Dr. Adelaide Russo
Taylor Professor - French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature
Bachelor's Degree(s): Sweet Briar College B.A.
Master's Degree: Columbia University M.A.; M.Phil
PhD: Columbia University Ph.D.
Phone: (225) 578-6670
E-mail: frruss@lsu.edu
Office: 422 Hodges
Area of Interest
Late 19th and 20th Century French and Comparative Literature; Poetry, Prose, Essay â French, American, English, (especially Surrealism, Avant-Gardes); Contemporary French Thought (Philosophy, Criticism, and Literary Theory including Semiotics and Feminist Theory); The Relationship between Literature, Aesthetics, Music, and the Plastic Arts (including Photography and Video); Hybrid Discourses; Atlantic Studies; 16 Century French Poetry; Contemporary French Theatre; Literary Translation
Awards & Honors
Awards, prizes, lectureships which show recognition of scholarly/creative achievement; Elected or Appointed Offices
2009 Chevalier Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ââ honor awarded by the French Government Ministery of Culture and Communication
Elected to Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee of the Modern Language Association 2010-2013
Elected to the Governing Council of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers (3 year term) 2009-2012
2009 Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (France) selected to me a member of ITEM
2008 Atlas Grant Louisiana State Board of Regents for completion of book project : The Perspicacity of Michel Deguy : Poetry and Moral Paradox
2008 Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for the Outstanding Critical Study in French and Francophone Literature of 2007 (awarded 2008) for Le Peintre comme modĂšle: Du SurrĂ©alisme Ă lâExtrĂȘme contemporanin, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2007.
2008 ĂÛÌÒAPP Rainmaker ÂŹÂŹ (100 Outstanding Faculty for the year 2008)
2007 Prix Debrousse-Gas-Forestier AcadĂ©mie des Beaux-Arts (Institut de France) for Le Peintre comme modĂšle: Du SurrĂ©alisme Ă lâExtrĂȘme contemporanin, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2007.
2007-2010 Delegate Assembly of Modern Language Association
2006- Membre Correspondant, Centre de Recherche Poétique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
2005-2010 Elected to the Executive Committee of the Division on Twentieth/Twenty First Century French Literature Modern Language Association (National Position); 2007-2009 Committee for James Russell Lowell Prize; 2007-2010 Delegate Assembly
2005-2008 University Faculty Senate (Library Committee 2007-2008; Committee PS 111)
2005-2008 Membre ComitĂ© Scientifique Centre dâĂtudes Françaises et Francophones ĂÛÌÒAPP,
2002-to present Director Belgian Research Project in Francophone Literature and Culture
2002 Creation of Centre Wallonie-Brussels at ĂÛÌÒAPP;
2001- Membre-Correspondante Centre Interdisciplinaire de Poétique Appliquée (CIPA) Université de LiÚge, Belgium (Elected by Board Members of the CIPA)
Member Phi Kappa Phi
Selected Publications
Books
Le Peintre comme modĂšle : Du SurrĂ©alisme Ă lâExtrĂȘme contemporain (Lille: Presses Universitaires du Septentrionâ Collection « Perspectives », 2007) [ISBN 2-85939-896-1] Prix Debrousse-Gas- Forestier AcadĂ©mie des Beaux-Arts 2007 (Institut de France) ; Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for the Outstanding Critical Study in French and Francophone Literature of 2007 (awarded 2008) [Review : Jan Baetens, Image [&] Narrative, No. 18 « Thinking Pictures » (September 2007].
French Language Editor, Translator Marcel Boyer, Jay Edwards, et alia, Plantations By the River: Watercolor Paintings from St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, by Father Joseph M. Paret, Baton Rouge: ĂÛÌÒAPP Press- Fred B. Kniffen Cultural Resources Monograph Series, 2001)
Faculty Telecourse Manual for French in Action with Barry Lydgate, Harryette Stover, Peter J. Dirr, Part I -2(Washington, D.C.: The Annenberg/CPB Project, 1987), pp. 1-84
Instructor's Guide, French in Action: The Capretz Method (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987), Vol. I, pp. I-XLI, 1-241; Vol. 2, v, 1-235; Second Edition 1994, pp.1-408
Edited Volumes
Adelaide Russo and Simon Harel, Lieux Propices: LâEnonciation des lieux/ Le lieu de lâĂ©nonciation dans les contexts francophones interculturels, QuĂ©bec (Canada): Presses de lâUniversitĂ© LavalâCollection InterCultures, 2005, 355 pages. [Reviews : Jean-Sebastien-MĂ©nard, Canadian Literature : A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, No. 194 (Autumn 2007), pp. 132-133 ; Philippe Mottet, University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Winter 2007), pp. 101-106 ; Vincent BruyĂšre, Recherches Sociographiques, Vol. 47, No. 3 (sept-dĂ©c 2006) pp. 694-696 ; Caroline Dupont, QuĂ©bec française, No. 141.]
