Baba Badji

Education

Ph.D.,  Washington University in St. Louis
M.F.A., Columbia University
B.A, The College of Wooster, Ohio
Translation Studies Certificate
Chancellor’s Fellow and an Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Fellow
Inaugural Postdoctoral Associate with The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ) and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University in New Brunswick  (Cohort I-2021-2022)
Inaugural James Baldwin Artist and Scholar in Residence at The University of Virginia, in The Department of French (Cohort I-2022)

Fields of Research:

Poetry, Interdisciplinary and Comparative Poetics, Négritude, Studies of Translation, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Decoloniality, Black France, Literary criticism, Slavery Afterlives, Creative Writing, Translation Within

I am an Assistant Professor of French and Creative Writing at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, where I teach students in both the French and English departments. As a dedicated educator, I strive to inspire a love for literature and foster creativity in my students. In addition to my academic role, I am a proud Senegalese-American poet, translator, and comparatist. I draw from my rich cultural background to explore themes of identity and connection in my work, both critically and creatively. My passion for language and literature informs both my teaching and my writing, allowing me to bridge diverse perspectives and experiences. My multi-dimensional research explores French and Francophone cultures, critical translation studies, poetry and poetics studies, Négritude, and the African diaspora. In my critical and creative scholarship, I explore an interdisciplinary analysis of Négritude that recognizes the differences of people, cultures, and the systems of colonization within Africa and beyond. My first scholarly book in progress, Habits of Négritude: A Black Poetic Imagination in the African Diaspora, reexamines Négritude through interdisciplinary lenses. I conceptualize Négritude as a set of rehearsals, worldbuilding, and translation practices, asserting that these habits can manifest within Négritude’s diverse geographical and genealogical frameworks. A chapter and a Coda from Habits of Négritude will be published soon in peer-reviewed scholarly journals.  

My second interdisciplinary and scholarly book project is a close study of Francis Ledwidge and Léopold Sédar Senghor. It illustrates how Ledwidge and Senghor pursued a poetic galaxy in the trenches that became a place of withdrawal. Exilic Trenches: Francis Ledwidge and Léopold Sédar Senghor contend that if Ledwidge, an Irishman, fought for England, and Senghor, a Senegalese, fought for France, their fractured identity, exile, and alienation occurred in the trenches. Senghor and Ledwidge’s war poems are at the forefront of my overall argument in the book to show poetic tactics that illuminate their defiance, their exilic sense, and patriotism in their lived experience of war. I conclude that their poems are nationalistic elegies that operate in a pastoral mood.

A full-length poetry manuscript entitled Ghost of Tirailleurs retraces memories of war and the violence of colonialism through Senegalese soldiers who fought for France during WWI and WWII, is in progress, and poems have been published here https://apela.hypotheses.org/11111

A novel titled Madame Diawara is in progress. Read a chapter of the book here https://www.journaloftheplagueyears.ink/blog/madame-diawara

Building on my previous interdisciplinary research, I integrated my research and creative writing into my third scholarly book, Arrivals to Orality: Landscape, Home & Grief. The book begins with trilingual poems from Ghosts of Tirailleurs, showcasing how poetic forms in English, Wolof, Diola, Manding, and French allow for a fusion of my Senegalese and American backgrounds within Négritude traditions. The first chapter analyzes Ousmane Sembène’s engagement with Négritude in his films “Guélowar”, “Faat Kiné”, and “Camp de Thiaroye”. The second chapter situates the works of Légitime Défense, Tropiques, and Présence Africaine within their historical contexts. The third chapter compares the engagement with Négritude poetics by Édouard Glissant, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite. The fourth chapter examines the vernacular politics of Galandou Diouf, Blaise Diagne, and Léopold Sédar Senghor.  Chapter five addresses contemporary debates surrounding Négritude, focusing on Sylvia Wynter’s interrogation of race, culture, and history; Christina Sharpe’s exploration of Black life and history in the present; and Saidiya Hartman’s reflections on Black individuals and the legacy of the Atlantic slave trade. In the epilogue, I include a close reading of excerpts from my novel Madame Diawara, which reflects African and Senegalese rhythms and syntax across multiple languages, embodying a diasporic crossing both bodily and linguistically.

