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ISABELLE HOOG NAGINSKI

PERSONAL

Present position Professor of French Literature Co-Director, International Literary & Visual Studies Interdisciplinary Program University Address Department of Romance Languages Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 Tel: (617) 627–3289/2769

Home Address 612 Barretts Mill Rd. Concord, MA 01742 Tel: (978) 371–1813

EDUCATION Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1982 Dissertation: “Stendhal and Tolstoy. An Essay in Literary Kinship”. M.Phil. French and Russian Literature, Columbia University, 1976 M.A. Columbia University, 1974 Licence ès-lettres Université de Paris VIII, 1971

ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2006-present Professor of French, Tufts University 1999–2002 Department Chair (second term) 1995–1998 Department Chair (first term) 1988–2006 Associate Professor of French, Tufts University 1985–1988 Assistant Professor of French, Tufts University 1980–1985 Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Bard College 1977–1979 Instructor of French & Russian, Rutgers University spring 1977 Instructor of French & Russian, Douglass College 1975–1977 Preceptor in Humanities & Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University

CONCURRENT POSITIONS spring 1995 Visiting Professor, Harvard University Extension School fall 1993 Visiting Professor, Harvard University Extension School fall 1990 Visiting Professor, Harvard University Extension School 2

RESEARCH INTERESTS Romanticism George Sand, Balzac, Dostoevsky Nineteenth-century French and Russian novel French society and culture, 1789-1914 French women writers; feminist criticism Utopian thought

LANGUAGES French and English—native Russian—near native Latin, Italian, German—reading knowledge

ACADEMIC HONORS Officier, Ordre des Palmes Académiques, French Government, 1992

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

fall 2014 Senior Research Semester Leave (denied) 2010-2011 Faculty Research Award, Tufts University -- $875.50 Summer 2010 Faculty Research Award, Tufts University -- $270.00 2008 Summer Faculty Fellowship. Tufts University -- $7000.00 2005 Faculty Research Award, Tufts University -- $2000.00 2002–2003 NEH Fellowship for College Teachers 2002 NEH Summer Stipend (application withdrawn) 1997 Faculty Research Award, Tufts University 1993 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Tufts University 1989 Summer Travel Grant, ACLS 1989 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Tufts University 1987–1989 Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College Fellowship 1987–1988 NEH Fellowship for College Teachers 1987 NEH Summer Stipend (declined) 1987 Mellon Research Fellowship, Tufts University (spring) 1986 Gilbert Chinard Summer Scholarship: for research in France 1983–1984 Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, Univ. of Pennsylvania 1982 New York Council for the Humanities Grant: to help sponsor the Fifth George Sand Conference, Bard College 1982 NEH Fellowship, Summer Seminar, Harvard University 1982 NEH Fellowship, Summer Seminar, Princeton University (declined) 1979–80 American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship 1975–77 Russian Institute Fellowship, Columbia University 1979–80 Russian Institute Fellowship, ColumbiaUniversity 1976 Mogilat Fellowship, Columbia University: a travel fellowship for summer study at Leningrad University.

COURSES TAUGHT First, Second, and Third Year French 3

Advanced French 121 (4th-year): French and Francophone Women Writers; Feminine/Masculine Voices: Short Fictions Advanced French 122 (4th-year): Myth & Revolution, 1789-1848 French for Reading Knowledge—reading course for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences & Arts French Civilization French Literature Survey, Middle Ages to Enlightenment French Literature Survey, 19th and 20th centuries Introduction to the French Novel French Pre-Romanticism Nineteenth-Century French Poetry French Romanticism: “Le Mal du siècle”/“Les Enfants du siècle”/“Masculin/Féminin” Love and Mythology in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the French Novel Three Masters: Stendhal, Balzac, Sand The Heroine's Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel Visions of Society in the Nineteenth-Century Novel George Sand and Her Sisters: the 19th-century Woman Writer Le Roman Initiatique Women Writers of Modern France French Women Novelists: Their Legacy Women's Bodies, Women's Voices The Quarrel of Romanticism & Realism From Préciosité to Naturalism: The Novel as Genre: Eros and Destiny: Balzac and George Sand in Dialogue Balzac Seminar: “La Comédie féminine”/ « Temptation and Terror in Balzac’s Comédie humaine » George Sand Seminar: Dreamers and Heretics Seminar on George Sand's Lélia Seminar on Zola First-year Russian Scientific Russian Literary Traffic: the French and Russian Novel (Comparative Literature) Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature Dostoevsky and Tolstoy Freshman Seminar: Humanities (Greek and Latin literature) Freshman Seminar: Contemporary Civilization (19th and 20th centuries)

WORK IN PROGRESS

CRITICAL EDITION Critical edition and introduction of George Sand's Lélia, in the Œuvres complètes de George Sand, Béatrice Didier, ed., Paris, Editions Champion, 2005–. Under contract. BOOKS “Romanticism and Genius: the Case of George Sand” “Literary Traffic: Dostoevsky and Nineteenth-Century French Literature”—A study of Dostoevsky and his reading of Balzac, George Sand and the French Utopian Socialists. 4

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS (1) George Sand. Writing for Her Life, New Brunswick/London: Rutgers University Press,1991, 281 pp. Paperback edition, Rutgers University Press, 1994. [Chapter 3, “Indiana, or the Creation of a Literary Voice,” reprinted in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism Series (NCLC), vol. 5, Gale Research Inc., 1994.] [Chapter 9, “Articulating an Ars Poetica,” reprinted in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism Series (NCLC), vol. 8, Gale Research Inc., 1997.] (2) George Sand. L'écriture ou la vie (French edition), Paris: Editions Honoré Champion,1999, 301 p. (3) George Sand Mythographe, Clermont-Ferrand, Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, series “Cahiers romantiques” no. 13, 2007, 273 p.

