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Professor Sylvie Romanowski



CURRICULUM VITAE 

Sylvie Romanowski

Department of French and Italian 
Northwestern University 
Evanston, IL 60208 
(847) 491-5490 
s–romanowski@northwestern.edu

 

 
 

EDUCATION

1964-1968 YALE UNIVERSITY New Haven, Conn.

Ph. D. in French Literature, 1969.

Samuels S. Fels Dissertation Fellowship, 1967-68.

Graduate Fellowship, Teaching Fellow, 1965-67. Dissertation: L'illusion chez Descartes: thèmes et structure jusqu'aux Méditations (Henri Peyre, director)

1963-64 UNIVERSITY OF THE SAAR Saarbrücken, Germany Exchange Fellowship of the West German Government (Deutscher

Akademischer Austauschdienst)

1962-1963 HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, Mass.

Master of Arts in French Literature, l963

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship

1958-1962 CARLETON UNIVERSITY Ottawa, Canada

Bachelor of Arts in French and German, 1962

Governor-General's Medal, French Embassy Prize, Prizes of the Ambassador of Switzerland to Canada, Carleton Alumni Association Scholarship. First in Graduating Class

EXPERIENCE

1971-present NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Evanston, Ill.

Assistant Professor of French language and literature, 1971-76

Associate Professor with tenure, 1976

Northwestern University Faculty research grants, 1972, 1978, 1983, 1993

Sabbatical leaves, January-September 1978: visiting scholar at the

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France;

Spring 1984, Spring 1988, Fall 1992, Fall 1996, Spring 2001

College Adviser, Office of Studies of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1984-86

Director, Women's Studies Certificate Program, 1986-87

Director of Undergraduate Studies in French, 1990-1993

Director of Graduate Studies in French, 1993-96

Faculty Affiliate, The Center for the Humanities, 1995-96

1969-1971 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE Milwaukee, Wis.

Assistant Professor of French language and literature

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School Research Fellowship, 1970

1968-1969 YORK UNIVERSITY Toronto, Canada

Lecturer of French language and literature

1965-1967 YALE UNIVERSITY

Teaching Fellow, 1965-67. Summer l965: Instructor, Yale Summer Language Institute. Coordinator of multi-section language course

SCHOLARSHIP

Book

L'illusion chez Descartes: la structure du discours cartésien. Paris: Klincksieck, 1974.

Book edited

Homage to Paul Bénichou. Birmingham, Alabama: Summa Publications, 1994. Principal editor, with Monique Bilezikian, co-editor.

Articles

"Passion simple d'Annie Ernaux: le trajet d'une féministe," forthcoming in French Forum (2002)

"Cyrano de Bergerac's Epistemological Bodies: 'Pregnant with a Thousand Definitions'". Science-Fiction Studies, 25 (1998): 414-432.

"La violence dans les Lettres persanes," Violence et fiction. Proceedings of the Colloquium of the Société d'Analyse de la Topique Romanesque (1995). Eds. Martine Debaisieux and Gabrielle Verdier. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1998.

"Molière's Le Misanthrope: a critique and reluctant defense of courtly life," Contemporary Theatre Review, 6,1 (1997): 49-63.

"'I, Leave This House?' Language and Space in Tartuffe," Approaches to Teaching Molière's Tartuffe and Other Plays. Eds. James F. Gaines, Michael S. Koppisch. MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1995. 33-41.

"Sacrifice and Truth in Racine's Iphigénie," in Homage to Paul Bénichou, Sylvie Romanowski and Monique Bilezikian, co-editors. 1994. 143-165.

"Puzzling rhetoric," review-article of: Thomas M. Carr, Descartes and the Resilience of Rhetoric: Varieties of Cartesian Theory. (Carbondale and Edwardsville, Ill., Southern Illinois Press, 1990), Continuum

"Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes and the Libertine Traditions," Continuum, 4 (1992): 59-68.

"La quête du savoir dans les Lettres Persanes," Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 3 (1991): 93-111.

"Parsing the Paradigm," review-article of: Herbert De Ley, The Movement of Thought: an Essay on Intellect in Seventeenth-Century France. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985).Continuum, 2 (1990): 179-85.

"Satire and its Context in the Bourgeois Gentilhomme," Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, 17 (1990): 35-49.

"The Circuits of Power and Discourse in Racine's Bajazet," Papers on French Seventeenth- Century Literature, (1983): 848-67.

"A Typology of Women in Colette's Novels," in: Colette: The Woman, theWriter. Eds. Erica M. Eisinger and Mari W. McCarty. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania University Press, 1981. 66-74.

Reprinted in: Short Story Criticism, 10 (1992): 276-80.

"Un roman féministe du dix-septième siècle: héroïsme et langage dans La Prétieuse de l'abbé de Pure," Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 24 (1977): 461-71.

"Malraux's Antimemoirs: comic and cosmic consciousness," Cross Currents, 26 (1976): 286-92.

"Le rôle du langage dans le Dom Juan de Molière," Neophilologus, 59 (1975): 494-504.

"Descartes: From Science to Discourse," Yale French Studies, no. 49 (1973): 96-109.

"L'unité du Testament de Villon," Les Lettres Romanes, 22 (1968): 228-38.

"La nuit dans l'œuvre romanesque d'André Malraux," Revue des Sciences Humaines, 33 (1968): 91-105.

