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AATF. Future conventions: 2005 (July 7–10, Quebec City); 2006 (Milwaukee); 2007 (Baton Rouge); 2008 (Belgium). Contact Jayne Abrate, Executive Director (Southern Illinois U.) Tel. 618-453-5731 abrate@siu.edu, http://aatf.utsa.edu.

ARTAMENE (Scudéry). Project by research team at U. Neuchâtel, to "redonner une chance" au Grand Cyrus, the longest French novel. Online text in collaboration with ARTFL, documentation, iconography. Subsidized by Swiss FNRS. Web: http://www.artamene.org.

ASSAF, FRANCIS (Georgia). Bks. Festschrift: To tou Basileos Stefanoma. Essays on French 18th & 19th-century Literature and Art in Honor of Basil Guy; forthcoming from Editions Peeters, Leuven, Belgium. Critical editions: Antoine Houdar de La Motte's Discours sur Homère and his Iliade (1714); Joint crit.ed. of Anthoine's Journal de la maladie et de la mort de Louis XIII and of the Anthoine brothers' Journal de la maladie et de la mort de Louis XIV. Arts: "L'Illusion comique: le voir et le savoir." (on the epistemological schemes in Corneille's comedy). "Les retrouvailles dans Gil Blas." "Alain-René Lesage." Dictionary entry: The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. Book reviews: one on the "commensaux" (domestic servants in noble houses) in the 17th century, the other on a new biography of Molière. Paper: "La Philosophie de la mort chez quatre poètes du premier âge baroque." To be read at the Philosophy of Death session, French 17th-century division, MLA convention, December 27, 2004, Philadelphia. Editor, Cahiers du Dix-Septième; French 17th Discussion Group; Founder, SE 17. fassaf@CHARTER.NET , also fassaf@uga.edu. Web.: http://www.rom.uga.edu/mac/fassaf.

AYRES-BENNETT, WENDY (U. of Cambridge, UK). Sociolinguistic variation in 17th C. France (in press with Cambridge UP).

BEASLEY, FAITH (Dartmouth). Co-President, NASSCFL 03.

BIRBERICK, ANNE L. (Northern Illinois U.). See EMF. annie@niu.edu

BURCHELL, EILEEN (Marymount C. of Fordham U.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

C 17. CAHIERS DU DIX-SEPTIEME: Journal accessible on-line in HTML format, beginning with vol. VIII,1. Contact Francis Assaf, 706.542.3164 or write cahiers@arches.uga.edu; or contact John Boitano, Chapman University.

CAMPION EDMUND J. (Tennessee-Knoxville). Ed. crit., Philippe Quinault, Pausanias, (avec William Brooks). Geneva: Droz, 2004. Article: "Erasmus and Switzerland," Swiss-American Historical Review, 39, 3 (November 2003), 5–30 (deals with religious tolerance; is dedicated to the memory of Georges May).

CARLIN, CLAIRE (U. Victoria). Editor: Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2005. 17 articles on the idea of contagion by a team of literary specialists, cultural historians, art historians and philosophers covering France, England, Spain, Italy, Germany and Sweden. Divided into three sections (theory, practice, projections), the book explores both the medical history of contagion from the 15th–18th centuries, and the impact of the metaphor of contagion in economics, religion, politics, literature and the plastic arts. Bk in progress: L'imaginaire nuptial en France, 1550–1715. Explores texts on marriage of diverse genres (e.g. religious and medical treatises, conduct manuals, theatre and novel). Arts.: "'Le beau mariage': Duty, Civility, Tranquillity" in The Art of Instruction: Education, Pedagogy, and Literature in 17th-Century France, ed. Anne L. Birberick, EMF: Studies on Early Modern France (Charlottesville, Rookwood Press); "Jeanne de Cambry: Hearing Voices, Making Texts" in The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices, ed. Thomas M. Carr Jr, volume 11 of EMF: Studies on Early Modern France (Charlottesville, Rookwood Press), 2005.

