The Department of French and Italian

invites you to a lecture by

 

Françoise Lionnet
Professor and Chair
French and Francophone Studies
UCLA
 

"From Simone de Beauvoir to Coline Serreau: Feminism, Francophone Studies, & Postcolonial Theory"

 

October 14, 2004

at 4:15pm
McCune Conference Room,
HSSB 6020

A reception will follow

 

Professor Lionnet's research and teaching interests include Comparative and Francophone literatures, postcolonial studies, autobiography, and race and gender studies. She is Co-Director with Shu-mei Shih for the Multicampus Research Group on Transnational and Transcolonial Studies. Her publications include: Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (Cornell, 1989); Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity (Cornell, 1995); and Minor Transnationalism, co-edited with Shu-mei Shih (forthcoming Duke University Press, 2004).

 

Professor Lionnet will speak about Coline Serreau's movie, Chaos (http://www.sosfemmes.com/infos/infos_archive4_chaos.htm#hautpage) The movie Chaos,will be screened on October 12, 6:30pm, Kerr Hall, Studio B.

 For information, call the Department of French and Italian

at (805) 893-3111, or write to: lolly@french-ital.ucsb.edu