183 Church St., Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (518) 584-0097 janzalon@skidmore.edu
updated: December, 2003
Educational Background
M.A., Ph.D. (1973,1975), Romance Languages and Literatures, Tufts University; specialization in late nineteenth century literature, dissertation on Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.
A.B. (1969) University of Massachusetts at Boston. Graduation cum laude , senior honors in French, class of 1969 French Prize.
1965: Graduation from the Boston Latin School.
Teaching, Research and Administrative Positions Held
1985-present- Skidmore College; Professor of French (promoted to rank, 1993)
Spring 2004- (anticipated) Named correspondent foreign member of the Académie Bérrichonne
Spring, 2002-Spring 2005: Educational Consultant/Evaluator, The Virtual Campus Project: Bard College, The University of St. Petersburg/Smolny College, Russsia. Three year appointment, under the auspices of the Mellon Foundation
June, 2000-Special lecturer, Bibliothèque de l'Aresenal, Paris, France
Summer, 1999- Research Associate at Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, Cornell University for the construction of a Web-site on The Fantastic in Art and Literature
May 1998- May term lecturer on Decadence and on Odilon Redon, Bates College, Lewsiton Maine
1992-1998- Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Skidmore College.
July, 1997- Guest Professor, Institut Français d'été, Bates College, Lewiston Maine .
January, 1997- Guest Professor, Ecole des Chartes, Paris, for a series of lectures on the History of the Image since the 19th Century and on French Film Criticism before and after the New Wave.
Spring term, 1991- Director, Skidmore Junior Year Abroad in Paris, for 38 students.
1986-1998- Coordinator, Skidmore Junior Year Abroad Program, Paris and Madrid. Principal campus administrator for programs sending from 50 to 70 students abroad per year.
1981-1985- Adjunct Assistant Professor of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, and Director, Dartmouth College Language Study Abroad Program, in Blois, France. Full administrative responsibilities for groups of 25 students per quarter and a staff of seven.
1980- Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College Graduate School (seminar on Rabelais).
1976-1981- Assistant Professor of French, University of Massachusetts at Boston; 1979-80-Director, Year in France Program for UMass/Boston, a year long assignment based in Paris for a group of 38 students.
Awards
Spring 2001- Inaugural recipient of the Ralph A. Ciancio Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Fall 1998- Resident fellow, Middlebury College, under the auspices of Project 2,001, a Middlebury/ Mellon Foundation initiative for the integration of Instructional Technologies in the classroom.
Winter 1990- Fellow, Hudson-Mohawk Consortium for a faculty seminar on Postmodernism in Literature and Science at Rennselaer Polytechnical Institute
Summer 1989-Fellow of the Institute for European Studies for a Faculty Research Seminar on recent scholarship pertaining to the French Revolution. Twenty faculty members were selected nationally for the seminar which ran from June 2 to June 16 in Paris and Nantes.
1985-present-Skidmore College Research Grants (17 total)
Summer 1985-Visiting Scholar (Paris), Columbia University, NEH Summer Seminar: "Images of Paris in Modern Art".
1969-72-NDEA Title IV Fellow, Tufts University.
Related Professional Service
Editor for Film for The French Review , since July 1996.
Editorial consultant- Nineteenth Century French Studies , The French Review , Association Internationale de Bibliophilie since 1989.
Fall 2001-Chair, external self-study committee for Foreign Languages review, RPI.
Fall 2000- Outside evaluator for a tenure/promotion case, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Fall, 1998- Professional Consultant to the French Department, St. Michael's College, Winooski, VT
Winter, 1995- member, Self-Study Visiting Committee, Bates College
Summer, 1993- Outside evaluator for a tenure/promotion at East Carolina State College
Spring 1993- Outside evaluator for a promotion case at Scripps College
Winter, 1991- Outside evaluator for a tenure case at Bates College
Winter, 1989- Outside evaluator for a promotion case at SUNY Binghamton
Summer 1988- Reader/Evaluator, NEH Grants division (translations)
Spring 1988- Invited examiner/juror, Honors Program, Bates College.
Summer 1987- Columbia University Rare Book School, seminar: History of the Book.
