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

ISPAFA. See PHENOMENOLOGY.

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

KOCH, EREC (Tulane). Forthcoming: "Ethics, Death, and the Cartesian Body," PFSCL; "Body, Passion, Ethics: Descartes' Correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia and the Passions de l'âme," SCFS; "Cartesian "Aesth/Ethics: The Correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia," PFSCL; "Horace, Cinna and the End of War," PFSCL; "Sacred/Secular Rhetoric in Pascal's Lettres provinciales, PFSCL.

KOSTROUN, DANIELLA (Indiana U.-Purdue at Indianapolis). Bk. in progress: Undermining Obedience: Louis XIV and Port-Royal Nuns (forthcoming 2006, Columbia UP).

KUIZENGA, DONNA (Massachusetts-Boston). Forthcoming: "Madame de Villedieu Englished: les Traductions en anglais des ouvrages de Villedieu au XVIIe siècle," in Madame de Villedieu, romancière. Nouvelles perspectives de recherches. Etudes reunites par Edwige Keller-Rahbé, XI-XVII Littérature, Lyon: PUL, 2004, 145–160. "Traductions et trahisons: le sort de trois romans français en Angleterre," in D'une Ecriture à l'autre: Les Femmes et la tradution sous l'Ancien Régime. Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, ed., Ottaway: Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2004, 155–169. In press: "La Curiosité de Madame de Villedieu." to appear in La Curiosité au XVIIe Siècle, Emmanuèle Lesne-Jaffro, ed. "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 in Locus in Fabula, Nathalie Ferrand, ed., Louvain, Editions Peeters. Bk. in progress: Strategic Rewriting in the Early Modern Novel. Crit. ed. in progress: Villedieu, Nouvelles afriquaines.

LALANDE, ROXANNE DECKER. Bk. translation and ed., Madame de Villedieu's Lettres et billets galants and Le Portefeuille [Love Letters and The Letter Case], to appear summer 2005, Fairleigh Dickinson UP. Art. on Villedieu's Le Portefeuille, forthcoming in PFSCL. Chapter on Molière's L'Ecole des femmes in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Molière, ed. by David Bradby.

LONGINO, MICHELE (Duke). Bk. in progress: Le récit de voyage en tant que genre et discours particulier, organisé autour des récits de voyage à l'âge classique; also in progress: "Marseilles-Constantinople: The Benefits of Discontent, 1650–1700."

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

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

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

NASSCFL 2005. 37th Annual Conference, April 14–16, 2005, U. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. President Buford Norman. Email: <NormanB@gwm.sc.edu> NASSCFL dues: U.S. $20 to Perry Gethner, Canadian $30 to Claire Carlin (supra) [reductions for students, retirees, part-timers, untenured]. NASSCFL Teaching Award: contact Erec R. Koch, Office of the Associate Dean, Tulane U., New Orleans, LA 70018-5698 or <erkoch@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu>

NASSCFL 2006. Joint conference with Early Modern British and French societies, June 28–30 at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, UK. Contact: <NHammond@cai.cam.ac.uk> See also SCFS website: http://www.c17.org.uk/ NASSCFL Research in Progress 2006 due by June 1 to <w-roberts@northwestern.edu>

NASSCFL 2007. 39th Annual Conference, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Co-Organizers Russell Ganim & Tom Carr. Contact: <rganim@unlnotes.unl.edu>

NAUDEIX, LAURA (U. Catholique de l'Ouest (UCO), Angers, France). Arts.: (1) "The Choirs in the Opera: Concocting Common Sense" in Making Things Public — Atmospheres of Democracy, catalog of the exhibition of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, ed. by B. Latour and P. Weibel, ZKM-The MIT Press, Cambridge, March–August 2005. A brief survey of different possibilities to represent the operatic stage, a conception of the people and its participation to the action. These diverse attitudes are interpreted as a mirror of the relation between the public and the politic. (2) "La féerie sur la scène de l'Académie Royale de Musique (1673–1791)," in La Bibliothèque des Génies et des fées, dir. by Nadine Jasmin, éds. Honoré Champion, coll. Sources classiques, 2005–2006. Looking for ballets and operas which deal with fairies and magicians, an essay on definition and description of the poetical function of the fantasy on the lyrical stage. (3) "Eléments d'une poétique du ballet: les entrées de Sigalion et Polydore et Polymestor" in Polymestor et Sigalion: tragédie et ballet au collège Louis-le-Grand (1689). Analysis of the dramaturgy of a tragedy and a ballet written and performed by the Jesuit institution.

