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GREETINGS During this 2013-2014 academic year, we will conduct a search for a new assistant FROM THE professor—field open. Please do write to us about your most talented students on CHAIR the job market. Yale has switched to a true tenure track with an eight-year “clock” and two years of leave along the way. With these conditions, we recruit with enthusiasm. The big picture is changing too. RICK LEVIN stepped down after twenty years of strong leadership as President of Yale. October 10-13, 2013 celebrated the inauguration of President PETER New Chevalier Ruth Koizim with Antonin Baudry SALOVEY, whose term began in July. Salovey is a former dean, provost, and To NED DUVAL, our first Henri Peyre chair of Psychology—a renowned Chair in French, and thanks to many of you specialist on emotional intelligence, and who contributed to the Peyre endowment. an accomplished bluegrass musician! To MAURICE SAMUELS, the Betty We also look forward to working with Jane Anlyan chair in French, thanks to a BEN POLAK our new provost from the newly created chair in the Humanities given Department of , and we are by the legendary surgeon and oncologist grateful to the ongoing support of Dean JOHN ANLYAN, who congratulated Maurie MARY MILLER EMILY and Deputy Provost in perfect French… BAKEMEIER , joined this fall by Associate To ALYSON WATERS, for her superb JOHN MANGAN Provost . of Eric Chevillard’s Prehistoric IT WAS ANOTHER BUSY YEAR FOR EDWIGE TAMALET TALBAYEV Times, which won the highly competitive the French Department, with nearly left us to take a new position at Tulane 2012 Translation Prize for best French weekly lectures, a parade of distinguished University. We welcomed the birth of her to English translation of fiction, given by visitors and many celebratory moments son Solan in January. And I am especially the French-American Foundation and the along the way. I feel lucky to have taken grateful to her for serving as DUS during Florence Gould Foundation. This is the most THOMAS up the chair after learning from this momentous year for her family. Edwige prestigious annual award for of KAVANAGH ’s superb example during has been a respected and beloved teacher French prose into English. This is a banner AGNÈS my first three years at Yale. and an excellent department citizen. We’ll year for Alyson, who also celebrates twenty BOLTON ’s management of our daily find it very hard to do without her. years as editor of Yale French Studies. operations and the steady support of LYDIA UZIEL left her position as our colleagues make this challenging job Librarian for Western European Humanities possible—and possibly fun! at Sterling Library to become the Librarian for Western Europe at Harvard. We wish her RECRUITMENT well! Through her scholarship and brilliant We were delighted to welcome to the faculty support of our students, Lydia was a true TOM CONNOLLY Professor , a specialist member of the department, supporting in modern poetry. Tom received his PhD in all of us—faculty, graduate students, and Comparative Literature from Harvard, after undergraduates—in our research. a brilliant undergraduate career at Oxford and the ENS as a boursier étranger. MORE FÉLICITATIONS! Congratulations go as well to SONIA BAUGUIL completed her first To RUTH KOIZIM, who was presented with KATHLEEN BURTON th (above left)and to year as Department Registrar: from her the insignia of Chevalier in the Ordre des CANDACE SKORUPA (right), who were friendly office, with its sunny poster of the Palmes académiques at a June 18 reception promoted this spring CONTINUEDto Senior Lectors, ON PAGE for 2 ANTONIN BAUDRY port of Marseilles, she serves as a trusted hosted by , the their excellent teaching. guide for our graduate and undergraduate Cultural Counselor of1 the French Embassy, students. and MacMillan Director IAN SHAPIRO. GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR,

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VISITORS YouTube, the conference program, and a full-time careers in teaching. And then I got HENRY ROUSSO video of talks by BRUNO CHAOUAT, the pleasure of meeting, for the first time, DORIAN BELL ROBERT WISTRICH was in residence for , and . Christopher Miller, the legendary scholar the fall semester, the On March 29-30, professors of Francophone African literature, and his CHRISTOPHER MILLER EDWIGE first visiting professor and colleague Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, a rising TAMALET TALBAYEV at Professor Maurice sponsored an scholar in Maghrebian and Mediterranean Samuels’ Yale Program international conference, “Beyond French: Studies.” You will find more here. for the Study of New Languages for African Diasporic Antisemitism. Henry’s Literature.” This conference, the first of its UNDERGRADUATE masterful essay on the challenges of kind, brought together critics with creative It’s a pleasure to report some remarkable writing contemporary , “La dernière writers from former French colonies who news: a sudden rise in majors, from 2 or catastrophe. L’histoire, le présent, le have settled in other European nations and 3 in the leanest years, to 22 last year, contemporain,” was published in November. begun to write in languages other than counting freshman through seniors who At Yale he taught an undergraduate course French: Spanish, Italian, Catalan, German, have declared. With the great teamwork of in History on “The Holocaust in ” and Dutch… For further details, click here. our new Director of the Language Program, FRANÇOISE SCHNEIDER a graduate seminar in French, History, and The conference received wide support , and our DUS, EDWIGE TAMALET TALBAYEV Jewish Studies, “Judging the Holocaust.” from the Department of French, The Edward , we In the fall, our King Distinguished J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, the made a number of small changes in the Visiting Scholar was PIERRE BIRNBAUM, Council on African Studies, the Council on undergraduate curriculum, designed to emeritus professor from I and Sciences Middle East Studies, the Program in Ethnicity, encourage students to move more quickly Po, who lectured on Léon Blum and shared a Race, and Migration, the Departments of into the upper level courses. A particularly chapter of his fascinating book about food Comparative Literature, Italian, and Germanic dynamic group of majors, among them ZOE EGELMAN culture in France, La république et le cochon, Languages and Literatures, and the Whitney , BENJAMIN MAPPIN- published in April 2013. (See page 17.) Humanities Center. ANOUAR MAJID, Director of the KASIRER, and JOHN SUNUNU COLLEAGUES University of New ’s Center for re-launched Sabbatical leaves supported a variety Global Humanities, wrote an eloquent the undergraduate of books and articles in the making: appreciation of the event on his blog. bilingual magazine, THOMAS KAVANAGH was on leave in After discussing several brilliant papers, he L’Amuse-Bouche, founded in a paper version the spring to work on two research projects remarked, “The vast amount of knowledge in 2007, and now online and on Facebook, (see Faculty News). Also in the spring, at this conference is a powerful testimony to in a striking graphic rendering by Directeur SETH THOMAS MAURICE SAMUELS worked on his book the value of literary criticism. Yale’s graduate créatif and webmaster . JOHN on philosemitism in France. He co-edited a students are also an accomplished lot and Highly recommended: SUNUNU Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature Reader, have done so much already before starting ’s investigative report ELIZABETH which includes his original translations of on hamburgers in Paris; CHRYSTAL nineteenth-century French Jewish fiction. ’s “Jour au Cordon Bleu;” and BENJAMIN MAPPIN-KASIRER R. HOWARD BLOCH was on leave for the ’s “Tableau academic year, writing a book, on Mallarmé de New Haven,” à la manière de Louis- (see Faculty News). CHRISTOPHER SEMK Sébastien Mercier… was the recipient of a Morse Fellowship, James T. King’s generosity over the working on the martyred hero in early years has truly enhancedCONTINUED the lifeON PAGEof the 3 modern French tragedy. department. His gift sponsors our annual two-week James T. King Distinguished CONFERENCES Two important conferences were bookends for the academic year. On October 5, MAURICE SAMUELS organized an international event under the auspices of the Yale Program for the Study of Anti- Semitism, “Anti-Semitism in France: Past, Present, and Future.” A day of papers by French, American, and Israeli scholars was marked by stimulating debates and original research. For more details on the conference, 2 see the following: a brief overview on GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR,

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Visitor Program. Now, with our majors ERIC AESCHIMANN, humanities directed by SARAH KRASNOW and stronger than ever, we have initiated the first correspondent at the Nouvel Observateur, designed by EDWARD MORRIS, both of undergraduate prize for distinction in the under combined sponsorship from the Yale the Drama School. All alumni are cordially senior essay written in French or in English, Poynter Fellowship program in Journalism and invited to join the reading— in the The James T. King Prize for Distinction in the our department, lectured on a “theological language of their choice! has Senior Essay. (See DUS notes on page 9 for turn” in French philosophy. (See page 13.) enrolled at — or at least in this year’s winners.) During his week in residence, he joined a virtual Yale— and you can reach him via LAUREN PINZKA’s Advanced Culture email at: [email protected]. (More GRADUATE and Conversation class and my course on on page 11.) CHRIS MILLER Thank you to for a dynamic autobiography and autofiction for lively year returning as our DGS, taking up debates. MAURICE the excellent work done by Also in April, at the Beinecke Library, SAMUELS . With the contracting job market, DANIEL DEFERT, the companion of his strong guidance to our doctorants MICHEL FOUCAULT, presented Foucault‘s has become all the more essential. Chris library, recently acquired by the Beinecke. was also the organizer of this year’s NED DUVAL gave a talk to the French Department Forum, where graduate Department Forum entitled “From Reading students and faculty come together to a Poem to Publishing an Article.” discuss intellectual and professional issues.

LECTURES AND ROUND TABLES Sketch by Edward Morris of set for Proust Marathon PIERRE BIRNBAUM lectured on Léon Blum. (See page 17.) MISCELLANEOUS The Naomi YUE ZHUO was our official greeter in Schor Memorial Boston at the New Year, representing the Lecture was Department at the MLA cash bar. With our ROYA given by own job interviews taking place this year HAKAKIAN , an on Skype, MLA became a destination for Iranian-American papers rather than for recruiting. It will be writer, journalist We were also delighted by the interesting to follow the effect of this new and human rights contributions to departmental life made technological development on attendance activist. by our visiting lectors from the Ecole at what has always been the largest meeting MARC CAPLAN from Johns Hopkins normale supérieure (above, left to right): for scholars in our field. lectured on Yiddish and Islamic Negritude. JULIAN MICHELET, PAULINE LAMBERT, Finally, we are grateful to R. HOWARD JOHN KULKA , editor at Harvard JONATHAN CORNILLON, and MARIE- BLOCH, AUDREY HOFFMANN , HAROLD AUGENBRAUM Press, and , SOPHIE CARUEL, including a highly SOUMIA KOUNDI, MATUKU NGAME, Director of the National Book Foundation, successful series of “Soirées cinéphiles.” We CONSTANCE SHERAK, FRANÇOISE discussed translations from the point of hope this will become a tradition. SCHNEIDER, and CANDACE SKORUPA view of translators, authors, and publishers for animating a rich French curriculum in in a round table with me. A NEW PLACEMENT TEST Yale’s summer school, both in New Haven JEAN-MICHEL RABATÉ lectured Under the direction of FRANÇOISE and Paris. on “Gide, Genet, Autobiography and SCHNEIDER and in collaboration with the Transgression.” Center for Language Study, the department A POSTSCRIPT ON “SPACE” SYLVAIN VENAYRE , historian from launched an online placement test this Anyone who studied French at Yale before Paris I, lectured on adventure novels in summer. Students were able to take the 1990 remembers the wood-paneled French, 1780-1940. test from home, facilitating their course lounge, the red tiled floors and narrow LAURE MURAT , selection. A special thanks to SOUMIA corridors of the third floor of Harkness Professor of French KOUNDI for her technical expertise. Hall. The move to 82-90 Wall Street, and Francophone strategically situated above (now) Blue Studies at UCLA, STAY TUNED State Coffee and Naples Pizza, has given gave a talk entitled On November 16, with support from us wider hallways, larger offices, and “On Rereading: An the GUICHARNAUD Funds for Theater more public space. Still,CONTINUED the new ON officesPAGE 4 Investigation into and Film, a group of undergraduate and have always been a bone of contention, French Literary graduate students will3 sponsor a 24-hour and with passing years, our 1990s Practices Today.” marathon reading of Swann’s Way, expertly GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR,