CIR 17 (Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle). President, Cecilia Rizza; Secretary, Pierre Ronzeaud. Dues for North American members: $ 24/year; checks payable to: Volker Schröder / CIR 17; Dept. of French & Italian, Princeton U., 303 East Pyne, Princeton, NJ 08544-5264; volkers@princeton.edu

CLARKE, JAN (Durham). Secretary, Society for French Studies. http://sfs.ac.uk or jan.clarke@durham.ac.uk

CMR 17 (Colloque de Marseilles). For its Mémoires on CD-ROM, see Duchêne, R. Website: http://cmr17.free.fr/.

CONROY, DERVAL (University College Dublin). Forthcoming: "Iconographie et mise en scène d'un pouvoir au féminin : les quatre livres d'entrées de Marie de Médicis en exil." in Les jeux de l'échange: entrées royales et divertissements, sous la direction de Marie-France Wagner, en collaboration avec Louise Frappier et Claire Latraverse (Paris, Champion, 2005); "Reines: invraisemblables rois? Reines vierges et épouses célibates dans le théâtre du XVIIe siècle" in L'Invraisemblance du Pouvoir. Théâtres de la souveraineté au XVIIe siècle, sous la direction de Jean-Vincent Blanchard et Hélène Visentin (Schena/Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2005). In progress: Bk. "Ruling Women: Gender, Government and Sovereignty in Seventeenth-Century France." Bk: "Strategies of the Image: The Iconography of Women in Seventeenth-Century Book Illustration." Contrib. ed. French 17. derval.conroy@ucd.ie

CORNEILLE (MOUVEMENT). Corneille Quadricentennial 1606–2006. Centre International Pierre Corneille, organized in 1982. Colloques. Hôtel des Sociétés Savantes, 190 rue Beauvoisine, 7600, Rouen. Présidente, Myriam Maître (U. Rouen), myriam.maitre@caramail.com

DAUGE-ROTH, KATHERINE (Bowdoin College). Forthcoming: "Femmes lunatiques: "Women and the Moon in Early Modern France,"DFS; "Textual Performance: Imprinting the Criminal Body," PSCFL. In preparation: "Ventriloquism and the Voice of Authority: Nuns, Demons, and Exorcists in Early Seventeenth-Century France;" "Impressionable Women: Demon Marks and Divine Stigmata in Early Modern France;" "Crossing Lines, Encouraging Ownership: Representing the Occult Early Modern;" Currently: Collaborative anthology with Martha M. Houle on the Querelle des femmes (1405–1793); Bk. Signing the Body in Early Modern France, an interdisciplinary examination of the body as a literally inscribed, marked, and imprinted object in the early modern period (chs. on devotional self-inscription and stigmata, branding the criminal body, and tattooing by Jerusalem pilgrims and native American peoples); ongoing research on material writing practices including graffiti and the "superstitious" writing and wearing of texts. Contrib. Ed., French 17. Current President, SE-17 2005 (conference scheduled Oct. 6–8, 2005). Inquiries: Dept. of Romance Languages, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 04011-8478, kdauge@bowdoin.edu or (207) 725-3915.

DENNIS-BAY, LAURA (Cumberland C.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

DUCHENE, ROGER (U. de Provence). See WEB 17.

DUGGAN, ANNE E. (Wayne State U.) Bk., Provisional title: Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France. Forthcoming from Delaware UP.

EMBLEMS: 7th International Conference, "Emblems in the 21st Century: The Material and the Medium." Society for Emblem Studies, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 24–30 July, 2005. Papers and panels to treat all aspects of emblem studies, from early appearance in MSS. to digital emblematica. Traditional scholarship and emerging approaches blended.

EMF (Studies in Early Modern France). Vol. 11, Early Modern Convent Voices: The World and the Cloister. Ed., Thomas M. Carr, projected for '05. For more information on EMF, visit http://www.unl.edu/EMF See RUBIN, DAVID, Editor-in-Chief (infra); also RIGGS, LARRY.

FORCE, PIERRE (Columbia). Bk., Self-Interest before Adam Smith. A Genealogy of Economic Science, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003, "Ideas in Context" Series.

