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Luke Bouvier

Lecturer/ Graduate Programs Director

Contact Information

Location: Herter Hall 321
Phone: (413) 545-6545
Email: lbouvier@frital.umass.edu

 

Education

 B.A., Rutgers University
M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Recent Publications

Books

Writing, Voice and the Proper:  Jules Vallès and the Politics of Orality.  Amsterdam/Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 1998.

Desiring Voices, Consuming Passions:  Soundings of Orality in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative.  (In progress)

Articles

 "A Taste for Words: Gastronomy and the Writing of Loss in Brillat-Savarin’s Physiologie du goût." Mosaic 38.3 (Sept. 2005): 95-111.

 "How Not to Speak of Incest:  Atala and the Secrets of Speech."  Nineteenth-Century French Studies 30.3-4 (2002): 1-15.  Selected for inclusion in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol. 137 (Gale Group, 2004).

 "Where Spain Lies:  Narrative Dispossession and the Seductions of Speech in Mérimée's Carmen." Romanic Review 90.3 (May 1999): 353-377.

"Shameless Irony:  Jules Vallès and the Politics of Childhood."  L'Esprit Créateur 39.4 (Winter, 1999): 39-53.

"Death and the Scene of Inception:  Autobiographical Impropriety and the Birth of Romanticism in Chateaubriand's Mémoires d'outre-tombe."  French Forum 23.1 (Jan. 1998): 23-46.

Research Interests

Nineteenth-century French literature and culture, novel, autobiography, literary voice, literature and cultural history (gastronomy, urbanism, shame and laughter, death, nationalism and other topics), contemporary literary theory, language-learning technology.