THE YALE FRENCH DEPARTMENT REMEMBERS continued from page 3 SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR AT YALE headquarters slid into “neo-bulletin you come to New Haven to see the newly board” style. All this has changed, renovated Yale Art Gallery, please also thanks to exceptional support in trying stop by 82-90 Wall to say hello and admire times from LLOYD SUTTLE, Yale’s Deputy the relooking of the French Department, Provost for Academic Resources, Project pronounced “awesome” by our majors. In Manager JOYCE MCJUNKIN, SUSAN the hallways hangs a quite extraordinary LACEY of RedThread, and DOTTIE exhibit of posters on the theme, “The NORTHOP, interior decorator. When Yale French Department Remembers.” The posters were designed by graphic artist JESSICA SVENDSEN from the Art School.

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Doctoral candidates “At Yale they are seriously interested in phenomenology and in various forms of , but this instance is nearly unique.” DUSTIN HOOTEN —America Day by Day and MARY ANNE LEWIS did remarkable research in Sterling and the Beinecke Library on the history of the Department, now (For more, click on the poster.) Sit on the represented in a series leather couch and the swivel chairs or, of thirteen affiches, if the weather is good, on our outdoor serious and whimsical. terrace. ­— Alice Kaplan, summer 2013

FACULTY NEWS R. HOWARD BLOCH was on sabbatical DIANE CHARNEY translated interviews read the Illuminations. working on a new book: The World’s Most in 2013 with writers Ismail Kadare and This year will see Difficult Poem on Stéphane Mallarmé’s “Un Jacqueline Raoul-Duval on behalf of son him teach three Coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard,” Noah’s weekly interview column in The Daily new undergraduate slated to appear at W. W. Norton. This Beast. The interview with the author of courses on French year he also published several articles “Kafka In Love”/”Kafka, l’éternel fiancé” is Poetry, Ekphrasis, on Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and on the site in both French and English.. She and Poetry and the restoration of medieval cathedrals, as felt honored to be asked to write a blurb the Holocaust, as well as an Introduction to a translation of for colleague VLADIMIR ALEXANDROV’s well as a graduate seminar on Mallarmé. the fabliaux, which also appeared at W. W. new book The Black Russian. After 30 years An article entitled “Oils, Psalms, and Norton, and was reviewed in the Wall Street of teaching French at Yale, she taught for Scum: Anadyomene Paint and the Limits Journal as well as in The Daily Beast. the first time the English Department’s of Ekphrasis in Paul Celan’s ‘Einkanter: Daily Themes course. Her Italian alter ego Rembrandt’” is due to appear in the April KATHLEEN BURTON attended two writes the blog, “In Love With France, At 2014 edition of Modern Philology. conferences on improving technological Home In Italy.” use in the classroom and in teaching. NED DUVAL taught in the Directed Studies One was organized by the Yale Center THOMAS CONNOLLY very much enjoyed Program again last fall, lecturing on Virgil’s for Language Study. The other one took his first year in the department, teaching a Aeneid and Dante’s Purgatorio and Paradiso. place at the University of Minnesota Freshman Seminar on modern , In October Ned was invited to speak at Center for Advanced Research on as well as undergraduate and graduate Yale’s Sir Thomas More Lecture Series on Language Acquisition. She spent most courses on the prose poem. In the spring the subject of “Classical and Renaissance of the rest of the summer translating semester he taught in the literature track Literature.” In April he was invited to her book Nazisme comme religion, Quatre of Directed Studies, also lecturing on Washington University to deliver the Isidore théologiens déchiffrent le code religieux Flaubert and Proust. In April he attended Silver Lecture. The titleCONTINUED of his lecture ON PAGE was 6 nazi, (1932-1945) and taking her son to the ACLA conference in Toronto, presenting “Music in the Service of the Text? The Case baseball games! a paper which explored4 ways of using of Pierre de Ronsard.” Rimbaud’s later interest in cartography to GREETINGS AWENDELA GRANTHAM FROM THE l’Amérique entre la Guerre ’12 PhD is d’Indépendance et la Guerre now Special Program Assistant at the DGS Civile” Virginia Home for Boys and Girls. MARY ANNE LEWIS, by the way, • ANNIE DE SAUSSURE, spent a good part of this past summer “Brittany and the Postcolonial as a fellow at the Centre Les Glycines in World: Literature and Nationless , where both ALICE KAPLAN and Nationalism in Brittany, the French ALEXANDRA GUEYDAN ’08 PhD have Caribbean and Québec” studied and lectured. This residential CLEMENTINE FAUR É - • center, run by the Catholic diocese in BELLAICHE , “’L’air protestant’: Algiers in a former monastery, plays an Gide, Sartre and Barthes and The important role in the intellectual life of Religion of Literary Modernism” Algiers—it has wonderful library resources • ELIZABETH HEBBARD, and language teaching classes. Les Glycines “Collecting Desire: The Poetics of welcomes scholars from around the world Nostalgia in Medieval French and working on Algerian and North African Occitan Lyric” history, literature and culture. Mary Anne assisted with fund-raising and networking • DUSTIN HOOTEN, “Animals initiatives for the Center as well as working and French Realism” on her dissertation and visiting the city. We hope that other scholars from the The job market showed some improvement. Department will be able to visit the Center MARY ANNE LEWIS , who is now in the years ahead. completing her dissertation on the “worlding” of North African literature, REFLECTING OUR “NEW NORMAL” We continue to offer a rich array of was hired as assistant professor at Ohio demographics, this was a relatively quiet graduate seminars: Wesleyan University, where, together year for dissertations, with only one with one other new hire, she will be FALL 2012 student finishing: THOMAS CHAPMAN redesigning the French program from the WING, whose “The Future Looks Backward: ROUSSEAU ground up. ERIN TREMBLAY PONNOU- Projection and Thomas Kavanagh DELAFFON ’11 PhD is now assistant the Historical REALISM & NATURALISM professor at Illinois State University. Imagination in Maurice Samuels CHAPMAN WING ’13 PhD is a lecturer Nineteenth-Century COMMUNITY & COMMUNICATION at Tufts. BRIAN REILLY ’08 PhD was France” (directed Yue Zhuo hired as assistant professor at Fordham by MAURIE JUDGING THE HOLOCAUST University. JOHN LYTLE ’07 PhD has SAMUELS) won the Henry Rousso just accepted a position as a permanent, Marguerite Peyre THE FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN NOVEL full-time teacher of French at the Hopkins Prize awarded by Christopher Miller School in New Haven. JESSICA DEVOS the department. ’12 PhD will be teaching this fall at SPRING 2013 Connecticut College. JEFF LEICHMAN The pipeline is, however, full of exciting THE MEDIEVAL LYRIC ’08 PhD is an assistant professor at LSU. projects, including no less than seven new Ardis Butterfield ones approved this past year: LES ANNÉES 30 DU XVIÈME SIÈCLE • NATHALIE BATRAVILLE, “The Edwin Duval Subject in Isolation: Haitian MONTAIGNE & THE Literature Under the Duvalier ESSAY TRADITION Regime” David Quint • COLIN FOSS, “Literature Under LE POÈME EN PROSE Siege: Reading And Writing During Thomas Connolly the Siege of Paris, 1870-1871” ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SWANN’S WAY • BENJAMIN HOFFMANN , CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Alice Kaplan “L’Amérique posthume – Recréations littéraires de Left to right: Grad students5 Kristin Graves, Annabel Kim, and Julie Elsky FACULTY NEWS,

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ALICE KAPLAN reports, “It was a year centenary this coming November. In April académiques. (They now refer to themselves for editions, prefaces, translations: The I made a memorable visit to the Choate as “Les Chevettes”…!) There was sadness French translation of Dreaming in French was School, where I had a chance to visit upper mixed with the joy, however, due to the fact published in October as Trois américaines level French classes and see a remarkably that her husband, HARVEY KOIZIM ’51 JD, à Paris (Gallimard). Nathalie Sarraute’s talented young faculty at work.” passed away at the end of May. With the wonderfully evocative Childhood had support of colleagues, friends and family, TOM KAVANAGH’s return to full-time been out of print for too long, and I was Ben and she are adjusting to their new lives. teaching allowed him a fall semester marked delighted to write a preface for a reissue (See below.) by the combined pleasures of offering both by the University of Chicago Press. Chicago a graduate seminar on Rousseau in time for LAUREN PINZKA enjoyed serving as also published my translation of Roger 2012’s many tercentenary celebrations and course chair of F160 and teaching “Myth Grenier’s memoir of cameras and photos, A an undergraduate course on French cinema, and Memory in Modern France.” She Box of Photographs, adding Grenier’s own which he had not been able to teach since also completed “Violent Fantasy in the photos to the original French text. Also in his first semester at Yale in 2002. The spring Petits Poèmes en prose: A Psychoanalytic May, Arthur Goldhammer translated, and semester brought a welcome sabbatical Approach,” which will appear in the I edited and prefaced, the first English leave devoted to two research projects, one upcoming MLA Approaches to Teaching language edition of Camus’ 1957 Algerian on the fate of Enlightenment Epicureanism volume dedicated to Baudelaire’s prose Chronicles (Harvard). In occasional writing, after the Revolution and the other on a poetry. She enthusiastically continued in her I’ve continued my bi-monthly pieces for the history of French film as a synthesis of role as Freshman and Sophomore advisor, as online journal Contreligne (www.contreligne. personal style and national culture. well as referee for the Scott Prize and the eu): on Spielberg’s Lincoln; on Amanda Knox; Fox Fellowship. She was also a member of on Margaretha von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt RUTH G. KOIZIM’s son, Ben, earned the University Wide Committee on Sexual etc. I taught two new seminars in the spring: his Associate degree, cum laude, from Misconduct. “Autobiography and Autofiction” in French Landmark College and will complete his BA (just in time for the Marcela Iacub “affaire ”) at American University’s School of Public CHRIS MILLER, in his spare time, has been th CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 for undergraduates, and for graduates from Administration starting in the fall. On May raising questions about Yale’s new venture a variety of departments, “A hundred years 18 , she was one of four CT recipients of the in Singapore. See this, this, and this. of Swann’s Way” in preparation for the Swann insignes du Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes

LE RUBAN VIOLET POUR RUTH KOIZIM I thank the French Government, Antonin To the extent that I succeed, it is due to Baudry, my family, friends and everyone the fact that I have the good fortune to else who has made today’s event possible. be surrounded by devoted colleagues who My sincere congratulations to the other are also friends, many of whom are here Chevaliers. today and others who are with us in spirit. As an undergraduate at Douglass College, I must also acknowledge the thousands of as a graduate student at Yale and students who individually and collectively later as an instructor at Harvard, I remind me that teaching is as much – and learned to teach with and from some I would suggest, even more – about human of the most skilled practitioners of the values and human contact as it is about pedagogical arts: Micheline Herz, Marie- a particular academic discipline. Jacques Hoog, Georges May, Jacques Nonetheless, the greatest joys in my Guicharnaud, Pierre Capretz, Wilga personal life are inextricably linked with Rivers and others. French. Among my Fauchon customers Ruth Koizim with her son Ben While I cannot pretend to the same was a Yale physics professor who invited scholarly and methodological renown as me to assist him with an advanced French me forever. Thanks to Harvey, I have those individuals, I strive to continue their cooking course during the summer of our amazing son, Ben, whose wisdom, tradition of generous mentoring in my 1979. It was in that class that I met – maturity and sense of humor make each work with students at Yale and through my and fell in love with – Harvey Koizim, day so very special. Merci de tout coeur! involvement with the French Resource Center whose love, encouragement and support — Ruth G. Koizim, May 18, 2013 over our 34 years together will sustain at Yale and the CT Chapter of the AATF. 6 FACULTY NEWS,

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MAURICE SAMUELS’ co-edited volume, Thanks to a grant from the Centre national association “Anamnèse,” attached to the The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature du livre, ALYSON WATERS spent three Université de Caen/Basse Normandie, Reader, which included his translations of months in France in 2012-2013 working and presented her work on Georges some of the works of fiction he discussed on her translation of Emmanuel Bove’s Bataille (in the form of a dialogue with in his book “Inventing the Israelite,” was Henri Duchemin et ses ombres, which will Stefanos Geroulanos from NYU) as part published by Stanford UP. He delivered be published by New York Review Books of the Modern European Colloquium papers at two conferences in honor of the in 2014. In June 2013, she was awarded events at Yale. In the spring, she gave centenary of the publication of Du Côté de the French-American Foundation Prize two conferences on Pascal Quignard, th chez Swann, one at Harvard and one at the for her translation of Eric Chevillard’s one at the University of Pennsylvania st Collège de France. Under his directorship, Préhistoire (Prehistoric Times, Archipelago and the other at the annual 20 and the fall conference at Yale on “Antisemitism Books, 2012), which was also shortlisted 21 Century French and Francophone in France, Past and Present,” brought noted for the Best Translated Book of the Year Studies International Colloquium in speakers from France, the US, and Israel. award. Her translation of art historian Atlanta. She published two pieces: an Daniel Arasse’s spirited collection article on Bataille and the concept of of essays On n’y voit rien , as Take a sacrifice, inCultures and Poetics, a Chinese Closer Look, has just been published by academic journal; and a book review on Princeton University Press. Rodolphe Gasché’s The Stelliferous Fold. In addition, she has transformed her talk on YUE ZHUO taught three new courses this the Collège de Sociologie and an earlier year: a graduate seminar on community and conference on René Girard into articles, communication in modern French thought, both forthcoming next year. “French Fiction since 1800,” and “French Literary Movements from Romanticism to Decadence”. In the fall, she participated in a colloquium on the enigmatic intellectual community of the Collège de Sociologie (1937-1939) at IMEC, organized by the Below: The Yale Department of French, Fall 2013

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Our graduate students had terrific success in securing grants and fellowships to support their research. JULIA ELSKY held the Albert G. Feuillerat Fellowship, and KRISTIN GRAVES had the Samuel K. Bushnell Fund for 2012-2013. CATHERINE CHIABAUT, LAURA JENSEN and SEAN STRADER all won departmental Kenneth Cornell grants to support summer study. DUSTIN HOOTEN received both a John F. Enders Fellowship and a Claire Levillain Prize for dissertation research this summer on animals in nineteenth-century . NATHALIE BATRAVILLE (below) a Latin American and Iberian Studies Travel Award; JULIE ELSKY a highly competitive Whiting Fellowship to support the completion of her dissertation; and ANNIE DE The Graduate Faculty, Yale Department of French. Front row, left to right: Tom Connolly, Yue Zhuo, SAUSSURE a Alice Kaplan, and Chris Miller. Back row, left to right: Chris Semk and Maurie Samuels. Chateaubriand Fellowship for research in Paris next The Department of French year. Annie will be joined at the ENS The other new development in the last will hold its traditional cash NATHALIE BATRAVILLE COLIN by , year is the promulgation of a Certificate bar for alumni, faculty and FOSS ELIZABETH HEBBARD , and . in Second Language Acquisition or current graduate students at the SEAN STRADER (in our joint program SLA. (For those of us above a certain annual meeting of the MODERN with Film Studies), LIZ HEBBARD, USHA age, SLA still stands for something RUNGOO ANNABEL KIM JULIE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION. , , quite different.) Offered by the Center Please join us: ELSKY, and CHAPMAN WING all gave for Language Study in cooperation papers at conferences, from Stanford to with the McDougal Graduate Teaching FRIDAY, Rutgers and including the MLA. Center—both valuable resources here The graduate students, working on campus—this optional certificate will JANUARY 10, 2014 together, are planning a conference for give students a new credential and new next semester, on an excellent subject: pedagogical qualifications on the job “Bad Literature.” See their call for papers market and in their careers. 7:00–8:15 pm here. Mayfair We are delighted to welcome a small but distinguished incoming class: Sheraton Chicago JENNIFER CARR from UC Berkeley (BA) and the American University in Paris (MA), and JESSICA KASJE from UC Santa Barbara (BA).

It has been a pleasure for me this past year to work with our superb new departmental Registrar, SONIA BAUGUIL. ­— Christopher Miller Graduate students enjoying the department’s outdoor terrace. 8 GREETINGS in both language and literature courses. drame en trois actes: chronologie critique FROM THE Ours is a vibrant, thriving discipline, and du Comité d’Histoire de la Deuxième this new trend in enrollment confirms guerre mondiale”), DAVID ORTEGA DUS once more the key importance of French (”The path to identity in Franco-Algerian and French-language literature to a well- literature: emphasis on selected works rounded liberal arts education. by Leïla Sebbar”), and ELSIE SOWAH (”Interracial Interactions in Colonial All of our graduating class—JOY CHEN French West Africa: Broussard and (“Etonnante dualité: L’esthétique de L’étrange destin de Wangrin”)— competed l’androgyne dans la création d’un for the newly created James T. King Prize genre”), ZOLA CHIHOMBORI QUAO for Distinction in the Senior Essay. With (“Deconstructing Stereotypes and remarkable insight and distinctive literary Influencing a National Discourse: The sensibility, our two winners, ELIZABETH Reimagining of French African Immigrant CHRYSTAL and ZOE EGELMAN, set Identity in Alain Mabanckou’s Black very high standards for future generations Bazar and Fatou Diome’s La Préférence of graduating seniors. Both of them also Nationale”), ELIZABETH CHRYSTAL graduated with distinction, as did JOY (“Pomme de terre en robe de mots: CHEN and VINICIUS LINDOSO. Our Émergence de la pomme de terre dans warmest congratulations to all! la littérature française du XXe siècle”), ZOE EGELMAN (“Un petit foyer A number of awards are given each chaud et lumineux : Littérature dans le year by the Department to recognize Journal d’Hélène Berr”), EFE CHANTAL our many accomplished students. 2012-2013 HAS PROVED A GHANNEY (“An Exploration of Ethnicity This year, the Scott Prize for the best remarkable year for our undergraduate in Rwanda as Portrayed in Notre-Dame essay in French at the upper level was MICHAEL GLENMULLEN VINICIUS LINDOSO program. For the first time in decades, the du Nil”), awarded to for his Department counted no fewer than 22 (“François Truffaut’s Transformation essay entitled “Les Indigènes civilisés: majors, of whom 10 graduated as seniors of Difficult Life Circumstances into ‘Des Coches’ et la découverte de la this spring. This spectacular upswing in Universally Comforting Films as Seen civilisation dans le Nouveau Monde;” and, NICHOLAS numbers is a testament to our exceptional Through The Five Films of the Antoine at the gateway level,CONTINUED to ON PAGE 10 ELENA LIGHT WILSON curriculum and to the inspired teaching Doinel Cycle”), (“Being for “La Belle est La Bête: Le that keeps our students engaged and Bébé: The Artful Parisian Life of Christian VINICIUS LINDOSO avid to continue their study of French Bérard”), (”Un

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YALE FRENCH STUDIES NEWS July 2013 marked my twentieth Yale French Studies has become broader anniversary as Managing Editor of Yale in scope over the years, more open to French Studies. It is quite remarkable for topics not strictly “literary,” and the me to look back and see the tremendous journal has provided a cornucopia of variety of topics covered in the almost thoughtful essays to our many readers, forty volumes I have overseen. From crime both in print and electronically through fiction to Baudelaire’s poetry; from Haïti JSTOR. Our forthcoming volumes will to Québec; from Lévinas to Lévi-Strauss; continue to offer insight and information the theater, the visual arts, the French on all things French and Francophone, educational system, contemporary opening new lines of exploration and

NEW HAVEN | 1948 cinema: such a wide range of subjects discovery in the field. With this volume, Robert Greer Cohen launches the first journal in the US devoted to French (and later, Francophone) literature and culture. has been explored, probed, dissected, — Alyson Waters and discussed, by scholars from so many disciplines, countries, and institutions. 9 GREETINGS FROM THE DUS,