Adelaide Russo and Fabrice Leroy, Special Issue of Etudes Francophones: Dossier Thématique: Bande Dessinée Belge, Vol. 20/no.1 (Printemps 2005), 1, 192 pages [Review Vittorio Frigerio, Belphégor, Vol. 6, no. 1 (2006)].
Edited, Preface Glenn Fetzerâs Palimpsests of the Real (New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi-Chiasma, 2004)
Translation Editor, Marcel Boyer, Plantations By the River: Watercolor Paintings from St. Charles Parish, Louisiana by Father Joseph M. Paret, 1859, ed. Jay D. Edwards (Baton Rouge: ĂÛÌÒAPP Press, âFred B. Kniffen Cultural Resources Laboratory,â 2001) LEH Prize for the Most Outstanding Book in the Humanities, 2002.
The Sight of Time: Robert Cahen Video @ ĂÛÌÒAPP (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: ĂÛÌÒAPP School of Art, 2000) (with Susan E. Ryan)
"The Poet as Art Critic" L'Esprit Créateur (Vol. XXII, No. 4, Winter 1982)
"Ego Traps" Semiotext(e) Vol.I, 1975 No.3, Associate Editor (with Susan Suleiman)
"Georges Bataille"Semiotext(e) Vol.II, No.2, 1976, Associate Editor (with SylvĂšre Lotringer)
Chapters in books and articles in refereed journals:
âRetour sans retour: Michael Riffaterre, chasseur de textesâ in âJoys of Reading: Revisiting Michael Riffaterre,â LâEsprit CrĂ©ateur, Vol. 49, No.4 (2009), pp. 44-58.
« « Pourquoi je joue du tam-tam maintenant » : Forme et Informe chez Jean-Marie Gleize » in « Forme & Informe dans la crĂ©ation moderne et contemporaine » in Formules / Revue des CrĂ©ations Formelles eds. Jean-Jacques Thomas et Bernardo Schiavetta, NÂș13 (2009), pp. 185-198.
« Collage, incipit, atelier » in Bernard NoĂ«l: le corps du verbe, colloque de Cerisy sous la direction de Fabio Scotto, Lyon, ENS Ăditions, collection « Signes », 2008, pp. 199-212.
« Miroitements du livre : Michel Butor/ Bertrand Dorny in Michel Butor : Déménagements de la littérature, éd. Mireille Calle-Gruber, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2008, pp. 153-171.
« Une langue, un lieu: la Louisiane PoÚtes cadiens et creoles: Zachary Richard, Deborah Clifton, Jean Arceneaux, Earlene Broussard, Kirby Jambon » dossier présenté par Adelaide Russo, Pleine Marge, No. 46 (décembre 2007), 75-107.
« Deguy-Dorny: Chemin faisant » in Grand Cahier Michel Deguy, Bordeaux, Ăditions Le Bleu du ciel, 2007, pp. 242-259.
« Partage secret â Secret partagĂ© » dans Martin Rueff, ed. LâallĂ©gresse pensive: Michel Deguy :poĂ©tique et pensĂ©e, Paris: Ăditions Belin, pp. 427-440.
« Donner Lieu: Dialogue de Circonstance: Gleize/Rimbaud/ Deguy » in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies : Sites, Vol. 11, No. 4 (October 2007), pp. 463-473.
« Paul Chemetov, Bertrand Dorny: Des tonnes de livres », Pleine Marge, No. 45 (juin 2007), pp. 179-193 âArchitecture Ă©pistolaireâ (190-193).
« Desnosâs âGymnasticsââ in Robert Desnos : Surrealism in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Marie-Claire Barnet, Eric Robertson and Nigel Saint, eds., Oxford, Bern, Berlin,
Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter LangâModern French Identities,
Vol. 58, 2006, pp.
