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Laura's Library.
A different library will be featured each term.
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| Kristina Cristofoli | French | I have a B.A. in Political Science and French from Boston College and a M.A. in French language and literature from
Boston College. As an undergraduate, I studied at the Sorbonne
Nouvelle and Nanterre. Following my M.A. I was a pensionnaire étrangère at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm.
Currently in my sixth year of doctoral studies, I am writing my dissertation on fashion and
avant-garde practices in late 19th and early 20th century Paris. My dissertation research
is based in the critical theory of the Frankfurt School but my work also draws from sociology
and semiology, vis-à-vis Bourdieu and Barthes. My academic interests include theories of
mass culture, aesthetic philosophy, the rise of the novel, and the relationship between
literature and the visual arts. I have taught French at both the high school and college level. |
| | Evan Foster | French | I am a first year grad student in the French program. Prior to coming to UCI, I obtained a BS in
Biology, a BA in French, and an MA with honors in French from the University of Kansas. I am
interested in how authors, specifically “modern” poets (starting with Baudelaire), conceive
ethical problems in relation to literature and literariness. In other words, I want to explore the
points at which questions of literature engage questions of the ethical and/or political. |
| | Kathleen Irwin | French | With a B.A. in Spanish and French (earned with High Honors from the University of Montana),
I pursued a high school teaching career for eight years in western Montana. More recently, I
returned to the University of Montana where I earned a M.A. in French Litterature, writing a
thesis called " The Essence of Revolt" on Antonin Artaud and the link between his poetic
genius, his theories of culture and theater, and his mental illness. A first-year student at UC
Irvine, I am pursing an interest in 20th-century literature. In the spring of 1999, I presented
a paper at a graduate student conference ("Edge without Borders") at the University of
Montana on Marguerite Duras' Moderato Cantabile entitled: "The Binary Prison of Feminine
non-being and the escape of Anne Desgbaresdes." I have taught Spanish at the University
of Montana and spent 1999-2000 studying and teaching in Dijon, France. |
| | Monica Katiboglu | French | I am a first-year graduate student holding an MA in French Literature and have done graduate
work in Turkish Literature in Turkey. My primary fields of interest include French and Turkish
literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries; Orientalism and counter-Orientalism dialogues; and
literary translation. |
| | Laura Klein-Topan | French | With a B.A. in French and English Literatures and an M.A. in French Cultural Studies, University
of Bucharest (2001), I pursued a teaching career at college level in Romania, for four years.
My current interests are shaped by the research that I have been doing for my qualifying exams:
the question of animal and death in French autobiography, the problematic of translation for
bilingual authors, and critical approaches on Albert Camus as a colonial/ postcolonial writer. |
| | Sokrat Postoli | French | I completed my undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College, where I also taught for three years
as an apprentice teacher for the French Department. After graduation, I worked in Paris as
'Assistant d'anglais' and at the Institut National des Sciences Politiques as an assistant professor.
My interests in the field are varied. Besides teaching, I also have a passion for translation and I
sometimes translate poems or larger works between French, English, and Albanian. I am also
very much interested in literature, especially in writers, poets and works of the XIX and XX
centuries, and particularly interested in the phenomenon of the 'intellectuel engagé' during the
last two centuries in France and in the (former) colonies. |
| | Rikke Sommer | French | I have a BA from Stockholm University, Sweden and an MA from SDSU, both in French literature.
Before joining the Department of French and Italian at UCI, I spent several years working for the
Department of Public Information at United Nations’ Headquarters. I am currently working on a
dissertation tentatively entitled The Politics of Mohammed Dib’s Experimental Fiction. |
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