MARIE-THERESE KILLIAM
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, VA 24595

          (804) 381-6108 (0)



EDUCATION

1978-1986: Columbia University
        Ph.D. in French, January 1987, [defended in 1986] M. Phil. in French, January 1985
        M.A. in French, January 1981
 
1976-1977:  Mount Holyoke College Certificate of Studies
1971-1977 :   Université de Nice, France
        M.A. and B.A. "Maitrise" and "licence" in English, 1975



ACADEMIC HONORS

1976-1977:  Fullbright Fellowship for Graduate Study Abroad
1975-1976:  Bourse de 3ème cycle (Graduate scholarship for the "doctorat de 3ème cycle")



TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1999-present:             Sweet Briar College, Professor of French
1993-1999:                Sweet Briar College, Associate Professor of French
1989-1993:                Sweet Briar College, Assistant Professor of French
1983-1988:                Barnard College, Instructor of French
1979-1983:                Columbia University, T.A. and Preceptor in French
1983
(Spring semester):       Montclair College, Instructor in French
Summer 1977:            The Experiment in International Living, Vermont
1976-1977:                Mount-Holyoke College, Preceptor in French



PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

The Art Criticism of Paul Claudel published by Peter Lang Publ., Inc., January 1990

Publication of booklet of Students' Poems in cooperation with Tola Mosadomi, Professor of French at Hampden Sydney College, 1992

L'analyse du texte, a textbook for Students of French Composition, published by Austin & Wenfeld [in collaboration with Dr. Rosalia Ascari], 1994

Introduction to Kevin Harrington's book entitled Paul Claudel and Tennessee Williams 



PUBLICATION: ARTICLES

"Mother, Madness and Individuation in the recent fiction of French Women Writers"   winter issue of Europe Plurilingue, Mars 1997

"Claudel, L'Amérique et autres vues postmodernes" The French Review, October 1996

"No Exit, or Simone de Beauvoir's Sartrian Legacy in the Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter" in The Simone de Beauvoir Studies, Vol.  X, Spring 1993

"A Review of the Sarasota French Film Festival" in Contemporary Fr ench Civilization, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Spri ng 1992 [in collaboration with Dr. Rosalia Ascari]

"La Pétrification sacralisante de Camille Claudel dans l'oeuvre de Paul Claudel" in Claudel Studies, Vol.  XIX, Fall 1992

"Fromentin and Delacroix: A Reflection on Two Painters' Writings", in Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts, The Edwin Mellen Press, Vol.  II, 1991

"A Study on Art Criticism and the Relation between Art and Languag e" in Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts, 1989 , the Edwin Mellen Press, 1990

"La fonction onirique dans la Recherche de Marcel Proust" in the  Bulletin de la société des amis de Marcel Proust,1988



BOOK REVIEWS

 

MLA series, Teaching Proust, ed. Elyane Dezon-Jones, 2001

Bowman, Frank Paul, "French Romanticism, Intertextual and Interdis ciplinary Readings" in Volume IV of the Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts, May 1993

St. Martin, Fernande, "Semiotics of Visual Language" in Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts, Vol.  III

Claudel Studies, "Claudel & Proust" [Vol.  XVI] in Bulletin de la Société Marcel Proust, December 1991

"Newton, Joy, ed.  "La Chauve-Souris et le Papillon, Correspondance Montesquiou-Whistler" in Nineteenth Century French Studies, Vol. 20, Fall 1992



 
 
 
 
 
 

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