Maria Brewer

mbrewer@umn.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: , Yale University, 1977 -
M.A.: French, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1970 -
B. A.: French, University of the Witwatersrand, 1966 -

Specialties

20th- and 21st-century French literature and critical thought
modern and contemporary theater in France
French theater of the diaspora

Publications

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Publications

Claude Simon: Narrativities Without Narrative. University of Nebraska Press, Brewer, Maria, 1995.
Brewer, Maria. "Surviving Fictions: Gender and Difference in Postmodern and Postnuclear Narrative." Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 9 (1987): 37-52.
Brewer, Maria. "Samuel Beckett: Postmodern Narrative and the Nuclear telos." Boundary 2 15:1-2 (1986-1987): 153-70.
Brewer, Maria. "Parodies, répliques, écritures." Revue des Sciences Humaines 220 (1990): 157-71.
Brewer, Maria. "Performing Theory." Theater Journal 37:1 (1985): 12-30.
Brewer, Maria. "Pour un devenir-archives dans l'oeuvre de Claude Simon." Revue des Lettres Modernes (2005): 31-56.
Brewer, Maria. "(In)Commensurabilities: The Childhood of Events and the Shock of Encounter in Claude Simon." Claude Simon: A Retrospective (2002): 39-60.
Brewer, Maria. "Thresholds of New African Dramaturgies in France Today." Rethinking African Cultural Productions (2014): 29 pp.
Brewer, Maria. "A Loosening of Tongues: From Narrative Economy to Women Writing." MLN (Comparative Literature issue) 99:5 (1984): 1141-61.
Brewer, Maria. "Kossi Efoui: Écritures théâtrales et cérémonies du devenir-visible." Africultures 86 (Le Théâtre de Kossi Efoui: Une poétique du marronnage au pouvoir) (2012): 168-79.
Brewer, Maria. "Bernard-Marie Koltès et Koffi Kwahulé: des théâtres qui respirent ensemble." Africultures (Fratries Kwahulé: Scène contemporaine choeur à corps) 77-78 (2009): 94-104.
Brewer, Maria. "The Banquet and its Aftermath: Reinventions of the Symbolic in Contemporary Theater." Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites 11:3 (2007): 379-87.
Brewer, Maria. "The Thought of Performance: Theatricality, Reference, and Memory in Herbert Blau." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 21:1 (2006): 97-114.
Brewer, Maria. "Samuel Beckett et l’incommensurable: vitesse, honte et compagnie." Lire, écrire la honte (Colloque de Cérisy-la-Salle) (2007).

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Member, Advisory Board, Cahiers Claude Simon 2010 -
Member, Laboratoire SeFeA (Scènes Francophones et Écritures de l'Altérité) at the Institut de Recherche en Études Théâtrales: Poétique du drame moderne et contemporain (Université de Paris3-Sorbonne Nouvelle) 2008 -
Co-Editor: L'Esprit Createur: The International Quarterly of French and Francophone Studies. Fall 2002 - none
Chair: Department of French and Italian, University of Minnesota. 1999 - 2002
Director of Graduate Studies: Department of French and Italian, University of Minnesota. 1994 - 1997
Guest editor (with Judith Preckshot), "Séismes/Seismic Shifts," Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites, 14:4-5 (2010)

Research

New African dramaturgies in France
The invention and symbolic construction of childhood and youth in literature and modern thought
Thresholds of the animal and the human in modern French and Francophone literature and critical theory

Awards

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Awards

Faculty Grant, International Studies and Programs, 2003 - none
Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, awarded by the French government
McKnight Arts and Humanities Fund for International Travel, 1998 - 1999
Ford Folundation Ways of Reading Project in Women's Studies and International Relations, 1996 - 1997
Georges Lurcy Fellowship for Study in France (Yale), 1974 - 1975

Courses

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Courses

Staging Modernity: Problems of 20th-Century Theater
Literature out of Bounds
Narrative, History, Memory
Inventing Childhood in Modernity: Critical Perspectives
Literature and the Making of Modern France
Animal-Human Thresholds in Modern French Literautre