...Hervé Picherit [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 demystification accommodation graduates I was deeply saddened in 2018 to learn of Hayden White’s death. 1 I had the privilege of meeting White my...

... of New York, Graduate Center) Martine Reid. Signer Sand. L'(Euvre et Ie nom. Paris: Belin, 2003. Pp. 237. 2004 marque Ie bicentenaire de George Sand comme celui du Code Civil qui prevoyait une coquette amende pour "quiconque, sans droit et en vue de s'attribuer une distinction honorifique, a publiquement...

... prologue du Gargantua, veritable plaque tournante de l'reuvre. Brooklyn College and the Graduate Cente~ City University of New York 35. Pantagruel souligne cet etat panurgien juste apres la consultation de Trouillogan et aavant les episodes de Bridoye et de Triboulet: "'Vous me semblez une souriz empe- gee...

... chrestiennes de la cuisine papale, texte la charniere du developpement de la satire renaissante syncretique, ne sauraient que profiter d'un tellignage prestigieux au service de son melange createur. Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY ...

... was shattered. Me shattered, him the confident master of a student he did not know. I remember Michael Riffaterre. All facets, all faces. As I look back I see all facets, all faces, how tricky it is to work with a master. Such a loss is immeasurable. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York ...

... by the water, with equally long conversations about poetry. This was the Mike Riffaterre I knew best, and long. Graduate School of the City University of New York The Romanic Review Volume 101 Numbers 1-2 © The Trustees of Columbia University ...

... was surprised. As a third-year graduate student, my experience with the world of academia is limited, and I am no expert on the progression of French and Francophone studies through the years. Yet considering the future of this field of study also led me to consider some questions about my own future: What am I...

..., yet supported my decision and let me know that should I wish to return, she would be in my camp. After I graduated she remained a source of support and advice. Gita May engaged in the aspects of mentoring graduate students that are often invisible to academic institutions. She encouraged her students...

...Ferial J. Ghazoul Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Ferial]. Ghazoul RIFFATERRE OF THE 1970s When I joined Columbia University in the early 1970s as a graduate student in the Department of Comparative Literature, I attended seminars and graduate courses in different...

...[,] mystifying and mystified” (Fanon 12). ________ We, as graduate students, have our own parts to play. And yet it is hard to justify even more acts of labor for institutions in which we feel unmoored, isolated, and burned-out. What is the role of the graduate student? Are we employees or burgeoning...

... personally known Michael Riffaterre from the time, in 1953, when he set foot on American soil as a doctoral candidate until his retirement as University Professor in 2004. In those early days, we took some of the same graduate courses and began teaching at the same time, sharing the two sections of the same...

... in French literature and particularly in e­ ighteenth-c­ entury studies and was excited to attend my first academic conference. I had already been accepted to a number of graduate programs and wanted to meet leading scholars to help inform my final choice. I was privileged to hear Professor May speak...

..., I was employed as one of his English-language editorial assistants (this job lasted from 1988 until 1996, while I was in graduate school in the Columbia English department). The fact that he saw fit to enter the fray of hypertextual theory continues to strike me as a signal instance of what I took...

... perversion contradiction psychoanalysis queer theory Roland Barthes’s Le Plaisir du texte was published in 1973; I read it for the first time in 1974. In 1987, I wrote that Barthes’s Le Plaisir , “published while I was a graduate student, heartened me, gave me the courage to write” ( Thinking...

... is the goal for graduates of our programs: accentless fluency, reading proficiency, or simply cultural literacy? How should we think about cases such as, say, Algeria, where fluency or at least proficiency in languages other than French would be necessary to understand the fuller context of certain cultural...

... some personal reminiscences of Michael Riffaterre. The first time I saw him was in the classroom. The semester I began my graduate studies at Columbia, in the fall of 1985, he was offering a seminar on Proust. I still remember the course description, which was at once admirably concise and absolutely...

... words seem useless, our shock and sorrow are so great. Phil was a student in the first graduate course I ever taught, a seminar on fascist aesthetics here at Columbia in 1983. He was a first-year graduate student and I was a first-year professor that year, and if he recognized my terror, he was too nice...

... on Sunday and remain completely unruffled." At the end of the interview, he extends his hand to the interviewer, French-style, and he says: "Sometimes my French background cannot be suppressed." This reminds me of a joke that was popular among graduate students at Columbia in the 1980s. It said that you...

... Honneur in 2006. In addition to the many honors and awards Gita received during her career, she earned the admiration and gratitude of her many graduate students. As someone who had faced adversity in both her personal and her professional life, Gita provided a unique variety of mentorship to her graduate...

... for, and secure, a graduate teaching assistantship in the United States through the ministère de l’Èducation . I really wanted to go away and abroad, to experience, beyond the magic of reading literature, another culture, another language, another system. I landed at Michigan State University, where my initial...