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- Peter Schulman
- Professor
- Foreign Languages & Literatures
- 4010 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-3323
- pschulma@odu.edu
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Education
- Columbia University,
1997
- Major: French and Romance Philology
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Columbia University,
1992
- Major: French
- Degree: M.Phil.
- École Normale Supérieure,
1992
- Degree: Other
- Columbia University,
1989
- Major: French
- Degree: M.A.
- Columbia University,
1988
- Major: French
- Degree: B.A.
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Expertise
- France
- French Culture and Politics / French Cinema and Literature / French, German and Belgium Art and Poetry / French Intellectual
History / Jewish Studies / Contemporary France, notions of eccentricity and individualism
- Hollywood Cinema
- French Culture and Politics / French Cinema and Literature / French, German and Belgium Art and Poetry / French Intellectual
History / Jewish Studies / Contemporary France, notions of eccentricity and individualism
- International Issues
- French Culture and Politics / French Cinema and Literature / French, German and Belgium Art and Poetry / French Intellectual
History / Jewish Studies / Contemporary France, notions of eccentricity and individualism
- World Cinema
- French Culture and Politics / French Cinema and Literature / French, German and Belgium Art and Poetry / French Intellectual
History / Jewish Studies / Contemporary France, notions of eccentricity and individualism
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Books
- Schulman, P. (2002). The Sunday of Fiction: The Modern French Eccentric. Purdue University Press: West Lafayette, Ind: Purdue Studies in Romance Literature.
- Schulman, P., and Zabotin, M. (2001). Le Dernier livre du siècle. Paris: Editions Romillat.
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Book Chapters
- Schulman, P. “Sands of Desire: Lee Miller’s Egyptian Period” in Annalissa Zox-Miller.. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
- Schulman, P. "Représentations de la mort dans la Chine de Claudel et de Verne,".. Saint-Petersbourg: Université d’Etat de St. Petersbourg.
- Schulman, P. (2008). Jules Verne’s ‘Thanatopia’ : Thanatos and Dystopia in Les 500 Millions de la Begum. (pp. 155-167). Essen: Die Blaue Eule.
- Schulman, P. (2007). Alternance de pouvoir chez Jules Verne: L'utopiste et son double. (pp. 83-95). Cairo: Université du Caire.
- Schulman, P. (2006). Le célibataire invisible: Solitude et Fantastique dans Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz. (pp. 246-256). Valenciennes: Presses Universitaires de Valenciennes.
- Schulman, P. (2004). No Room for Squares: Jean-Pierre Melville, Jazz and the French Bachelor. (pp. 139-149). Jazz Adventures in French Culture. Nottingham French Studies.
- Schulman, P. (2002). Soleil noir, encre noir: Les Contemplations ‘zen’ de Céline Zins. (pp. 143-149). Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi.
- Schulman, P. (2000). 'Le Stylo-Caméra': Léo Malet vu par Jacques Tardi. (pp. 523-535). Limoges: P.U.Lim.
- Schulman, P. (1998). L'Evolution du mot 'excentrique' en France: Du lexique à la métaphore. (pp. 175-185). Toronto: Centre d'Etudes Romantiques Joseph Sablé.
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Articles
- Schulman, P. Christian Oster: Flight, Disappearance, and the Modern Bachelor. Francophonia
- Schulman, P. Les réfractaires à l’ère du vide : un retour a l’infraordinaire. Irish Journal of French Studies
- Schulman, P. L’espace du célibataire fantastique: Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz (An abridged version of "L’espace du célibataire invisible:
Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz"). La Revue Jules Verne: Jules Verne Mondial (19-20), (pp. 182-189).
- Schulman, P. "The Weight of Secrets : Hidden Mirrors of Identity in Aki Shimazaki’s Pentalogy,". Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
- Schulman, P. (2008). Raymond Queneau’s Eccentric Sage: Valentin Brû as Clinamen. Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate, 46, (pp. 30-48).
- Schulman, P. (2007). Jacques Réda: The Jazz Critic as Flâneur. Lingua Romana, 6 (1), (pp. 1-9).
