies 17 (1989): 402-04. *“L’itinéraire d’Allan H. Pasco paraît fort séduisant, et le conduit souvent à renouveler le commentaire et la signification d’œuvres qu’on pouvait supposer déjà bien connues.”—A. Dezalay, Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de la France 89 (1989): 740-41. *“[T]he merit of Novel Configurations exceeds the goals of its analyses: in addition to articulating the changing paradigms of narrative structure in the works of fiction examined, Pasco’s book constitutes itself a remarkable example of [...] a technique of reading that modern criticism seems to strive for increasingly.”—Dana Rudelic, South Atlantic Review (May 1989): 154-56. Pasco, Allan H. (1976) The Color-Keys to A la recherche du temps perdu. Geneva: Droz. *“[A] masterly survey of all the colours mentioned in A la recherche...”—Trevor Field, “Mirror Imagery in A la recherche du temps perdu,” Australian Journal of French Studies 17 (1980): 140. *“The Color-Keys must be judged a seminal work not only because it provides one excellent reading of this language, but also because it will surely inspire other readings in the future.”—George Stambolian, French Forum 2 (1977): 284. *“Allan Pasco’s study is a sensitive, erudite recreation of Proust’s metaphorical inner world. He has decoded with scientific objectivity, but a poet’s sensibilities, a [...] ‘series of intuitively discovered truths that defy the limited vehicle of language.’”—Rosette Lamont, French Review 51 (1977): 307-08. *“[T]his is a pioneer work. It is to be recommended for its clarity, its painstaking thoroughness, its rich documentation and its pleasant, readable style.”— Pauline Newman-Gordon, Modern Language Journal 62 (1978): 199. 15
Book Chapters Pasco, Allan H. “Balzac, Money, and the Pursuit of Power.” Cambridge Companion to Balzac. Ed. Owen Heathcote and Andrew Watt. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017. 67-80. Pasco, Allan H. “The Evolution of Maupassant’s Supernatural Stories.” Guy de Maupassant’Selected Works. Ed. Robert Lethbridge. Norton, 2016. 382-89. [Rpt. of Symposium 23.2 (1969): 150-59.] Pasco, Allan H. “Romantic Realism in Sand’s Indiana.” Approaches to Teaching Sand’s Indiana. Ed. David A. Powell and Pratima Prasad. MLA, 2016. 185-92. Pasco, Allan H. “France: The Continuing Debate over Classicism.” Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Vol. 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 139-53. Pasco, Allan H. “Miss Manners and Fooling Around: Conduct Manuals and Sexual Mores in Eighteenth-Century France.” Sex Education in Eighteenth-Century France. Ed. Shane Agin. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2011. 29-46. SVEC. Pasco, Allan H. “Crazy Writing and Reliable Text in The Yellow Wallpaper.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper: A Dual-Text Critical Edition. Ed. Shawn St. Jean. Athens: Ohio UP, 2006. 88-99. *Cited positively in: Jürgen Wolter, “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” Amerikastudien/American Studies 54.2 (2006) 195, 204n. Pasco, Allan H. “The Tangible and the Intangible in Balzac’s Le Curé de Tours.” Currencies: Fiscal Fortunes and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century France. Ed. Sarah Capitanio, Lisa Downing, Paul Rowe, and Nicholas White. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005. 133-45. Pasco, Allan H. “Basic Advice for Novice Authors.” The Thesis and the Book. Ed. E. Harmon and Montagnes. 2nd ed. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2003. 87-101. *First published in Scholarly Publishing 23.2 (1992): 95-104; reprinted by the University of Toronto Press for distribution to its authors (1993); included in the University of Toronto’s electronic publishing project (2000); revised version reprinted in Scholarly Publishing 33.2 (2002): 75-89; then appeared in a new, revised edition of the University of Toronto’s The Thesis and the Book, ed. E. Harmon and I. Montagnes (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2003) 87-101. Pasco, Allan H. “Jouy’s Cécile and the Narcissistic Romantic Hero.” Echoes of Narcissus. Ed. Lieve Spaas. New York/London: Bergmann Books, 2000. 247-61. Pasco, Allan H. “Sur Catherine de Médicis et un procédé de roman: L’intrigue occultée.” Les Règles du genre. Ed. Alain Goldschläger, Yzabelle Martineau, and Clive Thomson. London, Ont.: Mestengo Press, 1999. 79-95. Pasco, Allan H. “Kaleidoscopic Reading in Barbey’s Les Diaboliques.” Kaleidoscope: Essays on Nineteenth Century French Literature in Honor of Thomas H. Goetz. Ed. G. Falconer and M. Donaldson-Evans. Toronto: Centre d’Etudes Romantiques, 1996. 99- 110. Pasco, Allan H. “Killing Gods: Suicide in the Romantic Novel.” The French Novel from Lafayette to Desvignes: Collected Essays to Mark the 60th Birthday of Patrick Brady. Ed. Sharon Diane Nell, Bernadette C. Lintz, and George Poe. Knoxville: New Paradigm Press, 1995. 77-87.