GETHNER, PERRY J. (Oklahoma State). Crit.ed.: Rotrou's La Pèlerine amoureuse , slated to appear late '04. Current projects include the eds. of Mairet and Voltaire plays, plus a variety of articles. Treasurer, NASSCFL. Dues $20 to PJG, Head, Dept.of Foreign Languages & Litts, Oklahoma State U., Stillwater, OK 74074 pjg@okstate.edu

HARRISON, HELEN (Morgan SU). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

HENEIN, EGLAL (Tufts). See SATOR eglal.henein@tufts.edu

HOULE, MARTHA M. (William & Mary). President and Conference Chairman, SE 17 '04. mmhoule@wm.edu Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, College of William and Mary, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795.

ISPAFA International Society of Phenomenology, Aesthetics and the Fine Arts). 10th Annual Conference, 27–28, May, 2005, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. Topic: "Beauty's Appeal in the Transformation of Standards for Valuation>" Abstracts due Jan. 1, '05; full papers Mar 1. Webpage: (http://www.phenomenology.org) Registration $125. For detailed information contact Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Dept. of Creative Arts, Siena C., 515 Loudon Rd., Loudonville, NY 12211-1462. vox 518-783-2912 ptrutty@siena.edu

JOHNS, EDWARD H. Editor, Current Research...in the U.K. (online version): 17th C. section. david.h.jones@st-johns.oxford.ac.uk

JUDOVITZ, DALIA (Emory). Two arts. completed on Georges de La Tour. Currently researching / writing a small book on his work, entitled Georges de La Tour: The Enigma of the Visible.

KOCH, EREC (Tulane). Bk., The Aesthetic Body: Sensibility and Passion in Pre-Classical France, 1620–1660. [In progress]. Arts., Sacred/ Secular Rhetoric in Pascal's Lettres provinciales.. PFSCL. [In press]. "Introduction, L'Epistème classique," Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, U. of Virginia, Charlottesville, May 2002. Ed. John D. Lyons. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 239–41. "Nicole, Pierre," Dictionary of Literary Biography, Seventeenth-Century French Writers. Ed. Françoise Jaouën. Vol. 268. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2003. 264–71. "Pascal, Blaise," ibid., pp. 272–89.

KOSTROUN, DANIELLA (Stonehill C.). Bk. Project, Undermining Obedience: Louis XIV and the Port Royal Nuns." Under contract at Columbia UP, to appear probably in the summer 2006. [In 1709, Louis XIV had 200 soldiers destroy the Port Royal convent. At that time, the convent contained only 22 elderly nuns. Why did the King attack these seemingly helpless women? To address this question, I explore the reform, growth, and eventual destruction of Port Royal in the context of the 17th C. Jansenist debates. Using previously unexploited MS. Letters by the nuns, I show how they became the vanguard of Jansenist resistance to Louis, by using their authority as proprietors of a wealthy Parisian convent, and by affirming gender discourses about feminine obedience and ignorance to assert (paradoxically) freedom of conscience. While narrating the nuns' remarkable resistance to royal authority, I also highlight the gendered underpinnings of discourses about salvation, free will, and obedience to the state under absolutism. My method of analysis involves close readings of texts and discourses, but my project is grounded in an older historical concern with political action and the limits of absolutism].

KUIZENGA, DONNA (Massachusetts-Boston). Appearing : Madame de Villedieu The Memoirs of Henriette-Sylvie de Molière. TDK.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. "Une Altérité voilée: images de l'Afrique dans la fiction de Madame de Villedieu." In L'Afrique au XVIIe siècle. Mythes et réalités, Alia Baccar Bournaz, ed. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2003. 127–39. "Madame de Villedieu." Dictionnaire des Femmes de l'Ancienne France, http://siefar.femmes.free.fr/DictionnaireSIEFAR/SFVilledieu.html. In Press : "La Curiosité de Madame de Villedieu." To appear, La Curiosité au XVIIe Siècle. Emmanuèle Lesne-Jaffro, ed."Madame de Villedieu Englished-- les traductions anglais des ouvrages de Villedieu au XVIIe siècle." To appear, Madame de Villedieu romancière. Nouvelles perspectives de recherches. Etudes réunies et présentées par Edwige Keller-Rahbé. "XI–XVII Littérature." Lyon: PUL "Traductions et trahisons : le sort de trois romans français en Angleterre." To appear : Femmes et traduction, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, ed. Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa. "Espaces féminins? La topique des lieux dans les Nouvelles afriquaines et les Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière de Mme de Villedieu." To appear, Locus in Fabula, Nathalie Ferrand, ed. Louvain: Editions Peeters. In Progress: Bk., Strategic Rewriting in the Early Modern Novel.

