EVELYNE ENDER
Curriculum Vitae
Hunter College, CUNY -- Department of Romance Languages – W 1326
695 Park Avenue – New York, NY 10128, tel. 212 772 5306
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Professional Positions:
Sept. 2006 Professor of French, Hunter College and the Graduate Center at CUNY
Affiliate Professor, University of Washington
2005--06 Professor of French Studies, University of Washington,
2004-02 Harvard University: Visiting Faculty, Romance Languages and Literatures.
Lecturer, Literature Concentration.
2000--2003 MIT: Visiting Faculty, Women’s Studies & Foreign Languages and Literatures, Arts and Social Sciences.
1997--2001 Yale University: Visiting Associate Professor and Visiting Fellow, Comparative Literature Department.
1991-99 Maître-assistante, Faculté des lettres Université de Genève (CH) Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European literatures (English, French, German).
1984-91 Université de Genève (CH): Assistante, English Department, Université de Genève.
1983-84 Lecturer, Université de Fribourg (CH), courses in literary translation.
Education:
1991 Doctorate in Comparative Literature, mention très honorable, Université de Genève,
Le roman de l'identité sexuelle. Director:George Steiner. Committee: Peter Brooks,
Michel Jeanneret, Gregory T. Polletta, Jean Starobinski.
1983 Licence ès lettres, Université de Genève, March 1983 French and English as major, Comparative literature and German as minor. Mémoire de licence: Les Fausts de Gérard de Nerval. Directors: Michel Jeanneret and George Steiner.
Fellowships and awards:
2009-10 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Center for the Humanities,
CUNY for faculty seminar on “The Family”
Dec. 2206 Recipient of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary
Studies, for Architexts of Memory.
2005-06 Simpson Center for the Humanities, Fellowship.
1997-98 Subside de recherches personnel, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique
(Berne, Switzerland).
1988-89 Bourse de relève du Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Visiting Fellow at Yale University
1986 Tuition scholarship for the School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth.
1979-80 Scholarship for study in English and French literature, St John's College, Oxford.
Areas of Specialization
Nineteenth and twentieth-century English and French literatures, psychological and phenomenological approaches to literature, memory studies, feminist criticism and gender, literary theory (narratology and poetics)
Publications
Books:
Architexts of Memory: Literature, Science, and Autobiography. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. (Winner of the 2006 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies)
Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Le roman de l'identité sexuelle, thèse de doctorat (unpublished).
Edited volume:
Editor of “Reading otherwise? la critique des femmes,” Compar(a)ison: An International Journal of Comparative Literature (1/1993), Bern: Peter Lang, 1993.
Articles (selection):
“Homesickness in and Expanding World: The Case of the Nineteenth-Century Lyric.” In French Global: A New Approach to French Literary History. Columbia Univ. Press, forthcoming.
“Unwrapping the Ghost: The Design behind Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove.”
In Companion to Henry James, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, ed. by Greg Zacharias, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
“Henri-Frédéric Amiel: le philosophe et le (beau) sexe”
In Etre et se connaître, ed. Daniel Sangsue, préf. Alain Corbin, Genève: Métropolis, 2006.
“A feeling of ‘déjà-vu’: memory-science in Gérard de Nerval and Marcel Proust.”
Science in Context (special issue on literature and science), vol.18 (4), 2006.
“Geneva School” (revised and updated)
In The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, revised edition. Dec. 2004.
“Lou Andreas-Salomé, Virginia Woolf, and Annie Ernaux: Towards a Feminist Theory of Narcissism.” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, special issue Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: Latest Trends and Perspectives (April 2004).
“Le triomphe de l’éros dans François le Champi ”
George Sand Studies, special issue ed. by Lucienne Frappier-Mazur (vol. 21, 2002).
“’Une femme qui rêve n’est pas tout à fait une femme’: Lélia en rupture d’identité.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 29 (Spring-Summer 2001).
