Adrianna M. Paliyenko
Charles A. Dana Professor of French
French and Italian



Phone: 207-859-4656
Email:

Mailing Address:
4656 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8846

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: TBA

Semester Schedule

Areas of Expertise:
  • 19th- and 20th-century French poetry, including women's contributions
  • Literary history and the poetics of influence
  • Gender and genius
  • Theories of creativity
  • Literature and medicine
  • Feminism and psychoanalysis
  • 19th-Century Francophone Studies; women and the colonial archive
  • Caribbean Studies

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Current Research

Publications

BOOKS (monographs, critical editions, journal issues)

The Cultural Currency of Nineteenth-Century French Poetry. Eds. Joseph Acquisto and Adrianna M. Paliyenko. Spec. double issue of Romance Studies 26.3 (July 2008) & 26.4 (November 2008).

Engendering Race: Romantic-Era Women and French Colonial Memory. L'Esprit Créateur 47.4 (Winter 2007).

Mme Anaïs Ségalas. Récits des Antilles: Le Bois de la Soufrière, suivis d'un choix de poèmes. Critical edition. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2004.

Mis-reading the Creative Impulse: The Poetic Subject in Rimbaud and Claudel, Restaged. Southern Illinois UP, 1997.

BOOK CHAPTERS

“The Literary Frames of Ourika, Then and Now” (forthcoming with the MLA in March/April 2009, in Approaches to Teaching Ourika)

"Collaboration Matters: Sparking a Connection between French Literary and Cultural Studies." Modern French Literary Studies in the Classroom: Pedagogical Strategies. Ed. Charles J. Stivale. New York: MLA, 2004. 74-83.

"Nineteenth-Century French Women Poets: An Exceptional Legacy" (co-authored with Aimée Boutin, Florida State University). French and Francophone Women, 16th-21st Centuries: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society with Bibliographical and Media Resources. Spec. issue of Women in French Studies. Eds. Catherine Montfort and Marie-Christine Koop. (October 2002): 77-109.

"Apollinaire and Dada : Influence Matters." PARIS DADA: The Barbarians Storm the Gates, ed. Elmer Peterson. Volume VI. Crisis in the Arts: The History of Dada. Eds. Stephen C. Foster and Elmer Peterson. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, Inc., 2001. 67-94.

"In the Shadow of Eve: Marie Krysinska and the Force of Poetic Desire." Women Seeking Expression: France 1789-1914, Eds. Rosemary Lloyd and Brian Nelson. Monash Romance Studies 6. Melbourne: Monash Romance Studies, 2000. 159-179.

"Postmodern Turns Against the Cartesian Subject: Descartes’ "I," Lacan's Other." Feminist Interpretations of Descartes. Ed. Susan Bordo. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1999. 141-166.

"Margins of Madness and Creativity: Nineteenth-Century French Psychiatric and Literary Discourses on the Dream." Dreams in French Literature: The Persistent Voice. Ed. Tom Conner. Amsterdam-Atlanta, Georgia: Editions Rodopi, 1995: 173-198.

ARTICLES AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

"Louise Ackermann," "Malvina Blanchecotte," "Anaïs Ségalas," "Louisa Siefert," "Mélanie Waldor." Dictionnaire des femmes créatrices, ed. Antoinette Fouque, (forthcoming with Les Editions des femmes, 2009).

"Illuminating the Poetic Turn to Science: Louise Ackermann, or the Aesthetic Stuff of Cultural Studies." The Cultural Currency of Nineteenth-Century French Poetry, Eds. Joseph Acquisto and Adrianna M. Paliyenko. Spec. Issue of Romance Studies 26.4 (November 2008): 308-322.

“Returns of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore’s Repressed Colonial Memory: 'Sarah' and Critical Belatedness.” L'Esprit Créateur 47.4 (Winter 2007): 68-80.

Great Lives from History: The Nineteenth Century, 1801-1900, "Anaïs Ségalas." Ed. John Powell. Pasedena, CA: Salem Press, 2006. 2062-2063.

Great Events from History: The Nineteenth Century, 1801-1900, "1830: Delacroix Paints Liberty Leading the People." Ed. John Powell. Pasedena, CA: Salem Press, 2006. 476-479.

"Women, Poetry, and the Nature of Genuis: Exceptional Creativity." EXCAVATIO 16.1-2 (2002): 244 - 257.

Entries on "Caroline Commanville" (68), "Suzanne Lagier" (191), Madame Lapierre" (192-93), "Mlle Leroyer de Chantepie" (198), and "Louise Pradier" (259-60). A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia. Ed. Laurence M. Porter. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood P, 2001.

"(Re)placing Women in French Poetic History: The Romantic Legacy." Spec. issue of Symposium 53.4 (Winter 2000): 261-282.

"Is a Woman Poet Born or Made?: Discourse of Maternity in Louise Ackermann and Louisa Siefert." L'Esprit Créateur 39.2 (Summer 1999): 52-63.

Entries on "Louise Ackermann", "Louisa Siefert", and "Marie Krysinska". The Feminist Companion to French Literature, ed. Eva Martin Sartori, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood P, 1999.

"Re-reading la femme poète: Rimbaud and Louisa Siefert." Nineteenth-Century French Studies 26.1-2 (Fall/Winter 1997-1998): 146-160.

"Dream-work in Rimbaud's Illuminations: The Scene of the Other in Bottom." Romanic Review 86.4 (Nov 1995): 697-706.

"Re-reading Breton's Debt to Apollinaire: Surrealism and Aesthetics of Creative Imaging." Romance Quarterly 42.1 (Winter 1995): 18-27.

"The Dialogic 'je' in Rimbaud's Illuminations: The Subject of Self and Other." French Forum 19 (Sept 1994): 261-277.

"Discourse of the Self and Rimbaud's Lettres du voyant: Alterity as a Creative Dialectic." Nineteenth-Century French Studies 22.1/2 (Fall/Winter 1993-94): 434-448.

"Rimbaud and Claudel: Literary Paternity and the Anxiety of Influence." Claudel Studies 18.1 (March 1991): 37-48.

Paliyenko website

http://www.colby.edu/~ampaliye/