(4) Critical edition of George Sand's Spiridion, in the Œuvres complètes de George Sand, Béatrice Didier, ed., Paris, Editions Champion, in press.

EDITED VOLUME George Sand: Pratiques et imaginaires de l'écriture, I. Hoog Naginski & B. Diaz eds., Caen, Presses universitaires de Caen, 2006, 403 pp. “Postface,” in George Sand. Pratiques et imaginaires de l'écriture (cited above), pp. 395-399.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES “Cabeen,” A Critical Bibliography of French Literature. Vol. 5: Nineteenth Century, Chapter XIII: George Sand. In collaboration with David Powell, Syracuse University Press, 1994, pp. 435–476.

EDITIONS/PREFACES “L'Histoire triomphante des dualités,” Preface to volume 8 of George Sand, Histoire de ma vie, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, Christian Pirot, 2002, (10-volume edition), pp. 9–55. Preface, “La Marquise,” George Sand, Nouvelles, Paris: Editions des femmes,1986, pp. 35–44.

EDITED JOURNALS/SPECIAL ISSUES Editor-in-Chief, Special Double Issue on George Sand & Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Les Mémoires de Jean Paille, George Sand Studies, vols. 29-30 (2010-2011). Editorial, pp. 1-4 (with D. Powell)

Editor-in-Chief (with David Powell), George Sand Studies -- 2001 to the present (vols. 20-34/35) Guest Editor: “Autour de Georges Lubin,” George Sand Studies, vol. 14, nos. 1–2, fall 1995. Guest Editor, George Sand Studies, vol. 13, nos. 1–2, spring 1994. 5

Guest Editor, Special Issue on George Sand, Revue des sciences humaines, no. 226, avril–juin 1992. Guest Editor, Special issue of the Proceedings of the George Sand Conference at Bard College, George Sand Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 2, fall/winter 1982.

ARTICLES. «Mythographie sandienne et lecture sociopoétique : Lélia, Jeanne, Astrée et Prométhea», for the new journal Sociopoétiques, vol. 1, no. 1, October 2016. Inaugural issue http://sociopoetiques.univ-bpclermont.fr/.

“Indiana Debutante,” article in the MLA Series, Approaches to Teaching Sand’s Indiana, D. Powell & P. Prasad eds., New York: MLA, 2016, pp. 90-101. « George Sand’s Feast of the Ideal, » George Sand Studies, vol. 32, 2013, pp. 129-139.

“Le 'Tolle lege' du moine Alexis dans Spiridion: la lecture, la méditation, la prophétie,” Romanesques (Revue du Centre d’études du roman et du romanesque), 2013, no. 5, pp. 239-256.. “Writing in a Heartbeat: the Abandoned Manuscript of Jean Paille,” George Sand Studies, vols. 29-30 (2010-2011), pp. 187-203. “Accidental Families: Ritual and Initiation in Horace and La Comtesse de Rudolstadt,” Romanic Review, vol. 96, no. 3, May–Nov. 2005, pp. 341–360. “Amitiés romantiques: Théophile Bra, George Sand et Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire,” in collaboration with Jacques De Caso and André Bigotte, George Sand Studies, vol. 23, 2004, pp. 3–31. “Lélia, ou l'héroïne impossible”, “George Sand et ses personnages, 1804–2004”, Etudes littéraires, Université de Montréal, vol. 35, no. 2–3, été–automne 2003, pp.87–106.

“George Sand: ni maîtres, ni disciples,” Special Issue on “Masters and Disciples,” Romantisme, 2003–4, no. 122, pp. 43–53. “Anthills, Beehives and Lairs: George Sand's Sparrow in Search of 'the Best Government',” George Sand Studies, vol. 20, nos. 1–2, 2001, pp. 21–37. “George Sand, Romancière Phénix, ou Résurrection de la Femme-Auteur,” Special Issue on “Les Paradoxes du biographique,” Revue des sciences humaines, no. 263, juillet–septembre 2001, pp. 195–215. “Préhistoire et filiation: George Sand et le mythe des origines dans Jeanne,” Special Issue on “Representation in history and literature,” Romantisme, no. 110, fall 2000, pp. 63–71. “Le Poème de Myrza. Pouvoir mythique et genèse au féminin,” La Lettre d'Ars, Bulletin du Centre International George Sand et le Romantisme, no. 14, juin 1999, pp. 3–4. “Writing a New Mythology, Rewriting Spiridion,” George Sand Studies, vol. 15, nos. 1–2, spring 1996, pp. 65–74. “Les Deux Lélia: une réécriture exemplaire,” Special Issue on George Sand, Revue des sciences humaines, tome LXXXXX, no. 226, avril–juin 1992, pp. 65–84. “From Melancholy to Ecstasy. Lélia and Sand's Feminine Sublime,” George Sand Studies, vol. XI, nos. 1/2, spring 1992, pp. 3–13. 6

