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Matthew Escobar

Assistant Professor of Modern Languages

Seton Hall University

 

escobama@shu.edu

 

[updated 25 Oct 2006]

 

 

Education

Ph.D.                          Princeton University, Romance Languages, 2003

                       Dissertation: Text as Proxy: Identity and the Aesthetics of Control in André Gide’s Works

 

M.A.                            Princeton University, Romance Languages, 2000

D.E.A.    (MPhil.)        University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle, Comparative Literature, 1997

Maîtrise  (Masters)     University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle, Comparative Literature, 1996

Licence  (B.A.)           University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle, Comparative Literature, 1995

B.A.                             SUNY Purchase, NY, Political Science and French Literature, 1991

 

Publications

“Vouloir l'involontaire:  Répétition, différence et méta-corps chez Gide et Proust” Bulletin des Amis d’André Gide 34,

n.151 (2006):433-447.

 

“Sujeto dialogado y cosmopolitismo en La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra y L’auberge espagnole

Cincinnati Romance Review 25 (2006): 99-115.

 

“Comment agir en écrivant: entretien avec Olivier Rolin.” Dalhousie French Studies 71 (Summer 2005) : 175-186.

 

“Fictional Universe and the Self in Lawrence Durrell’s Monsieur or The Prince of Darkness.”

Deus Loci 9 (2003-2005) : 52-68.

 

“Le voile, le communautarisme et la question de l’identité plurielle en France et aux Etats-Unis après le onze septembre

2001” Francographies, Numéro Spécial 5 (2004) : 35-45.

 

L’abyme différencié : une nouvelle approche de la mise en abyme gidienne.” Kopp, Robert. ed.

Gide et la tentation de la modernité. Paris: Gallimard, 2002 : 382-396. [Buy at Schoenhof's]

 

“Proxy Text and the Problem of Textual Survival in André Gide’s Les Faux-Monnayeurs and Lawrence Durrell’s

Monsieur or The Prince of Darkness.Confluences 21 (2002): 167-190.

 

“L'oeil du monde ou The World of the "I": La langue, le palindrome et l’identité dans L’invention du monde.

Acanthe : Annales de lettres françaises, special issue on Olivier Rolin 18 (2002): 35-49.

 

“Le problème du contrôle textuel gidien : entre ouverture et fermeture.” Bulletin des Amis d’André Gide 29,

n. 130 (April 2001) : 203-218.

 

“Le pendule de Durrell : la narration ironique dans The Alexandria Quartet.Confluences 15 (1998): 167-178.

 

Translations

Grunspan, Cyril. Marcel Proust: Conceal Nothing. Portaparole : Rome, 2005.

 

Champagne, Patrick and Marchetti, Dominique. “The Contaminated Blood Scandal: Reframing Medical News.”

R. Benson and E. Neveu, eds., Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004 : 113-134.

 

Ricœur, Paul. “Otherwise: A Reading of Emmanuel Levinas’ Otherwise than Being; Or Beyond Essence.” in

Yale French Studies 104 (Fall 2003) : 82-99.

 

Lamont, Michèle. Appendices A “Méthodes et analyses”, B “Le contexte de l’interview : L’insécurité économique,

la modialisation et les lieux.” in Lamont, Michèle. La dignité des travailleurs. Paris : Presses De Sciences Po, 2002.

 

Leveau, Rémy. “France’s Arab Policy” in Brown, L. Carl ed. Diplomacy in the Middle East : The International

Relations of Regional and Outside Powers. Londres et New York : I B Tauris, 2001.

 

Literary Translations

Delay, Florence. “Who Will Get Her?” chapter in S. A Novel. Cambridge, MA et Paris : Lumen Editions and

Alyscamps Press, 1997.
 

Rolin, Olivier. “A Flash, Then Night” chapter in S. A Novel. Cambridge, MA et Paris : Lumen Editions and

Alyscamps Press, 1997.
 

Conferences

Moderator, Ecritures francophones panel at Colloquium of the Association des professeurs français et

francophones d’Amérique (SPFFA), Fordham University, New York, 24 March 2006.

 

“The Potential vs. the Essential Self: The Human, Trauma and Memory in Time’s Arrow and Memento

Cinema/Cinemas: Annual Conference of the Literature/Film Association, Dickinson College, Oct 15, 2005.

 

Politics and Film: Filming Culture in Bertolucci’s Paris and Trueba’s BerlinCinema in Europe: Networks

in Progress Conference. University of Amsterdam, Holland - June 25, 2005.

 

“Postmodern Union: The Ethics of Identity and the Dialogical Self in Medem’s La pelota vasca and Klapisch’s

L’auberge espagnole” Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. Univ. of Cincinnati,

May 14, 2005.

 

“Fighting Media Terror: Filming Thought and Contextualizing Terrorism in World Cinema,” Trans/National Film

and Literature: Cultural Production and the Claims of History. Florida State University 2005 Conference on

Literature and Film. Jan. 28, 2005.

 

“Repetition, Memory and the Proxy Self in Gide and Proust” : Modern Language Association, Annual Convention,

Philadelphia. Dec 28, 2004

 

“Quelles appartenances ? La question de l’identité plurielle aux Etats-Unis et en France” Annual Colloquium of the

Association des professeurs français et francophones d’Amérique (SPFFA), Fordham University, New York. Oct 2004

 

“The Body of the Subject in Recent French and Spanish Cinema: A Retort to the Transportable, Globalized Self?”

Aug 2004, ISSEI conference, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.

 

“Sartre’s Gaze on Gide: the Journal Form and the Self.” Modern Language Association, Annual Convention,

New Orleans. Dec 2001

 

“Writing as ‘Proxy War’: Narrative Strata and Free Will in Gide and Durrell.”  On Miracle Ground XI, Conference of

the International Lawrence Durrell Society, Corfu, Greece. July 2000