Theresa Varney Kennedy
Assistant Professor of French
Office: 415 Draper
Phone: (254) 710-4425
Spring 2010 office hours: MWF 9-11am; 3:30-4:30pm
EDUCATION:
Ph.D.
in Modern French Doctoral Studies, May 2007
University 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, “Biblio 17”, 2008.
Articles: “Metatheatricality
and subversion in the Comtesse de Murat’s
Voyage de Campagne”, (Forthcoming in
Neophilologus).
“Tragic irony in Catherine Durand’s
comédies en proverbes.”
Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, XXXVII, No. 72 (2010).
“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.
Review: Théâtre de femmes de l'Ancien Régime: XVIIe siècle.
Ed. by Aurore Evain, Perry Gethner and Henriette Goldwyn.
PFSCL 71 (2009).
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Madame de Maintenon: Staging life experience.
Women in French 2010 Conference,
Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, Forthcoming June 10-13.
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
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