Therese Migraine George

Associate Professor
716D Old Chemistry Building
513-556-2748
therese.migraine-george@uc.edu

Professional Summary

My areas of research are: African and Francophone literature, French and Francophone women writers, and queer studies.

Education

Maîtrise de Lettres Modernes , Université Lyon 3, France, 1993.

MA in French, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, 1993.

MA in English, University of Missouri at St Louis, 1994.

DEA de Langue, Littérature et Civilisation Française, Université Lyon 3, France, 1995.

PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2000.

Peer Reviewed Publications

1996. "Aux Antipodes de l'Exotisme, ou l'Envers de la Carte Postale dans l'Œuvre de Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska." Women in French Studies: 4-13.

1999. "Specular Desires: Orpheus and Pygmalion as Aesthetic Paradigms in Petrarch's Rime Sparse" (A. Owen Aldridge Prize). Comparative Literature Studies 36 (3): 226-246.

2003. "Ama Ata Aidoo's Orphan Ghosts: African Literature and Aesthetic Postmodernity." Research in African Literatures 34 (4): 83-95.

2003. "Beyond the'Internalist' vs. 'Externalist' Debate: African Homosexuals' Local-Global Identities in Two Films, Woubi Chéri and Dakan." Journal of African Cultural Studies 16 (1): 45-56.

2007. "Swiss Trash: L'Autre Suisse de Dunia Miralles." International Journal of Francophone Studies (10th Anniversary Volume) 10 (1-2): 173-191.

2007: "'L'Autre' dans Champs de bataille et d'amour de Véronique Tadjo." Women in French Studies 15: 67-83.

Forthcoming 2010: "De Traversée de la mangrove à Histoire de la femme cannibale: l'Art comme 'Arme Miraculeuse' chez Maryse Condé." Romanic Review 101 (3).

Forthcoming (Invited contribution): "La Femme de Gilles de Madeleine Bourdouxhe ou la 'fugurante identité' d'un roman belge de langue française." Special issue of International Journal of Francophone Studies.

Books

2008. African Women and Representation: From Performance to Politics. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press.
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2009. Mes Etats-Unis: Portraits d’une Amérique que vous ne connaissez pas. (Essay). Paris: Editions Edilivre. [Link]

Book Chapters

2006. "From Exile to Dislocation: Anowa's Wandering Agency in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa." In African Literatures at the Millennium, edited by Arthur D. Drayton, Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, and I. Peter Ukpokodu. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. 95-103.

Forthcoming: “‘The Child is Dead’: Motherhood, Sacrifice, and the Promise of the Next Generation in Véronique Tadjo’s Reine Pokou.” In Memories of Home: Generations and Genealogy in African Writing, edited by Yianna Liatsos. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

Forthcoming: “Performances of Power, Mimicry, and Subversion in Tess Onwueme’s Work.” In Emerging Perspectives on Tess Onwueme, edited by Maureen N. Eke. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

Fiction

Amour de travers. (Novel). Submitted to French publishers.

Other Experience and Professional Memberships

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2008 Early Summer Instructional Technology Institute, UC.

2008-2009, AP reader in French, Louisville, Kentucky.