Interdisciplinary Publications and Public Outreach:

Ancient Algorithms, 2025, a collaborative poetry book by Katrine Øgaard Jensen with contributors Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, CAConrad, Paul Cunningham, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Sarabande Books, 2025 https://www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p/ancient-algorithms

Jazz en Waxtaan: Archiving Black Sound and Memory (2025) Medina Marmiyal, Saint Louis, Senegal, https://www.instagram.com/p/DKR8aDuogoZ/

https://www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2024-part-i/badji

National Endowment for the Arts

Literary Arts: FY 2024 Grants Panelist reader (Translation)

https://poetrysociety.org/events/a-tribute-to-richard-howard

https://www.theafricanistpodcast.com/e/decolonizing-the-mind-in-conversation-with-ngugi-wa-thiong-o/

https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2023-04/the-city-and-the-writer-in-ziguinchor-senegal-with-baba-badji-nathalie-handal/

https://pen.org/meet-the-2023-literary-awards-judges/

https://gaecafrica.org/afrik-bu-nuy-xaar/

Scholarly publication: “Jesus Died to Guide the Prophet in the Moon’s Blue Chunk: After Mahershala Ali Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Michigan State University Press, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2022 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/862877 Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Michigan State University Press, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2022 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/862877 

Book(s):

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https://electricliterature.com/baba-badji-poetry-collection-ghost-letters-poems/

https://www.europenowjournal.org/2018/02/28/four-poems-by-leopold-sedar-senghor/

https://www.europenowjournal.org/2018/02/28/five-poems-by-mohammed-kair-eddine/

Teaching Statement:

I strive for teaching excellence, which involves learning from both my students and my colleagues while also developing my interdisciplinary research, writing, and teaching. My teaching and learning goals have evolved significantly due to the influence of my students and colleagues. Drawing on Rutgers University’s commitment to excellence in teaching, innovative research, and mentoring, I place my research, teaching, and learning alongside my students’ intellectual curiosity, believing that these elements are symbiotic and essential for my scholarship both at home and abroad. In my teaching, I employ a methodological approach that utilizes a comparative framework, both in the classroom and beyond. This comparative framework helps me create meaningful relationships with my students, focusing on wisdom, kindness, and the joy of learning. What inspires me in my courses is the comparative approach, which captures my students’ interest and attention. This fosters a learning environment of trust and creates a stimulating, profound learning community. My students are integral to my research and teaching, helping me strive to be a better and more generous scholar. I adopt an instructional attitude that emphasizes group work, encouraging students to engage in dialogue with one another. I view the classroom as a collaborative space and workroom— where students interact intellectually with the material and with each other in various ways—linguistically, thematically, intimately, and physically.  On an interpersonal level, I deeply enjoy interacting with my students, driven by their curiosity. I embody the values that are essential for any good relationship: trust, communication, compassion, and care. Over the years, I have found that what motivates me most as a teacher is understanding the relevance of cultures through comparative thinking. Supporting my students’ intellectual curiosity, struggles, and growth has been the most rewarding aspect of my academic journey. I emphasize the importance of humility, determination, tolerance, and a passion for learning—habits that help students become independent—free thinkers. As a writer, translator, and teacher, I believe strongly in nurturing my students’ creative and critical growth. I want them to find meaning and voice in their writing projects, critically and creatively.  Voicing one’s meaning is another form of communication that must be emptied of the inner self. The author must give themself away on the otherwise empty page. That voice and meaning eventually emerge with a community in practice and patience.

Student Supervision & Advising:

I welcome the opportunity to provide guidance and support to students whose research interests align with my own. My goal is to ensure that they have the resources and encouragement they need to excel in their studies and achieve their research objectives. I am committed to cultivating an inclusive academic environment that positively and productively supports students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds who may face challenges in their academic journeys. I encourage prospective students to reach out to me with their ideas and aspirations, especially in the following areas: Francophone cultures, comparative literature and poetry, Négritude, French theory, studies of translation, poetics, postcolonial literature and theory, decoloniality, Black France, literary criticism, Africa, and creative writing.

Services, Mentoring, and intellectual projects at Rutgers:

Founder and co-organizer of the Fanon Research Collective https://cca.rutgers.edu/working-groups/working-groups-details/84-working-groups/870-frc

I am the co-founder and Project leader of The Dakar Translation Symposium  (DTS) that is a 5-days international, interdisciplinary, multilingual scholarly meeting centered on the African diaspora-(https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/event/dakar-translation-symposium-africa-and-her-diasporas). The second edition of the Dakar Translation Symposium was scheduled on Jun 3-9, 2024, and it was held in Ghana https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/Global_Initiatives.

The third edition of The Dakar Translation Symposium is scheduled to take place in Tanzania, at The University of Dar es Salaam, (15-19, 2026).

