Margaret E. Gray

Associate Professor of French

Research Interests

Twentieth-century French canonical and feminist prose fiction; francophone (West African, Québécois, Caribbean, Belgian) prose fiction; cultural, political, gendered and theoretical contexts; narrative dynamics, reading practices

Partial List of Publications

• Postmodern Proust. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
• (submitted) Stolen Limelight: Gender, Display, and Displacement in Modern French and Francophone Narrative. Under review for publication by university press.
• “Layers of Meaning in Camus’s La Peste,” in Cambridge Companion to Camus, ed. Edward J. Hughes, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2006.
• “Proust in Postmodern Perspective,” in Approaches to Teaching Proust, ed. Elyane Dezon-Jones and Inge Crosman Wimmers. Publications of the MLA: NY, NY, 2003.
• “Les ‘Juges Intègres’ de Clamence: Une Lecture Psychanalytique.” In Albert Camus: Entre la Misère et le Soleil, ed. Lionel Dubois. Proceedings of Colloque International sur Albert Camus, Poitiers, France, May 1997.
• "Pascal in the Bathtub: Parodying the Pensées." Symposium 51.1 (Spring 1997).
• "Beckett Backwards and Forwards: The Rhetoric of Retraction in Molloy." French Forum 19 (May 1994).
• "Silencing the (M)Other Tongue in Sand's François le Champi." Romanic Review 83.3 (1992): 339 356.
• "Skipping Love Scenes: The Repression of Literature in Proust." MLN 104.5 (1989): 1020 1033.
• "Marcel's 'Ecriture Féminine.'" Modern Fiction Studies 34.3 (1988): 337 352.
• Translation, with author Renée Leduc Park, of "Repetition with a Difference in Réjean Ducharme" in The Language of Difference: Writing in QUEBEC(ois). Ed. Ralph Sarkonak. Yale French Studies 65 (1983).

• (submitted) “Narcissism, Abjection and the Reader(e) of Beauvoir’s Les Belles Images”
• “’Vive la grève!’: Cross-UnDressing in Colette’s Music-Halls”
• “Credit Card Cinderellas: Romance and Foreclosure in Elsa Triolet's Roses à Crédit.”
• “Unpacking the Trojan Mare: Darrieussecq’s Truismes as Feminine Odyssey”
• “’ It is that damned woman that has ruined me’: Boundaries, Betrayal and English Expression in Anne Hébert’s Kamouraska.”

Invited Lectures

• “Stolen Limelight: Gendered Habitats and the Politics of Display,” keynote address for the biennial Romance Studies colloquium, Gregynog Hall, Wales, UK, September 2003.
• “’Vive la grève!’ Performance, Gender and Labor Practice in Colette’s Music-Halls.” Invited lecture at Institute for Romance Studies, London, UK, March 1, 2003.
• “Stolen Limelight: Gendered Habitats and the Politics of Display,” keynote address for the biennial Romance Studies colloquium, Gregynog Hall, Wales, UK, September 2003.
• “’Vive la grève!’ Performance, Gender and Labor Practice in Colette’s Music-Halls.” Invited lecture at Institute for Romance Studies, London, UK, March 1, 2003.
• "Feminine Flamboyance: Excess, Otherness and Shock." Symposium on Post/Modernism/Feminism," U. of Louisville, October,1993.
• "Les 'explosions lumineuses' de la métaphore proustienne." French Department, Smith College. November, 1986.

Conference Presentations

• “Unpacking the Trojan Mare: Darrieussecq’s Truismes as Feminine Odyssey.” International Colloquium in Twentieth-Century French Studies, U. of Illinois/Champaign-Urbana, March 2003.
• “’ It is that damned woman that has ruined me’: Boundaries, Betrayal and English Expression in Anne Hébert’s Kamouraska.” “Postcolonialism and the French-Speaking World,” conference sponsored by the Association for the Study of Carribbean and African Literature, the French Institute, London, UK, November 2002.
• “Cross-UnDressing in Colette’s Music-Halls,” “A Belle Epoque? Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture, 1890-1910.” Annual conference of Society for Women in French, U. of Leeds, UK, April 2002.
• “Beauvoir via Butler: Performing the Feminine in Les Belles Images.” “Engaging with Simone de Beauvoir,” 9th International Conference of Simone de Beauvoir Society, St. John’s College, Oxford University, England, July 2001.
• “Vive la grève!’: Performance, Gender and Labor Practice in Colette’s Music-Halls,”
  International Colloquium in French and Francophone Studies, U. of California at Davis, March, 2001.
• “Credit Card Cinderellas: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Romance and Foreclosure in Elsa Triolet's Roses on Credit.” International Colloquium in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Studies, U. of Pennsylvania, March, 2000.
• “Buried Hearts and Filthy Bodies’: Confession and Judgment in Mauriac.” International Colloquium in French and Francophone Studies, U. of Massachusetts, March, 1998.
• “Les ‘Juges Intègres’ de Clamence: une lecture psychanalytique.” Colloque International sur Albert Camus. Poitiers, France, May 1997.
• "Irony, the Sublime and the Republic in Cocteau's Thomas l'imposteur." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 1995.
• "Pascal in the Bathtub: A Belgian Reprise of French Classicism." International Conference in Narrative Literature, Vancouver, 1994.
• "'Stripped Naked': Knowledge, Race and Gender in Oyono's Houseboy," MLA, 1993, Toronto.
• "Rendering Gide Relevant: Beyond the Strait Gate of Logos." MLA, 1993, Toronto.
• "Spectation, Gender and Resistance in Oyono's Une vie de boy." International Conference in Narrative Literature, Vanderbilt University, April 1992.
• "Tyrannic Intertextuality in Beckett's Molloy." MLA, San Francisco, 1991.
• "Shifting Spectation, Shifted Gender in Colette's Blé en herbe." MLA, San Francisco, 1991.
• "Forget Freud, Forget Lacan: Fascination in Baudrillard." Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages, May 1991.
• "Proust in Postmodern Perspective." International Colloquium in Twentieth Century French Studies, U of Texas/Austin, March 1991.
• "Metaphor as Simulacrum in (Postmodern) Proust." International Colloquium in Twentieth Century French Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, April 1990.
• "The (M)Other Tongue: Heteroglossia and Ideology in Sand's François the Foundling." MLA, Washington, DC, 1989.
• "Proust, Narrative and Ambivalence in Contemporary Culture." International Conference on Narrative Literature, U. of Wisconsin/Madison, April 1989.
• "Proust and the New Memory Theory." Twentieth Century Literature Conference, U. of Louisville, February 1988.
• "Literary Left Handed Compliments: Proust Praising Baudelaire," MLA, San Francisco, 1987.
• "Proust's 'Ecriture Féminine.'" Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, U. of Cincinnati, May 1987.
• "Skipping Love Scenes: The Repression of Literature in Proust." International Colloquium in Twentieth Century French Studies, Duke U., March 1987.
• "Tracking the Past in Proust: 'Pure Sherlock Holmes'?" Conference in Modern Literature, Michigan State University, October 1986.

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