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Women in French Newsletter ____________________________________________ Volume 34, Number 2 Fall 2020 Representative for South Central President’s Letter (SCMLA). Thank you for all your hard Arline Cravens work and dedication in promoting Women in French. We could not do this without you!! To Raquelle Bostow who has served as our Website and ListServ Manager, as Dear Members of Women in French, well as our Social Media Coordinator: I hope this letter finds you well, despite the thank you from the bottom of my heart for most unusual and difficult year we have all that you have done to help enlarge our digital footprint and social media experienced this year. Even with the presence, and for bringing issues of obstacles of 2020, Women in French has remained active and vigilant. I would like justice, equality and diversity to the to thank all of our WIF Board members for forefront in WIF and on our website. We wish you the best on your new endeavors tirelessly working to keep Women in French alive and well. We would not be and will miss you greatly!! Many thanks to the organization we are today without you. Cheryl Morgan who continues the In addition, I would like recognize several amazing and monumental task of producing the WIF Newsletter; to E. of our board members. A special thanks to Stephanie Schechner and Raquelle Nicole Meyer as Vice President for Bostow, who initiated Women in French’s statement against racist violence and support for the Black Lives Matter Contents movement, and who continue to direct our organization to reflect the values of President’s Letter 1 equality and diversity that we all affirm. WIF Business and News 2 While many of our conferences were cancelled, many congratulations to Calls for Papers & Conference News 10 Adrienne Angelo for organizing 10 WIF WIF Member Publications and News 16 panels and giving the Presidential Address Bibliography 20 at the first virtual SAMLA Conference in November. I would also like to send a “Auteures francophones d’autofiction et heartfelt thanks to those who are finishing chercheures francophones dans le domaine their terms as Representatives for WIF: de l’autofiction” by Karen Ferreira-Meyers, Tessa Nunn as Graduate Student University of Eswatini Representative, Anna Rocca as Regional Representative for New England and List of Past Bibliographies 62 Eastern Canada (NEMLA), and Theresa WIF Roster 65 Varney Kennedy as Regional www.womeninfrench.org WIF 34.2 FALL 2020 1 overseeing the fabulous Bibliographies in Illinois Press, 2019. Pp [ix]-xii; 374. ISBN the Newsletter and on our website; to our 978-0-252-04254-6. Nominating Committee Annabelle Rea $48.00 (cloth). $19.95 (ebook) and Colette Trout for inspiring new faces to serve WIF; to Marijn Kaplan as P. 159-60: Meyer, E. Nicole and Executive Editor for all her hard work in Joyce Johnston, eds. Rethinking the producing the stellar WIF Studies; to French Classroom: New Approaches to Noëlle Brown for expertly managing our Teaching Contemporary French and finances; to Karin Schwerdtner and Francophone Women. Routledge, 2019. Adrienne Angelo for overseeing our Pp 165. ISBN 978-0-367-02346-1. student awards; to our Regional $124.00 (cloth). $35.96 (paper and Representatives Jennifer Howell, eBook). Courtney Sullivan and Youna Kwak for continuously promoting Women in P. 160: E. Nicole Meyer presents French; and to Cecilia Beach for her course on French and Francophone meticulously revising our By-Laws and women’s contemporary autobiographies for being such a generous source of and aptly emphasizes that it can be taught support for me this year. I would also like face to face, online, in French or in to welcome the newest members of our translation. Board: Sara Guiguère as Website Coordinator and ListServ Manager, and P. 160: Elizabeth Berglund Hall Pooja Booluck as Digital Content uses e-journaling as a pedagogical tool to Coordinator. We are thrilled to have you teach women’s voices in a third-semester join us!! course. As we look forward to 2021, I hope it WIF POSITION VACANCY brings you renewed hope and inspiration. Stephanie Schechner is stepping down as Amitiés, Secretary of Women in French as soon as Arline possible. Many thanks to Stephanie for a spectacular job while serving WIF in this role! If you are interested in serving WIF Business & News as Secretary for WIF, please contact me by email ([email protected]) no later than 1 February 2021. Please include your CV. ERRATA IN BOOK REVIEWS You are also welcome to nominate Women in French Studies, vol. 28, 2020 someone else. P. 150: Beauvoir, Simone de. The position of Secretary is a 3-year Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, appointment. Please see the description 1928-29. Eds. Barbara Klaw, Sylvie le below: Bon de Beauvoir, Margaret A. Simons, and Marybeth Timmermann. The Secretary is an Executive Board Trans. Barbara Klaw. University of Member and votes on organizational www.womeninfrench.org WIF 34.2 FALL 2020 