“Dostoïevski et George Sand. Le Cas de Niétotchka Niézvanova,” Présence de George Sand, numéro spécial sur George Sand et la Russie, no. 31–32, mars 1988, pp. 31–39. “Lélia, Novel of the Invisible,” George Sand Studies, vol. 7, nos. 1–2, 1984/1985, pp. 46–53. “The Geology of Character: Stendhal and the Paradigms of Literary Vocation,” French Forum, Jan. 1985, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 57–66. “The Beginning(s) of Henry Brulard: Stendhal's Metaphors for Autobiographical Writing,” French Review, April 1985, pp. 664–669. “George Sand: Gynographie et androgynie,” Bulletin de la Société des Professeurs Français en Amérique, 1983/1984, pp. 21–36. “Tolstoy's Childhood: Literary Apprenticeship and Autobiographical Obsession,” Ulbandus Review, Columbia University, vol. 2, no. 2, fall 1982, pp. 191–208. “George Sand's Poetics,” George Sand Newsletter, vol. 4, no. 2, winter 1981, pp. 38– 41. “The George Sand—Gustave Flaubert Correspondence. Extracts,” George Sand Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 2, fall/winter 1980, pp. 22–33. “Stendhal, prophète de Tolstoï,” Bulletin de la Société des Professeurs Français en Amérique, 1976/1977, pp. 43–64.

CONTRIBUTED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS « Avec ou sans Muse ? Réflexions de Sand sur le génie au féminin », George Sand et ses consoeurs : la femme artiste et intellectuelle au XIXe siècle, Verona, Italy, 16 pp. typescript

Liminal article : “L’idéal sandien dans tous ses états: la rêverie, la quête, la figuration,” in George Sand et l’idéal: Une recherche en écriture, Paris, Honoré Champion, 24 p. typescript (in press)

“George Sand et Gustave Flaubert, ouvriers de l’art: la pioche, le gueuloir et le sillon,” in Des vérités de raison et de sentiment. Lectures de la correspondance Flaubert-Sand, Thierry Poyet ed., Clermont-Ferrand, Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal (CELIS, collection “Ecritures de l’intime”), 2013, pp. 135-154.

“La Muse et la Chimère: George Sand dans les marges de Baudelaire”, George Sand et la marginalité, Clermont-Ferrand, Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2012, pp. 381-398. “George Sand en quête de sa muse”, in La Lettre et l’œuvre. Perspectives épistolaires sur la création littéraire et picturale au XIXe siècle, Clermont-Ferrand, Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2009, pp. 93-105. “Les Veillées de Sand”, in George Sand. Intertextualité et polyphonie, II: Voix, Image, Texte, N. Harkness & J. Wrights eds., Oxford/Bern, French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Peter Lang, 2011, pp. 15-31. “Invisibilité et merveilleux dans Spiridion,” in Histoires et enchantements. Hommages à Simone Bernard-Griffiths, Clermont-Ferrand, Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2010, pp. 457-472 (with Marie-Jacques Hoog). “George Sand mythographe,” in George Sand. Pratiques et imaginaires de l'écriture, B. Diaz & I. Hoog Naginski, eds., Caen, Presses universitaires de Caen, 2006, pp. 145-159. “George Sand et le temps expérimental,” in George Sand: une écriture expérimentale, Catherine Masson et al., eds., New Orleans, Presses universitaires du Nouveau Monde, 2007, pp. 135-154. 7

“George Sand et le réalisme prophétique,” in George Sand. Ecritures et représentations, Eric Bordas, éd., Paris, Eurédit, 2004, pp. 45–66. “In Reboul's Empire: George Sand's Lélia. A Critical Double Standard,” in George Sand sous l'Empire des lettres, Anne McCall ed., New Orleans, Presses universitaires du Nouveau Monde, 2004, pp. 195–208. “Le Mythe de l'Italie chez George Sand ou Lélia et l'Italie invisible”, in Présences de l'Italie dans l'œuvre de George Sand, Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerche sulle Viaggio in Italia, Biblioteca del viaggio in Italia, Studi 66, 2004, pp. 15–29. “La nouvelle sibylle chez les Invisibles: discours et délire sacrés,” in Lectures de Consuelo, La Comtesse de Rudolstadt de George Sand, Michèle Hecquet & Christine Planté, éds., Lyon, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2004, pp. 349–365. “La Chevalerie du peuple: George Sand à la recherche de l'histoire perdue”, in Genèses du roman. Balzac et Sand. Mélanges en l'honneur de Nicole Mozet, Lucienne Frappier-Mazur éd., Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2004, pp. 245–262. “De la faute d'Eve au crime invisible et à la sublimation: structures du désir dans la 'Comédie féminine' de Balzac,” in L'Erotique Balzacienne, Lucienne Frappier-Mazur & Jean-Marie Roulin, éds., Paris, SEDES, 2001, pp. 147–156. “Mythographies: Pierre Leroux et George Sand à la recherche du Saint-Esprit,” in Corps, âme, esprit (Actes de Cerisy-la-Salle), Claude Cohen-Boulakia & Jacques Gorot, eds., Paris, Editions Médicales et Scientifiques, 2000, pp. 116–129. “Sisypha: George Sand's Autobiographical Body,” in Corps/Décors: Femmes, orgie, parodie. Hommage à Lucienne Frappier-Mazur, Catherine Nesci, Gretchen Van Slyke & Gerald Prince, eds., Amsterdam, Eds. Rodopi, 1999, pp. 135–148. “Le Poème de Myrza et le mythe des origines sandien,” in Masculin/Féminin. Le XIXe siècle à l'épreuve du genre, textes réunis par Chantal Bertrand-Jennings, Toronto, Centre d'études du XIXe siècle Joseph Sablé, 1999, pp. 145–165. “George Sand: l'éducation d'une enfant du siècle,” in L'Education des filles au temps de George Sand, Michèle Hecquet, éd., Arras, Artois Presses Université, 1998, pp. 189–199. “Piocheurs sublimes: Sand et Flaubert épistoliers,” in De Baudelaire à Lorca. Approches de la modernité littéraire, José Manuel Losada Goya, ed., Kassel. Edition Reichenberger, 1996, vol. 1, pp. 99–117. “La Comédie féminine: constance et mouvance dans l'œuvre sandienne,” in George Sand et l'écriture du roman, Jeanne Goldin, ed., Montreal, Paragraphes, Université de Montréal, 1996, pp. 231–239. “Prométhéa. George Sand et les Mythes,” in Le Chantier de George Sand. George Sand et l'étranger, Studia Romanica de Debrecen, Bibliothèque française, no. 1, Debrecen, Hungary, Kossuth Lajos Tudományegyetem, 1993, pp. 133–143.

