Thursday, October 23

12:00-5:00 registration (table located in conference area)

Thursday 1:00-2:45

1. Bicentenaire de Mérimée: Carmen

Room: Madera

Organized and chaired by Andrew Miller, University of South Carolina Spartanburg

1 Beryl Schlossman, Carnegie Mellon University, "Suivant le voeu fait, Carmen"

2 Andrew J. Miller, University of South Carolina Spartanburg, "Mérimée's Carmen and Manon Lescaut in Andalusia"

3 Corry Cropper, Brigham Young University, "Ludus Interruptus: Prosper Mérimée, Games, Ritual and Violence"

4 John Duffy. University of South Carolina, "Changing Sides: Carmen at the Limits of Nation, Gender, Genre"

2. Constructions of Identity

Room: Canyon A

Chair: Julia Bálen, University of Arizona

1 Brigitte Mahuzier, Bryn Mawr College, "Humiliation and the Construction of Identity in the 19th century French Novel"

2 Wade Edwards, Longwood University, "Prefacing Change: The Preface as Instrument of Masculine Authentication"

3 Kari Weil, California College of the Arts, "Creating a Thoroughbred Human: Gustave Le Bon, Pierre de Courbertin and the Politics of Sports at the Turn of the Century"

4 Michael Finn, Ryerson University, "From Possession to Self-Possession: Spiritualism, the Paranormal, Dreams and "Écriture" in Rachilde"

3. Zola et l'art

Room: Canyon B

Chair: Elizabeth C. Zegura, University of Arizona

1 Mihaela Marin, Ohio State University, "Masques anciens, sens nouveaux? Lecture des visages dans La Terre de Zola"

2 Sara Pappas, Colgate University, "Resisting Change? On Zola's Abandonment of Impressionism"

3 Kristin Cook-Gailloud, Johns Hopkins University, "L'oeuvre de l'art chez Emile Zola"

4 Jean-Max Guieu, Georgetown University, "Ethique sociale et chorégraphie: le ballet de Messidor d’Emile Zola.”

4. Engendering Modernity

Room: Canyon C

Chair: Philippe Hadlock, Texas Christian University

1 Rajeshwari Vallury, Kenyon College, " 'Une jouissance d'épiderme' or Aesthetics and Politics of the Surface: The Power and Value of Metamorphosis in Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin"

2 Nathalie B. Rogers, Wellesley College, "La Prostituée sandienne donne le change ou 'Oui, monsieur Reboul, j'ai lu Isidora'"

3 Esa Christine Hartmann, University of North Carolina, " 'Le dix-neuvième siècle à l'extrême': Désirs décadents et vicissitudes de la modernité dans A rebours de J.K Huysmans"

4 Charles D.Minahen, Ohio State University, "Gender Ambiguities, Conflicts, and Shifts in Rimbaud"


2:45-3:00 coffee/tea break

Thursday 3:00-4:45

5. Hugo engagé

Room: Madera

Chair: William Vander Wolk, Bowdoin College

1 Bettina Lerner, Yale University, "The Peuple at Waterloo and Modalities of Change"

2 Donald Johnson, Independent Scholar, "Hugo's Poetic Change"

3 Joanna Augustyn, Columbia University, "A Capricious Itinerary through the Past: Victor Hugo's Le Rhin"

4 Kathryn M. Grossman, Pennsylvania State University, "Class mobility and 'Regime Change' in Hugo's L'Homme qui rit "

6. Writing Women/Women's Writing

Room: Canyon A

Chair and Respondent: Elizabeth Constable, University of California, Davis

1 Nigel Harkness, Queen's University Belfast, "'Le Roman-bâtard': Women's Writing and Illegitimacy during the July Monarchy"

2 Heather R. Brady, Monmouth College, "Rewriting Female Heroism: Dumas Père and the Comtesse Dash's Le Journal de Voyage d'une Parisienne (1855)"

3 Roxana Verona, Dartmouth College, "Anna de Noailles dans son atelier"

4 Bénédicte Monicat, Pennsylvania State University, "Les vertus du savoir: Livres d'instruction et littérature féminine au 19e siècle"