NORMAN, BUFORD (South Carolina). (1) Art.: "Truth and Beauty, Beauty and Truth: Is There a Classical French Esthetic?" for a Festschrift; (2) Database on opera performances during the reign of Louis XIV (with William Brooks). Section through 1687 scheduled to be online in April 2005: http://www.cmbv.com/fr/banq/fsbanq.htm. (3) Second ed. of Quinault's Livrets d'opéra, Toulouse, Littératures Classiques, 2005. French translation of Touched by the Graces: The Libretti of Philippe Quinault in the Context of French Classicism, Brussels, Mardaga, 2007. (4) Bk. on Racine and music. President, NASSCFL 2004–2006.

PERLMUTTER, JENNIFER R. (Portland State). In progress: Arts.: "Education and the Nouvelles of the Mercure Galant," for The Art of Instruction: Education, Pedagogy, and Literature in 17th-Century France, ed. Anne Birberick; "Shades of Anonymity: Women and the Ana;" "Commemoration and the Ana Savants." Editor, Actes de Portland. President, NASSCFL 2004. [Box 751 (FLL), Portland State U., Portland, OR 97207-0751, tel. 503.725.8783, email <jrp@pdx.edu>

PHENOMENOLOGY. International Society for Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and the Fine Arts. 30th Annual Meeting, 24–25 May 2006, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Topic: "Historical and Contemporary Values as Reflected in Literature." Abstracts due January 1; full papers March 1, 2006. Registration fees $125 (includes the Fine Arts conference, below). Contact: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The World Phenomenology Institute, 1 Ivy Pointe Way, Hanover, NH 03755. See also: 56th Phenomenology Congress (Latvia), August 24–26. http://www.phenomenology.org

PHENOMENOLOGY. International Society for Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and the Fine Arts. 11th Annual Meeting, 26–27 May 2006, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Topic: "The Happy Choice: Measure or Excess." Abstracts due January 1; full papers March 1, 2006. Registration fees $125 (includes the Literature conference, above). Contact: Patricia Trutty-Coohill, 5 Loudon Lane North, Loudonville, NY 12211. Fax: 518.465.5111. http://www.phenomenology.org

POESIE 17e. La Poésie française du premier 17e siècle. 2nd ed., revised, updated and enlarged; ed. by David L. Rubin and Robert T. Corum, Rookwood Press, 2004. Paperback, 402 pages. ISBN 1-8863-6553-9. Prepared by an international team of specialists.

PREST, JULIA (Yale). Bk.: Theatre under Louis XIV: Cross-Casting and Women's Roles in Drama, Ballet and Opera. Completed; currently seeking publisher.

