{"id":2,"date":"2011-09-15T15:01:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T15:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/bmartin\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2011-09-15T15:05:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T15:05:21","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/bmartin\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>BRIAN MARTIN<\/h2>\n<p>Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature<\/p>\n<h3>Experience and Expertise<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Areas of Expertise and Interest:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nineteenth-Century French Novel<\/li>\n<li>Twentieth-Century French Fiction and Film<\/li>\n<li>Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Studies<\/li>\n<li>Nordic Literature from Scandinavia to Qu\u00e9bec<\/li>\n<li>Military History, Literature, Sexuality (Gays in the Military)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Previous Academic Appointments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2004-2009, Assistant Professor, French and Comparative Literature, Williams College<\/li>\n<li>1999-2000, Lecturer, English and American Literature, \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure (Fontenay-aux-Roses, France)<\/li>\n<li>1998-2004, Teaching Fellow, French Language and English Literature, Harvard<\/li>\n<li>1995-1996, Teaching Assistant<em>,\u00a0<\/em>Comparative Literature, UCLA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Education and Teaching<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D. (2003) Harvard University, French Language and Literature<\/li>\n<li>A.M. (1999) Harvard University,\u00a0French Language and Literature<\/li>\n<li>M.A. (1996) University of California Los Angeles,\u00a0Comparative Literature (French, English, and Scandinavian Literatures)<\/li>\n<li>A.B. (1993) Harvard University,\u00a0French and English Literature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Study Abroad:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, Paris, France (1999-2000)<\/li>\n<li>Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, Sweden (1993-1994)<\/li>\n<li>Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden (Summer 2010)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Williams Courses Taught<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.williams.edu\/catalog.php?&amp;offered=Y&amp;subj=RLFR\" target=\"_blank\">RLFR<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.williams.edu\/catalog.php?&amp;offered=Y&amp;subj=COMP\" target=\"_blank\">COMP<\/a>)<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to French Language and Francophone Cultures<\/li>\n<li>Intermediate Studies in French Language and Francophone Cultures<\/li>\n<li>War and Resistance: Two Centuries of War Literature in France<\/li>\n<li>Paris on Fire: Incendiary Voices from the City of Light<\/li>\n<li>Sexuality and Seduction in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century France<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Nineteenth-Century Novel: From Desperate Housewives to Extreme Makeovers<\/li>\n<li>Adversity and Modernity in the the Twentieth-Century Novel<\/li>\n<li>Contemporary Queer Cinema in France<\/li>\n<li>Formidable French Film from France, Morocco, and Qu\u00e9bec<\/li>\n<li>Nordic Lights: Literary and Cultural Diversity in Modern Scandinavia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Theses Advised:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thammika Prim Songkaeo, \u201cFestive Orgies: Zola\u2019s\u00a0<em>L\u2019Assommoir<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Le Ventre de Paris<\/em>\u201d (Williams, 2011) \u00a0(In Progress)<\/li>\n<li>Colleen Farrell, \u201cEpidemic Politics: Representation and Resistance in the First Decade of AIDS\u201d\u00a0(Williams, 2010) \u00a0(Second Reader)<\/li>\n<li>Annabel Kim, \u201cDu corps au corpus: l\u2019\u00e9criture de l\u2019Holocauste dans\u00a0<em>Aucun de nous ne reviendra\u00a0<\/em>de\u00a0Charlotte Delbo \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 et\u00a0<em>La Nuit\u00a0<\/em>d\u2019\u00c9lie Wiesel\u201d (Williams, 2007)<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Hutchinson, \u201cFulfilling Forbidden Desire: Gide\u2019s\u00a0<em>L\u2019Immoraliste<\/em>\u00a0and Mann\u2019s\u00a0<em>Der Tod in Venedig<\/em>\u201d (Williams, 2006)<\/li>\n<li>Mary Ziegler, \u201cDangerous Imaginings in Trollope\u2019s\u00a0<em>Can You Forgive Her<\/em>\u00a0and Flaubert\u2019s\u00a0<em>Madame Bovary<\/em>\u201d (Harvard, 2004)<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Clarke, \u201cContemporary French Paternity in Mathieu Kassovitz\u2019s\u00a0<em>M\u00e9tisse, La Haine,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Assassins<\/em>\u201d (Harvard, 2004)<\/li>\n<li>Katherine Wagner, \u201cLifting the Veil:\u00a0<em>Beurette<\/em>\u00a0Politics, Literature, and Cinema in France, 1980-1999\u201d (Harvard, 2001)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications and Scholarship<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Book:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Napoleonic Friendship:\u00a0<\/em><em>Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France<\/em><br \/>\n(Hanover and Durham: University Press of New England and University of New Hampshire Press, 2010).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upne.com\/1-58465-923-8.html\"><strong>http:\/\/www.upne.com\/1-58465-923-8.html<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(keyword \u201cNapoleonic Friendship\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Articles, Chapters, Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cFrom Balzac to Iraq: Soldiers, Veterans, and Military Adaptation,\u201d\u00a0<em>The Comparatist<\/em>\u00a030 (May 2006): 68-80.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGoing to Pieces: Paul Monette and the Fragments of the Tribe,\u201d\u00a0<em>Journal of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity<\/em>1.1 (January 1996): 21-35.