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A letter from Rosemary Lloyd

1999 was spent partly in Bloomington, where I ended my term as department chair, and partly in Aix-en-Provence, where I am directing the year-abroad program for Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. I was in contact with alumna Mylène Catel (currently at the University of North Dakota), whose volume of poetry, Au plus pur des passions, I translated so that it could appear in a bilingual edition. Alumnae Julie Starr (now at Christian Brothers College in Memphis) and Sayeeda Mamoon (who teaches at the University of South Dakota) both gave papers at the "Women Seeking Expression: France 1789­1914" conference that I organized with Margot Gray and students Heather McCollough and Daria Roche. This very successful conference included an exhibition at the Lilly Library and two concerts, as well as a fine array of truly excellent papers.

While in Aix, I have been teaching a course on Provençal culture, and Paul and I were invited to a Provençal Christmas Eve, with its special dinner ending with the 13 desserts. Dressed in traditional costume (my skirt dated from the 19th century) we then took part in the annual animated crèche at Allauch above Marseille, an event shown on national television. I was even interviewed! The evening ended with the midnight mass, with many of the songs being sung in Provençal.

My book on Mallarmé Stéphane Mallarmé, the Poet and His Circle was published by Cornell University Press at the end of November. In addition to completing two edited volumes associated with the conference, I am busy directing the study-abroad program, a very time-consuming job, and am beginning to plan my new book on 19th- and 20th-century poetry, while continuing to think about the relationship between still-life paintings and literature. --Rosemary Lloyd

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