Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of Basic Language in French
Ph.D. in French, University of Minnesota
Office: Howry 210
Email: axdubois@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-1458
Education:
Ph.D. in French Studies, University of Minnesota (2014-2019)
M.A. and B.A in French Studies and Comparative Literature, Université Paul Valéry (2012-2014)
Teaching and Research Interests:
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century French and Francophone Literature, Spatial and Literary Theory, Environmental Studies, Continental Philosophy, Game Studies
Courses Taught:
FR 579: Survey of French and Francophone Lyric Poetry
FR 578: Survey of French Literature II – Nineteenth and Twentieth Century French Literature
FR 589: The Environment in French and Francophone Literature
FR 599: Special Topic – “The Show Must Go On:” Spectacles, (Dis)Enchantments and Histories in the French Nineteenth Century
FR 585: Nineteenth-Century French Literature
FR 322: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
FR 303 Conversation et Composition I
FR 304 Conversation et Composition II
Recent Publications:
Edited Volume
Dubois, Alexandre. Co-Edited with Dominique Bauer, Kat Haklyn, and Jill Owen, The Porous Interior: Space and Imagination in Literature and Architecture during the Long Nineteenth Century in France, Amsterdam University Press. Spatial Imagery in Historical Perspective, forthcoming.
Articles
Dubois, Alexandre. “Literature for All: On Designation and Interpretation in Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris.” French Studies, forthcoming, vol. 78, no. 1, Winter 2023-2024.
Dubois, Alexandre. “Lautréamont’s Authorial Dissipation in Literary Space: From Les Chants to La Chambre de Lautréamont.” Romance Notes, forthcoming, vol. 61, no. 3, Fall 2022.
Dubois, Alexandre. “Behind the F(r)ame of the Eiffel Tower: The Universal Exposition of Space and the Ontology of Objects.” The Porous Interior: Space and Imagination in Literature and Architecture during the Long Nineteenth Century in France. Ed. Bauer, Dubois, Haklyn, and Owen. Amsterdam University Press. Spatial Imagery in Historical Perspective, forthcoming.
Dubois, Alexandre. “L’écriture en suspension ou l’‘action restreinte’ de Mallarmé.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 48, nos. 3-4, 2020, pp. 344-359.
Dubois, Alexandre. “Speaking About and Through Video Games: Towards Verbalizing a New Grammar.” Conserveries mémorielles, vol. 23, 2018.
Dubois, Alexandre. “Dire ‘Adieu’ au ‘Génie’ – Le sacré des lointains chez Rimbaud.” Parade Sauvage: revue d’études rimbaldiennes, vol. 27, 2017, pp. 115-130.
Dubois, Alexandre. “Le nihilisme intégral.” Sade dans tous ses états. Deux cents ans de controverses. Ed. Armelle St-Martin. Rouen: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2017. 91-110.
Book Reviews
Dubois, Alexandre. Review of Poetry, Politics, and the Body in Rimbaud: Lyrical Material by Robert St. Clair, Parade Sauvage: revue d’études rimbaldiennes, vol. 30, 2019, pp. 286-288.
Dubois, Alexandre. Review of La poésie délivrée: Le livre en question du Parnasse à Mallarmé by Nicolas Valazza, French Studies, vol. 73, no. 4, 2019, pp. 638-639.
Dubois, Alexandre. Review of La Linguistique de Claudel – Histoire, style, savoirs ed. by Alexandre Didier and Emmanuelle Kaës, Modern and Contemporary France, vol. 25, no. 2, 2017, p. 238.
Translation
Dubois, Alexandre. Translation of “The BEATification of French Modernist Writers” by Robert F. Barsky, Parade Sauvage: revue d’études rimbaldiennes, vol. 29, 2018, pp. 186-201.
Web Resources:
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