LE FABLIER (Journal of the Société des Amis de Jean de La Fontaine). La Fontaine et l'Héritage de l'Europe Humaniste. Actes du Colloque de l'Institut de France, 15–16 November 2001 (2e partie). Contains articles, documents, bibliography of the poet for the year 2000. Last Colloque in Paris, 5/04 . President & Directeur of publications, Patrick Dandrey). See Part V: LA FONTAINE.

LEINER, WOLFGANG (U. Washington, U. Tübingen). Editor, NASSCFL, Biblio 17, Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (PFSCL), Œuvres et Critiques. Past President, CIR 17. Romanisches Seminar, Wilhelmstrasse 50, D-72074, Tübingen, Germany. wolfgang.leiner@uni-tuebingen.de or wleiner@aol.com. See also CMR 17.

LE MARCHAND, BERENICE V. (San Francisco State). Arts. in progress: "Staging the Mirror: the Spectacular in Blasons, Emblems, and Fairy Tales of Early Modern France"; "The "corps-marionnette"in the French fairy tales (last "mise en scène des contes du Grand Siècle)." Projected: book-length MS. on the representations and uses of the looking glass in 17th C. fairy tales. Bibliography of fairy tale literature, for forthcoming issue of Marvels and Tales (ed. by Holly Tucker).

LYONS, JOHN D. (Virginia). Ed., Actes de Charlottesville Meeting, Biblio 17, 2003. President, NASSCFL 2002. Dept. of French, Box 400770, U. Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4770. jdl2f@unix.mail.virginia.edu, also jdlyons@virginia.edu.

MABER, RICHARD (Durham). Ed., The Seventeenth Century (see infra); Director, Durham 17th C. biennial Conference (last held in 2003) University Library, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RN England. R.G.Maber@durham.ac.uk

MAZOUER, CHARLES. European Treasurer, CIR 17. (8 rue de la Chênaie, F-33170, Gradignan).

McCLURE, ELLEN (Illinois-Chicago). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

MILLER, MICHELLE L. (Michigan-Ann Arbor). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

MOLIERE WEBSITE. Prepared by Gabriel Conesa and Robert Garapon, for widest public on all levels. Contains announcements of new performances, colloquia and bibliography; illustrated chronology of life and times (limited); œuvres with apparatus, from early eds.; multiple-aspect dictionary with articles, accessible by letter, then word; contemporary iconography with links alsewhere in the site; bibliography of c. 5000 items; useful filmography on life and works, both ciné and TV. http://www.toutmoliere.net/index.html.

MONTEL-GLENISSON, CAROLINE (NYU). Director, New York University in France. Bks., Guide des noms et des lieux aux sources de la Nouvelle-France: Un Tour de France Canadien, Montréal Canada, La Presse, 1980 (Re-edition scheduled for the end of 2004); Il y a 450 ans, Jacques Cartier. Paris, Attya; Cartier au Pays de Canada (Cartier in Canada), Paris; Biographies, Gallimard; Champlain, la découverte du Canada;. Paris, Nouveau Monde, March 2004; Champlain au Canada, les voyages d'un gentilhomme explorateur. Paris, Biographie juniors, Nouveau Monde. Project France-Canada 1604–2004, March 2004; Exhibit catalogs, documentaries, colloquia.

NASSCFL 2004. 36th Annual Conference was held at Portland State U., 6–8 May 2004. President and Editor of the Actes: Jennifer R. Perlmutter, jrp@pdx.edu [see infra]

NASSCFL 2005. 37th Annual Conference, April 14–16, 2005, at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. SC. President Buford Norman. Working topic: "Formes et Formations au 17e Siècle. Sessions and concurrent roundtables discussing brief texts; subjects include lyric poetry, tragedy/prose, Quinault, Francion, Tartuffe, Villedieu, Boileau, Pascal, Bossuet. One-page proposals for paper or presentation due by 15 November, to chair or moderator. For detailed information on program and chairs, registration, lodging, transportation, and bibliography, see website: http://www.cla.sc.edu/dllc/fren/Events.Activities/nasscfl/nasscfl.html. NASSCFL Dues: U.S.$20 to Perry Gethner; Canadian $30 to Claire Carlin (supra) [reductions for students, retirees, part-time faculty, untenured]. NASSCFL Teaching Award: contact Erec R. Koch, Office of the Assoc. Dean, Tulane U., New Orleans, LA 7018-5698 erkoch@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu