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Monstrueux dans Madame Bovary ” (1 Congos: Literature and Culture in the gratitude goes to both of them for their place) and to WOJCIECH OSOWIECK Heart of Africa” (Miller), “Modern French unflagging support and astute advice, nd for “Un mauvais mode de perception” Autobiography and Auto fiction” (Kaplan), to my two predecessors in this position, (2 place). The Montaigne Prize for and “French Literary Movements from YUE ZHUO and NED DUVAL, who never proficiency in speaking and writing Romanticism to Decadence” (Zhuo). hesitated to lend a hand when it was st French was awarded to CHRISTOPHER most needed, and to our exceptional staff BAKES and ZOE EGELMAN (1 I would like to end this note by saying SONIA BAUGUIL and AGNÈS BOLTON nd place), ELIZABETH CHRYSTAL and what a pleasure and privilege it was for their incomparable professionalism NATHANIEL HARRINGTON (2 place), to serve as DUS under the inspired and dedication. I now pass the baton to rd and ANDREW KAHN and ISABELLE leadership of our new chair, ALICE CHRIS SEMK, incoming DUS. NAPIER KAPLAN (3 place). The Kenneth Cornell , and in collaboration with — Edwige Tamalet Talbayev Memorial Fund Fellowships for research our esteemed DGS CHRIS MILLER. My in French and Francophone Studies were awarded to CHRISTOPHER BAKES, JOY CHEN, CATRIN DOWD, LAUREN by Benjamin Mappin-Kasirer HOFFMAN, VINICIUS LINDOSO, L’AMUSE-BOUCHE, BENJAMIN MAPPIN-KASIRER, and “L’AB renaît!” Voilà les lettres d’amour de Balzac, et un JOHN SUNUNU. Many thanks to all la devise pour commentaire de Prof. Alice Kaplan, of our judges whose diligent work made la réédition de directrice du Département, sur une these competitions possible—PAULINE L’Amuse-Bouche nouvelle édition illustrée de L’Étranger. LAMBERT, LAUREN PINZKA, CONNIE au Département Bien qu’innovante dans son format, SHERAK, FRANÇOISE SCHNEIDER, de Français en L’AB rappelle une infaillible tradition du and CHAPMAN WING. 2012. Renaissance Département de Français de Yale: les plutôt que retour, dira-t-on: la publication, leçons uniques que peuvent apporter This year’s offerings at the undergraduate fondée d’abord en 2007 et muette depuis l’étude d’une langue étrangère. Seule level included “The Prose Poem” quelques années revit le jour munie publication sur le campus à la fois (Connolly), “The Holocaust in France” d’une mission et d’un médium changés. gérée par des étudiants et dédiée (Rousso), “Francophone Postcolonial Désormais uniquement disponible en entièrement à une culture, une Theory and Literature” (Tamalet Talbayev), ligne, le nouveau magazine des étudiants littérature et une histoire autre que la “Culture and Literature of ” (Cayer), du Département publie le travail nôtre, l’équipe de l’AB anticipe avec “French Cinema” (Kavanagh), “The French académique et créatif des francophiles hâte la nouvelle année à venir et vous Renaissance” (Duval), “French Fiction since et francophones de Yale. Prose, poésie, invite à consulter lamusebouchemag. 1800” (Zhuo), “Jewish Identity and French cinéma, histoire rencontrent discussions fr ou à nous contacter allez@ Culture” (Samuels), “Introduction to d’actualités et de politique sur les pages lamusebouchemag.fr Maghreb Literature and Culture” (Tamalet de L’Amuse-Bouche. Étudiants de tous L’AB revint à Yale sous la tutelle ALICE KAPLAN Talbayev), “Art and Literature in Modern les départements de Yale, doctorants du Prof. et sous la ZOE EGELMAN France” (Girard), “French Theory from et professeurs ont relevé le défi. À lire, direction de (PC ’13), BENJAMIN MAPPIN-KASIRER Sartre to Derrida” (Zhuo), “Francophone entre autres, une série sur le meilleur (TD JOHN SUNUNU Novel and Film” (Miller), “Introduction to hamburger de Paris, un article sur ’14) et (SY ’15). Medieval Literature” (Cayer), “The Two

YALE COLLEGE FRENCH MAJOR ALUMNI NEWS VANESSA ANDERSON ’99 BA writes, “I to meld his passions for French and the brain French journal and attending events in the am currently the Director of Research and sciences. “I use neuro-imaging to explain how Romance Language Lounge. I am glad to Evaluation at Bard High School Early College, the bilingual brain is shaped by the age see that others have continued l’Amuse- a collaboration between Bard College and at which a second language is acquired. I Bouche. Comme le temps passe vite. “ and Newark public school live in the Plateau district of Montreal, JULIE BRADLOW ’85 BA, who has a JD from districts that offers high school students a très francophone, and use my French the University of Chicago Law School, has rigorous college preparatory experience and daily. I have fond memories of Yale’s MAURICE joined Moore & Van Allen PLLC’s Federal & the opportunity to earn an Associate’s degree French Department, especially SAMUELS FRANÇOISE SCHNEIDER International Taxation team in Charlotte, NC in liberal arts from Bard College.” , , as Counsel. Bradlow hasCONTINUED served asON in-house PAGE 18 JONATHAN BERKEN and my thesis advisors MATUKU NGAME ’10 BA is pursuing MARIE-HÉLÈNE GIRARD tax counsel at Fortune 500 aerospace and a PhD in the cognitive neuroscience of and 10 . It seems bilingualism at McGill, where he has been able that only yesterday I was working on the From: Marcel Proust [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 3:45 AM To: my nearest and dearest Subject: Me, marathon, madeleines & more

Chers amis,

As I am sure you all know very well, this fall will mark the 100th anniversary of my Du côté de chez Swann, the first volume of my monumental Recherche, the work that is nearest and dearest to my heart. To celebrate this momentous occasion, my dear friends in the French Department at Yale surprised me with the idea of a most fitting celebration: a 24-hour read—in, a marathon of sorts — of my novel. I invite you to join us at the Saybrook Underbrook THE TEAM all day and night on Saturday, November 16th. Edward Morris, DRAMA SCHOOL Sarah Krasnow & Edward Morris a renowned set designer, is working with dramaturge Sarah FRENCH MAJORS Krasnow and brilliant French majors Benjamin Mappin-Kasirer John Sununu & Benjamin Mappin-Kasirer and John Sununu to bring my fantasies to life. Do come read GRADUATE STUDENTS alongside my friends William Carter and Leon Wieseltier in my Laura Jensen, Annabel Kim & Julie Elsky LECTORS cork-lined bedroom, which will be recreated in New Haven — bed Gabrielle Stemmer & Juan Branco and all — for this special event. I invite you all to contact me at GUEST READERS (with many more to come) [email protected] should you desire more information. Peter Brooks, professor emeritus from Yale now at Princeton William C. Carter, professor emeritus of Yours in remembrance, French at the University of Alabama at Marcel Birmingham and esteemed Proust scholar Elizabeth Ladenson, Columbia John Palatella, The Nation Lorin Stein, The Paris Review Leon Wieseltier, …

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JOSEPH ACQUISTO ’03 PhD published the articles, interviews, and a blog on their politics of monumentality in Louis XIV’s edited volume Thinking Poetry: Philosophical new Wordpress website. She is pleased France, and traveling to Vietnam and Approaches to Nineteenth-Century French Poetry to announce e-book publications in 2012 Morocco to boost his next project (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). He is at work of The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian for general audiences, a biography of on a book with the working title The Fall out Power (1993) and in 2013 of The Passionate Maréchal Lyautey (due in 2015 at Walker/ of Redemption, with chapters on Baudelaire, Mind Revisited: Expanding Personal and Social Bloomsbury USA). Benjamin Fondane, Cioran, and others. Awareness (2009). She and Joel live in Bolinas, BRUNO BRAUNROT ’70 PhD retired in DIANNE ALSTAD ’71 PhD says her current CA on an ocean cliff and welcome Yale visitors June 2012 from the Department of Modern focus is making her 39-year collaboration there, on Facebook, and at www.joeldiana.com. and Classical LanguagesCONTINUED at Georgia ON PAGE State 12 with Joel Kramer more accessible through JEAN-VINCENT BLANCHARD ’97 PhD University. His most recent (and last) digitization, including posting free videos, will spend 2013-201411 on sabbatical, podcasts, “Maps” of their books, reviews, finishing a book manuscript on the GRADUATE ALUMNI NEWS,

