Mary Donaldson-Evans
Curriculum Vitae
HOME ADDRESS & PHONE ACADEMIC ADDRESS & PHONE
425 W. Rose Tree Road Dept. of Foreign Langs & Lits
Media, PA 19063 University of Delaware
610-565-0122 Newark, DE 19716
(302) 831-2588
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
maryde@udel.edu
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania, PhD (Romance Languages), 1975.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, M.A. (French), 1968.
Marquette University, B.A. (French and English), 1965.
EMPLOYMENT:
Newark, DE: University of Delaware:
Elias Ahuja Professor of French, Sept. 2002 -
Professor, Sept. 1991 to Sept. 2002.
Adjunct Faculty, Womens Studies Program, 1999 -
Associate Chair, Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures, 1989-90
Associate Professor, Sept. 1982 to August, 1991.
Assistant Professor, Sept. 1976-August, 1982
Instructor, September, 1969-August, 1976
Other Academic Appointments:
University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Professor, Spring, 2004
Villanova, PA: Part time Instructor, Villanova, University, Jan. 1969-June, 1969.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Teaching Assistant, 1966-68.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Named Professorship, September 2002.
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Appreciation Award, presented at NCFS Colloquium,
University of Toronto, October, 1996.
Untours Award for Excellence in International Education, Rose Tree Media School District,
March 20, 1996, Media, PA.
Faculty Award, University of Delaware: Outstanding Teacher in the College of Arts and Science, 1995 ($1000).
National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant for College Teachers, 1993-4 ($22,000).
Supplemental Funds Grant, University of Delaware, 1990, $1000.
Named "Chevalier" of l'Association des Membres de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques
(Honorary Society of the French Ministry of Education), 1989.
General University Research Grant, summer, 1988, $5000
Mortar Board teaching award, December, 1984.
Elected to membership in Phi Kappa Phi, 1983 (Interdisciplinary honor society).
Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Delaware, 1983.
($1000 award from Lindbach Foundation)
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS (authored and edited)
Madame Bovary at the Movies: Adaptation, Ideology, Context (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009. (218 pp.)
Medical Examinations: Dissecting the Doctor in French Narrative Prose (1857-1894) This work was supported by a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities in 1993-94. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000). (240 pp.)
Moving Forward, Holding Fast: The Dynamics of Nineteenth-Century French Culture (Selected papers from the 21st annual NCFS Colloquium, held at Arsht Hall, University of Delaware Wilmington Campus, October 1995), co-edited with Barbara Cooper (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997). (242 pp.)
Kaleidoscope: Essays in Nineteenth-Century French Literature in honor of Thomas H. Goetz, co-edited with Graham Falconer (Centre d'Etudes romantiques J. Sablé, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, 1996). (228 pp.)
Autobiography, Historiography, Rhetoric: Essays in Honor of Frank Paul Bowman, co-edited with Lucienne Frappier-Mazur and Gerald Prince. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994). (302 pp.)
Modernity and Revolution in Late Nineteenth-Century France, co-edited with Barbara Cooper. University of Delaware Press, 1992. (170 pp.)
A Woman's Revenge: The Chronology of Dispossession in Maupassant's Fiction. French Forum Monographs, 1986. (159 pp.)
BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
Bibliographie des écrivains français: Guy de Maupassant (annotated bibliography). Editions Memini, Paris. (2009) (contributor: 500+ entries)
MLA International Bibliography: 1988-91 (field bibliographer) (New York: Modern Language Association.)
ARTICLES, NOTES, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
"De la page à l'écran : les avatars cinématographiques de Madame Bovary. Histoire de cadres" in Flaubert, écrivain (Colloque de Cerisy, to be published as a special edition of L'Europe [Paris, France] in 2009.)
"L'Audace des 'Vieilles'". (to be published in conference proceedings of March 2007 Nanterre conference on Maupassant.) (2009)
"A l'écoute des adaptations de Madame Bovary" (Flaubert. Revue critique et génétique ; Flaubert :Traductions/Adaptations), mis en ligne le 19 janvier 2009. URL : http://flaubert.revues.org/index579html.
"La Valse sinistre de la guerre : Lecture de 'La Mère Sauvage'" Syntagmes (Tartu, Estonia), 2009.
"Douceur de la vengeance: portraits masculins dans Ourika de Claire de Duras " (L'homme en tous genres, ed. Gary Ferguson (numéro thématique d'Itinéraires, 2008).
"From ébauche to débauche: Fleshing Out a Baudelairian Sketch in Maupassant's Fiction" (in Esquisses/Ebauches: Projects and Pre-Texts in Nineteenth-Century French Culture, ed. Sonya Stephens, New York & Amsterdam: Peter Lang, 2007.
