Rosemarie Scullion

Associate Professor
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Rosemarie Scullion's research and teaching focus on twentieth-century French literary and cultural studies, French women writers and feminist/gender theory, contemporary European literary theory, French cinema, and modern French history and historiography. She offers a wide range of interdisciplinary courses that bring literary, cinematic, cultural texts into critical dialogue, exploring how contemporary theories of history and   and subjectivity help us understand how modern French identities (national, ethnic, racial, gender and political) are ideologically and discursively shaped. In her research, she has focused on French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline, on the history and memory of the 1930s and the Nazi Occupation of France. She has also written on Duras, Perec, Ponge, Michel Foucault and topics in French cinema. Her current scholarly work is centered on the literary and film production of the Cold War period in France. She has recently co-founded the University of Iowa's "Working Group on Cinemas of the Middle East and North Africa" and is developing expertise in feminist film practice in several national cinemas of these regions.  

In 2002, Scullion received the Collegiate Teaching Award, a university-wide award recognizing Faculty excellence in graduate and undergraduate teaching.  

Publications

Courses

Literature Courses:

• The Twentieth-Century French Novel
• French Literature of the Twentieth Century
• The Modern Novel
• Twentieth-Century French Drama
• French Women Writers of the Twentieth Century
• The Politics of Revolt in Twentieth-Century French Drama
• Configuring Class Difference in 19 th and Xxth Century French Literature
• Transgresser le Carcéral:   L'Ecriture romanesque de Céline, Genet et Duras,
• Marcel Proust and the Sign

Cinema and Cultural Studies Courses

• Gender and Sexuality in French Cinema
• Cinema, Society and Culture in Xxth Century France
• French History in/and Cinema
• "Cinéma Engagé:   Activist and Social Filmmaking in France"
• Tales of Love in French Literature and Film
• Strange Defeat: France Under Nazi Occupation, 1940-44
• The Holocaust in French Literature and Film

Theory Courses

• Critical Theory and Practice
• New Historicisms in France from the Annales to Foucault and Beyond
• Critical Approaches to French Literature

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