Rosemary Lloyd

Rudy Professor of French

Research Interests

French 19th- and 20th- century poetry and fiction; interrelationships between literature and the visual arts; artists’ books; translation; Australian literature.

• Guggenheim Fellowship (2002)
• Litt. D. awarded by Cambridge University (2001)
• University of Melbourne award to enable collaborative research (2001)
• Arts and Humanities initiative fellowship (2000)
• Ida Beam distinguished professor lectures for the University of Iowa. (1998)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (1998)
• Camargo Foundation Fellowship (1990)
• Leverhulme Fellowship (1989-90)

Partial List of Publications and Presentations

Forthcoming Book:

• Shimmering in a Transformed Light: Writing the Still Life (Cornell, 2004)

Books

• Baudelaire’s World (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002), 288 pp.
• Mallarmé: The Poet and his Circle (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999), 258 pp.
• Closer & Closer Apart: Jealousy in Literature (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995), 205 pp.
• The Land of Lost Content: Childhood in Nineteenth-Century French Literature (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1992), 217 pp.
• Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1990), 187 pp.
• Mallarmé: Poésies (London: Grant & Cutler, 1984), 84 pp.
• Baudelaire’s Literary Criticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 338 pp.
• Baudelaire et Hoffmann: affinités et influences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), 395 pp.

Book-length Translations with critical apparatus

• Revolutions in Writing: Nineteenth-Century French Prose. Selection, edition, and translation. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 350 pp.
• The Master Pipers, by George Sand (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 327 pp.
• Baudelaire: La Fanfarlo and Short Prose Poems (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 127 pp. Second edition 2001.
• Selected Letters of Stéphane Mallarmé (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1988), 238 pp.
• Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire (Chicago: Chicago University Press, and London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986), 268 pp.

Shorter Translations

• Translations from Georges Bataille, Andrée Chedid, Boris Vian, Bernard Noël, Silvia Baron Supervielle, Claude Esteban, Michelle Grangaud, André Velter in Mary Ann Caws, ed. The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004)
• “Inter-dite / The Inter-diction” translation of poem by Mylène Catel (Québec: Editions en Marge, 2003).
• Points D’O. By Mylène Catel (Augessac; Editions Clapàs, 2002).

Critical Editions

• Roses de noël, in vol 6 of Théodore de Banville, Œuvres complètes (Geneva: Slatkine, 1999), pp. 293-341, 639-662, 684-693. Includes introduction, notes, variants, details of prepublications, and chronology 1870-1880.
• Le Sang de la coupe, in vol 2 of Théodore de Banville, Œuvres complètes (Geneva: Slatkine, 1996), pp. 183-346 and 649-729. Includes introduction, notes, variants, details of prepublications and chronology 1850-1860.

Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures

• “When Poets talk to Painters: Ania Staritsky, Geneviève Asse and friends” Women in French 2nd international conference, Scripps College.
• “Mundus muliebris: Baudelaire’s World of Women?” for “Goethe to Gide” conference, University of London
• “Reinventing Pegasus: the bicycle in the fin-de-siècle imagination” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Tucson
• “Monkey Money: Poets, Promises and the Paying Public” Société Dix-Neuf conference, Leeds University
• “Notes sur quelques carnets de Jules Laforgue” Ebauches : Projets et prétextes: Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Culture, Royal Holloway, University of London
• “Objects Under Glass” Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference
• “Shimmering in a Transformed Light” Chinese University, Hong Kong
• “Figuring Ned: Nolan’s Kelley, Carey’s Kelly and the Masking of Identity” Chinese University, Hong Kong
• “Reading Still Life Paintings” Chinese International School, Hong Kong
• “Bathing in the Multitude: Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Paris” invited lecture for University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg’s “La Culture” public lecture series
• “Dialogue Books: Poets talking to Painter talking to Poets,” University of Adelaide, Australia (2002)
• Images in the Mirror: Gendering the Still Life,” Arts Faculty Lecture, University of Melbourne, Australia. (2002)
• “Be/de/re/flowering Baudelaire: questions of translation” University of Melbourne. (2002)
• “Figuring Ned: Nolan’s Kelly, Carey’s Kelly and the masking of identity,” MLA session on Peter Carey. New Orleans. (2001)
• “The Woodpecker and the Singing Bird: Wagner and the Symbolists,” for Bard College Debussy Festival. (2001)
• “Still Lifes and the Novel”, invited lecture for Michigan State University. (1999)
• “Mallarmé between fixed form and free verse” Mallarmé Millénaire conference, New York (1999)
• “Nos contemporains ne savent pas lire: Mallarmé and the art of reading” November, University of Illinois at Chicago. (1998)
• “Mallarmé reading Brennan, Brennan reading Mallarmé” Melbourne, Australia (1998)
• “Mallarmé and the pitfalls of translation”, Writers’ Conference, Melbourne, Australia. (1998)
• “Nos contemporains ne savent pas lire: Mallarmé and the act of reading” for Iowa Mallarmé conference. Ida Beam distinguished professor lecture. (1998)
• “Fan Signatures” Ida Beam distinguished professor lecture for Iowa University. (1998)
• “Le Spectacle interrompu” paper for Glasgow, Scotland, Mallarmé conference, (1998)
• “20,000 leagues below modernism” Plenary address at a conference on children’s literature and Modernism in Stockholm, Sweden. (1998)
• “Le seul théâtre de nous-mêmes: Mallarmé and the act of reading” invited lecture at University of Edinburgh Scotland. (1998)
• “Engendering friendship: Mallarmé’s letters to Méry Laurent” Modern Languages Association conference in Toronto. (1997)
• “Ecrire Mallarmé: le pastiche et la parodie comme miroir linguistique”, Cerisy décade sur Mallarmé, France. (1997)
• “Drawing on the Self” Word and Image Conference, Dublin, Ireland. (1996)

Articles

• “Why Joey Had to Die: Harmony and Failure in Sand’s Response to Empire” in George Sand et l'Empire des lettres, ed. Anne McCall (New Orleans: PUNMonde, 2004), 245-254
• “Unpacking a Provençal Library,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 32:3-4 (Summer 2004), 332-344.
• “Children and Objects,” FLS, XXXI, 2004, 171-181.
• “Tirant sur les étoiles visibles: lectures d’enfance et la formation du modernisme,” Bulletin Baudelairien 38 :1-2 (avril-décembre 2003), 29-34.
• “Figuring Ned: Nolan’s Kelly, Carey’s Kelly and the Masking of Identity,” Word & Image 19:4 (Oct-Nov 2003), 271-80.
• “Amélie Nothomb: Manipulating Microcosms” in Writing Women, edited by Alastair Hurst (Melbourne: Antípodas Monographic, 2003), Number 5, 63-76.
• “Portrait of the Poet as Still Life,” Romance Studies, 21:1, special number on Portraits, (2003), 25-38.

Creative Writing

• Out of the Valley: Memoirs of an Australian Childhood (Bloomington: 1st Books, 2003).

Last updated: 11-Oct-2004
Comments: Nancy Stoute
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