I am also the co-founder of the Center for Translation Studies, Literature and Cultures at Assane Seck University in Ziguinchor, Casamance, Senegal https://mail.seneplus.com/education/vers-la-creation-dun-centre-de-traduction-de-litterature-et

Awards and Honors:

Washington University in St. Louis
Translation Studies Certificate
Chancellor’s Fellow and an Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Fellow

Rutgers University in New Brunswick
Inaugural Postdoctoral Associate with The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ) and Comparative Literature (Cohort I)

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of French and the Department of English (Cohort II) 

The University of Virginia
Inaugural James Baldwin Artist and Scholar in Residence in The Department of French (Cohort I-2022)

 

Graduate Courses:

Translation as Critique

 

 

 

Undergraduate Courses:

Intro to Creative Writing: Poetry, Fiction & Nonfiction

Global Black Poetry

Literature Across Borders

French and Francophone Texts & Images

Forms and Techniques in Poetry

Modern Literature in French Honors

Modern Literature in French 

Jean-Baptiste, Shanna

Shanna Jean-Baptiste is Assistant Professor in the Department of French at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her research and teaching interests lie in Francophone West African and Caribbean literature, with a special emphasis on Haitian literature. Her expertise extends to identity formation, gender politics, visual art, music, and Afrofuturist aesthetics within the Francophone context.

Her current book manuscript, Global Jim Crow South: Mapping Jim Crow Violence and Intimacies across Haiti and the U.S. South, contends that Jim Crow violence shaped and was shaped by the U.S. empire. It centers Haiti as a crucial focal point for understanding the global scope of Jim Crow violence and argues that the violence that structured the 1915-1934 American occupation of Haiti was not peripheral but integral to the racial violence of the Jim Crow South. Her second book project delves into expressions of futurity and Afrofuturism in the Francophone world.

She holds a joint Ph.D. from Yale in French and African American Studies.

 

Education:

Ph.D., Yale University
M.A., Yale University
B.A., City College of New York, CUNY
A.A., Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY 

Fields of Research: 

Afrofuturist aesthetics in the French-speaking world
Nineteenth-century Haitian literature
Caribbean and West African literatures
Identity Formation and Gender politics
Diaspora Studies
Visual Art and Music
Digital Humanities 

Graduate Courses:

Intimacy and Violence in the Haitian Novel
Francophone Afrofuturism 

Undergraduate Courses: 

Francophone Afrofuturism
French Civilization from the Revolution to the Present
Modern French Literature

Maurer, Anais

Education:

Ph.D., Columbia University
M.A.,Université Paris IV Sorbonne & Tulane University  
B.A., Université Paris IV Sorbonne                 

Fields of Research:

Environmental Humanities, Pacific Studies, Francophone Studies, Indigenous Studies, Decolonial Literatures, Critical Military Studies, Ecofeminism, Marxist Theory

Anaïs Maurer is Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. Her research explores Indigenous decolonial ecologies, with a focus on nuclear imperialism and climate justice. Raised in Tahiti, she conversant in colonial and Indigenous languages alike. For the past decade, she has conducted extensive fieldwork (or home-work) in the Pacific, compiling a unique corpus of Indigenous ecocritical stories in French, English, Spanish, Tahitian, Mangarevian, and Uvean, encompassing a wide variety of artistic genres from print literature to dances and graphic arts. Her first monograph, The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors to Climate Activists (Duke University Press, 2024), analyzes Pacific artists' transgenerational fight against the nuclear arms race and climate change, by underscoring the environmental racism at the roots of both existential threats. Anaïs Maurer strives to facilitate decolonial dialogue across cultures and languages and is involved in various translation projects to bring the literature of the French-occupied Pacific to a global anglophone audience. She also collaborates with nuclear physicists to add her cultural and historical expertise to studies of nuclear contamination in French-occupied Polynesia. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals as well as public-facing media such as the BBC, CNN, and NesiaDaily, and has been supported by various grants, including, most recently, the international CAPAS fellowship for her second monograph project, ’Aita Atomi: Les artistes mā’ohi contre le colonialisme nucléaire. In addition to her academic work, she campaigns for nuclear reparations and for the abolition of nuclear weapons. 

Books:

Publication Award:

Modern Language AssociationMLA’S SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES AWARDED TO ANAÏS MAURER FOR THE OCEAN ON FIRE; ANNETTE DAMAYANTI LIENAU RECEIVES HONORABLE MENTION

New York, NY – 3 December 2025 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its thirty-third annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies to Anaïs Maurer, assistant professor of French and comparative literature at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for her book The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists, published by Duke University Press. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding scholarly work that is written by a member of the association and that involves at least two literatures. Please click here to download a PDF of the full press release.

