Dr. Adelaide Russo
Taylor Professor - French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature
Bachelor's Degree(s): Sweet Briar College B.A.
Master's Degree: Columbia University M.A.; M.Phil
PhD: Columbia University Ph.D.
Phone: (225) 578-6670
E-mail: frruss@lsu.edu
Office: 422 Hodges
Area of Interest
Late 19th and 20th Century French and Comparative Literature; Poetry, Prose, Essay 鈥� French, American, English, (especially Surrealism, Avant-Gardes); Contemporary French Thought (Philosophy, Criticism, and Literary Theory including Semiotics and Feminist Theory); The Relationship between Literature, Aesthetics, Music, and the Plastic Arts (including Photography and Video); Hybrid Discourses; Atlantic Studies; 16 Century French Poetry; Contemporary French Theatre; Literary Translation
Awards & Honors
Awards, prizes, lectureships which show recognition of scholarly/creative achievement; Elected or Appointed Offices
2009 Chevalier Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 鈥撯�� honor awarded by the French Government Ministery of Culture and Communication
Elected to Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee of the Modern Language Association 2010-2013
Elected to the Governing Council of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers (3 year term) 2009-2012
2009 Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (France) selected to me a member of ITEM
2008 Atlas Grant Louisiana State Board of Regents for completion of book project : The Perspicacity of Michel Deguy : Poetry and Moral Paradox
2008 Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for the Outstanding Critical Study in French and Francophone Literature of 2007 (awarded 2008) for Le Peintre comme mod猫le: Du Surr茅alisme 脿 l鈥橢xtr锚me contemporanin, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2007.
2008 海角社区 Rainmaker 卢卢 (100 Outstanding Faculty for the year 2008)
2007 Prix Debrousse-Gas-Forestier Acad茅mie des Beaux-Arts (Institut de France) for Le Peintre comme mod猫le: Du Surr茅alisme 脿 l鈥橢xtr锚me contemporanin, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2007.
2007-2010 Delegate Assembly of Modern Language Association
2006- Membre Correspondant, Centre de Recherche Po茅tique, Ecole Normale Sup茅rieure de Lyon, France
2005-2010 Elected to the Executive Committee of the Division on Twentieth/Twenty First Century French Literature Modern Language Association (National Position); 2007-2009 Committee for James Russell Lowell Prize; 2007-2010 Delegate Assembly
2005-2008 University Faculty Senate (Library Committee 2007-2008; Committee PS 111)
2005-2008 Membre Comit茅 Scientifique Centre d鈥櫭塼udes Fran莽aises et Francophones 海角社区,
2002-to present Director Belgian Research Project in Francophone Literature and Culture
2002 Creation of Centre Wallonie-Brussels at 海角社区;
2001- Membre-Correspondante Centre Interdisciplinaire de Po茅tique Appliqu茅e (CIPA) Universit茅 de Li猫ge, Belgium (Elected by Board Members of the CIPA)
Member Phi Kappa Phi
Selected Publications
Books
Le Peintre comme mod猫le : Du Surr茅alisme 脿 l鈥橢xtr锚me contemporain (Lille: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion鈥� Collection 芦 Perspectives 禄, 2007) [ISBN 2-85939-896-1] Prix Debrousse-Gas- Forestier Acad茅mie des Beaux-Arts 2007 (Institut de France) ; Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for the Outstanding Critical Study in French and Francophone Literature of 2007 (awarded 2008) [Review : Jan Baetens, Image [&] Narrative, No. 18 芦 Thinking Pictures 禄 (September 2007].
French Language Editor, Translator Marcel Boyer, Jay Edwards, et alia, Plantations By the River: Watercolor Paintings from St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, by Father Joseph M. Paret, Baton Rouge: 海角社区 Press- Fred B. Kniffen Cultural Resources Monograph Series, 2001)
Faculty Telecourse Manual for French in Action with Barry Lydgate, Harryette Stover, Peter J. Dirr, Part I -2(Washington, D.C.: The Annenberg/CPB Project, 1987), pp. 1-84
Instructor's Guide, French in Action: The Capretz Method (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987), Vol. I, pp. I-XLI, 1-241; Vol. 2, v, 1-235; Second Edition 1994, pp.1-408
Edited Volumes
Adelaide Russo and Simon Harel, Lieux Propices: L鈥橢nonciation des lieux/ Le lieu de l鈥櫭﹏onciation dans les contexts francophones interculturels, Qu茅bec (Canada): Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 Laval鈥擟ollection InterCultures, 2005, 355 pages. [Reviews : Jean-Sebastien-M茅nard, Canadian Literature : A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, No. 194 (Autumn 2007), pp. 132-133 ; Philippe Mottet, University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Winter 2007), pp. 101-106 ; Vincent Bruy猫re, Recherches Sociographiques, Vol. 47, No. 3 (sept-d茅c 2006) pp. 694-696 ; Caroline Dupont, Qu茅bec fran莽aise, No. 141.]
