ZEINA HAKIM CURRENT POSITION EDUCATION Assistant Professor of French Neubauer Faculty Fellow Department of Romance Languages, Tufts University September 2008 to present 2005-2009 Doctorat ès lettres Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV - Université de Genève (joint supervision) La fiction déjouée. La part du jeu dans l écriture fictionnelle (1687-1781) Advisors : Alain Grosrichard, Jacques Berchtold Committee Members : Michel Delon (Sorbonne-Paris IV), Jonathan Mallinson (Oxford), Jan Herman (Louvain), Frédéric Tinguely (Genève) 2001-2005 Ph.D. in French Columbia University Department of French and Romance Philology Faire vrai : Mémoires et roman de Courtilz de Sandras à Marivaux Advisors : Pierre Force, Antoine Compagnon, Gita May Committee Members: Anne Deneys-Tunney (NYU), Catherine Labio (Yale) 2000-2001 Diplôme d Études Approfondies (D.E.A.) Université de Genève Département de langue et de littérature françaises modernes Frontières mobiles. Diderot entre réalité et fiction Advisor : Alain Grosrichard 1994-1999 Licence ès Lettres Université de Genève Département de langue et de littérature françaises modernes Majors in French, History, and English Le langage en révolution : une politique de la langue à la Révolution française Advisor : Olivier Pot RESEARCH INTERESTS 18 th -Century French literature, cultural history, and historiography; literature and aesthetics in Early Modern France; literary theory; novel and autobiography; women's studies FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS Prix de la Francophonie 2008 March 2008 (4 th prize) The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) September 2007 - August 2008 Postdoctoral grant (Bourse jeunes chercheurs) awarded by the National Scientific Research Fund to pursue research for a year at Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle- Paris III.
2 PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Publications The Swiss University Conference (SUC) Research Grant. September 2006- September 2008 Ministère délégué à l enseignement supérieur et à la recherche, programme cotutelles internationales de thèse, aide à la mobilité internationale, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III Research Grant. September 2006- September 2008 Centre comparatiste d études et de recherches pour les littératures anciennes et modernes (C.L.A.M.), Université Paris Diderot-Paris VII Postdoctoral Research Grant. Paris, 2005-2006 (declined) Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellowship Columbia University, Summer 2004 Otis Fellows Fellowship Department of French and Romance Philology, Columbia University 2003-2004 The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Summer 2003. Awarded a full-time ten-week paid internship The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, Summer 2002. Awarded a full-time ten-week paid internship Women International Leadership (WIL) Scholarship and Achievement Award A monetary award given to the top candidates in recognition of extraordinary academic accomplishments, International House, New York, 2002-2003 Dissertation Fellowship Department of French and Romance Philology, Columbia University 2002-2003 President s Fellowship Department of French and Romance Philology, Columbia University 2001-2002 Littérature et cinéma. De la transgression narrative à la contamination fictionnelle dans Jacques le Fataliste de Diderot et La Rose pourpre du Caire de Woody Allen, L Écran des Lumières : regards cinématographiques sur le XVIII ème siècle, SVEC, edited by Laurence Schifano and Martial Poirson, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2009, p. 183-197. Femme militante ou mère vertueuse? L élaboration du récit historique chez Isabelle de Charrière et Madame Roland, in Les Femmes et l écriture de l histoire. 1400-1800, edited by Jean-Claude Arnould and Sylvie Steinberg, Rouen, Publication des Universités de Rouen et du Havre, 2009, p. 171-186. Histoire et fiction dans l œuvre théorique de Rousseau, Annales Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 48, 2008, p. 149-168.