7. Baudelaire

Room: Canyon B

Chair: Patricia Ward, Vanderbilt University

1 Alain Toumayan, University of Notre-Dame, "Baudelairian Intertextuality and Transformation"

2 Debarati Sanyal, University of California Berkeley, "Baudelaire and the Violence of Modernity: Poetry, Irony and Critique"

3 Catherine A. Witt, Princeton University, "On Balzac and Constantin Guy, or the Spirit of Epic according to Baudelaire"

4 Philippe Dubois, Bucknell University, "Baudelaire ou les Curiosités Culinaires d'un Dandy au Paradis"

8. Figures oubliées de la Fin du Siècle

Room: Canyon C

Organized and chaired by Frédéric Canovas, Arizona State University

1 Ali Nematollahy, CUNY, Baruch College, "Lucien Descaves et la Communce de Paris"

2 José Santos, Texas Tech University, "Au pays du mufle, les borgnes sont rois: Laurent Tailhade, polémiste, rhéteur et bretteur"

3 Frédéric Canovas, Arizona State University, "Le grand contempteur: Rémy de Gourmont vu par Paul Léautaud"

4 TBA

4:45-5:00 coffee/tea break

Thurday 5:00-6:45

9. Balzac

Room: Madera

Chair: Jaymes Anne Rohrer, Randolph-Macon Woman's College

1 Allan H. Pasco, University of Kansas, "Disastrous Change in Balzac's France: From Paris to Berry and Back Again in La Rabouilleuse"

2 Keri A. Berg, DePauw University, "Characters of Change:A Change of Character: Balzac's Criminal and his Double, the Caricaturist"

3 Dan Edelstein, University of Pennsylvania, "Balzac and the Invention of Mythical Modernism"

4 Stéphane Vachon, Université de Montréal, "Le tombeau d'Honoré de Balzac"

10. Political Education

Room: Canyon A

Chair Jonathan Beck, University of Arizona

1 Vincent Duclert, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, "Dreyfus diariste. L'Ecriture comme résistance"

2 Jay Lutz, Oglethorpe University, "The Satirical Song Collections of Anti-Boulangist Verse: Jules Jouy, Maurice Millot and Louis Marsolleau"

3 Evlyn Gould, University of Oregon, "The Trials of Public Education in Zola and Barrès"

4 Ksenya Kiebuzinski, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, "On Nationalism and Citizenship: Politics and Pedagogy in Magasin d'éducation et de récréation (1864-1915) "

11. Religion: Conversions and Scandals

Room: Canyon C

Chair: Lise Leibacher, University of Arizona

1 Janice Best, Acadia University, "Les dangers d'un amour trop exalté: l'adaptation dramatique du Lys dans la vallée"

2 Carolyn Fay, Franklin & Marshall College, "'Ceci tuera cela': Scandals in the Priesthood in Hugo, Gautier and Zola"

3 TBA

4 Susanna Lee, Georgetown University, "Scientific Discourse and the Move to Secularism"

12. Espace Poétique

Room: Canyon B

Chair: Mary Shaw, Rutgers University

1 Stamos Metzidakis, Washington University, "Poétique de la ligne: Autour des colonnes sculptées"

2 Seth Whidden, Villanova University, "Changing Time and Space: Rimbaud's 'dérèglement de tous les sens'"

3 Diana Schiau-Botea, Rutgers University, "L'Espace performatif du poème et ses représentations dans La Plume et Le Mur"

4 Trina Marmarelli, Stanford University, "Surviving Hugo: Liberation, Anxiety, and Self-control in French Verse Around 1886"

Friday, October 24

8:00-5:00 registration (table located in conference area)

7:30- 8:00 coffee/tea/rolls

Friday 8:00-9:30

13. Homo Economicus

Room: Canyon A

Chair: Eric Hayot, University of Arizona

1 Irene Perciali, University of California, Berkeley, "Inscrutable Strategists: Pre-thinking Economic Change in Balzac's France."

