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Carol J. Murphy
Professor of French

Director, France-Florida Research Institute

Articles

“Avant-Propos,” Marguerite Duras:  l’écriture dans tous ses états.” Forthcoming in Cahiers Marguerite Duras 2. Revue des Lettres Modernes. Paris: Editions Minard.

“Tel père: telle fille? Filiations paternelles dans les romans de Marie Nimier.” Cincinnati Romance Review Vol. 25 (May 2006): 247-258.

“Le Non du lieu: écrire l’outside dans Emily L.”, Roman 20-50: revue d’étude du roman du XXième siècle. (No. 40, Décembre 2005) : 73-81.

“Spectres de Duras: affect, écriture, lecture en mouvement”. Cahiers de l’Herne: Duras. Paris: Editions de l’Herne, 2005. Pp. 118-123.

“Jeux de l’amour et du hasard dans les romans de Marie Nimier: Domino (1998), ou le polar pervers,”      L’Esprit Créateur XLV: 1 (Spring 2005): 87-96.

“Jean Paulhan et Jean Fautrier: re-présenter le réel,” Yale French Studies 106 (Fall 2004): 71-86.

“Gracq’s ‘Nocturne d’automne:’ Unheard Melodies in Le Roi Cophétua,”Romance Notes 42:3 (Spring 2002): 303-311.

“Reassessing Marguerite Duras,” Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 20:1 (Winter 2002):86-100.

“‘Ecrire, dit-elle’: Marguerite Duras sur l’écriture,” Dalhousie French Studies, Lectures de Duras: corps, voix et écriture 50 (Spring 2000): 105-116.

“Gracq, lecteur de Poirier,”The French Review 72.4 (March 1999): 694-706.

“‘It’s immaterial,” she said. Marguerite Duras on La Vie matérielle.” Marguerite Duras lives on.           Ed. Janine Ricouart. N.Y.: University Press of America, 1998. Reprint of article in The Journal of Durassian Studies (1989).

"Le retour de l'Histoire chez Julien Gracq," Cahiers Julien Gracq, Revue des Lettres modernes 3           (1998): 115-128.

"The Rhetorical Enactment of History: Benjaminian Echoes in the Work of Julien Gracq," Romance Quarterly 41.4 (1994): 219-227.             

"Au bord de l'Evre:  Reflets d'Arnheim dans Les Eaux étroites," Cahiers Julien Gracq, Revue des          Lettres modernes 2 (1994): 77-90.

"Duras's 'Beast in the Jungle':  Writing Fear (or Fear of Writing) in Emily L.", Néophilologus 75.4            (1991): 539-547.

 "'It's immaterial,’ she said. Marguerite Duras on La Vie matérielle,"  Journal of Durassian Studies 2 (1990): 23-32.

"Gracq's fictional historian:  textuality as history in Le Rivage des Syrtes," The Romanic Review LXXX.2 (1989): 262-76.

"Marguerite Duras," Dictionary of Literary Biography, 83, III (1989) "French Writers since 1960," 71-83.

"Julien Gracq," Dictionary of Literary Biography, 83, III (1989) "French Writers since 1960,"93-103.

"Duras's L'Amant:  Memories from an Absent Photo," in Remains to be Seen: Essays on            Marguerite Duras, ed. Sanford S. Ames (New York:  Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1988), 171-82.

"Louis Poirier/Julien Gracq:  the Surreality of History in Un Balcon en Forêt," French Forum X (1985):355-63.

“Vite Motus:  Mum is the Word in Beckett's Compagnie," Degré Second  8 (1984): 27-34.

"Marguerite Duras," in Critical Survey of Long Fiction: Foreign Language Series, ed. Frank N.Magill (La Canada, California: Salem Press, 1984)II: 531-39.

"Duras's New Narrative Regions:  The Role of Desire in the Films and Novels of Marguerite Duras," Literature/Film Quarterly 12.2 (1984):122-28.

"Oral Proficiency Projects in Action," in Teaching for Proficiency: the Organizing Principle, ACTFL Foreign Language Education Series, vol.  XV, ed. Theodore V. Higgs, co-authored with Reynaldo L. Jiménez (Lincolnwood, Illinois, 1983), 201-17.

"Robbe-Grillet's L'Homme qui ment: the Lie belied," The French Review  LVII.1 (1983):37-42.

"Des Forêt's Dizzy Narrator:  Ironic Transformations in Le Bavard," Stanford French Review V             (1981):353-62.

"Marguerite Duras:  That Obscure Object of Desire . . . ," West Virginia University Philological Papers 26(1980): 89-92.