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publication (2010) is An Anthology of Sixteenth- the YMHA, at the National Arts Club, and Condorcet (published in 2010 by the century French Poetry (European Masterpieces, in Chicago for the Jan. 2014 MLA. Also, Foundation at Oxford), in which de Grouchy Molière & Co. French Classics No. 13, Newark). forthcoming are Pierre Reverdy (with 14 develops her own theory of sympathy as Earlier this year he was named by the French co-translators), ed. Mary Ann Caws, New she critiques Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral government to the rank of Chevalier dans York Review Books, November 2013; and an Sentiments. l’Ordre des Palmes académiques for his role in article, Nothing Complete: Fragments Awaiting, JOHN RAYMOND DUGAN ’67 PhD the promotion of French language and culture translated in German for the catalogue (ed. writes, “My hand-stitched reproduction in the . Gabriele Schor) of the forthcoming Francesca of the Bayeux Tapestry, which I completed JOE BREINES ’94 PhD, who teaches at Woodman exhibit in .” after retirement, has recently been used in KATHRYN CRECELIUS Boston College, recently wrote a chapter on ’78 PhD writes, “I a new George Clooney film released in late Diderot’s Jacques le fataliste for the book New have been the Chief Investment Officer at 2013, entitled ‘The Monuments Men’. It was Essays on Diderot (Cambridge UP). Johns Hopkins for almost 8 years. In May, shipped to Berlin, Germany last winter for VICTOR BROMBERT ’48 BA, ’53 PhD has I received the Large Endowment Manager that purpose. It has been displayed in various a new book Musings on Mortality. From Tolstoy of the Year award from Institutional Investor galleries and museums in eastern Canada and to Primo Levi coming out in October at the magazine. (It’s the endowment that is large, the United States, and will be displayed in the U Chicago Press. not me!) My husband Andy and I continue Musée du textile in Montreal from November to enjoy traveling, sometimes on our own 2013 to March 2014.” MATILDA BRUCKNER ’74 PhD writes, (Alaska) and sometimes piggy-backing on my KAREN ERICKSON ’87 PhD has begun a “After almost 40 years of teaching (1 at business trips (Jakarta and Bali). Although CUNY/Medgar Evers, 8 at Princeton and second term as Chair of the Department of is the major European investment Languages & Cultures at the College of St. 30 at Boston College), I have packed up my center, I do have occasion to attend meetings office, moved my books home and slipped Benedict/St. John’s University. Her current in Paris. research project examines the biblical dancer into a new phase as scholar in retirement. CATHERINE CUSSET My former student, Daniel O’Sullivan (now ’91 PhD had a new Salomé in art, literature, opera, dance and Associate Prof at University of MS/Oxford) novel, Indigo, published by Gallimard in culture. After 25 years as soprano and and my BC colleague, Laurie Shepard, January 2013 and received the Prix de la Ville director of the Collegeville Consort, she organized a festschrift and three sessions d’Arcachon, given by the magazines L’Express released their third and final CD: Alleluia! in my honor at the International Medieval and Lire. After two years in London, Catherine Sacred Motets live from the Great Hall in July Congress at Kalamazoo last May, complete is moving back to Manhattan with her family. 2013; the CD includes three of her choral DEIDRE DAWSON with celebratory dinner and a roast delivered ’89 PhD gave the compositions as well as motets by medieval by Dan with humor and verve. A blissful two commencement address for the Residential and Renaissance composers. Her poetry days of learning that what I have taught and College in the Arts and Humanities at chapbook Dwellings will be published in published over the years has actually reached Michigan State University in May 2013, where August 2013 by the Finishing Line Press. She ‘willing hearts and ears’, as Calogrenant she has been Professor of Language and received the 2013 Robert L. Spaeth Teacher puts it in Chrétien’s Chevalier au Lion. I Culture since 2007. Deidre was also recently of Distinction award at St. John’s University, continue to enjoy reading and writing about elected president of the Eighteenth-Century Collegeville MN. Medieval French literature and expect to Scottish Studies Society. Deidre’s most PERRY GETHNER ’77CONTINUED PhD writes, ON PAGE “I was 13 do so for the foreseeable future, as I work recent major publication is an annotated promoted to Regents Professor, which is the on various articles, conference papers, and critical edition of the Lettres sur la sympathie a new book project on Jewish-Christian (1798) of Sophie de Grouchy, Marquise de textual ‘encounters’ that take place when In Memoriam: alumni biblical materials and exegetical traditions th th are translated and transformed in vernacular literature of the 12 and 13 c.” MARY ANN CAWS ’56 MA, Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative RICHARD MCCLAIN CHADBOURNE Department of French, Italian, and Literature at CUNY Graduate School, writes, Spanish. He became a Canadian citizen “While on sabbatical this past year, I prepared ’50 PhD died on June 8, 2013 in Calgary, some art catalogues on André Masson Alberta, at the age of 90. A descendant in 1978. Widely recognized as an and Jean Arp for Blain/diDonna, and just of English settlers who came to Maine in authority on French 19th century finished ‘ and the rue Blomet’ the 1630s, he was born in Providence, literature, the essay as a literary genre, for an exhibition at Eykyn GS Maclean RI. After serving in the U.S. Army Signal , and the Franco- gallery (opens in November). I spoke on Corps during WWII, he earned his BA at Manitoban author Gabrielle Roy, the panel ‘Editors and Translators’ for the Brown and then his doctorate in French Chadbourne received several awards BEA exhibition in June 2013. My Modern Art at Yale. He taught at Fordham University for excellence in teaching and research, Cookbook (Reaktion Books) is forthcoming and the University of Colorado (Boulder) including the Order of Academic Palms in September 2013. For fall semester, I will prior to coming to the University from the French Government and the be giving my seminar ‘Anxieties in Modernist of Calgary in 1971 as Professor of Killam Fellowship. He also held two lay Representations: Art and Text’ in the English French and Head12 of what is now the ministries in the Roman Catholic Church. PhD Program. I have talks scheduled at JOHN POYNTER FELLOW IN JOURNALISM — ERIC AESCHIMANN On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, John Poynter Fellow in Journalism ERIC L’AGRÉMENT. Formidable accueil de la part l’équipe du AESCHIMANN, the Senior Reporter at the Nouvel Observateur département de français. De JFK, je me retrouve à l’étonnant (Paris), delivered the lecture“Le tournant théologique de la “Study at Yale ,” où je débarque vers 20 heures, tombant dans une philosophie française.” Following are his reflections on his visit ambiance de bar étudiant. Cela change des hôtels impersonnels to Yale and New Haven. où le journaliste se retrouve souvent. Pendant ces quelques jours, je bénéficie des services de haut niveau que l’université YALE EN CINQ MOTS-CLÉS assure à ses membres. Et je jouis du site exceptionnel: les greens, L’HONNEUR. Etre invité à la bibliothèque, les jolies salles du département de français, le Yale, pour un journaliste, c’est restaurant Mory’s, le Blue State Café (d’où j’ai rapporté un T-shirt une distinction à laquelle on ne à ma fille). s’attend pas. A l’hebdomadaire LE PARTAGE. Agnès Bolton est une organisatrice hors pair. Elle français “ Le Nouvel a senti ma crainte d’un emploi du temps pas assez rempli et m’a Observateur ”, je consacre mes prévu des déjeuners et dîners chaque jour. J’ai ainsi rencontré articles à la vie intellectuelle et une vingtaine d’étudiants, doctorants ou professeurs. Tous sont aux comptes rendus des essais incroyablement gentils, mais surtout, incroyablement engagés philosophiques. Le département dans leurs travaux. Ils m’en parlent avec passion, que ce soit cette de français, grâce à une bourse étudiante qui, après son BA de français, s’apprêtait à travailler de la Poynter Fellowship, m’a dans un cabinet de consulting, ou avec Yue Zhuo, professeure proposé de venir parler aux de littérature française, spécialiste de Lacan, Barthes, Bataille, étudiants de la vie intellectuelle Quignard… La France est parfois plus aimée ici que par les Français. française. Nos philosophes LA NOSTALGIE. français d’aujourd’hui ont-ils encore quelque chose à dire au J’ai adoré New Haven, ville double, universitaire monde? La France continue-t-elle d’intéresser l’Amérique? et industrielle, riche et pauvre, intacte et abîmée, coquette et négligée. J’ai aimé la communauté intellectuelle que ces quelques LE TRAVAIL. “Le tournant théologique de la philosophie française: ” jours m’ont permis de découvrir: une communauté soudée par c’est le sujet de ma conférence au département. Une cinquantaine la passion, l’exigence et la bienveillance. Une fin d’après-midi, de personnes et beaucoup de questions, qui marquent toute une nous sommes montés dans une voiture, direction Guilford et grande soif de savoir ce qui se passe en France. Même qualité le Long Island Sound, sous un roulement de nuages et un vent d’écoute, même attention lorsque je suis invité au cours d’Alice océanique. A Madison, Julie Elsky et Mary Anne Lewis m’ont Kaplan sur l’autofiction pour parler de la fameuseMarcela Iacub. Ou montré la librairie de village! Depuis longtemps, je me sentais chez Lauren Pinzka, pour évoquer la société française. A la Beineke, mystérieusement attiré par la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Maintenant, je retrouve les personnages d’une grande enquête que j’ai publiée je sais pourquoi. Alors, un grand merci à tous les gens qui m’ont l’année dernière sur les archives Foucault : Daniel Defert, qui fut le permis cette découverte et – j’espère – cet échange. compagnon du philosophe et qui donne ce jour-là une conférence – Eric Aeschimann, Le Nouvel Observateur, sur la “ bibliothèque passive ” de Foucault ; et Kevin Repp, grand grand reporter Culture, April 2013 spécialiste des archives du XXème siècle. GRADUATE ALUMNI NEWS,

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highest academic honor here and reflects Lee post-graduate law fellowship in Liberia, by the CNRS, is the glossiest learned journal accomplishments in scholarship and teaching. where she’ll soon be working on human rights I know. It will soon appear not only in print, Last year OSU was finally approved for a issues in the Ministry of Justice in Monrovia. but also electronically under the auspices of chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, an effort that I ROSS GUBERMAN ’94 MA reports, “We Manchester UP. That doubtless is the future. had worked on for over two decades, and are about to leave for a month in Australia It was such a pleasure yesterday revisiting I was elected the first chapter president. I and New Zealand with our 11- and 13-year the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon- continue to publish critical editions and olds. I’m also writing a book on judges and Avon, where books are still on the shelves translations, including collections of work by am continuing to enjoy training lawyers and classified by subject & findable also in a card women playwrights. Current projects include judges around the world.” catalogue! The electronic catalogue in the editions of plays by Rotrou, Thomas Corneille H. GASTON HALL Library of the University Warwick, of which and Mme de Maintenon, plus a novel by Mme ’59 PhD writes, “Following I am now an Emeritus Professor, rather than de Murat.” acceptance of a second paper on Hamlet by Reader (because nobody knows overseas how Cahiers Elisabéthains in Montpellier, I have CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 SARA GIBSON ’06 MA earned her JD from delightful it is to be a Reader), continues to just submitted a third, this one comparative baffle me, while the book stock disappears Michigan Law in December 2012. She was with reference to Virgil,13 Garcilaso de la Vega, selected for a Carter Center/Washington & Racine & Josquin des Prez. The CE, accredited GRADUATE ALUMNI NEWS,

