Personnel Enseignant :
Chris Roulston
Téléphone:
519-661-2111 ext. 85719
Bureau:
UC 215B
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Formation et domaines de spécialisation
Ph.D. (Toronto)
Feminist Theory; Queer Theory; Deconstruction; Eighteenth-Century Women Writers; The Epistolary Novel; Eighteenth-Century French and British Novel; Eighteenth-Century Constructions of Women's Friendship and Sexuality; Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Work in Progress:
Book manuscript: After the Wedding: Narrating Marriage in the Eighteenth Century.
Articles accepted for publication:
“La narration impossible du mariage.” Les motifs merveilleux dans les littératures francaises et francophones: une étrange constance. Québec: Presses de l’université Laval, forthcoming Spring 2005.
Book:
Virtue, Gender and the Authentic Self in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Richardson, Rousseau, and Laclos. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. 211pp.
Chapters in books:
Reading Rousseau’s Women: Autobiography and Femininity in the Confessions. Approaches to Teaching Rousseau’s Rousseau’s Confessions and Rêveries. Eds. John C. O’Neal and Ourida Mostefai. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2003. 132-136.
Choix et accomplissement dans le discours sur le mariage dans la fin du dix-huitième siècle. Sexualité, mariage et famille au dix-huitième siècle. Ed. Rosena Davison. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 1998. 185-194.
Discourse, Gender and Gossip: Some Reflections on Bakhtin and Emma. Ambiguous Discourse: Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers. Ed. Kathy Mezei. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. 40-65.
Articles in refereed journals:
The Eighteenth-Century Ménage-à-Trois: Having It Both Ways?, The British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 27.2 (Autumn 2004) : 257-277.
Gendering the Self in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Letters, in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century: Mme de Graffigny and French Epistolary Writers of the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Voltaire foundation, 2004:06.
Translating Gender: Teaching Translation in Women’s Studies Courses. Roundtable on Teaching Texts and Translations, ADFL Bulletin, vol. 33, no. 1 (Fall 2001) 39-41.
No Simple Correspondence: Mme de Graffigny as ‘Epistolière’ and as Epistolary Novelist. L’Esprit créateur: L’Épistolarité, vol. XL, no. 4 (Fall 2000): 31-37.
Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France. Eighteenth-Century Studies: Special Issue on Friendship, guest ed. Peter Fenves, 32.2 (1998-1999): 215-231.
Seeing the Other in Mme de Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 9.3 (April 1997): 309-326.
La Déception du regard dans La Princesse de Clèves. Dalhousie French Studies, 31 (Summer 1995): 19-32.
Histories of Nothing: Romance and Femininity in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote. Early Women’s Writing: The Elizabethan to Victorian Period, 2.1 (1995): 25-42.
Translations:
Derrida, Jacques. "Before the Law," in Acts of Literature. Ed. Derek Attridge. Trans. Avital Ronell and C. Roulston. London: Routledge, 1992.
Derrida, Jacques. "Mallarmé," in Acts of Literature. Ed. Derek Attridge. Trans. C. Roulston. London: Routledge, 1992.
Clark, David. "Le Langage, l'histoire et 'l'idéalisation des faits'." Trans. C. Roulston. Recherches sémiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry 12 (1992): 3-7.
Book reviews:
Francine Belle-Isle, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: le défi de la perversion. Québec: Editions Nota Bene, 2000. University of Toronto Quarterly, 70:1 (Winter 2000|2001): 155-157.
Bongie, Laurence L. Sade: A Biographical Essay. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998. University of Toronto Quarterly: Lettres canadiennes 1998, 69.1 (Winter 1999-2000): 450-452.
Melançon, Benoît, ed. Penser Par Lettre. Québec: Editions Fides, 1998. 379p. University of Toronto Quarterly: Lettres canadiennes 1998 69.1 (Winter 1999-2000): 440-442.
Bérubé, Georges et Marie-France Silver, eds. La lettre au XVIIIe siècle et ses avatars. Toronto: Editions du GREF, 1996. University of Toronto Quarterly, 68.1 (Winter 1998-1999): 218-222.
Jenene J. Allison. Revealing Difference: The Fiction of Isabelle de Charrière. Cranbury, N.J.: University of Delaware Press, 1995. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 8. 4 (July 1996): 543-544.
François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif, Les Aventures de Zéloïde et d'Amanzarifdine. Ed. et annotée par Francis Assaf. Paris, Seattle, Tübingen: Biblio 17, 1994. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 7. 4 (July 1995): 418-419.
Nancy Deighton Klein, The Female Protagonist in the "Nouvelles" of Madame de Villedieu. New York: Peter Lang, 1992. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 7. 1 (October 1994): 87-88.
Recent Conference Papers:
"Crossing the Border Between Marriage and Empire in Sarah Scott's Sir George Ellison and Isabelle de Charrière's Letters of Mistress Henley," Borders and Crossings: The Northeast American Society for Eighteeth-Century Studies, 4-6 November 2004, Burlington, Vermont.
“Framing Sensibility: The Representation of Same-Sex Couples in Visual Art,”Queer People II: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1580-1850, Christ’s College, Cambridge, 24-26 July 2004.
“‘We Must Return Home’: Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Conduct Book Literature,” Colloque tri-universitaire: Western, Toronto, UQAM: Le domicile, University of Western Ontario, 2-3 April 2004.
“Marriage and Its Visual Representations in the Eighteenth Century,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Boston, 25-28 March, 2004.
“Housing the Other in Eighteenth-Century Marriage Narratives,” International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, 3-10 August, 2003.
“Visualizing Marriage in the Eighteenth Century,” Seeing Things: Explorations in Vision, Knowledge and Power, Department of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 2-4 May, 2003.
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