Journal Articles

  • “Plaidoyer pour la colère antinucléaire : Le droit à l’émotion dans l’écriture de l’histoire du CEP.Australian Journal of French Studies 61:1 (2024).
  • “Bonded by the Bomb: Asian-Oceanian Alliances against French Nuclear Colonialism,” in Center-to-Center Relationalities: At the Nexus of Pacific Islands Studies and Trans-Pacific Studies, special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies 7:2 (2022)
  • “Pacific Women Antinuclear Poetry: Centering Indigenous Knowledges,” in Feminist Interrogations of Global Nuclear Politics, special issue of International Affairs 98:4 (2022) [co-authored with Rebecca H. Hogue]
  • “Snaring the Nuclear Sun: Decolonial Ecologies in Titaua Peu’s Mutismes: E ’ore te vāvā,” The Contemporary Pacific, 31:2 (2020)
  • “Océanitude: repenser le tribalisme occidental au prisme des nationalismes océaniens,” Francosphères, 8:2 (2019)
  • “Nukes and Nudes: Counter-Hegemonic Identities in the Nuclearized Pacific,” French Studies, 72:3 (2018)

Edited Special Issue of Journal

  • New Directions in Contemporary Mā’ohi Literature, in the Australian Journal of French Studies, 61:1 (2024). [Co-edited with Julia Frengs and Jeffrey Zuckerman]
  • Transnational Nuclear Imperialisms, Journal of Transnational American Studies, 11:2 (2020) [Co-edited with Rebecca Hogue] 

Book Chapters

  • “Mā’ohi Lives Matter: A Call for Environmental Justice in the Nuclearized Pacific,” In Michelle Beauclair (Ed.), The Francophone World: Cultural Issues and Perspectives, New York: Peter Lang, Second Edition. Forthcoming.
  • “‘Qui ne mourrait pas de cancer dans nos îles?’ L’imaginaire poétique des océaniens antinucléaires," in Renaud Meltz and Alexis Vrignon, Des Bombes en Polynésie : Les essais nucléaires français dans le Pacifique, Paris: Vandémiaire, 2022.
  • “Kakadu – Kwajalein – Ka Pae ’Āina: les nouvelles routes de l’impérialisme nucléaire,” in Sémir Al Wardi, Jean-Marc Régnault (Eds.), Indo-Pacifique et routes de la soie. Les nouvelles stratégies mondiales,Pape’ete : Api Tahiti Éditions, 2021.

Public Outreach

Chatter podcast: Oceania's Nuclear and Climate Storytelling with Anaïs Maurer, 2024.

New Books Network podcast: The Ocean on Fire by Anaïs Maurer, 2024.

Nesia Daily Radio, Hear from the academic researching how communities are resisting environmental racism in Oceania, 2023.

The Conversation, En Polynésie, des oeuvres d'art pour défier le colonialisme nucléaire, 2022.

BBC TV Word News, “France’s Nuclear Debt towards Mā’ohi Nui,” 2021.

 

Graduate Courses:

  • The Other Francophonie
  • Environmental Humanities and Decolonial Literature

Undergraduate Courses:

  • Intro to Global Sci-Fi
  • Modern French Literature
  • Power and Place
  • Revolutions
  • Francophonie on Fire
  • Our World: Social Justice and the Environment
  • Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Testing

Tamas-Le Menthéour, Jennifer

  • Jennifer Tamas-Le Mentheour
  • Jennifer Tamas-Le Mentheour
  • Professor of French
  • Office Location: ABW 4178, CAC
  • Phone: (848) 932-3794
  • Personal Website: https://www.jennifertamas.com/au-non-des-femmes

Education:

Licence, Maîtrise, DEA, Université Paris IV Sorbonne
Agrégation et CAPES de Lettres Modernes (concours externes)
Doctorat, Paris IV Sorbonne (2012)
PhD at Stanford University (2013)

Fields of Research:

Feminist Theory (notions of agency, consent and resistance)
Theater (from the Antiquity to the 21st century) and Performance Theory
Focus on Racine and Early Modern Theater
Ghosts and Mourning in Old Regime
Eloquence of silence
Rhetoric of Human Rights
Motherhood and Childhood in Old Regime

 

Public Outreach

I had the pleasure to speak about Early-Modern Literature on many occasions with journalists (Les Inrocks, Libération, Le Monde, L'Humanité, L'Obs, etc.), through Radio Shows (France Culture, Arte Podcast, Louie Media), on TV (La Grande Librairie, France 24), and with students, professors and anyone interested in French Literature: Augustin Trapenard, La Grande Librairie, "Au nom des femmes", avec Marguerite Abouet, Melissa Da Costa, Nancy Huston et Jennifer Tamas, le 8 mars 2023: https://www.jennifertamas.com/presse-radio 