"Tribute to Graduates." Language Association Journal of the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Summer 2006), 3-4.
"Du mythe au fait divers: La genèse anti-Zolienne de 'Boule de suif'" in Mélanges en l'honneur de Louis Forestier. (Plaisance: Revue d'études comparées et de recherches sur les Avant-gardes, Numéro spécial, 2006).
"A Medium of Exchange: The Madame Bovary Film" (Dix-Neuf, No. 4 (April 2005).
"Pricking the Male Ego: Pins and Needles in Flaubert, Maupassant and Zola" (Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 30, 3-4 (Spring-Summer, 2002): 254-265.
"Maupassant épinglé" (L'Angélus, Bulletin de L'Association des Amis de Maupassant; No. 11, 2001): 3-11.
Encyclopedia Entries: "Film Adaptations of Flaubert's Works" (128-30); "Claude Chabrol" (53-4); "Vincente Minnelli" (222-24); "Jean Renoir" (270-71); in A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia, ed. Laurence Porter (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2001).
"Ecriture et transformation: sur quelques intertextes inexplorés de Madame Gervaisais" (La Revue des Sciences humaines 259, 3, 2000) 75-89.
"Maupassant et le carcan de la nouvelle" (Cahiers Naturalistes, Vol. 46, No. 4, 2000), 75-82.
"La Topographie du bonheur," Maupassant et les pays du soleil, ed. Jacques Bienvenu (Paris: Klincksieck, 1999),
13-24.
"Thomas H. Goetz: A Biographical Essay," pp. 7-13 in Kaleidoscope, ed. Graham Falconer and Mary Donaldson-Evans (Toronto: Centre détudes romantiques J. Sablé, 1996).
"Teaching Madame Bovary Through Film," Approaches to Teaching Madame Bovary, (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1995), 114-121.
"Biographical Essay: Frank Paul Bowman," pp. 1-10 in Autobiography, Historiography, Rhetoric, ed. Donaldson-Evans, Frappier-Mazur, Prince (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994).
"Maupassant and the Physician-Narrator" in Maupassant Conteur et Romancier, ed. Christopher Lloyd and Robert Lethbridge, Durham, U.K.: Durham Modern Language Series, 1994, 97-110.
"La Femme (r)enfermée chez Maupassant," in Maupassant et l'écriture, (Paris: Editions Nathan, 1993), 63-74.
"Guy de Maupassant," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 23, "Nineteenth-Century French Writers: Naturalism and Beyond, 1860-1900," 1992, 188-214.
"The Morbidity of Milieu: Zola's L'Assommoir and the Discourse of Hygiene." Festschrift in Honor of Edward Sullivan. Ed. Alain Toumayan, French Forum, 1991, 150-162.
"A Pox on Love: Diagnosing Madame Bovary's Blind Beggar." Symposium, 44, 1 Spring, 1990, 15-27.
"En ménage: Huysmans' Roman-Abattoir." Stanford French Review, 13, Fall-Winter, 1989, 193-210.
"Doctoring History: Maupassant's 'Un Coup d'état.'" Nineteenth Century French Studies, Vol 16, Nos. 3-4, Spring/Summer, 1988, 351-360.
"The Harlot's Apprentice: Maupassant's Bel Ami," French Review, Vol. 60, No. 5, April, 1987, 616-625.
"The Last Laugh: Maupassant's 'Les Bijoux,' and 'La Parure,'" French Forum (Vol. 10, No. 2, May 1985), 163-174.
"Beginnings to Understand: The Narrative 'Come On' in Maupassant's Stories," Neophilologus 68 (1984), 48-62.
"The Decline and Fall of Elisabeth Rousset: Text and Context Maupassant's 'Boule de suif,'" Australian Journal of French Studies, XVIII, #1 (1981), 16 34. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, Gale Research Company, November, 1987.
"Auditory Comprehension in the French Conversation Class," Modern Language Journal, 65 (Summer 1981),
166-173.
"Maupassant ludens: A Re examination of Pierre et Jean," Nineteenth Century French Studies, IX, 3 4 (1981),
204-219.
"'Nuit de Noël' and 'Conte de Noël': Ironic Diptych in Maupassant's Work," French Review, LIV, 1 (October 1980),
66-77.
"The Sea as Symbol: A Key to the Structure of Maupassant's Pierre et Jean," Nottingham French Studies, XVII,
2 (October 1978), 36-43.
"The Matrical Marsh: A Symbol of Hope in Maupassant's Work," French Forum, II, 3 (September 1977), 255-262.
In addition to the above, I have written 50 + BOOK REVIEWS and have delivered papers and invited lectures in the USA, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, England, and France.