“Germaine de Staël Among the Romantics,” in Germaine de Staël. Crossing the Borders, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1991, pp. 177–187. “Consuelo and La Comtesse de Rudolstadt: from Gothic Novel to Novel of Initiation,” in The World of George Sand, New York, Greenwood Press, 1991, pp. 107–117. “Stendhal—A Writer for Today,” Introduction to The Stendhal Bicentennial Papers, New York, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 1–4. 8

“A Nigilistka and a Communarde: Two Voices of the 19th-Century Russian Intelligentka,” in Woman as Mediatrix. Essays on Nineteenth-Century European Women Writers, New York, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 145–158. “Two Opponents of the Anthill: Dostoevski and George Sand,” in Dostoevski and the Human Condition, New York, Greenwood Press, 1986, pp. 199–210. “The Serenity of Influence: The Literary Relationship of George Sand and Dostoevsky,” in George Sand. Collected Essays, Troy, N.Y., Whitston, 1986, pp. 110–125.

ENCYCLOPEDIA/DICTIONARY ENTRIES

Dictionary entry: “Identité”, Dictionnaire George Sand, Paris, Editions Honoré Champion, 2015, 2 vols.., I, pp. 551-559.

Dictionary entry: “Lélia”, Dictionnaire George Sand, Paris, Editions Honoré Champion, 2015, 2 vols., II, pp. 636-644,

Dictionary entry: “Mythes masculins”, Dictionnaire George Sand, Paris, Editions Honoré Champion, 2015, 2 vols., II, pp. 802-815.

Dictionary entry: “Le Piccinino”, Dictionnaire George Sand, Paris, Editions Honoré Champion, 2015, 2 vols., II, pp. 929-930.

Dictionary entry: “Roman noir”, Dictionnaire George Sand, Paris, Editions Honoré Champion, 2015, 2 vols., II, pp. 1116-1123.

“George Sand,” Encyclopedia of Europe: 1789–1914, J. Merriman & J. Winter, eds., New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. “George Sand in 1848,” Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions, 6 pp. typescript, on-line publication on the World Wide Web, at the following location: http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/chastain/

NECROLOGIES “Georges Lubin (1904–2000),” in La Lettre d'Ars, no. 17, March 2000, pp. 3–4. In collaboration with Marie-Jacques Hoog. Reprinted in George Sand Studies, vol. XIX, nos. 1/2, 2000, pp. 7–9.

BOOK REVIEWS

Review Article: Françoise Genevray, George Sand et ses contemporains russes; Audiences, échos, réécritures (Paris: Harmattan, 2000), in George Sand Studies, vol. 25, 2006, pp. 124-129. Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky. The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871–1881 (Princeton University Press, 2002), in Canadian-American Slavic Studies, Sumer, fall, winter, 2006, Nos. 2-4, pt. 2, vol. 40, pp. 530-534. George Sand, Spiridion, Oscar Haac and Michèle Hecquet, eds. (Slatkine Reprints), in George Sand Studies, vol. 23, 2004, pp. 138–141. 9