3 Figurer l enfermement. Pour une lecture foucaldienne de La Religieuse, Dix-huitième siècle, 40, 2008, p. 637-653. Mise en scène romanesque d une identité rêvée : l automythification de Mademoiselle de Montpensier, Mnémosynes. La réinvention des mythes chez les femmes écrivains, edited by Dominique Kunz Westerhoff, Genève, Georg, 2008, p. 193-216. When the Painting Frame Blurs: The Sublime in the Promenade Vernet, in Word and Image in the Long Eighteenth Century: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, p. 174-188. Le pouvoir et la résistance : la place de l instance narrative dans Trois femmes d Isabelle de Charrière, Cahiers Isabelle de Charrière, 2, 2007, p. 52-67. Illusion et Mystification : le dialogue selon Diderot, SVEC, 7, 2005, p. 135-152. Femmes en révolution : la voix des citoyennes de 1789, Equinoxe, Revue de sciences humaines, 23, 2002, p. 53-66. La notion de patrimoine entre mémoire et esthétique, Travaux et Jours, 68, 2001, p. 171-183. Le langage en révolution, Versants, 39, 2001, p. 45-64. Non-Refereed Publications L Europe comme utopie. Arcadie et uchronie dans Paul et Virginie et L An 2440, in L Idée d Europe au XVIIIe siècle, Proceedings of the International Seminar for Young Eighteenth- Century Scholars (Genoa, October 2005), edited by Lara Piccardo, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2009, p. 27-37. Préfaces, éditeurs et instances énonciatives dans La Vie de Marianne et dans Manon Lescaut, L Art de la préface au siècle des Lumières, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007, p. 59-67. Rhétorique verbale et visuelle dans les Salons de Diderot, Paroles Gelées, Selected Proceedings from the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies Annual Graduate Conference (Los Angeles, October 2003), 21, 2004, p. 38-46. De la fureur à l hystérie : les représentations de la monstruosité féminine à la fin du XVIII ème siècle, Equinoxes, A Graduate Journal of French and Francophone Studies, Brown University, 1, 2003. Faire la Révolution, c est d abord révolutionner la langue, Le Temps Stratégique, 97, 2001, p. 36-43. BOOK REVIEWS : Quand lire, c est reconnaître. Stratégies de dévoilement et plaisir de l illusion dans le roman du XVIII ème siècle, Acta Fabula, Essais critiques, janvier 2009. URL : http://www.fabula.org/revue/document4797.php La Pensée du Roman, by Thomas Pavel, Romanic Review, vol. 95, n 4, November 2004, p. 482-486. Freedom, Slavery and Absolutism. Corneille, Pascal, Racine, by Ziad Elmarsafy, Romanic Review, vol. 95, n 4, November 2004, p. 467-473.
4 PREFACES: Appelés à choisir l invisible, New York : Le crépuscule d un géant, by Luc Gonin, Ed. Mon Village, Sainte-Croix, 2009, p. 7-28. ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION (IN PRESS) : Courtilz de Sandras ou le choix de l indétermination, Proceedings for the International Conference La Partie et le Tout. Les moments de la lecture romanesque sous l Ancien Régime (Brussels, October 2008), 2010. De la sensibilité : Diderot et l ordre du descriptif, De la quête des règles au discours sur les fins. Les mutations des discours sur l art en France dans la seconde moitié du XVIII ème siècle, edited by Christian Michel, Paris, Centre allemand d histoire de l art, 2010. Louise Labé and the Elegiaic Genre: the Use of Feminine Figures of the Past, Teaching French Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. Approaches to Teaching World Literature, edited by Colette Winn, MLA Series, 2010. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED) American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), L enquête de l abbé Grégoire sur les patois de France, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 1-4 2010. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), The Game of Fiction: the Role of Play in Marivaux s Vie de Marianne, 41 st Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, March 18-21 2010. Landau-Paris Symposium on the Eighteenth Century, Sentir et ressentir: l usage des sens dans les Salons de Diderot, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany, October 22-24 2009. Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), 'Marchez sur elle, ce n'est qu'un cadavre' ou le plaisir secret de voir décrire le mal dans La Religieuse, Boston, February 26-March 1 2009. Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS), Hybridation désinvolte: la fabrique de l histoire chez Courtilz de Sandras, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, October 30-November 2 2008. Paris 3, Paris 8 and l ENS, Courtilz de Sandras ou le choix de l indétermination, La Partie et le Tout. Les moments de la lecture romanesque sous l Ancien Régime, International Conference held in Paris (ENS, Sept. 10-12, 2008), in Venice (Università Ca Foscari Venezia, Nov. 27-28, 2008), and in Brussels (October 10-11 2008). Pavillon Le Corbusier, Fondation Suisse, Paris, La Vallée heureuse d Annemarie Schwarzenbach, June 8 2008. Centre allemand d histoire de l art, La peinture en question, International Art History Conference parallely held in the Académie de France à Rome (Villa Medici) and in the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, Paris, April 10-11 2008. Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS), Diderot et l usage de la métalepse, Dartmouth College, October 25-28 2007. International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), Les romans révolutionnaires d Isabelle de Charrière en marge de la grande Histoire, Montpellier, July 8-15 2007. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC), Mademoiselle de Montpensier et la conscience mythique de soi, Lexington, April 19-21 2007. Université de Genève, Figures et usages de la fiction dans l œuvre critique d Alain Grosrichard, Penser les Confessions de Rousseau : journée en l honneur d Alain Grosrichard, March 30 2007.
5 Modern Language Association (MLA), Discours de raison et refus de l hystérie: La réponse d Isabelle de Charrière, Philadelphia, December 29 2006. Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, Les pseudo-mémoires de Courtilz de Sandras sous l angle de la théorie de la fiction, Centre comparatiste d études et de recherches pour les littératures anciennes et modernes, Paris, November 17 2006. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Delicious Horror in the Promenade Vernet, Annual Meeting, Montreal, March 30-April 2 2006. Université de Bretagne Sud, Préfaces, éditeurs et instances énonciatives dans La Vie de Marianne et dans Manon Lescaut, International Conference organized by the School of Arts and Sciences, Pré(-)textes. Les Préfaces d éditeurs scientifiques de 1650 à 1800, Lorient, November 25-26 2005. International Seminar for Young Eighteenth-Century Scholars, L Europe comme utopie : politique, Arcadie et uchronie au XVIII ème siècle, Genoa, Italy, October 24-29 2005. Université de Genève, Réécrire les mythes au féminin : Louise Labé et l appropriation d une voix d emprunt, Gender Studies Annual Conference, February 17-18 2005. Yale University, Transgression des conventions littéraires et développement d un nouveau genre : le mauvais usage de la critique d art au XVIII ème siècle, November 12-13 2004. Voltaire Foundation, Illusion et mystification: le dialogue chez Diderot, 7 th International Graduate Students Meeting, Oxford, April 19-20 2004. Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (WSECS), Histoire et histoires : narration et vérité dans les romans du premier tiers du XVIII ème siècle, Annual Meeting, University of San Francisco, February 14-15 2004. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), Forbidden Fictions: Censorship and Practices of Cultural Regulation, 1750-1789, Oxford University, January 3-5 2004. New York University (NYU), Frontières mobiles : Diderot entre réalité et fiction, Annual French Graduate Conference, Mondes de la fiction : intertextes et transfictionnalité, March 29 2003. City University of New York (CUNY), Violence and Subversion in Late Eighteenth-Century France: the example of Sade, 9 th Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference, Authors and Texts: Cultures of Violence, December 6 2002. Columbia University, Censure et culture: l univers de la littérature clandestine au XVIII ème siècle, 11 th Annual French Graduate Student Conference, The Pen as Sword: Activism in Literature, March 30 2002. Cornell University, The Control of Printing and Ideas Under the Ancien Regime, 13 th Annual Romance Studies Graduate Conference, The Literatures of Surveillance : Experiences Under the Eye / I, February 15-16 2002. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Tufts University, Department of Romance Languages Assistant Professor (2008- present) Literature and Power in 17 th Century France: Versailles and the Sun King's Universe (Fall 2009) Readings in French Literature I (Fall 2008, Fall 2009) Readings in French Literature II (Spring 2009) The Enlightenment (Spring 2009)