Adelaide Russo and Fabrice Leroy, Special Issue of Etudes Francophones: Dossier Th茅matique: Bande Dessin茅e Belge, Vol. 20/no.1 (Printemps 2005), 1, 192 pages [Review Vittorio Frigerio, Belph茅gor, Vol. 6, no. 1 (2006)].
Edited, Preface Glenn Fetzer鈥檚 Palimpsests of the Real (New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi-Chiasma, 2004)
Translation Editor, Marcel Boyer, Plantations By the River: Watercolor Paintings from St. Charles Parish, Louisiana by Father Joseph M. Paret, 1859, ed. Jay D. Edwards (Baton Rouge: 海角社区 Press, 鈥淔red B. Kniffen Cultural Resources Laboratory,鈥� 2001) LEH Prize for the Most Outstanding Book in the Humanities, 2002.
The Sight of Time: Robert Cahen Video @ 海角社区 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: 海角社区 School of Art, 2000) (with Susan E. Ryan)
"The Poet as Art Critic" L'Esprit Cr茅ateur (Vol. XXII, No. 4, Winter 1982)
"Ego Traps" Semiotext(e) Vol.I, 1975 No.3, Associate Editor (with Susan Suleiman)
"Georges Bataille"Semiotext(e) Vol.II, No.2, 1976, Associate Editor (with Sylv猫re Lotringer)
Chapters in books and articles in refereed journals:
鈥淩etour sans retour: Michael Riffaterre, chasseur de textes鈥� in 鈥淛oys of Reading: Revisiting Michael Riffaterre,鈥� L鈥橢sprit Cr茅ateur, Vol. 49, No.4 (2009), pp. 44-58.
芦 芦 Pourquoi je joue du tam-tam maintenant 禄 : Forme et Informe chez Jean-Marie Gleize 禄 in 芦 Forme & Informe dans la cr茅ation moderne et contemporaine 禄 in Formules / Revue des Cr茅ations Formelles eds. Jean-Jacques Thomas et Bernardo Schiavetta, N潞13 (2009), pp. 185-198.
芦 Collage, incipit, atelier 禄 in Bernard No毛l: le corps du verbe, colloque de Cerisy sous la direction de Fabio Scotto, Lyon, ENS 脡ditions, collection 芦 Signes 禄, 2008, pp. 199-212.
芦 Miroitements du livre : Michel Butor/ Bertrand Dorny in Michel Butor : D茅m茅nagements de la litt茅rature, 茅d. Mireille Calle-Gruber, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2008, pp. 153-171.
芦 Une langue, un lieu: la Louisiane Po猫tes cadiens et creoles: Zachary Richard, Deborah Clifton, Jean Arceneaux, Earlene Broussard, Kirby Jambon 禄 dossier pr茅sent茅 par Adelaide Russo, Pleine Marge, No. 46 (d茅cembre 2007), 75-107.
芦 Deguy-Dorny: Chemin faisant 禄 in Grand Cahier Michel Deguy, Bordeaux, 脡ditions Le Bleu du ciel, 2007, pp. 242-259.
芦 Partage secret 鈥� Secret partag茅 禄 dans Martin Rueff, ed. L鈥檃ll茅gresse pensive: Michel Deguy :po茅tique et pens茅e, Paris: 脡ditions Belin, pp. 427-440.
芦 Donner Lieu: Dialogue de Circonstance: Gleize/Rimbaud/ Deguy 禄 in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies : Sites, Vol. 11, No. 4 (October 2007), pp. 463-473.
芦 Paul Chemetov, Bertrand Dorny: Des tonnes de livres 禄, Pleine Marge, No. 45 (juin 2007), pp. 179-193 鈥淎rchitecture 茅pistolaire鈥� (190-193).
芦 Desnos鈥檚 鈥楪ymnastics鈥欌�� in Robert Desnos : Surrealism in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Marie-Claire Barnet, Eric Robertson and Nigel Saint, eds., Oxford, Bern, Berlin,
Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang鈥擬odern French Identities,
Vol. 58, 2006, pp.
