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Alain-Philippe Durand

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Alain-Philippe Durand est Professeur des Universités (Littérature française et comparée, études cinématographiques) à l’Université de Rhode Island, USA depuis 1999. Il est Directeur du programme en études françaises et francophones. Il est l’auteur de nombreux articles et de quatre livres : Black, Blanc, Beur. Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture in the Francophone World (Scarecrow Press, 2002); Un Monde Techno. Nouveaux espaces électroniques dans le roman français des années 1980 et 1990 (Weidler, 2004) ; Novels of the Contemporary Extreme, en collaboration avec Naomi Mandel (Continuum, 2006) ; et Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles (Rodopi, 2008).

EDUCATION

1999 Ph.D., French Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thèse: Nouveaux espaces électroniques dans le roman français des années 1980 et 1990 (Directeur: Yves de la Quérière) Minor: Luso-Brazilian Studies
1995 M.A., Latin American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Thesis: French Travelers in Argentina and Brazil in the XIXth Century Director: Charles Stansifer
1994 M.A. With Honors, French Literature, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
1992 B.A. Cum Laude, French, Spanish, Business Administration, Emporia State U, KS

PUBLICATIONS

Livres

Le Jorge Amado français/The French Jorge Amado. In preparation.
Un Monde Techno. Nouveaux espaces électroniques dans le roman français des années 1980 et 1990. Préface de Marc Augé. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlag, 2004.
Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles. Amsterdam: Rodopi CRIN Series, 2008.
Novels of the Contemporary Extreme. (Co-Edited with Naomi Mandel). London & New York: Continuum, 2006.
Black, Blanc, Beur: Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture in the Francophone World. Foreword by Adam Krims. Lanham, MD.: Scarecrow P, 2002.

Chapitres

“Introduction.” Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles. Ed. Alain-Philippe Durand. Amsterdam: Rodopi CRIN Series, 2008. 7-9.
“Défense de Narcisse.” Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles. Ed. Alain-Philippe Durand. Amsterdam: Rodopi CRIN Series, 2008. 61-71.
“Entretien avec Frédéric Beigbeder.” Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles. Ed. Alain-Philippe Durand. Amsterdam: Rodopi CRIN Series, 2008. 17-37.
“Exhiber la violence de l’événement: l’exemple du onze septembre.” Violence et écriture, violence de l’affect, voix de l’écriture. Eds. Sandrine Bazile et Gérard Peylet. Collection Eidôlon (81). Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2008. 365-75.
“Pascal Bruckner et Michel Houellebecq. Deux transécrivains au milieu du monde.” Michel Houellebecq sous la loupe. Eds. Murielle Lucie Clément and Sabine van Wesemael. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 153-67.
“Introduction” (with Naomi Mandel). Novels of the Contemporary Extreme. Eds. Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel. London & New York: Continuum, 2006. 1-8.
“Beyond the Extreme: Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World.” Novels of the Contemporary Extreme. Eds. Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel. London & New York: Continuum, 2006. 109-20.
“Sensitive Stomachs: Culinary Anecdotes From French Travelers in Latin America.” Homage to Alexander von Humboldt. Travel Literature to and from Latin America XV Through XXI Centuries. Ed. Lilianet Brintrup. Oaxaca, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de Oaxaca, 2005. 373-81.
“Marseille.” Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Vol. VII Europe. Eds. John Shepherd, David Horn, and Dave Laing. Continuum, 2005. 181-83.
“Jorge Amado.” Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 307. Brazilian Writers. Eds. Monica Rector and Fred Clark. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli, 2004. 26-39.

