Carolyn Durham

Department/Affiliation: French; Comparative Literature; Film Studies; Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Phone: 330-263-2401
Office Address: 205 Kauke
Email: cdurham@wooster.edu

Degrees

• B.A., Wellesley 1969
• M.A., Chicago 1972
• Ph.D., Chicago 1976

Courses Taught

• Francophone and Comparative (European and American) Film
• French Literature of the 17th, 18th, and 20th-21st Centuries
• French Culture
• French Language (All Levels)
• Comparative Literature

Awards and Professional Memberships

• Former Fulbright Scholar
• Camargo Foundation Fellow
• National Endowment for the Humanities grant
• The School of Criticism and Theory grant
• Modern Language Association
• American Association of Teachers of French
• Association française d’études culturelles

Publications

• L’Art Romanesque de Raymond Roussel
• The Contexture of Feminism: Marie Cardinal and Multicultural Literacy
• Double Takes: Culture and Gender in French Films and their American Remakes
• Literary Globalism: Anglo-American Fiction Set in France

Her essays on American and French literature and film have appeared in a number of edited collections and professional journals.

Please see Curriculum Vitae.

Notes

A member of the faculty since 1976, Durham is a specialist in the 20th century novel, film studies, and literary theory and criticism. Her research currently focuses on the construction of Paris in twenty-first French and American films, on the work of Diane Johnson, and on the fiction of Arturo Pérez-Reverte.