169-185.
鈥淯n ton 茅l茅giaque de nagu猫re: Michel Deguy et le temps鈥� in Etudes sur le temps lyrique (XIXe et XXe si猫cles) special issue of ritm (Recherches interdiciplinaires sur les Textes Modernes) sous la direction de Jean-Michel Maulpoix, No. 34 (Universit茅 de Paris X) 2005, 149-153.
鈥淭he Disembodied Dancing Camera: Robert Cahen鈥檚 Audio-Vision鈥� in L鈥橝rt Fran莽ais et Francophone depuis 1980/Contemporary French and Francophone Art, Michael Bishop and Christopher Elson, eds. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi鈥擟ollection Faux Titre, 2005, 229-236.
鈥淟鈥橭bjet plastique, palimpseste ou publicit茅: De Litt茅rature 脿 Tropiques鈥� in Pens茅e de l鈥檈xp茅rience, travail de l鈥檈xperimentation au sein des surrealisms et des avant-gardes en Europe, Textes r茅unis par Jacqueline Ch茅nieux-Gendron et Myriam Bloed茅, Leuven and Paris: Peeters 鈥� Collection Pleine Marge, 2005, 187-210.
鈥淓n premier lieu/Introduction鈥� in Lieux Propices: L鈥橢nonciation des lieux/ Le lieu de l鈥櫭﹏onciation dans les contexts
francophones interculturels, Qu茅bec (Canada): Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 Laval鈥擟ollection InterCultures, 2005, 13-16.
鈥淒e la g茅o-scopie en qu锚te de d茅fintion鈥� in Lieux Propices: L鈥橢nonciation des lieux/ Le lieu de l鈥櫭﹏onciation dans les contexts
francophones interculturels, Qu茅bec (Canada): Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 Laval鈥擟ollection InterCultures, 2005, 25-46
鈥淟e peintre, le mus茅e et la bande dessin茅e鈥� in Etudes Francophones: Dossier Th茅matique: Bande Dessin茅e Belge, Vol. 20/no.1 (Printemps 2005), 117-135.
鈥淓ntretien avec Beno卯t Peeters鈥� (with Fabrice Leroy) in Etudes Francophones: Dossier Th茅matique: Bande Dessin茅e Belge, Vol. 20/no.1 (Printemps 2005), 136-166.
鈥淟e peintre, le mus茅e et la bande dessin茅e鈥� in Etudes Francophones: Dossier Th茅matique: Bande Dessin茅e Belge, Vol. 20/no.1 (Printemps 2005), 117-135.
鈥淓ntretien avec Beno卯t Peeters鈥� (with Fabrice Leroy) in Etudes Francophones: Dossier Th茅matique: Bande Dessin茅e Belge, Vol. 20/no.1 (Printemps 2005), 136-166.
鈥淕eorges-Emmanuel Clancier: Jo毛 Bosquet, Le Po猫te mod猫le,鈥� in Cahiers de Robert Margerit
鈥淯ne Langue, un lieu鈥� texts of Rosanna Warren and Craig Dworkin, selected and in part translated, Pleine Marge, No. 39 (juin 2004), pp. 65-110)
"Le Peintre comme mod猫le --M茅ditation sur l'image ou Sous le signe de la substitution," in Michel Leiris: Le si猫cle 脿 l鈥檈nvers, textes rassembl茅s par Francis Marmande, Tours, Editions Farrago, Editions L茅o Scheer, 2004, pp. 159-173.
鈥淓ntretien: Nicole Collages 2000-2002,鈥� Pleine Marge, n潞. 37 (mai 2003), pp. 41-58.
鈥淟鈥橢volution de l鈥檌dentit茅 Belge et son autre asiatique: De Michaux 脿 Peeters鈥�
in Identit茅s Narratives鈥擬茅moire et Perception, Eds. Pierre Ouellet, Simon Harel, Alexis Nouss, Jocelyn L茅tourneau (Qu茅bec: Presses
Universitaires de l鈥橴niversit茅 de Laval, 2002), pp.35-54.
鈥淢arcelin Pleynet: Le Propre du Temps et le retour 脿 la question du langage鈥� in Contemporary French Poetics: From Bonnefoy and Deguy to Risset and Bancquart, eds. Michael Bishop and Christopher Elson (Atlanta and Amsterdam: Rodopi -- Collection 鈥淔aux-Titre鈥�, 2002), pp. 167-177.