Research and scholarship
Books (2)
Editor and contributor: Jeering Dreamers: Essays on Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's L'Eve future. in the “Faux-titres” series on Continental Literatures, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996.
Guest Editor and contributor: Imaginary Libraries: The Book in the Text , a special issue of L'Esprit Créateur Vol. XXVIII, no. 1 (Spring 1988). Responsibilities included soliciting, evaluating and selecting articles, assigning reviews, coordinating revisions and scheduling publication.
On-Line Publications (6)
The Fantastic in Art and Fiction . An image-bank monograph designed for Cornell University under an apppointment as Visiting Research Associate in the Kroch Library, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, during the summer of 1999. This site was designated a Yahoo pick of the week in June, 2000.
Now on-line at the following URL: http://fantastic.library.cornell.edu/
Revolution and Social Upheaval . A site designed for Skidmore College as an image and text resource/support for FL 266, a class taught in the Liberal Studies sequence. This site was partially funded by support from the Mellon Foundation and The 2001 Project at Middlebury College in 1998. Now on line at the following URL: http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/fll/janzalon/revolution/splash.html
The Fantastic . A site designed for Skidmore College as an image and text resource/support for FL 263A, a class taught in the Liberal Studies sequence. This site was partially funded by support from the Mellon Foundation and The 2001 Project at Middlebury College in 1998. Now on line at the following URL:
http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/fll/janzalon/fantastique/title.html
Symbolisme et Décadence: arts et lettres . A site designed for Skidmore College as an image and text resource/support for a seminar in the French Major. This site was partially funded by support from the Mellon Foundation and The 2001 Project at Middlebury College in 1999. Now on line at the following URL: http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/fll/janzalon/rsymbolism/symbolisme.html
“En marge du dix-neuvième: Teaching the fin de siècle to Undergraduates.” A paper for the annual Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium at Pennsylvania State, published on the Web at:
http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/Romance/NCFS/JAnzalone.html.
“Jean de Boscchère (1878 -1953), illustrateur de son œuvre” funded by the 2001 Project of Middlebury College. The site presents some 200-250 images taken from Bosschère own works. Now on line at:
http://goa.cet.middlebury.edu/bosschere/
Articles (25)
“In the Margins of the Nineteenth Century,” in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Literary Studies. Charles J. Stivale, editor, New York: MLA Publications, forthcoming, summer 2004.
“Artful Shenanigans: Painting, Prostitution, Cinema in Jean Renoir's La Chienne ” in T. Raser, ed. Peripheries . University of Delaware Press, 2003.
With former Skidmore President David Porter: “Clouds in the Sky: Eric Satie, Charles Martin and Sports et divertissements .” Le Bulletin du bibliophile II , Paris, Winter 2001-02, 343-370.
Review article of Laurie Edson, ed. Conjunctions: Essays in Honor of Renée Riese Hubert. Sub/Stance , Winter 2001.
“Heroes and Villains: François Truffaut and the Literary Pretext.” The French Review, Vol. 72, #1, October, 1998, 48-57.
“ Villiers de l'Isle-Adam” invited essay for French Dramatists , 1789-1914 , in Barbara C. Cooper, ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 192. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. 397-408.
“ Tekhné : State of the Art in L'Eve future .” foreword to Marie Lathers: The Esthetics of Artifice . North Carolina: 1997, 8-11.
“Danse macabre: le pas de deux Baudelaire-Villiers.” Jeering Dreamers. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996), 117-125.
“Manière noire: Avati, Illustrator of the Contes cruels .” Le Bulletin du bibliophile , no. II, 1995, 333-353.
"Jean de Boschère and the Book of Trades" in M. Heusser, ed. Word and Image, the 1990 Conference Proceedings , Zurich: Word and Image, 1993, 75-84.
"Villiers de l'Isle-Adam" invited essay for The Dictionary of Literary Biography for Nineteenth Century French Novelists , edited by Catherine Savage Brosman, 1993, 298-309.
"Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and Victor Hugo" in Cahiers du CERLI, Université de Nantes, 1993, 123-132.