NORMAN, BUFORD (South Carolina). Data base on history of opera performances at court and in Paris, through 1687. With William Brooks (Bath). Should be on line by the end of 2004, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. Paper on exceptions and excesses in classical theater, fall 2004. Revision / translation of book on Quinault's libretti (Touched by the Graces). Bk. on Racine and music. Most of the research done, but not much of the writing. Retirement in the summer of 2005—then the writing will get done. President, NASSCFL 2005. Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Columbia, SC 29208-0001 NormanB@GWM.SC.EDU

PAIGE, NICHOLAS (California-Berkeley). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

PERLMUTTER JENNIFER R. (Portland State U.). President, NASSCFL 2004. Recent: Participation in OPI certification training, ACTFL Annual Conference, Chicago, 11/04. Guest Speaker, "L'acquisition des langues pour tous ages," OATF /WATF (Oregon / Washington AATF), 10/04. Art., "Education and the Nouvelles of the Mercure Galant," for The Art of Instruction: Education, Pedagogy, and Literature in 17th-Century France, ed. Anne Birberick. Current: arts., "Shades of Anonymity: Women and the Ana"; "Commemoration and the Ana Savants." ). Editor, Actes de Portland: deadline for paper submission, from participants, extended to 12/1/04: send to Box 751 (FLL), Portland State U. Portland, OR 97207-0751. (503) 725-8783 jrp@pdx.edu.

PROBES, CHRISTINE (U. South Florida). Recent: Bk., co-ed. with Buford Norman, David Wetsel and Frédéric Canovas. La Femme à l'âge classique; Le Baroque, la musique et la liturgie: edited the section on the Woman in the Classical Age, pages 41–217 and wrote the preface, p. 11–15. Collection Ed. is Wolfgang Leiner. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2003. Arts., (1)"La Littérature et l'art au service de la théologie: le voyage terrestre et le voyage spirituel, la poésie de Jean-Baptiste Chassignet mise en rapport avec les emblèmes de Pierre de Loysi," in La Spiritualité, l'épistolarité, le merveilleux au Grand Siècle, ed. David Wetsel. Tübingen, Narr, 2003. 81–93. (2) "L'entrelacement des sens et de la nature chez Jean-Baptiste Chassignet," in vol. Jean-Baptiste Chassignet, Ed. Anne Mantero. Paris: Champion, 2003, 163–179. (3) "'N'ois-tu pas soupirer Zéphire, 'Goûtons mille douceurs': Une exploration de la profusion des sens dans la poésie de Tristan l'Hermite," Actualités de Tristan, éd. Jacques Prévost. Nanterre: Centre des Sciences de la Littérature, 2003, 241–259. (4) "Le Savoir historique à l'intersection de l'art et de la poésie emblématiques: les gravures de Pierre de Loysi mises en rapport avec Les Sonnets franc-comtois," Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle, eds. John D. Lyons and Cara Welch, Tübingen: Narr, 2003, 81–90. (5) "Les Sonnets franc-comtois de Jean-Baptiste Chassignet: la représentation du 'premier lecteur' et la persuasion du lecteur idéal," in press for vol. ed. by A. Cullière and Anne Mantero, Besançon: PU, 2004. (6) "Des lectures au sein de la famille royale: la correspondance de Madame Palatine comme révélant des modes féminins de connaissance au XVIIe siècle," accepted for vol. ed.by M. Camus at PU de Franche Comté (7) Paper, with doctoral student James Aubry, "Translating the Renaissance" at SAMLA, Atlanta, GA, November 2003. Pending: Papers: (1) "Rhetorical Stratégies for a locus terribilis: Senses, Signs, Symbols and Theological Allusion in Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris," at 5th International Marlowe Conference at Cambridge, England, June 30–July 4, 2003. Submitted for planned vol. (2) "The Prince and the Subject at the Intersection of Emblematic Poetry and Art: Moral and Pragmatic Reflection" for the 2004 New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota. (3) "Avez-vous senti Dassoucy? Pour une rhétorique des sens chez 'l'Empereur du Burlesque'" for the 2004 Colloque on Dassoucy organized by Domnique Bertrand at Clermont Ferrand, France. (4) "La Mémoire et l'identité transmises par la femme antillaise: stratégies littéraires et cinémato-graphiques" for the 2004 convention of CIEF (Conseil International des Etudes Francophones), Liège, Belgium. Longer version planned for vol. (5) "Rhetorical Strategies for a locus terribilis: Senses, Signs, Symbols and Theological Allusion in Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris," submitted to the organizers of the refereed volume to be published from selected papers delivered at 5th International Marlowe Conference at Cambridge, England, June 30–July 4, 2003. Contrib. Ed., French 17; Secretary, NASSCFL.

