• Teaching Areas: French language and literature, Comparative Literature,  Film Studies, Women's Studies
  
• Frequently Taught Courses: FRENCH 329: Studies in the Twentieth Century: Fiction and Film, FRENCH 253:  Francophone Film, FRENCH 324: Studies in the Eighteenth Century, FRENCH 101: Elementary French, FRENCH 203: French for Written Comprehension and Communication, FRENCH 220: Introduction to Francophone Texts, WS 320: Re-Visions of Gender, CMLT 236: Comparative Film Studies, CMLT 230: Comparative Sexual Poetics
  
• Sample Syllabi: French 220 (Introduction to Francophone Literature); Comparative Literature 230 (Comparative Sexual Poetics); French 324 (Studies in the Eighteenth Century: Reading, Writing, and Viewing Revolution)
  
• Research Interests: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Novel, European and American Film, Travel Literature, Franco-American Relations
  
• Books: L'Art romanesque de Raymond Roussel (Summa 1982); The Contexture of Feminism: Marie Cardinal and Cultural Literacy (Illinois, 1992); Double Takes: Remaking Culture and Gender in French Films and Their American Remakes (New Hampshire, 1998) ; Literary Globalism: Anglo-American Fiction Set in France (Bucknell, 2005).
  
• Samples of Recent Journal Publications: "Strategies of Subversion in Colonial Nostalgia Film: Militarism and Marriage in Brigitte Roüan's Outremer in Studies in French Cinema 1.2 (2001) ; "Books Beyond Borders: Intertexuality in Arturo-Pérez-Reverte's El Club Dumas" in Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 26:2 (2001); "Portrait of a Generation: Cyril Collard's Les Nuits fauves" in French Review 75:3 (2002);  "Missing Masculinity or Cherchez l'Homme:  Re-Reading Dorothy Arzner's Christopher Strong" in Quarterly Review of Film and Video 18 (2001); "More Than Meets the Eye:  Meandering Metaphor in Claire Denis's Chocolat" in Moving Pictures/Traveling Identities: Exile, Migration, Border Crossings in Cinema, ed. E. Rueschmann (2003); "Mosaics of the Might-Have-Been: Metaphor, Migration, and Multiculturalism in Claire Messud's in The Last Life in Journal of Narrative Theory 32 (2002); "Falling Into Fiction(s): Intertextual Travel and Translation in Rose Tremain's The Way I Found Her in Contemporary Literature XLIII:3 (Summer 2003); "A Menu for All Seasons:  John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure in English Language Notes 41:4 (2003); "The Franco-American Novel of Literary Globalism:  The Case of Diane Johnson" in French Politics, Culture, and Society 21:2 (2003); "Modernism and Mystery:  The Case of the Lost Generation" in Twentieth-Century Literature 49:1 (Spring 2003); "Entrevista Con Arturo Pérez-Reverte: Deslindes de una Novela Globalizada" in Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 28:1 (2003) (with John Gabriele); "An Interview with Diane Johnson" in Contemporary Literature XLV (2004); "Cataclysmic Relations: Franco-American Discord in Diane Johnson's L'Affaire" in SITES: Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 8 (2004); "New Mysteries of Paris: The Riddling of the City in Cara Black's Detective Novels" in Paradoxa: Terrains Vagues (2006); "Auterism and Adaptation in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Un long dimanche de fiançailles" in French Review (forthcoming 2007).  
  
• Interesting Information for Francophiles: click here to see some of my favorite websites, to visit France and other Francophone countries, to hear French, to watch the news from France, to practice your French. In particular, don't miss the web-based project in cross-cultural comparison completed in the spring of 2002 by students in my French 224.

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Carolyn A. Durham cdurham@wooster.edu