2 Emeline Dhommée, Université de Montréal, "La dynamique du monde de l'argent dans La Comédie humaine de Balzac"

3 William Olmsted, Valparaiso University, "Money Talks: The Making and Breaking of Social Ties in L'Education Sentimentale"

14. "Eyeballs"

Room: Canyon B

Organized by Michael Garval, North Carolina State University

Chair: Barbara Wright, Trinity College Dublin

1 Marni Kessler, University of Kansas, "An Eye for an Eye: Edgar Degas' Woman with a Bandage"

2 Andrea Goulet, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Wallpaper in the Eye: Villiers, Leroux, and the Optical Chambers"

3 Michael Garval, North Carolina State University, "Hungry Eyes"

15. Spaces of Excess: Portraits of the Criminal, the Sexual, and the 'Psychic' Body

Room: Madera

Organized and chaired by Deborah Harter, Rice University

1 Nicholas Dobelbower, Macalester College, "Criminal Habitus: Portraiture in French Legal Medicine"

2 Clive Thomson, University of Western Ontario, "Excessive Bodies and the Body Politics: Rachilde and the Uses of Hyperbole"

3 Deborah Harter, Rice University, "Psychic Spaces in Rachilde's La Tour d'Amour."

16. Sketch to Shot: Change in Visual Representation

Room: Canyon C

Chair: Eloise Sureau, Washington University

1 Wendelin Guentner, University of Iowa, "Changements de vitesse: Aspects of Acceleration in 19th- Century France"

2 Sonya Stephens, University of London, "Photography & Finish: Changing Value(s) and Representation in Mid Nineteenth-Century Paris"

3 Warren Johnson, Arkansas State University, "Tracking Shots: The Analytic of Motion in La bête humaine"

17. Mères nourricières, mères mal nourries: The Changing Image of Romantic Mothers

Room: Ventana

Organized and chaired by Lisa Algazi, Hood College

1 Lisa Algazi, Hood College, "'Sucer un sein amer': Unhappy Romantic Motherhood"

2 Annie Smart, Saint Louis University, "Le Lait de la Liberté: Louis Aimé Martin's Great Maternal Revolution"

3 Mary Jane Cowles, Kenyon, College, "Telle qu'en elle-même enfin...: Changing Mother(s) in Balzac's Le Lys dans la vallée"

9:30-10: 00 coffee/tea break

Friday 10:00-11:30

18. Cross-Town Traffic: Circulation and Legibility in Nineteenth-Century France

Room: Canyon A

Co-organized by Susan Hiner, Vassar College, and Masha Belenky, George Washington University

Chair and Respondent: Priscilla Ferguson, Columbia University

1 Susan Hiner, Vassar College, "Mode, Monde et Demi Monde: Fashioning Social Flux"

2 Masha Belenky George Washington University, "Letters, Lies, and Legible Urban Space in Balzac's Ferragus"

3 Promita Chatterji, University of California, Berkeley, "Words on Display: Space and Representation in Champfleury's La Masquarade de la vie parisienne"

19. Stendhal

Room: Madera

Chair: Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania

1 James Day, University of South Carolina, "Change for the Worse? On Time and the Critique of Utilitarian Aesthetics of Stendhal's D'un nouveau complot contre les industriels and Other Writings"

2 Maryline Lukacher, Northern Illinois University, "Lamiel, lectrice de Stendhal"

3 Michal P. Ginsburg, Northwestern University, "Narratology and Amatology in Stendhal"

20. Huysmans

Room: Canyon B

Organized and chaired by Robert Ziegler, Montana Tech University

1 Marc Smeets, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, "Joris-Karl Huysmans et le style gris"

2 Robert Ziegler, Montana Tech University, "Nigredo: Huysmans's Là-bas"

3 Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University, "Contaminating Displays: Huysmans, Art, and the Fin-de-siècle Consumer"

21. Globalizing Nineteenth-Century French Studies

Room: Ventana

Organized by Margaret Cohen, Stanford University

Chaired by Panivong Norindr, University of Southern California

1 Margaret Waller, Pomona College, "Think Globally, Act Locally? Anti-Conquest during the Empire"

2 Margaret Cohen, Stanford University, "The Waterways of Modernity"

3 Emily Apter, New York University, "Global Banking Interests and Economic Xenophobia as a World System in the Nineteenth-Century Novel"

22. Passing: Mérimée, Flaubert, Baudelaire

Room: Canyon C

Organized and chaired by Scott Carpenter, Carleton College

1 Scott Carpenter, Carleton College, "Mérimée and the Ravages of Time"

2 Jean-Dominique Goffette, Lycée Jules Ferry, "Les Grands Boulevards, espace de référence et lieu d'exception: Balzac, Flaubert, Baudelaire"

