Pascale Perraudin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
French
Education
Ph.D., Boston College
M.A., Boston College
B.A. (Licence) Universit茅 de Bourgogne in Dijon, France
Research Interests
- Postcolonial literatures and decolonization
- Intergenerational and institutional transmission of culture and memory
- French-Algerian War and curation of memory
- Intermediality
- Life writing and first-person narratives
Publications and Media Placements
Co-edited Volumes:
Transmission, conservation et mediation des saviors: la curation 脿 l鈥櫯搖vre / Transmitting, Conserving, and Mediating Knowledge: Curation at Work. Eds. Dawn Cornelio and Pascale Perraudin. Special issue of Crossways Journal No 4.1 (2021), (Forthcoming November 2021)
Transnational Inquiries : Representing Postcolonial Violence and Cultures of Struggles. Eds. Pascale Perraudin, Basuli Deb and Annedith Schneider. Special issue of Postcolonial Text (Canada) 7.1 (2012). .
Current book projects:
Family Secrets: Contemporary French-Algerian Fiction and the Struggle for Memory. I examine how contemporary authors position themselves in relation to memory and earlier framings of the French-Algerian War. Authors under consideration all have a personal connection to the war, either as direct witness at the time of their childhood, or as heir, through their family ties. I focus on how authors use personal history, family archives, mementos and photographs to retrieve and curate stories of the past in their personal narratives.
鈥淐e que j鈥檃i v茅cu鈥︹�� 2018-1954: Un enfant de la guerre d鈥橝lg茅rie. I conducted an interview
of a former student鈥檚 father who experienced the French-Algerian War as a child. This
man, an Algerian citizen in his 60s, is now recounting his memories to me, in front
of his daughter (in her 20s), for the first time. By doing so, he breaks a long silence.
In offering his story to her daughter, this interview bridges several generations
within the same family by providing a story that children (of the person interviewed)
did not know. It also brings to the fore how some historical photographs have been
used and re-used in narratives that have taken shape in the aftermath of the war,
as well as in today鈥檚 narratives. It also highlights some political and cultural perspectives
about key events that occurred during the war and after the war.
Recent articles and book chapters:
芦 La carte postale disparue : brouillons d鈥檜ne histoire singuli猫re. 禄 in Image and Narrative N0 23.1 (January 2022),
芦 Essai sur la curation et ses singularit茅s. 禄 in Transmission, conservation et m茅diation des savoirs : la curation 脿 l鈥櫯搖vre / Transmitting, Conserving, and Mediating Knowledge: Curation at Work (Special Issue), Crossways Journal No 4.1 (2021), (November 2021)
鈥淗istoire, m茅moire, image. A rebours du clich茅 de la guerre d鈥橝lg茅rie dans Des hommes de Laurent Mauvignier鈥�, in Repr茅sentations de la guerre d鈥檌nd茅pendance alg茅rienne, Ed. Maya Boutaghou. Classiques Garnier, 2019, p. 81-98.
鈥淐urating the self: du dispositif au d茅cloisonnement des m茅moires dans Entendez-vous dans les montagnes鈥�鈥�, in Ma茂ssa Bey: deux d茅cennies de cr茅ativit茅. Ed. Houda Hamdi. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2019, p.151-172.
鈥淔iction(s) de nation et interculturalit茅鈥� (Fiction(s) of Nation and Interculturality).
Special Issue: Contemporary Intercultural Dynamics. Eds. Magord, Andr茅 and Ariane
Le Moing. International Journal of Cultural Research, 3 (16): November 2014, pages 42-47 [ISSN 2079-1100]
Recent lectures:
鈥淐urating the Colonial Past: The lost Postcard and its Afterlives.鈥� Women and Gender Studies, Brown Bag Series, 茄子视频. October 13,, 2021.