Fellowships and Grants

  • Summer 2025: Recipient of the 2025 Albertine Translation Fund & Acquisition of Rights (to translate Au NON des femmes in English), Villa Albertine
  • Spring 2025: Recipient of the The Presidential Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award, Rutgers University
  • Spring 2023: Humanities Plus Award for a “Contemporary Challenge” course with early-modern texts
  • Spring 2021: Humanities Plus Award for envisioning a podcast series on Women’s Empowerment for a new course called ‘‘How the French Invented The Female Gaze: Early Modern Fairy Tales and Their Legacy’’
  • Summer 2021: Recipient of the COVID Impact on Scholarly Productivity Faculty Grant Program 
  • Spring 2020: Presidential Fellowship For Teaching Excellence, Rutgers University
  • Spring 2019: Laura Bassi Fellowship (Book subvention)
  • Summer 2017: Research Council Grant, Rutgers University
  • 2012-2013: Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center
  • 2006-2007: Fulbright Fellowship
  • 2005-2006: Bourse d’Agrégation (French merit-based government scholarship) 

Books

Peut-on encore être galant? (Paris, Seuil, 2024) targets a broad audience, ranging from scholars interested in gallantry to anyone intrigued by a topic that encompasses both a lifestyle (“un art de vivre”) and a love discourse. It challenges myths surrounding French love history, linking galanterie to préciosité and framing it as a form of soft rebellion against forced aristocratic marriages. I examine its modern remnants, its misuse in contexts like the Strauss-Kahn affair, and its evolution from Madeleine de Scudéry’s ideal of female perfection to its later association with prostitution. The book also highlights the political and cultural dimensions of galanterie, showing how it contributed to France’s aesthetic dominance in Europe. While often reduced to stereotypes like “rape culture” or used to market French romance (e.g., Emily in Paris), galanterie was historically a dynamic space for women to negotiate gender relations, consent, and resistance. The book ultimately asks whether the principles of conversation, respect, and consideration from galanterie could inspire a new form of sexual civility today. It was just translated into Italian (Marietti, 2025).

My new book “Au NON des femmes. Libérer nos classiques du regard masculin” (Paris, Seuil, 2023) investigates how the “male gaze” prevailed in establishing the French classics and their reception. By selecting authors deemed essential to our literary heritage (patrimoine culturel) and by erasing the works of women writers, the patriarchal gaze also undervalued female agency in well-known works of fiction such as Andromaque, La Princesse de Clèves or Little Red Riding Hood. My close reading of early modern memoirs, fairy tales, novels, and plays reveals that many female refusals (be they historical or fictional) remain obscured. My study also unveils women’s resistance at a time when galanterie was at once a means of seduction and an ideal shaped by both men and women. If nowadays galanterie is under attack and if the #MeToo movement has brought questions of female agency and consent to the fore, this book retraces an “archive of refusal” as a possible source of inspiration to invigorate feminist discourse and change our reception of the French canon. Surprisingly, heroines of the Grand Siècle can empower us with accounts of their struggle and help us reclaim an undervalued literary matrimoine. 

My monograph on Racine (Le Silence trahi. Racine et la déclaration tragique, Genève, Droz, 2018) reflects upon the notion of dramatic silence. Whether it results from a deliberate strategy or an inability to speak, silence is core to political ambitions, codes of civility, theatrical bienséances as well as religious practices. It represents the betrayal of an intention that needs to be clarified and that feeds the spectator’s interest. My study argues that Racinian tragedies represent the fight against an unbearable confession. Long hidden, concealed, unrevealed, it has devastating effects once it is unveiled. Drawing on this permanent tension between silence and declaration, Racine’s dramaturgy undermines the beautiful structure of Aristotelian poetics and imposes a new vision of the tragic.

Co-Authored and Co-edited Volumes

Regards croisés sur l’éducation à la sexualité au collège et au lycée, with Yaëlle Amsellem-Mainguy, Lisa Carayon, Ghada Hatem, Sylvie Steinberg, Jennifer Tamas, eds Sophie Pons and Stéphane Frey, Paris, Belin Éducation, forthcoming in 2025

L’Éloquence du silence: dramaturgie du non-dit sur la scène théâtrale des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Hélène Bilis and Jennifer Tamas (eds.), (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014)

Madame de Sévigné: les Lettres de 1671, Frédéric Calas, Nathalie Freidel, Cécile Lignereux, Jennifer Tamas (Paris: Nathan, 2012)

Book Chapters

‘‘L’École du sentiment’’, in Regards croisés sur l’éducation à la sexualité au collège et au lycée, with Yaëlle Amsellem-Mainguy, Lisa Carayon, Ghada Hatem, Sylvie Steinberg, eds Sophie Pons and Stéphane Frey, Paris, Belin Éducation, forthcoming in 2025

