French Faculty

John Ireland,Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Ellen McClure,Associate Professor,Director of Undergraduate Studies

Margaret Miner,Associate Professor.

Sanja Perovic, Assistant Professor

Elizabeth Dolly Weber,Clinical Assistant Professor

Sage Goellner,Visiting Assistant Professor

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John Ireland
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies,French,
Associate Head of Department. Ph.D., New York University.

Contact Details :
Location : 1611 UH
Phone No :312-996-4974
Email id : jireland@uic.edu

Major Interests:
Twentieth-century theater and prose, avant-garde theory and practice,
theater and theatricality, Sartre and existentialism, French Canadian literature, film, critical theory.

Selected Publications:

Jean-Paul Sartre, Kean, « Le Pari », Bariona (with Michel Rybalka) in Théâtre complet. Ed. Michel Contat. Paris: Gallimard (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade). 2005, 1,602 pages.

« Le Kean de Sartre : personnage ou concept ? », Genesis 25.5 (2005): 31-46.

« Jean-Paul Sartre », Twentieth-Century French Dramatists, ed. Mary Anne O’Neill. Dictionary of Literary Biography no.321 (2005): 334-352.

“Sartre and Scarry: Bodies and Phantom Pain”, in Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 231 (2005) : 85-106.

« Poétique et engagement: l'écriture quantique d'Armand Gatti ». Europe. 877 (2002): 34-50.

"History, Utopia and the Concentration Camp in the Early Plays of Armand Gatti". In Claude Schumacher, ed., Staging the Holocaust: The Shoah in Drama and Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1998, 184-202.

"A Speculum in the Text: Freud's "Katharina" and Maupassant's "Le Signe."" MLN. 113.5 (1998): 1089-1110.

"Freedom as Passion: Sartre's Mystery Plays." Theatre Journal. 50.3 (1998): 335-348.

"Sartre's Last Chance or What is Unfinished Literature?" Romanic Review 85.3 (1994): 419-436.

Sartre : Un Art déloyal – théâtralité et engagement. Paris: Editions Place (coll. "Surfaces"), 1994, 238 pages.

"Monstrous Writing: Serge Doubrovsky's Autofiction". Genre 26.1 (1993). Guest Editor and Contributor.

Fellowships/Awards/Honors:

Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

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Ellen McClure
Associate Professor.
Ph.D., University of Michigan; B.A. Swarthmore College.

Contact Details :
Location : 1713 UH
Phone No : 312-996-5588
Email id : ellenmc@uic.edu

Major Interests:
17th-century French literature, politics and religion

Selected Works:

• Sunspots and the Sun King: Sovereignty and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century France (University of Illinois Press, 2006).
• “Cartesian Modernity and La Princesse de Clèves,” forthcoming.
• “Lieu Tenant: Diplomacy and Dementia in Racine’s Andromaque,” Intersections: Actes de Hanover (Tübingen, Biblio 17, 2005).
• “Sovereign Love and Atomism in Racine’s Bérénice,” Philosophy and Literature, 27 (2003).
• “Une parfaite et sincère bonne correspondance et amitié: French-Turkish Trade and Artistic Exchange in Molière’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme,” in Romanic Review 90.2 (1999)

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Fellowships/Awards:

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (Newberry Library)

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Margaret Miner
Associate Professor, French.
Ph.D. Yale, M. Phil., Yale, B.A. Carleton College

Contact Details :
Location : 1617 UH
Phone No : 312-996-3229
Email id : mminer@uic.edu

Major Interests:
19th-century French literature, music and literature, poetry and poetics,the fantastic,Baudelaire studies.

Selected Works:

Resonant Gaps: Between Baudelaire and Wagner. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1995.

"Fantastic Taste: Delphine de Girardin's Contes d'une vieille fille." Forthcoming in Dix-Neuf: Journal of the society of dix-Neuviémistes. Special issue on Delphine de Girardin, edited by Catherine Nesci.

“Some Notes on the Navigation of Fragments: Baudelaire’s Music.” In Baudelairean Discourses. Ed. Sonya Stephens. Forthcoming.

“Music and Theatre.” In The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire. Ed. Rosemary Lloyd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 145-63.

"(S)(m)othering Baudelaire." In Baudelaire and His Heirs: The Poetics of Modernity. Ed. Patricia A. Ward and Marc Froment-Meurice. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2001. 157-171.

"Devouring Streets: Jules Janin and the Abjection of Paris." MLN 113 (1998): 780-811.

"Fur In My Brain: Baudelaire's 'Le Chat.'" In Understanding "Les Fleurs du mal": Critical Readings. Ed. William J. Thompson. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1997. 95-108.

"Music in the City: Fragments of Open Air," Nineteenth-Century French Studies 23.3-4 (1995). 384-396.

"Music Obscured: Mallarmé's Hermetic Mandore." Dalhousie French Studies 33 (1995). 35-54.

"Phantoms of Genius: Women and the Fantastic in the Opera-House Mystery."19th-Century Music 18.2 (1994). 121-135.

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Sanja Perovic
Assistant Professor
PhD Stanford University

Contact Details

Major Interests:
XVIIIth century French literature and comparative literature

Selected Publications:
"Le Cadavre Exquis: The Origins of Tragic Drama in Racine's Bajazet." New Literary History 36.3.
"The Volcanic Guillotine: Revolutionary Theater and Marie-Antoinette." Under review for PMLA.

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Elizabeth Dolly Weber
Clinical Assistant Professor, French
Director, French Basic Language Program
Ph.D., M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.A., Oberlin.

Contact Details :
Location : 1627 UH
Phone No : 312-996-3224
Email id : edweber@uic.edu

Major Interests:
Medieval literature; hagiography; foreign language methodology and pedagogy.

Selected Works:
• Co-author, Mise en scène: Cinéma et Lecture (Pearson 2005).

Honors/Awards:
Friends of the Library research grant; UIC Humanities Seed Grant; Association for Religion and Intellectual Life research grant

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Sage Goellner
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D.,UW-Madison

Contact Details
Location : 1619 UH
Phone No : 312-413-4927
Email id : goellner@uic.edu

Research interests:
Francophone literature, North African literature and culture,
nineteenth-century French literature, women’s writing, literary theory

Selected publication:

“Assia Djebar and Eugène Fromentin’s Haoua: Cultural Betrayal and Intertextual Transformation.” Equinoxes Graduate Journal of French and Francophone Studies. Brown University. Winter, 2004.
Awards: African Literatures Association Award, 2004.

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