Publications by faculty in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, are collected here. Please note this department was previously known as the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures until January 2021.

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Submissions from 2024

Florine Ebstein Langweil (1861-1958): Championne des arts asiatiques, Elizabeth Emery (2024)

“I Forget Myself with You’’: Challenge-Based Learning in a World Literature Class, Elizabeth Emery (2024)

La Maison de deux artistes: Georges Clemenceau et Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac, Elizabeth Emery (2024)

Introduction: Growing Old in Nineteenth-Century France: Texts, Fictions, and Representations, Elizabeth Emery and Florence Fix (2024)

Introduction: Japonisme and Fashion, Elizabeth Emery and Mei Mei Rado (2024)

Submissions from 2023

Book Review of Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden, editors. Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France, Elizabeth Emery (2023)

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Florine Langweil, marchande et experte d’art asiatique au XIXe siècle, Elizabeth Emery (2023)

The Musée d’Ennery: Visualizing Nineteenth-Century Parisian Networks for the Circulation of East Asian Art, Elizabeth Emery (2023)

Réseaux de sociabilité et japonisme : le cas de Philippe Burty, Elizabeth Emery and Lea Ponchel (2023)

Submissions from 2022

“The Launch of a New Open-Access French-English Database by the Institut national d’histoire de l’art: Connoisseurs, Collectors and Dealers of Asian Art in France, 1700–1939., Antoine Chatelain, Pauline Guyot, and Elizabeth Emery (2022)

Clémence d’Ennery, Elizabeth Emery (2022)

Eglé de Persigny, Elizabeth Emery (2022)

Florine Langweil, Elizabeth Emery (2022)

Hayashi Tadamasa in the United States (1887), Elizabeth Emery (2022)

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Les Phares haïtiens: 19th-Century Haitian Luminaries in Translation, Elizabeth Emery (2022)

L'Usurpateur ou La Soeur du Soleil: Judith Gautier et la fabrication de l'histoire japonaise, Elizabeth Emery (2022)

Madame Hatty, Elizabeth Emery (2022)

Public Medievalism: Fustel de Coulanges and the Case for "Diplomatic Negotiations", Elizabeth Emery (2022)

The ‘Poetry of Old Roofs’: Edith Wharton and the Art of Architecture, Elizabeth Emery (2022)

Louise Desoye, Elizabeth Emery and Mathilde Huet (2022)

Judith Gautier, Elizabeth Emery and Yichao Shi (2022)

Submissions from 2021

A Japoniste Friendship in Translation: Hayashi Tadamasa and Philippe Burty (1878–1890), Elizabeth Emery (2021)

Reanimating Literary House Museums in France: The Homes and Haunts of George Sand and Honoré de Balzac, Elizabeth Emery (2021)

Verlaine en vitrine : la mise en scène d’un « poète maudit » pour Nos Contemporains chez eux., Elizabeth Emery (2021)

Submissions from 2020

Appropriating Japonisme at the 1900 Exposition: Sada Yacco, Loie Fuller, and the ‘Geishas’ of Le Panorama du Tour du Monde, Elizabeth Emery (2020)

Book Review of Willa Silverman, Henri Vever: Champion de l’Art Nouveau, Elizabeth Emery (2020)

Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Elizabeth Emery (2020)

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Madame Chrysanthemum’s Sisters, Elizabeth Emery (2020)

Madame Desoye, "First Woman Importer" of Japanese Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris, Elizabeth Emery (2020)

Meubles: The Ever Mobile Middle Ages, Elizabeth Emery (2020)

« Un bénédictin qui serait très artiste »: Huysmans et la passion du Moyen Âge, Elizabeth Emery (2020)

The Influences of French Medievalism on Victorian Britain, Elizabeth Emery and Janet Marquardt (2020)

Submissions from 2019

L’Éclairage artificiel sur scène (1891-1914): Henri Mairet, la "Nouvelle Photographie" et la valorisation de la mise en scène, Elizabeth Emery (2019)

"Un déjeuner avec M. Maeterlinck": Intermedial Experimentation in Adolphe Brisson's Portraits intimes, Elizabeth Emery (2019)