3 Kevin Newmark, Boston College, "Way Past Aging: Baudelaire's Old Men and Benjamin's Passageways"

11:30-1:00 lunch break

Friday 1:00-2:45

23. Race

Room: Ventana

Chair: Phyllis Taoua, University of Arizona

1 L. Cassandra Hamrick, Saint Louis University, "When 'les Civilisés' Become 'les Barbares' and 'les Barbares' become 'les Civilisés'

2 Maurice Samuels, University of Pennsylvania, "The Jewish Balzac"

3 Gisèle Séginger, Université de Strasbourg II, "Salammbô et la question des races"

4 Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley, "Ernest Renan and the politics of Race, Nation and Civilization."

24. Round Table: Discussion on Pedagogy

Canon Matters: The (De)Construction of a Modern French Studies Curriculum

Room: Madera

Organized and co-chaired by Adrianna M. Paliyenko, Colby College, and Laurence M. Porter, Michigan State University

1 Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University, "French Studies and the 'Anxiety of Influence' "

2 Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University, "Relativizing Revisions, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Canon"

3 Anne Mc Call, Tulane University, "Living with Canon-itis: Symptoms and Practical Treatments"

4 Seth Whidden, Villanova University, "That Other March Madness: Filling out the Fall Semester Syllabus Bracket"

5 Sharon P. Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, "Blending Curricula: A Case Study at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University"

Respondent: Margaret Waller, Pomona College

NB: Presentations are now available. Just double-click on titles above. Talks will be limited to five minutes each and will be followed by a general discussion with the audience.

25. Drama

Room: Canyon A

Chair and respondent: Barbara Cooper, University of New Hampshire

1 Julia Abramson, University of Oklahoma, "Contre Stendhal: Mérimée's Le Théâtre de Clara Gazul (1825)"

2 Sarah D. Cordova, Marquette University, "From Race to Business at the Théâtre de l'Académie royale de musique: The Birth of the Ballet Blanc"

3 Melissa Bailar, Rice University, "Stages of Change: The Comédienne, the Theater, and 19th-century Paris"

4 Leon Sachs, Davidson College, "Pandora's Books: the 'Modern Educated Woman' in Eugène Brieux's Blanchette (1892)"

26. Zola

Room: Canyon B

Chair: Valerie Ives, Fairmont State University

1 Valerie Ives, Fairmont State University,

2 Véronique Cnockaert, Université du Québec à Montréal, "Parchemins naturalistes"

3 Bernadette Lintz, Colgate University, "Le Palimpseste du fard impérial: l'inscription de 'L'expiation' dans La Débacle"

4 Peter Starr, University of Southern California, "The Filmic Commune"

27. The Colonial Imagination

Room: Canyon C

Chair: Carine Bourget, The University of Arizona

1 Kimberley J. Healey, University of Rochester, "France's Inscrutable Utopia: China in the Nineteenth Century"

2 Laura Loth, University of Minnesota, "'Nos regards avides la contemplent avec curiosité': Conflicts of Vision, Gender and Genre in Women's Travel Narrative in Algeria, 1850-1900"

3 Leonard Koos, Mary Washington University, "La Femme au Temps des Colonies: The Example of Yasmina (Hélène Roncin) in Colonial North Africa"

4 Jelena Jovicic, University of Western Ontario, "Voyager en bon touriste: Les cartes postales et les guides touristiques du XIXe siècle"

2:45-3:15 Break

Friday 3:15-4:45

28. Jules Verne

Room: Canyon A

Organized by Peter Schulman and Lee Slater, Old Dominion University

Chaired by Sarah Juliette Sasson, Sarah Lawrence College

1 Peter Schulman, Old Dominion University, "A Change in France, A Change in Verne: Thanatos and Dystopia in Les 500 millions de la Bégum"

2 Lee Slater, Old Dominion University, "Exotica in Mobili: Bourgeois Desire, Utopian Vision and the Vehicular Spaces of Jules Verne"