鈥淧谤辞蹿补苍补迟颈辞苍蝉/搁别惫别濒补迟颈辞苍蝉鈥� Bulletin Baudelairien , Vol.35, n飩�2, (2000): 95-118.
鈥淪茅rie et syncope: La po茅tique musicale de Robert Desnos,鈥� Cahiers de la NRF, eds. Marie-Claire Dumas and Katharine Conley (Paris: Gallimard, 2000): 87-101.
鈥淧hilippe Soupault : Cartographe et Architecte鈥� in Patiences et Silences de Philippe Soupault, ed. Jacqueline Ch茅nieux-Gendron (Paris: L鈥橦armattan, 2000): 88-108.
鈥淟鈥橦ommage du Mage au Sage: Edmond Jab猫s et Jacques Derrida鈥� in Hommage 脿 Edmond Jab茅s, ed. Didier Cahen (Bordeaux : Opales, 2000): 94-107.
鈥溌獶ivagations禄 sur un plan cadastral鈥� ritm (Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Textes Modernes), Universit茅 de Paris X-Nanterre ), No 21, (mars 2000): 177-198.
鈥淎ll These Images Make Us Hear: All These Sounds Make Us See,鈥� in The Sight of Time: Robert Cahen Video @ 海角社区, ed. Adelaide Russo and Susan E. Ryan (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: 海角社区 School of Art, 2000): 9-19.
鈥溾�楾exte qui de soi-m锚me s鈥櫭ヽrit鈥�: Les Collaborations de Beno卯t Peeters,鈥� 茅critures contemporaines, ed. Dominique Viart and Jan Baetens, Vol.II (Paris: Minard-Les Lettres Modernes,
1999): 203-220.
鈥淟a Main de Jean Follain : Lecture d鈥檜n d茅tail鈥� in Le Monde de Jean Follain, ed. Arlette Albert-Birot (Paris: 脡ditions Jean-Michel Place, 1998): 161-181.
鈥淧our tout ce que les yeux voient: Pour Bona Tibertelli de Pisis de Mandiargues鈥� in
La Part du F茅minin dans le Surr茅alisme, eds. Georgiana Colvile and Katharine Conley (Paris: Lachenal & Rittner, 1998): 253-273.
"Les Questionnements du Penseur - Voyageur" in Michel Deguy: "Le Po猫te que je cherche 脿 锚tre, ed. Yves Charnet (Paris: Belin, 1996): 260-273
"Muthos et proph茅tie: L'茅laboration d'une mythologie moderne-- po茅te, peintre, oracle" in Mythe et Pens茅e surr茅aliste, eds. Yves Vad茅 and Jacqueline Ch茅nieux-Gendron (Paris: Lachenal & Ritter, 1996): 209-228
"Art et l'oscillation et "l'艙il d'un certain philosophe" in Antonin Artaud: Figures et portraits vertigineux, ed. Simon Harel (Montr茅al: Editions XYZ and Paris: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 1995): 261-280
"Delteil et L'Am茅rique: La Fayette" in Joseph Delteil: Rencontres de Cerisy, ed. Robert Briatte (Lod猫ve: Editions de la Jonque, 1995): 41-53.
"Michel Leiris: :Le Peintre comme mod猫le --M茅ditation sur l'image ou Sous le signe de la substitution," in Regard d'茅crivain, Parole de peintre, eds. Dalton Krauss and Monique Chefdor (Nantes: Editions Joca Seria, 1994): 31-45.
"The Apparatus Criticus of Art: Francis Ponge's L'Atelier contemporain" In Figuring Things: Char, Ponge, and Poetry in the Twentieth Century, ed. Charles D. Minahen (Lexington, Kentucky), French Forum Publishers, 1994): 141-160.
"Andr茅 Breton et les dispositifs du jugement: sp茅culaire, sp茅culatif," In Lire le regard : Andr茅 Breton & la peinture, ed. Jacqueline Ch茅nieux-Gendron (Paris: Lachenal & Ritter, 1993): 153-178: reprint of article in Pleine Marge 13 with additional essays by such critics as Denis Hollier.
"Du Papillon au pamphlet," Jeu Surr茅aliste & Humour Noir (Actes du Colloque Homo Ludens Cerisy-la-Salle) eds. Marie-Claire Dumas and Jacqueline
Ch茅nieux-Gendron (Paris: Lachenal & Ritter, 1993): 237-258.