Un « pèlerinage à l’oracle » : Edith Wharton, Henry James et la patrimonialisation de la maison de George Sand à Nohant, Elizabeth Emery (2019)

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Women Collectors of Japanese Prints: The 1909–14 Paris Expositions des estampes japonaises at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Elizabeth Emery (2019)

Submissions from 2018

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Against ‘Neuronormativity’: ‘Volcanic’ Temperament in Mirbeau’s L’Abbé Jules, Elizabeth Emery (2018)

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“Aux Mères heureuses”: Zola’s Compassion for Working Mothers, Elizabeth Emery (2018)

L’Histoire d’une cathédrale: Viollet-le-Duc’s Nationalist Pedagogy, Elizabeth Emery (2018)

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Reliquaires pervertis. Inscriptions du deuil chez Maupassant, Mirbeau et Rodenbach, Elizabeth Emery (2018)

The Musée d’Ennery and the Shifting Reception of Nineteenth-Century French Chinoiseries, Elizabeth Emery (2018)

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Zola et les réseaux sociaux, Elizabeth Emery (2018)

Beyond Slapstick: Humour, Physicality, and Empathic Performance in G. E. Lessing’s Comedies, Pascale LaFountain (2018)

Reciprocal Reflections: Nostalgia for the Present in Nabokov’s Berlin and Benjamin’s Moscow, Pascale LaFountain (2018)

Submissions from 2017

Disruptive Technology: Social Media from Modiano to Zola and Proust, Elizabeth Emery (2017)

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Le Voile du bonheur : Le brûle-parfum, objet de sociabilité à la fin du XIXe siècle en France, Elizabeth Emery (2017)

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“Methods and Challenges in Deciphering Representations of Authorial Intimacy in Late Nineteenth-Century French Photoreportages.”, Elizabeth Emery (2017)

Viral Marketing: Mariani Wine Testimonials in Early French and American Newspaper Advertising, Elizabeth Emery (2017)

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Matter Pools: Fluidity and Containment in French Decadent Literature: Essays in Honour of Robert E. Ziegler, Jennifer Forrest and Elizabeth Emery (2017)

Transformations and Mutations: The Birth of Italo Calvino's Varianti, Gina M. Miele (2017)

Submissions from 2016

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Gaudeamus igitur: Late Nineteenth-Century French Taverns as a Portal to the Medieval, Elizabeth Emery (2016)

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La Maison Langweil and Women's Exchange of Asian Art in Fin-de-siècle Paris, Elizabeth Emery (2016)

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L’écrivain en pantoufles: Les photoreportages des années 1890, Elizabeth Emery (2016)

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Review: Bak, Geary, and Klaniczay, eds., Manufacturing a Past for the Present, Elizabeth Emery (2016)

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Review of "Cathédrales 1789–1914: Un mythe moderne" by Sylvain Amic and Ségolène Le Men., Elizabeth Emery (2016)

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Une Morte Vivante: Reliquarianism in Rachilde’s "La Dent", Elizabeth Emery (2016)

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Victor Hugo’s Breakfast of Champions, Elizabeth Emery (2016)

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Reply to Richard Trachsler, Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz (2016)

“Darkness, Waiting, Without Speaking”: Fluidity, Subjectivity, and Utopian Space in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Der Fall Franza, Pascale LaFountain (2016)

Submissions from 2015

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Le Berceau de la littérature française: Medieval Storytelling as Child’s Play in Nineteenth-Century France, Elizabeth Emery (2015)

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Medievalism in the Margins: Paratexts and the Packaging of Medieval French Literaturee, Elizabeth Emery (2015)

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Medieval Times: Tournaments and Jousting in Twenty-first Century North America., Elizabeth Emery (2015)

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Retracer le Moyen Âge: Proust et ses « dessins médiévaux », Elizabeth Emery (2015)

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Staging Domesticity in La Revue Illustrée’s Photo‐Interviews: Belle Époque Celebrity Homes in the Periodical Press, Elizabeth Emery (2015)

