Linda Clemente

  Linda Clemente

 

Education

  • Ph.D., Romance Languages, University of Oregon
  • M.A., French, University of Oregon
  • M.A., English, University of Western Ontario
  • B.A., French and English, McGill University

 

Current Courses Taught

  • Beur Literature and Film; Women in Literature and Film
  • The Novel; French Fairy Tales
  • Medieval Epic and Romance; 17th Century
  • Literary Theory (taught in English)
  • First-year Interdisciplinary Seminar: Surrealism
  • First-year French

 

Awards and Honors

  • NITLE (National Institue for Technology and Liberal Education): al-musharaka Summer Seminars (2005, 2006, 2007)
  • Various grants from Ripon College (scholarly, curriculum development, travel to conferences)
  • Severy Award for excellence in teaching, Ripon College, 2004, 1996, 1992
  • Fulbright for dissertation research: Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale, Poitiers, France: 1983-1984

 

 

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • “Maryse Condé’s Windward Heights and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: Colonial Reality in Victorian Guise,” in Changing Currents: Anglophone, Francophone and Hispaniophone Literary and Cultural Criticism, ed. Emily Allen Williams (University Press of Florida, 2004). Co-authored with William A. Clemente.
  • “The Caribbean Tale that Nobody Told in Maryse Condé’s Célinaire cou-coupé,” in International Conference on Caribbean Studies, ed. Héctor R. Romero. (Edinburg, Texas: The University of Texas Pan American Press, 2007)

 

 

 

Areas of Interest

  • Beur (2nd-generation immigrant populations) Literature and Film
  • Francophone Literature (North and sub-Saharan Africa; Caribbean)
  • Francophone Women Writers / Autobiography
  • The Novel (12th -20th centuries)
  • Feminism, Post-colonialism, Deconstruction