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ANNE-EMMANUELLE BERGER
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Anne-Emmanuelle Berger holds an "agrégation de Lettres modernes" (1981) a doctorate from the University of Paris VIII (613 pages, 1990) as well as an “"Habilitation à diriger des recherches" (263 pages, 1999). Professor of French Literature at Cornell, she is also visiting Professor at the Centre de Recherches en Etudes Féminines of  Paris VIII University.
An amateur in the strictest sense, she enjoys teaching a variety of topics ranging from 18th-century literature to 20th-century theory. Her research interests include the Enlightenment, modern poetry and poetics, psychoanalytic theory, deconstruction, feminist criticism, the politics of language, and the cultural politics of the Maghreb. She is the author of a book on Rimbaud and orality (Le Banquet de Rimbaud, ChampVallon, 1992), and the editor of several volumes (En plein soleil, special issue on the Théâtre du Soleil, Fruits, Paris, 1984; Algeria in Others' Languages, Cornell U. Press, 2002). She is also co-editor of  Lectures de la différence sexuelle (Des Femmes, 1994). She has published over 40 articles on 19th-century poetry, women writers, 18th-century philosophy and literature, Derrida, the politics of the Islamic veil,  language and nationalism and so on. Her work has appeared in scholarly journals such as Romantisme, Littérature, Po&sie, Etudes Françaises, New Literary History, Diacritics, or Parallax. Founder and editor of Fruits, a journal of literary creation and criticism co-subsidized by the Presses universitaires de Vincennes and the French Ministry of Culture (1983-86), she is also member of the advisory board of Traces (an international journal of Comparative Cultural Theory). She is currently finishing a book on the relations of modern poetry to "modern" poverty.


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