Marie-Denise Shelton, Ph.D.

Professor of French

Department

Modern Languages and Literatures

Areas of Expertise

African Literature
Caribbean Literature and Culture
French Language and Literature

Education

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Research and Publications

BOOKS

Eloge du Séisme – Le tremblement de terre en littérature, L'Harmattan, Paris, France, 2015

Haiti et les autres: la Révolution imaginée, L'Harmattan, Paris, France, 2011

Borders/Exiles/Diaspora, eds. E. Barkan and Marie-Denise Shelton, Stanford University Press, 1998.

Image de la Société dans le roman haïtien, L'Harmattan, Paris, France, 1993

ARTICLES

“Le ‘clos’ et l’ ‘ouvert’ ou l’universel au coeur du particulier”, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Volume 19, Issue 3, 2015.

“Frankétienne au feminin” in Typo/Topo/Poéthique: sur Frankétienne, Editions l’Harmattan, Paris, France 2008.

“Imagining the Haitian Revolution: The Caribbean Perspective”, Sargasso, 2006-2007.

Various articles in journals such as The French Review, World Literature Today, Callaloo, Sargasso, Women in French, Presence Francophone, Presence Africaine, and Notre Librairie

"Le défi théâtral dans L'Antigone Créole et la Tragédie du Roi Christophe",Boutures,Février 2000.

"Identité créole et mémoire", Haitian Studies Journal, UC Santa Barbara, Spring 1999.

"La problématique de l'espace dans l'oeuvre de Marie Chauvet", Notre Librairie, Paris, Janvier 1998.

"Primitive Self: Colonial Impulses in Leiris' l'Afrique Fantome" in Prehistories of the Future, ed. E. Barkan & R. Bush, Stanford University Press, 1995

"Le nouveau cri" in A History of Literature in the Caribbean, ed. Arnold, A. James, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1994

"Condé: The Politics of Gender and Identity", World Literature Today, Nov. 1993

"Haitian Women Writers", Callaloo, October 1992

"Literature Extracted: a poetic of daily life" in Callaloo, March 1992

"Caribbean Women Writers in French" in Caribbean Women Writers, ed. Selwyn Cudjoe, Massachussetts Univ. Press, 1990.

"Une église contre l'Eglise", Contemporary French Civilization, Vol. IX, #2, 1985

"Le Monde noir dans la littérature dadaiste et surréaliste", The French Review, Vol. 57, #3, 1984.

"Une poésie contre les colonialismes", David Diop Temoignages - Etudes, Presence Africaine, 1983

(Other articles and reviews on French and Francophone Literature)

Contact:
Thursday 1:15-2:15 p.m.
Tuesday 1:15-2:15 p.m.