Theresa Varney Kennedy
Assistant Professor of French
Office: 415 Draper
Phone: (254) 710-4425
Spring 2013 office hours: MWF 3:30-5:30pm
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in Modern French Doctoral Studies, May 2007University of Maryland, College Park
Dissertation Director: Dr. Hervé Thomas Campangne
Françoise Pascal’s ‘Agathonphile martyr, tragi-comédie’: An Annotated Critical Edition
M.A. in French, May 2001
University of Maryland, College Park
State University College at Buffalo, Jan 1997-May 1998
Fulfilled requirements and coursework for Certificate of Qualification
Cours de Civilisation Française de la Sorbonne, Sep 1996-Jan 1997
Study abroad through the State University at Oswego in Paris, France
B.A. in French, Jan 1997
State University at Buffalo, New York
B.A. in Music Performance, May 1996
State University at Buffalo, New York
PUBLICATIONS:
Book: Françoise Pascal's 'Agathonphile martyr, tragi-comédie': An annotated critical edition. Tübingen: Éditions Gunter Narr, "Bibilio 17," 2008.
Articles: "Staging the impossible 'femme forte' in Maintenon's conversations inédits." Women's Voices: Critical Essyas on Francophone Women's Theater. Ed. Cecilia Beach and Joyce Johnston. Spec. issue of Women in French Studies Journal (Forthcoming 2014).
"Daring female playwrights and their filles rebelles in 17th century France." Rebelles, vilaines et criminelles chez les écrivaines d'expression française ou la déviance au féminin. Ed. Colette Trout and Frederick Chevillot. Atlanta/Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, "Faux Titre" (Forthcoming 2012).
"Madame de Maintenon's proverbes inédits: Words to live by." Women in French Studies Journal 18 (2010): 29-42.
“Metatheatricality and Subversion in the Comtesse de Murat’s Voyage de Campagne”, Neophilologus 94.4 (2010):557-567.
“Tragic irony in Catherine Durand’s comédies en proverbes.” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature 38.72 (2010): 117-128.
Reviews: Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers. Ed. & Trans. by Lewis C. Seifert & Domna C. Stanton. Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Forthcoming in 2012).
Théâtre de femmes de l'Ancien Régime: XVIIe siècle. Ed. by Aurore Evain, Perry Gethner, and Henriette Goldwyn. Papers of French Seventeenth-Century Literature 36.71 (2009): 300-03.
Translation: Redalié, Yann. " 'Working with one's Hands': One Model, Many Applications." Paul and the Heritage of Israel: Paul's Claim upon Israel's Legacy in Luke-Acts in the Light of the Pauline Letters. Ed. D. Marguerat, D.P. Moessner, M. Parsons and M. Wolter. Trans. Michael D. Thomas, Alexandre Thiltges, and Theresa Varney Kennedy. Vol. 2. New York: T & T Clark (Forthcoming 2012).
Conference Proceedings: "La Comédie et la Tragédie à la cour de La Bruyère." Francographies: Actes du sixième Colloque: Création et Réalité d'Expression Française, Nº Spécial 4 Nouvelle Série (2002): 83-98.
Work in Progress: Madame de Maintenon: Proverbes dramatiques, co-authored with Perry Gethner. Anotated Critical Edition in progress. Under advance contract at Classiques Garnier for the collection "Bibliothèque du XVIIème siècle."
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
From mauvaise mère to bonne mère: Representation of mothering in women's theater. Women in French Colloquium, Arizona State University, Feb 24-25 2012.
Gallantry and gender performance in 17th century dialogue. 30th Annual Conference Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies. The University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, Nov 3-5 2011.
Female friendship in Yamina Benguigui's film 'Inch' Allah dimanche'. NEMLA. Rutgers University, New Jersey, Apr 7-10 2011.
Modeling women in dramatic proverbs and conversations. Sixteenth Century Society Conference. Montréal, Québec, Oct 14-17 2010.
Madame de Maintenon: Staging life experience. Women in French 2010 Conference, Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, June 10-13 2010.
Madame de Maintenon: Anti-feminist or Realist: Teaching women through dramatic proverbs. PAMLA. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, November 6-7 2009.
The “jeu du miroir” in Racine’s Phèdre. SCMLA. Bâton Rouge, October 29-31 2009.
Tragic irony in Catherine Durand’s comédies en proverbes. 27th Annual Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies Conference. Saskatchewan University, Canada, October 23-25 2008.
Teaching literature communicatively. ACTFL 2008 Annual Convention and World Languages Expo. Orlando, Florida, November 21-23 2008.
‘Agathonphile martyr’: Une tragi-comédie chrétienne galante? The Seventh Annual International Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude des Femmes de l'Ancien Régime on “Femmes, rhétorique et éloquence sous l’Ancien Régime” Université du Québec, Rimouski, Sep 13-15 2007.
Françoise Pascal’s ‘Agathonphile martyr’: Women and empowerment in the religious sphere. 24th Annual Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies Conference. Bowdoin College, Maine, Oct 6-8 2005.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
French early modern women writers and playwrights, 17th century theater, gender stereotyping, representation of female characters, opera, the female hero.
TEACHING INTERESTS:
Methods of teaching literature, early modern texts, French theater, female writers.