REPERTOIRE CHRONOLIGIQUE des Spectacles à Paris, 1673–1715. Includes information on lyric theatre, Italian comedians, other theater, by Guy Spielmann. To be enriched with other visual documents. http://www.georgetown.edu/spielmann/finderegne

REPERTOIRE INTERNATIONAL DES DIX-SEPTIEMISTES. New edition in press, forthcoming from CIR 17. Price: US$ 24 or 24 euros; send checks or inquiries to Volker Schröder (see above under CIR 17).

RIGGS, LARRY W. (Butler). Bk., Critique on Molière's response to modernity (accepted by EMF, 9/04).

ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Northwestern). Recent: "Saint-Amant, Holland House, and the Queen of England." Analecta Husserliana, LXXXI (2004), 45–60. "Research in Progress 2003," in French 17, vol. 51 (2003), 153–163. Papers: "Perelle's Preservation of Louis XIV's Paris," NASSCFL, Portland State, 5/04; "Reality vs. Illusion in 17th Century Parisian Engravings," Phenomenology Conference, Harvard U., 5/04. Submitted: "Perelle's Topographical Albums: Problems and Solutions." Forthcoming: "Dissertations '03–'04," in PFSCL (in press, winter no.); "The 'Front de Seine' in 1630–1660" and "Perelle's Veües des Plus Beaux Endroits de Versailles," CdDS. Bibliographer, NASSCFL; Directeur, Cahiers Maynard; Contrib. Ed., French 17.

ROBIN, JEAN-LUC (Rice U.). Bk., Expérience et modèle dans les textes littéraires et scientifiques classiques (on the literary shaping of modern reason and today's still-prominent scientific concepts in the works of Galileo, Descartes, Molière, and Mme de Lafayette). Arts. on Descartes, Mme de Lafayette,, and Leibniz.

RUBIN, DAVID (Emeritus, Virginia). Editor-in-Chief and publisher, Rookwood Press. Bk., appearing in late 2004: La Poésie française du premier 17e siècle: textes et contextes, 2nd ed., revised and enlarged in collaboration with Robert T. Corum. See also EMF.

RUBIN FESTSCHRIFT. The Shape of Change: Essays in Honor of David Lee Rubin. Eds. Anne Birberick & Russell Ganim. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. ISBN 90-420-1449-0. $33.50. Contains essays by 14 scholars, exploring how artistic endeavor shapes and is shaped by literary memory. Large section on La Fontaine. Contact: rganiml@unl.edu

SADR, TABITHA SPAGNOLO (Duke). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

SATOR 05. XIXe Colloque annuel, Clermont-Ferrand, Summer 2005. Topic: "Mémoires d'Europe: topographie de la rencontre dans le roman européen." Contact: Jean-Pierre Dubost, jpdubost@gmx.fr. See HENEIN, EGLAL.

SCFS. See Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies.

