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Michele E Vialet

Professor
741 Old Chemistry Building
513-556-1844
michele.vialet@uc.edu

Education

PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1985.

Maîtrise de linguistique, Université de Besançon, Besançon, 1974.

Research Interests

Francophone Women Writers
Literary Representations of Women and Children's Issues in contemporary Arabo-French Literatures
17th-Century French Literature; Comic Novels; Classical Theater; the Moralists; the Power of Laughter

Peer Reviewed Publications

“‘La nuit de la langue perdue’: défaite et legs de la mère dans Vaste est la prison d’Assia Djebar.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 2009 (forthcoming)

“Connais-toi toi-même: Identité et sexualité chez Maryse Condé.” Notre librairie: Nouvelles écritures féminines 118 (1994): 70-76.

“Portrait d'un poète en prison: ‘La lettre de Théophile à son frère’.” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 40 (1994): 30-43

“L'opéra en classe de français: du rock au baroque.” The French Review 65.4 (March 1992): 589-601.

“Le bourgeois gentilhomme en contexte: du texte au spectacle.” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 32 (1990): 51-58

“Adolphe: échec en amour ou temporisation politique?” Annales Benjamin Constant 5 (1985): 51-71.

“Between Sound and Fury: Assia Djebar’s Poetics of l’entre-deux-langues.” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Foreign Literatures 56.3 (Fall 2002): 149-62.

Invited Publications

“Assia Djebar: A Bibliographical Update.” African Literature Association Bulletin 27.1 (Winter 2000): 43-60. (Invited contribution)

Books

Muyskens, Judith, Linda Harlow, Michèle Vialet and Jean-François Brière. Bravo! 6th edition. [1st edition: Muyskens/Harlow/Vialet, 1989] Boston: Thompson Cengage Learning, 2009. xiv + 512 pp.

Loriot-Raymer, Gisèle and Michèle Vialet (sous la direction de Judith Muyskens). A vous d'écrire. Atelier de français. A French Composition textbook. San Francisco: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1996. xvi + 266 pp.

Vialet, Michèle. Triomphe de l'iconoclaste. "Le roman bourgeois" et les lois de cohérence romanesque. Paris-Seattle-Tübingen: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 1989

Book Chapters

“Langage d'Esther et transcendance d'Iphigénie: Commentaire.” Actes de Colombus: Racine, Fontenelle, Histoire et littérature. Ed. Charles G. S. Williams. Paris-Seattle-Tübingen: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 1990. 97-108

“Jealousy.” Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs. Ed. Jean-Charles Seigneuret. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1988. 2 vol. Vol. I: 675-690.

“Le roman bourgeois: écriture de l'incohérence.” Les contes de Perrault, la contestation et ses limites, Furetière (Actes de Banff-1986). Ed. Michel Bareau et al. Paris-Seattle-Tübingen: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 1987. 373-388.

Vialet, Michèle & Buford Norman. “Sexual and Artistic Politics under Louis XIV: The Persephone Myth in Quinault's and Lully's Prosperpine.” Images of Persephone. Feminist Readings in Western Literature. Ed. Elizabeth Hayes. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1994. 47-74.

“Cohérence et fonction-auteur: Les Conjectures académiques de l'abbé d'Aubignac.” Alteratives. Ed. Warren Motte and Gerald Prince. Lexington: French Monographs, 1993. 203-214.

“Filles et mères dans Vaste est la prison : un ethos de survie.” Assia Djebar, nomade entre les murs. Pour une politique transfrontalière (Actes du Colloque International Assia Djebar, Paris, Novembre 2003). Ed. Mireille Calle-Gruber. Paris : Maisonneuve et Larose, 2005. 261-66.

Creative Translations

Charles Bernheimer, “L'Exhubérant textual: castration et sublimation
chez Huysmans.” Romantisme 45 (1984): 105-113

Other Publications

Loriot-Raymer/ Vialet. Instructor’s Manual to Accompany “A vous d'écrire.” San Francisco: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1996. 31 pp

Loriot-Raymer, Gisèle, Michèle Vialet and Nicole Fandel. A vous d'écrire. Cahier d'exercices. San Francisco: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1996. 134 pp.

Vialet, Michèle with Linda Woodson, John C. Rechtien, Médoune Guèye and William E. Hull. "Stylistics Annotated Bibliography for 1987-88." Style 23.4 (Winter 1989): 618-656.

Invited Presentations

(11-2005). The 2005 French Urban Riots: Representation of the Youth and Minority Rights in the Media. The National Jewish Committee Executive Board, Cincinnati, OH.

(10-2005). Witnessing and Writing: Testimony vs. Fiction in Remembering. Department of Modern languages, University of South Carolina-Upstate, Spartanburg, SC.

(04-2005). Langue de colonisation et langue d’élection: le français au Maghreb et au Moyen Orient. Séminaire sur la francophonie (Invitation de Dr. Ames et Dr. Picanço), U. of Cincinnati.

(04-2004). The ‘Events of Algeria,’ France and the media in the late 1950s: Gillo Pontecorvo’s Battle of Algiers. Seminar in Prof. Frierson’s class, Department of History, U of Cincinnati.

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