----with Ruth Copans: "Covering the Text: The Object of Bookbinding" in Visible Languages , RISDI, Summer 1992, 257-269.
review article of Mark Poster: Critical Theory and Structuralism: In Search of a Context , in SubStance #67, vol. XXI, no. 1, Spring 1992, 152-154.
"The Importance of Being Sartre" Salmagundi (Winter, 1990) 332-343.
"Temptations of Excess: Alastair, Jean de Boschère and Flaubert," in Le Bulletin du Bibliophile , no. I (1989) 119-135
"Sound /Tracks: Zola, Renoir and La Bête humaine, in The French Review, LXII, no. 4
(March 1989), 583-590.
"Timeless Tomes: Occult Libraries in Villiers's Isis and Axël ," in L'Esprit Créateur, Vol. XXVIII, no. 1 (Spring 1988) 87-94.
"Golden Cylinders: Inscription and Intertext in L'Eve Future ," L'Esprit Créateur, Vol. XXVI, no. 4 (Winter 1986), 38-47.
"Complément à la bibliographie de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam," Le Bulletin du Bibliophile, no. IV (1984), 5611-562.
"Transparence and Opacity in Alain Tanner's La Salamandre ," Stanford French Review , VII, 3 (Winter 1983), 389-398.
"Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and the Gnostic Tradition," The French Review , LVII, no. 1 (October 1983), 20-27.
"Diabolic Decadence: Alastair, Illustrator of Barbey d'Aurevilly," Le Bulletin du Bibliophile , no. III (1981), 309-321.
"The First English Translation of Axël ," Le Bulletin du Bibliophile , no. II (1980), 149-161.
Published Translations (30)
Tzvetan Todorov: “War Against Iraq?” Salmagundi, winter, 2003
Tzvetan Todorov: “The New Populism” Salmagundi, summer/fall, 2003
Tzvetan Todorov: “Torture in the Algerian War”. Salmagundi, summer/fall, 2002
Tzvetan Todorov: “The New World Disorder”. Salmagundi, winter/spring, 2002
Tzvetan Todorov: “The Abuses of Comparison” Salmagundi, fall , 2001
Tzvetan Todorov: “After Kosovo. Salmagundi, fall/winter, 2001
Tzvetan Todorov: “The New Moralism.” Salmagundi, summer, 1999
Tzvetan Todorov: “The Papon Trial.” Salmagundi, winter/spring, 1999
Tzvetan Todorov. “Ten Years without Primo Levi.” Salmagundi ., summer, 1999
Tzvetan Todorov: “Letter from Paris: The Communist Archives.” Salmagundi ., fall, 1997
André Comte-Sponville. “The Good, the Bad and the Militant.” Salmagundi , winter, 1996.
Tzvetan Todorov. “ On Philosophy.” Salmagundi , winter, 1996
Tzvetan Todorov. “The Touvier Trial,” Salmagundi , winter 1995.
Michel Wievorka. “French Intellectuals.” Dissent , fall, 1994.
Tzvetan Todorov, “The Life of a Poet.” (R. M. Rilke). The Ben Bellit Lecture, Bennington College.
Tzvetan Todorov, "The Touvier Affair," in Salmagundi , winter, 1993.
Juan- Carlos Lertora: "Writing/Eroticism/Violence" prologue to Pia Barros: Astride, Santiago, Chile: Ergo Sum, 1992.
Tzvetan Todorov, "Old Scores," Salmagundi , fall, 1992.
F. Mahieu, "Why the North Can't Understand Africa," Dissent , July, 1992.
A series of six translations of catalogue essays concerning the History of French Libraries. Paris: Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, 1991.
Tzvetan Todorov, "Letter from Paris, ( Le Don des morts ) " Salmagundi , (winter, 1992)
Tzvetan Todorov, "Nationalism: the French Variant," Salmagundi (fall 1989).
Guy Scarpetta, "Kundera's Quartet," Salmagundi , no. 73, (winter 1987).
François Ricord, "Satan's Point of View" Salmagundi, no. 73, (winter 1987).
Monique Stern, "Jacques Cazotte," review article in Eighteenth Century Studies , (fall 1987).
