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Student-Faculty Forum Series

To see all of our activities for the current academic year, please refer to our Upcoming Events.

2007-2008

Feb 12- Massimo Scalabrini: Naming the Comic Hero: Examples in Italian Renaissance Literature
Nov 30 - Federico Pacchioni: Studying Early Fellini in Indiana: A multifaceted case at the Lilly Library of Rare Books
Nov 16 - Olga Amarie: Perception et étude de la manifestation visuelle et sonore dans les textes de Georges Perec
Oct 26- Patrick Bray: Charting Utopia in Sand’s Nanon
Sep 28 - Bryan Donaldson: Near-native discourse competence: Evidence from French left-dislocations

2006-2007

Feb 16 - Rosemary Lloyd: The Crocodiles of Caen and the Mollusks of the Museum: Rhetoric, Scientce, and Power in Nineteenth-Century France
Dec 1 - Michèle Schaal: From Alterity to Hybridity: the Theatricality of Feminity in Contempory Francophone Novels
Nov 17 - Jacques Merceron: Le sacré à l’épreuve du rire: l’exemple du statut du corps dans quelques textes pieux et laïcs du Moyen Âge
Nov 3 - Oana Panäité: Les fins de la prose

2005-2006

Feb 10 - Beatrice Arduini: Saul and Saül: A comparison between Alfieri and Nadal
Nov 18 - Emanuel Mickel: Truthtelling and Satire in the Trial of Renard
Oct 28 - Anne-Jose Villeneuve: Une étude comparative de la nasalizsation des occlusives en français québécois et en picard du Vimeu
Oct 7 - Valerio Cappozzo: La struttura consequenziale dei sogni danteschi

2004-2005

Apr 15 - Edoardo Lèbano: Garibaldi and Lincoln: A Missed Opportunity
Mar 25 - Christopher Semk: The Maternal Mechanism: Cartesianism and Control of One's Body
Mar 4 - Gilbert Chaitin: Sand and the Politics of the Thesis Novel: Mademoiselle la Quintinie's Evil Empires
Feb 4 - Fabio Benincasa: Dark Rooms/Camerae Obscurae: A Voyage around Hotel Rooms
Dec 3 - Jérôme Brillaud: Miserabilis insania ou les plaisirs de la tragédie (pdf)
Nov 12 - Marco Pacioni & Stefano Gulizia: Fra impicci e pasticci. Lessico e forma-romanzo in Manzoni e Gadda (pdf)
Nov 5 - Jérôme Brillaud & Oana Panaite: Transitions: From graduate student to faculty member (pdf)

2003-2004

Mar 26 - Rebecca Wilkin: The Signs of Disillusionment: Marie de l'Incarnation in Colonial Quebec
Nov 13 - Rosemary Lloyd: Reinventing Pegasus: Bicycles and the Fin-de-siècle Imagination
Oct 24 - Giovanni Spani: IDIOMA: Dialect coming from where there is no writing (work of poet Andrea Zanzotto)
Sept 26 - Albert Valdman, Kevin Rottet, Deborah Piston-Hatlen: À la découverte de la Louisiane par la parole

2002-2003

Mar 28 - Stefano Gulizia: Leon Battista Alberti's Apologi: Problems and Interpretations of a Humanist Text
Feb 21 - Eric MacPhail: Like a rock at sea: Language change and historical thought in the Renaissance
Dec 6 - Désirée Pries: Amélie Nothomb: Exploring the “Feminine Condition”
Nov 22 - Patrick Westhoff: Medieval Travel Literature: Texts and Contexts
Nov 8 - Kim Swanson: Acquisition versus suppression of phonological processes in the second language acquisition of French and English
Oct 11 - Margaret Gray: Stolen Limelight: Display, Excess and the Feminine in Modern French and Francophone Narrative
Sept 20 - Guillaume Ansart: Reflexions dans un miroir: representations du Moi dans quelques romans du dix-huitième siècle