169-185.
âUn ton Ă©lĂ©giaque de naguĂšre: Michel Deguy et le tempsâ in Etudes sur le temps lyrique (XIXe et XXe siĂšcles) special issue of ritm (Recherches interdiciplinaires sur les Textes Modernes) sous la direction de Jean-Michel Maulpoix, No. 34 (UniversitĂ© de Paris X) 2005, 149-153.
âThe Disembodied Dancing Camera: Robert Cahenâs Audio-Visionâ in LâArt Français et Francophone depuis 1980/Contemporary French and Francophone Art, Michael Bishop and Christopher Elson, eds. Amsterdam/New York: RodopiâCollection Faux Titre, 2005, 229-236.
âLâObjet plastique, palimpseste ou publicitĂ©: De LittĂ©rature Ă Tropiquesâ in PensĂ©e de lâexpĂ©rience, travail de lâexperimentation au sein des surrealisms et des avant-gardes en Europe, Textes rĂ©unis par Jacqueline ChĂ©nieux-Gendron et Myriam BloedĂ©, Leuven and Paris: Peeters â Collection Pleine Marge, 2005, 187-210.
âEn premier lieu/Introductionâ in Lieux Propices: LâEnonciation des lieux/ Le lieu de lâĂ©nonciation dans les contexts
francophones interculturels, QuĂ©bec (Canada): Presses de lâUniversitĂ© LavalâCollection InterCultures, 2005, 13-16.
âDe la gĂ©o-scopie en quĂȘte de dĂ©fintionâ in Lieux Propices: LâEnonciation des lieux/ Le lieu de lâĂ©nonciation dans les contexts
francophones interculturels, QuĂ©bec (Canada): Presses de lâUniversitĂ© LavalâCollection InterCultures, 2005, 25-46
âLe peintre, le musĂ©e et la bande dessinĂ©eâ in Etudes Francophones: Dossier ThĂ©matique: Bande DessinĂ©e Belge, Vol. 20/no.1 (Printemps 2005), 117-135.
âEntretien avec BenoĂźt Peetersâ (with Fabrice Leroy) in Etudes Francophones: Dossier ThĂ©matique: Bande DessinĂ©e Belge, Vol. 20/no.1 (Printemps 2005), 136-166.
âLe peintre, le musĂ©e et la bande dessinĂ©eâ in Etudes Francophones: Dossier ThĂ©matique: Bande DessinĂ©e Belge, Vol. 20/no.1 (Printemps 2005), 117-135.
âEntretien avec BenoĂźt Peetersâ (with Fabrice Leroy) in Etudes Francophones: Dossier ThĂ©matique: Bande DessinĂ©e Belge, Vol. 20/no.1 (Printemps 2005), 136-166.
âGeorges-Emmanuel Clancier: JoĂ« Bosquet, Le PoĂšte modĂšle,â in Cahiers de Robert Margerit
âUne Langue, un lieuâ texts of Rosanna Warren and Craig Dworkin, selected and in part translated, Pleine Marge, No. 39 (juin 2004), pp. 65-110)
"Le Peintre comme modĂšle --MĂ©ditation sur l'image ou Sous le signe de la substitution," in Michel Leiris: Le siĂšcle Ă lâenvers, textes rassemblĂ©s par Francis Marmande, Tours, Editions Farrago, Editions LĂ©o Scheer, 2004, pp. 159-173.
âEntretien: Nicole Collages 2000-2002,â Pleine Marge, nÂș. 37 (mai 2003), pp. 41-58.
âLâEvolution de lâidentitĂ© Belge et son autre asiatique: De Michaux Ă Peetersâ
in IdentitĂ©s NarrativesâMĂ©moire et Perception, Eds. Pierre Ouellet, Simon Harel, Alexis Nouss, Jocelyn LĂ©tourneau (QuĂ©bec: Presses
Universitaires de lâUniversitĂ© de Laval, 2002), pp.35-54.
âMarcelin Pleynet: Le Propre du Temps et le retour Ă la question du langageâ in Contemporary French Poetics: From Bonnefoy and Deguy to Risset and Bancquart, eds. Michael Bishop and Christopher Elson (Atlanta and Amsterdam: Rodopi -- Collection âFaux-Titreâ, 2002), pp. 167-177.
