Judith Preckshot
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Department of French and Italian |
Statement of Interests
Professor Preckshot's teaching and research have taken her principally along two tracks, the one engaging her in the study of 20th-century poetry (prose poem and Surrealism), and the other in the esthetics and cultural dimensions of francophone literature, with an emphasis on North African writing and the literature of immigration in France. Recent graduate courses she has taught turn around questions of orality in francophone literature; the intersection of gender, nationality and individual identity in francophone writing in general, and in the literature of immigration (to France) in particular; the literature of war and civil conflict in Algeria; the influence of Surrealism on 20th-century poets; and the basic concepts of literary theory.
Selected Publications
Articles
"An Historical Obsession: Counter-Narration in Rachid Mimouni's Tombeza," Research in African Literatures, 34:2 (2003): 75-93.
"'L'Education obligatoire' et les voix minoritaires dans les écrits francophones," French Review, 74:4 (2001): 660-72.
"Valentine Penrose," in The Feminist Companion to French Literature, ed. Eva Martin Sartori (Greenwood Press, 1999).
Translation of Anne-Marie Christin, "La Pensée visuelle et narration: les revues-images de Philippe Clerc," in Conjunctions: Literature, Visual Arts, Theory (San Diego State University Press, 1996).
"Identity Crises in Joyce Mansour's Narratives," in Surrealism and Women, ed. Mary Ann Caws, Rudolf Kuenzli and Gwen Raabert (MIT Press, 1991): 96-113.
"Photos et fétiches: les nus vêtus d'André Breton et de Roland Barthes," Lendemains, 51 (1988): 72-85.
"Henri Michaux's Bras cassé: A 'Fractured' Fairy Tale," L'Esprit Créateur, 26:3 (1986): 51-64.
"Press Art: Poets and Their Printing Machines," Visible Language, 19:4 (1985): 499-518.
"A Case of Entrapment: Francis Ponge's L'Araignée mise au mur," Stanford French Review, 7 (1983): 325-39.
"Plume: Travels with Henri Michaux, or the Gourmet's Tour?" Dada/Surrealism 1-11 (1982): 81-94.