- Schulman, P. (2006). Jules Verne’s Very Far West: America as Testing Ground in Les 500 millions de la Bégum. Dalhousie French Studies, Seventy-Six, (pp. 63-73).
- Schulman, P. (2006). L’Oubli qui ensevelit nos souvenirs: L’écriture pseudo-autobiographique et le travail de la mémoire dans Marie di Lola : Une
enfance corse en 1900. Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, 21 (2), (pp. 223-234).
- Schulman, P. (2006). France’s Love Affair with Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (pp. 4-5/165-165).
- Schulman, P. (2005). L’espace du célibataire invisible: Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz. Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne (156), (pp. 56-61).
- Schulman, P. (2005). A la recherche du ‘rayon vert’?: Jules Verne’s Bachelor Chronotopes. Australian Journal of French Studies, "Jules Verne in the Twenty-First Century", XLII (2), (pp. 303-317).
- Schulman, P. (2003). Infraordinaire et excentricité dans le 11ème arrondissement de Cédric Klapisch. Francographies (12, Nouvelle Série), (pp. 35-45).
- Schulman, P. (2002). Eccentricity as Clinamen: Jules Verne’s Error-Driven Geniuses. Excavatio, XVI (1-2), (pp. 274-284).
- Schulman, P. (2001). Le Vent, le bus, le regard: la poétique du quotidien de Jacques Réda et de Louise Herlin. "La Poésie française aujourd’hui," Textes réunis par Daniel Leuwers, Littérature et Nation (23), (pp. 7-17).
- Schulman, P. (2001). Paris au Xxème siècle’s Legacy: Eccentricity as Defiance in Jules Verne’s Uneasy Relationship with his Era. Romance Quarterly, 48, (pp. 257-266).
- Schulman, P. (2000). La Liberté des rues: Le Quotidien engagé de Jacques Réda. Francographies (11, Nouvelle Série), (pp. 111-118).
- Schulman, P. (2000). Paris en jeu de l’oie: Les fantômes de Nestor Burma. The French Review, 73 (6), (pp. 1155-1164).
- Schulman, P. (1999). Fin(s) de siècle(s) Blues: The Bachelor According to Jean Echenoz. Romance Notes, XL (1), (pp. 111-118).
- Schulman, P. (1999). Temples, tombes et énigmes: structures de l'inconnue dans Les Contemplations. Les Lettres Romanes, 53 (1-2), (pp. 49-62).
- Schulman, P. (1998). 'Le Nénuphar blanc': Manifeste pour une lecture 'mallarméenne'?. Francographies (7, Nouvelle Série), (pp. 49-54).
- Schulman, P. (1998). Duras et Vercors: L'Occupation des silences. New Zealand Journal of French Studies, 19 (1), (pp. 14-25).
- Schulman, P. (1998). Déracinement et gommages de l'identité: Le passé entre parenthèses dans Europa, Europa et La Statue de sel d'Albert Memmi. Romance Notes, XXXIX (1), (pp. 15-24).
- Schulman, P. (1998). Jean-Pierre Miquel: On the State of Today's Comédie-Française. Western European Stages, 10 (3), (pp. 43-47).
- Schulman, P. (1997). Autour de l'excentricité de Phileas Fogg et du Capitaine Nemo. Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne (123), (pp. 33-37).
- Schulman, P. (1996). L'Art de la réfraction: les stratégies d'excentricité de L.F. Céline. French Studies in Southern Africa (25), (pp. 101-116).
- Schulman, P. (1995). A rebours d'une fin de siècle à l'autre: des personnages à la recherche de.... Francographies, 4 (Nouvelle Série), (pp. 47-54).
- Schulman, P. (1991). Quelques notes sur le pierrot dans Le Grand Meaulnes d'Alain-Fournier. Le Bulletin des Amis d'Alain-Fournier et de Jacques Rivière (pp. 5-17).