"Thematic and Textual Violence in Duras's Dix heures et demie du soir en été," L'Esprit Créateur XIX.2 (1979):75 -84.

"Marguerite Duras:  le texte comme écho," The French Review 50.5 (1977):850-57.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Keynote Address:

International Conference on Marguerite Duras, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Great Britain

September 10-12, 2004

 “Marguerite Duras: affect, écriture, lecture en mouvement”

Conferences and Lectures:

International Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French Studies Conference, Texas A and M University

College Station, Texas, March 22-24, 2007 “Sylvie Germain’s Lieux de Mémoire: France and the New Europe”

International Conference on Women, Space, and Environments in Contemporary French Culture, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, England, October 23-25, 2006.    “Sylvie Germain: sculpteur des lieux de mémoire”

International Conference, “Beckett’s Proust/Deleuze’s Proust”, Cardiff University, Wales, U.K March 9-11, 2006, “The long and the short of it...moving images in Beckett and Proust”

Society for French Studies International Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, July 5 - 7, 2004, “Black and White in Color: Paulhan’s Perceptions of Fautrier’s Fury”

International Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French Studies Conference, Florida State University, April 1-3, 2004, “Tel père, telle fille?: filiations paternelles dans les romans de Marie Nimier”

International Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Illinois, March 27-29, 2003

“Jeux de l’amour et du hasard dans les romans de Marie Nimier”

International Colloquium on XXth and XXIst Century Literature in French, University of Connecticut, April 5-7, 2002 ,“Rhétorique du texte et de l’image: Jean Paulhan et Jean Fautrier”

International Colloquium (by invitation only): “The Power of Rhetoric, The Rhetoric of Power, Jean Paulhan’s Fiction, Criticism and Editorial Activity”, Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, England, May 5, 2001, “Re-présenter le réel: Jean Paulhan et Jean Fautrier”

International Colloquium on XXth Century Literature in French, University  of Pennsylvania, March 29-April 2, 2000,“Gracq’s ‘Nocturne d’Automne’: Unheard Melodies in Le Roi Cophétua”

International Colloquium on XXth Century Literature in French, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 25-27,1999,“Reassessing Marguerite Duras”

International Colloquium on XXth Century Literature in French, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 28-30, 1998, “Re-presenting the Real: Jean Paulhan and Jean Fautrier”

Invited Lecture, University of Miami, October 2, 1997,“Gracq, lecteur de Poirier”

International Colloquium on XXth Century Literature in French, Stanford University, March-April 1995,

"Lieu (hors du) commun: cliché and creativity in the Works of Jean Paulhan and Jean Fautrier"

International Colloquium on XXth Century Literature in French, Dartmouth College, March 1994,

"Paulhan and Fautrier: a Rhetoric of Resistance"            

International Colloquium on XXth Century Literature in French, University of Colorado, March 1993,

"Julien Gracq and Walter Benjamin"

Colloque International de Cerisy-la-Salle (invitation only), Cerisy-la-Salle, France, 24-31 August 1991,

"Au bord de l'Evre:  Reflets d'Arnheim dans les Eaux étroites"

International Colloquium on XXth Century Literature in French, University of Texas, March 1991,

"A la lisière de l'Histoire:  les traces de l'irrationnel chez Julien Gracq"

Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 1989, "Duras's 'Beast in the Jungle:' Writing Fear (or Fear of Writing) in Emily L."

Women's Studies Seminar, University of Florida, December 1989, “The Lover by Marguerite Duras"

Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 1989, "'It's immaterial,' she said. Marguerite Duras on La Vie matérielle"

Northeast Modern Language Association, Wilmington, Delaware, April 1989, "The Influence of Anxiety:  Marguerite Duras reads Henry James"

Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, February 1988, "At the edge:  Julien Gracq, geographer-novelist"

International Colloquium on XXth Century Literature in French, Duke University, March 1987,      "Gracq's fictional historian:  textuality as history in Le Rivage des Syrtes"

International Colloquium on XXth Century Literature in French, Louisiana State University, March 1986,

"Duras's L'Amant:  Memories from an absent Photo"

Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 1985, "Louis Poirier/Julien Gracq:  the Surreality of History in Un Balcon en Forêt

Colloquium on Modern Literature and the Film, West Virginia University, September 1982, "Robbe-Grillet's L'Homme qui ment:  the Lie belied"

Drama Conference, University of Florida, March 1982,"Contemporary Trends in French Theater"

Comparative Literature Conference, Florida State University, Jan. 1982,"Duras's New Narrative Regions: The Role of Desire in the Films and  Novels of Marguerite Duras"