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPanthers, Palms, and Desert Passions: Balzac and Napoleon in Egypt,\u201d\u00a0<em>Queer Exoticism<\/em>, eds. David A. Powell and Tamara Powell (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) 47-62.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCorporal Affairs: French Military Fiction from Zola to Proust,\u201d\u00a0<em>The Future of Beauty<\/em>,\u00a0ed. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2005) 103-122.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCultural Formations of Masculinity in North America,\u201d\u00a0<em>Routledge International\u00a0Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities<\/em>,\u00a0eds. Michael Flood et al. (New York: Routledge, 2007) 113-17.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBrothers,\u201d\u00a0<em>Routledge International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities<\/em>,\u00a0eds. Michael Flood et al. (New York: Routledge, 2007) 50-51.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cConscripts and Convicts,\u201d Review of\u00a0<em>Biribi\u2028: Les bagnes coloniaux de l\u2019arm\u00e9e fran\u00e7aise<\/em>,\u00a0by Dominique Kalifa (Paris: Perrin, 2009),<em>Contemporary French Civilization<\/em>\u00a034.2\u00a0(Summer 2010): 221-25.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCaron\u2019s Queer and Jewish Paris,\u201d Review of\u00a0<em>My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community<\/em>, by\u00a0David Caron\u00a0(Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2009),\u00a0<em>South Central Review<\/em>\u00a027.3 (Spring 2011). Forthcoming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Invited Lectures:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cGays in the French Military: From Napoleon to the First World War,\u201d Williams College, Faculty Lecture Series, March 2011. (Upcoming)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA Tale of Two Napoleons: Homoeroticism and French Military Literature,\u201d Vassar College, Department of French and Francophone Studies, September 2009.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDisastrous Love: Soldiers and Sexuality in Zola\u2019s\u00a0<em>La D\u00e9b\u00e2cle<\/em>,\u201d Bucknell University, French and Francophone Studies Program, September 2009.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBeyond Blond: Diversity in Modern Scandinavia,\u201d Williams College, International Studies Colloquium, April 2009.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCavalry Couples and Military Mates: Balzac\u2019s Napoleonic Veterans,\u201d New York University,\u00a0 French Nineteenth-Century Colloquium, April 2006.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSoldiers and Sexuality: Military Masculinity in Napoleonic France,\u201d Williams College, Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program, Faculty Lecture Series, March 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recent Conference Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMen and Bears: Hybridity, Masculinity, Sexuality,\u201d 20<sup>th<\/sup>-21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Century French and Francophone Studies Colloquium, University of San Francisco, March 2011. (Upcoming)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWho Queers? Radical Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France,\u201d Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium (NCFS), Yale University, October 2010.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSobbing into his Soup: Napoleon, Friendship, and Loss,\u201d Modern Language Association (MLA), Philadelphia, PA, December 2009.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cArmy of Bachelors: Combat Buddies from the Empire to the Restoration,\u201d Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium (NCFS), Brigham Young University, October 2009.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGlobal Balzac: Orientalism, Eroticism, and Desire,\u201d American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Harvard University, March 2009.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLumbering Legends: Paul Bunyan and Jos Montferrand,\u201d Hofstra University Symposium on Queer Iconography, November 2008.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFraternit\u00e9 foresti\u00e8re: l\u2019imaginaire litt\u00e9raire du b\u00fbcheron au Qu\u00e9bec,\u201d American Council for Qu\u00e9bec Studies (ACQS) Biannual Conference, Qu\u00e9bec, Qu\u00e9bec, November 2008.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNapoleonic Friendship and Colonial Conquest,\u201d Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium (NCFS), Vanderbilt University, October 2008.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cB\u00fbcheron Butch: Bear Culture, Lumber Lore, and Francophone Fantasy,\u201d \u2018Rhetoric of the Other\u2019 Conference, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, March 2008.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSympathetic Sergeants and Bivouac Bedfellows,\u201d Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium (NCFS), Mobile AL, October 2007.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDesert Passions and Colonial Sexploitation: Balzac and Napoleon in Egypt,\u201d Hofstra University Symposium on Queer Exoticism, October 2007.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFamily Vacations and Seaside Romance: Queer Families in Contemporary French Film,\u201d 20<sup>th<\/sup>-21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Century French and Francophone Studies Colloquium, Texas A&amp;M, March 2007.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTerroristes ou patriotes: guerre et r\u00e9sistance cin\u00e9matographiques au Qu\u00e9bec,\u201d American\u00a0 Council for Qu\u00e9bec Studies (ACQS) Biannual Conference, Cambridge MA, October 2006.