2 issues. The Secretary's responsibilities Francophone cultures and literature, and include: (1) taking minutes at all feminist literary criticism the Executive Board meetings and providing a representation of women and gender in copy to the Board, (2) monitoring and French and Francophone literatures, the processing all memberships on the role of women, and people with diverse website, (3) responding to correspondence genders and identities in French and concerning membership, and (3) setting up Francophone history and cultures, and and running elections and voting through gender theory and feminist literary the WIF website, and reporting the criticism. results. Our goal is also to share information and to debate the position of women in higher PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE education in the United States and WIF BYLAWS Canada. The Executive Committee of Women in Women in French seeks to bring to light French is proposing the following changes lesser-known and marginalized authors and additions to the Women in French from the Middle Ages to the present day, Bylaws, and is submitting these changes to as well as to continue the study of those the Women in French membership for a who are recognized in the literary canon. vote to : accept or deny the following Women in French focuses on service changes. The complete Bylaws of Women through promoting a supportive in French may be found at: intellectual community for scholars and https://womeninfrench.org/women-in- teachers of French and Francophone french-bylaws language, literatures and cultures around the world. The current text under review is marked with a strikethrough, and proposed An additional purpose of the organization changes and additions are highlighted in is to address issues concerning the role of yellow. WIF members will be asked to women in the field of French and vote in favor or against the proposed Francophone studies, as well as to promote changes in February, 2021. and support women leaders. Women in French Bylaws Article III: Membership: Anyone who is currently teaching or who has taught Article II: Purpose: Women in French is French language or Francophone literature an organization organized dedicated (at any level) or who has an advanced exclusively for to educational purposes degree (M.A., Ph.D.) or equivalent under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal achievement in French language or Revenue Code, or any corresponding Francophone literature or who is working section of any future tax code. on such a degree is eligible to become a member of Women in French. A special Article II: Mission Statement: Women membership category is available for in French is a scholarly association whose practicing artists. Membership is open to goal is the promotion of the study of all: Women in French welcomes an French and Francophone women authors, inclusive and diverse global membership the study of women’s place in French and of educators, students, independent www.womeninfrench.org WIF 34.2 FALL 2020 3 scholars, and writers in the fields of representatives elected for three-year French and Francophone language, terms, one graduate student representative literatures, cultures and history. elected for a two-year term, and a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary, Article IV. Dues: Dues shall be set by the and a Treasurer elected for two-year terms, Executive Committee and payable to the the Editor of Women in French Studies, treasurer. They shall include a the Editor of the Women in French subscription to the Women in French Newsletter, the Manager of the Women in Newsletter and to WIF Studies. access to French Website, and the Manager of the the Women in French Listserv, the Women Listserv. in French Newsletter, and Members Only content on the Women in French website; The past President will continue to serve a subscription to Women in French on the Executive Committee for two years Studies; and other benefits as determined following the conclusion of her/his by the Women in French Executive mandate. The terms of the representatives Committee. (See articles V and VI.) will be staggered so that approximately one third will change each year. These Article V. Governance: officers and representatives will be elected by mail-in ballot (or e-mail), published in Section 1. The organization shall have an the Fall Newsletter. All members will be executive committee composed of one eligible to vote for the officers and the representative from each MLA region, a graduate student representative; regional President, Vice-President, Secretary, representatives will be chosen only by the Treasurer, immediate Past President, members of their respective regions. The Editor of Women in French Studies, Editor President and Vice-President may be of the Women in French Newsletter, candidates for a second term, but may not Manager of the Women in French continue beyond four consecutive years in Website, Manager of the Listserv and one the same office.