Modern Language Association, New York, December 1981,"The Role of Desire in the Films of Marguerite Duras"

Comparative Literature Conference, Florida State University, January 1981,"Des Forêts' Dizzy Narrator:  Ironic Transformations in Le Bavard"

Comparative Literature Conference, Florida State University, January 1980, "Marguerite Duras:  'That obscure object of desire . . . '"

Colloquium on the Art of the Film, West Virginia University, September 1978,"Marguerite Duras:  a Study of Memory in Literary Text and Film"

Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, Feb.1976,“The 'Lost City' in the Novels of Marguerite Duras"

CONFERENCE ORGANIZER

22^nd Annual 20^th and 21^st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, March 31-April 2, 2005, at the University of Florida Hilton Hotel and Conference Center. Over 200 participants from the U.S., the U.K., France, Italy, Sweden, Australia and Japan. Four keynote speakers.

American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)/Educational Testing Service Oral Proficiency Intensive Workshop, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, January 1985, Conference Organizer and Trainer. Sixty-four outside participants joined UF faculty and graduate teaching assistants in French, Spanish, and German at the three-day conference held at the Reitz Union Hotel and Conference Center at the University of Florida.

SESSIONS CHAIRED AND/OR ORGANIZED

Invited to chair session, International Colloquium on 20^th and 21^st Century French and Francophone Literature, University of Miami, March-April 2006

Invited to organize/chair session for Women in French

South Atlantic Modern Lamguage Association (SAMLA), November 1998

Invited to chair session

20th Century International French Studies Colloquium, Ohio State University, March 1997

Elected as Secretary of Women in French, SAMLA 1997

Invited to organize/chair session for the Annual Meeting of the AATF

Lyons, France, July 1996

Elected to organize and chair session, French III

SAMLA, November 1995

Elected to organize and chair session, French III

SAMLA, November 1995

Invited to propose and chair session, "Quand dire, c'est se taire"

XXth Century International French Studies Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, March 1993

Invited to chair session of Marguerite Duras

XXth Century International French Studies Colloquium, University of Iowa, April 1990

COURSES TAUGHT

Language

Elementary French I and II

Intensive Elementary French

Intermediate French

Intermediate and Advanced French Conversation

Advanced Grammar and Composition

Stylistics

Literature and Critical Theory

Introduction to French Literature I and II

Senior Seminar on the French Nouveau Roman

Twentieth-Century French Theatre (graduate and undergraduate)

Introduction to Twentieth-Century French Literature

French Literature in Translation

Twentieth-Century French Novel

Senior Seminar on "L'écriture féminine"             

Graduate Seminar on Marguerite Duras

Senior Seminar on Image and Text in Twentieth-Century French Literature

Graduate Seminar on French Critical Theory

Lire la fiction: Comment la lecture de Proust peut changer votre vie

“La Vie n’est pas un Roman”: Représentations du Réel dans le Roman (post)moderne

Culture and Civilization

Paris in Literature and History

Contemporary French Culture

French Civilization and History

GRADUATE COMMITTEES

Master’s Committees and Direction

M.A. Tamela Grinstead, Committee Member

M.A. Andrew Frelick, Chair

M.A. Véronique Hubert, June 1986, Chair

M.A. Christopher Henry, December 1982, Chair

M.A. Lars Peterson, August 1995, Committee Member 

M.A. Daniela Hurezanu, August 1996, Chair

M.A. John Fields, May 1997, Committee Member

M.A. Jennifer Bittner, November 1997, Committee Member

M.A. Christina Ferree, November 1997, Committee Member

M.A. Annapurna Prabhlava, November 1997, Committee Member

M.A. Jennifer Svienty, November 1999, Committee Member

M.A. Allison Jones, April 1999, Committee Member (History)

M.A. Lauren Oken, April 2000, Committee Member

M.A. Rachel Hart, Committee Member, April 2003

M.A. Erin Dawson, Chair, April 2005

Doctoral Committees and Direction

Ph.D. Mario Tremblay, Committee Member

Ph.D. Catherine Moore, May 1988, Committee Member

Ph.D. Val Flenga-Anderson, May 1996, Committee Member

Ph.D. Michèle Roberts, Committee Member

Ph.D. Beth Dropplemann, April 1999, Committee Member

Ph.D. Jeannine Arias, Chair, thesis defended, October 1998

Ph.D. Daniela Hurezanu, Chair, thesis defended, November 1999

Ph.D. Pamela Paine, Chair, thesis defended, December 2000

Ph.D. Danièle Buchler, Committee Member, December 2002

Ph.D. Sophie Choisy (English), Committee Member, thesis defended April 2006

Ph.D. Barbara Petrosky, Co-Chair, thesis defended April 2006

Ph.D. Cynthia Lees, Chair, thesis defended April 2006

Current Ph.D. students

Ph.D. David Billa, Chair, active

Ph.D. David Petrosky, Committee Member

Ph.D. Sandrine Savona, Committee Member

Ph.D. Abdou Yaro, Committee Member

Ph.D. Paromita Mukerjee (English), Committee Member

Ph.D. Gudula Stegman, Committee Member

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

Undergraduate Honors’ Theses, Director

Heather Davis, “Le journal intime de Marie Curie: à la recherche de l’autonomie,” Fall 2000