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Presentations
- “Wings” of Desire: William Wellman and the Birth of the Aviation Epic
- Conference Name:
- Location: Le Mans, France
- Date: November, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Symbols of Change in a Shattered World: Jules Verne’s Begum’s Millions
- Conference Name:
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Date: July, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- L’Asie et son double: Aki Shimazaki et Ying Chen
- Conference Name:
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Date: May, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Sophie Calle’s Eruv: Meditative Constraint in Jerusalem
- Conference Name: Georgetown University
- Sponsoring Organization: Georgetown University
- Date: March, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Représentations de la mort dans la Chine de Claudel et de Verne
- Conference Name: University of Saint-Petersburg
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Saint-Petersburg
- Location: Russia
- Date: March, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Where the Dark Streets Really Go: Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s Priests and the Quest for the Self
- Conference Name:
- Location: Chicago
- Date: December, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Aki Shimazaki and the Korean Question
- Sponsoring Organization: Hong Kong University Dept of Modern Languages
- Location: Hong Kong
- Date: June 26, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Secrets and Identity Quests in Aki Shimazaki's Novels
- Conference Name: Taiwan Normal University
- Sponsoring Organization: Taiwan Normal University
- Date: June 23, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Tribulations of a Chinese Gentleman Reconsidered
- Conference Name:
- Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Date: June 10, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Remembering Next Year: The Brooklyn Dodgers as Lieu de Mémoire in Contemporary American Fiction
- Conference Name: Brooklyn College
- Sponsoring Organization: Brooklyn College
- Location: New York
- Date: May, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Crimes et secrets: Aki Shimazaki et la quête de la vérité
- Conference Name: University of Montreal
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Montreal
- Location: Montreal, Canada
- Date: May 3, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Jules Verne’s Invisible Man, and Other Discoveries
- Conference Name: Library of Congress
- Sponsoring Organization: Library of Congress
- Location: Washington, DC
- Date: November, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Alternance de pouvoir chez Jules Verne: L’utopiste et son double
- Conference Name: Cairo University
- Sponsoring Organization: Cairo University
- Location: Cairo, Egypt
- Date: October, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Jules Verne’s American Perspectives: Dystopia and Melancholy in The Begum’s Millions
- Sponsoring Organization: American University of Cairo
- Location: Cairo, Egypt
- Date: October, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Stealth Destruction: Wilhelm Storitz, Verne’s Invisible [Bachelor] Machine
- Conference Name: University of Indiana
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Indiana
- Location: Bloomington, Indiana
- Date: October, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Le poids des secrets: Hidden Mirrors of Identity in Aki Shimazaki’s Pentalogy
- Conference Name: University of Miami
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Miami
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Date: April, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Aki Shimazaki: A la recherche d’une/des identité(s)
- Conference Name: Fordham University
- Sponsoring Organization: Fordham University
- Date: March, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Les Fantômes de Jules Verne: Le célibataire mis-à-l’oeuvre dans Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz
- Sponsoring Organization: L’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)
- Location: New York City
- Date: December, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- 'Comment peut-on être Persan?' Satrapi’s Persepolis and the Quest for Forgetfulness
- Conference Name:
- Location: Washington, DC
- Date: 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- The Quest for the ‘Infra-ordinary’: Jacques Réda’s Ex-Centered Wanderings
- Conference Name: City University of New York Graduate Center
- Sponsoring Organization: City University of New York Graduate Center
- Date: November, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- The Nostalgic Pitch: Representations of the Brooklyn Dodgers in Contemporary American Fiction
- Sponsoring Organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Modern Language Association, Pepperdine University
- Location: Malibu, California
- Date: November, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Ellery Queen Mystère Magazine: Ellery Queen’s Popularity in France
- Conference Name: Mystery Writers of America Bouchercon 36
- Sponsoring Organization: Mystery Writers of America Bouchercon 36
- Location: Chicago
- Date: September, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- The Eccentric Sage: Valentin Brû as Clinamen
- Conference Name: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas-Austin
- Sponsoring Organization: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas-Austin
- Date: September, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- L’aventure de la solitude: L’horreur célibataire dans Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz de Jules Verne
- Conference Name:
- Location: Ottawa, Canada
- Date: July, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- L’esthétique de la disparition: Solitude et fantastique dans Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz
- Conference Name:
- Location: Cluj-Narcopa, Romania
- Date: May, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Wandering the Sepulchers of the World: Lee Miller’s Haunting Surrealism
- Conference Name: University of Florida
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Florida
- Location: Gainsville, FLA
- Date: April, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Ghosts in the Machine: Narratives of Disappearance in Contemporary French Fiction
- Sponsoring Organization: Dept of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin
- Location: Madison
- Date: March, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- L’espace du célibataire fantastique: Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz
- Conference Name:
- Location: Amiens, France
- Date: March, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Jules Verne: Friend or Foe? Verne’s Vision of America
- Sponsoring Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Location: Atlanta, GA
- Date: February, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Living in the Golem State: Duvivier’s Le Golem as Social Critique
- Conference Name:
- Location: Philadelphia
- Date: 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
Metzger, D.
