Assistant Professor of French

410-617-2612
asthomas@loyola.edu
Office: 351H Maryland Hall 

Education

• New York University, BA, Comparative Literature
• Columbia University, MA, MPhil, PhD, French and Romance Philology

Research and Teaching Interests

• 19th - 21st Century French and Francophone Literature
• Adaptation
• Textual History and Criticism

Recent Courses Taught at Loyola University Maryland

• FR104 Intermediate French II
• FR216 Exploring the Text
• FR340 The Text and the Screen
• FR360 Topics in French Theatre—20^th century
• FR359 The Fantastic 19^th Century

Lectures and Presentations

Presentations at Scholarly Conferences

• Twentieth-and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies, "Ghelderode, Cixous, and the Evolution of the Human Puppet." University of San Francisco, March 30-April 2, 2011.
• Nineteenth Century French Studies (NCFS), "Multi-Authorship and Hugo's Les Misérables." Yale University, October 14-16, 2010.
• Twentieth-and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies, "Michel de Ghelderode, the Wooster Group, and postmodernist revisions of La Tentation de saint Antoine."  University of Guelph, March 25-27, 2010. 
• European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS), "Maeterlinck's L'Oiseau bleu, from Moscow to Hollywood." 6th International Conference, Brussels, Belgium, November 19-21, 2009.
• Twentieth-and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies, "Maeterlinck's L'Oiseau bleu, Hollywood and Textual Instability." University of Minnesota, March 25-27, 2009.
• Nineteenth Century French Studies (NCFS), "Lautréamont in the Pléiade." 33rd Annual Colloquium, Mobile, AL, October 18-20, 2007.
• Association des Amis Passés Présents et Futurs d'lsidore Ducasse (AAPPFID), John Cage et Les Chants de Maldoror pulvérisés par l'assistance même." 8th Bi-Annual Colloquium, Barcelona, Spain, November 22-25, 2006.
• Nineteenth Century French Studies (NCFS), "La Jeune Belgigue and the Invention of Lautréamont." 32nd Annual Colloquium, Bloomington, IN, October 19-21, 2006. 

Service, Activities, and Memberships in Academic Societies

Service: College Activities (Representative assignments)

• Education for Life 2011-2012
• Academic Senate 2010-2011
• French Club Moderator 2009- Present

Memberships in Academic Societies

• Modern Language Association
• American Association of Teachers of French
• Greater Washington Association of Teachers of Foreign Language

Publications

Articles:

• “Michel de Ghelderode, the Wooster Group, and postmodernist revisions of La Tentation de saint Antoine.” Orbis Litterarum 67.2 (April 2012) 136-153.
• “Michel de Ghelderode, the Wooster Group, and postmodernist revisions of La Tentation de saint Antoine.” Orbis Litterarum (forthcoming 2011).
•  “Maeterlinck’s L’Oiseau bleu, Hollywood and Textual Instability.” Neophilologus (October 2009).
• “John Cage et Lautréamont pulvérisés par l’assistance même.” Lautréamont, L’autre de la Littérature. Actes du 8^e colloque international des Amis Passés Présents et Futurs d’Isidore Ducasse. Cahiers Lautréamont 77 (2007): 209-217.

Book Reviews: 

• Review of Le Roman symboliste: un art de l’“extrême conscience” by Valérie Michelet Jacquod. Geneva: Droz, 2008. Romanic Review (forthcoming 2012).
• Review of Ducasse et Lautréamont: L’envers et l’endroit, by Michel Pierssens. Tusson: Presses universitaires de Vincennes et du Lérot, 2005. Romanic Review (May 2009).