PH.D/M.A: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.                 

            D.E.A.    (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies):  Ecole Supérieure d'Interprètes

             et de Traducteurs, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, France.   

            DUTIB  (Diplôme Universitaire de Traduction et d'Interpretation bilingues):

                            Université Lyon II, France.

M.A.: (Translation and Interpretation) Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

B.A.: (French Literature) University of Bombay, India.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“The Poet and His Doubles: Theater as Orientalism.” Paul Claudel Papers. (ISSN 1496-4813)  Vol. II, 2004.

 “When the Saints Go Marching In: Popular Performances of La Tentation de Saint Antoine and La Vie de Sainte Geneviève at the Chat Noir Shadow Theater.” Essay in book entitled: Life Through a Stained-Glass Window: Saints in Late Nineteenth-Century French Culture. Edited by Elizabeth Emery and Laurie Postlewate, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Press, 2004.

 “Claudel’s Poetic Conversions.”  Paul Claudel Papers. (ISSN 1496-4813) Vol. I, 2003.

Annotated Catalogue of the Herbert D.and Ruth Schimmel Rare Book Library. Published online, November 1998. Accessible at www.schimmel.rutgers.edu

Appendix of biographies in The Spirit of Montmartre - Cabarets, Humor, and the Avant-Garde, 1875-1905. New Brunswick, N.J.: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1996. 

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 “Scenting the Text/ Incensing the Poet” Annual International Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), San Diego, CA, December 2003.

“Claudel and Rimbaud’s ‘Lettre du Voyant’” Annual International Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), San Diego, CA, December 2003.

“Popular Representations of Zola” AIZEN International Conference, San Antonio, TX, October 9-11 2003. (AIZEN = Association Internationale de Recherches Multidisciplinaires et d’Etudes Comparées, Emile Zola et Son Temps, le Naturalisme)

“The fin-de-siècle Monologue: At the crossroads of literature and performance”

Hawai’i International Conference of Arts and Humanities (HICAH), Honolulu, Hawai’i, January 2003.

“Puns, Parody, and Wordplay."  Annual International Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), New York City, December 2002.

"The Poet and His Doubles" Annual International Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), New York City, December 2002.

             le calembour est la fiente de l’esprit qui vole...” – Victor Hugo

Greetings! This image “(Hu)go figure! A pillar of the 19^th century/Un pilleur du dix-neuvième siècle” is an original work of “art” I created for a  conference presentation entitled “Puns, Parody, and Word Play.” The visual and translingual humor is inspired by the Incohérents of the late nineteenth-century Parisian avant-garde, and refers to Hugo’s famous description of the calembour (pun)  as “la fiente (the excrement) de l’esprit qui vole…” a line that Hugo apparently stole (making him, literally “un esprit qui vole”) from an ancient scholar named Galien.