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st at a great rate to off-campus storage. On the for years on stations of the PBS network.) and Ethics in the 21 Century”, and “Heal other hand, since it is now 49 years since This year the Yale Press published the Your Life, Save the World”; and published I was appointed to my first job here, I was textbook and workbook of part 1 of the “Cognitive Dysfunction, Alzheimer’s and Diet: invited to record some six hours of interviews third edition. “We had editorial help from Information and Misinformation,” in The Park BENJAMIN AUDREY HOFFMANN about the early days of this university when and Press, August 2012. completely new- for a project in oral tradition of the Yale French Department and from KATHRYN OLIVER MILLS SYLVAINE EGRON-SPARROW ’94 PhD just in our Institute for Advanced Study. Good , who was finished a sabbatical year during which luck to all of you.” a lecturer in the department in 1982-84, she edited and wrote the Afterword for and invaluable logistical and moral support SALLY HESS ’91 MPhil is still dancing. Her the Selected Poems of Wilmer Mills, her late from the department’s own Agnès Bolton. most recent article, “Waltzing to Standards: husband. The book, which includes poems This edition, the first since 1994 and the The Organic Classicism of Ballroom Dancing”, already published in the Yale Review, Poetry first in full color, renews the course for a new appeared in the Winter 2012/Spring 2013 Magazine, The Hudson Review, The New Republic, generation of students and extends its frame issue of the Dance Critics Association (DCA) and The New Criterion, is now in print with U of cultural reference into 21st-century France, newsletter. Evansville Press. JEFFREY LEICHMAN Europe and the Francophone world. Pierre VICKY MISTACCO ’08 PhD, assistant Capretz has given the updated lessons of ’72 PhD says, “I retired professor at Louisiana State University, French in Action an ingenious interface with from Wellesley College this June after 45 received a 2013-2014 ATLAS Grant, which the course’s well-known video programs: years of teaching in the department of provides support for a year-long leave to Le Journal de Marie-Laure , in which the French. At a round table in April to mark the complete his manuscript project on acting occasion I was joined by French Department sassy younger sister of the main character JOAN HINDE STEWART theory in eighteenth-century France. A Yalies ’70 PhD comments on political, technological and MARTINE REID visiting scholar at Columbia University, he cultural developments in France in the 25- and ’84 PhD in a lively is currently living in Brooklyn with his wife plus years since the videos were shot. The discussion of “Breaking the Sequence: JEANETTE PLOURDE ’95 BA and their Woman and Literary Tradition.” It was a volumes of part 2 are due to be published BARRY LYDGATE recently adopted daughter, Fitsum. He can veritable Yale reunion as in spring, 2014. MATILDA be contacted at [email protected] . DANIEL R. MARTIN introduced the round table, (aka Ralph Ximenez) BRUCKNER ’74 PhD came from Boston ALEXANDRE LIMOGES ’06 PhD enseigne ’73 PhD writes, “I live as a retiree from College and CHRISTINE RENO ’72 PhD toujours à John Abbott College, et coördonne UMASS-Amherst, in the Mexican Caribbean drove all the way from Vassar to attend. le département depuis 4 ans. Il donne des beach resort of Mahahual, Costa Maya, Having now overhauled my home workspace cours de français langue seconde et de Mexico. My last book is Caribbean Dialogs to this end, I look forward to continuing traduction à l’Université Concordia (en on Christian Sexuality (Hestia Press, 2012), my research and writing on women’s terminant une maîtrise en traduction). available from AtlasBooks.com.” BARRY LYDGATE contributions to women’s literary history. ’63 BA, ’75 PhD RUTH MESAVAGE ’79 PhD presided over Although I will certainly miss the interaction informs us that for the past two years he’s the session “Écritures maghrébines” at the with students, I am happy to have more time been chair of the French Department at PIERRE Conseil International d’Études Francophones to engage in other favorite pursuits: travel, Wellesley College, and working with (for which she is a board member) held on photography, gardening, cooking. J. CAPRETZ on a new edition of the French Mauritius in June and presented the paper ELIZA NICHOLS ’98 PhD, Professor of in Action books. (French in Action, originally Surveiller et punir: stigmates des valeurs French/Coordinator of Foreign Languages developed at Yale, is the multimedia course traditionnelles islamiques dans l’écriture Department of Humanities, History and in beginning French language and culture d’une beurette, which she published in 2012. Social Sciences at Columbia College, funded by the Annenberg/Corporation for Her recent publications include: “Palimpseste Chicago, writes, “I have taken up my faculty Public Broadcasting project and broadcast de la mémoire : engrammes japonais dans appointment after 15 years of deaning l’écriture d’Aki Shimazaki,” New York City, and provosting. A career in higher ed Fordham University, NY, October 2010, administration was not my plan when I published in Nouvelles Francographies, Vol. entered Yale but it was rewarding and 2 Numéro spécial 1 Nouvelle Série (Actes) satisfying in multiple ways. I have Georges 2 011 ; “Réalité et poétique dans La Reine May to thank for telling me that I could go in Soleil levée“, in L’Œuvre romanesque de Gérard that direction and still keep my intellectual Étienne, Écrits d’un révolutionnaire (s. la dir. integrity and passion for inquiry intact. It is de Najib Redouane et Yvette Bénayoun- wonderful to be back in the classroom and Szmidt), Harmattan, Paris, mars 2011. She to finally have time for research. I will be on has been certified in “Fundamentals of leave in 2013-14. My current interests center Nutrition”,“Diseases of Affluence” and on the French legacy in North America and “Principles in Practice” through the Dr. T. Louisiana French with frequent trips planned Colin Campbell Foundation of eCornell, to New Orleans and Lafayette, LA and the and has been giving presentations in the French Canadian enclavesCONTINUED of the NorthON PAGE East 15 Central Florida area since April 2012 on such and the Pacific Northwest. I live in Chicago topics as “Health, Ethics and the Evolution and will be a fixture at the Newberry Library.” of Consciousness”,14 “Health, Nutrition 2013 WILBUR CROSS MEDALIST —wilbur FREDRIC cross JAMESON medal talk The Wilbur Cross Medal is the highest honor the Graduate School accords its alumni. On October 15, FREDRIC JAMESON received the Wilbur Cross Fredric Jameson Medal, the highest honor given by Yale’s Graduate School. On ’59 PhD – French October 1, the session of the French Department Forum was William A. Lane, Jr., Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University devoted to a discussion of two of Jameson’s landmark essays, “ Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism,” (1986) and “The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” (1991). Jameson’s visit to campus on October 15 included a luncheon with graduate students in French and Comparative Literature, followed by his lecture on “‘Proust and the Persistence of Narrative.’”

THE WILBUR CROSS CITATION: Fredric Jameson, PhD 1959, French— A graduate student at Yale in the era of Henri Peyre and Erich Auerbach, you published your dissertation on Sartre at age 27; more than a score of books followed, including the canonical Marxism and Form; The Political Unconscious; and Postmodernism. Expositor and critic of Marxism, phenomenology, and post-structuralism, you have ventured beyond literature into architecture, cinema, music. Your ideas reverberate around the globe; China’s humanities changed fundamentally after “Proust and the Persistence of Narrative” your 1985 visit. At Harvard, UC San Diego, Yale, UC Santa Cruz, and Duke you have surveyed “the cultural logic of late capitalism” Tuesday, October 15, 2013 in many national settings. As the most important post-war critic of 4:00 pm, Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street ideology, you have renewed the study of culture with the injunction

“always historicize.” You have deepened our understanding of OTHER TALKS BY WILBUR CROSS MEDALISTS ON OCTOBER 15 Alan M. Lambowitz ’72 PhD – Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry “Biotechnological applications of mobile group II introns: targetrons and new methods for RNA-seq and analysis of non-coding RNAs” Wagnerian opera, science fiction, and Hollywood political thrillers, 2:00 pm, Brady Auditorium (B131 – BML), 310 Cedar Street – tea at 1:45 pm • Theodore J. Lowi ’61 PhD – Political Science exposing their political yearnings. You are a generous and inspiring “A Conversation with Ted Lowi” 12:00 noon, ISPS — Room A001, 77 Prospect Street mentor, teaching oversubscribed classes on Arthurian legends one • Annette Thomas ’93 PhD –Biology “Science and Education in the Digital Age” semester, Das Kapital the next. Your range as critic and teacher is 4:00 pm, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue – tea at 3:45 pm as limitless as your intellectual curiosity. For your contributions to the world of ideas and for your abiding commitment to justice and social change, the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association is proud to award you its highest honor, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal. GRADUATE ALUMNI NEWS,

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HENRY PILLSBURY ’58 BA, ’60 MA their American university with no obligation were not keeping a sharp enough eye on him, writes from Paris: “Re: the Yale French Dept. to study French in preparation (most recent compounded by being overweight and the Newsletter, I would love to provoke a comment example: Boston University). Some of them effects of a bout with pneumonia last year. He or two from the Yale French Community on return home with only a smattering of the simply couldn’t survive such heat, humidity the following issue: the recent decision to language. Of course, the defense of this and bad air quality. If you know anyone pack the French universities with courses in new policy/strategy is set forth powerfully. who’s had to live with someone with severe English. Picturesque details, just for seasoning: What would GEORGES MAY, JACQUES schizophrenia, you’ll understand what I mean An American professor at Sciences Po was GUICHARNAUD, HENRI PEYRE, JEAN when I say that I miss what might have been. quoted as saying something enlightened to BOORSCH, or VICTOR BROMBERT say? I stopped in New Haven overnight on my the effect that the French could/should just That question is not rhetorical. I really wonder.” way up to Northampton for my 40th reunion put their thinking in English. Barbara & I see BARBARA PILVIN ’76 MA relates that at Smith in May, and spent a delightful American undergraduates now arriving for afternoon walking all over the Yale campus her life was complètement bouleversée by the RUTH KOIZIM ‘Junior Year Abroad’ who speak no French, and recent loss of her brother, who succumbed with , who gave me the Grand who take their Parisian courses only in English on one of the hottest days on record in the Tour of the renovated reading room in SML (understand: courses in English, but which and the (relatively)-recently-transformed Mid-Atlantic this summer while outdoors CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 are fully part of the French schools’ cursus for in dangerous weather conditions in MD, library that we knew as Cross Campus and French students). These young people tell us where, suffering from schizophrenia, he was is now the magnificent Bass! It puts almost 15 that they enroll for their months in Paris at in treatment. “I suspect some of the staff GRADUATE ALUMNI NEWS,