3 Timothy Unwin, University of Bristol, "Jules Verne's Novel Explorations"

29. Interdisciplinary Connections

Room: Canyon B

Chair: Peter Beudert, University of Arizona

1 Thérèse Dolan, Temple University, "Baudelaire, Manet, and Wagner: Whose Music in the Tuileries?"

2 David A. Powell, Hofstra University, "Fauré and Debussy Sing Verlaine: How Musical Settings Translate Musical Imagery"

3 Eric Touya, Adelphi University, "The Culture of Performance in 19th Century Paris: Assessing Changes in Literature and Music"

30. The Art of Characterization in Flaubert

Room: Madera

Organized and chaired by Laurence M. Porter, Michigan State University

1 Laurence M. Porter, Michigan State University, "The Art of Characterization in Flaubert's Fiction, I: Denotation and Appellation"

2 Eric Le Calvez, Georgia State University, "Génétique transformationnelle du personnage flaubertien: le cas Pellerin"

3 Marshall C. Olds, University of Nebraska, "How's and Why's of Characterization in Flaubert"

31. Nerval Revisited

Room: Canyon C

Organized and chaired by Evelyne Ender, Harvard University

1 Evelyne Ender, Harvard University, "Nerval et la science du souvenir"

2 Jonathan Strauss, Miami University, "Writing into Silence"

3 Aimée Kilbane, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Community, Wandering and the Bohemian Aesthetic in Gérard de Nerval"

32. Romantisme

Room Ventana

Chair: Tom Goetz, State University of New York, Fredonia

1 Anthony Glinoer, Université de Liège, "Les cénacles romantiques et la révolution de la sociabilité littéraire (1820-1835)"

2 Susan McCready, University of South Alabama, "Revising the Canon: New Perceptions of Mérimée's Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement and Romantic Theater"

3 Göran Blix, Princeton University, "Undermining Progress: The Conjunction of Past and Future in French Romantic Historicism"

6:30-7:00 Musical Program

Organized by the University of Arizona School of Music

7:00 Reception, University of Arizona Library, Special Collections

Saturday, October 25

8:00-5:00 registration (table located in conference area)

7:30- 8:00 coffee/tea/rolls

Saturday 8:00-9:30

33. NCFS Bourdieu's Way

Room Canyon A

Chair: Marie-Pierre Le Hir, University of Arizona

1 Mark B. Wolff, Hartwick College, "Dispositions: Rhethoric and Taste in Late Nineteenth-Century French Education"

2 Lynn R. Wilkinson, University of Texas Austin/Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, "Culture and Power in Balzac's Rubempré Cycle: The view from Bourdieu"

3 Priscilla Ferguson, Columbia University, "Les Bourdieu d'en France"

34. Esthétique et Critique

Room: Canyon B

Chair: Wendy Greenberg, Pennsylvania State University

1 Lewis Kamm, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, "Fission and Fusion: Escaping the Traps of Naturalism (and Other Literary Movements)"

2 Eloise Sureau, Washington University, "Maldoror daguerréotypé: une écriture photographique des Chants ."

3 Anthony Zielonka, Assumption College, "Genetic Criticism: (Over) Expanding the Canon?"

35. Insuffisances

Room Canyon C

Organized and chaired by Lawrence R. Schehr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1 Lawrence R. Schehr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Declining Flaubert"

2 David F. Bell, Duke University, "Insuffisances Technologiques: Gustave Le Rouge et la surenchère des machines"

3 Franc Schuerewegen, Université d'Anvers, Université de Nimègue, "La haine du berger (Jules Verne)"

36. Lieux de Mémoire

Room Ventana

Chair: Joseph Acquisto, University of Vermont

1 Isabel K. Roche, Bennington College, "The Inscription of the Historical Figure in the Novels of Victor Hugo"

2 Louis J. Iandoli, Bentley College, "The Palace of the Tuileries and its Demolition: An analysis of the years 1870-1883"

3 Maria P. Gindhart, Georgia State University, "A 'Secular Genesis': Fernand Cormon's Painting Cycle for the Amphitheater of the New Galleries at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris"