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Pasco, Allan H. “Toppling from Mount Olympus: The Romantic Hero.” Epic and Epoch. Ed. Steven Oberhelman, Van Kelly, and Richard J. Golsan. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1994. 233-47. *Pasco’s “essay is perceptive and enlightening”—Norris J. Lacy. French Review 69 (1995): 356.
Journal Articles Pasco, Allan H. “From Decadence in Huysmans and Barbey to Regeneration in Gide and Proust.” Dix-Neuf 21.2-3 (2017): 192-203.
*“In his fine study of the allusive complex in the novel, Allan H. Pasco notes the dissipation of rivalries that occurs at the end of Pierrette and emphasizes the inexplicable choice of Pierrette as universal victim […]. Furthermore, Pasco reveals his awareness of Balzac’s intention, stating that the ‘tragedy of Pierrette is foregrounded’.” (93, discussion renewed on 95) —Timothy J. Williams, “Martyrdom in Pierrette: Balzac’s Unmasking of Scapegoat Violence.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 61.2, 91-102. (Winter 2009). Pasco, Allan H. “Trinitarian Unity in La Tentation de saint-Antoine.” French Studies 56.4 (2002): 457-70. Pasco, Allan H. “Literature as Historical Archive: Reading Divorce in Mme de Staël’s Delphine and Other Revolutionary Literature.” EMF: Studies in Early Modern France 7 (2001): 163-200. Pasco, Allan H. “On Making Mirages, Tahitian and Otherwise.” Virginia Quarterly Review 77.2 (Spring 2001): 247-61. Pasco, Allan H. “Les Proscrits et l’unité du Livre mystique.” L’Année balzacienne 20 (1999): 75-92. *“Allan Pasco presents a persuasive argument for preserving the chronology and integrity of the Livre mystique, which chronicles progressive phases in human aspiration toward unity with the Eternal”—Gretchen Rous Besser, French Review 75.4 (2002): 787. *Cited in the Wikipedia article on Les Proscrits, by Balzac. Pasco, Allan H. “‘Lovers of Self’: Incest in the Romantic Novel.” Cincinnati Romance Review 14 (1995): 58-72. Pasco, Allan H. “Dying with Love in Balzac’s La Vieille Fille.” L’Esprit Créateur 35.4 (1995): 28-37. Pasco, Allan H. “The Profession and Graduate Studies.” Chimères 21 (1994): iii-iv. Pasco, Allan H. “Reading the Age of Names in A la recherche du temps perdu.” Comparative Literature 46 (1994): 267-87. Pasco, Allan H. “The Short Story: The Short of It.” Style 27.3 (1993): 442-51. Special issue on the short story Pasco, Allan H. “Ursule through the Glass Lightly.” French Review 65.1 (1991): 36-45. *”Wide-ranging discussion...”—The Romantic Movement: A Selective and Critical Bibliography (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill, 1992) 250. Pasco, Allan H. “Balzac’s Second-Rate Muse.” L’Esprit créateur 31.2 (1991): 67-77. Pasco, Allan H. “Introduction: Reading Balzac.” L’Esprit créateur 31.2 (1991): 3-4. Pasco, Allan H. “On Defining Short Stories.” New Literary History 22.2 (1991): 409- 24. *Republished in Charles May, ed. The New Short Story Theories. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1994. 114-30. *Quoted positively: Miriam Marty Clark. “After Epiphany: American Stories in the Postmodern Age.” Style 27.3 (1993): 388. Pasco, Allan H. “The Unheroic Mode: Stendhal’s La Chartreuse de Parme.” Philological Quarterly 70 (1991): 361-78. Pasco, Allan H. “The Unrocked Cradle and the Birth of the Romantic Hero.” Journal of European Studies 21 (1991): 95-110. 18