鈥淐uration : cr茅ation et critique performative. 鈥� Session on 鈥淟es 茅crivain.e.s 脿 l鈥櫭╮e du virtuel: curation, sites, blogs, e-mus茅es. 38th Annual 20th & 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Virtual Colloquium (Georgetown University), March 12, 2021.
鈥淐arte postale et histoires famili猫res : vers une curation de la m茅moire de la Guerre d鈥橝lg茅rie. 禄 International Colloquium on 鈥楥irculation des cartes postales dans la culture visuelle et litt茅raire,鈥� may 10, 2021, Virtual Format (Hosted by Universit茅 de Lille, France and ), Universit茅 Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
鈥淭ransnational Quests: Memory, Justice, and Dominant narratives.鈥� Virtual Study Days: Algerian and Anglophone Cultures and Literatures: Encounters and (Inter)Connections. May 24-25, 2021. University of Guelma, Algeria.
鈥淐urating Colonial Legacies: Reconfiguring spaces of the Self.鈥� Part of a double panel I co-organized on 鈥淚mages of the Self and Images of Others: The Metaphor of Curation in and about the Arts.鈥� for Women In French, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference. (El Paso, TX, October 2019)
鈥淟itt茅rature ha茂tienne avec Lyonel Trouillot.鈥� Webster University, (MO), November 19 2019
鈥淒e p猫re en fille : envoi, carte et feuille de route critique. De mon dispositif critique 脿 Ma茂ssa Bey.鈥� RMMLA 2018 (Cheyenne, Wyoming, October 2018)
鈥淒茅part, trahison et exil: (d茅s)int茅gration spatiale et qu锚te d鈥檌nclusion chez Zahia Rahmani.鈥� Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (Spokane, WA October 2017).
"Non-lieux dans la m茅moire alg茅rienne de Cixous." at the Midwest Modern Language Association on November 12, 2016 (St Louis, MO)
"L'Alg茅rie et la m茅moire (in)hospitali猫re chez Cixous." Women in French: Legacy, Mediation and Experience; Writing Transgenerational Memory in Contemporary French and Francophone Literatures (Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Salt Lake City, October 6, 2016)
"Cherchez la femme! Film, Postcolonialisme et Histoire." Women in French Teaching Roundtable, at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language association, Salt Lake City, October 7, 2016.
鈥淎 conversation with Ma茂ssa Bey.鈥� Roundtable with Algerian author Ma茂ssa Bey at the International Colloquium of Twentieth and Twenty-first century French and Francophone Studies (Saint Louis, MO) in March 2016.
鈥淭he Challenges of Cultural Integration in France鈥� American Association of Teachers of French in St Louis (February 6, 2016).
鈥淧r茅-textes, annexes et destin茅es, ou pour une performance de la m茅moire transg茅n茅rationnelle chez Ma茂ssa Bey 禄. Session on Transgenerational Contemporary Francophone Literature (organized by Women In French session), Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference, Santa Fe, NM, October 8, 2015.
鈥淐harlie Hebdo and the Untold Narrative of the Colonial Past.鈥� Keynote Panel on Legacies of Migration, Languages, Literature, and Culture Student Symposium, 茄子视频, March 28, 2015
鈥淎 rebours de la m茅moire ill茅gitime: Guerre d鈥橝lg茅rie et secrets transg茅n茅rationnels.鈥� Panel on Exposure and Concealment: Family Secrets in Contemporary French and Francophone Literatures, Women in French. RMMLA, October 9, 2014. Boise, Idaho.
Honors and Awards
- Innovative Teaching Fellowship, Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, 茄子视频 for project to redesign course 鈥淔rench and International Relations鈥� (Fall 2017)
- Fellowship at the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity鈥檚 (NCFDD) Faculty Success Program (Spring 2019
Community Work and Service
- Assistant Editor for The French Review, The journal for the American Association of Teachers of French.
- Board Director of The Alliance Fran莽aise of Saint Louis, (May 2021-May 2016)
- International Institute: volunteer