Faculty Profile

Marie-Denise Shelton, Ph.D.
Professor

E-mail: marie-denise.shelton@claremontmckenna.edu
Phone: (909) 607-3456
Campus Address: Roberts North 218

Departments:

Educational Background

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Teaching Interests

  • Modern French Literature
  • African & Caribbean Literature and Cinema
  • Caribbean Society and Culture

Research Interests

  • Caribbean Literature; Haitian Literature; Women Writers; Modern French Literature

Selected Professional Activities

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)

Selected Research and Publications

  • Borders/Exiles/Diaspora, eds. E. Barkan and Marie-Denise Shelton, Stanford University Press, 1998.
  • Image de la société dans le roman haitien, L'Harmattan, Paris, France, 1993
  • "Imagining the Haitian Revolution: The Caribbean Perspective", Sargasso, Univ. of Puerto Rico, October 2007
  • "Voice and Theater in Ton beau capitaine & Mémoire d'Isles", Journal of Caribbean Literatures, 2006
  • "Ecriture de l'Histoire", Women in French Studies, Special Issue 2005
  • "Le défi théâtral dans L'Antigone Créole et la Tragédie du Roi Christophe",Boutures,Février 2000.
  • "Identité créole et mémoire", Haitian Studies Journal, UC Santa Barbara, Spring 1999.
  • "La problématique de l'espace dans l'oeuvre de Marie Chauvet", Notre Librairie, Paris, Janvier 1998.
  • "Primitive Self: Colonial Impulses in Leiris' l'Afrique Fantome" in Prehistories of the Future, ed. E. Barkan & R. Bush, Stanford University Press, 1995
  • "Le nouveau cri" in A History of Literature in the Caribbean, ed. Arnold, A. James, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1994
  • "Condé: The Politics of Gender and Identity", World Literature Today, Nov. 1993
  • "Haitian Women Writers", Callaloo, October 1992
  • "Literature Extracted: a poetic of daily life" in Callaloo, March 1992
  • "Caribbean Women Writers in French" in Caribbean Women Writers, ed. Selwyn Cudjoe, Massachussetts Univ. Press, 1990.
  • "Une église contre l'Eglise", Contemporary French Civilization, Vol. IX, #2, 1985
  • "Le Monde noir dans la littérature dadaiste et surréaliste", The French Review, Vol. 57, #3, 1984.
  • "Une poesie contre les colonialismes", David Diop Temoignages - Etudes, Presence Africaine, 1983
  • (Other articles and reviews on French and Francophone Literature)