Pasco, Allan H. “Anti-Nous and Balzac’s Princess de Cadignan.” Romance Quarterly 34 (1987): 425-33. *“Pasco’s fine analysis shows him to be a reader of wit, sensitivity, ingenuity, and cleverness (the four words by which Pasco translates esprit)”—Armine Kotin Mortimer, For Love or for Money (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2011) 283. Pasco, Allan H. “‘And Seated Ye Shall Fall’: Some Lexical Markers in Camus’ ‘Jonas’.” Modern Fiction Studies 28 (1982): 240-42. Pasco, Allan H. “Balzac and the Art of the Macro-Emblem in Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes.” L’Esprit créateur 22 (1982): 72-81. Pasco, Allan H. “Image Structure in Le Père Goriot.” French Forum 7 (1982): 224-34. Pasco, Allan H. “Descriptive Narration in Balzac’s Gobseck.” Virginia Quarterly Review 56 (1980): 99-108. Pasco, Allan H. “Love à la Michelet in Zola’s La Faute de l’abbe Mouret.” Nineteenth- Century French Studies 7 (1979): 232-44. Abstracted in Nineteenth-Century French Studies 28.1-2 (Fall-Winter 1999- 2000) 163. Pasco, Allan H. “Literary History and Quinet in the Meaning of La Faute de l’abbe Mouret.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 14 (1978): 208-16. Pasco, Allan H. “Nouveau ou Ancien Roman: Open Structures and Balzac’s Gobseck.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 20 (1978): 15-35. Pasco, Allan H. “Proust’s Reader and the Voyage of Self-Discovery.” Comparative Literature 18 (1977): 20-37. Pasco, Allan H. “The Thematic Structure of Fellini’s Amarcord.” Film Studies Annual 1 (1976): 259-71. Pasco, Allan H. “Irony and Art in Gide’s L’Immortaliste.” Romanic Review 64 (1973): 184-203. Pasco, Allan H. “A Study of Allusion: Barbey’s Stendhal in ‘Le Rideau cramoisi’.” PMLA 88 (1973): 461-71. *“A very helpful inter-textual study linking Barbey’s story to Le Rouge et le noir” —The Romantic Movement: A Selective and Critical Bibliography (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill, 1996) 200. *Carolina Orloff, The Representation of the Political in Selected Writings of Julio Cortásar (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2013) 16. A long quotation from this article used to set up a discussion of allusion in Cortásar. *Valerie L. Gager, Shakespeare and Dickens: The Dynamics of Influence (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996) 172. Brief summary of my position used to set up a discussion of allusion in Dickens. Pasco, Allan H. “Blue and the Ideal in A la recherche du temps perdu.” Romanische Forschungen 85 (1973): 119-38. Pasco, Allan H. “Myth, Metaphor and Meaning in Germinal.” French Review 46 (1973): 739-49. Pasco, Allan H., and Wilfrid J. Rollman. ““The Artistry of Gide’s Onomastics”.” MLN 86 (1971): 523-31. Pasco, Allan H. “Marcel, Albertine and Balbec in Proust’s Allusive Complex.” Romanic Review 62 (1971): 113-26. Pasco, Allan H. “The Failure of L’Œuvre.” L’Esprit Créateur 11 (1971): 45-55. 19
Pasco, Allan H. “The Evolution of Maupassant’s Supernatural Stories.” Symposium 23 (1969): 150-59. *Rpt. Guy de Maupassant’s Selected Works. Ed. Robert Lethbridge. New York: Norton, 2016. Pasco, Allan H. “Albertine’s Equivocal Eyes.” Australian Journal of French Studies 5 (1968): 257-62.