- Jules Verne’s Very Far West: America as Testing Ground in Les 500 millions de la Bégum
- Conference Name: Washington University in St. Louis
- Sponsoring Organization: Washington University in St. Louis
- Location: St.Louis, Mo.
- Date: October, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- De la Tour Eiffel à la thèse de doctorat: Que représentent les études françaises pour les Américains
- Sponsoring Organization: Chuo University
- Location: Tokyo Japan
- Date: October, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Jules Verne’s Peculiar Utopias
- Conference Name: Le Centre de Recherche de l’Imaginaire, University of Haifa
- Sponsoring Organization: Le Centre de Recherche de l’Imaginaire, University of Haifa
- Location: Haifa Israel
- Date: May, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Identité personnelle, identité corse: le journal de 'Marie di Lola'
- Conference Name: Florida State University
- Sponsoring Organization: Florida State University
- Location: Talhassee, FLA
- Date: April, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Paris au Xxème Siècle: Résistance et renaissance à l'heure de la mondialisation
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Guelph
- Date: March, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Alone in Paris: Cédric Klapisch and the Female Bachelor
- Conference Name:
- Location: Chicago
- Date: November, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- A Change in France, A Change in Verne: Thanatos and Dystopia in Les 500 Million de la Bégum
- Conference Name: University of Arizona
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Arizona
- Location: Tuscon
- Date: October, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- No Room for Squares: Jean-Pierre Melville and ‘the Birth of the Cool’
- Conference Name:
- Location: Seysses, France
- Date: July, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Sensibilités modernes, sensibilités anciennes: La Notion du quartier chez Cédric Klapisch
- Conference Name:
- Location: New Orleans, LA
- Date: June, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- A la recherche de soi-même: le cas du célibataire
- Conference Name: University of Haifa
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Haifa
- Date: May, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Jazz and the French Bachelor
- Conference Name:
- Location: Lexington KY
- Date: April, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Echenoz and Oster: Flight, Disappearance, and the Modern Bachelor
- Conference Name:
- Location: Champaign-Urbana
- Date: March, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- [De]Constructing the Bachelor's Space: Des Esseintes, Folantin, and Fogg
- Conference Name:
- Location: New York
- Date: December, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- A la recherche du ‘rayon vert’: Jules Verne’s Bachelor Chronotopes
- Conference Name: Ohio State University
- Sponsoring Organization: Ohio State University
- Location: Columbus OH
- Date: October, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Jouer le jeu: The Poetry of Jacques Réda's Jazz Criticism
- Conference Name: University of Connecticut
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Connecticut
- Location: Hartford
- Date: April, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Jacques Réda: The Jazz Critic as flâneur
- Conference Name:
- Location: New Orleans
- Date: December, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- La Notion du génie chez Jules Verne: erreurs et clinamen
- Conference Name:
- Location: Philadelphia PA
- Date: October, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Les Mille et une nuits de Jean-Pierre Melville: les espaces du célibataire
- Conference Name: University College
- Sponsoring Organization: University College
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
- Date: July, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Eccentricity as Clinamen: Jules Verne’s Error-Driven Geniuses
- Conference Name:
- Date: April, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- ‘Chacun cherche son...’: Infra-ordinaire et excentricité dans le 11ème arrondissement de Cédric Klapish
- Conference Name: University of California, Davis
- Sponsoring Organization: University of California, Davis
- Date: April 1, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- ‘Mon cher ami...’: Hetzel’s Fatherly Rejection of Paris au Xxème siècle
- Conference Name: University of Illinois-Urbana
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Illinois-Urbana
- Date: October, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Le Noir à l’écran: Feuillade, Clouzot, Melville
- Conference Name: University of Pennsylvania
