Christophe M Wall-Romana

Contact Me

wallr007@umn.edu
612-626-8016

French & Italian
303E FolH

9 Pleasant St SE

Affiliations

• French and Italian
• Liberal Arts: Moving Image Studies Graduate Minor

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: French, University of California, Berkeley, 2005.

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

• 19th- & 20th-century French literature and thought
• Modern French poetry
• French cinema
• Silent cinema
• Modern French philosophy and theory
• Translation studies
• Media history

Courses Taught

• FREN 8270 Aisthesis in French Theory
• FREN 8250 Prose Poetry, Modernism and Media
• FREN 5350 Surrealism: Writing, Art, Film, Sex, Politics
• FREN 5301 Temporary Communities in French Cinema
• FREN 5301 Whatever Happened to Poetics?
• FRIT 3850 Poetic Realism, Neorealism and Film Noir
• FREN 3650 Early French Film Culture
• FREN 3250 Poetry and the Invention of Experience
• FREN 3350 Scientific-Fantastic Literature of the Fin-de-Sií¨cle

Publications

• Wall-Romana, Christophe M. Jean Epstein. Manchester UP, 2011.
• Wall-Romana, Christophe M. Cinepoetry: Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry, 1890-2008. under review
• "Une Source du verset moderne: le cinéma muet," í‰tudes littéraires 40:1 (2009) 121-136
• Danielle Collobert's Aux environs d'un film: Poetic Writing on the Brink of Cinema. Wall-Romana, Christophe, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 9(3), Author, 2005.
• Mallarmé's Cinepoetics: The Poem Uncoiled by the Cinématographe, 1893-98. Wall-Romana, Christophe, PMLA 120.1(1): 128-147, Author, 2005.
• "Urbain's Ironic Use of the Word Orientalisme in 1837". Wall-Romana, Christophe, French Studies Bulletin, 90, 2004.
• "Jean Wahl" in The Companion to Modern French Thought. Wall-Romana, Christophe, Routlegde, 2004.

Awards

• McKnight Land Grant Professorship, 2007 - 2009
• Berkeley Graduate Fellowship, 2000 - 2003
• Mellon Fellowship for Humanistic Studies, 1999 - 2000
• Judith Stronach Prize for Poetry, 1999