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Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz Professor French and Comparative Literature |
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 hokenson@fau.edu |
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| Areas of Expertise | Graduate Courses: |
| 19th-21stC French and European Literature | CST 7303 Antigones: Gender and the State |
| Modernism and the Avant-Gardes | CST 7931 The Public Intellectual in France |
| Theory of Comedy | FRW 6938 Proust et le roman |
| History and Theory of Translation | FRW 6465 Le Realisme |
| Comparative Poetics | FRW 6613 l'Entre-deux-guerres |
| FRW 6110 Le Comique | |
| Undergraduate Courses: | LIT 6066 Comparative Literature |
| FRW 3122 19-21stC French Literature | LIT 6393 Evil and The Feminine |
| FRW 3101 17-18thC French Literature | LIT 5937 Fiction and Fictionality |
| FRW 4930 Flaubert | FRW 6575 French Existentialism |
| FOL 3880 Research Methods | LIT 5937 History and Theory of Translation |
| FRW 4933 Desastre! en litterature | FRW 6938 Beckett in Paris |
| FRW 6465 la Comedie humaine de Balzac | |
| Professor Hokenson specializes in the origins and development of French modernism, with | |
| emphasis on the novel in the contexts of European literary and intellectual history. She has received | |
| an award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities, and research fellowships from the French | |
| government, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Danforth Foundation. | |
| Professor Hokenson's forthcoming publications include: the essay "Haiku as a Western Genre: Fellow Traveler of Modernism," Approaching Modernism, eds. Vivian Liska and Astradur Eysteinsson (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, in 2006) and the book The Idea of Comedy: History, Theory, Critique (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, in 2006). Recent publications include the book Japan, France, and East-West Aesthetics: French Literature, 1867-2000 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004); "Proust's japonisme: Contrastive Aesthetics," in Proust: Modern Critical Views, ed. Harold Bloom (Chelsea House, 2003); "The Culture of the Context: Comparative Literature Past and Future," in Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies, ed. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek (Purdue University Press, 2003), 58-75; "Public Masks: Dominique Desanti and the French Autobiographical Tradition," Dalhousie French Studies 54 (Spring 2001): 39-49; "Fool's Wisdom: The Learning of Laughter," The Iron Mountain Review 17 (Spring 2001): 21-27. She is currently coauthoring with Marcella Munson and Mary Helen McMurran the book The Bilingual Text for St Jerome Press, Manchester, England. |
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