Articles

“Jorge Amado and Albert Camus: Formative Literary Visions and Prewar Politics” (Co-Authored with Ralph Schoolcraft III). PMLA 124.3 (2009): 918-25.
“Liter@ry Semin@rs: The Interactive Contemporary French Novel.” ADFL Bulletin 39.2 (2008): 56-60.
“De l’interprétation des musiques électroniques dans la littérature française contemporaine.” L’Esprit créateur 47.2 (2007): 138-49.
“Des supporters fans de hip-hop.” Contemporary French Civilization 30.1 (2006): 141-68.
“Report on the AATF National Survey of Graduate Studies in French/Francophone Culture and Civilization (FFCC).” The French Review 77.1 (2003): 126-39.
“La Mondovision.” The French Review 76.3 (2003): 534-44.
“Understanding and Overcoming the Telephone Interview.” ADFL Bulletin 34.1 (2002): 47-50.
“Lucien Chardon - de Rubempré: Champion du Monde en titre(s).” Romance Quarterly 48.4 (2001): 250-56.
“Les Envahisseurs. Sur La Télévision de Jean-Philippe Toussaint.” L’Atelier du Roman 26 (2001): 130-36.
“Le français est la langue des champions.” AATF National Bulletin 26.2 (2000): 17-19.
“Quatre mariages et deux enterrements: Helena de Machado de Assis.” Romance Notes 41.1 (2000): 97-104.
“Le côté de Belleville: Négociation de l’espace migratoire chez Calixthe Beyala.” Etudes Francophones 15.2 (1999): 53-65.
“Discothèques. Sur Sphinx d’Anne Garréta.” L’Atelier du Roman 18 (1999): 126-34.
“Le Troisième texte.” Romance Languages Annual 9 (1998): 46-52.
“Le rire est le propre de l’homme: le texte de Rabelais comme satire Ménippée.” Romance Notes 38.2 (1998): 179-89.
“Grassou et Frenhofer: Chef d’oeuvre connu ou inconnu?” Romance Quarterly 44.3 (1997): 131-42.
“Le monde d’O físico prodigioso selon Girard.” Romance Notes 37.2 (1997): 207-16.
“French Graduate Studies and the Multicultural Hope.” Transculture: Interpretations and Applications of Cultural Studies in the Languages 1.2 (1996): 101-103.
“L’importance des lieux et de l’espace dans Bajazet.” Chimères 22.1 (1995): 37-45.
“Le Reflet de Julien.” Chimères 21.1 (1994): 31-33.

Recensions

Marcyliena Morgan. The Real Hip Hop: Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the LA Underground. Duke UP, 2009. Choice Aug. 2009.
William Jelani Cobb. To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic. New York: New York UP, 2007. Choice Sept. 2007.
Franc Schuerewegen. Balzac, suite et fin. Lyon: ENS Editions, 2004. Nineteenth Century French Studies 35.2 (2007): 486-87.
Guy Tournaye. Le Décodeur. Paris: Gallimard, 2005. The French Review 80.6 (2007): 1424-25.
Sabine van Wesemael, ed. Michel Houellebecq. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004. The French Review 80.1 (2006): 222-23.
Imani Perry. Prophets of the Hood. Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop. Durham: Duke UP, 2004. Choice Sept. 2005.
David Foenkinos. Le potentiel érotique de ma femme. Paris: Gallimard, 2004. The French Review 79.5 (2006): 1095-96.
David Beriss. Black Skins, French Voices. Caribbean Ethnicity and Activism in Urban France. Boulder, CO: Westview P, 2004. The French Review 79.3 (2006): 654-55.
Murielle Lucie Clément. Houellebecq, Sperme et sang. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003. The French Review 79.2 (2005): 422-23.
