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Dr. Eliana Vagalau
Title/s: Associate Professor
Undergraduate Program Director
Office #: CC471
Phone: 773.508.7604
Email: evagalau@luc.edu
Degrees
- PhD, French, Northwestern University, 2015
- MA, Romance Languages: French and Italian, University of Oregon, 2005
- BA, French Culture, The Colorado College, 2003
Research Interests
- Contemporary Francophone literature and culture, especially of the Caribbean
- Contemporary French and Francophone philosophy
- Race and diaspora studies, gender and sexuality studies, literature and politics
- Italian culture
- Translation
Professional & Community Affiliations
- Modern Languages Association
- Haitian Studies Association
- Caribbean Studies Association
- Conseil International d鈥櫭塼udes Francophones
Courses Taught
- French 250-251: French Composition and Conversation I and II
- French 270-271: Main Currents of French Literature, I and II
- French 301: Stylistics
- French 309: Francophone Literature
- French 340: Survey of Prose: Fictional and Non-Fictional
- UCLR 100: Black Paris
- FREN311: French Modernity
Selected Publications
- Jean-Claude Charles. A Reader's Guide, edited by Martin Munro and Eliana V膬g膬l膬u, Liverpool University Press, May 2022.
Jean-Claude Charles: A Reader鈥檚 Guide
- 鈥淎 part le bonheur, il n鈥檡 a rien d鈥檈ssentiel: The Transnational Narrative Model in Maryse Cond茅鈥檚 Desirada.鈥� Transnational Africana Women鈥檚 Fictions, edited by Cheryl Sterling, Routledge, 2021.
- "Manhattan Blues: roman, partition ou sc茅nario?" Revue Francofonia, n.80, Spring 2021
- 鈥淚 Once Knew a Man鈥�, Intranqu'卯llit茅s n.5 鈥� 脡ros, November 2020.
- 鈥淟鈥櫭ヽlatement volontaire des notions identitaires par la rencontre des imaginaires : La revue intranQu鈥櫭甽lit茅s de James No毛l et Pascale Monnin.鈥� Francophonies d鈥橝m茅rique, Number 49, Spring 2020.
- "Jean-Claude Charles: Challenging the Notion of Global Literature,鈥� Sites/Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, January 2015.
- ''I'm Still Falling: Jeffrey Goldstein on Vivian Maier.鈥� The Buenos Aires Review, July 2014. (http://www.buenosairesreview.org/2014/0 7/ im-still-falling-jeffrey-goldstein-on-vivian-maier/)
- English to French translation of "Neuropsychiatry and the Unconscious; or, the Biological Citizen", by Christopher Lane, Figures de la psychanalyse 2.6 (2013): 143-57.