Françoise Massardier-Kenney, Gender in the Fiction of George Sand (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000), in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 29, nos. 3 & 4, 2001, pp. 366–369. Anne McCall Saint-Saëns, De l'être en lettres (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996), in George Sand Studies, vol. XIX, nos. 1/2, 2000, pp. 125–129. Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky. The Miraculous Years (1865–1871) (Princeton University Press, 1995), in Canadian-American Slavic Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, spring 1999, pp. 113–117. Nicole Mozet, ed., George Sand. Une Correspondance (Christian Pirot ed., 1994), in Romantisme, vol. 98, no. 4, 1997, pp. 127–129. Catherine Nesci, La Femme mode d'emploi (Lexington, Ky.: French Forum Publishers, 1992), in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 26, no. 3/4, spring/summer 1998, pp. 449–452. Naomi Schor, George Sand and Idealism (New York: Columbia U.P., 1993), in George Sand Studies, vol. XIV, nos. 1/2, fall 1995, pp. 140–143. Michèle Hecquet, Poétique de la parabole. Les romans socialistes de George Sand, 1840–1845 (Klincksieck, 1992), in George Sand Studies, vol. XIII, nos. 1/2, spring 1994, pp. 77–80. Béatrice Didier et Jacques Neefs, Ecritures du romantisme II: George Sand (Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 1989), in George Sand Studies, vol. XII, nos. 1/2, 1993, pp. 75–77. Nancy Morrow, Dreadful Games. The Play of Desire in the Nineteenth Century Novel (Kent State U. P., 1988), in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 21, no. 3/4, spring/summer 1993, pp. 483–486. David Powell, George Sand (Boston: Twayne, 1990), in Romanic Review, vol. 83, no. 1, Jan. 1992, pp. 125–128. Huguette Bouchardeau, George Sand. La Lune et les sabots (Robert Laffont, coll. “Elle était une fois”, 1990), in George Sand Studies, vol. XI, nos. 1/2, 1992, pp. 94–95. Jean Forest, Des femmes de Balzac (P. U. de Montréal, 1984), in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 15, no. 4, summer 1987, pp. 469–472. Gary Cox, Tyrant and Victim in Dostoevsky (Slavica, 1984), in Canadian-American Slavic Studies, winter 1985, pp. 221–223. Claude Tricotel, Comme deux troubadours. Histoire de l'amitié Flaubert-Sand (SEDES, 1978), in George Sand Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 2, winter 1979, pp. 21–22. Maria Espinosa, translation of George Sand's Lélia (Indiana U. P., 1978), in George Sand Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 2, spring/summer 1978, pp. 13–14.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES Editor, George Sand Studies (formerly George Sand Newsletter): co-editor-in-chief, 2001–present guest editor, vols. V/no. 2 (1992), VI/nos. 1–2 (1993), XIII–XIV (94–95) editorial board member (1981–present) contributing editor (1980–1981) Editorial Board: Collection “Mythographies et Sociétés,” Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2009-present Editorial Consultation for Book Manuscripts: 10

Rutgers University Press, 1990–1991; Duke University Press, 1992; Purdue University Press, 1992; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002; Presses universitaires du Nouveau Monde, 2007. Editorial Consultation for Articles: Comparative Literature (Univ. of Oregon), Nineteenth- Century French Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, Mosaics, George Sand Studies, Dix- Neuf

RADIO Radio Interview, “George Sand,” M.I.T. Radio, 1991

INVITED LECTURES “Spiridion, livre palimpseste: sources, énigmes et lecteurs insolites, » Séminaire à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure dans le cadre des Œuvres complètes de George Sand, December 8, 2014.

“Séance Plénière (Keynote Address): “L’idéal sandien dans tous ses états: la rêverie, la quête, la figuration,” 19th International George Sand Conference: “Écrire l’idéal: la recherche de George Sand”, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, June 20, 2013. “Editer Spiridion,” Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, November 23, 2009. “Holding Her Own: George Sand & the Nineteenth-Century Novel,” Trinity College, Oxford University, England, November 19, 2009 “'Une invisible communion': Lélia, Wanda et l'Age de l'Invisible chez George Sand”, Wellesley College, December 3, 2008. “George Sand Mythographe”, Brown University, Oct. 29, 2007. “Lélia face à la critique”, Séminaire LIRE, Université de Lyon III, Lyon, France, November 30, 2006. “George Sand's Prophetic Realism”, University of SUNY-Buffalo, February 23, 2006. “Ecrire Indiana. Devenir George Sand,” Harvard University, October 19, 2005. “La première édition est-elle parfois préférable? Le cas de Lélia et Spiridion,” Journées d'étude sur “Les œuvres complètes de George Sand,” Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, December 2, 2004. “Accidental Families: Ritual and Initiation in Horace and La Comtesse de Rudolstadt,” Conference on “George Sand: Families and Communities”, New York University, November 13, 2004. Keynote Address, XVIth International George Sand Conference, “George Sand et le temps expérimental,” Wellesley College, September 30, 2004. “George Sand Mythographe,” Colloque “George Sand: Pratiques et Imaginaires”, Cerisy-la-Salle, France, July 5, 2004. “Le Mythe de l'Italie chez George Sand ou Lélia et l'Italie invisible,” Colloquium: “Presenza dell'Italia nell'opera di George Sand,” University of Verona, Italy, May 9, 2002. “George Sand's Autobiographical Writings,” presentation in the Senior Seminar, “A la lettre”, Dartmouth College, February 2002. 11

“La Nouvelle Sibylle chez les Invisibles: Discours et délire sacrés,” Colloquium: “Lectures de Consuelo,” Université de Lyon II, November 17, 2001. “Retour à Nohant: ville et nature dans Histoire de ma vie,” George Sand Colloquium, Université de Clermont-Ferrand, November 24, 2000.

