Research and Publications
Modern Languages Faculty, being active scholars in many areas of research related to scholarship literature, culture, film, and language acquisition, have a growing list of established and current publications.
Dr. Diana Burgin
Memorabilia. The Memoirs of Richard Burgin. Compiled, Arranged and Introduced by Diana Lewis Burgin. St. Petersburg: INAPRESS, 2011. (In Russian)
Additional Publications by Diana Burgin
Dr. Alexander DesForges
"Burning with Reverence: The Economics and Aesthetics of Words in Qing (1644-1911) China." PMLA 121.1 (2006): 139-155.
"Shanghai Alleys, Theatrical Practice and Cinematic Spectatorship: From Street Angel (1937) to Fifth Generation Film." Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 39.4 (2010): 29-51.
Dr. Claudia Esposito
Claudia Esposito, "Ronsard in the Metro: Abdellatif Kechiche and the Poetics of Space" Studies in French Cinema 11, 3 (2011)
Claudia Esposito "South of the Capital: Geographies of Resistance in Maghrebi-French Film" Expressions maghrebines 8, 2 (2009) 99-109
Dr. Vetri Nathan
“Nuovo Cinema Inferno: The Affect of Ambivalence in Giuseppe Tornatore’s La sconosciuta.” in From Terrone to Extra-Comunitario: The New Manifestations of Racism in Contemporary Italian Cinema, ed. Grace Russo-Bullaro et al. (Troubador Italian Series, 2010)
“Mimic Nation – Mimic Men: Contextualizing Italy’s Migration Culture through Bhabha” in National Belongings: Hybridity in Italian Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures, ed. Derek Duncan et al. (Peter Lang Editors, 2010)
Dr. Pratima Prasad
Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination. NY: Routledge, 2009.
“Intimate Strangers: Interracial Encounters in Romantic Narratives of Slavery.” L’Esprit Créateur 47.4 (Winter 2007): 1-15.
“Setting the Stage: For an Approach to Drama and the Novel.” Co-author: Susan McCready. In Prasad, Pratima and Susan McCready, eds. Novel Stages: Drama and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. 27-43.
“L’Insularité, ‘l’indigénisme’ et l’inceste dans Paul et Virginie.” In Laporte, Dominique, ed. L’Autre en mémoire. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2006. 147-165.
“Contesting Realism: Mimesis and Performance in George Sand’s Novels.” XIX: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes 3 (September 2004): 34-54
“Historicizing French Romanticism.” Blackwell Publishing’s Literature Compass 1 (2004): 1-4. <http://www.literature-compass.com>.
“Espace colonial et vérité historique dans Indiana.” Etudes littéraires 35.2&3 (Eté-automne 2003): 71-85.
“Uncovering Narrative Convention in Sand’s Lélia.” George Sand Studies 20.1&2 (2001): 7-20.
“Displaced Performances: The Erotics of George Sand’s Theatrical Space.” Romance Notes 40.2 (Winter 2000): 223-33.
“Deceiving Disclosures: Androgyny and George Sand’s Gabriel.” French Forum 24.3 (September 1999): 331-51.
“(De)masking the Other Woman in George Sand’s Indiana.” Romance Languages Annual 8 (1997): 104-09.