Bibliography Pasco, Allan H., and Anthony R. Pugh (Eds.). “Honoré de Balzac.” Chapter 11 of The Nineteenth Century. 2 vols. [Cabeen] Critical Bibliography of French Literature. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1994. 1.323-405. As major editor, though with the help of Anthony R. Pugh.
Dictionary Entries Pasco, Allan H. “Honoré de Balzac.” Nineteenth-Century French Fiction Writers: Romanticism and Realism, 1800-l860. Vol. 119 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Catherine S. Brosman. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1992. 3-33. Pasco, Allan H. “Literature of the Third Republic.” Historical Dictionary of the French Third Republic, 1870-1940. Ed. Patrick H. Hutton. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986. 1.567-73.
Encyclopedia Entries Pasco, Allan H. “Honoré de Balzac.” Encyclopedia of Europe 1789-1914. Farmington Hills, MI: Scribner’s, 2006. 1.166-69. Pasco, Allan H. “La Tentation de saint Antoine” and some twenty other minor contributions. Encyclopedia of Flaubert. Ed. Laurence Porter. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. 4, 11, 16-17, 51-52, 101-02, 169, 246, 256, 262, 302, 309, 323-28, 331, 344.
Journals, Special Issues Pasco, Allan H., and Lieve Spaas (eds.). Death in French Literature and Film. Spec. issue of L’Esprit Créateur 35.4 (Winter 1995). Pasco, Allan H. (ed.). Reading Balzac. Spec. issue of L’Esprit Créateur 31.2 (Fall 1991). Guest Editor.
Reviews 95 book reviews in Nineteenth Century French Studies, Choice, French Review, Lingua Romana, European Romantic Review, Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate, L’Esprit Créateur, French Forum, Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de la France, Virginia Quarterly Review, Philosophy and Literature, Continuum, Symposium, Kentucky Romance Quarterly, Modern Language Journal, Modern Philology, Romanic Review, Chicago Review, Proust Research Association Newsletter
Invited Presentations/Lectures 97 papers and lectures at Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Maison de Balzac (Passy, Paris), Colloque international organisé au Centre d’études supérieures 20
d’Østfold, Halden, Norway, University of Kansas, Hall Center Seminar, University of Kansas, Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, University of Sydney, Australia, European Studies Conference, Society for French Historical Studies Anniversary Meeting, Meeting of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, Université d’Angers (France), University of Nebraska, Brigham Young University, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Society for French Historical Studies, The University of Illinois, Colloque à l’occasion du bicentenaire de la naissance de Balzac. (Sorbonne, Paris), Michigan State University, Conference on Composition & Literature, University of Western Ontario, University of Canterbury (New Zealand), Monash University (Australia), Humanities Research Center, Australian National University, Modern Language Association Meeting, colloquium sponsored by the Institit Français du Royaume Uni and the Faculty of Human Sciences of Kingston University (England), Exeter College, Oxford (England), University of Connecticut, Renaissance Society of America, University of Virginia, Randolph-Macon College, Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages, University of Tennessee, Whitman College, Kansas State University, Texas A&M University, University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University, Purdue University, Midwest Modern Language Association Meeting, Washington University, South-Atlantic MLA Meeting.