“Enfant terrible ou enfant révolté ? Le sourire de Jean-Marie”, in Ninon Chavoz et Anthony Mangeon (eds), Les Chemins de la liberté. Lectures de Jean-Marie Apostolidès, Paris, Hermann, « Fictions pensantes », 2024, chap. 4, 99-118

“Les contes de fées apprennent-ils aux femmes à dire NON ? L’exemple de La Belle et la bête, n’en déplaise à Bettelheim’’ in René Frydman et Muriel Flis-Trèves, ‘‘ Dire oui ou non! Le consentement en questions’’, Paris, Calmann Lévy, 2023, 111-121

“Roxane ou la compassion monstrueuse”, in Racine’s Tragedies of Tyranny: Essays on ‘Bajazet’ and ‘Mithridate’, Leiden, Brill, chap. 4, 2024, chap. 3, 59-79

“Le silence ou la mort. La déclaration d’amour chez Racine” in L’amour et l’amitié au Grand Siècle, Delphine Calle and Astrid Van Assche (eds), Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2022, 255-278.

‘‘To Speak Or Not To Speak: Racine’s Lessons on Communicative Strategies’’, in Teaching Neoclassical Tragedy, Hélène Bilis et Ellen McClure (eds.), MLA Options for Teaching, 2021, 146-156.

“Overcoming the Shadow: Andromaque’s Ambiguous Triumph”, Nick Hammond and Joseph Harris (eds.), Racine’s Andromaque: Absences and Displacements, Leiden, Brill, 2019, chap. 6, 95-113

“Dire et ne pas dire l’amour: formes discursives et effets pragmatiques des aveux dans Mithridate de Racine,” in Mathilde Vallespir and Roselyne de Villeneuve (eds.), (Paris: Presses Universitaires Paris-Sorbonne, 2010), 119-142

“La déclaration d’amour chez Racine: un discours emphatique qui oscille entre épanchement et brièveté,” in Mathilde Levesque and Olivier Pédeflous (eds.), L’Emphase: entre copia et brevitas, XVIe  et XVIIe siècle, (Paris: Presses Universitaires Paris-Sorbonne, 2010), 85-98

Articles

“Les Sappho du non. Retrouver l’archive littéraire du consentement au prisme de #MeToo”, Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF), “Donc, c’est non! ,” ed. Olivia Gesbert, Paris, Gallimard, November 2024, n°659, 67-73

‘‘Refus magnifiés et silence des princesses solitaires : La Princesse de Clèves, Esther et La Chatte blanche’’, in Spectaculaire et Contemplation. Regard, parole et silence dans les arts du 17e siècle, dir. Gilles Declercq et Stella Spriet, Classiques Garnier, Forthcoming

‘‘La Belle et la Bête de Villeneuve : une philosophie du consentement ? Sexe, genre et race au prisme des Lumières’’, in Dix-Huitième Siècle, special issue on ‘‘Déboulonner les Lumières’’, eds Flora Amann, Joël Castonguay-Bélanger, Anne-Claire Marpeau, Stéphanie Roza, Forthcoming

‘‘Entrée en féminisme par l’école de la banlieue : Itinérance d’une néo-précieuse en mer d’inimitié’’ dir. Hélène Bilis and Sylvaine Guyot, Cahiers-Débats du Dix-Septième Siècle, special issue on Feminisms and Early Modern France / Féminismes et première modernité, Forthcoming

‘‘Molière, fossoyeur des précieuses : Revanche sociale ou lutte d’influence ?’’, in ‘‘ Décentrer Molière’’, eds Benoît Bolduc, Sylvaine Guyot and Christophe Schuwey, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Forthcoming

“Teaching Early-Modern Texts In The Age of #MeToo”, in Christy Wampole (ed.), ‘‘French and Francophone Studies : What Should We Be Doing’’, Romanic Review, 114:3, December 2023, 625-631

“Monstre d’orgueil ou héros pitoyable: le dénouement de Mithridate est-il un suicide raté?” Tony Gheeraert (ed.), Racine 1672, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2024, 213-231

“ ‘C’était pendant l’horreur d’une profonde nuit…’ Mémoire des ombres et refus de l’oubli chez Racine”, in Mélanie Henry and Sophie Wahnich (eds), Écrire l’histoire, “Le carambolage des temps”, CNRS éditions, 151-159 

“L’amour des monstres: Racine ou la pitié pervertie”, “Bienséances et Poétique théâtrale au dix-septième siècle en France”, Gilles Declercq (ed.), in Revue d’Histoire du théâtre, oct-dec 2022, n° 295, 85-98 

“Le consentement tragique: Bérénice au miroir de Marie Mancini”, Études Épistémé, n°40, 2021, online publication

“ ‘Forcez-les d’aimer’: Racine et le consentement forcé à la lueur de #MeToo”, Papers on French Seventeenth Century Studies, XLVIII, n°95, 2021, 287-303.

