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Some good news
My article, “Maps to the Other: the Carte Galante tradition and Émile Zola’s ‘Dossiers préparatoires’” is now out online in the spring issue of French Studies.
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[Updated] NeMLA 2020: Thinking Beyond Your Century (Deadline 30 September)
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As promised earlier, here is the CFP for the panel I will be moderating at the NeMLA 2020 Annual Conference in Boston. The conference will be held in early March. You will find the posting under French and Comparative Literature, but it’s a broad and interdisciplinary topic, so if you are working on something related…
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Two Friends
Last Friday, Nineteenth Century French Studies shared a wonderful conversation between Dr. Colin Foss and Prof. Nicholas White, about Foss’s new book The Culture of War: Literature of the Siege of Paris, 1870–71. During the presentation, Foss briefly mentioned a short story by Guy de Maupassant, “Deux Amis” (1883), set during the siege of Paris.…
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SFS 2015, Cardiff
I’ve got a lot of these left over, and since the pandemic is still going full tilt, and many of my favorite conferences are going to be online this year, I’m posting a nostalgic look back at five years ago when you could still go outside without worrying. The conference was lovely, as was Cardiff.
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Creamy (but also non-dairy) Vinaigrette Salad Dressing
For more about this recipe and why I think it works, read below. Here’s the important part first. Ingredients: 1 cup of olive oil or grape seed oil (I’ve had good results with both) 1 cup of balsamic vinegar 5 cloves of garlic (I used six for this particular recipe because some of them were…
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Small update
This is just a link to a short letter to the editor I wrote to the Washington Post about two weeks ago, in response to an article by Sebastian Smee about one of Monet’s early paintings at La Grenoullière. He talks about Maupassant’s short story, “La Femme de Paul.” You can read Maupassant’s story in…
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CFP: Paris in the Americas Yesterday and Today (Deadline 30 September)
NeMLA 2020, Boston [Reposted on behalf of my colleague, Dr. Carole Salmon, current President of Northeastern Modern Languages Association.] Inspired by NeMLA’s topic for this year, “Shaping and Sharing Identities: Spaces, Places, Languages and Cultures”- a topic embracing the many facets that define each and every human being across cultures and languages, as well as…
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Paris Research Trip, 2015 (part 7): The Park at Versailles
This one is likely to be a disappointment. The scale of the Park at Versailles is so massive it is nearly impossible to capture it using the camera on your phone. I do have a short video that I took while riding the bike that gives you a sense of how big things are. This…
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