Dissertation/Thesis Supervision University of Kansas Doctoral Dissertation Committee Chair Kristina Roney, Dept. of French and Italian, “Balzac, Financial Adviser: Society and the Birth of Modern Finance.” Status: unanimous honors. 27 April 2018. Daniela Teodorescu, Ph.D. dissertation, “Spectral Vision and Skeletal Structure in Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu.” Status: completed with honors. April 12, 2006 Sheri Valentine, Ph.D. dissertation, “Between Love and Death: Prismatic Images in Les Prisons of Marguerite de Navarre.” Status: completed. 1996 Guy Imhoff, Ph.D. dissertation, “Representations du spirituel dans l’œuvre romanesque de François Mauriac” Status: completed. December 2, 1994
Doctoral Dissertation Committee Member Irina Cauley, Status: in progress. Christina Lord, Department of French and Italian, Status: in progress. Gilles Viennot, Status: completed. 2014 Brian Flanagin, Status: completed. 2012 Jeff Kendrick, Status: completed. 2012 honors Jean-Benito Mercier, Status: completed. 2012 honors Gillian Weatherly, Status: completed. 2011 Gloria Melgarejo, Status: completed. 2005 M. Aloui, Status: completed. 2002 Henriette Javorek, Status: completed. 2002 Timothy J. Williams, Status: completed. 2000 Josée Lauersdorf, Status: completed. 1997 Scott Manning, Status: completed. 1997 Kathleen A. Comfort, Status: completed. 1996 21
Sylvie Grignard, Status: completed. 1991
Associate Professor Mentor E. Bruce Hayes, Status, in progress. Fall 2017-present
Graduate Student Research Mentor Garrett Gaddy, M.A., Status, in progress. Fall 2017-present Kristina Roney, Ph.D., Status: in progress. 2012-Present Clarisse Barbier, M.A., Status: in progress. Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Jessica Ludwig, M.A., Status: completed. 2012
Manuscript Revision Advisor Kristina Roney, Department of French and Italian, “Business as Religion in L’Imprécateur by René-Victor Pilhes.” Status: French Review, to appear. Robert Decker, “Speculation and Gender Exploitation in Balzac’s Scènes de la vie de Province.” Status: completed. 2014. Published in French Forum 39.2-3: 65-79 (2014) Daniela Teodorescu, “Deux personages dans ‘Gambara’ de Balzac: Les Effets et les causes.” Status: completed. 2004. Published in Symposium 58.1: 29-42. (Spring 2004) Shelley (Purcell) Thomas, “The Prostitute/Mother in Maupassant’s ‘Yvette’.” Status: completed. 1999. Published in L’Esprit Créateur 39.2: 74-84, 1999 (republished 2003 in Short Story Criticism 64: 346-51) Publication: “‘Hérodias’: A Key to Thematic Progression in Trois Contes.” Status: completed. Published in: Romanic Review 80: 541-47 (1989) Ronald E. Scrogham, “The Echo of the Name ‘Iaokanann’ in Flaubert’s ‘Hérodias’.” Status: completed. 1998 Published in French Review 71.5: 775-84. (April 1998) Alain-Philippe Durand, French and Spanish, “Grassou et Frenhofer: Chef-d’œuvre connu ou inconnu?” Status: completed. 1997 Published in Romance Quarterly 44: 131-42 (1997) Josée Lauersdorf, “Les Métamorphoses de Castanier dans ‘Melmoth réconcilié’ de Balzac.” Status: completed. 1994 Published in Romance Notes 25.2: 205-14 (1994) Timothy J. Williams, “Dessein hagiographique balzacien: A propos de Pierrette.” Status: completed. 1994 Published in Dalhousie French Studies 28: 87-97. (1994) Sheri Valentine, Ph.D. French, “Personal Ties: Book I of Marguerite de Navarre’s Les Prisons.” Status: completed. 1992 Published in Romance Languages Annual: 126-31 (1992) Guy Imhoff, Ph.D., “Thérèse Desqueyroux, un monstre parmi tant d’autres.” Status: completed. 1991 Published in Romance Quarterly 38.2: 157-67 (May 1991) Pascale Krumm, “La Bette noire de Balzac.” Status: completed. 1991 22
Published in Australian Journal of French Studies 28.3: 254-63 (1991) Angela Nuccitelli, “A rebours’s Symbol of the Femme-Fleur: A Key to des Esseinte’s Obsession.” Status: completed. 1974 Published in Symposium 28: 336-45 (1974) Angela Nuccitelli, “Sunrise and the Hero’s Awakening in A la recherche du temps perdu.” Status: completed. 1974 Published in Romantic Review 70 (1979): 159-71.