Takao Kashiwagi, éd. Balzac, romancier du regard. Saint-Genouph: Nizet, 2002. The French Review 79.2 (2005): 414-15.
Mohammed Dib. L.A. trip. Paris: La Différence, 2003. The French Review 78.4 (2005): 812-14.
Mohammed Dib. Simorgh. Paris: Albin Michel, 2003. The French Review 78.4 (2005): 812-14.
Lucienne Frappier-Mazur et Jean-Marie Roulin, éds. L’Erotique Balzacienne. Paris: SEDES, 2001. The French Review 78.2 (2004): 371-72.
L’Année Balzacienne 2002: Génétique balzacienne. Paris: PUF, 2002. Nineteenth-Century French Studies 33.1-2 (2004-2005): 191-93.
Claudie Bernard et Franc Schuerewegen, éds. Balzac, Pater Familias. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2001. The French Review 77.4 (2004): 786-87.
René de Ceccatty. Fiction douce. Paris: Seuil, 2002. The French Review 77.3 (2004): 615.
Christian Oster. Dans le train. Paris: Minuit, 2002. The French Review 77.2 (2003): 424-25.
Tanguy Viel. L’Absolue Perfection du crime. Paris: Minuit, 2001. The French Review 76.2 (2002): 445-46.
Stéphane Vachon, éd. Honoré de Balzac. Mémoire de la critique. Paris: Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1999. Nineteenth-Century French Studies 30.3-4 (2002): 394-96.
Laurent Mauvignier. Apprendre à finir. Paris: Minuit, 2000. The French Review 75.3 (2002): 644-45.
Janell Watson. Literature and Material Culture From Balzac to Proust. New York: Cambridge UP, 1999. Romance Quarterly 49.1 (2002): 76-78.
Jean-Yves Cendrey. Les petites sœurs de sang. Paris: L’Olivier, 1999. The French Review 74.3 (2001): 591-92.
Timothy Unwin, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997. Romance Quarterly 47.2 (2000): 115-17.
Norman Buford, ed. French Literature in/and the City. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997. Romance Quarterly 47.3 (2000): 181-82.
L’Année Balzacienne 1998. Paris: PUF, 1998. The French Review 73.4 (2000): 745.
Peter Fysh and Jim Wolfreys. The Politics of Racism in France. New York: St. Martin’s P, 1998. The French Review 73.6 (2000): 1243-44.
Mohammed Dib. Si Diable veut. Paris: Albin Michel, 1998. The French Review 73.6 (2000): 1255-56.
Robert Soucy. French Fascism: The Second Wave, 1933-1939. New Haven: Yale UP, 1995. The French Review 72.5 (1999): 966-67.
Robert Pinget. Taches d’encre. Paris: Minuit, 1997. The French Review 72.5 (1999): 942.
Les Représentations de l’Affaire Dreyfus dans la presse en France et à l’étranger. Tours: Publications de l’Université François Rabelais, 1997. The French Review 72.2 (1998): 347-48.
L’Année Balzacienne 1996. Paris: PUF, 1996. The French Review 71.5 (1998): 843-44.
L’Année Balzacienne 1995. Paris: PUF, 1996. The French Review 71.4 (1998): 662-63.
Christopher Rivers. Face Value: Physiognomical Thought and the Legible Body in Marivaux, Lavater, Balzac, Gautier, and Zola. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1994. Romance Quarterly 45.1 (1998): 62-63.
Claude Duchet et Isabelle Tournier, éds. Genèses des fins. De Balzac à Beckett, de Michelet à Ponge. Manuscrits Modernes. Paris: PU de Vincennes, U. de Paris VIII, 1996. Nineteenth-Century French Studies 26.1-2 (1997): 221-22.