âP°ùŽÇŽÚČčČÔČčłÙŸ±ŽÇČÔČő/žé±đ±č±đ±ôČčłÙŸ±ŽÇČÔČőâ Bulletin Baudelairien , Vol.35, nï°2, (2000): 95-118.
âSĂ©rie et syncope: La poĂ©tique musicale de Robert Desnos,â Cahiers de la NRF, eds. Marie-Claire Dumas and Katharine Conley (Paris: Gallimard, 2000): 87-101.
âPhilippe Soupault : Cartographe et Architecteâ in Patiences et Silences de Philippe Soupault, ed. Jacqueline ChĂ©nieux-Gendron (Paris: LâHarmattan, 2000): 88-108.
âLâHommage du Mage au Sage: Edmond JabĂšs et Jacques Derridaâ in Hommage Ă Edmond JabĂ©s, ed. Didier Cahen (Bordeaux : Opales, 2000): 94-107.
â«Divagations» sur un plan cadastralâ ritm (Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Textes Modernes), UniversitĂ© de Paris X-Nanterre ), No 21, (mars 2000): 177-198.
âAll These Images Make Us Hear: All These Sounds Make Us See,â in The Sight of Time: Robert Cahen Video @ ĂÛÌÒAPP, ed. Adelaide Russo and Susan E. Ryan (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: ĂÛÌÒAPP School of Art, 2000): 9-19.
ââTexte qui de soi-mĂȘme sâĂ©critâ: Les Collaborations de BenoĂźt Peeters,â Ă©critures contemporaines, ed. Dominique Viart and Jan Baetens, Vol.II (Paris: Minard-Les Lettres Modernes,
1999): 203-220.
âLa Main de Jean Follain : Lecture dâun dĂ©tailâ in Le Monde de Jean Follain, ed. Arlette Albert-Birot (Paris: Ăditions Jean-Michel Place, 1998): 161-181.
âPour tout ce que les yeux voient: Pour Bona Tibertelli de Pisis de Mandiarguesâ in
La Part du Féminin dans le Surréalisme, eds. Georgiana Colvile and Katharine Conley (Paris: Lachenal & Rittner, 1998): 253-273.
"Les Questionnements du Penseur - Voyageur" in Michel Deguy: "Le PoĂšte que je cherche Ă ĂȘtre, ed. Yves Charnet (Paris: Belin, 1996): 260-273
"Muthos et prophétie: L'élaboration d'une mythologie moderne-- poéte, peintre, oracle" in Mythe et Pensée surréaliste, eds. Yves Vadé and Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron (Paris: Lachenal & Ritter, 1996): 209-228
"Art et l'oscillation et "l'Ćil d'un certain philosophe" in Antonin Artaud: Figures et portraits vertigineux, ed. Simon Harel (MontrĂ©al: Editions XYZ and Paris: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 1995): 261-280
"Delteil et L'Amérique: La Fayette" in Joseph Delteil: Rencontres de Cerisy, ed. Robert Briatte (LodÚve: Editions de la Jonque, 1995): 41-53.
"Michel Leiris: :Le Peintre comme modÚle --Méditation sur l'image ou Sous le signe de la substitution," in Regard d'écrivain, Parole de peintre, eds. Dalton Krauss and Monique Chefdor (Nantes: Editions Joca Seria, 1994): 31-45.
"The Apparatus Criticus of Art: Francis Ponge's L'Atelier contemporain" In Figuring Things: Char, Ponge, and Poetry in the Twentieth Century, ed. Charles D. Minahen (Lexington, Kentucky), French Forum Publishers, 1994): 141-160.
"André Breton et les dispositifs du jugement: spéculaire, spéculatif," In Lire le regard : André Breton & la peinture, ed. Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron (Paris: Lachenal & Ritter, 1993): 153-178: reprint of article in Pleine Marge 13 with additional essays by such critics as Denis Hollier.
"Du Papillon au pamphlet," Jeu Surréaliste & Humour Noir (Actes du Colloque Homo Ludens Cerisy-la-Salle) eds. Marie-Claire Dumas and Jacqueline
Chénieux-Gendron (Paris: Lachenal & Ritter, 1993): 237-258.
