Margot Miller

 French Language and Literature

 Literary Criticism 

Translation   Fiction   Memoir   Poetry

Genealogy

 

2001 - Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park

Dissertation Title:
In Search of Shelter: A Psychological Reading of Paule Constant's Fiction

Director: Professor Madeleine Cottenet-Hage.


 

P U B L I C A T I O N S

                               LITERARY CRITICISM   &   LITERARY TRANSLATION

Books :
Critical Analysis:

In Search of Shelter: Subjectivity and Spaces of Loss in the Fiction of Paule Constant , Lexington Books/Roman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, August 2003.  To order this book, click here.

Translation:

OUREGANO by Paule Constant, Lanham MD, Lexington Books, June 2005.
Nominated for PEN Translation Prize 2005, Nominated for Aldo and Jean Scaglione Prize for translation of a literary work (MLA) 2005.   To order this book, click here.

Gisèle Prassinos 

"It's Out of Modesty" (C'est par discretion) , BOGG, No. 73,  2006. 

and in VOX # 3 April 2007.  (PRINT with online archives)

 "The Psyche" (La Psyché) 
        Snow (Neige) 
        The Moon is Cold (La lune a froid)
        In Your Eyes There is the Ocean (Dans tes yeux il y a l'océan) 
        Who? 
        Finding Without Looking
        The Eraser 

 Claude Pujade-Renaud
        "Just One?" by  (Vous êtes toute seule?)  Chick Flicks Ezine, September 2006.

 

Parts of Books :
"Introduction" to Paule Constant's Trading Secrets, trans. Betsy Wing, University of Nebraska Press (Fall 2001).



Scholarly Articles ONLINE
“Handless Maidens: Grimm Tales in Contemporary Cinema,” FRINGE  November 2006 
 

Scholarly Articles PRINT  


"Writing Home:  Malika Mokeddem and Hélène Grimaud"  forthcoming in the proceedings of the NEMLA, March 2-3, 2007 sessions, Cambridge Scholars Press. 

"Les Yeux d'Emma: Ensemble désintégré ou énigme indéchiffrable?" (forthcoming) Monstres et le monstrueux Madeleine Cottenet-Hage and Nadia Harris, eds, 2006. (Revised for this publication, permission from Chimères.)

"Dead Metaphors of the Avant-Gard: the Case of Gisèle Prassinos" Interdisciplinary Humanities,  University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Fall 2005, 22.2 (14-21).

"Imagration: Malika Mokeddem and the Poetics of Mobility and Hope," Hybrid Voices, Hybrid Texts: Women's Writing at the Turn of the Millennium, ed. Gill Rye. Dalhousie French Studies, Fall/Winter 2004, 27-35.
 
"N'zid: Le travail du moi unifié" Le Maghreb littéraire, Vol 7.14 Dec 2003, 81-97.

"The Matropole: Anxiety and the Mother in Paule Constant's Fiction," The French Review, Vol 76: 1 October 2003, 102-111.

"Les Yeux d'Emma: Ensemble fendue ou indéchiffrable énigme?" Chimères (University of Kansas), Vol. XXVII, 2003, 77-85.

 "Traversée de l'angoisse et poétique de l'espoir chez Malika Mokeddem,"  Présence Francophone. No 58: 2002, 101-120.

"Reconstructing Reading: Resurrecting Cognitive Processes in the (Foreign) Language Classroom."  CAUCE: Revista de Filologia y su Didactica : Reading Beyond Text : Processes and Skills, Seville, Spain, no. 24, 2001,  185-206.

 
Book Reviews : 
Poignant Relations , by James Smith Allen, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins U P, 2000, Women in French Studies, vol 9, 2001.

Un passé contraignant , by Michèle Bacholle,Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi, 2000, Women in French Studies (vol 11, 2003).

Bestiaire du roman contemporain d'expression française, by Lucile Desblache, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2002, Women in French Studies (vol 11, 2003).

L'Autre émoi : écrits entre les terres 1979-2003. Binet, Marie-Jo. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005. Women in French Studies (vol 14, forthcoming 2006)

 
Conference Report: New Women's Writing in French, September 26th - September 28th, 2002, organized by Gill Rye and the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of London, with Miléna Santoro. Women in French Newsletter, Spring 2003.


GENEALOGY
Some Descendants of Robert Porter , Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1986. Buy this book here.

 

A C A D E M I C   P R E S E N T A T I O N S and Session Chairs:
2007
"Writing Home:  Malika Mokeddem and Hélène Grimaud"  NEMLA, March 2-3, 2007

2004
"Dead Metaphors of the Avant Gard: the Case of Gisèle Prassionos" SCMLA, New Orleans, LA, October 30, 2004

2003
Organiser and Chair: The Body in Space and the Inscription of Identity in Women's Writing at the Twentieth Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Illinois, 27-30 March, 2003.

"Lilith ou les femmes prodigues chez Malika Mokeddem"  Conseil International d'Études Francophones, New Orleans, June 17-22, 2003

"Interdites : Deux représentations de Lilith chez Paule Constant" PAMLA, November 7-9, 2003.

2002
"N'zid : Possibilité et responsabilité d'un moi unifié," 6ième Colloque de la Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d'Amérique, Fordham University, New York, N.Y., March 22, 2002

"Angoisse et espoir dans N'zid de Malika Mokeddem," International Colloquium in 20th-21st century French Studies, Hartford, CT, April 4, 2002.

