Karen McPherson associate professor Contact info: Office:FR 224 Phone: (541) 346-4048 ksmcpher@uoregon.edu Degrees, years, and locations: B.A., 1979, Oregon; M.A., 1983, Ph.D., 1987, Yale. (1998) Research and teaching interests: Francophone literatures (Québec, Caribbean), modern French novel, feminist theory, gender studies, memory and mourning, autobiography, postcolonial literatures       Photo by Catherine Perry 2006 Courses taught 2007-2008 Fall French 150 Cultural Legacies of France French 199 College Connections: Antiquité/Modernité FIG French 497-597 Francophone Women’s Writing: The Writing of Loss Winter French 303 Identités francophones French 607 Contemporary Quebec Novel   Professional activities: President, Conseil International d'Études Francophones CIEF 2005-2007 (serving as Past President 2007-2009) Editorial Board, /Nouvelles Études Francophones/ Women in French (WIF) Regional Representative for Western U.S. and Western Canada http://ipfw.edu/ilcs/wif/ vita link [see attached] Publications:

Books:
Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future: Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing (McGill-Queen's UP 2006) For more about this book
Incriminations: Guilty Women/Telling Stories (Princeton UP 1994) http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5485.html

Articles:
"Since Yesterday: Nicole Brossard's Writing After Loss." /Nicole Brossard: Essays on Her Works/. Guernica Editions, 2004.

"Maryse Condé's /Desirada /: The Myth of an Origin." /MaComère /6, 2004.

"The Future of Memory in Louise Dupré's /La memoria/." /Doing Gender: Franco-Canadian Women Writers of the 1990s. /Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001.

Encyclopedia entry on Louky Bersianik’s La Main tranchante du symbole. Textes et essais féministes. Forthcoming in Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires du Québec, tome VIII (1986-1990)