Summary List of Courses Taught University of Kansas (1989-Present) Bibliography and Literary Criticism; Critical Approaches to the French Novel; Balzac: La Comédie humaine; Balzac, Les Scènes de la vie de province; André Gide; Le Roman français du XXe siècle; Chefs-d’œuvre du XIXe siècle; L’Age du roman; Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu; Le Naturalisme: Zola et Huysmans; Senior Seminar: Review of French Literature; Introduction to French Literature: 18th, 19th, 20th centuries; Le Romantisme français; La Nouvelle française; Intertextualité dans la littérature du XXe siècle; The Last Thirty Years of French Literature (mini-course for University of Kansas faculty); Twentieth-Century French Novel; Nineteenth-Century French Novel; French Literature of the Nineteenth Century; French Literature of the 17th- and 18th-Centuries; French Literature of the Twentieth Century; Révolution, 1789; Courtship and Family in 18th and 19th Century France; French Literature of the 18th Century; 18th-century French Novel; La Décadence; Allusion; French Short Story of the Nineteenth-Century.
Service Interests (Statement) I have always been active in the department, the college, and the university. I have served three terms on the University Senate, as I have done on two previous occasions, and I am currently serving on a university committee. I have been on numerous college and university committees, and I take an active part in the advising and governance of my department.
University of Kansas Service University of Kansas Advisor Exit 2:9. Student Involvement and Leadership Center Group that met regularly at the Union (2008-2013) Chair University Senate Committee on Libraries (2003-2004) Hall Center Travel Fund Committee (1998-1999) Hall Center Research Fellowship Committee (1997-1998) Hall Center Research Fellowship Committee (1994-1995) Selection Committee of the Hall Fund for the Improvement of Teaching (1991-1992) Co-Director University of Kansas Summer Language Institute (Summer 1990) Faculty Advisor Hall Center for the Humanities (Spring 1997) Member 23
Restricted Research Committee (2017-2019) Chancellor’s Scholarly Achievement Award Selection Committee (2014-2017) Faculty Senate and University Council (2012-2015) CCGS Petitions Subcommittee (Fall 2008) Organization & Administration Committee (2006-2008) Humanities General Research Fund Review Committee (2005-2006) Distinguished Librarian Award Committee (2003) University Senate Committee on Libraries (2001-2003) Faculty Senate and University Council (1999-2002) Budget Committee (1998-2001) Hall Center Executive Committee (1997-2000) First Level Review Committee, General Research Fund (1993) First Level Review Committee, University of Kansas General Research Fund (1992) Hall Center Executive Committee (1989-1992) Selection Committee of the Hall Fund for the Improvement of Teaching (1989-1992) Selection Committee for Hall Center Research Fellowships (1989-1991)
Professional Service Editorial Responsibilities Advisory Editor XVIII: New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, volume 6-7. (2009-present) Style, Special issue on the short story (February 1993) Editor Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages (Renamed Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures). Founding Editor for French, General Editor, Acting General Editor, Associate Editor (1977-present) Editor, Assistant French Review, Literature. (1989-2015) Editor, Associate Symposium. (2010-present) Editorial Board Member EMF: Studies in Early Modern France. (2002-present) Lingua Romana. (2002-present) Nineteenth-Century French Studies. (1995-present) Summa Publications. (1990- present) Purdue University Press. (1975-1978)
Other Professional Service Board of Advisors Faith University, Nigeria. Outside Consultant to Evaluate Educational Programs-Though still struggling, the school has gained accreditation by the Ministry of Education of the Nigerian government. The school wishes to maintain and improve a first-class educational system. My task was to read the various materials and to be available for scheduled telephone conferences of the university’s board of trustees. (2011-2017) Board of Visitors 24
