MMLA

2022, Minneapolis, MN, November 17-20

I. The Ethics and Aesthetics of "Post-Now" Literature and Film
Chair: Jennifer Howell, Illinois State University

• “After the End and Into the Void? Marie Darrieussecq's White (2003) and Planetary Futures.” Lika Kunde Balenvoich, University of California, Los Angeles.
• “Post-New? Contemporary Body Horror Films and New French Extremity.” Livi Yoshioka-Maxwell, St. Olaf College.

II. Post-Conflict Narratives of the Maghreb Women in French
Chair: Jennifer Howell, Illinois State University

• “Post-Revolutionary Tunisia in comics and Cartooning: Repression, Revolution, Resistance, and Reform?” Jennifer Howell, Illinois State University.
• “Reconquérir une vie.” Maria G. Traub, Neumann University.
• “La vie post guerre et post greffe: Leïla Slimani's roman de famille.” Maria Vendetta, St. Olaf College.

2021, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 4-7

I. Women in French I: In-Person Session
Chair: Jennifer Howell, Illinois State University

• “The representation of transculturalism in Kim Thúy’s novels.” Christina Brassard, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
• “Voix de la collectivité/voies de la résistance dans Les petits de Décembre de Kaouther Adimi.” Nevine El Nossery, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• “The Gothic Politics of Caroline Wuiet’s Le Couvent de Sainte Catherine (1810): Émigré Communities in Post-Revolutionary Europe.” Alice Coulter Main, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• “Defining speakerhood, defining community: Gallésantes and verbal art in Brittany, France.” Sandra Keller, Illinois State University.

II. Women in French II: Virtual Session
Chair: Jennifer Howell, Illinois State University

• “La (Bio)diversité au service d’une prise de position dans Le Palais des orties de Marie Nimier.” Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier, Pacific University.
• “Overcoming the Void: The Female Protagonists Immigration Left Behind.” Cheryl Toman, University of Alabama.
• “Fiction pour fiction: l’écriture de Nicole Brossard comme projet collectif de riposte au régime discursif patriarcal.” Ramon A Fonkoué, University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

2019 Special Sessions

I. New Familial Dualities in French and Francophone Literature (Panel 1 of 2)
Chair: Adrienne Angelo, Auburn University

• "Mother-Daughter Dualities, Trauma, and Transmission in Nelly Arcan’s Works." Adrienne Angelo, Auburn University.
• "Family, Nation, and Education in Coline Serreau’s films: Transgression or Transmission?" Marie-Pierre Caquot Baggett, South Dakota State University.
• "Être grand-mère. La déclaration d’amour de Noëlle Châtelet et de Francine Noël." Catherine Grech, Collège de Saint-Laurent.

II. New Familial Dualities in French and Francophone Literature (Panel 2 of 2)
Chair: Nevine El Nossery, University of Wisconsin Madison

• "Doubled Troubled Mother: Doppelganger and Motherhood in Nathacha Appanah." Mark D. Lee, Mount Allison University.
• "Female familial harmonics in Darriuessecq’s Le Mal de mer." Caroline Whiteman, Missouri Western University.
  
• "Récit au jumeau décédé: Olivier de Jérôme Garcin." Béatrice Vernier, Université de Lakehead.

III. Alter ego/autre moi: doubles, correspondences, and crossings in contemporary French-language Narratives
Chair: Maria Vendetti, St Olaf College

• "Corps étrangers : crossings and stand-ins in recent francophone Tunisian immigration narratives." Maria Vendetti, St Olaf College.
• "Laure / Lanor(exie): Doubles in Delphine de Vigan's Jours sans faim." Jolene Barjasteh, St Olaf College.
• "Correspondances : (Re)tracing Itineraries in Rachid Boudjedra's Le Vainqueur de coupe." Livi Yoshioka-Maxwell, St Olaf College.