Virginie A. Duzer

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Chair of Romance Languages and Literatures; Coordinator of the French Section
virginie.pouzet-duzer@pomona.edu
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(909) 621-8619

With Pomona Since: 2008
Virginie Duzer
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  • Expertise

    Expertise

    Virginie A. Duzer鈥檚 research deals mainly with the relation between texts, images and aesthetics in the avant-gardes of the years 1870-1970.

    Her first book, L鈥檌mpressionisme litt茅raire (2013), aims at defining what literary impressionism really is. To do so, she gathers discourses of art history, literary history, cultural history and stylistic analysis. Focusing on the connections between writers and artists, the book provides its readers with 鈥渁 rich cultural snapshot of an epoch鈥 (Sidma Godfrey). 

    Duzer has also written several articles about the decadent figure of Salom茅 (to whom she dedicated a whole blog in 2005), as well as on the-said 鈥渙bscure鈥 poet St茅phane 惭补濒濒补谤尘茅 and on the lesser known fascinating surrealist poet Benjamin P茅ret.  

    When asked to describe her research methodology, Duzer explains that it is eclectic in its very essence. For her, thinking and writing always begin with a fragment, a point, an interstice, an intersection, an oxymoron or a paradox. She argues that this is where creativity and subjectivity matter most. From there, she works to ferret out a bigger picture, by coming back to theory and socio-historical matters. And in the end, her main research goal is hence to establish connections and links between works and movements that are rarely studied together

    Research Interests

    The relation between texts, images and aesthetics in the avant-gardes (from Impressionism towards Surrealism and Situationnisme)

    Areas of Expertise

    FRENCH

    • Artistic & Literary French Avant-Garde
    • The Myth of Salom茅
    • Contemporary French Literature and Film
    • 惭补濒濒补谤尘茅

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    • Text & Image Interactions
    • Literary Impressionism
    • Surrealism
    • Aesthetics
  • Work

    Work

    鈥淟e surr茅alisme ne sera pas ce qu鈥檌l n鈥檈st plus.鈥 Co-written with Marcela Scibiorska, in 1947. Almanach litt茅raire. Impressions nouvelles. 2017. 193-199

    鈥淚mpressions d鈥櫭es 茅crivant.鈥 L鈥櫭塩rivain vu par la photographie. Formes, usages, enjeux, Ed. David Martens, Jean-Pierre Montier & Anne Reverseau. Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes. 2017. 134-141.

    鈥淰oyages imaginaires avec Charles Baudelaire et Amelie Nothomb,鈥 a teaching module for advanced students in French, co-developed with Vera A. Klekovkina, in Entre-textes: Dialogues litt茅raires et culturels, co- edited by OanaPanaite and Vera A. Klekovkina, Routledge. 2017. 198-217.

    Co-editor (and co-writer of the introduction) of the M茅lusine special issue devoted to gender in Surrealism: Masculin-F茅min, M茅lusine XXXVI. Paris: L鈥橝ge d鈥橦omme, 2016.

    鈥淶acharie Astruc, mod猫le et personnage au carrefour des arts.鈥 in Le texte et l鈥檌mage, special issue of Histoires litt茅raires, Ed. Julien Bougousslavsky. Editions Du L茅rot. Juillet-D茅cembre 2014 鈥 vol. XV, no. 59-60. 101-111.

    "Le Fruit d茅fendu." Introduction to Savoirs de jeunes filles, special issue of Romantisme, Ed. Virginie A. Duzer, issue  no. 165. 2014. 3-12

    Editor of the Romantisme special issue devoted to young girl鈥檚 knowledge: Savoirs de jeunes filles, Romantisme. No. 165 Paris: Armand Collin, 2014.

    鈥淟e surr茅alisme en 茅quations.鈥 . Ed. Muriel Lou芒pre, Hugues Marchal & Michel Pierssens. .  2014. 399-411.

    鈥淒ada, Surrealism, Antropofagia: The Swallowing Process of the Avant-garde,鈥 Old and New, Avant-garde and 鈥淎rri猫re-garde鈥 in French Modernist Literature, special issue of l鈥橢sprit cr茅ateur. vol. 53, no. 3 Ed. Jan Baetens & Eric Trudel, Fall 2013. 79鈥90.

    L'Impressionnisme litt茅raire, Saint-Denis, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2013.

  • Education

    Education

    Ph.D.
    Duke University, NC

    Master of Arts
    Kent State University, OH

    Ma卯trise FLE & D.E.A. de Lettres Modernes
    Universit茅 Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III

    Recent Courses Taught

    • Who's afraid of Marcel Proust?
    • Writing the Painter, Painting the Writer
    • Advanced French
    • Cannibalizing Surrealism
    • Frenchness: May 68 and Beyond
    • Intro to Literary Analysis
    • The Art of Modern Fiction
    • Notre Dame, Point 0
  • Awards & Honors

    Awards & Honors

    The Borchard Foundation, Scholar in Residence, Chateau de la Bretesche, Missillac, France, fall 2017 and fall 2011

    麻豆影视; Harriet Barnard Summer Fellowship, summer 2010, summer 2015 and summer 2019

    麻豆影视; Yale-Griffith Summer Fellowship, summer 2009 and summer 2013

    Institut Fran莽ais de Washington ; Edouard Morot-Sir Research Fellowship, summer 2008

    Duke University Graduate School; Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, April 2008

    Duke University Graduate School; Teaching Mini-Grant, 2007-2008

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