Dr. Leslee Poulton
Department Chair
French Section Head
Professor of French
Contact Information
| E-mail: | lpoulton@uwlax.edu |
| Office: | 315 E GMH |
| Telephone: | 608-785-8316 |
Office Hours
Monday - Wednesday: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Or by Appointment
Education
| PhD | Indiana University, 1988 |
|---|---|
| Dissertation: O Tahiti: Fiction and Reality in Four French Writers | |
| MA | University of Utah, 1980 |
| BA | University of Utah, 1977 |
Classes Taught
- FRE 101 – Beginning French
- FRE 102 – Beginning French II
- FRE 201 – Intermediate French
- FRE 202 – Intermediate French II
- FRE 303 – Advanced French
- FRE 304 – Advanced French II
- FRE 305 – l’Introduction à la literature française
- FRE 320 – la Civilisation française
- FRE 331 – la Phonétique
- FRE 403 – l’Art, le Cinéma, et la Littérature de la Provence
- FRE 404 – la Prose française
- FRE 405 – le Théâtre français
- MLG 299 – Literature in Translation:
- Being Jewish in France (2012)
- Nemirovsky: The Ball, David Golder, Suite francaise
- Fania Fenelon: Playing for Time
- Emile Ajar: Life Before Us
- Albert Memmi: Pillar of Salt
- Patrick Modiano: Dora Bruder
- Human Rights
- (2010) - Pasternak: Dr. Zhivago
- (2006, 2007) - Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Detective fiction (2005) – Brigitte Aubert: Death from the Woods
- Upheaval (2001) - Mikhail Kurae: Captain Dikshtein
- The Outsider (1999)
- Yves Navarres: Cronus’s Children
- Vladimir Nabokov: The Gift
- The Short Story (1998)
- Gogol: The Overcoat
- Turgenev: Bezhin Meadow
- Dostoevsky: Dream of a Ridiculous Man
- Chekhov: Heartache, Gooseberries, Anna on the neck, The Darling
- Bunin: The Gentleman from San Francisco
- Pushkin: Queen of Spades
- Tolstaya: Hunting the Wooly Mammouth, The Moon Came Out, the Heavenly Flame
- Baranskaya: A Delicate Subject, The Woman with the Umbrella
- Women Writers (1991) – Andrée Chédid: The Sixth Day
- Exoticism (1988)
- Pierre Loti: The Marriage of Loti
- Jean Dorsenne: The Marriage of Rarahu
- Being Jewish in France (2012)
- RUS 101 – Beginning Russian
- RUS 102 – Beginning Russian II
- RUS 201 – Intermediate Russian
- RUS 202 – Intermediate Russian II
- RUS 305 – Culture and History of Golden Age Russian Literature
Publications
“Les Mères russes vues par leurs fils francophones: Bosquet, Gary, Troyat”. Ed. Murielle Lucie Clément. Écrivains franco-russes. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2008.
“L’Influence des « autres » dans l’œuvre d’Alain Bosquet”. Ed. Muriel Lucie Clément. Écrivains franco-russes. Séries : Faux Titre, Vol. 1. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2008.
The Influence of French Language and Culture in the Lives of Eight Women Writers of Russian Heritage. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen P., 2002.
“Elsa Triolet et la démystification des femmes de Tahiti”. Les Carnets de l’Exotisme: l’exotisme au féminin. Nouvelle série No. 1. Poitiers : Torii Éditions, 2000.
Book Review
Rev of Andrei Makine. Ed. Murielle Lucie Clément CRIN 53. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009, in French Review. Carbondale, IL : December 2011, vol. 85.2, (351-352).
Cited
Quella-Villéger, Alain. Polynésie : Les archipels du rêve. Paris : Omnibus, 1996.
Presentations
| 2011 | World War II – The Memory of War in Works by Kessel, Gary, Bosquet, Troyat, and Makine, 36th European Studies Conference, Omaha, NE (October) |
| 2007 | The Mother Figure in the Novels of Alain Bosquet. 32nd European Studies Conference, Omaha, NE (October) |
| 2006 | Intertextuality in the Novels of Alain Bosquet. 31st European Studies Conference Omaha, NE. (October). |
| 2005 | Memory and War in the Works of Andréi Makine. Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA), Milwaukee (November). |
| 2005 | Of Mothers and Sons. Cincinnati Conference for Romance Languages (May). |
| 2003 | Yearning for home: Being an “other” in France. Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA), Chicago (November). |
| 2001 | Recycling a Russian Childhood: Tales of a Knight from Champagne. XXIst Century French Studies Conference, UC-Davis. |
| 1997 | Lieux de mémoire et d’oubli chez quelques écrivains français d'origine russe. Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA), Chicago. |
| 1994 | The Mystique of the Tahitienne Demystified. M/MLA, Chicago. |
| 1993 | Tahiti Yesterday and Today. WAATF (Wisconsin Chapter of American Association of Teachers of French). Appleton, WI. |
Interests
19th and 20th century French Literature; Literature written in French by Native-born Russians; Literature of the Exotic (South Pacific); Russian Language and Literature; spectator sports - in particular Pro-Football, Tennis, College Basketball and finally, music and movies!