37. Traveling, Translating, Playing: Representations of Sex, Race, and the Other in Rachilde

Room Madera

Organized and chaired by Dominique Fisher

1. Mélanie Hawthorne, Texas A & M University, "Riding in Car(riage)s With Boys (and Girls)"

2 Katie Gantz, Valparaiso University, "Une langue étrangère: Translating Sex and Race in Rachilde's La Jongleuse"

3 Dominique Fisher, University of North Carolina, "Les Hors-Nature ou les mises en scènes de l'Autre"

9:30-10: 00 coffee/tea break

Saturday 10:00-11:30

38. Livres d’histoire/Histoire du livre

Room Canyon B

Chair: Jean Goetinck, University of Arizona

1 Graham Falconer, University of Toronto (Emeritus), "L'évolution du roman sous la Monarchie de Juillet, selon les catalogues des cabinets de lecture (fonds Q28 de la Bibliothèque nationale de France)."

2 Laure Katsaros, Amherst College, “From 1789 to 1840: Change and Continuity in Revolutionary France”

3 Willa Z. Silverman, Pennsylvania State University, "'Tout aux modernes!' The New Bibliophilia of the fin-de-siècle"

39. Réalismes

Room Canyon A

Chair: Julia Przybos, Hunter College, CUNY

1 Julia Przybos, Hunter College, CUNY, "La cuisine réaliste, ou Monsieur de Boisdhyver de Champfleury"

2 Philip G. Hadlock, Texas Christian University, "Driving Concerns in Maupassant’s 'Le Gueux'”

3 Philippe Moisan, Grinnell College, "Archéologie de la Béance"

40. Aesthetic Changes

Room Madera

Organized and chaired by Claudia Moscovici, University of Michigan

1 Michele Hannoosh, University of Michigan, "Michelet and the Visual Arts"

2 Claudia Moscovici, University of Michigan, "The Life of Art: Gautier, Zola and Changes in Romantic Aesthetics"

3 Pascal Ifri, Washington University, "La naissance de l'esthétique proustienne dans Contre Sainte-Beuve"

41. Flaubert

Room Canyon C

Chair: Henri Servin, University of Arizona

1 E. Nicole Meyer, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, "Flaubert's Bastard Son"

2 Christophe Ippolito, University of the Pacific, "Stratégies créatrices et analyse critique de la modernité: Flaubert et la littérature populaire"

3 Elisabeth Ladenson, University of Virginia, "Flaubert and the Art of Masturbation"

42. Reading Paris

Room: Ventana

Chair: Sharon P. Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

1 Sharon P. Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, "Cleansing Les Halles:Discourses of Health and Disease in Zola's Le Ventre de Paris"

2 Kory E. Olson, Pennsylvania State University, "The Language of Maps: Paris 1870"

3 Jeremy Worth, The University of Western Ontario, "Dynamic Dust and the Fossilized Body: Shaping Identities in the Rougon-Macquart"

11:30-1:00 lunch break

Saturday 1:00-2:45

43. Flora Tristan, Soi-même comme une autre: le bicentenaire d'une paria (1803-1844)

Room: Madera

Organized and chaired by Catherine Nesci, University of California, Santa Barbara

1 Anne McCall, Tulane University, "Still Life and Foreign Exchange in Flora Tristan's Pérégrinations d'une paria (1833-1834)"

2 Leslie W. Rabine, University of California, Davis, "Flora Tristan's Closet"

3 Alexandra K. Wettlaufer, University of Texas, Austin, "Postcards from the Edge: Flora Tristan, Paul Gauguin and their Dystopic Utopias"

4 Stéphane Michaud, Université de Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle, "Nouvelles recherches sur Flora Tristan: premier bilan du bicentenaire"

44. Mallarmé: Beyond Poetry

Room Canyon A

Chair: Marshall C. Olds, University of Nebraska

1 Pamela A. Genova, University of Oklahoma, "La Dernière Mode: Mallarmé and the Modalities of the Popular Press"

2 Gayle Zachmann, University of Florida, "Exposing Change in Mallarmé: Window Dressing in La Dernière Mode and Etalages"

3 Margaret Miner, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Au Bureau de change: Mallarmé Banks on Music"

4 Steven Urquhart, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, "L`écriture athée chez Mallarmé:signe de sa modernité"

45. Inventions

Room Canyon B

Organized and chaired by Rosemary Lloyd

1 Michael Tilby, Selwyn College, Cambridge, "Variations on a Bourgeois Icon: Some Representations of the Umbrella in nineteenth-century French Literature and Painting"

