Kathryn St. Ours

Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures

Van Meter 154
410-337-6335
kathryn.stours@goucher.edu

Education

B.A. (French and Italian), University of Pittsburgh
M.A.T., University of Pittsburgh
M.A., Ph.D. (Romance Languages and Literatures/ French, Italian and Spanish), The Catholic University of America

Areas of Scholarly Expertise and Interest

Literature and ecology (Ecocriticism), 19th and 20th century French Literature, contemporary Italian cinema, the secular sacred

Recent Publications/Presentations/Performances

"The Time-Image from Pasolini to Ciprì and Maresco." Romance Notes 51:2 (2011): 191-8.

"Le devenir-animal chez Jean-Loup Trassard." Hybrides et monstres. Editions de l'Université de Dijon, 2011, 85-90.

“A ecocritical study of The Story of the Weeping Camel.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 18:2 (2011): 396-412.

"Le regard de l'animal chez Derrida et Trassard." Les genres littéraires. Special issue of Revue Romane 45:2 (2010) : 317-29.

“Decolonizing the imagination in the early novels of Valerio Evangelisti.” Romance Notes 49:2 (2009): 247-54.

“Uccellacci and uccellini and the ambiguities of Bahktin’s carnival.” Forum Italicum (fall 2009): 418-31.

“Pasolini’s tecnica sacrale in Pasolini’s Accattone.” Lingua Romana 6:1 (fall, 2007). online, peer-reviewed publication.

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2012  Pour une ethnologie écopoétique.Colloque Jean-Loup Trassard.Université de Pau.

2011  Interanimality in the works of Jean-Loup Trassard.Reading nature Conference.Universisdad Complutense de Madrid.

2011  Mirroring in Merleau-Ponty, Trassard and Rizzolatti. International Colloquium: Human-Animal/Humain-Animal. University of San Francisco.

2010  Le devenir-animal chez Jean-Loup Trassard. Hybrides, monstres et autres aliens dans la littérature des XXe-XXIe siècles. Roehampton University - Animalittérature and CNRS/Paris III - British Comparative Literature Association. University of London.

2010  The religious and the scatological in Ciprì and Maresco.Conference on Modern Italian Cinema. Warwick University, England.

2009  Heresy and religion in the films of Ciprì and Maresco. South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, Georgia.

 

 

             

Awards/Significant Accomplishments

Participant, National Humanities Center Seminar on Human Nature, 2008