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Pennsylvania
- Date: April 2, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Le Vent, le bus, le regard: La Poétique du quotidien de Jacques Réda et de Louise Herlin
- Conference Name: Dalhousie University
- Sponsoring Organization: Dalhousie University
- Location: Halifax, CA
- Date: September, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Paris en jeu de l'oie: Nestor Burma ou l'espace du célibataire
- Conference Name:
- Location: Lexington KY
- Date: April, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Les Réfractaires à 'l'ère du vide': un retour à l'infraordinaire
- Sponsoring Organization: Tufts University
- Date: March, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Paris au XXème au XIXème: Eccentricity and Revolt in Jules Verne's Vision of the Nineteenth Century
- Conference Name: Penn State University
- Sponsoring Organization: Penn State University
- Date: October 25, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Le 'stylo caméra': Léo Malet vu par Jacques Tardi
- Conference Name:
- Location: Limoges, France
- Date: May, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Fin(s) de siècle(s) Blues: Les beaux dimanches du célibataire
- Conference Name:
- Location: Baltimore, MD
- Date: April, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- La Liberté des rues: le quotidien engagé de Jacques Réda
- Conference Name: Fordham University
- Sponsoring Organization: Fordham University
- Date: March, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Duras et Vercors: Deux perspectives de l'Occupation
- Conference Name:
- Location: Philadelphia, PA
- Date: April, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Beauté Suburbaine: Jacques Réda's Mapping of the Parisian banlieue
- Conference Name:
- Location: Washington DC
- Date: December, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- The Evolution of the Word Excentrique in France: From the Clinical to the Metaphoric
- Conference Name: University of Toronto
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Toronto
- Date: October, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Autour de l'excentricité de Phileas Fogg et du Capitaine Nemo
- Conference Name:
- Location: Saint-Malo, France
- Date: April, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- The Modern French Eccentric
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Texas at Arlington
- Date: March, 1995
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Céline, est-il excentrique?
- Conference Name:
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
- Date: April, 1994
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Albert Memmi, Simone Weil, qui êtes-vous?
- Conference Name:
- Location: Boulder, CO
- Date: March, 1993
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- A rebours d'une fin de siècle à l'autre: des personnages à la découverte de...?
- Conference Name:
- Location: Atlanta, Ga
- Date: October, 1992
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Mallarmé's Sacred Use of Poetic Language: `The White Waterlily,'
- Conference Name: Aalborg University
- Sponsoring Organization: Aalborg University
- Location: Denmark
- Date: August, 1992
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Le Pierrot d'Alain-Fournier: vers un imaginaire poétique
- Conference Name:
- Date: May, 1992
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- A la recherche du `moi' perdu, à la recherche de La Place de l'Etoile
- Conference Name: Columbia University
- Sponsoring Organization: Columbia University
- Date: May, 1992
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- Déracinement et gommages de l'identité: Europa, Europa
- Conference Name:
- Location: Buffalo, N.Y.
- Date: April, 1992
- Authors/Presenters:
Schulman, P.
- 1991: Beatrice M. Timins Award in French Literature, Columbia University
- 1998: French Government/CIBER Summer Business French Seminar, Montpellier, France
- 2005: Halls-Bascum Visiting Scholar, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 1987: Lily M. Parker Prize for outstanding student of French, Columbia University
- 2007: NEH grant
- 2008: Nominated for Best Inter-Disciplinary Faculty Award , College of Arts and Letters, Old Dominion University
- 1999: Quebec Summer Seminar
- 2006: Robert L. Stern Award for Excellence in Teaching , College of Arts and Letters, Old Dominion University
- 1986: Sisson Prize for excellence in French studies, Columbia University
- 2007: Visiting Scholar (Faculty Exchange), Kita Kiyushu University (Japan)
- Elected to the MLA Executive Committee of the Division on Twentieth-Century French Literature
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