Juliana Starr, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, French Literature.

EDUCATION

Summer 2000:  Certificate in Spanish and six weeks intensive Spanish study - Universidad La Salle, Mexico City. 

1995:  Ph.D. in French Literature, Indiana University - Bloomington.  Specialization in the Nineteenth Century.  Minor in Literary Theory. 

1989:  D.E.A. de Lettres Modernes, Université de Lille III - France

1987:  Maîtrise de Lettres Modernes, Université d’Aix-en-Provence I - France

1986:  M.A. in French Literature, Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1984:  B.A. in English, Wartburg College - Waverly, Iowa.  Minors in French and Physical Education.

EXPERIENCE

2005-present:  Assistant Professor of French - University of New Orleans

1997-2005:  Associate Professor of French, Coordinator of Foreign Languages and Director of the Language Laboratory - Christian Brothers University, Memphis TN

1996-1997:  Acting Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Visiting Assistant Professor of French - University of Southern Indiana, Evansville

1995-1996:  Visiting Assistant Professor of French - University of Southern Indiana

1989-1993:  Associate Instructor of Graduate Reading and Elementary French - Indiana University, Bloomington

1984-1986:  Teaching Assistant of First-Year French - Marquette University, Milwaukee

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

“Coal Miners’ Daughters:  Representations of Women in Germinal, Matewan, and Harlan County, USA”:  Excavatio XXII (July 2007).

“The Two Faces of Eve:  Villiers’ response to Zola’s La Faute de l’abbé Mouret”:  Excavatio XVI (October 2002):  179-187.

“Men Looking at Art:  Aesthetic Voyeurism in Two Novels by Emile Zola”:  Excavatio XIV (October 2001):  173-185.

“Painting on the Periphery:  Women Artists in Three French Texts”:  The Journal for the Association of the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts (Spring 2001):  51-83.  Guest Editor for the special volume titled “Creating Women Creating:  19th-Century Representations of the Female Imagination and the Woman Artist.”

“Digestive Divas:  Women and Food Problems in Two Novels by J.-K. Huysmans”:  Excavatio XIII (September 2000):  100-105.

“Figuring Frames:  Painting as Inspiration for a New Literary Aesthetic in Two Novels by J.-K. Huysmans”:  The Journal for the Association of the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts (Spring 1998):  53-66.

“Men Looking at Women Through Art:  Male Gaze and Spectatorship in Three Nineteenth-Century Novels”:  The Frontenac Review  10-11 (1993-1994):  8-34.

Manuscript under submission:

“The Mummy’s Dance:  Staged Transpositions of Théophile Gautier’s Egyptian Tales” - Translations/Transpositions:  A Conference in Honor of Rosemary Lloyd  (a book of the papers presented at the conference)

PARTICIPATION AT RECENT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

“The Mummy’s Dance:  “High” and “Low” Stage Adaptations of Gautier’s Egyptian Tales”:  paper presented at the 33rd Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium - University of South Alabama (October 2007)

“Diderot’s The Nun:  A Feminist Novel?”:  paper presented at the Southeast Region Conference on Christianity and Literature - Loyola University, New Orleans (April 2007)

“The Mummy’s Dance:  Staged Transpositions of Théophile Gautier’s Egyptian Tales”:  paper presented at Translations/ Transpositions:  A Conference in Honor of Rosemary Lloyd - Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, England (March 2007)  

“The Mummy’s Revenge:  Hegemonic Violence in Théophile Gautier’s Egyptian Tales”:  paper presented at the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes Conference - Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, England  (March 2007) 

“Romancing the Stone:  Egyptian Discoveries and Gautier’s Mummy Narratives”:  paper presented at the 32nd Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium - Indiana University (October 2006)

“Coal Miners’ Daughters:  Representations of Women in Germinal, Matewan, and Harlan County, USA”:  paper presented at the 15th Annual International Conference on Emile Zola and Naturalism (special topic, film) - CUNY Graduate Center (May 2006)

“Reading Madame Bovary:  Flaubert and the Trial of the Century”:  paper presented at the Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature - New Orleans (April 2006)

“The Mummy’s Revenge:  Pygmalion Politics in Balzac and Gautier”:  paper presented at the 31st Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium - University of Texas (October 2005)

“Seeking their Place at the Table:  Woman and Culinary Ritual in 19th-Century Art and Literature”:  paper presented at the 2004 Romance Studies Colloquium - Montclair State University (October 2004)

“Brave New Woman or Stepford Wife?:  Villiers’ Robot in L’ève future”:  paper presented at the 29th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium - University of Arizona (October 2003)

“Desire and the Body in Delibes’ Lakmé:  paper and vocal performance presented at the 28th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium - Ohio State University (October 2002)

RECENT SERVICE IN ROLE OF DISCUSSANT AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

“A Telling Presence”:  session chaired at the Southeast Region Conference on Christianity and Literature - Loyola University, New Orleans (April 2007) 

“Realism and its Discontents”:  session chaired at the 15th Annual International Conference on Emile Zola and Naturalism (special topic, film) - CUNY Graduate Center (May 2006)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

AIZEN - International Association for Multidisciplinary Approaches and Comparative Studies related to Emile Zola and his Time, Naturalism, Naturalist Writers and Artistes, Naturalism and the Cinema Around the World

CCL - Christianity and Literature Society

MLA - Modern Language Association

SDN - Society of Dix-Neuviémistes

WIF - Women in French

AWARDS, LECTURESHIPS, OR PRIZES

July 1998:  Business French Seminar for American French Professors - Université de Montpelier - France.  Award Sponsored by the French Embassy.

1993-1994:  Teaching Assistant in English, Lycée Camille Saint Saëns - Rouen, France

1988-1989:  French Government Teaching Assistantship Award, Lycée Louis Pasteur - Lille, France

1986-1987:  Rotary Foundation Scholar, Université d’Aix-en-Provence I - France

MAJOR AREAS OF CREATIVE OR RESEARCH INTEREST

19th-Century French Novel and Short Story; Feminism; Representations of Women;  Interdisciplinary Approaches to 19th-Century French Literature, Art, and Opera

OFF-CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

1/06 - 11/07:  Member of the NOLA Opera Chorus.  Included a Gala Benefit Evening for New Orleans with Placido Domingo and performing in the chorus of the operas The Mariage of Figaro, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Bohème, Faust. and Il Trittico.