Eric Touya de Marenne, Ph.D.
Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies; Chevalier des Palmes Académiques
Contact
Department of Languages
Office: 505 Strode
Email: etouya@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Interests
20th-21st century French/Francophone Literature and Culture, Women's Studies and Leadership, Public Humanities, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, Ethics, and Social Studies
Eric Touya de Marenne is Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies. He received his D.E.A. in Comparative Literature at the Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne, and his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. He is currently academic mentor for the LAIB program and the study abroad program in London & Paris-Normandy: Remembering D-Day. He received the John B. & Thelma A. Gentry Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Service, and two National Endowment for the Humanities grants for his work on Alexis de Tocqueville and Emmanuel Levinas. His research and teaching interests include 20th-21st Century French and Francophone literature and culture, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature, art, feminism, culture, theory, ethics, and social studies.
Selected Professional Works
Books (Published)
Penser la ruralité en Aquitaine : Saubusse (1930-2020) : Héritage, Territoire, Transmission. Collection : Le territoire et ses acteurs. Bordeaux : Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2024. https://www.amazon.fr/Penser-ruralit%C3%A9-Aquitaine-Saubusse-1930-2020/dp/B0D5QG9Q9C
Simone de Beauvoir: le combat au féminin. Collection Que Sais-Je ? Paris: Presses Universitaires de France/Humensis, 1st edition, 2019, 2nd edition, 2022. https://www.puf.com/simone-de-beauvoir-0
France in the Age of Covid 19, Ed. French Politics, Culture & Society, Vol. 40. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. (Sponsored by the Institute of French Studies at New York University and the Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University), https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/fpcs/40/2/fpcs.40.issue-2.xml
The Case for the Humanities: Pedagogy, Polity, Interdisciplinarity. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. https://www.amazon.com/Case-Humanities-Pedagogy-Polity-Interdisciplinarity-ebook/dp/B01N9TEEZR
Francophone Women Writers: Feminisms, Postcolonialisms, Cross-Cultures. Preface by Maryse Condé. Lanham: Lexington Books Publishing, 2011. https://www.amazon.com/Francophone-Women-Writers-Postcolonialisms-Cross-Cultures/dp/0739140310
French-American Relations: Remembering D-Day after September 11. Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. https://www.amazon.com/French-American-Relations-Remembering-D-Day-September/dp/0761839682
Musique et Poétique à l’Âge du symbolisme: Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Claudel, Valéry. Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 2005. https://www.amazon.com/Musique-po%C3%A9tique-l%C3%A2ge-symbolisme-Variations/dp/2747593231
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
“’Plus jamais la guerre !’ Claudel diplomate: 1927-1947. Prolongements dans les Suppléments aux Œuvres complètes.” Bulletin de la Société Paul Claudel, Vol. 242. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024, p. 15-25.
“Women’s Leadership in Africa: Pedagogical and Feminist Perspectives,” (Oxford Women’s Leadership Symposium) Journal of Academic Perspectives, Issue 2, 2024, p. 159-167.
“Liberal Arts Approaches to Teaching Women Entrepreneurship: Narratives, Ethics, Empathy.” The Entrepreneurial Arts and Humanities edited by Alain-Philippe Durand and Christine Henseler. New York: Routledge, 2023, p. 113-122.
“‘La France ne se sent pas bien’: fractures, populisme, démocratie, et l’élection présidentielle de 2022.” The French Review, Vol. 96.4, May 2023, p. 81-94.
"Voix politiques, transcendantes, et transgressives dans l’œuvre de Véronique Tadjo et Isabelle Eberhardt.”Africana: Figures de femmes et formes de pouvoirs. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022, p. 417-428.
“‘Habiter poétiquement le monde’: présence et représentation chez Claudel et Jean-Luc Marion.” Les philosophes inspirés par Claudel. Bulletin de la Société Paul Claudel, No. 236. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022, p. 15-25.
“Ionesco and Camus in the Age of Covid 19: Power, Chaos, Responsibility.” Special Issue: The New Normal. Contemporary French & Francophone Studies: Sites, Vol. 26, Issue 3, 2022, p. 277-286.
"Souvenir d’horizons, qu’est-ce, ô toi, que la Terre?’: Écopoétique chez Bonnefoy et Mallarmé: lieu, sens, présence.” Parler la Terre/Speaking the Earth. Contemporary French & Francophone Studies: Sites, 2021, p. 398-405.
"‘Qu’est-ce que cela veut dire?’ Poétique, théorie, et les fins du monde chez Claudel et Mallarmé.” La Torre di Babele: Rivista di letteratura e linguistica, Università di Parma, 2021, p. 31-47.
"Gilets Jaunes, Macron’s Presidency, and France’s contradictions”, Contemporary French Civilization, Vol 45.3-4, 2020, p. 393-402.
"Claudel dans/pour l’avenir: Diplomatie, Économie, Éco-critique.” Claudel aujourd’hui. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020, p. 363-374.
“Le poète et le philosophe: Bonnefoy, Badiou, et l’avenir de la poésie.” Revue européenne de recherches sur la poésie, No. 4. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2018, p. 65-80.
“Teaching Hélé Béji, Post-Colonialism, and the Arab Spring: Perspectives from Baudrillard, McClintock, Giroux.” Rethinking the French Classroom: New Approaches to Teaching Contemporary French and Francophone Women. New York: Routledge, 2018, p. 111-119.
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Reviews & Interviews
La totalité littéraire. Théorie et enjeux de la littérature mondiale. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2023. By Jean-Marc Moura, French Review, 97.3, 2023, p. 103-104.
Misère de l’homme sans Dieu: Michel Houellebecq et la question de la foi. Paris: Flammarion, 2022. By Caroline Julliot et Agathe Novak-Lechevalier. French Review, 97.1, 2023, p. 214-215.
Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary Afro-French Narratives. New York: Routledge, 2022. By Polo B. Moji, French Review, 97.2, 2023, p. 142-143.
Une énigme française: Pourquoi les trois-quarts des juifs en France n’ont pas été déportés. Paris: Albin Michel, 2022. By Jacques Semelin. Dalhousie French Studies, Revue d’Études Littéraires du Canada, vol. 123, 2023, p. 128-130.
Révolution au Paradis: représentations voilées de personnages juifs dans le cinéma de la France occupée. Jérusalem: Editions Elkana, 2014. 345 pp. By Yéhuda Moraly. Dalhousie French Studies, Revue d’Études Littéraires du Canada, vol. 120, 2022, p. 138-139.
Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui. Boston: Rodopi, 2021, 216 pp. By Elizabeth Sabiston. French Review, 95.3, 2022, p. 232-233.
Passerelles. Poésie. Toronto: Canada Mediterranean Centre Éditions, 2018. 105 pp. By Hédi Bouraoui. Dalhousie French Studies, Revue d’Études Littéraires du Canada, vol. 118, 2021, p. 212-213.
“Entretien avec Hédi Bouraoui: altérité, nomanitude, interstice.” The French Review, Vol. 93.1, October 2019, p. 173-186.
Historical Interplay in French Music and Culture, 1860-1960. London: Routledge, 2018. 270 pp. By Mawer, Deborah (ed.). Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, vol. 43, Issue 2, 2019. https://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol43/iss2/40/
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