Karen McPherson

Associate Prof of French

Contact info:

Office: FR 224
Office Hour: Mon. & Wed. 3:30-4:30 and by appointment
Phone: 346-4048
ksmcpher@uoregon.edu
Curriculum Vitae

M.A. Program: French Period 4

Degrees, years, and locations: 

B.A., 1979, Oregon; M.A., 1983, Ph.D., 1987, Yale. (1998) 

Francophone literatures (Québec, Caribbean), modern French novel, feminist theory, gender studies, memory and mourning, autobiography, postcolonial literatures

 Publications      
               Poetry 

Sketching Elise. poetry chapbook. Finishing Line Press (February 2012).

                   Selected Articles, Translations, Reviews and Interviews:
“Elle sera personnage: Nicole Brossard’s writing of the self” (article). Critical Review of Contemporary French Fixxion, fall 2012, Number 4: special issue on Self-fictions.

"L'écriture de l'accompagnement" (essay).  Contre-jour: Louise Warren. De l'attachement. Fall 2012, 75-81.

Excerpts from Delft Blue by Louise Warren. Translated into English by Karen McPherson. Reunion. The Dallas Review, Vol. 2 (2012).

"The Closed Door" (short story) by Louise Dupré. Translated into English by Karen McPherson with introductory essay "Translating Louise Dupré." Translation Studies  82 (fall 2011), 52-58.

"We, unquiet words" (poems) by Louise Warren. Translated into English by Karen McPherson. Saranac Review 7 (2011), 46-49.

“Writing in the language of the other: Nicole Brossard’s La capture du  sombre. ” Women in French Studies, 2011, 125-35.

Encyclopedia entry on Louky Bersianik’s La Main tranchante du symbole. Textes et essais féministes. In Aurélien Boivin (ed.).  Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires du Québec, Tome 8, 1986-1990 (Montréal: Fides, 2011), 518-519.

"Observations" (eleven poems) by Louise Warren. Translated into English by Karen McPherson. Zoland Poetry Journal (spring 2011), 8-10.

"Des Châteaux en Suisse? Switzerland in the Quebec Imagination: Hubert Aquin and Nicole Brossard." In Transatlantic Passages: Literary and Cultural Relations between Quebec and Francophone Europe. Eds. Paula Ruth Gilbert and Miléna Santoro. McGill-Queen's UP, 2010.

Interview with Monique Proulx by Karen McPherson, Miléna Santoro and Galen Bascomb. French Review 83:3 (February 2010).

Review of Violence and the Female Imagination: Quebec Women Writers Re-frame Gender in North American Cultures by Paula Ruth Gilbert. Quebec Studies 48 (fall 2009/winter 2010).

Review of Visions poétiques de Marie-Claire Blais by Janine Ricouart and Roseanna Dufault, eds. Quebec Studies 48 (fall 2009/winter 2010).

Review of La forme et le deuil. Archives du lac by Louise Warren.  American Review of Canadian Studies 39:3 (September 2009).

"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.

Work in Progress               

“Les bouts de la vie et les fins de l’histoire: Marie-Claire Blais’s Naissance de Rebecca à l’ère des tourments” (article)

"Realizing Life: Reflections on aging in the works of Abla Farhoud and Maryse Condé (article)    

Translation into English of Louise Warren’s Archives trilogy (Bleu de Delft. Archives de solitude; Objets du monde. Archives du vivant; La forme et le deuil. Archives du lac) to be published by Guernica Editions in two volumes with critical introductions. The first volume (Delft Blue and Objects of the World) will be published in 2013.                             

Other Literary Activity:

Literary Executor for James Lowell McPherson estate.

Member of Airlie Publishing Collective.