Dr. Mariah Devereux Herbeck is an Associate Professor with the Department of World Languages at Boise State University. Her research combines theories of feminism and narratology in order to examine the role and representation of women and otherwise marginalized characters in twentieth-century French and Francophone literature and film. Since coming to Boise State she has taught a variety of courses including: The (R)evolution of French Cinema, France Today, and Topics in French and Francophone Cinema - French New Wave. Dr. Devereux Herbeck has organized speakers panels for the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, and has presented at the “Cherchez La Femme Conference” in Exeter, England. In the summer of 2011 she was a visiting professor at the University of Pau, in southwestern France.
Articles
The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922) Gets a Facelift: Claire Denis’ Modern Portrayal of Female Desire in Friday Night (2002), French Forum (2011)
La Mère antillaise: Ouverture ou obstacle à la créolité? (The Antillean Mother: Opening or Obstacle to créolité?), Women in French Studies (2009)
André Breton’s Nadja: A Vagabonde in a Femme Fatale’s Narrative, Dalhousie French Studies (2008)
Contributions to Books
Film, Foucault and the Fringe: Outcasts of Contemporary French Film, Practical Approaches to Teaching Film (2009)
Presentations
When Words Fail: Language Barriers in Laurent Cantet’s Entre les murs (2008), 20th & 21st Century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium (2012)
The Femme Fatale, Her Female Foil and (Narrative) Acts of Violence in Amélie Nothomb’s Antichrista (2003), International Conference on Narrative (2011)
Coline Serreau’s Chaos: New World Order in a Feminine Utopia?, Gender, Place and Space: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Notre Dame (2010)
Focalizing on the Fringe: Foucault and Contemporary French-Language Film (Panel Presentation), Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Convention (2009)