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Adrianna M. Paliyenko
Professor of French
French and Italian- Department Chair



Phone: 207-859-4656
Email:
ampaliye@colby.edu

Mailing Address:
4656 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8846

Office Hours:
MWF 9-10; F 11-12 and by appt

Semester Schedule

Areas of Expertise:
  • 19th- and 20th-century French poetry, including women's contributions
  • Literary history and the poetics of influence
  • Gender and genius
  • Theories of creativity
  • Literature and medicine
  • Feminism and psychoanalysis
  • 19th-Century Francophone Studies; women and the colonial archive
  • Caribbean Studies
  • View Curriculum Vitae

    Current Research

    Genius Envy: The Anxiety of Women's Poetic Influence in Post-Revolutionary France (book)

    Gender and Race: Romantic-Era Women and French Colonial Memory Special Issue of L'Esprit Créateur (Winter 2007)

    “Discovering Sarah, Rethinking the Tragic Romance of
    Marceline Desbordes-Valmore’s Reception” (article)

    “The Literary Frames of Ourika, Then and Now” (article)

    Mme A. Cashin, Amour et liberté: l'abolition de l'esclavage, suivi d'un choix de poèmes (critical edition; L'Harmattan)

    Publications

    Paliyenko publications

    Anaïs Ségalas, Récits des Antilles: Le Bois de la Soufrière, suivis d'un choix de poèmes. Ed. Adrianna M. Paliyenko. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2004.

    Mis-reading the Creative Impulse: The Poetic Subject in Rimbaud and Claudel, Restaged. Southern Illinois UP, 1997.

    "Collaboration Matters: Sparking a Connection between French Literary and Cultural Studies." Modern French Literary Studies in the Classroom: Pedagogical Strategies. Ed. Charles J. Stivale. New York: MLA, 2004. 74-83.

    "Nineteenth-Century French Women Poets: An Exceptional Legacy" (co-authored with Aimée Boutin, Florida State University). French and Francophone Women, 16th-21st Centuries: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society with Bibliographical and Media Resources. Spec. issue of Women in French Studies. Eds. Catherine Montfort and Marie-Christine Koop. (October 2002): 77-109.

    "Women, Poetry, and the Nature of Genius: Exceptional Creativity." EXCAVATIO 16.1-2 (2002): 244-257.

    "Apollinaire and Dada : Influence Matters." PARIS DADA: The Barbarians Storm the Gates, ed. Elmer Peterson. Volume VI. Crisis in the Arts: The History of Dada. Eds. Stephen C. Foster and Elmer Peterson. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, Inc., 2001. 67-94.

    Articles on "Caroline Commanville" (68), "Suzanne Lagier" (191), "Madame Lapierre" (192-93), "Mlle Leroyer de Chantepie" (198), and "Louise Pradier" (259-60). A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia. Ed. Laurence M. Porter. Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood P, 2001.

    "In the Shadow of Eve: Marie Krysinska and the Force of Poetic Desire." Women Seeking Expression: France 1789-1914, Eds. Rosemary Lloyd and Brian Nelson. Monash Romance Studies 6. Melbourne: Monash Romance Studies, 2000. 159-179.

    "(Re)placing Women in French Poetic History: The Romantic Legacy:" Spec. issue of Symposium 53.4 (Winter 2000): 261-282.

    "Is a Woman Poet Born or Made?: Discourse of Maternity in Louise Ackermann and Louisa Siefert." L’Esprit Créateur 39.2 (Summer 1999): 52-63.

    "Postmodern Turns Against the Cartesian Subject: Descartes’ "I," Lacan's Other." Feminist Interpretations of Descartes. Ed. Susan Bordo. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1999. 141-166.

    Entries on "Louise Ackermann," "Louisa Siefert." and "Marie Krysinska." The Feminist Companion to French Literature, ed. Eva Martin Sartori, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood P, 1999.

    "Re-reading la femme poète: Rimbaud and Louisa Siefert." Nineteenth-Century French Studies 26.1-2 (Fall/Winter 1997- 1998): 146-160.

    "Dream-work in Rimbaud's Illuminations: The Scene of the Other in Bottom." Romanic Review 86.4 (Nov 1995): 697-706.

    "Rereading Breton's Debt to Apollinaire: Surrealism and Aesthetics of Creative Imaging." Romance Quarterly 42.1 (Winter 1995): 18-27.

    "Margins of Madness and Creativity: Nineteenth-Century French Psychiatric and Literary Discourses on the Dream." Dreams in French Literature: The Persistent Voice. Ed. Tom Conner.Amsterdam-Atlanta, Georgia: Editions Rodopi, 1995: 173-198.

    "The Dialogic 'je' in Rimbaud's Illuminations: The Subject of Self and Other." French Forum 19 (Sept 1994): 261-277.

    "Discourse of the Self and Rimbaud's Lettres du voyant: Alterity as a Creative Dialectic." Nineteenth-Century French Studies 22.1/2 (Fall/Winter 1993-94): 434-448.

    "Rimbaud and Claudel: Literary Paternity and the Anxiety of Influence." Claudel Studies 18.1 (March 1991): 37-48.

    Paliyenko website

    http://www.colby.edu/~ampaliye/