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cP\u00e8res de familles: origines cin\u00e9matographiques de la paternit\u00e9 homosexuelle,\u201d \u2018Hypervisibit\u00e9(s) queer au cin\u00e9ma francophone,\u2019 Universit\u00e9 Concordia, Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, June 2006.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFrom \u2018Gay Paris\u2019 to \u2018Gay Famille\u2019: Emerging Queer Families in New French Film,\u201d American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Princeton University, March 2006.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNapoleon Wept: Military Friendship and Masculine Affection in France,\u201d Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium (NCFS), University of Texas Austin, October 2005.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBalzac in Baghdad: Military Adaptation and Imperial Conquest,\u201d American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Pennsylvania State University, March 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fellowships and Grants:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>French American Cultural Exchange Grants, from FACE (New York), French Embassy (Washington), and Ministry of Culture (Paris) to fund five French Film Festivals at Williams, 2006-2010.<\/li>\n<li>Hellman Foundation Fellows Grant, for research in France, 2007-2008.<\/li>\n<li>Whiting Foundation Fellowship, for research in France and Qu\u00e9bec, 2007-2008.<\/li>\n<li>Qu\u00e9bec Studies Program Grant, from Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Government, for new research in Qu\u00e9bec, 2007-2008.<\/li>\n<li>Stanford University Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2004-2006 (declined).<\/li>\n<li>Wesleyan University Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2004-2005 (declined).<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Humanities Center Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 2002-2003.<\/li>\n<li>Krupp Foundation-Gunzburg Center for European Studies Fellowship, 2000.<\/li>\n<li>\u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure Fellowship, 1999-2000.<\/li>\n<li>Harvard\u00a0Edmund J. Curley Graduate Fellowship, 1999-2000.<\/li>\n<li>Harvard\u00a0Romance Languages Graduate Fellowship, 1996-1998.<\/li>\n<li>UCLA Pauley Graduate Fellowship, 1994-1996.<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Frederick Sheldon Fellowship, for a year of study in France, 1993 (declined).<\/li>\n<li>Fulbright Scholarship, for a year of study in Sweden, 1993-1994.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Williams Service<\/h3>\n<p><strong>French Film Festivals<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Secrecy and Scandal: Clandestine Lives and Passions in New French Film,\u00a0<\/em>2011. (Upcoming)<\/li>\n<li><em>Faith, Hope, Identity: Religious\/Cultural Diversity in Contemporary French Film<\/em>, 2010.<\/li>\n<li><em>Critical Visions: New Film from Francophone Africa<\/em>, 2009.<\/li>\n<li><em>In the Best of Families: Domestic Drama in New French and Francophone Film<\/em>, 2007.<\/li>\n<li><em>Beyond the Femme Fatale: Leading Women in New French and Francophone Film,\u00a0<\/em>2006.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Invited Lecturers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robyn Ochs, Feminism and Bisexuality, April 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Isabel Roche, Hugo\u2019s\u00a0<em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>, April 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Kate Kendel, Diversity in Denmark, February 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Tom Conley, French Film, February 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Allan B\u00e9rub\u00e9, Gays in the Military, April 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Alice Jardine, Twenty-First Century Feminism, February 2006.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Contemporary France Forum<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cFrance in Revolt: The Labor Strikes that Shut Down the Nation,\u201d November 2010.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCrisis in the Caribbean: The French Antilles and the Global Economic Crisis in France,\u201d March 2009.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSarkozy and S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne: Debating the French Presidential Elections,\u201d May 2007.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cParis is Burning: Recent Race Riots in France,\u201d November 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Faculty Committees<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Multicultural Center (MCC) Director Search Committee (Spring 2010)<\/li>\n<li>Committee on Educational Policy (CEP) (2009 to present)<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Advisory Committee (2005 to present)<\/li>\n<li>Dively Committee for Human Sexuality and Diversity (2004 to present. Chair, 2010 to present.)<\/li>\n<li>Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Advisory Committee (2004-2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRIAN MARTIN Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature Experience and Expertise Areas of Expertise and Interest: Nineteenth-Century French Novel Twentieth-Century French Fiction and Film Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Studies Nordic Literature from Scandinavia to Qu\u00e9bec Military History, Literature, Sexuality &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/bmartin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/bmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/bmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/bmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/bmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/bmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/bmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/bmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/bmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}