continued from page 15 – every other library I’ve seen to shame, and pièce: dramaticité innovante et dynamique two volumes, published in 2011 by the I’m tempted to apply for a job there. Ruth transculturelle. Vols. 50-51 (2011-12). th American Institute of Musicology, conclude and I hadn’t seen each other in about 30 JAMES SHERRY ’90 PhD won the 8 the 7-volume edition of chansons by the years, but we knew instantly that we both Annual National Adult Spelling Bee on Renaissance composer Thomas Crecquillon. still looked the same...maturing well, like fine March 3, in Long Beach, CA. There were The Palisca Award honors each year a wine, as we said. She told me very recently 32 contestants and the contest lasted scholarly edition or translation in the field that her husband Harvey had died not long 27 rounds and took 3 hours to complete. of musicology deemed by a committee of after I was up there. I never met him, but did Sherry won with the word “quincunx” after scholars to “best exemplify the highest speak with him once or twice many years ago, runner-up Bernetta Gresko misspelled qualities of originality, interpretation, logic and I know he was an uncommonly fine man. “tourbillion” (English). He retired from full- and clarity of thought, and communication.” I’m attending this year’s international Jewish time teaching at Troy University in August This is the first time the prize has been genealogy conference in Boston. It promises 2012, but remains on the faculty part-time awarded to a team of scholars. Their to be very informative, as they always are, and teaching French to undergraduates and landmark publication offers a thorough with luck I’ll get to see a lot of friends from also doing one Honors Program per year in critical edition of both the poems and all over the world and make some new ones.” masterpieces of French cinema. the music of Crecquillon’s songs, and it represents the culmination of more than MICHAEL PRETINA, JR. ’67 PhD is now PHILIP STEWART ’62 BA, ’67 PhD 20 years of collaborative research. Musician retired in Cassis, France after 25 years of has recently published his edition of and chaplain at the court of Emperor service as Associate Director and Executive Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes with Charles V from c. 1540-50, Crecquillon Director of the Camargo Foundation. Michael Classiques Garnier/Poche 2013, as well as composed 12 masses and 124 motets in sends his very best wishes to all the French an edition of Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques in addition to 214 chansons, setting to music Department Graduate School students whom vol. III of the Slatkine/Champion edition of texts by some of the most celebrated he knew during his four years at Yale “and a the O.C. (2012), and the article: “Tropes et poets of Renaissance France. More than very special hello to LINDA DELAURENTIS paradigmes de Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques”, 230 sources, both in manuscript and print, ’68 MPhil.” in Michel E. Slatkine (éd.), Vitam impendere attest to the wide dissemination and JULIE PRZYBOS ’77 PhD writes, “I have vero : hommage à Raymond Trousson et Frédéric popularity of his chansons. been appointed the Executive Officer of S. Eigeldinger, Geneva: Slatkine and Paris: SETH WOLITZ ’65 PhD has two new the PhD Program in French at the Graduate Champion, 2012, 303-345. books coming out this fall: The French Jewish Center, CUNY in August 2012 for a three EDWARD BARON TURK ’72 PhD, Theatre of Jean-Claude Grumberg (U Texas P) year term. I published a book with Librairie was named Officier ni L’Ordre des Palmes with an essay and 3 plays translated by him, José Corti entitled Les Aventures du corps académiques in 2012. He is also a Chevalier and Yiddish Modernism (Slavica/Indiana P), a masculin in November 2012. With MARTINE in l’Ordre des arts et des lettres (1995). selection of the best articles he has written REID ’84 PhD, a Yale alumna and professor As Professor Emeritus of French and on Yiddish at Lille III, and Pierre Glaudes of Paris IV, I Film Studies, and John E. Burchard Professor literature, art participated in a public discussion about Emeritus of the Humanities at MIT, he is and culture my new book at La Sorbonne-Paris IV in “proud to share his ‘Valedictory Thoughts dealing with January 2013. of an MIT Humanist’ ( Here) with Yale its modernist AMY BARAM REID ’96 PhD is happy to alums.” He currently teaches at Columbia movement, for announce that her translation of Far from My University’s School of the Arts. which he was Father, by Véronique Tadjo (Loin de mon père, CAROLINE WEBER ’98 PhD is at work on the first to Actes Sud, 2010) will appear in U Virginia’s her third book, Proust’s Duchess: In Search introduce and CARAF series in spring 2014. She will also be of the Exquisite in Belle Epoque Paris, to be define the term. presenting her work at a conference on Tadjo published by Knopf in the fall of 2014. He attended Yale’s Latin American In - to be held this November in Johannesburg, SA. stitute this summer taking a 6-week course JONATHAN WEISS ’73 PhD is semi-retired In November 2012 she hosted the American in Intensive Nahuatl, conducted entirely in at Colby College. He no longer teaches in Council for Québec Studies conference in Nahuatl and Spanish. (See photo above.) Maine but directs Colby’s study abroad Sarasota. As she completes her term as ACQS There is a possible book in mind on The program every fall in Dijon. In the spring he President (2012-13), she is looking forward Cultures of Catastrophe: Provencal, Nahautl lives in Sidney, Maine. This past year he had to the 2014 conference in Montréal. She is [Aztec] and Yiddish. Professor of French at New College of Florida, an article on Irène Némirovsky published in ELÉONORE ZIMMERMANN ’56 PhD where she also teaches in the Gender Studies Roman 20-50 (Université de Lille III). says, “I have moved to a retirement home Program. She and her husband, Uzi, have MARY BETH WINN ’74 PhD and co- in South Setauket, NY 11720 that is a very three children, the eldest of whom has just editors Laura Youens, Professor of Music at nice and welcoming place both for me and started middle school. George Washington University, and Barton my guests. It is close both to where I used SYLVIE ROMANOWSKI Hudson, Professor Emeritus of Music at ’69 PhD has written to live and to the University of Stony Brook, West Virginia University, were honored by an article on the play she saw performed where I used to teach.” at the Avignon theater festival in 2007, the American Musicological Society with entitled “Le huis clos tragique de Comme the 2012 Claude V. Palisca Award for their deux frères de Maryse Condé,” for L’Annuaire critical edition of 16Thomasii Crequillonis théâtral: L’Amérique francophone pièce sur Opera omnia, vols. 18 and 20. These 2012 KING DISTINGUISHED VISITOR The King Distinguished Visitor Program was created to consolidate the Department’s ties to universities in the French- speaking world, to enter into meaningful dialogue with scholars and writers trained in different traditions, and to introduce undergraduate and graduate students to new developments in the field. In October, 2012, PIERRE BIRNBAUM, emeritus professor from Paris I and Sciences Po, lectured on Léon Blum and also shared a chapter of his fascinating new book about food culture in France. Following are some reflections on his visit.

“Un an bientôt!! Je me souviens avec délice de ce séjour au Département de français de Yale, le bonheur de rencontrer tant de collègues érudits, tant d’étudiants si savants qui s’expriment avec recherche dans la langue de Molière et maitrisent mieux que quiconque l’histoire littéraire mais aussi l’histoire tout court de la France moderne et contemporaine. Un vrai plaisir d’entamer tant de riches dialogues dans le cadre de séminaires ou autour d’une bonne table conviviale aux discussions animées. Un seul regret: que le séjour soit si court et… qu’il ne se répète pas régulièrement!!!!” Yale 2012 Summer Session in Paris ­— Pierre Birnbaum Class of Soumia Koundi and Vanessa Vysosias

Several alumni are missing from In Memoriam: friend our current contacts, and we would like to be back in touch with them.

If anyone has information about Our colleague and friend PHILIP WATTS from the following lost friends, please the Department of French at Columbia died on let us know (and them!): July 20. He was 52 years old. He had just edited SUSANNAH CARSON a special issue of Yale French Studies with Richard LYNNE BORNSTEIN Golson on the work of Jonathan Littel and Irène Némirovsky. His wife, Sophie Queuniet and PATRICIA GALLAGHER his brother Richard Watts hold PhDs from our KATHERINE LYDON department. Ned Duval was his undergraduate JESSICA NYAMUGUSHA professor at UC Santa Barbara, and Chris Semk JENNIFER PHILIPS his undergraduate student at Pittsburgh. And he AGNIESZKA TWOREK was a member of the first graduate seminar Alice Kaplan taught at Columbia. Everyone who knew Phil loved him-for his kindness, his humor, his fairness. His work as a critic FRANCIS GUEVREMONT was profound, funny, and smart. Please send information to Phil’s Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France won the prestigious MLA Scaglione Prize in 1999 for the best Sonia Bauguil at: book in French and Francophone Studies. He wrote widely on post-war cinema and [email protected] literature and was finishing an important book on Barthes and film theory. His luminous essay on Camus and cinema was translated into French by Benjamin Hoffmann, a doctoral student in the Department, and can be read online. A memorial service17 was held at Saint Paul’s Chapel at Columbia on September 9. FRENCH MAJOR ALUMNI NEWS,

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transportation companies, where she advised My husband and I, empty-nesters living the Dream City column for Salon magazine. A on a wide variety of federal and international outside Boston, have two wonderful grown version of his senior essay, on French colonial tax and employee benefits matters, including kids (who chose to study Spanish), but I keep architecture in Algiers after 1962, will be planning, controversy and litigation, multi- up my French through occasional reading and published in the fall. national acquisitions, restructurings and traveling to Paris as often as I’m able!” JOE HIXON III ’60 BA tells of visiting France divestitures, corporate treasury matters, and SARAH ESTERLING ’83 BA writes, “I in late May with his wife Renate, along with executive compensation. She is a frequent do manage to use my French and other “BUCKY” BUSH ’60 BA and wife Patty, FAY speaker on federal and international tax languages, as I travel to Europe frequently for VINCENT ’63 JD and his wife Christina: “Fay issues at the local and national level. business. I oversee all the buying for World and Christina planned a wonderful itinerary MICHELLE BULGER ’07 BA is pursuing an Market, a national retail chain specializing in featuring the earliest Roman times. We MBA at the Scheller College of Business products from around the world.” started in Nice, circled up through Beaune, at Georgia Tech after three years of teaching BILL FRY ’55 BA writes, “For 16 years I’ve over to Limoges, Carcassonne, the Camargue, AP French. This year she traveled to Belgium helped coordinate a medical school student Nîmes, and back to Nice. Fay is a wonderful while working on a project for Coca-Cola exchange program between Northwestern raconteur, regaling us with anecdotes of his Europe, and she is interning this summer at University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and years as president of Columbia Pictures AGCO, a farm equipment manufacturer with and as Baseball Commissioner, succeeding several French medical schools. I’ve been a A. BART GIAMATTI facilities in France and around the world. In member of the Société Française de Chirurgie ’60 BA, ’64 PhD, the April, she was selected to receive the Scheller Thoracique et Cardiovasculaire for over two former Yale President and his very good Dean’s Prize for Student Excellence, awarded decades. Locally I volunteer in the Chicago friend. Bucky, of course, knows everyone to an MBA student who demonstrates Greeter’s program with French speaking everywhere. All in all my French was passable, outstanding leadership, academic success, tourists to Chicago. Interest in things though a bit dated. I had almost forgotten and service to the Georgia Tech community. French has expanded and enhanced both my how beautiful France is. I do not regret for After a surprise trip to Paris and a sunset personal and professional life.” a moment having majored in French at Yale proposal at the Temple de l’Amour in the MARISA GALVEZ and am saddened that liberal arts are in such gardens of Versailles, Michelle married ’99 BA is an assistant decline.” animator and motion designer James Mabery professor of French at . DANIEL LEVIN BECKER Her most recent book is Songbook: How ’06 BA informs us in Atlanta last summer. that his translation of Georges Perec’s dream TRACY CARLSON Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe ’76 BA sends this update: (Chicago, 2012). She teaches courses on journal, La Boutique obscure, was published in “After graduating from Yale in 1976 I spent the medieval and Renaissance French literature February by Melville House. next few years steeped in languages: a year in and love lyric, as well as interdisciplinary MALI LOCKE ’99 BA, the Director of Maverick Paris completing MA for NYU, a year teaching upper level courses on the medieval Capital Foundation, the philanthropic arm of French at a private high school in , imaginary in modern literature, film, and Maverick Capital, a hedge fund, says that she and two stints studying Russian at Leningrad art. She currently serves on the Executive loves reading, wine, and travel, “although I State University along the way. Eventually I Committee for the Discussion Group on have not been to France in years!” became a French and Russian translator for Provençal Language and Literature of the KEN MARGOLIS ’77 BA reports: “My three years in Washington, DC. Modern Language Association and acts Enter the business chapter: After tasting experience as a French major is not a current as Faculty Coordinator of the Theoretical part of my life as I have been a labor lawyer business problem-solving for the first time Perspectives of the Middle Ages Workshop when the head of my translation agency for 30+ years. However, the death a few years at the Stanford Humanities Center. Her back of Alain Robbe-Grillet was a poignant left me in charge of the company for a few current research project investigates the weeks, I decided to go to business school. moment for me. When I graduated in 1977, I rhetorical and ideological craft of medieval sent to him a copy of my senior essay, which I got my MBA at Wharton nearly 30 years French confessional texts and its relation to ago and plunged into the world of consumer concerned his early novels. He wrote back crusade lyrics. an exceedingly gracious note (including the marketing, largely in the Fortune 500, as well GABRIEL GOODLIFFE as non-profits and higher education. ’94 BA writes, conclusion “je vous serre les mains amicalement”), Now, decades later, I remain an “I am currently working as Professor of and it remains one of my prized possessions. unrepentant French major who believes International Relations at the Instituto PETER MAY ’87 BA writes: “I have been a humanities perspective and skills are Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) living for the past two and half years in urgently needed in the business world. in Mexico City, where I moved with my wife the Middle East in Beirut, Lebanon (don’t Through my new company, Right-Brain and two children in 2009 after receiving believe the news reports – it’s not all Brands (www.rightbrainbrands.com) I’m my PhD in International Relations from the bombs and violence). French is one of the working to bring right-brain approaches School of Advanced local languages so my fluency has returned (of nonlinear artistic/symbolic thinking, International Studies. In 2012, I had my to a large degree, which has been fun. I empathy, etc.) and humanities-driven dissertation published as a book entitled The have spent much of my career since Yale insights to help companies develop brands Resurgence of the Radical Right in France: From working in the international education people actually care about. I have a book Boulangisme to the Front National, available and development sector as a corporate CONTINUED ON PAGE 19 on this coming out in October: What Great from Cambridge UP.” attorney – thirteen years with World Brands Know: Unleash Your Right-Brain Genius HENRY GRABAR SAGE ’12 BA is a Learning (founded as the Experiment in to Stand Out and Make Customers Care. freelance writer living18 in New York. He writes YALE COLLEGE FRENCH MAJOR ALUMNI NEWS,