CONFERENCES INVITEES

“Don’t Bother With French.” 3 Oct. 2009. Plenary Lecture to the AATF section of the Rhode Island Foreign Language Association. RIFLA Annual Conference, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI.
“Thématiques et éthiques du 11 septembre dans le roman contemporain.” 23 March 2009. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis, Brazil.
“Specificities of American Institutions of Higher Education,” to students enrolled in Licence [*] of English. 18 Dec. 2008. U of Le Havre, France.
“Non-Fiction Writing Tips Through Alain-Philippe Durand’s Chapter ‘Beyond the Extreme: F. Beigbeder’s Windows on the World,” to students enrolled in Licence [*] of English. 17 Dec. 2008. U of Le Havre, France.
“Des romanciers en faveur du non-lieu,” 16 Dec. 2008. Groupe de Recherches Identités et Culture (GRIC), U of Le Havre, France.
“La Bahia de Jorge Amado,” to students enrolled in the Master of International Business program. 15 Dec. 2008. U of Le Havre, France.
“Panorama de la présence française au Brésil,” to students enrolled in the Master of International Business program. 15 Dec. 2008. U of Le Havre, France.
“La carrière de Professeur des Universités aux Etats-Unis,” to students enrolled in the Licence [*] of Communication Studies. 12 Dec. 2008. U of Le Havre, France.
“Le Victor Hugo Brésilien,” 11 Dec. 2008. Groupe de Recherches Identités et Culture (GRIC), U of Le Havre, France.
“The French Jorge Amado.” 5 Nov. 2008. Center for the Humanities, University of Rhode Island.
“Cultural Landscapes in the Contemporary French Novel.” Keynote address given to the opening seminar of the Master Erasmus Mundus MacLands. 17 Oct. 2008. Hundisburg Castle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. 
“French Studies in America Today.” Institute for American Universities. 10 Oct. 2008. Aix-en-Provence, France.
“Jorge Amado en France.” 20 March 2008. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis, Brazil.
“Introduction au roman français contemporain.” 19 March 2008. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis, Brazil.
“Novels of the Contemporary Extreme” with Naomi Mandel. 19 September 2007. Read/Write Series, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.
“De l’interprétation des musiques électroniques dans la littérature française contemporaine.” 12 April 2007. Professional French Masters Program. Dept. of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
“Why Send Your Kids to a French School?” 3 May 2006. French American School of Rhode Island (FASRI), Providence, RI. 
“Le Jorge Amado français.” Séminaire Vérité et Fiction. 13 March 2006. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France.
“La littérature peut-elle transcrire l’ineffable?” Séminaire du Centre d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (C.A.M.C.). 13 March 2006. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France.
“The Challenges of Writing (or not) in the Context of New York City’s 9/11.” 10 February 2006. Great Cities in Literature, Film and Language Context Spring Lecture Series. University of Illinois at Chicago.
“Les dieux du stade.” 15 December 2005. Professional French Masters Program. Dept. of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 
“Tifos and Capos: MCeeing and DJeeing Taken to New Grounds.” 14 February 2005. School of Modern Languages, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
“L’indicible.” 9 February 2005. Dept. of French, Oberlin College, Ohio.
“From Paris to Mars and Beyond: The French Side of Rap Music.” 23 October 2004. Black Atlantic. Travelling Cultures, Counter-Histories, and Networked Identities. House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany.
“Rap the (Francophone) World.” 22 April 2004. Plenary Lecture. Connelly Center, Villanova University.
“Les Rappeurs de la République.” 2 October 2003. Professional French Masters Program. Dept. of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
“MC France.” 19 October 2002. Plenary Lecture to the AATF section of the Rhode Island Foreign Language Association. RIFLA Annual Conference, Community College of Rhode Island, Warwick, RI.
“Get up To speed on Postmodernism.” 20 March 2002. Symposium Organized by the URI Honors Program during Prof. Fredric Jameson’s visit on campus (2002 URI Foundation Distinguished Scholar).
“Le Roman techno.” 4 April 2001. Dept. of French and Italian, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
“La vie (académique) est un long fleuve tranquille parfois semé d’embûches.” 4 October 2001. Lecture given to the graduate students of the course “Introduction to French Graduate Studies” in the department of French and Italian at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Université Blaise Pascal, Dept. de Français, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Guest Lecturer, 7-10 March 2000. Presented the three following graduate seminars to the graduate students of the French Literature program Lettres Modernes: “L’œuvre de Patrick Grainville” “Les cultures électroniques contemporaines” “Les romanciers des années 1990” “Black, Blanc, Beur: Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture in Contemporary France.” 24 February 2000. Multicultural Center Lecture Series. Multicultural Center, University of Rhode Island.

