Michael L. Berkvam

Professor Emeritus of French
Honors College Faculty
West European Studies Faculty

Research Interests

Post-1945 French literature, women’s writing, francophone literature, Postcolonial literature, literature and memory, World War II

Awards

• Indiana University Distinguished Teaching Award.
• Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Indiana University Board of Trustees
• Distinguished Service Award, Campus Life Division, Indiana University
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
• Lilly Endowment Teaching Fellowship

Recent Publications

• Writing the Story of France in World War II: Literature and Memory, 1942-1958. University Press of the South, 2000.
• Promoting the Colonization of Louisiana: Three Articles in Le Nouveau Mercure (1717-1718-1719 [working title]. The Center for Louisiana Studies. University of Louisiana-Lafayette (in press).
• “France in World War II: Literature and Memory,” in Proceedings of the Western Society for French History (forthcoming).
• Paper presented: “Feminizing history: a postcolonial reading of Assia Djebar’s L’Amour la fantasia and Anne Hébert’s Le Premier jardin.” November 2003, Western Society for French History, Newport Beach, California.

Last updated: 29-Jul-2004
Comments: Nancy Stoute
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