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Le Testament de Dieu , (excerpts), The Chicago Review , (spring 1981).
Selected critical articles on Rodin and nineteenth century art for Ruth Butler, Rodin in Perspective , Prentice-Hall, 1980.
Michel Philip, The Paladin of the Accidental World, (fiction), The New Boston Review , (March 1979).
Jean Starobinski "From the Decline of Erudition to the Decline of Nations: Gibbon's response to French Thought," Daedalus , (summer 1976).
François Furet, "Civilization and Barbarism in Gibbon's History," Daedalus , (summer 1976).
Papers and Presentations (52)
Best Practices in Instructional Technology. 2 workshops at Bard College, Fall and Spring 2002
Best Practices in Instructional Technology. 2 workshop presentations at Middlebury College, 2,001 Project, July and August, 2000.
“ Soirée Utopie: autour de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.” Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris. May, 2000.
“Fantastic Space in Piranesi and Friedrich.” Guest lecture, Holy Cross College, April, 2000.
“The Uncanny in Patrick Süsskind's Perfume .” Guest lecture/class, Holy Cross College. April, 2000.
“Teaching and Instructional Technologies.” Invited presentation to the Trinity / Wesleyan/Connecticut College Mellon Consortium. Trinity College, March, 2000.
En marge du dix-neuvième siècle. NCFS Colloquium, Penn State University, October, 1998
“Artful Shenanigans: Painting, Prostitution, Cinema in Jean Renoir's La Chienne .” NCFS colloquium, Athens GA, October, 1997
“La Caricature pendant l'Affaire Dreyfus: emprunts, recyclages, lisibilité.” Lecture, Ecole des Chartes, Paris, January, 1997.
“Critique cinématographique et la création de la Nouvelle Vague.” Lecture, Ecole des Chartes, Paris, January, 1997.
“Les romans sans texte de Lynd Ward.” Lecture, Ecole des Chartes, Paris, January, 1997.
“Caricature's Dirty Secrets: Psst! , Le Sifflet and the Dreyfus Affair,” NCFS Colloquium, University of California at Santa Barbara, October, 1994.
“Satirical Illustration and the Literary Milieu of the Belle Epoque.” The Adler lecture, Skidmore College. February. 1994.
--with Ruth Copans: “Contemporary French Bookbinding and the Reassessment of Book Décor.” The Frederick W. Goudy Lecture at Scripps College, November 13, 1993.
“L'Assiette au beurre et le milieu littéraire de la Belle Epoque”: Conférences de DEA, Université de Nantes, mars, 1993.
"Danse Macabre: Le Pas de deux Baudelaire-Villiers" NCFS colloquium, SUNY Binghamton, October, 1992.
"Political illustration and Social Upheaval" and "The Baudelairean Intertext in Villiers's L'Eve future , Humanities Program, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, Oct., 1992.
"L'Enquête dans La Bête humaine de Zola" Conférences de DEA, Unversité de Nantes, March, 1992
"Manière noire: Avati, illustrator of the Contes cruels ", MLA, San Francisco, Dec. 1991
" La bête humaine : Zola, Renoir et les limites du naturalisme" and "Villiers de l'Isle-Adam et le délire" Conférences de DEA, Université de Nantes, March, 1991.
'Villiers' L'Eve Future ,' MLA, Chicago, 1990.
" L'Assiette au Beurre and the Literary Milieu of La Belle Epoque." NCFS Colloquium, Norman OK, October, 1990.
"Jean de Boschère and the Book of Trades" Word and Image Colloquium, Zurich, Switzerland, August 1990.
"Art and Prostitution in Jean Renoir's La Chienne ," invited lecture, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, April, 1990.
"Covering the Text: the Object of Bookbinding" invited lecture at the XXth Century French Studies Conference, University of Iowa, April, 1990.
"Travesties: Irony and Disguise in Marcel Carné's Drôle de Drame . NEMLA, Toronto, March-April 1990.
"French Literature and the Illustrated Book." Skidmore Adult Lecture series, Fall, 1989.
"Integration in foreign cultures: the Skidmore Junior Year Abroad experience" NAFSA regional meetings, SUNY/Albany, November, 1989.
