RMMLA

2022, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 13-15

I. Réalisatrices françaises contemporaines 
Chair: Michèle Bacholle, Eastern Connecticut State University  

• “Romane Bohringer L'amour flou et le sépartement.” Sylvie Blum-Reid, University of Florida, Gainesville.
  
• “Decentering French Cinema: Viewing Mati Diop's Atlantique in Senegal and Beyond.” Anna Keefe, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.   
• “Julia Ducournau's Caring (For) 'Monsters' in Titane.” Michèle Bacholle, Eastern Connecticut State University.

II. Jewish Women and Francophone Women and Women Writers 
Chair: E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta University and Nancy M. Arenberg, University of Arkansas 

• “Enslavement by Judaic Law: Adultery and Forbidden Desire in Éliette Abécassis's Et tu te voici permise à tout homme.” Nancy Arenberg, University of Arkansas.  
• “Education of Alienation/The Knowledge of Exclusion.” Christina Leah Sztajnkrycer, Pennsylvania State University. 
• “Élisabeth Gille's Le Mirador–Mémoires rêvés: Reconstruction the Self–Dreaming the Fictional Mémoires of her Mother.” Elisabeth Christine Muelsch, Angelo State University. 

III. Space, Place, Time and Identity in French and Francophone Narratives I 
Chair: E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta University and CJ Gomolka, DePauw University 

• “Another Place, Another Prison: Marie Mancini's Negotiation of Autonomy.” Sarah Nelson, University of Idaho. 
• “Parlance cosmique et épistémologique dans le temps et l'espace de Chair Piment de Gisèle Pineau.” Frédérique Cheviot, University of Denver.   
• “Catherine Meurisse dans le chemin de Jocelyne François: Nature et lignes de faille dans La Jeune femme et la mer (2021).” Annabelle Dolidon, Portland State University.
• “'j'étais étrangère à la race humaine toute entière': Marginalisation raciale et Romantisme dans Ourika de Claire de Duras.” Francis Mathieu, Southwestern University. 

IV. Space, Place, Time and Identity in French and Francophone Narratives II  
Chair: E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta University  

• “Identité et voix narratives dans Ourika.” Jacqueline Ebelabena, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 
• “'Sortir du temps dans l'oubli total': L'Allemagne dans Une femme s'en va de Diane Monique Daviau.” Louise-Hélène Filion, University of Michigan. 
• “Cameroon French Storytelling Novels Between Hetero-di-glossia and Gender Discourse Ideologies: Ethnostylistic Analysis of Les femmes mariées mangent déjà le gésier (2013) and Les hommes ne savent plus draguer (2018) by Marcel Kemajou Njanke.” Vanessa Awe, University of Missouri, Columbia.
• “Living Bodies: Transfeminism: Paul B. Preciado, and the Queer Politics of (Un)naming.” CJ Gomolka, DePaul University. 
  

V. La Francophone Existait-elle Avant Notre Ère  
Chair: Glenn Fetzer, New Mexico State University  

• “La francophonie avant son entrée dans le dictionnaire: rappel d'une histoire largement negligée.” Samir I. Spencer, Auburn University. 
• “Margins, Voices, Pathways in Evelyne Bornier's Le Lit de l'exilée/The Bed of the Exile (2017).” Eric Touya de Marine, Clemson University.
• “Lack and the Space of Confinement in the Later Creative Works of Doria Shafik.” Glenn Fetzer, New Mexico State University. 

VI. Screening  Women in Nineteenth-Century France and the Francophone World
Chair: Courtney Sullivan, Washburn University  

• “The Sororité of the Women of Le Bazar de la Charité.” Noëlle Brown, Kennesaw State University. 
• “Un militantisme cousu main - Papicha (2019) de Mounia Meddour.” Marie-Line Brunet, Ball State University.
• “Discord and the Salon in the Works of Delphine Gay de Girardin.”  Joyce Johnston, Stephen F. Austin State University.
• “'Elles font tout sauf l'amour': Maison close Revisits the Heartless Harlot in 1871 Paris.” Courtney Sullivan, Washburn University. 

VIII. Teaching Roundtable: Innovations  
Chair: Joyce Johnston, Stephen F. Austin State University  

• “#citeblackwomen.” Caroline Fache, Davidson College. 
• “Student-Oriented Curriculum.” Glenn Fetzer, New Mexico State University.
• “Des clés pour enseigner Petit Pays.” Marie-Line Brunet, Ball State University.