SCHRODER, VOLKER (Princeton). Recent 《 Ecolier, ou plutôt singe de Bourdaloue 》: portrait du satirique en prédicateur," in Boileau: poésie, esthétique, ed. Emmanuel Bury & Volker Kapp, PFSCL XXXI, 61 (spring 2004); "Situation des études raciniennes: histoire et littérature," in Jean Racine 1699–1999, ed. Gilles Declercq & Michèle Rosellini, PUF, 2003; La Tragédie du sang d'Auguste: politique et intertextualité dans Britannicus, 2e tirage, Narr, 2004. Forthcoming: "Versailles, opéra aux fantômes: The Ghosts of Versailles," in Versailles dans la littérature: mémoire et imaginaire aux XIXe et XXe siècles, ed. Véronique Léonard-Roques, PU Clermont-Ferrand, 2004; Crit. ed. (with Alicia Montoya) of Marie-Anne Barbier, Cornélie mère des Gracques (tragedy, 1703), Littératures classiques, 2005. In progress: arts. on Boileau, L'Héritier, Deshoulières. Review editor, PFSCL.

SCOTT, PAUL (Kansas). Recent : Arts., "Les crucifixions féminines: une iconographie de la Contre-Réforme," Revue des Sciences Humaines, 269 (2003), 153–174. "Manipulating Martyrdom: Corneille's (Hetero)sexualisation of Polyeucte", MLR , 99 (2004), 228–238. In Progress: Research 'The Representation of Martyrdom in Early Modern France," book-length project, expected completion March 2005. Crit. ed., Marie de La Chapelle, L'Illustre philosophe ou le martyre de sainte Catherine (1663), expected completion in April 2005. Art. on "The Curious Preoccupations of Abbé Jean-Baptiste Thiers." Research for conference presentation and subsequent publication on "Jean de Baricave's La Défence de la Monarchie Française et autres monarchies (1614) as Refutation of the Vindiciae." Translations of sections (Biblical and Latin) of Pascal's Pensees (Catholic University of America Press; David Wetsel General Editor). Art. under consideration: "Subversive Revisions in the work of Charles de Beys."

SE17 (Society for Interdisciplinary French Studies). 23rd Annual Conference was held 28–30 October 2004, at William & Mary College. Conference Chairman, Martha M. Houle, Modern Languages and Literatures, The College of William & Mary in Virginia, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795. mmhoule@wm.edu. 24th Conference (2005) to be held at Bowdoin College in Maine; contact Katherine Dauge-Roth, Dept. of Romance Languages, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 04011-8478, kdauge@bowdoin.edu or 207.725.3915.

SEIFERT, LEWIS C. (Brown). Bk manuscript: Man against Man: Masculinity and Marginality in Seventeenth-Century France. [Examines the intersection of marginal cultural positions and masculine identities in 17th C. France; analyzes the place of marginal masculinities in the writing and culture of the period and defines the relationship between normative masculinities and various positions of marginality; considers the effeminate man, the male melancholic, the sodomite and their rela- tionships to the honnête homme, the "galant" hero, and the King (among others)].

SHAPIRO, STEPHEN (Holy Cross). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, THE. Editor, Richard Maber. Journal covers all aspects of the 17th c. Encourages period study so as to transcend national and disciplinary boundaries. Vol. XVIII,1 (April 2003). Also accessible online Two issues per year. website: http://mupmcc.ac.uk See MABER (supra).

SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES (U.K.). Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 7/04. Contact: Michael Sheringham (President), French Dept., Royal Holloway U. of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK. Fax: +4 (0) 1784 70180. E-mail: m.ockenden@rhul.ac.uk SFS Home page: http://www.sfs.ac.uk/

SOCIETY FOR SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES (U.K.). Website: http://www.c17.org.uk Contact : Amy Wygant A.Wygant@french.arts.gla.ac.uk

SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE (Illinois-Chicago). Recent: Bk., Parcours lafontainien: d'Adonis au Livre XII des Fables. Biblio 17, vol. 150, Tübingen, Gunter Narr, 2004. Art., "Paysages, jardins et parcs, miroirs de l'affectivité et des goûts de Tristan," Actualités de Tristan, Littérales, no. spécial, 3 (2003), 135–50. Papers: "Présence d'une pensée esthétique au XVIIe Sc," MLA Session at San Diego, to be publ. in PFSCL (no. 62 ou 63); "Des dieux et des déesses dans l'imaginaire de La Fontaine, Société des Amis de Jean de La Fontaine, Paris, May 27–29, 2004 (organized by Patrick Dandrey, President), to be publ. in Le Fablier. In progress: La Fontaine and questions of esthetics in the 17th C. ; "Les grandes tendences de la critique cornélienne des vingt dernières années (ou 1984–2004) for OeC 2006, under the direction of Charles Mazouer, for the Quadricentennial of Corneille (1606–2006). Guest Contributor, French 17 (2003), no. 51.