Book reviews

Barbara R. Woshinsky, Signs of Certainty: The Linguistic Imperative in French Classical Literature (Stanford French and Italian Studies, 71, 1991). In: L'Esprit Créateur, 33 (1993): 118.

Writing the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature. Ed. Elizabeth Goldsmith. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989). In: L'Esprit Créateur, 31 (1991): 92-93.

Piotr Hoffman, Doubt, Time,Violence. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986). In: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 16 (1989): 292-95.

Robert J. Nelson, Pascal, Adversary and Advocate. (Cambridge: HarvardUniversity Press, 1981). In: Cross Currents, 33 (1983): 95-98.

Vivien Thweatt, La Rochefoucauld and the Seventeenth-Century Concept of the Self. (Genève: Droz, 1980). In: L'Esprit Créateur, 33 (1983): 110-11.

Madeleine Alcover, Poullain de la Barre: une aventure philosophique. (Tübingen: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 1981). In: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 9 (1982): 729-30.

Susan W. Tiefenbrun, Signs of the Hidden: Semiotic Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1980). In: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 9 (1982): 441- 42.

Les Valeurs chez les Mémorialistes français du XVIIe siècle avant la Fronde. Colloque de Strasbourg et Metz, 1978. Actes publiés par Noémi Hepp et Jacques Hennequin. (Paris: Klincksieck, 1979). In: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 8 (1981): 188- 89.

J. Guérin, Le théâtre d'Audiberti et le baroque. (Paris: Klincksieck, 1976). In: World Literature Today, 52 (1978): 78.

J. J. Schuhl, Télex no. l. (Paris: Gallimard, 1976). In: Books Abroad, 51 (1977): 241.

J. Daive, l, 2, de la série non aperçue: double récit. (Paris: Flammarion, 1976). In: Books Abroad, 51 (1977): 245.

La Traversée des signes, Julia Kristeva, ed. (Paris: Seuil, 1975). In: Books Abroad, 50 (1976): 962-63.

Maurice Clavel, Ce que je crois. (Paris: Grasset, 1975). In: Cross Currents, 25 (1975): 336-37.

Translation

Doan Van Toai and David Chanoff, The Vietnamese Gulag (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986). From the French. With Françoise Simon-Miller, co-translator.

Work in Progress

Book, Through Strangers' Eyes: Montaigne, Montesquieu, and Graffigny

General research on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thought and society

Future projects: article on the nature of power in Racine's Britannicus;

Lectures, personal appearances

Over 40 lectures and personal appearances at colloquia and universities

TEACHING

Graduate courses

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: courses on seventeenth-century French literature

Northwestern University: numerous courses on seventeenth-century French literature; seminars on Proust

Undergraduate courses

Contemporary French Women's Writing

Seventeenth-, eighteenth- and twentieth-century French literature

Designed new undergraduate Major in French Studies, 1984

Independent study tutorials on Gide, modern novels, the French press, theories of symbolization, communication theory, seventeenth-century philosophy, modern theater, Molière, Racine, Madame de Lafayette

Intermediate and advanced courses on language

Doctoral dissertations directed

Nicole Denner, on eigtheenth-century novelists and feminism (in progress)

Kristin Musselman, on depiction of childhood in contemporary novelists (in progress)

Lorraine Piroux, "Faits et gestes de la dédicace" (co-director)

Jeanette Hecker, "Re-evaluating the Short Story: a Study of Colette, Andrée Chedid and S. Corinna Bille"

Corinne Nolin, "Intellectuels et pouvoir au Maghreb: thématiques de l'exil et de la subversion" (co-director)

Ann Williams, "La France se représente en Amérique: la diffusion interculturelle du théâtre"

Mary Trouille, "Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Respond to Rousseau: Sexual Politics and the Cult of Sensibility" (co-director)

Charles McCreary, "L'échange et le désir: une analyse de quatre pièces de Racine"

Claude Tournier, "L'amour, la maternité et la société: point de vue féminin dans L'âme enchantée de Romain Rolland" (co-director)

Julie Storme, "The Dilemma of the subjective author: Montaigne and Rousseau" (co-director)

Julie Hayes, "The Representation of the Self in the Theater of La Chaussée, Diderot and Sade" (co-director)

Leslie Green, "Les éléments mythiques de Poisson Soluble d'André Breton"

SERVICE

Northwestern University

Service in over 30 committees at the Department, College, and University levels

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Member, advisory board of Publications on French Seventeenth-Century Literature

Consultant on French language and civilization textbooks for several publishers: Rand MacNally, Heinle and Heinle, Scribner's, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Consultant for Voix et Visages du Monde Français (Skokie: Rand McNally, l975), and Allons-y (Boston: Heinle and Heinle, l984, l988)

Reader for university presses and scholarly journals

Grader for Advanced Placement examinations in French Literature, 1989-90

Screener of grant proposals in the humanities for the American Council of Learned Societies, 1990

Lectures and performance discussions for Chicago Baroque Ensemble, Court Theater, 1985-1998

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Association of Teachers of French

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

International Association for Philosophy and Literature

Midwest American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Modern Language Association

North American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Literature

PRINCIPAL INTERESTS

prose and theater of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries in French literature

theory of literature and modern criticism; philosophy of language; feminist criticism

theater and music

social sciences: history, anthropology

LANGUAGES

Native speaker of French

Bilingual in French and English

Reading ability in: German, Italian, and Latin

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