2021, Virtual, October 14-16

I. Invisible Women in French Cinema and Literature 
Chair: Michèle Bacholle, Eastern Connecticut State University  

• “The foreign femme fatale in Renoir’s La Nuit du Carrefour.” Sylvie Blum-Reid, University of Florida, Gainesville.
  
• “Retancourt, la montagne invisible de Fred Vargas.” Florence Marsal, University of Connecticut.  
• “Le cœur synthétique: Chloé Delaume contre l’invisibilisation du vieillissement.” Dawn M. Cornelio, University of Guelph.
• “Celle que vous [ne v]oyez [pas]: Les faux-semblants de Camille Laurens.”Michèle Bacholle, Eastern Connecticut State University.

II. Space, Place and Time in French Francophone Women’s Narratives 
Chair: E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta University  

• “Multimodal Spaces: Reconstructions of Migrant Identity in Régine Robin’s Mère perdue sur le World Wide Web.” Nancy Arenberg, University of Arkansas. 
• “La miseen-scène de Colette’s Gigi: Playing out Gender Identity on the Page, Stage and Screen over Seven Decades.” Tama Lea Engelking, Cleveland State University.
• “A Cabin of One’s Own: Marielle Macé’s Alternative Places.” Helga Lenart-Cheng, Saint Mary’s College of California.

III. Space, Place, Time and Identity Matters 
Chair: E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta University  

• “Reconciling Familial and Postcolonial Fractures in Ken Bugul’s Autobiographical Writing.” E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta University.
• “The Moveable Mattress: Symbols Anchoring Women’s Narratives of Algerian Jewish Homes to a vanishing Patrilineal Society.” Christina Leah Sztajnkrycer, Pennsylvania State University.  
• “Culture from the Outside In and the Inside Out: Themes of Identity and France’s Colonial Historiography in Leila Sebbar’s The Seine Was Red.” Ima L. Hicks, Virginia Union University.

IV. Climate Crisis in the Francosphere 
Chair: Julia L. Frengs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln  

• “Tropiques Toxiques: Cultivating Knowledge Ecologies through Documentary Comics and Social Media.” Lindsey Smith, Western Washington University.
• “Climate Change and Maghrebi Women.” Latifa Zoulagh, Westminster College.
• “Déforestation et épidémie Ebola. Ce qu’en pensent les non-humains dans En compagnie des hommes de Véronique Tadjo.” Brigitte Tsobgny, Florida State University.
• “Oceania: On the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis.” Julia L. Frengs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  

V. The Literature of Shock/La Littérature de choc 
Chair: Eilene Hoft-March, Lawrence University  

• “Littérature de choc et littérature choquante dans Aux frontières de la soif de Kettly Mars.” Véronique Maisier, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
• “Shock Value: Redouane’s L’Envers du Destin and Angot’s Un Amour Impossible.” Eilene Hoft-March, Lawrence University.
• “Françoise Rey : Le poids des mots, le choc du porno.” Frédérique Chevillot, University of Denver.
• “Trauma, Repetition and the Real in Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine.” Insook Webber, Washington State University.

VI. La Francophonie a-t-elle un passé ? 
Chair: Samia Spencer, Auburn University  

• “Isabelle de Charrière’s Francophonie during the time of the French Revolution.” Masano Yamashita, University of Colorado, Boulder.
• “L’Égypte antique et le droit des femmes: le cas de L’Esclave sultane de Doria Shafik.” Glenn Fetzer, New Mexico State University.
• “Léona Queyroux (1861- 1938), George Sand louisianaise.”  Evelyne Bornier, Auburn University.

VII. Pedagogy Roundtable 
Chair: Joyce Johnston, Stephen F. Austin State University  

• “Teaching Race, Immigration and Identity through Contemporary Text and Film Featuring Young Women.” E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta University.
• “Teaching WIF, COVID-19 and Sarah Cooper.” Joyce Johnston, Stephen F. Austin State University.

2019 Special Sessions

I. L’Égypte des Lumières : francophonie, modernité et féminisme à l’aube du XXe siècle
Chair: Samia I Spencer, Auburn University

• "La langue française en Égypte (1850-1960): traces et héritage d’une richesse multiculturelle émancipatrice." Irène Fenoglio, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris.
  