' The Invention of Cinematography," Skidmore College lecture series, October, 1989.
"Revolution and Social Upheaval: French Civilisation and the Illustrated Book" an exhibition of illustrated books, with descriptive notices, the Lucy Scribner Library, Spring 1989.
"The First Films of François Truffaut" Northeast Senior Seminar, Skidmore College, July 17-21, 1989.
"Gender as Deviance" Frankenstein and the Two Cultures colloquium, Skidmore College, May 1989.
"Villiers aujourd'hui: une mise au point." MLA, New Orleans, Dec. 1988.
" Shoot the Piano Player : The Literary Pre-text." MLA, New Orleans, Dec. 1988.
"Heroes and Villains: The French New Wave and the Rewriting of Film History" Skidmore Adult Lecture Series, October, 1988.
"City, Crime, Community: Tavernier's Lyons in L'Horloger de St. Paul. " AATF conference, Boston, MA, July 1988.
"From New Wave Fiction to Political Fable: Alain Tanner and the Documentary Reflex," NEMLA, Providence RI, April 1988.
"Villiers de l'Isle-Adam et le livre art nouveau," MLA San Francisco, Dec. 1987.
"Paris, Poetry, Painting: The Idea of the Modern," Skidmore Adult Lecture Series, Dec. 1987.
"The livre d'artiste and fin de siècle literature," Columbia Rare Book School, July 1987.
"Sound/Tracks: Renoir Reassessed," NEMLA, Boston MA, April 1987.
"Frankenstein and Cinema in El Espiritu de la Colmena ," MLA, New York, Dec.1986.
"Temptations of Excess: Two Renditions of La Tentation de St Antoine ," Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, October, 1986.
"Zola, Renoir and the Burdens of Romanticism," University of West Virginia Colloquium on the Novel and Film, Morgantown WVA, September, 1986.
"Timeless Tomes;Occult Libraries in Villiers's Isis and Axël . MLA convention, Chicago, December, 1985.
"Victor's Throne: The Shade of Hugo in the Theater of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam," Hunter College Hugo Colloquium, October, 1985.
"Paris as Sign in Zola's La Curée and Le Ventre de Paris ," NEH Summer Seminar paper, Paris, August, 1985.
"Inscription and Intertext in Villiers's L'Eve Future ," MLA convention, Washington D.C., December 1984.
"Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and the Gnostic Tradition," Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, Bloomington, IN, October 1981.
"Monster in a Child's Eye: The Frankenstein Mythos in Victor Erice's Spirit of the Beehive ," NEMLA, Quebec City, April 1981.
"Marcel Carné's Drôle de drame and Filmic Satire," Franklin and Marshall Film Colloquium, Lancaster, PA, March 1979.
"Jean-Luc Godard and Postmodernism," Franklin and Marshall Film Colloquium, 1979.
Book Reviews (39)
Olivier Curchod and Christopher Faulkner: La Règle du jeu: scénario original . Paris: Nathan, 1999 in The French Review , fall, 2003
Naomi Greene: Landscapes of Loss . Princeton UP, 1998. Philosophy and Literature , Vol. 24. #1, April 2000.
Roland Schaer, ed. Tous les savoirs du monde . Review of the catalogue of the exhibition held at the Bibliothèque de France, BNF\/Flammarion, 1996. Bulletin du bibliophile , No. 1, 1998.
Sylvain Simon: La Religion de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam . Paris: Hachette, 1995. French Studies ., 1998
Renée Prédal: Histoire du cinéma .. Paris: Cinémaction, 1995. The French review , Vol. 70, #6 (May, 1997).
Renée Riese Hubert: Magnifying Mirrors . Licoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. The French Review. Vol. 70, #5 (April 1997).
Joan Kessler: Demons of the Night . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. The French Review Vol. 70, #5 (April, 1997).
M. Perez: Marcel Carné , in The French Review, Vol. 69, #5 (Apr. 1996).
Stéphane Mallarmé. Villiers de l'Isle-Adam . edition de A. W. Raitt. Exeter: The University Press, 1991. The French Review, Vol. 69, #3 (Feb. 1996).
Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. L'Eve future . édition critique de A. W. Raitt. Paris, Gallimard/Folio, 1992. Nineteenth Century French Studies ., Vol. 23, #3-4 (summer 1995).
Margaret Stetz and Mark Samuel Lasner, The Yellow Book , Bulletin du bibliphile , #1, 1995.
François Truffaut. Shoot the Piano Player . script and critical edition by Peter Brunette. New Brunswick: Rutgers Films in Print, 1992. The French Review , Vol. 68. #2 (December, 1994).
François Livi, J-K Huysmans: à rebours et l'esprit décadent in Nineteenth Century French Studies. Vol. 21, # 3-4 (spring-summer 1993).
— Les rencontres cinématogaphiques de Beaune (actes du colloque), The French Review, Vol. 67, no. 2 (December, 1993).
Jonathan Beecher, Charles Fourier , in The French Review, Vol. 66, no. 3 (Feb. 1993).
Avram Fleischman, Narrated Films , Philosophy and Literature, Vol. 18, no. 1 (April, 1994).
Naomi Greene, Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema of Heresy , in Philosophy and Literature Vol. 16, no. 1, (April, 1992).
Garel et al, Philippe de Broca , Paris: H. Veyrier, 1990, in The French Review, vol. 65, no. 4 (Mar. 1992).
Joseph Kessel. Hollywood, Ville mirage , Paris: Ramsey, 1989 in The French Review, vol. 65, no. 3, (Feb. 1992).
Jeremy Jennings. Syndicalism in France: A History of Ideas . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. in The French Review , vol. 65, no. 2, (December 1991).
Armond Fields. Henri Rivière and George Auriol . Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1984 and 1986; and Fossier, Heilbrun et Néagu, Henri Rivière, graveur et photographe, Paris: Dossiers du Musée d'Orsay, no. 23, 1988. Nineteenth Century French Studies , (Fall/Winter, 1989,90).
Alain Phillipon. Jean Eustache . Paris: Cahiers du cinéma, 1987 in The French Review (December 1989).
Monique Fol. Jean de Boschère ou le chemin du retour . New York: Peter Lang, 1988, in The French Review, Vol. 63, no. 3 (Feb. 1990).
Gaston Haustrate. Bertrand Blier . Paris: Edilig, 1989. in The French Review, Vol. 63, no. 3 (Feb. 1990).
Robin. La fièvre d'un tournage: 37,2 le matin (Betty Blue) . Paris: Sèguier, 1989. in The French Review , Vol. 64, no. 2 (December, 1990).
Renée Riese Hubert. Surrealism and the Book . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987, in L'Esprit Créateur , XXIX, no. 2 (Summer 1989).
Freddy Buache. Le Cinéma français des années soixante. Paris: Hachette, cinq continents, The French Review , LXII, no. 6 (May 1989).
Brian Lewis. Jean Mitry and the Aesthetics of the Cinema . Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984, in The French Review , LXII, no. 2 (December 1988).
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam. Œuvres Complètes , éd. de P. G. Castex et A. W. Raitt. Paris: Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléïade, 1986, in L'Esprit Créateur , XXVIII, no. 1 (Spring 1988).
Ora Avni. Tics, Tics, et Tics: Figures, Syllogismes, Récit dans Les Chants de Maldoror . Kentucky: French Forum, 1984, in The French Review , LXI, no. 3 (February 1988).
Paul Virilio. Logistique de la perception: Guerre et Cinéma , Paris: Cahiers du cinéma, 1983, in The French Review , LXI, no. 3 (February, 1988).
Jacques Noiray. Le Romancier et la machine, vol. II: Jules Verne et Villiers de L'Isle-Adam . Paris: José Corti, 1982, in L'Esprit Créateur, XXVI, no. 4 (Winter 1986).
Rostand. Cyrano de Bergerac , édition critique de Jacques Truchet. Paris: L'Imprimerie nationale, 1984. in The French Review , LX, no. 2 (December 1986).
Jefferson Humphries. The Otherness Within Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1983, in The French Review , LIX, no. 6 (May 1986).
