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E-mail Dr. Parrat

M.A. in English Linguistics and French Literature, University of Zurich (Switzerland), 1998; Ph.D. in French Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 2004.
     In her dissertation entitled “Zola’s Woman as Unnatural Animal,” Dr. Parrat studied how certain female characters in Zola’s novels question the received notion about the human-animal border and the related distinction between the male and the female, using Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s notion of becoming-animal.
     Dr. Parrat is interested in 19th century and 20th century French literature, feminist theory and literary theory, and contemporary French-language literature of Switzerland. In the summer, she taught at the Ecole française of Middlebury College (2004), at the Cours d’été of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2005-2007), and she co-directed the FSU French Intensive Program in Paris (2008).

Publications:

• “A la recherché d’une identité littéraire suisse romande: le cas de Bovard et ses Nains de jardin.” Forthcoming in Francographies (2009).
• “The Mythical Theory of Impregnation in Zola’s Madeleine Férat and L’Assommoir.” West Virginia University Philological Papers 52, “Constructing and Deconstructing Motherhood in Literature and Film,” (2006): 45-51.
• “Becoming-Animal and the Ethics of Evil/Truth in Zola’s Albine and Désirée.” Excavatio: Emile Zola and Naturalism XIX (2004): 76-88.