PROBES, CHRISTINE (U. of South Florida). (1) Recent bk. chapter: "'N'ois-tu pas soupirer Zéphire,' 'Goûtons mille douceurs': Une exploration de la profusion des sens dans la poésie de Tristan" in Actualités de Tristan, ed. Jacques Prévot, U. de Paris: Nanterre 2003 (for 2004), pp. 241–259; (2) Recent bk. chapter: "Des lectures au sein de la famille royale: la correspondance de Madame Palatine comme révélant des modes féminins de connaissance au XVIIe siècle" in Lectrices: La Littérature au miroir des femmes, eds. Marianne Camus et Françoise Rétif, Dijon: Eds. Universitaires de Dijon, Coll. Ecritures, 2004, pp.43–52. (3) Art. in press: "Avez-vous senti Dassoucy? Pour une rhétorique des sens chez l'Empereur du Burlesque," pp.27–42 in vol ccurrently in press in France edited by Dominique Bertrand of the Université Blaise Pascal at Clermont-Ferrand; (4) Art. in press: "Les Sonnets franc-comtois de Jean-Baptiste Chassignet: la representation du 'premier lecteur' et la persuasion du lecteur ideal," pp.189–210 of volume currently in press in France and ed. by Anne Mantero of the Université of Besançon. (5) Co-edited section of refereed volume for Biblio 17; wrote 4-page introduction. Section titled, "Beaux Arts et belles lettres: Comment peut-on parler de littérature et d'esthétique au dix-septième siècle?" will contain three essays plus one short response. These papers have been selected and edited from a panel at the MLA that consisted of eight participants; in press, series editor Wolfgang Leiner. (6) Accepted, pending slight revisions: Bk. chapter for volume edited by Anne Birberick; 30-page chapter, "The Prince and the Subject at the Intersection of Emblematic Poetry and Art: Moral and Pragmatic Reflection in Jean-Baptiste Chassignet's poetry and Pierre de Loysi's Engravings," has received a positive reader's report; final revisions due by May; (7) Bk. chapter for volume edited by Sara Deats and Robert Logan. Oral acceptance, awaiting editor's written acceptance. First delivered at the Fifth International Marlowe Conference at Cambridge, England; 25-page chapter is entitled, "Rhetorical Strategies for a locus terribilis: Senses, Signs, Symbols and Theological Allusion in Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris." (8) Invited participation, currently with selection committee: art. of 21 pages, invited and in hands of editor Kanaté Dahouda; essay was first given as part of a session he organized at the international CIEF conference in Belgium; article is entitled, "La Mémoire et l'identité transmises par la femme antillaise: stratégies littérarires et cinématographiques." (9) Submitted: "Hope Kindled by a Cinema in the Service of the People? Women and the Marginalized in Recent Francophone African Films." 23-page article submitted in 2004. (10) Round-Table Presentation on Bossuet's Oraison funèbre de Henriette d'Angleterre, which may or may not become an article. (11) Art. in progress: "Bossuet, poète lyrique?" on Bossuet's little-known lyric poetry, for a presentation and anticipated article. (12) "Engraving, sonnet, devise: Harmony or Disharmony at the Intersection of Emblematic Art and Poetry in the Sonnets franc-comptois?," accepted for a presentation at an international conference (see presentations, below) and an anticipated article. (13) "Becoming Global in the Early Modern: A Case of the Emblematic in Francophonie" for a conference in 2005. (14) Panel organization for NASSCFL Conference, Portland: two sessions with eight papers on "Relating to Authority" — the first on "Religion, Government, Belles-Lettres," the second on "Theatre." (15) Executive Board and Secretary of NASSCFL; CIR 17 Executive Counciol; MLA Chair for 2005 of the XVIIe Executive Section. Contrib. Ed., French 17.

RACEVSKIS, ROLAND (U. Iowa). In progress 2005–2006: "Soft Domination: Voluntary Servitude in Corneille and Racine." [Essay explores issues of subjective collaboration with power in Corneille's Sertorius and Racine's Alexandre le Grand and Britannicus.] Forthcoming: "La Thébaïde de Racine, des seuils du pouvoir aux limites de l'existence." [Analyzes the conceptual construction of spaces surrounding the throne to which Polynice and Etéocle attempt to gain access, in La Thébaïde.] For AJFS, 2005. President and Organizer of SE17 (2006) Conference.

REPERTOIRE INTERNATIONAL DES DIX-SEPTIEMISTES. New 2004 ed. available from CIR 17. Price for North American members: US$ 24; send checks or inquiries to Volker Schröder (see above under CIR 17), or order direct (24 euros) from Charles Mazouer, 8, rue de la Chênaie, 33170 Gradignan, France. Checks to "CIR 17."

RIGGS, LARRY W. (Butler). Bk.: Molière and Modernity: Absent Mothers and Masculine Births. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2005. Critique on Molière's response to modernity.

ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Northwestern). Recent: "Part VI: Research in Progress 2004," French 17, vol.52 (2004), 217–227. Paper: "Reality vs. Illusion in 17th C. Parisian Engravings," International Phenomenology Conference (ISPAFA), Harvard, 5/14/04. "Bibliography of North American Theses 2003–2004" in PFSCL, vol.XXII, no. 62 (2005), 317–330. Forthcoming: Arts.: "Perelle's Topographical Albums: Problems and Solutions" for Actes de Portland, 2005. "The 'Front de Seine' in 1630–1660," and "Perelle's Veües des Plus Beaux Endroits de Versailles." CdDS Paper: "Political Symbolism in the Porte St. Antoine," Phenomenology Conference, Harvard, 5/05. Bibliographer, NASSCFL. Directeur, Cahiers Maynard. Contrib. Ed., French 17.

