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Patrice J. Proulx

Patrice J. Proulx

  • Professor of Foreign Languages
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email:
pproulx@unomaha.edu
office:
  • ASH 301C

Additional Information

Research Interests

  • Contemporary French and francophone writers
  • Cultural Studies
  • Literature of immigration
  • Francophone film
  • Women's and gender studies
  • Environmental literature
  • Medical Humanities

Education

Ph.D. in Romance Languages & Literatures (French), Cornell University
M.A., French, Cornell University

Select Publications

Books:

Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec. Ed. Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2004.

Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary France. Ed. Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

Reference work:

The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature. General ed. Eva Sartori. Area ed. Patrice J. Proulx (twentieth-century entries) et al. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Refereed Articles and Refereed Book Chapters

“Infernal Journeys in Marie-Célie Agnant’s Femmes au temps des carnassiers.” Québec Studies Vol. 71 (Spring/Summer 2021) (forthcoming).

“Ecofeminist Ethics and Environmental Injustice in Nancy Huston’s Le club des miracles relatifs.” Women in French Studies. Vol. 27 (2019). 49-61. Co-author: S. Ireland.

“The Transgressive Mother in Nancy Huston's Bad Girl: Classes de littérature.” In Horrible Mothers: Failing Motherhood Across Francophone North America. Ed. Loïc Bourdeau. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. 133-147. Co-author: S. Ireland. 

"Human and Inhuman Transformations in Huston's Dystopian Novel Le club des miracles relatifs.” Nottingham French Studies 57.3 (2018): 311-324. Co-author: S. Ireland.

“Redefining the Self: Explorations of Aging in Michèle Sarde's Constance et la cinquantaine and Nancy Huston's Dolce agonia.” In Women’s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature. Ed. Florence Jurney and Karen McPherson. New York, N.Y.: Palgrave McMillan, 2016. 105-119. Co-author: S. Ireland. 

“Cultural Trauma and Narrative Recovery in Marie-Célie Agnant's Un alligator nommé Rosa (Haïti) and Maïssa Bey's Entendez-vous dans les montagnes… (Algeria).” New Zealand Journal of French Studies Vol. 36, nos. 1 & 2 (November 2015): 101-120. Co-author: S. Ireland.

“Migration and Identity in Haitian Québécois Literature.” In Metropolitan Mosaics and Melting Pots: Paris and Montreal in Francophone Literatures. Ed. Pascale De Souza and Adlai Murdoch. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013. 28-44. Co-author: S. Ireland.

“Figuring Musical Motifs and Textual Polyphony in Nancy Huston's Prodige: Polyphonie.” Romance Notes 51.2 (2011): 179-190.

“Literary Border Crossings: Reconceptualizing Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes in Lise Gauvin’s Lettres d’une autre and Chahdortt Djavann’s Comment peut-on être français?” In Transatlantic Passages: Literary and Cultural Relations between Quebec and Francophone Europe. Ed. Paula Ruth Gilbert and Miléna Santoro. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2010. 122-135.

“Literary Geographies: Imagining Home in Montréal’s Côte-des-Neiges.” Québec Studies Vol. 48 (Fall 2009/Winter 2010): 105-119. Co-author: S. Ireland.

“Witnessing Creation in Nancy Huston's Une adoration." The French Review 83.1 (October 2009): 90-101.

“The Dance of Life and Death in Nancy Huston's Visages de l'Aube and Dolce agonia." In Aimer et Mourir: Love, Death, and Women’s Lives in Texts of French Expression. Ed. Eilene Hoft-March and Judith Sarnecki. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. 286-309.

“Negotiating New Identities in Quebec’s écriture migrante.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites 13.1 (January 2009): 33-41. Special issue on “Quebec Today.” Co-author: S. Ireland.

“Representations of Urban Space in Sergio Kokis's Un sourire blindé and Mauricio Segura's Côte-des-Nègres." Migrance comparée/Comparing Migration: Les Littératures du Canada et du Québec/The Literatures of Canada and Québec. Ed. Marie Carrière and Catherine Khordoc. Bern: Peter Lang, 2008. 287-304. Co-author: S. Ireland.

“Breaking the Silence: An Interview with Marie-Célie Agnant." Québec Studies Vol. 41 (Spring/Summer 2006): 45-61. 

 “Bearing Witness and Transmitting Memory in the Works of Marie-Célie Agnant." Québec Studies Vol. 39 (Spring/Summer 2005): 35-53.

"Giving Voice to the Body: (Pro)Creation in the Texts of Nancy Huston." Doing Gender: Franco-Canadian Women Writers of the 1990s. Ed. Roseanna Dufault and Paula R. Gilbert. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001. 288-305.

Courses

FREN 1110 – Elementary French I
FREN 1120 – Elementary French II
FREN 2110 – Intermediate French I
FREN 2120 – Intermediate French II
FREN 3030 – French Conversation
FREN 3150 – Introduction to French Literature (Middle Ages-18th century)
FREN 3160 – Introduction to French Literature (19th-21st centuries)
FREN 4030 – Advanced French Conversation
FREN 4050 – Quebec Culture and Civilization
FREN 4150 – Contemporary French Novel
FREN 4170 – Contemporary French Drama
FREN 4860 – Modern French Women Writers
FREN 4950/ENGL/WGST 4960 – Seminar: Francophone Women Writers: Exiles, Madwomen, and Witches in Contemporary French Literature
FREN 4950 – Seminar: Contemporary Québécois Film and Literature
FREN 4950 – Seminar: Francophone Film and Literature: Africa, the Caribbean, and Quebec

WGST 2020 – Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies: Humanities
CACT 8100/FLNG 8960 – Global Cinema

Additional Information

Research Interests

  • Contemporary French and francophone writers
  • Cultural Studies
  • Literature of immigration
  • Francophone film
  • Women's and gender studies
  • Environmental literature
  • Medical Humanities

Education

Ph.D. in Romance Languages & Literatures (French), Cornell University
M.A., French, Cornell University

Select Publications

Books:

Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec. Ed. Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2004.

Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary France. Ed. Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

Reference work:

The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature. General ed. Eva Sartori. Area ed. Patrice J. Proulx (twentieth-century entries) et al. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Refereed Articles and Refereed Book Chapters

“Infernal Journeys in Marie-Célie Agnant’s Femmes au temps des carnassiers.” Québec Studies Vol. 71 (Spring/Summer 2021) (forthcoming).

“Ecofeminist Ethics and Environmental Injustice in Nancy Huston’s Le club des miracles relatifs.” Women in French Studies. Vol. 27 (2019). 49-61. Co-author: S. Ireland.

“The Transgressive Mother in Nancy Huston's Bad Girl: Classes de littérature.” In Horrible Mothers: Failing Motherhood Across Francophone North America. Ed. Loïc Bourdeau. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. 133-147. Co-author: S. Ireland. 

"Human and Inhuman Transformations in Huston's Dystopian Novel Le club des miracles relatifs.” Nottingham French Studies 57.3 (2018): 311-324. Co-author: S. Ireland.

“Redefining the Self: Explorations of Aging in Michèle Sarde's Constance et la cinquantaine and Nancy Huston's Dolce agonia.” In Women’s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature. Ed. Florence Jurney and Karen McPherson. New York, N.Y.: Palgrave McMillan, 2016. 105-119. Co-author: S. Ireland. 

“Cultural Trauma and Narrative Recovery in Marie-Célie Agnant's Un alligator nommé Rosa (Haïti) and Maïssa Bey's Entendez-vous dans les montagnes… (Algeria).” New Zealand Journal of French Studies Vol. 36, nos. 1 & 2 (November 2015): 101-120. Co-author: S. Ireland.

“Migration and Identity in Haitian Québécois Literature.” In Metropolitan Mosaics and Melting Pots: Paris and Montreal in Francophone Literatures. Ed. Pascale De Souza and Adlai Murdoch. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013. 28-44. Co-author: S. Ireland.

“Figuring Musical Motifs and Textual Polyphony in Nancy Huston's Prodige: Polyphonie.” Romance Notes 51.2 (2011): 179-190.

“Literary Border Crossings: Reconceptualizing Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes in Lise Gauvin’s Lettres d’une autre and Chahdortt Djavann’s Comment peut-on être français?” In Transatlantic Passages: Literary and Cultural Relations between Quebec and Francophone Europe. Ed. Paula Ruth Gilbert and Miléna Santoro. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2010. 122-135.

“Literary Geographies: Imagining Home in Montréal’s Côte-des-Neiges.” Québec Studies Vol. 48 (Fall 2009/Winter 2010): 105-119. Co-author: S. Ireland.

“Witnessing Creation in Nancy Huston's Une adoration." The French Review 83.1 (October 2009): 90-101.

“The Dance of Life and Death in Nancy Huston's Visages de l'Aube and Dolce agonia." In Aimer et Mourir: Love, Death, and Women’s Lives in Texts of French Expression. Ed. Eilene Hoft-March and Judith Sarnecki. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. 286-309.

“Negotiating New Identities in Quebec’s écriture migrante.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites 13.1 (January 2009): 33-41. Special issue on “Quebec Today.” Co-author: S. Ireland.

“Representations of Urban Space in Sergio Kokis's Un sourire blindé and Mauricio Segura's Côte-des-Nègres." Migrance comparée/Comparing Migration: Les Littératures du Canada et du Québec/The Literatures of Canada and Québec. Ed. Marie Carrière and Catherine Khordoc. Bern: Peter Lang, 2008. 287-304. Co-author: S. Ireland.

“Breaking the Silence: An Interview with Marie-Célie Agnant." Québec Studies Vol. 41 (Spring/Summer 2006): 45-61. 

 “Bearing Witness and Transmitting Memory in the Works of Marie-Célie Agnant." Québec Studies Vol. 39 (Spring/Summer 2005): 35-53.

"Giving Voice to the Body: (Pro)Creation in the Texts of Nancy Huston." Doing Gender: Franco-Canadian Women Writers of the 1990s. Ed. Roseanna Dufault and Paula R. Gilbert. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001. 288-305.

Courses

FREN 1110 – Elementary French I
FREN 1120 – Elementary French II
FREN 2110 – Intermediate French I
FREN 2120 – Intermediate French II
FREN 3030 – French Conversation
FREN 3150 – Introduction to French Literature (Middle Ages-18th century)
FREN 3160 – Introduction to French Literature (19th-21st centuries)
FREN 4030 – Advanced French Conversation
FREN 4050 – Quebec Culture and Civilization
FREN 4150 – Contemporary French Novel
FREN 4170 – Contemporary French Drama
FREN 4860 – Modern French Women Writers
FREN 4950/ENGL/WGST 4960 – Seminar: Francophone Women Writers: Exiles, Madwomen, and Witches in Contemporary French Literature
FREN 4950 – Seminar: Contemporary Québécois Film and Literature
FREN 4950 – Seminar: Francophone Film and Literature: Africa, the Caribbean, and Quebec

WGST 2020 – Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies: Humanities
CACT 8100/FLNG 8960 – Global Cinema

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Research Interests Education Select Publications Courses

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