“Filles d'Eve: structures du désir dans la “Comédie féminine” de Balzac,” University of Pennsylvania, November 12–13, 1999. “ “Pierre Leroux et George Sand à la recherche du Saint-Esprit,” Colloque “Corps, Ame, Esprit,” Cerisy-la-Salle, France, July 30, 1999. Keynote Address, XIVth International George Sand Conference, “Rewriting Lineage: Women, Mythography and the Art of Fiction in Jeanne,” Brandeis University, April 16, 1999. “The Woman Writer as Phoenix: George Sand, Biography and the Death of the Author,” The Simches, Barsam, Langsam Lecture, Tufts University, April 22, 1998. “George Sand, Romancière Phénix, ou Résurrection de la femme-auteur,” Bryn Mawr College, March 19, 1998. “George Sand et le mythe des origines,” presentation in the Graduate Seminar, “Femmes, littérature et société au XIXe siècle,” organized jointly by the Université de Montréal and the University of Toronto, March 3 and March 5, 1998. “George Sand. Mythographer for the Romantic Age,” Swarthmore College, March 23, 1994. “Promethea Unbound: George Sand's Poetics of Rebellion,” “Journées Sand,” Tufts University, April 11, 1992. “Lélia Unbound: George Sand's Discourse of the Sublime,” U.Mass.-Amherst, March 30, 1992. “George Sand: A Great Woman in a Great Man's World,” presentation of George Sand. Writing for Her Life, French Library in Boston, October 15, 1991. “George Sand. Becoming a Writer,” Bunting Institute Colloquium Series, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, March 26, 1991. “George Sand,” Faculty Colloquium, Women's Programs, Tufts University, March 12, 1991. “George Sand. Writing for Her Life,” Center for Literary Studies, Harvard University, May 10, 1990. “La Révolution au féminin,” Seminar: Summer Institute funded by the Connecticut Humanities Council, “The French Revolution: The Drama of Political and Social Change in Literature, Art and Film,” Wesleyan University, July 2, 1989. “Literary Traffic: The French and Russian Novel,” Bunting Institute Colloquium Series, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, April 20, 1988. “Utopian Socialist Philosophers and the 19th-Century Russian Novel,” Lecture Series on the Interrelation of Philosophy and Literature, Honors Program, Caldwell College, Caldwell, N.J., March 30, 1988. “Indiana de George Sand ou la création d'une voix littéraire,” Maison Française, New York University, Jan. 9, 1986. “Literary Traffic I: Concepts of Literary Influence,” Part I of Lecture Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. (under the auspices of the Graduate Group in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory), Dec. 7, 1983. 12

“Literary Traffic II: The Serenity of Influence,” Part II of Lecture Series, University of Pennsylvania, April 19, 1984. “Tolstoy: The Autobiographical Obsession,” Douglass College, New Brunswick, N.J., March 15, 1978 (given in revised form, Rutgers University, Newark, N.J., April 6, 1978). “Stendhal et Tolstoï,” Alliance Française, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., Dec. 3, 1976.

PAPERS AT CONFERENCES « Le Génie du Terroir : Le Berry in Sand’s Fictional Universe, » Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Brown University, Oct. 27, 2016. “George Sand Studies at 40,” Hofstra University, Sept. 21, 2016. “’Quand Lélia daignait être femme’ Le corps problématique d’une héroïne sandienne », 14th Annual Conference of the Société Dix Neuf, Paris, France, April 15, 2016.

« Robes souillées et gilets magnifiques: Sand turns the fictional world on its head », Nineteenth- Century French Studies Colloquium, Princeton University, November 2015.

« Avec ou sans Muse ? Réflexions de Sand sur le génie au féminin », 20th International George Sand Conference: George Sand et ses consoeurs : la femme artiste et intellectuelle au XIXe siècle, Séance plénière, University of Verona, Verona, Italy, June 29th, 2015.

“George Sand’s Feast of the Ideal,” 38th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C., October 12, 2012. “Le 'Tolle lege' du moine Alexis dans Spiridion: la lecture, la méditation, la prophétie,” Colloque sur L’Expérience romanesque, Université de Grenoble, France, Nov. 25, 2011. “Engelwald: manuscrit invisible,” Annual Colloquium of the Société des Dix-neuviémistes (SDN) on “Dirt and Debris,” University of Birmingham, England: April 8, 2011.

“Engelwald en éclats,” 18th International George Sand Conference, University of California at Santa Barbara, September 27, 2008. "Spiridion entre La Revue des deux mondes et La Revue indépendante,” Conference on “La Science du jourmalisme. George Sand et la presse,” Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier, France, June 21, 2008. “La Muse et la Chimère: George Sand dans les marges de l'écriture baudelairienne”, Colloque “La marginalité dans l’œuvre de George Sand”, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, June 19, 2007. “'Si toutefois je puis me permettre d’avoir une muse' : les lettres de George Sand sur Lélia”, Colloque “Epistolaire, fiction et historiographie”, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, November 8, 2006. “Les Veillées de Sand”, Colloque “Intertextualité et Polyphonie”, Dublin City University, Dublin, June 24, 2006 “Invisibility: A Utopian Principle in George Sand”, 59th Annual Kentucky Modern Language Conference, Lexington, KY., April 21, 2006 13