‘‘Que philosopher, c’est apprendre à écrire”, article in the “Livre hommage”, tribute to Michel Serres, Paris, éditions du Pommier, 2020, 163-166.

‘‘L’art de défaillir: les effets pathétiques de la didascalie racinienne” in Europe, special issue on Racine, Tristan Alonge and Alain Génetiot (eds) 2019, 106-117.

“Cœur de renard: la politique incestueuse de Créon dans La Thébaïde”, Papers on French Seventeenth Century Studies, vol XLIV, n°87, 2017, 231-245.

‘‘‘Je demeurai longtemps errant dans Césarée’. Méandres du moi et fixité du lieu dans Bérénice de Racine,” in L’Errance au XVIIe  siècle (Lucie Desjardins, Marie-Christine Pioffet, Roxanne Roy, eds), Biblio 17, vol. 216, 2017, 209-223.

‘‘ ‘Est-ce un malheur si grand que de cesser de vivre?’ Le spectacle du suicide dans la tragédie racinienne,” European Drama and Performance Studies, n°7, 2016-2, 89-103

“La mort orpheline: le suicide des mères chez Racine,” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Studies, vol. XLII, n°83, 2015, 301-312

“De l’alcôve à la tribune: Olympe de Gouges ou le désir d’agir,” Lumières, n°23, 2014, 151-166

“Racine: une dramaturgie de l’indicible,” European Drama and Performance Studies, n°2, 2014, 77-100

‘‘Valmont ou la sémiotique du corps au service d’une séditieuse séduction,’’ in Christian Delporte and Audrey Hermel (eds.), Corps et séduction, (Paris: Éditions et Librairie ancienne Nicolas Malais, 2014), 151-162

“L’imaginaire de la clôture à travers le cloître et la maison close au XVIIe siècle: la femme et la mise au ban de la société française,” La Licorne, n°94, 2010, 85-99

“La Médée d’Anouilh: entre drame intime et vision mythique d’une France blessée,” Revue du Paon d’Héra, n°5, 2009, 187-194

Op-ed for Journals and Newspapers

‘‘La galanterie peut-elle adoucir les mœurs?’’, Sans doute, November 11, 2024.

‘‘Viols de Mazan et fantasmes nécrophiles : ce que la figure de la « belle endormie » dit de la présomption de consentement’’, Le Nouvel Obs,
October 3, 2023

‘‘La galanterie: pratique désuète ou philosophie oubliée?’’, n°261, Axelle Magazine, Sept-Oct 2024, Brussels

“Regards sur Sion depuis Ilion: La guerre du point de vue d’Andromaque,” AOC media, March 15, 2024

‘‘Ken : le regard masculin a encore frappé !’’, Le Nouvel Obs, August 30, 2023

‘‘Ovidie, nouvelle princesse de Clèves des temps modernes? Une ou deux vertus de l'anachronisme’’, Le Nouvel Obs, 2 avril 2023

Undergraduate Courses: 

“From Eve to the Femme Fatale: Women who dared to know too much”

Francophilia

Dating Before the Age of Tinder: Six Flirtatious French Plays To Embark On Your Next Romance

#HerToo: When Women Reclaim Fairy Tales

Diam’s, Princesse de Clèves des temps modernes

How the French Invented the Female Gaze? Early Modern Fairy Tales and their Legacy 

Take No For An Answer! The Art of Not Giving Consent Then And Now

Did you mean “no”? When consent is not just a female thing

Aspects of French Literature

Cours de civilisation: Comment peut-on être Français?

Faire sa cour: splendeur et misère des courtisan(e)s du Moyen-Âge à la Révolution française

We Need to Talk! Theater and Polemics in Early-Modern France

The Only Way Out! From the Past to the Stage

Famille je vous hais! Crime et infamie sur la scène classique

Le Silence ou la mort: la scène d’aveu au théâtre

Home, Bittersweet Home

Dangerous Liaisons. Love and Death Before the French Revolution (Middlebury College)

“Le Style à la lettre” (Institut d’Études Françaises d’Avignon)

Graduate Courses:

Elles ont dit NON ! Désobéissance et Résistance des femmes au XVIIe siècle    

Indicible Racine

Survivre à la Séparation? Deuil et fantômes à l’âge classique

Infamille: Crime et rédemption sur la scène tragique (Institut d’Études françaises d’Avignon)

La curiosité à l'âge classique

Pairet, Ana

  • Ana Pairet
  • Ana Pairet
  • Associate Professor of French
  • Undergraduate Director
  • Office Location: ABW 4185, CAC
  • Phone: 848-932-3654

 

Education:

 

Fields of Research:

 

Licence, Maîtrise, Université Paris IV - Sorbonne
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

 

My main areas of  inquiry include the languages and literatures of the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period in France and the Iberian Peninsula; Ovidian poetry; mythography; textual and generic transformation; history of the book; and translation.