Manuel Esteban. Georges Feydeau . Boston: G.K. Hall, 1983, in The French Review , LVIX, no. 1 (October 1985).
Robert M. Adams. Tomorrow's Eve , and Marilyn G. Rose, Eve of the Future Eden , two translations of Villiers' L'Eve Future , in The French Review, LVIII, no. 5 (April 1985).
Alan w. Raitt. The Life of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , Oxford: The Carendon Press, 1981, in The French Review , LVII, no. 5 (April 1984).
Alexander Sesonske. Jean Renoir, The French Films , 1924-1939. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980, in Degré Second, no. 6 (July 1982) 208-211.
William T. Conroy. Villiers de l'Isle-Adam . Boston: Twayne, 1978, Degré Second, no.5 (July 1981), 134-136.
Professional Service
Member , Selection Committee, for the 1997 and 1998 Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquia.
Chair, “Sight and Sounds” Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Delaware, October, 1995.
- Organizer and speaker, special session: Villiers's L'Eve Future : : Interdisciplinary Textuality, MLA Chicago, 1990.
-Chair, special session on Villiers' L'Eve future , NCFS Colloquium, University of New Hampshire, Durham, October, 1989.
-Organizer and speaker, Special Session Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , Traditions and New Directions . MLA, New Orleans, Dec. 1988.
-Co-Organizer and Speaker, MLA Special Session: Imaginary Libraries: Exploring the Stacks , Chicago, IL, December 1985.
-Co-Organizer and Speaker, MLA Special Session: Supermen and Iron Maidens , Washington D.C., December 1985.
-Chair (1982) Symbolism section, NCFS Colloquium, U Mass/Amherst, Oct. 1983.
-Secretary, (1982); Chair, (1983), NEMLA Film session
Professional memberships and affiliations
-Film Review Editor, The French Review
-Consultant, Academic Programs Abroad Program
-Editorial Consultant, Nineteenth Century French Studies , The French Review, Arachné
-Modern Language Association
-American Association of Teachers of French
-Nineteenth Century French Studies
-Affiliated contributor, Association Internationale de Bibliophilie
-Skidmore voting representative, Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE)
Committee Work, Community Service at Skidmore College
From Fall 2003, Member, CFG
Fall 2003: CEPP subcommittee on diversity and international education (appointed)
2000-2003, Member, Committee on Appointments, Promotions and Tenure (CAPT); Chair, 2001-02
Fall 2001, Member. Search Committee for Director of the Office of International Programs
Spring, 2000. Member, Search Committe for VPAA/ DOF
1997-2000, Mellon Grant Committee (FLL). Chair, 1997-98
1992-1998- Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
1995-1997- Faculty Observer to the Board of Trustees
1995-1996- Chair, Administrative Review of Kent Jones, Dean of Enrollment and of College Relations.
Spring-Fall, 1995- Campus Campaign Steering Committee
1987-present- - Interpretor, Saratoga Springs Hospital
1991-Fall term - Dept. subcommittee on the Language Requirement
Dept. subcommittee on the 1992-93 self-study
1986-1998, Campus Coordinator Junior Year Abroad program.
1990-1991- Coordinator, Junior Year Abroad Program, and director, Paris program
- Institutional Planning Committee
- Chair, Subcommittee on Campus Environment
- Chair, Task Force on Parking
1989-90
Chair, Administrative review of Donald J. McCormack, Dean of Special Programs
- Institutional Planning and Policy Committee
1988-89
- Chair, Programs Abroad Committee
- Chair, Admissions Committee
- Admissions Screening Group, Regents College Program
- UWW, Admissions Committee representative
- TECC, departmental liaison
1987-88-
- Admissions Committee
- UWW, Admissions Committee Representative
- Coordinator, Junior Year Abroad Program
- Chair, Programs Abroad Committee
- LS I-special events subcommittee
- TECC-departmental liaison
1986-87-
- Interim Chair, Program's Abroad Committee
- Member, Dean's Task Force on Secondary Education
- TECC-departmental liaison
- Library Committee (Spring 87)
- Liberal Studies I, format and special event subcommittees (Spring 87)