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International Living) and now two and half stepsons in their 20s. We live in Morningside of French Studies in 1998. After teaching years at American University of Beirut (AUB). Heights in Manhattan. French at the elementary and secondary I have two boys, Benson (17) and Gideon PAUL SPERA ’08 BA writes, “I am now an level for 8 years in Massachusetts and (15), with my first wife, and a daughter, actor based in Paris, working in French and Minnesota, I received my doctorate in Isabella (5), with my wife Elizabeth (who English, in theater, film, TV, commercials, education with a specialization in Second is Colombian, so my Spanish is picking up). voice, etc. Immediately after Yale, I came Languages and Cultures from the University We are all thrilled that Benson will be joining to Paris and trained at the Conservatoire of Minnesota (2009). I have had research the Yale Class of 2017 (in Saybrook) this national supérieur d’art dramatique , the and reviews published in Foreign Language fall. Family is relocating back to the US this French national conservatory for drama. I Annals, the Modern Language Journal, the year, to Vermont first, and then ... we’ll just haven’t left since. Recent and upcoming Journal of Mixed Methods Research, the Journal have to see what comes next!” film collaborations have been with directors of Teacher Education, and other publications. KRISTEN SCHMITS I am an author (ed.’s note: joining EMILY ’07 BA writes: “As Olivier Assayas, Gilles Bourdos, Mia Hansen- WENTWORTH it turns out, I was able to use my French Love, Erick Zonca. Look me up on Facebook ’93 MPhil) contributing to a to meet my husband, Ernesto, in Geneva, if you come to Paris!” series of secondary school French textbooks from EMC/Paradigm Publishers coming Switzerland. Between my first and second MARY GOODINGS SWARTZ ’10 BA writes: year of medical school, I did a summer out in 2014 (T’es Branché). I teach courses “After graduating, I joined the Foreign Service at the University of Iowa in our teacher internship at the World Health Organization as a Foreign Service Officer. My time in France in Geneva, and I met my husband at the education program (to foreign language and studying French very much contributed and ESL teachers) as well as in our doctoral restaurant that he owned at the time. He did to my decision to become a diplomat. I am not speak any English back then, so I would program (to students specializing in second soon departing my first assignment as an language education and acquisition). I’m also never have been able to communicate with Economic Office at Embassy Nicaragua for him if it hadn’t been for my French. Now we a wife and mother of two, enjoying life in the my next assignment as a Consular Officer at Midwest. Although I do not teach French any are married, he has moved to the United Embassy Beijing. After that, I hope to have States, and I have finished my medical degree. more, I am always proud to promote the study the chance to use my French in my third post. of French in the state of Iowa and to work I am currently in my third year of residency in PAM WESELY Pathology at the University of Florida, and I ’96 BA writes: “I am currently with pre-service and in-service K-12 French still use my French everyday to communicate an assistant professor of Foreign Language teachers whenever I can.” with my husband (although his English has and ESL Education at the University of Iowa. improved a lot now). I still tutor French on I received an MA from NYU in the Institute the side when I can. I miss reading French novels, but it seems I have little time these days for any long reads. Anyhow, I still dream of moving to the south of France some day FROM PATRICK WEIL in the distant future. I wish everyone well!” During the summer of 2013, the wearing the frustration of JORDAN SHARPE of the burqa, and even of the veil, by the limited scope ’11 BA reports that she of the 2004 is currently teaching French at Carter G. Muslim women, returned to the French ban and fueled Woodson Academy, an all-male middle and political agenda. More state intervention, both by an anti- high college prep academy taught through greater state regulation, and further the lens of African American history and bans were requested by some prominent religious and a culture. See: Www.cgwacademy.fcps.net politicians and by the press. It was in this non-religious context that I gave a long interview to the social mood and JUDITH SHULEVITZ ’86 BA says, “I became daily newspaper l’Opinion. I argue that occasionally by a senior editor and columnist at The New Islamophobia, the 2010 ban on the Republic about a year ago, writing mainly in 2004, when the French Parliament burqa is of a different nature. It is about science, public health, and goings-on enacted a law banning the wearing of in the social sciences. Before that (and this conspicuous religious symbols in public aimed at adults, who pressure no one, goes back a ways here), I was the founding schools, it came to that conclusion after in the freest public space—the street. culture editor of Slate and the editor of Lingua an open public debate. The Parliament’s Its radical character offers believers no Franca, which won a National Magazine Award decision was supported by school alternative. This latest ban and the new for General Excellence under my editorship. principals, teachers, and the parents of claims for a further ban are attempts to I’ve been a columnist for many Muslim female students. Its main politicize against a rising phenomenon: Book Review, Slate, and New York Magazine. My aim was liberal: the protection of minor the integration of Muslims and Islam in book, The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a children—particularly female students— France, within the boundaries of French Different Order of Time (2010), was a New York against pressure from their peers. It was laïcité, through local accommodations Times Notable Book, a finalist for the National limited to public schools, leaving those and courts’ decisions. (Read the Jewish Book Award, and winner of The girls who wished to keep wearing the veil interview here.) American Library Association’s 2011 Sophie with an alternative, which was usually — Patrick Weil, Brody Medal for Jewish Literature. I’m married that of attending a private school under Visiting Professor, Yale Law School to another journalist, , and contract with the19 state. However, built on Affiliate Visitor, Yale French Department have a son (11), a daughter (9), and two THE YALE FRENCH DEPARTMENT REMEMBERS… THE YALE FRENCH DEPARTMENT REMEMBERS

L’EXPOSITION COLONIALE As students, faculty, researchers, scholars, and visitors walk through the halls of the Yale University French Department on the third floor of 82-90 Wall Street, large images on the walls beckon them to remember its rich past. Simone de Beauvoir speaks to them about her visit to Yale, and Sartre responds to Henri Peyre with regrets that he will not be able to make the journey to New Haven. Naomi Schor’s French ID cards demand to be read in detail, Jonathan Littell kindly adorns copies of Les Bienveillantes with his autograph, and the Yale French Studies journal announces its début in glorious, existential yellows. Derrida thanks de Man for a fourth season at Yale, and Jean Genet emerges from a black vehicle to join the Black Panthers on the New Haven Green. It was during the spring of 2011 that DUSTIN HOOTEN and I, under the guidance of Professor Kaplan, began to excavate the and memories of the department. We scoured documents in the Sterling Memorial Archives room and read through much of Henri Peyre’s correspondence at the Beinecke. We explored the archives of Pierre Capretz and navigated Garry Trudeau’s Bull Tales notebooks. Questions led to answers, answers gave way to memories, and memories began to take visual and textual shape thanks to the astute eye and delicate hand of graphic designer JESSICA SVENDSEN ’12 MFA. By fall 2012, much of Yale professor of French Milton Stahl Garver took these photos in 1931 on a visit to the Colonial Exposition in Paris. the unearthing, discovering, remembering, and commemorating had been accomplished. Look closely at these images, read the captions, and allow these stories we have heard and read throughout our studies to come to life. In so doing, you just might start to “remember” the department in a new way. — Mary Anne Lewis, September 16, 2013

Newsletter published annually by the Department of French. INTRODUCING . THOMAS KAVANAGH Your comments, suggestions and DEBORAH PETROSKEY… TO RETIRE — GRADUALLY news are most welcome! Deb is the new This summer Agnès Bolton Operations Professor Thomas French Newsletter Manager, our Kavanagh decided P.O. Box 208251 liaison to the to enter the Faculty New Haven, CT 06520-8251 world of policies phased retirement [email protected] and procedures, program, which budgets, audits, will allow him Editors: and "what is to continue his Agnès Bolton possible." She is research with Elaine Piraino-Holevoet an expert trouble- greater freedom. Emily R. Wentworth shooter and a calm and generous support He is on leave this semester and will Photographers: ) for all that we do. She has worked at Yale return to teaching in Spring 2014. While Nathalie Batr aville (Special events) for 21 years — 14 of them in the Provost’s Fall 2014 will be his last semester of (Faculty portraits and Office and 7 in Business Operations. teaching, his official retirement will come Michaeldepartmental Marsla groupnd photos in July of 2016. Designer: Please join me in expressing to Tom Elaine Piraino-Holevoet/PIROET 20 our appreciation and our esteem. — Alice Kaplan