"'Speculating Carnally' or Some Reflections on the Modernist Body" Yale Journal of Criticism, 12 (1999).
"Les échecs mis en échec: Thomas Hardy (A Pair of Blue Eyes), Marcel Proust et Julian Barnes" In Echiquiers d'encre: le Jeu d'échecs et les Lettres (XIXe-XXs.), ed. Jacques Berchtold, Geneva: Editions Droz, 1998.
"A Writer's Birthpains: Virginia Woolf and the Mother's Share". In special issue on Families, SPELL Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, 9 (1996).
"Intervals and their Truths in Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf". In special issue on Interval, Compar(a)ison: An International Journal of Comparative Literature. Bern: Peter Lang, 1 (1995).
"Les lectures d'Emma Bovary: éléments d'une critique féministe". In Etudes de lettres: La crise des théories, 4 (1995).
Translations:
Beizer, Janet. “Ecoute le chant du labourage”: chant et travail de l’écriture dans “Les Veillées du chanvreur.” Littérature: George Sand, le génie narratif , No 134, 2004.
Gregory T. Polletta, "Villette ou un autre regard sur le texte", Cahiers de la Faculté des Lettres, Geneva, June 1990.
George Steiner, "Comment taire" (in English "A Conversation Piece"), Cavaliers Seuls, 1987.
George Steiner, "Les rêves participent-ils de l'histoire: Deux questions
adressées à Freud", Débats, no 25, mai l983. Gallimard.
Public lectures, selection:
“Proust à l’Américaine: entre philosophie et neuroscience.” Proust: dialogue critique, colloque international. Université Paris 10 and Paris 13, March 2009.
“Quelle place pour les femmes auteurs dans la tradition critique genevoise. ” Les femmes dans la critique et l’histoire littéraire. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, March 2009.
“Mon semblable, mon frère: Ballanche et Nerval autour d’Antigone. ” Adelphiques: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century French Literature. New York University, Feb. 2009.
“Teaching with Adam Phillips: For and Against.” MLA Convention, San Francisco, Dec. 2008, division of literature and psychology.
“Memory as Text: An Interdisciplinary View on Personal Remembrance”. Columbia University, Cultural Memory Seminar, February 2008.
“Imagining the Past: Memory between Literature and Science,” Center for the Humanities, Harvard University, February 2006.
“Questions de mémoire: une invitation à l’interdisciplinarité.” Université de Lyon, CNRS "Littérature, idéologies, représentations", (XVIIIe-XIXe). January 2006.
“The Subject of Poetry,” keynote address 11th Annual International Graduate Conference of Romance Studies. Boston College, March 2003.
“Le sujet au miroir: les souvenirs d’Annie Ernaux,” University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 2002 and
Johns Hopkins University, September 2001.
“The Rembererer’s Task: Autobiography in History,” Brandeis University, March 2001.
“The Color of the Past,” Yale University, February 2001 and University of Geneva May 2001.
“George Eliot’s cinéma intime.” Université de Genève, November 2001.
“Les chemins de la mémoire: entre littérature et science.” Université de Lausanne, May 2001.
“Marcel Proust and the Memory of the Future,” Center for Independent Study Conference, Yale University. June 2000.
“The Dimensions of Memory: Literary and Scientific Perspectives,” Radcliffe Educational Programs. May 2000.
“Memory-Trouble: Virginia Woolf and Pierre Janet,” “Psychonanalytic Practices,” Humanities Center, Harvard University. April 2000.
“Le souvenir et ses charmes: Gérard de Nerval,” Romance Languages Department, Harvard University. April 2000.
“Writing and Remembering: Virginia Woolf, Lou-Andreas Salomé, and Others.” Cornell University Lectures. Ithaca. February 1998.
“'Dans la prose on m'enferme:' Emily Dickinson et la vocation poétique, .” Université de Lyon, CNRS "Littérature, idéologies, représentations", (XVIIIe-XIXe). April 1997.
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