Linda Orr, Professor Emeritus

20th Century Literature, History, Culture, Memory, in palrticular 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.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	205 Languages Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3100
Email Address:

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 palrticular 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.

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

Conferences Organized

• Algerian Women, Religion, and Literature, Organizer, August-October 2003