My book on fictions of metamorphosis in medieval France (Honoré Champion, 2002), traced the evolution of narratives of bodily change in vernacular literature from the 12th to the 15th centuries. By studying the poetics of mutacion in distinct generic contexts (Ovidian poetry, courtly literature, mythography and historiography), I showed how the Middle Ages turned this polysemic figure into a literary artefac Chief among my interests my research has been the versified Ovide moralisé (ca. 1328), identified as one of the main Ovidian sources for 14th-century poets such as Machaut, Froissart, and Christine de Pizan. My current book project bears on the translation of French courtly romances into European vernaculars during the early decades of print.

Books:

Other Publications:

 "'Circes l'enchanteresse': de l'Epistre Othea au Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune," Christine de Pizan et son époque. Actes du Colloque international des 9, 10 et 11 décembre 2011 à Amiens", Médiévales 53, dir. Danielle Buschinger et al., Presses du "Centre d'Etudes Médiévales", 2012, pp. 108-114.

"Métamorphoses de l'imprimé: traductions et réception du Roman de Mélusine (1478-1526)", Ecriture et réécriture du merveilleux féerique. Autour de Mélusine, ed. Matthew Morris and Jean-Jacques Vincensini, Classiques Garnier, 2012, pp. 211-222.

 "Intervernacular Translation in the Early Decades of Print: Recasting the Marvelous in the Spanish Melusine (1489-1526)," Translating the Middle Ages, ed. Karen Fresco et al., Ashgate, 2012, pp. 86-101.

"Recasting the Metamorphoses in Fourteenth-Century France: The Challenges of the Ovide moralisé,"Ovid in the Middle Ages, ed. Frank Coulson et al., Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 83-107.

"'Les formes qui muees furent': figures et enjeux de la mutacion dans l'Ovide moralisé," Essais sur l'Ovide moralisé, ed. Marylène Possamai-Perez, Champion, 2009, pp. 19-34.

"Subjectivité poétique et discours historique dans l'œuvre narrative de Christine de Pizan," in Histoires d'historiennes, ed. Nicole Pellegrin, Publications de l'université de Saint-Étienne, 2006, pp. 145-155.

"From Court to Empire: The Peninsular Trajectory of Olivier de Castille," Courtly Arts and the Art of Courtliness: Selected Proceedings of the Eleventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, ed. Keith Busby and Christopher Kleinhenz, Boydell & Brewer, 2006, pp. 507-517.

"Medieval Bestsellers in the Age of Print: Melusine and Olivier de Castille", in Towards The Medieval Author, ed. Virginie Greene, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 189-204.

"Aventures péninsulaires d'Olivier de Castille et Artus d'Algarbe", in Relaçoes literárias franco-peninsulares, ed. Ana Maria Santos, Ediçoes Colibri, 2005, pp. 151-159.

“Les mutacions des fables”: figures de la métamorphose dans la littérature française du Moyen Âge(Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002).

“Melusine’s Double Binds: Foundation, Transgression and the Genealogical Romance,” in Reassessing the Heroine in Medieval French Literature, ed. by Kathryn M. Krause (University Press of Florida, 2001), pp. 71-86.

“Histoire, métamorphose et poétique de la réécriture: les éditions espagnoles du Roman de Mélusine,” in Mélusine moderne et contemporaine, ed. by Arlette Bouloumié and Henri Béhar (Paris: L’Âge d’homme, 2001) pp. 47-55.

Graduate Courses:

  • Figures of Authorship in Medieval France
  • History of the French Language
  • Myth and Exemplarity in the Middle Ages
  • Lyric Writing in the 14th and 15th Centuries
  • Old French Language and Literature

Undergraduate Courses:

  • Aspects of French Literature I-II
  • Approaches to French Literature (Honors)
  • Cultures of Taste (Senior Seminar)
  • French Theater
  • French Civilization from the Middle Ages to the Revolution
  • History of the French Language
  • Language and Culture in Catalonia (independent study)
  • Women Writers in Medieval and Early Modern France

Program Connections:

Medieval Studies

  1. Allamand, Carole
  2. Parker, Andrew
  3. Piroux, Lorraine
  4. Serrano, Richard

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