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),
a book on modern poetry and modern poverty (Scènes d'aumône.
Misère et Poésie au XIXe s., Champion, 2004) 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
with M. Negron 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, Cahiers de l'Herne and 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 preparing a manuscript on the Franco-American scene
of Gender studies.
Selected
Publications:
Books:
Scènes d'aumône. Misère et Poésie au
XIXe siècle, Paris: Champion, 2004
Le Banquet de Rimbaud. Recherches sur l'oralité, Champ-Vallon,
France, Coll. L'or d'Atalante, Spring 1992. (287 pp.)
Edited Collections:
Algeria in Other(s)' Languages, Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002 (246pp.)
Lectures de la différence sexuelle, Conference Proceedings,
coedited with Mara Negron, Paris, Des Femmes, 1994. (317 pp.)
Articles, Prefaces and Interviews:
"Popularity of Language: Rousseau and the MotherTongue,"
in Emergencies, M.McQuillan ed., Routledge, 2004.
"Pas de deux," spécial Derrida, Cahiers de l'Herne,
M.L. Mallet and G.Michaud, eds, Paris: 2004.
"L'amour sans hache," special issue on George Sand, Littérature,
Spring 2004.
"The Impossible Wedding: Nationalism, Languages and the Mother-tongue
in Post-Colonial Algeria," in Algeria in Others' Languages.
Cornell UP, 2002.
"The Newly Veiled Woman: Irigaray, Specularity and the Islamic
Veil," Diacritics, Spring 1998, vol.28. Pp.93-120.
"Comment peut-on être Persanse?," Contretemps n.2/3,
Paris:Galilée, 1997.
"The Latest Word from Echo" (translation of "Dernières
nouvelles...” by R.Gabarra), New Literary History, 1996, Vol.27.
Pp.621- 40.
"Le sexe du coeur. Essai de stéthoscopie de la poésie
lyrique" (on Rimbaud, Rilke and Hofmannsthal), in Lectures
de la différence sexuelle, op.cit, pp.125-138.
"Comment un hérisson de paroles" (on Derrida and
poetry), in Le Passage des Frontières. Autour de Jacques
Derrida, Paris, Galilée, 1994. (Pp.111-119.)
"L'idole maternelle en régime poétique bourgeois,"
in Du Féminin (Actes du Colloque international de Kingston),
Montréal/Presses Univ. de Grenoble, Coll. "Trait d'Union",1992.
Pp. 203-220.
"L'apprentissage selon George Sand," Littérature No 67, Paris, Oct, l987. (Pp. 73-83.)
"Celui qui fait éclore la fleur travaille si simplement"
(on India, Satyajit Ray and Tagore), Fruits, No.4, Paris (l986).
(Pp. 3-9.)
"Une conversation avec Jacques Derrida," Fruits, No. 1,
Paris, (l983). Pp. 74-91 (republished in Points de suspension, Entretiens
de Jacques Derrida, Paris: Galilée, 1992. (Pp. 141-165)
Research Interests:
Modern poetry and poetics
Enlightenment
Feminist criticism
Psychoanalytic theory
Deconstruction
Textual analysis
Politics of language
Cultural politics of the Maghreb
Recent Courses:
Exoticism and Eroticism: Figures of the Other in the French Enlightenment
(18th century Orientalist Fiction)
Anthropology and the Legacies of the French Enlightenment
Poetry and Poverty
19th-century Women Writers
Introduction to Modern French Literature
Psychanalyse et différence sexuelle (Paris VIII)
|
