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Linda Orr, Professor, Romance Studies; French

Contact Info:

Office Location:	217C Language Bldg.
Office Phone:	919-660-3127, 919-660-3100
Email Address:

Office Hours:

Spring 2005 - On Leave

Education:

Ph.D.	Yale University	1971
Certificat de littérature française, license,	Université de Montpellier, France	1966
BA	Duke University	1965

Specialties:

French

Research Interests:

20th Century Literature, History, Culture, Memory, in particular the German Occupation of France (women, children in war, the body, Resistance); "Assimilation" of North Africans in France; the Relationship of France to its former colony and protectorates in North Africa; contemporary politics. 19th Century literature, historiography, history and culture: novels, memoirs, essays.

Keywords:

Europe • France • Literature • War • Memory • Colonialism • Historiography

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Anna E Navrotskaya  

Recent Publications

1. When History and Fiction are Mixed Up: A presentation of my book on Jean Zay and his family (1980's), edited by David Harlan, Rethinking History (Accepted, 2006)
2. The New History, in Columbia Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Thought, edited by Lawrence Kritzman (Accepted, 2005)
3. The Assassination of Jean Zay (2004), Under review with two French publishers: Editions verticales, Editions complexe  [abs]
4. Me and Not Me: The Narrator of Critical and Historical Fiction, in Confessions of the Critics, edited by H. Aram Veeser (1996), pp. 148-156, New York: Routledge

Linda Orr received her PhD in 1971 from Yale. She has published Headless History: Nineteenth-Century French Historiography of the Revolution (Cornell, 1990) and Jules Michelet: Nature, History and Language (Cornell, 1976). She has essays in Eloquent Obsessions: Writing Cultural Criticism (1994) and A New Philosophy of History (1995). She is finishing a manuscript on a French family during the German occupation of France, concerned with the problems of history and memory. Parts of this new book have appeared in Céline, U.S.A. (SAQ, Spring 1994) and in Confessions of the Critics (1996). She teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, history and culture.