DR. ALLAN CURNEW
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Phone: 905-648-2139 Ext 4217
Courses taught 2011/2012: FRE101 Beginner's French I FRE102 Beginner's French II FRE211 French Language Practice I FRE351 20th Century French Novel FRE261 French Civilization
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. (2010), French Literature, University of Western Ontario
Thesis Title: "Perte, perversion et paradoxes : le gaspillage dans le roman français de la Décadence."
M.A. (2003), French Literature, University of Calgary
Thesis Title: "Le Don de l’amour : la figure de l’entremetteuse dans deux récits en prose du XIXe siècle."
B.A. (French and German Language and Literature) and B.Ed. (Secondary School Methods) (1994), Memorial University of Newfoundland
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The French Decadent Movement (esp. Huysmans and Rachilde)
Theories of waste, materiality and exchange
Georges Bataille
Steampunk
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES (REFEREED)
“Charlot s’amuse… : missel de la Décadence ? ”, Les Cahiers Naturalistes 85 (2011). [forthcoming]
BOOK REVIEWS (REFEREED)
Thorel-Cailleteau, Sylvie. Splendeur de la médiocrité : une idée du roman. (Geneva: Droz, 2008). Nineteenth-Century French Studies 39.1 (2010-2011).
RECENT ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
“Le Symbolisme exotique de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam et de Gustave Moreau : deux tableaux comparés”, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville (2010)
“Marc-André Raffalovich et le discours médico-poétique sur l’homosexualité”, Canadian Association of Francophone Studies XIX Colloquium, University Of British Columbia, Vancouver (2008)
“Là-bas : roman de la haute décadence?”, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of South Alabama, Mobile (2007)
“Le Personnage gaspilleur/gaspillé dans le roman décadent français: des Esseintes”, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Indiana University, Bloomington (2006)
“Perdre sa semence ou semer la révolte: Bonnetain s’amuse?”, Canadian Association of Francophone Studies XIX Colloquium, York University, Toronto (2006)
“La Voix du sang / la voix de la révolte : le rôle du gaspillage dans La Marquise de Sade de Rachilde”, Conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (2006)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Canadian Association of University and College Teachers of French
Canadian Association of Francophone Studies XIX
Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (United Kingdom)
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association