“La Vision prophétique dans Le Compagnon du Tour de France”, Journées d'études sur Le Compagnon du Tour de France, Université de Lille 3, December 9, 2005. “George Sand's Prophetic Realism: the Ennobled Voice of Pierre Huguenin,” 29th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, October 2003. “Lélia, filiations invisibles,” XVth International George Sand Conference, Tulane University, December 6, 2002. “Desire in Print: The Honoré Champion Project for a Complete Works of George Sand. Lélia as Exemplar,” 28th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, Oct.25, 2002. “Beyond Corinne: Sand's Invisible Sibyl for the Revolution,” 27th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 18, 2001. “Peasants and Druids, Proletarians and 'Compagnons': George Sand's Retrieval of Lost Histories,” 26th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign, October 21, 2000. “Anthills, Beehives and Lairs: George Sand in Search of 'the Best Government',” 24th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Penn State University, October 24, 1998. “Biography as Mosaic: the Case of George Sand,” MLA Annual Convention, Toronto, Dec. 1997. “Mythography in the Margins: George Sand's Poème de Myrza,” 23d Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Georgia, October 18, 1997. “Rewriting Spiridion: George Sand's Heretical Feminism and Social Evangelism,” XIIth International George Sand Conference, Hofstra University, November 16, 1996. “Sisypha: George Sand and the Language of Autobiography,” 22nd Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Toronto, October 24, 1996. “George Sand: l'éducation d'une enfant du siècle,” Colloque sur l'Education des filles au XIXe siècle, Nohant, France, 8–11 juin 1995. “The Old Hermit: George Sand and Philosophical Identity,” 20th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, Oct. 20–23, 1994. “La Comédie féminine: constance et mouvance dans l'œuvre sandienne,” XIe Colloque International George Sand, Université de Montréal, May 5, 1994. “From Terror to Harmony: George Sand and the Age of the Paraclete,” 19th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Univ. of Kansas, Oct. 30, 1993. “Reading the German Romantics: George Sand's Promethea Complex”, MLA Annual Convention, New York, Dec. 30, 1992. “Lélia Unbound. George Sand and the Myth of Prometheus,” 18th Annual Colloquium in 19th- Century French Studies, SUNY-Binghamton, Oct. 23, 1992. “Prométhéa: George Sand et les mythes,” Tenth International George Sand Conference, University of Debrecen, Hungary, July 7, 1992. “Lélia and Sand's Feminine Sublime,” Ninth International George Sand Conference, Allentown College, PA, October 11, 1991. “The Lélia of 1833 and the Lélia of 1839; an Instance of Intratextuality,” MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, Dec. 29, 1990. 14

“Sand's Nocturnal Imagination: Lélia as Exemplar,” 16th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth- Century French Studies, Univ. of Oklahoma, Oct. 11, 1990. “The Utopian Imagination: George Sand's Vision of Revolution,” 15th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of New Hampshire, Oct. 27, 1989. “Un Logogriphe Immense. Enigma and Polyphony in George Sand's Vision of Revolution,” Celebration of the Bicentennial of the French Revolution, Tufts University, Sept. 16, 1989. “George Sand Utopiste,” Eighth International George Sand Conference, Université de Tours, Tours, France, July 7, 1989. “The Utopian Superstructure: Spiridion and George Sand's Vision of Revolution,” MLA Annual Convention, New Orleans, Dec. 28, 1988. “Germaine de Staël among the Romantics,” Germaine de Staël Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., November 1, 1988. “Suicide in George Sand,” response to a paper on Sandian approaches to suicide, NEMLA, Providence, R.I., March 25, 1988. “Bakhtin, the Russian Novel, and the Bicultural Mind,” Annual AATSEEL Convention, San Francisco, December 28, 1987. “Sendhal's The Red and the Black and Anna Karenina,” Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, November 8, 1987. “Dostoevsky's Petersburg: from Physiologie to Mythology,” Annual ATSEEL Convention, New York, Dec. 28, 1986. “Consuelo: from Gothic Novel to Novel of Initiation,” Seventh George Sand Conference, Hofstra University, Oct. 17, 1986. “George Sand and Fiction of the Invisible,” 11th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vanderbilt University, Oct. 11, 1985. “Ann Radcliffe, the Gothic Novel and the Romantic Imagination,” Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Conference, Hofstra University, Oct. 18, 1985. “Balzac and Dostoevsky: The Text of the Mandarin,” Annual AAASS Convention, New York, Nov. 2, 1984. “Lélia: Novel of the Invisible,” Sixth George Sand Conference, Missouri Western State College, St. Joseph, MO, Oct. 19, 1984. Round Table Panelist on “Apprentissage de la lecture pour les débutants en littérature: Approches critiques,” Journée Pédagogique, Douglass College/Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., Feb. 4, 1984. “Feminism and Revolution: An Iconographic Perspective,” Penn Mid-Atlantic Seminar for the Study of Women in Society, University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 1, 1984. “The Serenity of Influence: The Literary Relationship of George Sand and Dostoevsky,” MLA Annual Convention, New York, Dec. 29, 1983 (given in revised form, Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Haverford College, March 10, 1984). “From Beyle to Stendhal: Literary Vocation in La Vie de Henry Brulard,” Romanticism Conference, Hofstra University, Oct. 14, 1983. “Stendhal's Restoration: Myth of Napoleon and Ideological Unemployment,” 7th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Indiana University, Nov. 12, 1981. 15

Workshop on “George Sand a-t-elle un art poétique?” directed at the George Sand Workshop, Université de Tours, Tours, France, June 13, 1981. “Two Opponents of the Ant-Hill: George Sand and Dostoevsky,” Dostoevsky Conference, Hofstra University, April 10, 1981. “Literary Transformations of the Nigilistka,” Annual AATSEEL Convention, Houston, Dec. 1980. “A Nigilistka and a Communarde: Two Voices of the 19th-Century Russian Intelligentka,” Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Conference, Hofstra University, Nov. 8, 1980. “The Narrative Frame of La Vie de Henry Brulard,” 6th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth- Century French Studies, University of Houston, Oct. 24, 1980. “Stendhal and Tolstoy: The Autobiographical Obsession,” Harvard-Columbia Seminar, Columbia University, April 12, 1980. “Intertextuality in Tolstoy: The Case of Stendhal,” Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, AAASS, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., March 8, 1980. “Rousseau and Tolstoy: Two Noble Savages at the Opera,” Annual AATSEEL Convention, San Francisco, Dec. 27, 1979 (given in revised form at Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, April 26, 1980). Panelist, special session on “Le Phénomène George Sand,” sponsored by the AATF, French Institute, New York, Dec. 1, 1979. “Stendhal and Tolstoy: The Question of Literary Influence,” Annual NY/NJ Chapter Meeting of AATSEEL, Cornell University, March 6, 1976.