6 Université de Genève, Department of French Assistante (2000-2001; 2004 2008) Textes et contextes de la Renaissance à nos jours (Fall 2005-Spring 2007) Introduction à l essai critique (Fall 2004-Spring 2005) Méthodologie de la dissertation (Fall 2000-Sp. 2001, Spring 2004) Columbia University, Department of French and Romance Philology Teaching Fellow (2001-2004) Major Literary Works to 1800 (Fall 2003) Intermediate/Advanced French I and II (Fall 2002-Spring 2003) Elementary French I and II (Fall 2001-Spring 2002) Yale University, Department of French Lecturer (1999-2000) Literary Analysis and Theory (Spring 2000) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Introduction to the Study of Literature in French (Fall 1999, Spring 2000) Advanced Culture and Conversation (Fall 1999) Seminar co-organizer, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), French Language (In)Hospitalities, Annual Meeting New Orleans, April 1-4 2010 Conference Chair, Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS), Ambivalence in the Narrative of French and Francophone Writers of the 18 th century, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, November 1 2008 Co-organizer of an international conference in French and Comparative Literature, Women writers at the crossroads of languages, 1700-2000 Université de Genève, May 10-11 2007 Co-organizer of a continuing education program (Formation continue pour le corps enseignant du secondaire genevois) Université de Genève, Fall 2005-Spring 2007 Co-organizer of a Gender Studies Forum (Atelier féminin/masculin) Université de Genève, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Conference Chair for the first (and only) joint Graduate Student Conference between Columbia University and New York University Columbia University, February 6-7 2004 Panel Moderator, (Un)Framing the Text: mise en abyme, mise en marges Columbia University, February 6 2004 Research Assistant for Jean Starobinski Université de Genève, 2003-2004 Coordinator of the University Seminar on Early Modern France Columbia University, Spring-Fall 2003 Language Coordinator of Intermediate French Columbia University, Fall 2001-Spring 2003
7 OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Representative Office, Geneva February 2006-February 2007 Curatorial Assistant of the Director for International Affairs : assisted in a research project on practicing Islamic architects, current Islamic art exhibitions and related ventures, undertaken in connection with the renovation and reinstallation of the Metropolitan Museum s permanent galleries for Islamic art (scheduled to reopen in 2010). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of European Paintings, NY June 2003-May 2004 Research Assistant for the chief curator: did research on the 18 th -century French paintings of the Wrightsman collection (Vernet, Vigée Le Brun, Le Prince, Boucher) for the Wrightsman Pictures exhibit catalogue (Yale UP). The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Publications Department, NY June 2002-August 2002 Graduate Intern: worked on the editorial for Gerhard Richter exhibit catalogue. The Guggenheim Museum, Curatorial Department, NY January 2002-May 2002 Graduate Intern: created an archives collection from Surrealism exhibitions for curatorial reference. UNESCO, World Heritage Center, Paris June 2000-October 2000 Research Assistant for the Director of the World Heritage Center: worked on ways to encourage States Parties to the Convention to nominate sites within their national territory for inclusion on the World Heritage List. The Museum of Ethnography, Curatorial Department, Geneva September 1999-November 1999 Curatorial Assistant: assisted a curator with research and documentation of a special exhibition Les Plis du temps: de Saussure à Deleuze. LANGUAGES French (native) English (very fluent) German (advanced writing and reading proficiency) Latin (advanced) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Member of the Swissnex Advisory Committee, Consulate of Switzerland Boston, 2008-present Member of the World Council of Alumni, International House New York, 2005-present Modern Language Association (MLA) American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS) International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) Société française d étude du dix-huitième siècle New Approaches to European Women s Writing before 1900 (NEWW) February 2010