"Ecrire en 茅crivant sur: Jean-Marie Gleize, Circonstances," Impressions du Sud, No. 34 (Hiver 1992-93), 1984-85.
"La M茅diation dans la critique artistique de Philippe Soupault: Paolo Uccello et William Blake," Philippe Soupault, le po猫te, ed. Jacqueline Ch茅nieux-Gendron (Paris: Klincksieck, 1992): 160-182.
(Maria Goodwin), "Jacques Derrida in Baton Rouge: The Philsopher in the City of Flayed
Skins," Exquisite Corpse, No. 37 (1992), 160-182 reprinted in Thus Spake the Corpse, Vol. II, Black Sparrow
Press, 2000: 261-266.
"Andr茅 Breton et les dispositifs du judgement: sp茅culaire, sp茅culatif," in Lire le regard: Andr茅 Breton et la peinture, Pleine Marge, No. 13 (juin 1991): 111-132.
"Marcelin Pleynet Mediating Surrealism" in Special Issue of Dalhousie French Studies, "Art Criticism by Poets Since the Mid-Century," ed. Robert Greene, Vol. 21 (1991): 141-156.
"L'ekphrasis dans Les Collages de Louis Aragon: Ekpledzis,Enargeia, Escamotage," 脡crire et Voir: Aragon, Elsa Triolet et les arts visuels, ed. Jean Arrouye (Centre Aixois de Recherches sur Aragon), (Aix-en Provence: Publications de l'Universit茅 de Provence, 1991): 211-227.
"La materialit茅 en disparition," in La Photographie en Dommage, Special Issue of Le Ciel des 脡toiles Fixes IV, ed. Michelle Debat (Martigues: 脡ditions Collodion, mai 1990): 33-48.
"`La po茅sie limitrope': Michel Deguy's Gisants," in Special Issue of Dalhousie French Studies "De Duras et Robbe-Grillet 脿 Cixous et Deguy," ed. Michael Bishop, No 17 (Fall-Winter 1989): 117-134.
"An Exchange of Tokens: Michel Leiris, Marcel Duchamp, and Jacques Derrida," The Bucknell Review, Vol. 31, No. 1 "Criticism, History, Intertextuality," (London and Toronto: Associate University Presses, 1988): 77-97.
"An Introduction to Andrei Codrescu or the Life and Times of an Involuntary Genius," Miorita: A Journal of Rumanian Studies, Vol. XII (1988): 52-66.
"Le respect des femmes: le retour du p猫re. Quelques R茅flexions sur le discours philosophique de Sarah Kofman," Dalhousie French Studies, "Simone de Beauvoir et les F茅minismes Contemporains," eds. Nicole Tr猫ves and Michael Bishop, Vol. 13 (Fall-Winter, 1987): 105-115.
"Le Tombeau de Robert ou la tradition encrypt茅e," in 芦Moi Qui Suis Robert Desnos禄: Permanence d'une voix, ed. Marie-Claire Dumas (Paris: Jose Corti, 1987): 33-54.
"The Rhetoric of the Interpretant: Eco, Riffaterre and the Triangle," in Semiotics 1982, eds. John Deely and Jonathan Evans (Lanham, New York, London: University Press
of America, 1987):
175-190.
"OuLiPo's Mechanical Measure: The Consequences of "Litt茅rature Potentielle" on Potential
Criticism, Michigan Romance Studies, Vol. VI (1986): 111-127.
"Reading A Surrealist Poem: Representation in Robert Desnos's Le Vendredi du crime," Teaching Language Through Literature(Publication of the MLA Group Teaching Language Through Literature), Vol. XXV, No. 2 (1986): 19-33.
"From Visual to Verbal in Jean Tardieu's Les Portes de Toile", Sub-Stance, No. 46 (1985):76-92.
"Picking up the Pieces? Tzara's Explosive Text and the Surrealist Strategy,鈥� Miorita: A Journal of Rumanian Studies (University of Rochester) Vol. 9, No. 1-2 (1985): 1-18.
"Olympia's Ribbon: Talismans, Reliques and Other Fetishes,鈥� L'Esprit Cr茅ateur, XXII, No. 4 (Winter, 1982): 3-15.
鈥淛ules Destr茅e,鈥� Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern European Literature, New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.
鈥淏茅atrix Beck,鈥� Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern European Literature, New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.
鈥淢arcel Duchamp and Robert Desnos: A Necessary and an Arbitrary Analogy,鈥� Dada/Surrealism, No. 9 (1979): 115-123.