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Le photojournalisme et la naissance des maisons-musées d'écrivains en France (1881-1914), Elizabeth Emery, Jean Kempf, Christine Kiehl, and Dominique Pety (2015)

Submissions from 2014

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Louisiana-Style Naturalism? Science, Fiction, and Commerce in Duck Dynasty and Swamp People, Elizabeth Emery (2014)

Submissions from 2013

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Le visible et l’invisible: Cluny dans la littérature française du XIXe siècle, Elizabeth Emery (2013)

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Pierre Loti’s ‘Memory’ of the Middle Ages: Feasting on the Gothic, Elizabeth Emery (2013)

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The Corporate Gothic of New York’s Woolworth Building: The Function of Form in the Original ‘Cathedral of Commerce', Elizabeth Emery (2013)

Luigi Capuana, Gina M. Miele (2013)

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Luigi Capuana, C’era una volta … fiabe (1882), Gina M. Miele (2013)

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The Talking Tree, Gina M. Miele (2013)

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Intertextuality, Gina M. Miele, Jennifer Schacker, and Christine A. Jones (2013)

Submissions from 2012

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Dissection or Narrative Surgery?: Medical Inquiry and Writer Confidences in Fin-de-siècle French Magazines, Elizabeth Emery (2012)

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Staging La Fête de Fous et de l'âne in 1898: A Commemoration of the Literary Middle Ages (Villon, Hugo, Cabarets), Elizabeth Emery (2012)

Preface: Thirty Years of Romance Studies, Elizabeth Emery and Lloyd Davies (2012)

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Devising the Global Community: On How Italian American Studies Can Break Forth from the Traditional Learning Community, Gina M. Miele (2012)

Submissions from 2011

Italo Calvino's Spiderlike Web: Caught between Folklore and Literature, Gina M. Miele (2011)

Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature . Translations and Introduction by Robin Pickering-Iazzi . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 180 pages., Gina M. Miele (2011)

Review: Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore, eds., American Woman, Italian Style, Gina M. Miele (2011)

Submissions from 2010

Heteroglossia and Media Theory in Elfriede Jelinek's Die Liebhaberinnen, Pascale LaFountain (2010)

Submissions from 2009

How far is Georgia?: New Jersey's teachers of Italian evaluate their preparation, Enza Antenos (2009)

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Microblogging on Twitter: Social networking in intermediate Italian classes, Enza Antenos (2009)

Medievalism and the Middle Ages, Elizabeth Emery (2009)

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Misunderstood Symbolism: Rereading the Subjective Objects of Robert de Montesquiou’s First Maison d’un artiste, Elizabeth Emery (2009)

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Postcolonial Gothic: The Medievalism of America's "National" Cathedrals, Elizabeth Emery (2009)

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The Martyred Cathedral: American Interpretations of Notre-Dame de Reims after the First World War, Elizabeth Emery (2009)

Luigi Capuana: Unlikely Spinner of Fairy Tales?, Gina M. Miele (2009)

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Solinas Donghi, Beatrice (1923–), Gina M. Miele (2009)

Through the Looking Glass. A Consideration of Luigi Capuana'sFiabe, Gina M. Miele (2009)

Submissions from 2008

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Cédez le passage: A Chronicle of Traveling in France with a Disability, Elizabeth Emery (2008)

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Dornac’s ‘At Home’ Photographs, Relics of French History, Elizabeth Emery (2008)

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Innocenti, Roberto (1940–), Gina M. Miele (2008)

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Pitzorno, Bianca (1942–), Gina M. Miele (2008)

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Piumini, Roberto (1947–), Gina M. Miele (2008)

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Rodari, Gianni (1920-1980), Gina M. Miele (2008)

Submissions from 2007

Beginners' Level Textbooks for Italian in North America: Ten Years Later, Enza Antenos and Gabriella Colussi Arthur (2007)

The Workbook in Elementary Italian Programs, Enza Antenos and Frank Nuessel (2007)

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Art as Passion in Anatole France's Le Lys rouge, Elizabeth Emery (2007)

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Naturalism on Stage: The Performance and Reception of Zola’s Messidor, Elizabeth Emery (2007)