RUBIN, DAVID L. (Virginia, Emeritus). Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Rookwood Press. See also EMF and POESIE 17e (supra). <administrator@rookwoodpress.com>

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> Website: http://www.satorbase.org

SATOR 06. XXe Colloque annuel. U. of Montréal. 1–4 June 2006. Topic: "Le corps Romanesque: images et visages topiques sous l'Ancien Régime." Proposals relating to five "problématiques" (le corps glorieux, libertin, sensible, meurtri, représenté ou en représentation) are due by January 15, 2006. Contact: Monique Moser-Verrey, <monique.moser@montreal.ca> See also website: http://www.satorbase.org

SATOR 07. XXIe Colloque annuel. Université Denis Diderot, Paris VII. July 2007. Topic: "Le Mariage dans la littérature narrative avant 1800." Marriage as outcome / refusal / novel. Organized by Françoise Lavocat, <françoise.lavocat@wanadoo.fr> See also website: http://www.satorbase.org

SCFS. See Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies.

SCHRODER, VOLKER (Princeton). Forthcoming: Crit. ed. (with Alicia Montoya) of Marie-Anne Barbier, Cornélie, mère des Gracques (tragedy, 1703), série de rééditions de Littératures classiques, 2005; "D'Ariste à Z. . .: sur quelques clés de Boileau," in Littératures classiques 54, "Lectures à clé," ed. Mathilde Bombart and Marc Escola, spring 2005. In progress: ed. of Mme Deshoulières (poésies choisies); arts. on Boileau, L'Héritier, Deshoulières; bk. on slander, libel and satire in 17th-c. France. North American Treasurer, CIR 17; North American Correspondent, Comètes (see above).

SE 17 (2005). Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies, 24th Annual Conference, October 6–8, 2005, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Sessions were: Women and Theatre; Transvestisms and Travesties; Toxins and Intoxicants; Enigmas and Mysteries; New France; Knowledge and Science; and Teaching the 17th Century. Conference highlights included a lobster bake, an exhibit of 17th-century maps and texts, a concert of North American francophone music, and a sightseeing cruise. Contact Katherine Dauge-Roth, current SE17 President and Conference Organizer. Tel. 207.725.3915, email <kdauge@bowdoin.edu>

SE 17 (2006). Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies, 25th Annual Conference, October 12–14, 2005, University of Iowa. Panel topics: Hell and Paradise / L'enfer et le paradis; Disease and Contagion / La maladie et la contagion; Body and Soul / Le corps et l'âme; Myths, Tales and Legends / Les mythes, les contes et les légendes; Natural Disasters / Les désastres naturels; Female Friendships / L'amitié des femmes; Teaching the 17th Century / Enseigner le 17e siècle. Contact: Roland Racevskis, Director of Graduate Studies, French & Italian, U. Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242-1409. Tel: 319.335.3567. Email: <roland-racevskis@iowa.edu>

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 on-line. Two issues per year. Website: http://mupmcc.ac.uk See MABER (supra).

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

SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES (U.K.) / SFS (2005). 46th Annual Conference. U. of Leeds, 4–6 July 2005. Diana Knight, President. Email <conference@sfs.ac.uk> SFS Homepage: http://www.sfs.ac.uk/ Society's journal: French Studies.

SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES (U.K.) / SFS (2006). 47th Annual Conference. St. Andrews University, 3–5 July 2006. Abstracts of papers for panel sessions were due by September 16, 2005. Contact: Dr. Nigel Harkness, email <conference@sfs.ac.uk> SFS Homepage: http://www.sfs.ac.uk/ Society's journal: French Studies.

SOCIETY FOR SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES (U.K.) / SCFS (2005). Annual conference, 15–17 September 2005 at Exeter University, U.K. Theme: "Panglossia: Conversations, Gossip and the Voice in Early Modern France."

SOCIETY FOR SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES (U.K.) / SCFS (2006). Joint conference with the British, French and North American Early Modern Societies, 28–30 June 2006, St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, U.K. Proposals were due by September 5, 2005. Contact: Dr. Nicholas Hammond, <NHammond@cai.cam.ac.uk> or website: http://www.c17.org.uk Society's journal: Seventeenth-Century French Studies.

SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE (Illinois-Chicago). Recent: Bk., Parcours lafontainien: d'Adonis au Livre XII des Fables. Biblio 17, vol. 150, Tübingen. Art., "Des dieux et des déesses dans l'imaginaire de La Fontaine," in Le Fablier, no. 16 (2005), 73–81, ed. Patrick Dandrey. Art., "Présence d'une pensée esthétique au XVIIe siècle," PFSCL, XXXII, no.62 (2005), 51–61. Bk. reviews in FR and PFSCL. In progress: "Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon: vision et esthétique nouvelles," pour les Mélanges offerts à Roger Marchal, Presses universitaires de Nancy, 2006 ou 2007. "In Memoriam Wolfgang leiner," pour French 17, 2005, ed. Suzanne Toczyski. "Marc Fumaroli, interprète de Corneille, dramaturge et poète de l'humanisme chrétien," dans Oeuvres et Critiques 2007.