CONFERENCES & PANELS ORGANIZED AND CHAIRED

Round Table: “Félicie de Fauveau: Sculpture, Gender, Politics, & Romanticism,” with Jacques de Caso, Univ. of California Berkeley, & Alison Yarrington, Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, University of Hull, England, November 16, 2011, Olin Center , Tufts University. Panel: “George Sand in Dialogue,” MLA Annual Convention, Los Angeles, January 7, 2011. Panel: “George Sand: Temps expérimental et expériences du temps,” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, December 2005. Conference Director (with Brigitte Diaz), “L'écriture sandienne: pratiques et imaginaires,” Cerisy-la-Salle, July 1–8, 2004. Panel: “George Sand: Her Masters, Her Disciples,” MLA Annual Convention, San Diego, December 2003. Panel: “George Sand's Consuelo: New Approaches,” 27th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth- Century French Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 18, 2001. Panel: “George Sand and Her Sisters,” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., Dec. 1996. One-Day Seminar: “George Sand Seminar—Première Journée d'Etudes Sandiennes,” Tufts University, May 3, 1996. Panel: “Staël/Sand: Continuities/Discontinuities,” 21st Annual Colloquium in 19th-Century French Studies, University of Delaware, Oct. 22, 1995. Conference: “Journées Sand,” Tufts University, April 9–11, 1992. 16

Day-Long Program: “Women and the French Revolution,” for the Celebration of the Bicentennial of the French Revolution, Tufts University, Sept. 16, 1989. Special Session: “Privileging Novelistic Discourse: Bakhtinian Perspectives,” MLA Annual Convention, New Orleans, Dec. 28, 1988. Panel: “Russia Reading and Rewriting the West,” AATSEEL Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., Dec. 28, 1988. Panel: “George Sand: Her Heritage. Her Legacy.” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., Dec. 30, 1984. Conference Director, Fifth International George Sand Conference, Bard College, Annandale, N.Y., Nov. 12 and 13, 1982. Panel: “Dostoevsky and Tolstoy: the Western Heritage,” AATSEEL Annual Convention, New York, Dec. 28, 1981. Co-organizer of the George Sand Workshop in Honor of Georges Lubin (with Marie-Jacques Hoog), Université de Tours, Tours, France, June 11–16, 1981.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES External examiner, Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Oxford University, April 7, 2011. External examiner, Ph.D. Thesis Defense: University of Edinburgh, Aug. 1997. External examiner, Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Brandeis University, Dec. 1995. Panelist, NEH Collaborative Research, December 17, 1996. Panelist, NEH Study Grants, fall 1993. Panelist, Bunting Institute Fellowships, spring 1993. Outside Evaluations for Promotion and Tenure: University of Denver, Dartmouth College, Wellesley College, Swarthmore College, Wesleyan, Kent State, Penn State, Rhodes College, Indiana University, University of Edinburgh, Queen's University of Belfast, North Carolina State University, Northern Illinois University, University of Maine, Tulane University, Hofstra University, Temple University, UC Santa Barbara. Invited to join a « groupe de recherche » at the University of Clermont-Ferrand on « Sociopoétiques » and to publish in the journal by that name, spring 2015. Board Member (Membre du Conseil), Groupe International de Recherches Sandiennes (GIRS), 2005–present, Université de Paris VII-Jussieu. Board Member, Comité scientifique, Centre International George Sand et le Romantisme (CIGSR), La Châtre, France, 1994–present. Member, Centre de Recherches révolutionnaires et romantiques, Université de Clermont-Ferrand, 1992–present. Associate, Columbia University Seminar on “The Theory of Literature,” Columbia University (1980–1985).

Member of the Selection Committee for the following conferences:

Member, “Comité scientifique,” George Sand Conference, Clermont-Ferrand & Nohant, summer 2017. Selection Committee, NCFS, Brown University, Providence, RI, October 2016

Selection Committee, NCFS, University of Virginia, October 2017

Member of the “Comité scientifique” for the selection of papers to be included in the conference volume, University of Verona, Verona, Italy, 2015.

Member of the “Comité scientifique” for the selection of papers to be included in the conference volume, 19th International George Sand Conference, George Sand et l’idéal. Une recherche en écriture, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2015.

XVth International George Sand Conference, Tulane University, December 2002.

XIVth International George Sand Conference, Brandeis University, April 16–18, 1999.

24th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Penn State University, October 1998.

23d Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Georgia, October 1997.

XIIth International George Sand Conference, Hofstra University, November 1996.

20th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, October 1994.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Groupe International de Recherches Sandiennes (GIRS), Université Paris VII Centre International George Sand et le Romantisme Centre de Recherches révolutionnaires et romantiques (CRRR), Clermont-Ferrand George Sand Association (GSA) Nineteenth-Century French Studies Société des Etudes Romantiques Société des Dix-Neuviémistes Staël and Coppet Society