Emily Mazo, “‘Paris Change!’ Les Travaux d’Haussmann vus par Emile Zola, Charles Baudelaire et Gustave Caillebotte,” Spring 1999

Jana Raver, “Nathalie Sarraute et les tropismes,” Fall 1997

Rachel Berberian, “Ionesco, Bérenger et l’existentialisme,” Spring 1997

University Scholar, Mentor

Mentor for Heather Davis, 2000-2001

view of a manuscript on Gender and Aging for The University of Virginia Press,1996

SERVICE

Department

Supervisor of French Graduate Teaching Assistants  1979-1988

Coordinator of Elementary French  1979-1988

French Undergraduate Coordinator  1993-1999

French Curriculum Committee  1979-1986; 1987-1992,    Chair 1993-1999

French Schedule Committee  1979-1985; 1987-present; Chair 1993-1994

Foreign Language Council 1980-1981 

Search Committee, Japanese-Linguistics  1980-1981

Tenure and Promotion Committee  1985-1986

Search Committee, Portuguese  1985-1986                                            

Search Committee, French, Chair 1985-1986

French Visiting Scholar Committee, Chair 1986-1987; 1989-1993

Ad-Hoc Search Committee, French Lectureship  1987-1990; Chair 1990-1991

French/Italian Audio-Visual Acquisitions,  Chair 1990-1993

RLL Advisory Committee  1990-1994

Search Committee, French  1992-1993; 1993-1994

RLL Search Committee for a new Chair  1994

RLL Merit Pay Committee  1994-1995

RLL Tenure and Promotion Committee 1997-1998

Undergraduate Awards Committee 1996-1999

French Section Steering Committee Member, UF in Provence, 1999-present

On-site coordinator, UF in Provence, Aix-en-Provence, July 1999

French Section Coordinator, 2003-2005, 2006-2007

RLL Advisory Committee, 2003-2005, 2006-2007

RLL Merit Pay Committee, 2004-2007

French Graduate Studies Committee, 2006-2007

Organizer 

French Film Festival, University of Florida,  1980-1981

Quebec Film Festival, University of Florida,  March 1983

ACTFL/ETS Oral Proficiency Workshop University of Florida, January 1985

20^th and 21^st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, UF Hilton Hotel, March 31-April 2, 2005

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Language Lab Committee  1985-1986

Language Learning Center Committee  1987-1988

Nominating Committee  1988-1989

Graduate Committee  1993-1996

Language Committee  1993-1994

Fulbright Interview Committee  1987-1989; 1996-1997

Division of Sponsored Research Grant Review Committee 1992-1994

College TIP Committee 1994

College PEP Committee 1996

Dean’s Advisory Council 1995-1998

College Sabbatical Committee 1996

College Tenure and Promotion Committee 1998-1999

Resource Dean, CLAS Curriculum Committee 1999-2002

Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies Committee 1999-2002

Resource Dean, Program in Linguistics Director Search Committee 1999-2000

Resource Dean, Search Committee for Director of Center for African Studies 2001-2002

Search Committee, CLAS Associate Dean for Centers, Institutes and International Programs  2004

CLAS Task Force on Shared Governance 2006-2007

Center for European Studies Merit Pay Committee 2006

Center of European Studies External Advisory Board Member 2007-2009

HERS Committee on Bryn Mawr Leadership Program

University of Florida

University Senate  1983-1984

Overseas Studies Scholarship Committee  1992-1994                                          

University Curriculum Committee 1999-2002

SACS Steering Committee 2000-2002

SACS Compliance Committee 2000-2002

Academic Personnel Committee (elected by Faculty Senate) 2003-2004

Faculty Senate, Senator 2004-2007 (elected member of Academic Policy Council 2005-2008)

College of Education Search Committee for Alliance Director 2004

Academic Personnel Board, Spring 2006

Future of the Library Committee, Fall 2006

Chair, Academic Policy Council, 2007-2008