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Laura's Library.
A different library will be featured each term.
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| Andrew Billing | French | I have a B.A. (Honours) in French from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and an M.A.
in French from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. I am currently completing my
dissertation on the potitical and literary works of Rousseau. In the past, I have taught
French in the Department and I am currently employed as teaching associate for the
Humanities Core Course. |
| | Kristina Cristofoli | French | I have a B.A. and M.A. in French literature from Boston College. I studied at the Sorbonne
Nouvelle and Nanterre as an undergraduate and the Ecole Normale Superieure as a
pensionnaire etrangere. I've taught French at both the high school and college level and
I'm currently teaching level-two French at UCI. In my first year at the PhD program at UCI,
I'm interested in theories of poetic prose and the urban in late 19th century literature. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | Allan Macvicar | French | I have a B.A. in Translation (Major) and Computer Science (Minor) from Glendon College, York
University,in Toronto, Canada, and an M.A. in French from California State University, Fullerton.
At the moment (winter 2008), I am working on the second chapter of my dissertation, entitled,
"Resistant Memory in the Wartime Poetics of Louis Aragon, Rene Char, and Francis Ponge." I
have presented three papers at the annual UCI-UCSB Graduate Conference, and have won
departmental awards for best paper and outstanding teaching assistant. After having taught
French at all first and second year levels, I am currently teaching Humanities Core Course
(where I have a website: https://eee.uci.edu/08w/29046). |
| | Mohammad Mohtashemipour | French | I received my B.A and M.A in French from the University of Kansas. I have taught for a year in
Besancon, France at the Universite de Franche-Comte. I am currently in my second year. My
interests include twentieth century poetry during the Resistance and poetry of the surrealist
movement. I am also interested in the interface between philosophy and literature such as the
theory of the subject in existential phenomenology for example and its analysis in the works of
the twentieth century. Further interests include Marxist literary theory and the questions of
aesthetics and ideology it raises in literature such as universality, consciousness praxis
or history. |
| | Steven Oliveri | French | I am a first year graduate student in the French program at UCI. I am a 2004 graduate of the
State University of New York at Purchase College and I am also a classically trained musician
and actor. My interests right now involve francophonie, the literature of North Africa and the
Caribbean, theater, the works of Jean Genet, and issues of gender, power and
sculine/feminine dynamics. |
| | James Sprague | French | I am a first year graduate student in the French program at UCI. I obtained a BA in English
from the State University of New York at StonyBrook and I have lived and worked for several
years in France. I have taught English and I have worked as an interpreter and a translator.
Presently, I am particularly interested in modern literary works by bi-cultural writers, such as
Tahar ben Jelloun, Alissia Djebar and Leila Sebbar. I would like to look further into the
presentation of the image (photographs, billboards, films) in these works as a means of
portraying and processing conflicts of desire and morality in their modern bi-cultural
characters. |
| | George Symeonides | French | I received my B.A. with honors in both Spanish and French Studies from the University of
Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. As an undergraduate, I spent one academic year studying
at L'Institut Catholique de Paris and the following scholastic year at La Universitat de
Barcelona in Spain, completing each respective major while abroad. I am a first-year
graduate student in French at UCI, and my current interests appertain to symbolism of La
Résistance manifested in the Absurdist and Existentialist literary works of the 20th century.
Additionally, my attention is also drawn to the manner in which this imagery likewise
illustrates the divide in thought between the two philosophical movements. |
| | Victor Velazquez | French | Received a B.A (summa cum laude) in Comparative Literature with a minor in French from
UC Irvine. Wrote an M.A. paper entitled "Production du desir" which, through a discussion
of Montaigne's Essais, looks at the role of psychoanalysis in literary studeis as a means.
Received the Best Paper of the Year Award in the French Department for a paper entitled
" Tyranny of the anti-esthetic: the problem posed by Kant's Critique of judgment in Moliere's
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme". Currently working toward the qualifying exams, and still
interested in Montaigne, the Renaissance, and Freud's theory of the dream-work as possible
topics for a dissertation. |
| | Allison Walter | French | After having earned a BA in English literature at Scripps College, I earned a licence in
Modern French Literature at the Nouvelle Sorbonne. I also hold two teaching certificates
for both French and ESL. I received my M.A. at UCI and am currently working on my
dissertation, tentatively called "Textual Performances." My areas of specialization are
19th-century poetry, 20th-century theater, and anthropology. While at UCI, I have taught
in both the French and English departments, receiving in 2001 an Outstanding Teaching
Assistant Award. I have recently participated in the revision of the second-year language
program, and have been responsible for both the department and French language web
sites. Currently, I am teaching Humanities Core, Laws and Orders, for which I have created
a web site: http://e3.uci.edu/01f/29035. |
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