Michel Lantelme (Ph.D Emory University, 1996) is a Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics. He served as French section Coordinator (2004-2007), and is currently Chair of the MLLL Scholarship Committee. His research and teaching specialties include 20th-century and Contemporary French Literature, Critical Theory, and 20th-century European Culture and Identity. He is Editor in Chief of Revue André Malraux Review, an international and bilingual academic journal devoted to French writer, Art historian, and Minister of Culture André Malraux. In 2007, he received the Cecil W. Woods Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Foreign Modern Languages.
Publications:
Lire Jean Rouaud, Armand Colin, coll. "Écrivains au présent", 2009.
Le Roman contemporain. Janus postmoderne, L'Harmattan, coll. "Critiques littéraires", 2008.
Écrivains de la préhistoire, Presses Universitaires de Toulouse-Le Mirail, 2004, co-edited.
Malraux. Portrait avec mains, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2003; recording of the interview with the French National Public Radio available online at http://www.radiofrance.fr
Petits Coins. Lieux de mémoire, Revue des Sciences humaines #261, 2001, co-edited.
La Grande pitié des monuments de France, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 1998.
Michel Lantelme has delivered lectures in Northern Ireland, Malta, Romania, Canada, Italy, and France (Cultural Center of Cerisy, Ministère de la Culture, Collège International de Philosophie, La Sorbonne, Rencontres de la Ducherais). He has published articles in André Malraux Review, Critique, Qantara, Romantisme, Jean Giono, The French Review, Roman 20/50, Revue des Sciences Humaines, The Romanic Review, Women in French Studies on authors such as Giono, Balzac, Lyotard, Malraux, Genet, Boudjedra, Chedid, Darrieussecq, Redonnet, Chevillard, and Rouaud.
Revue André Malraux Review:
RAMR # 37: Numéro spécial Quarantenaire, 2010
RAMR # 36: Malraux et les valeurs spirituelles du XXIe siècle (II), 2009.
RAMR # 35: Malraux et les valeurs spirituelles du XXIe siècle (I), 2008
RAMR # 34: Malraux en Corée, 2007
(contributions by Jacques Jouet and Jean Rouaud)
RAMR # 33: Figures de l'altérité, 2006
(contributions by Maryse Condé and Rachid Boudjedra)
For information regarding subscriptions, calls for contributions, and format of submissions, please consult the website: http://www.revueandremalraux.com
Work in progress:
Dictionnaire Malraux, under contract with Les Classiques Garnier.
RAMR # 38 (will include a contribution by Yves Ravey)
Michel Lantelme will be delivering two lectures on contemporary French literature, one in June in Aix en Provence, France, and one in the Fall at the SCMLA in Forth Worth, TX.
Teaching:
Michel Lantelme has recently directed Master's theses on Rachid Boudjedra, Marie Redonnet, the representation of French colonial policy in Algeria (Bazin, Roy, Genet), Honor's theses on Semprun/Levi, Tournier, and a McNair research project on Belghoul/Begag. He is currently directing a Dissertation on Beur literature, a Master's thesis on Jean Rouaud, and an Honor's thesis on Kerchouche. In Fall 2010, he will be teaching 20th-century French Prose, and 20th-century European Culture & Identity.
