Virginie A. Duzer

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Chair of Romance Languages and Literatures; Coordinator of the French Section
virginie.pouzet-duzer@pomona.edu
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With 91做厙 Since: 2008
Virginie Duzer
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  • Expertise

    Expertise

    Virginie A. Duzers research deals mainly with the relation between texts, images and aesthetics in the avant-gardes of the years 1870-1970.

    Her first book, Limpressionisme litt矇raire (2013), aims at defining what literary impressionism really is. To do so, she gathers discourses of art history, literary history, cultural history and stylistic analysis. Focusing on the connections between writers and artists, the book provides its readers with a rich cultural snapshot of an epoch (Sidma Godfrey). 

    Duzer has also written several articles about the decadent figure of Salom矇 (to whom she dedicated a whole blog in 2005), as well as on the-said obscure poet St矇phane 紼硃梭梭硃娶鳥矇 and on the lesser known fascinating surrealist poet Benjamin P矇ret.  

    When asked to describe her research methodology, Duzer explains that it is eclectic in its very essence. For her, thinking and writing always begin with a fragment, a point, an interstice, an intersection, an oxymoron or a paradox. She argues that this is where creativity and subjectivity matter most. From there, she works to ferret out a bigger picture, by coming back to theory and socio-historical matters. And in the end, her main research goal is hence to establish connections and links between works and movements that are rarely studied together

    Research Interests

    The relation between texts, images and aesthetics in the avant-gardes (from Impressionism towards Surrealism and Situationnisme)

    Areas of Expertise

    FRENCH

    • Artistic & Literary French Avant-Garde
    • The Myth of Salom矇
    • Contemporary French Literature and Film
    • 紼硃梭梭硃娶鳥矇

    L梆啦楚賊插啦惚賊楚

    • Text & Image Interactions
    • Literary Impressionism
    • Surrealism
    • Aesthetics
  • Work

    Work

    Le surr矇alisme ne sera pas ce quil nest plus. Co-written with Marcela Scibiorska, in 1947. Almanach litt矇raire. Impressions nouvelles. 2017. 193-199

    Impressions d璽mes 矇crivant. Lcrivain vu par la photographie. Formes, usages, enjeux, Ed. David Martens, Jean-Pierre Montier & Anne Reverseau. Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes. 2017. 134-141.

    Voyages imaginaires avec Charles Baudelaire et Amelie Nothomb, a teaching module for advanced students in French, co-developed with Vera A. Klekovkina, in Entre-textes: Dialogues litt矇raires et culturels, co- edited by OanaPanaite and Vera A. Klekovkina, Routledge. 2017. 198-217.

    Co-editor (and co-writer of the introduction) of the M矇lusine special issue devoted to gender in Surrealism: Masculin-F矇min, M矇lusine XXXVI. Paris: LAge dHomme, 2016.

    Zacharie Astruc, mod癡le et personnage au carrefour des arts. in Le texte et limage, special issue of Histoires litt矇raires, Ed. Julien Bougousslavsky. Editions Du L矇rot. Juillet-D矇cembre 2014 vol. XV, no. 59-60. 101-111.

    "Le Fruit d矇fendu." Introduction to Savoirs de jeunes filles, special issue of Romantisme, Ed. Virginie A. Duzer, issue  no. 165. 2014. 3-12

    Editor of the Romantisme special issue devoted to young girls knowledge: Savoirs de jeunes filles, Romantisme. No. 165 Paris: Armand Collin, 2014.

    Le surr矇alisme en 矇quations. . Ed. Muriel Lou璽pre, Hugues Marchal & Michel Pierssens. .  2014. 399-411.

    Dada, Surrealism, Antropofagia: The Swallowing Process of the Avant-garde, Old and New, Avant-garde and Arri癡re-garde in French Modernist Literature, special issue of lEsprit cr矇ateur. vol. 53, no. 3 Ed. Jan Baetens & Eric Trudel, Fall 2013. 7990.

    L'Impressionnisme litt矇raire, Saint-Denis, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2013.

  • Education

    Education

    Ph.D.
    Duke University, NC

    Master of Arts
    Kent State University, OH

    Ma簾trise FLE & D.E.A. de Lettres Modernes
    Universit矇 Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III

    Recent Courses Taught

    • Who's afraid of Marcel Proust?
    • Writing the Painter, Painting the Writer
    • Advanced French
    • Cannibalizing Surrealism
    • Frenchness: May 68 and Beyond
    • Intro to Literary Analysis
    • The Art of Modern Fiction
    • Notre Dame, Point 0
  • Awards & Honors

    Awards & Honors

    The Borchard Foundation, Scholar in Residence, Chateau de la Bretesche, Missillac, France, fall 2017 and fall 2011

    91做厙; Harriet Barnard Summer Fellowship, summer 2010, summer 2015 and summer 2019

    91做厙; Yale-Griffith Summer Fellowship, summer 2009 and summer 2013

    Institut Fran癟ais de Washington ; Edouard Morot-Sir Research Fellowship, summer 2008

    Duke University Graduate School; Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, April 2008

    Duke University Graduate School; Teaching Mini-Grant, 2007-2008

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