TOBIN, RONALD W. (California-Santa Barbara). Past President, NASSCFL.

TOCZYSKI, SUZANNE C. (Sonoma State) Art. in progress: "Navigating the Sea of Alterity." Editor, French 17: An Annual Descriptive Bibliography of French 17th Century Studies. Recent: Number 50 (50th Anniversary issue) awarded the Prix Web 17 2002. Correspondence: Modern Languages & Literatures, Sonoma State University, 1801 Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928. suzanne.toczyski@sonoma.edu or http://www.sonoma.edu/users/t/toczyski/

TOPOSCAN. Ce groupe de recherches dirigé par Max Vernet ne dépend plus vraiment de la SATOR. Nous avons redéfini la direction de recherches, et procédons à l'élaboration d'un logiciel qui comporterait un moteur de recherches capable de déceler les topoi narratifs dans les textes entre 1600 et 1800 (cette fourchette temporelle seulement parce que nous en sommes aux tous débuts). vernetm@qsilver.queensu.ca

VOS-CAMY, JOLENE (Calvin C.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

WALLIS, ANDREW (Whittier C.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

WEB 17. Ed. by Roger Duchêne (U. de Provence), is a website for those interested in 17th c. Invites additions & corrections, information about correspondence, books, articles, and other items particularly interesting to Web readers. Editor requests suggestions for the annual Prix Web 17 prizes. Alphabetic index of site, at bottom left-hand book icon on welcome page. http://web 17.free.fr/ Contact RD at 174 rue abbé de l'Epée, 13005 Marseille roger.duchene@wanadoo.fr.

WETSEL, DAVID (Arizona State). President, NASSCFL 01. Ed., with Frédéric Canovas, Actes de Tempe. Volume I. Pascal/New Trends in Pascal Studies; Volume II. Les femmes au Grand Siècle/Le Baroque: musique et littérature; III. La Spiritualité/ L'épistolaire/Le Merveilleux au Grand Siècle; IV. Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle; V. Philosophies au siècle classique en France; VI Présences du Moyen-Age et de la Renaissance en France Classique. [The complete set runs to some 1438 pages]. To order: Vols. I–III may be ordered via links in the collection Biblio 17: ACTA, 1–3 and Gunter Narr Verlag, A. Francke Verlag, Attempto Verlag. Vols. IV–VI may be ordered via the following links: roma15 and Romanice. Photos of the Jean Gilles Réquiem may be downloaded from the following site: Index: Wetsel Images. Other photographs of the conference are available by request year. Wdwetsel@aol.com

WINE, KATHLEEN (Dartmouth). Co-President, NASSCFL 03. Kathleen.Wine@dartmouth.edu.

ZAISER, RAINER (U. de Cologne). Art.: "Le page disgracié de Tristan L'Hermite et la naissance du roman moderne en France", in Actualités de Tristan. Actes du colloque international 《  Actualités de Tristan  》 tenu à l'U. de Paris X-Nanterre et à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (22, 23 et 24 novembre 2001). Réunis et présentés par Jacques Prévot. Université de Paris X-Nanterre : Centre des Sciences de la Littérature, 2003, pp. 313–323. Papers: "Don Quichotte à la française: L'Histoire comique de Francion de Charles Sorel et le déclin du monde héroïco-chevaleresque à l'aube de l'âge moderne", communication tenue au "Deutscher Romanistentag" à Kiel du 28 au 30 septembre 2003 ; "La mise en abyme : mode d'emploi de la modernité dans la littérature et l'art du XVIIe siècle", communication tenue au colloque "La modernité mode d'emploi" organisé par le groupe de recherche "Poétiques modernes comparées" de l'U. de Paris XII-Val de Marne, le 2 avril 2004. Co-Editor, PFSCL. rzaiser@gmx.de