• "Propos sur l’Art: Georges Henein ou une certaine ideé de l’esthétique." Evelyne M. Bornier, Auburn University.
• "Islam, modernité et féminisme: Doria Shafik et le droit religieux en Égypte (1940)." Samia I Spencer, Auburn University.
  
• "Huda Shaarawi: In the Footsteps of the Ancient Egyptian Goddess Isis." Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi, American University in Cairo, Egypt.

II. Reimagining Paradise
Chair: Julia Frengs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• "Paradis, meurtre et châtiment dans Le Parfum des sirènes de Gisèle Pineau." Véronique Maisier, Southern Illinois University. 
• "Une nuit ordinaire: Désir et nostalgie du paradis en Haïti." Joelle Vitiello, Macalester College. 
• "Un ‘paradis’ sans foi ni loi dans Tropique de la violence de Natacha Appanah." Colette Trout, Ursinus College. 

III. Authenticity and Distortion in Nationalistic and Other Discourses of the Holocaust
Chair: E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta University

• "The Vichy Collection: How Propaganda Dropped from the Skies Manipulated Those on the Ground." E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta University.
• "Eva Cahen, Horst Rosenthal, Hélène Berr: trois visions concrètes de la résistance dans « la tourmente de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. »" Hélène Diaz Brown, Principia College.
• "Scripting the Unrepresentable in Simone Veil’s Une jeunesse au temps de la Shoah." Nancy M. Arenberg, University of Arkansas.

IV. The Ambiguity of Writing/ L’ambiguité de l’écriture
Chair: Eilene Hoft-March, Lawrence University

• "Pierrette Fleutiaux : « Evite toute ambiguïté, ma chérie...." Frédérique Chevillot, University of Denver. 
• "Hélène Cixous’s German Autobiographies." Eilene Hoft-March, Lawrence University.
  
• "Vertiginous Ambiguities: Reading the paratextes in Fanny Chiarello’s recent works." Juliette Rogers, Macalester College.

V. Autres féminismes: Social Engagement, Critical Reflection, and Being Wom*n in the Contemporary Francophone World
Chair: CJ Gomolka, DePauw University

• "Material Bodies and Textual Selves: Paul B. Preciado’s Testo Junkie and Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts as Twenty-First Century Feminist Narratives." Leah Wilson, Washington State University. 
• "Reclaiming my time : sortir de l’invisibilité à l’aide d’un féminisme pluriel et identitaire ou comment les afroféministes en France revendiquent leur place au sein d’une société blanctriarcale." Cheira Lewis, DePauw University. 
• "Queer Filiations: Houria Bouteldja and Decolonial Feminism." CJ Gomolka, DePauw University. 
• "Male Feminists of New Caledonia: Wansolwara, vanua, and Pacific Feminism." Julia Frengs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

VI. Images of the Self and Images of Others: The Metaphor of Curation in and about the Arts I
Chair: Pascale Perraudin, St Louis University

• "Annie Ernaux: The Curator Curated." Michèle Bacholle, Eastern Connecticut State University.
  
• "Curating the Life of a Self-Curator: The Comtesse of Castiglione in the Mirror of Nathalie Léger." Helga Lenart-Cheng, Saint Mary’s College of California. 
• "La curation de sa création: l’évolution de Chloé Delaume." Dawn Cornelio, University of Guelph.

VII. Images of the Self and Images of Others: The Metaphor of Curation in and about the Arts II
Chair: Dawn Cornelio, University of Guelph

• "Situating Subjectivity: Curating the Perfect Witness in Yolande Mukagasana and Patrick May’s Collaborations." Sarah Forzley, Sun Valley Community School. 
• "Reimagining Haitian Paradisiacal Beaches." Thérèse de Raedt, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. 
• "Curating Colonial Legacies: Reconfiguring Spaces of the Self." Pascale Perraudin, St Louis University.

VIII. Teaching Women in French Roundtable: Innovations
Chair: Joyce Johnston, Stephen F. Austin State University

• "La représentation des femmes et de l’espace dans les romans français issus de l’immigration maghrébine." Catherine Schmitz, Wofford College. 
• "Teaching Women in French with Paris, je t’aime." Courtney Sullivan, Washburn University.  
• "Teaching Environmental French and Francophone Literature." Julia Frengs, University of Nebraska.