Chair: Patterns and Spaces in the French Novel. International Colloquium in 20th-21st Century French Studies, Hartford, CT, April 6, 2002.

"Of Nomadism and Narration,"  New Women's Writing in French, University of London, UK. Sept 27, 2002.

 

2001
"Couper, coller, perdre: Chirurgie esthétique monstrueuse dans 'Les Yeux d'Emma' d'Antoine Chalvin" at  Twentieth Century French Studies: Re-Cycling.  University of California at Davis, March 29-April 1, 2001.

Graduate Student Roundtable: Sharing Resources for Scholarship, Teaching, and Advancement at Twentieth Century French Studies: Re-cycling.  University of California at Davis, March 29-April 1, 2001.  Invited Organizer and Chair.

"The Graduate Student Grapevine: Links for Student Resources" at Twentieth Century French Studies: Re-Cycling.  University of California at Davis, March, 29-April 1, 2001.

"Retour du Détachement: Désespoir et Résistance dans L'Interdite de Malika Mokeddem" at Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones, Portland, Maine, 26 mai-2 juin, 2001.

"Reconstructing Reading Comprehension" at the Ninth Annual Conference: Image and Language, School of Language Studies, ANU Canberra, Australia, July 6-8, 2001.

"L'enfant et la folie" American Association of Teachers of French, Philadelphia, Pa. Oct. 5, 2001.

"La Matropole: Paule Constant's Mothers and Daughters" at Association for Research on Mothering Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, October 12-14, 2001.

Invited Moderator: Graduate Student Conference, School of Languages, University of Maryland College Park, November 3, 2001.

2000
"Dissociation and Disconnection in Paule Constant's Confidence pour Confidence, at the Conference on Women's Writing in France in the 1990's, January 21-22, 2000.  University of London.  Invited Paper.

"Being-In-Relationship is a Sheltering Space: The Root Metaphor for the Search for Identity in Paule Constant's Novels of Girls and Women," at the Twentieth Century French Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 24-26, 2000.

"Looking for Shelter: The Search for Identity in Paule Constant's Confidence pour Confidence," at the Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Orlando, FL, March 2-3, 2000.

 "Confidence pour Confidence, A Horneyan Reading," at the Twentieth Annual Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 11-13, 2000.

Invited Session chair: "Examinations of the Non-traditional" at the Twentieth Annual Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 11-13, 2000.

1998
"The Reproduction and Production of Identity and Writing in Maryse Condé's   'La châtaigne et le fruit à pain'" at the Eighteenth Annual Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 7-9, 1998.

COLLEGE TEACHING EXPERIENCE (and post-college - volunteer)

2005 - present : Academy of Lifelong Learning, Chesapeake Bay Maritime 

Museum, st. Michaels MD.

2003 - 2005: Lecturer, School for Advanced International Studies, Johns 

Hopkins Univeristy, Washington D.C.

2002-2003 Catholic Unviersity of America
            French 104 Adventures in Reading
            French 203 Grammar, Conversation, Composition
            French 204 Film, Conversation, Composition

2002 Project Specialist, French Writing Center, Department of French and Italian, University of Maryland College Park.  Individual tutorials with students re their writing projects.

2001 (Fall) Hood College, Visiting Instructor  (Sabbatical replacement)
        French 101
        French 207 Readings in French Civilization Middle Ages to 17th Century       
        French 320 Francophone Women Writers

1999 -2001 Graduate Teaching Assistant: University of  Maryland
       2001:  French 241/Women's Studies 241 Contemporary Women Writers
                  of French Expression in Translation, a CORE course at UMCP
                  (Literature & Diversity).
       2000:  French 250/250H Readings in French, a CORE course at UMCP
                  (Literature).
       2000:  French 211 Intermediate French Conversation
       1999:  French 204 Review of Grammar and Composition

1998-99  Lecturer in English: University of Nice, France, providing oral English correction and preparation for  listening comprehension and oral proficiency exams. 

1993-96  Adjunct Professor   - General Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Sociology of Mental Health, Human Growth and Development, Chesapeake College, Wye  Mills, MD 21679

 
RESEARCH INTERESTS
French and francophone women writers
Psychology and literature
The cognitive processes of reading space, images and transformation in texts
The centrality of the body in interpretation 


SERVICE EXPERIENCE

2006 Judge, Sixteenth Annual Poetry Contest, Friends of the Talbot County  

Library.

2003- 2005 Mid-Atlantic Regional Representative WOMEN IN FRENCH

2003 - present : Reader - Undergraduate Essay Contest WIF

2002- 2003  Faculty Advisor to the French Club at The Catholic University of 

America; Language Teaching   

Committee, CUA; Jury for the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, CUA

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Women in French
NEMLA

OTHER EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS 
MA 1996 French Language and Literature, University of Delaware
Maryland Standard Teaching Certificate 2  (French 7-12)
1977 MA in Education, (Generic Counseling),  George Washington University 
1991 Middlebury College
1989-91 Salisbury University
BA 1972 Ohio State University (Social Sciences) 

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1977-79   Counselor; families and individuals: Rockville Free Clinic, Rockville Md.
1976-77   Counselor/Practicum: Counseling Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
1974-75   Applicant Liaison Assistant and Staging Coordinator.  Peace Corps, Washington DC.
1972-74   Peace Corps Volunteer (TEFL), Maradi, Niger.