TOBIN, RONALD (U. California, Santa Barbara). Recent: Lead article in the October 2003 Orbis Litterarum on "Andromaque's Choice;" also, "The Commensality of Book Reviewing" in The Journal of Scholarly Publishing. In press: "L'Hospitalité dans le théâtre de Molière" in Molière hier et aujourd'hui. "Les Aventures de Dassoucy, ou l'odyssée d'un gosier" in Avez-vous lu Dassoucy? "Le Secret de Phèdre" for the new journal Cahiers de Littérature Française. "In Memoriam Wolfgang Leiner" to appear in the Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France. Current projects: a long article on "Le Secret chez Racine," and a book on "L'Hospitalité au 17e siècle."

TOCZYSKI, SUZANNE. Art. in progress: "Navigating the Seas of Alterity: Jean-Baptiste Labat's Voyages aux îles." Paper: "Libation Exploration: Caribbean Cocktails, or, What Jean-Baptiste Labat's Recipes Reveal about the Colonial Space in Fin-de-siècle Martinique," SE17, Bowdoin College, 2005. Weekly: Bay Area Francophile List, on-line, http://www.sonoma.edu/users/t/toczyski/BAFLHomepage.shtml. Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Sonoma State University. Editor, French 17: An Annual Descriptive Bibliography of French Seventeenth-Century Studies. Contact: Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Sonoma State University, 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928. Tel.: 707.664.4177.

TUCKER, HOLLY (Vanderbilt). Guest Editor: "Reframing the Early French Fairy Tale," Marvels & Tales (forthcoming 2005). Co-Editor: Fairy Tales: Orality and Origins (in preparation with Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Elizabeth Harries, Sophie Raynaud, Suzanna Magnanni, Christine Jones). MSS in preparation: Graftings: Masculinity and Sexuality in Early Modern France.

VOS-CAMY, JOLENE (Calvin C.). Art. in progress: "L'influence dévote dans Les Malheures de l'amour de Catherine Bernard." Art.: "French Film Christianly: Cédric Klapisch's Un Air de famille" in Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages 6 (Spring 2005): 36–47. "Les Folies du Roman comique," in Cahiers du dix-septième siècle (forthcoming). Contrib. ed., French 17.

VUILLEMIN, JEAN-CLAUDE (Pennsylvania State). Forthcoming: (1) "L'oeil de Galilée pour les yeux de Chimène: épistémologie du regard et la Querelle du Cid" (for Poétique). (2) "Tonner contre la tyrannie du verbe: spectacles baroques et discours classiques?" for Baroque/s et maniérisme/s littéraires: tonner contre? Institut Epistémè, Paris-3, June 2005. (3) "Jeux de théâtre et enjeux du regard" for Rotrou, une figure majeure du théâtre baroque européen, Centre du Centre d'Etudes sur la Renaissance, Tours, June 2005. (4) "Jean Rotrou, La Belle Alphrède" (crit. ed. for Théâtre complet de Rotrou, dir. G. Forestier, Paris, SDTF-Les Belles Lettres). (5) Bk., L'Amour du Baroque. Pertinence épistémologique d'un concept esthétique.

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, literary CDs, and other items of particular interest to Web readers. Announces colloquia in Europe. Editor requests suggestions for the annual Prix Web 17 prizes. http://web17.free.fr/. Contact R. Duchêne at 174, rue abbé de l'Epée, 13005 Marseille, or <rd.web17@free.fr>

ZAISER, RAINER (Köln). Art.: "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," in PFSCL, Vol. XXXII, No. 62 (2005), pp. 143–163. Paper: "La mise en abyme au XVIIe siècle: Récit spéculaire et métanarration dans les romans de Sorel, de Scarron et de Furetière," NASSCFL Conference in Columbia, SC, 14–16 april 2005. Editor: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (PFSCL) Biblio 17, Œuvres et critiques. Director, CIR 17 Conférence de Kiel. : Romanisches Seminar, Universität Kiel, Leibnitzstrasse 10, D-24098, Germany. <rzaiser@gmx.de>