"Ecrire en écrivant sur: Jean-Marie Gleize, Circonstances," Impressions du Sud, No. 34 (Hiver 1992-93), 1984-85.
"La Médiation dans la critique artistique de Philippe Soupault: Paolo Uccello et William Blake," Philippe Soupault, le poÚte, ed. Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron (Paris: Klincksieck, 1992): 160-182.
(Maria Goodwin), "Jacques Derrida in Baton Rouge: The Philsopher in the City of Flayed
Skins," Exquisite Corpse, No. 37 (1992), 160-182 reprinted in Thus Spake the Corpse, Vol. II, Black Sparrow
Press, 2000: 261-266.
"André Breton et les dispositifs du judgement: spéculaire, spéculatif," in Lire le regard: André Breton et la peinture, Pleine Marge, No. 13 (juin 1991): 111-132.
"Marcelin Pleynet Mediating Surrealism" in Special Issue of Dalhousie French Studies, "Art Criticism by Poets Since the Mid-Century," ed. Robert Greene, Vol. 21 (1991): 141-156.
"L'ekphrasis dans Les Collages de Louis Aragon: Ekpledzis,Enargeia, Escamotage," Ăcrire et Voir: Aragon, Elsa Triolet et les arts visuels, ed. Jean Arrouye (Centre Aixois de Recherches sur Aragon), (Aix-en Provence: Publications de l'UniversitĂ© de Provence, 1991): 211-227.
"La materialitĂ© en disparition," in La Photographie en Dommage, Special Issue of Le Ciel des Ătoiles Fixes IV, ed. Michelle Debat (Martigues: Ăditions Collodion, mai 1990): 33-48.
"`La poésie limitrope': Michel Deguy's Gisants," in Special Issue of Dalhousie French Studies "De Duras et Robbe-Grillet à Cixous et Deguy," ed. Michael Bishop, No 17 (Fall-Winter 1989): 117-134.
"An Exchange of Tokens: Michel Leiris, Marcel Duchamp, and Jacques Derrida," The Bucknell Review, Vol. 31, No. 1 "Criticism, History, Intertextuality," (London and Toronto: Associate University Presses, 1988): 77-97.
"An Introduction to Andrei Codrescu or the Life and Times of an Involuntary Genius," Miorita: A Journal of Rumanian Studies, Vol. XII (1988): 52-66.
"Le respect des femmes: le retour du pÚre. Quelques Réflexions sur le discours philosophique de Sarah Kofman," Dalhousie French Studies, "Simone de Beauvoir et les Féminismes Contemporains," eds. Nicole TrÚves and Michael Bishop, Vol. 13 (Fall-Winter, 1987): 105-115.
"Le Tombeau de Robert ou la tradition encryptée," in «Moi Qui Suis Robert Desnos»: Permanence d'une voix, ed. Marie-Claire Dumas (Paris: Jose Corti, 1987): 33-54.
"The Rhetoric of the Interpretant: Eco, Riffaterre and the Triangle," in Semiotics 1982, eds. John Deely and Jonathan Evans (Lanham, New York, London: University Press
of America, 1987):
175-190.
"OuLiPo's Mechanical Measure: The Consequences of "Littérature Potentielle" on Potential
Criticism, Michigan Romance Studies, Vol. VI (1986): 111-127.
"Reading A Surrealist Poem: Representation in Robert Desnos's Le Vendredi du crime," Teaching Language Through Literature(Publication of the MLA Group Teaching Language Through Literature), Vol. XXV, No. 2 (1986): 19-33.
"From Visual to Verbal in Jean Tardieu's Les Portes de Toile", Sub-Stance, No. 46 (1985):76-92.
"Picking up the Pieces? Tzara's Explosive Text and the Surrealist Strategy,â Miorita: A Journal of Rumanian Studies (University of Rochester) Vol. 9, No. 1-2 (1985): 1-18.
"Olympia's Ribbon: Talismans, Reliques and Other Fetishes,â L'Esprit CrĂ©ateur, XXII, No. 4 (Winter, 1982): 3-15.
âJules DestrĂ©e,â Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern European Literature, New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.
âBĂ©atrix Beck,â Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern European Literature, New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.
âMarcel Duchamp and Robert Desnos: A Necessary and an Arbitrary Analogy,â Dada/Surrealism, No. 9 (1979): 115-123.