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Reading Differently, Rereading for Difference in Versions of Rimbaud's "Mouvement", Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics (2007)
How to engage students to reread Arthur Rimbaud’s 1886 poem “Mouvement” differently? What can they...
 

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Beauty in Bastardy? Breytenbach on Afrikaans and the Afrikaners, PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies (2005)

Throughout the twentieth century activists in South Africa for the Afrikaans language struggled with, yet...

 

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Rewriting, Rereading Récidive, Dalhousie French Studies (2004)

Author of some dozen works of homoerotic fiction, two polemical essays, and recipient of the...

 

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Truth and Consequences: Renaud Camus and the Personal, Dalhousie French Studies (2002)

A year before his untimely death in 1980, in the days before the internet, before...

 

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Caught in/On the Web: To Publish Without Perishing in the Digital Age, First Monday (2000)
Publishing online is an increasingly prevalent means for scholars to test their ideas. But what...
 

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Of Art and Epithets: Approaching the Poetry of Olivier Larronde Through His "Alberto Giacometti Dégaine", Romance Notes (2000)

At the relatively early age of 38, the French poet Olivier Larronde died of an...

 

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Less or More Black and White? Reassuring Genet's Les nègres in Light of Both Published Versions, Dalhousie French Studies (1998)

Each of the five plays by Jean Genet performed before his death in 1986 exists...

 

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Dissolving the Divine: The Tragedy of Identity in Genet's "Elle", Symposium (1996)

In his recent biography of Jean Genet, Edmund White tells of the dramatist's fascination with...

 

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The Unknown Role of Madame in Genet's Les Bonnes, Romance Notes (1996)

The text of Jean Genet's Les Bonnes that is taught and performed most regularly is...