CONFERENCES

“Kiosques à journaux, salons de coiffure et fromageries chez Jorge Amado.” International Colloquium L’esprit des lieux. 10-12 March, 2010. Maison des Sciences de l’homme, LAPRIL, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, Bordeaux, France.
“Un brésilien à Paris – Représentation d’un nouvel espace discursif chez Jorge Amado.” 16 Sept. 2009. International Colloquium Representações recíprocas nos discursos francófonos e lusófonos, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“The BA in French, Don’t Leave URI Without It !” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention. 12 April 2008. Buffalo, NY.
“Frédéric Beigbeder’s Truth(s) or Dare(s).” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. 22 February 2008. University of Louisville, KY.
“Réappropriation du quotidien et anthropologie littéraire dans Navegação de cabotagem de Jorge Amado.” 3 August 2007. XVIIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“Défense de Narcisse (Frédéric Beigbeder).” 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. 23 March 2007. Texas A&M University, College Station.
“Exhiber la violence de l’événement: l’exemple du 11 septembre.” International Colloquium Violence et Ecriture. 9 December 2006. Maison des Sciences de l’homme, LAPRIL, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, Bordeaux, France.
“Pascal Bruckner et Michel Houellebecq: Omnipotence du désir.” 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. 1 April 2006. University of Miami.
“Liter@ry Semin@rs: The Interactive Contemporary French Novel.” 29 December 2005. Modern Language Association (MLA), Washington D.C.
“L’extrême avec vue.” 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. 1 April 2005. University of Florida, Gainesville.
“Beyond the Extreme: Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World and Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Who Killed Daniel Pearl? ”American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference. 15-18 April 2004. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
“Des Supporters fans de hip-hop”. 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. 3 April 2004. Florida State University, Tallahassee.
“Echantillonnages et collages dans l’œuvre de Patrick Bouvet” 20th - Century French Studies International Colloquium. 29 March 2003. University of Illinois, Urbana.
“Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s T.V. Junkies.” International Congress of the German Semiotics Association, “Body – Embodiment – Disembodiment.” 19 July 2002. University of Kassel, Germany.
“I Could Not Fit French Into My Schedule!” 13 July 2002. American Association of Teachers of French Convention. Boston, MA.
“Des écrivains pris dans la toile.” 12 July 2002. American Association of Teachers of French Convention. Boston, MA.
“Le Roman techno: le cas de Frédéric Beigbeder.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. 19 April 2002. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
“Télérama.” 20th - / 21st - Century French Studies International Colloquium. 6 April 2002. Hartford, CT.
“Preliminary Report on the AATF National Survey of Graduate Studies in French/Francophone Culture and Civilization (FFCC).” 7 July 2001. American Association of Teachers of French Convention. Denver, Colorado.
“Représentations de la culture hip hop dans le stade Vélodrome de Marseille.” 6 July 2001. American Association of Teachers of French Convention. Denver, Colorado.
“The Art of Eating.” 22 June 2001. Alexander von Humboldt Conference. Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA.
“Le Champion du Monde en Titres.” 19 October 2000. Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
“Highbrows and Headless Bodies.” 14 August 2000. International Comparative Literature Association Congress, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.
“Des voyageurs français en Amérique Latine ou les aventures d’estomacs délicats.” 19 February 2000. Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film, and the Other Arts, University of San Antonio, TX.
“Les Envahisseurs.” 28 December 1998. Modern Language Association (MLA), San Francisco, CA.
“Cuisine(s) en images.” 23 October 1998. Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Pennsylvania State University, College Station, PA.
“La mécanique de Jean Renoir.” 10 October 1998. Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
“Abusive Narratives: French Travel Accounts in South America.” 25 September 1998. Latin American Studies Association (LASA), XXI International Congress, Chicago, IL.
“De Le Bon à Le Pen: Un siècle de racialisme français.” 20 November 1997. American Association of Teachers of French, Nashville, TN.
“Le poids des mots, le choc des photos.” 19 October 1997. Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Georgia, Athens.
“Le troisième texte.” 10 October 1997. Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures & Film, West Lafayette, IN.
“Le Disc-Jockey, nouveau maître du monde.” 8 May 1997. Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati.
“Un chef-d’oeuvre inconnu nommé ‘Pierre Grassou’.” 18 April 1997. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
“Ménippe et Rabelais, même combat.” 6 April 1997 (in abstentia). Renaissance Society of America, Vancouver, Canada.
“Janvier 1996: Géant-Casino fait son entrée dans la Revue des Deux Mondes.” 4 April 1997. International Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Ohio State University, Columbus.
“O físico prodigioso According to René Girard.” 19 April 1996. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
“France Today.” 16 January 1996. Executive MBA Program, Kenan-Flager School of Business, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
“Auguste de Saint-Hilaire: un Français dans l’île de Santa Catarina. ” 29 June 1995. Department of French Studies, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.
“Les voyageurs français au Brésil au dix-neuvième siècle.” 27 June 1995. Alliance Française, Florianópolis, Brazil.

POSTES UNIVERSITAIRES

1999-present University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Dept. of English Honors Professor of French, English, and Film Media Head, French and Francophone Studies (2005-present) Interim Director of Film Media (2008-2009) Honors Program Faculty Member (2006-present)
2009-2010 Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
Dec-Feb. Institut für Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Scholar in Residence, Master Erasmus Mundus MacLands
2008-present Universidade Federal da Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
Departamento de Língua e Literatura Estrangeiras Visiting Professor of French and Comparative Literature, every March
2008 Université du Havre, France
Dec. 7-21 Groupe de Recherche Identités et Cultures (GRIC) Faculté des Affaires Internationales Visiting Professor, December 7-21, 2008
March 2006 Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France
Centre d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (CAMC) Scholar in Residence (invited by Prof. Marc Augé)