Category: travel
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SFS 2015, Cardiff
I’ve got a lot of these left over, and since the pandemic is still going full tilt, and many of my favorite conferences are going to be online this year, I’m posting a nostalgic look back at five years ago when you could still go outside without worrying. The conference was lovely, as was Cardiff.
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[Updated] NeMLA 2020: Thinking Beyond Your Century (Deadline 30 September)
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As promised earlier, here is the CFP for the panel I will be moderating at the NeMLA 2020 Annual Conference in Boston. The conference will be held in early March. You will find the posting under French and Comparative Literature, but it’s a broad and interdisciplinary topic, so if you are working on something related…
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Paris Research Trip, 2015 (part 5): Versailles visit, Le Petit Trianon
I am fascinated by gardens. And because part of my thesis was on gardens in La nouvelle Héloïse, and in La Faute de l’abbé Mouret, I was pretty much compelled by circumstances to go. Also, a friend of ours who had been living in Paris for two years (and who was scheduled to move back…
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Research Trip to Paris, 2015 (part 4): Monet at the Orangerie
Here are a few more photos from my trip. This part isn’t strictly research related, but I had never been to the Orangerie before. And it was a pleasure of seeing these wall-sized paintings by Monet, in the space they were originally intended to be displayed. I wanted to post every photo I took there,…
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Research Trip to Paris, 2015 (part three)
In the interest of catching up with the backlog of old photographs from my research trip to Paris, here are a few. I had never visited the Passage des Panoramas before, but I had been talking about this and the other Passages frequently with my advisor. I went and took these photos because the day…
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Research Trip to Paris, 2015
2015 was a busy year. In the summer I got a small research grant to go to the BNF and the Archives Nationales. The archives are becoming more and more restricted, and so direct access to Zola’s dossiers préparatoires and similar materials are limited to scholars doing comparative editions. The day I arrived, however, I…
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