ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR'S BIO

Dawn Marlan, Associate Director, Humanities Laboratory, earned her Ph.D.
in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago, specializing in the
English, French, and German novel. Between 1989 and 1996 she taught courses and/or
tutorials in English and Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola University Chicago,
the Illinois Institute of Technology, the Newberry Library, and Bennington College in Paris.
She is teaching at the Field Museum this semester (fall 2002) for Sander Gilman's
Humanities Laboratory course on the cultural history of jewelry.

Between 1994 and 1997 she was an Associate Fiction Editor for the Chicago Review, and
became one of the Fiction Editors from 1997-1998. She has presented at the MMLA for
the Comparative Literature panel in 1995; her talk was entitled, "Between Proust and Freud:
the Masochistic Pendulum." Most recently, she has begun to develop a documentary film
for the Humanities Lab with filmmaker/producer, Laurie Feldman, on the cultural history of
smoking.

Her publications include:

• "Emblems of Emptiness: Smoking as a Way of Life in Jean Eustache's La Maman et La Putain,"
  forthcoming in Smoking: A Cultural History, Reaktion Press
  
• a forthcoming book review of Melanie Hawthorne's Rachilde and French Women's Authorship:
  From Decadence to Modernism for Modernism/Modernit
  
• eleven book reviews of new novels in the Chicago Tribune between April and June of 2001
  
• "The Seducer as Friend: The Disappearance of Sex as a Sign of Conquest in Les liaisons dangereuses,"
  in PMLA, March 2001
  
• a review article on Prozac Nation and Girl, Interrupted in the Chicago Review, Vol. 42. No. 1.