2 Sayeeda H. Mamoon, Edgewood College, "Window to Poseidon's World: Aquariums in fin-de-siècle Literature"

3 Julianna Starr, Christian Brothers' University, "'Brave New woman' or Stepford Wife? Villiers' Robot in L'Eve future"

4 Rosemary Lloyd, Indiana University, "Reinventing Pegasus: Bicycles and the fin-de-siècle imagination"

46. Curiosités

Room Canyon C

Chair: Mary-Ellen Birkett, Smith College

1 Walter Putnam, University of New Mexico, "Captive Audiences: A Concert for the Elephants In the Jardin des Plantes"

2 Jean-Francois Richer, Université de Montréal/Université de Paris VIII, "Un changement de décor sous la Monarchie de Juillet: la réinvention du boudoir dans la Comédie Humaine d'Honoré de Balzac"

3 Carol Rifelj, Middlebury College, "Hair and Death in the Nineteenth Century"

4 Rae Beth Gordon, University of Connecticut, "Darwin in Show Business"

47. La Créolité au temps du Romantisme

Room Ventana

Chair: Irène d'Almeida, University of Arizona

1 Doris Kadish, University of Georgia, "Tamango: Texts/Contexts/Intertexts"

2 Deborah C. Jenson, University of Wisconsin, "Chateaubriand's Black and White Napoleons"

3 Daniel Desormeaux, University of Kentucky, "Oublier la Révolution haïtienne: Toussaint Louverture et Alexandre Dumas"

4 Molly K. Enz, University of Wisconsin, "Tropical Tension: The Figures of the Island and the Mulatto in Dumas's Georges"

2:45-3:15 Break

Saturday 3:15-4:45

48. Sound and Color in Balzac

Room: Canyon B

Chair: Kathy Richman, Harvard University

1 Dorothy Kelly, Boston University, "Noisy Change in Balzac's La peau de chagrin"

2 Marie Lathers, Case Western Reserve University, "La Fille aux yeux d'or and the Absence of Color"

3 Armine Kotin Mortimer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Music, Love, and Opium: Semiotics of Balzac's Massimilla Doni"

49. Sand

Room: Ventana

Chair: Mary Donaldson-Evans, University of Delaware

1 Isabelle Naginski, Tufts University, "George Sand's Prophetic Realism: the Ennobled Voice of Pierre Huguenin"

2 Janet Beizer, Harvard University, " 'Je ne suis pas sandiste': Reflections on Sand and her Critics"

3 Ross Chambers, University of Michigan (Emeritus), "George Sand's Decanonization Revisited"

50. Translations & their Vicissitudes

Room Canyon A

Organized and chaired by Charles Stivale, Wayne State University

1 Dorian Bell, University of Pennsylvania, "Textual Surrogates: Discovery of the European Other in Early Arabic Translations of the French Novel"

2 N. Christine Brookes, Pennsylvania State University, "Prosper Mérimée, Ivan Turgenev, and the Cultural Translation of Russia?"

3 Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University, "Tracking the Rogue Translation: Guy de Maupassant in the Anglo Wilderness"

51. Science et Société

Room: Madera

Chair: Jean-Philippe Mathy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1 Freeman Henry, University of South Carolina, "From 'langue fixe' to 'fixisme': Turning Back the Clock in Restoration France"

2 Michel Pierssens, Université de Montréal, "La Science et les Lettres: de l'enthousiasme au rejet"

3 Françoise Gaillard, Université de Paris 7-Denis Diderot, "Le siècle du mouvement: imaginaire de la mobilité sociale et spatiale"

52. French Studies

Room: Canyon C

Chair: Roddey Reid, University of California, San Diego

1 Kathleen Hart, Vassar College, "The new Darwinian Paradigm: Reflections on its Relevance to French Studies"

2 Jarrod Hayes, University of Michigan, "Que(e)r(y)ing the Quadroon Ball in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: Towards an American Studies in French"

3 Marvin Richards, John Carroll University, "Change in Nineteenth-Century French Culture or Studies: Is Quebec In or Out?"

7:00 Cash Bar, Banquet & Dance with Black Leather Zydeco