(Appointed) U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, PA. Appointed by the Secretary of Defense with concurrence of the Secretary of the U.S. Army (February 2005- February 2007) Co-Organizer Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Kansas (October 28, 1993-October 30, 1993) Delegate MLA Delegate Assembly (1996-1998) Evaluator King’s University, Kansas City. Evaluated two classes at the King’s University, Kansas City (October 22, 2015) External Evaluator, Departmental Review University of Kentucky. Outside Consultant to Evaluate Educational Programs (March 1992) Bridgewater State University. Outside Consultant to Evaluate Educational Programs (May1987) External Reviewer: promotions University of Missouri. Evaluated the documents of one assistant professor for promotion to associate and tenure (2011) Whitman College. Evaluated the documents of one assistant professor for promotion to associate and tenure (2011) Duquesne University. Evaluated the documents of one assistant professor for promotion to associate and tenure (2010) Oakland University. Evaluated the documents of one assistant professor for promotion to associate professor and tenure (2009) University of Notre Dame. Evaluated one Associate Professor for promotion to the rank of Professor of French (2008) Brigham Young University. Evaluated one Assistant Professor for promotion to tenure and the rank of Associate Professor of French (2005) University of Pennsylvania. Evaluated one Assistant Professor for promotion to tenure and the rank of Associate Professor of Romance Languages (2005) Indiana University-South Bend. Evaluated one Assistant Professor for promotion to tenure and the rank of Associate Professor of French (2002) University of Oklahoma. Evaluated one Associate Professor for promotion to full professor (2002) Brigham Young University. Evaluated one Assistant Professor for promotion to tenure and the rank of Associate Professor of French (2001) Hope College. Evaluated one Assistant Professor for promotion to tenure and the rank of Associate Professor of French (2001) University of Notre Dame. Evaluated one Assistant Professor for promotion to tenure and the rank of Associate Professor of French (2001) Brigham Young University. Evaluated one Assistant Professor for promotion to tenure and the rank of Associate Professor of French (2000) University of Connecticut. Evaluated one Associate Professor for promotion to the rank of Professor of French (1999) University of Louisville. Evaluated one associate professor for promotion to full professor (1997) 25
University of North Carolina. Evaluated one Professor for appointment to an endowed chair (1997) Whitman College. Evaluated one associate professor for promotion to full professor (1997) Carnegie Mellon. Evaluated one associate professor for promotion to tenure (1995) Wayne State University. Evaluated one associate professor for promotion to the rank of professor (1995) Boston University. Evaluated one assistant professor for promotion to tenure and associate professor (1994) Ohio State University. Evaluated one associate professor for promotion to the rank of professor (1994) Union College. Evaluated one assistant professor for promotion to tenure and associate professor (1994) University of Oklahoma. Evaluated one assistant professor for the third year review (1994) Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. Evaluated one assistant professor for promotion and tenure (1993) Tulane University. Evaluated one assistant professor for promotion and tenure (1993) Bryn Mawr College. Evaluated one associate professor for promotion to tenure (1992) University of New Hampshire. Evaluated one associate professor for promotion to full professor (1992) University of Georgia. Evaluated 1 associate professor for promotion to full professor (1991) University of Notre Dame. Evaluated 1 assistant professor for promotion and tenure (1991) Wake Forest University. Evaluated 1 assistant professor for promotion and tenure (1991) Indiana University. Evaluated one assistant professor for promotion and tenure (1990) University of Connecticut. Evaluated one assistant professor for promotion and tenure (1990) University of Delaware. Evaluated one associate professor for promotion full professor and tenure (1990) Texas A & M. Evaluated one candidate for promotion to full professor and tenure (1985) University of Illinois-Urbana. Evaluated one candidate for promotion to full professor and tenure (1984)
Manuscript Reviewer, Ad Hoc Routledge Christian Scholar’s Review Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies Comparative Literature French Forum French Review Law & History L’Esprit Créateur Modern Fiction Studies Modern Philology Nineteenth-Century Contexts 26
Nineteenth-Century French Studies PMLA Romance Languages Annual Studies in Twentieth Century Literature Style Summa Publications Symposium XVIII: New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century Louisiana State University Press Ohio State University Press Purdue University Press Stanford University Press University of Chicago Press University of Kentucky Press University of Nebraska Press University of Texas Press University of Virginia Press
Member MLA William Riley Parker Prize Selection Committee for an outstanding article in PMLA (1996-1999) Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquia Committee (1993-1995)
Other Activity or Information Language Proficiencies French-near native Spanish-read German-read
For questions or a complete C.V., please see Prof. Pasco, [email protected].