
Peter Schulman Ph.D.
4020 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529
Grew up in NYC, went to the Lycée Français de NY then Choate Rosemary Hall, then Columbia University (BA, MA,MPHIL, PHD) before coming to ODU as an Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in French and Romance Philology, Columbia University, (1997)
M.Phil. in French, Columbia University, (1992)
Other in , École Normale Supérieure, (1992)
M.A. in French, Columbia University, (1989)
B.A. in French, Columbia University, (1988)
Expertise
Research Interests
Jules Verne, Quebecois Contemporary Poetry, Politics, Novels and Environmental issues, French cinema, Eco-criticism, Eccentricity, Translation
Articles
- Schulman, P. (2017). "Fragmegration" of identity in Laurent Cantet's Ressources humaines and L'emploi du temps. Cincinnati Romance Review 43 , pp. 90-106.
- Schulman, P. (2006). France’s Love Affair with Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine , pp. 4-5/165-165.
- 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.
- 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. (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. (1997). Autour de l'excentricité de Phileas Fogg et du Capitaine Nemo. Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne (123) , pp. 33-37.
- 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). Duras et Vercors: L'Occupation des silences. New Zealand Journal of French Studies 19 (1) , pp. 14-25.
- Schulman, P. (1998). Jean-Pierre Miquel: On the State of Today's Comédie-Française. Western European Stages 10 (3) , pp. 43-47.
- Schulman, P. (1998). 'Le Nénuphar blanc': Manifeste pour une lecture 'mallarméenne'?. Francographies (7, Nouvelle Série) , pp. 49-54.
- 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. (1999). Fin(s) de siècle(s) Blues: The Bachelor According to Jean Echenoz. Romance Notes XL (1) , 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. (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. (2000). La Liberté des rues: Le Quotidien engagé de Jacques Réda. Francographies (11, Nouvelle Série) , pp. 111-118.
- 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. (2002). Eccentricity as Clinamen: Jules Verne’s Error-Driven Geniuses. Excavatio XVI (1-2) , pp. 274-284.
- Schulman, P. (2003). Infraordinaire et excentricité dans le 11ème arrondissement de Cédric Klapisch. Francographies (12, Nouvelle Série) , pp. 35-45.
- 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. (2005). 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. (2005). L’espace du célibataire invisible: Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz. Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne (156) , pp. 56-61.
- 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. (2008). Raymond Queneau’s Eccentric Sage: Valentin Brû as Clinamen. Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate 46 , pp. 30-48.
Books
- Schulman, P. (2006). "Léo Malet’s Post-War Paris," forward to From Surrealism to Less-Exquisite Cadavers: Léo Malet and the Evolution of the French Roman Noir by Michelle Emanuel . Rodopi Press.
- Schulman, P. (2005). The Begum’s Millions by Jules Verne. Introduction and notes by Peter Schulman. Wesleyan University Press.
- Schulman, P. and Lubich, F. A. (2003). The Marketing of Eros: Performance, Sexuality, and Consumer Culture. verlag Di Blaue Eule.
- Schulman, P. and Brueggemann, A. (2005). Rhine Crossings: France and Germany in Love and War. Albany, NY.
- Schulman, P. and Metzger, D. (2006). Chasing Esther: Jewish Expressions of Cultural Difference. Kol Katan Press/University of Haifa.
- Schulman, P. and Zabotin, M. (2001). Le Dernier livre du siècle. Editions Romillat.
- Schulman, P. (2002). The Sunday of Fiction: The Modern French Eccentric. West Lafayette, Ind: Purdue Studies in Romance Literature.
Book Chapters
- 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.
- Schulman, P. (2000). 'Le Stylo-Caméra': Léo Malet vu par Jacques Tardi (pp. 523-535) Limoges: P.U.Lim.
- Schulman, P. (2002). Soleil noir, encre noir: Les Contemplations ‘zen’ de Céline Zins (pp. 143-149) Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi.
- 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. (2006). Le célibataire invisible: Solitude et Fantastique dans Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz (pp. 246-256) Valenciennes: Presses Universitaires de Valenciennes.
- Schulman, P. (2007). Alternance de pouvoir chez Jules Verne: L'utopiste et son double (pp. 83-95) Cairo: Université du Caire.
- Schulman, P. (2008). Jules Verne’s ‘Thanatopia’ : Thanatos and Dystopia in Les 500 Millions de la Begum (pp. 155-167) Essen: Die Blaue Eule.
Presentations
- Schulman, P. (April , 1992). Déracinement et gommages de l'identité: Europa, Europa NEMLA Convention Buffalo, N.Y..
- Schulman, P. (May , 1992). A la recherche du `moi' perdu, à la recherche de La Place de l'Etoile Graduate French Literature Colloquium .
- Schulman, P. (May , 1992). Le Pierrot d'Alain-Fournier: vers un imaginaire poétique Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures .
- Schulman, P. (August , 1992). Mallarmé's Sacred Use of Poetic Language: `The White Waterlily,' I.S.S.E.I. Conference on European Integration and the European Mind Denmark.
- Schulman, P. (October , 1992). A rebours d'une fin de siècle à l'autre: des personnages à la découverte de...? Conference on "The Word and the World of Discovery," Atlanta, Ga.
- Schulman, P. (March , 1993). Albert Memmi, Simone Weil, qui êtes-vous? International Colloquium on Twentieth Century French Studies Boulder, CO.
- Schulman, P. (April , 1994). Céline, est-il excentrique? NEMLA Convention Pittsburgh, PA.
- Schulman, P. (March , 1995). The Modern French Eccentric .
- Schulman, P. (April , 1996). Autour de l'excentricité de Phileas Fogg et du Capitaine Nemo Colloque de la Société Jules Verne Saint-Malo, France.
- Schulman, P. (October , 1996). The Evolution of the Word Excentrique in France: From the Clinical to the Metaphoric International Colloquium on Nineteenth-Century French Studies .
- Schulman, P. (December , 1996). Beauté Suburbaine: Jacques Réda's Mapping of the Parisian banlieue MLA Convention, 20th-Century Panel Washington DC.
- Schulman, P. (April , 1997). Duras et Vercors: Deux perspectives de l'Occupation NEMLA Convention Philadelphia, PA.
- Schulman, P. (March , 1998). La Liberté des rues: le quotidien engagé de Jacques Réda Création et Réalité d'Expression Française .
- Schulman, P. (April , 1998). Fin(s) de siècle(s) Blues: Les beaux dimanches du célibataire NEMLA Convention Baltimore, MD.
- Schulman, P. (May , 1998). Le 'stylo caméra': Léo Malet vu par Jacques Tardi Littératures populaires: mutations génériques, mutations médiatiques Limoges, France.
- Schulman, P. (October 25, 1998). Paris au XXème au XIXème: Eccentricity and Revolt in Jules Verne's Vision of the Nineteenth Century Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium .
- Schulman, P. (March , 1999). Les Réfractaires à 'l'ère du vide': un retour à l'infraordinaire .
- Schulman, P. (April , 1999). Paris en jeu de l'oie: Nestor Burma ou l'espace du célibataire 51st Kentucky Foreign Language Conference Lexington KY.
- Schulman, P. (September , 1999). Le Vent, le bus, le regard: La Poétique du quotidien de Jacques Réda et de Louise Herlin Yves Bonnefoy and Contemporary French Poetry Halifax, CA.
- Schulman, P. (April 2, 2000). Le Noir à l’écran: Feuillade, Clouzot, Melville Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium .
- Schulman, P. (October , 2000). ‘Mon cher ami...’: Hetzel’s Fatherly Rejection of Paris au Xxème siècle Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium .
- Schulman, P. (April 1, 2001). ‘Chacun cherche son...’: Infra-ordinaire et excentricité dans le 11ème arrondissement de Cédric Klapish Twenty-First Century Studies Conference .
- Schulman, P. (April , 2001). Eccentricity as Clinamen: Jules Verne’s Error-Driven Geniuses Kentucky Foreign Language Conference .
- Schulman, P. (July , 2001). Les Mille et une nuits de Jean-Pierre Melville: les espaces du célibataire Society for French Studies Conference Dublin, Ireland.
- Schulman, P. (October , 2001). La Notion du génie chez Jules Verne: erreurs et clinamen International AIZEN conference Philadelphia PA.
- Schulman, P. (December , 2001). Jacques Réda: The Jazz Critic as flâneur MLA Convention New Orleans.
- Schulman, P. (April , 2002). Jouer le jeu: The Poetry of Jacques Réda's Jazz Criticism Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium Hartford.
- Schulman, P. (October , 2002). A la recherche du ‘rayon vert’: Jules Verne’s Bachelor Chronotopes Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium Columbus OH.
- Schulman, P. (December , 2002). [De]Constructing the Bachelor's Space: Des Esseintes, Folantin, and Fogg MLA Convention New York.
- Schulman, P. (March , 2003). Echenoz and Oster: Flight, Disappearance, and the Modern Bachelor Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium Champaign-Urbana.
- Schulman, P. (April , 2003). Jazz and the French Bachelor Kentucky Foreign Language Conference Lexington KY.
- Schulman, P. (May , 2003). A la recherche de soi-même: le cas du célibataire Colloque: ‘Conceptions du masculin’ .
- Schulman, P. (June , 2003). Sensibilités modernes, sensibilités anciennes: La Notion du quartier chez Cédric Klapisch Congrès Mondial du C.I.E.F. New Orleans, LA.
- Schulman, P. (July , 2003). No Room for Squares: Jean-Pierre Melville and ‘the Birth of the Cool’ Colloque Jazz Hot and Cool Seysses, France.
- Schulman, P. (October , 2003). A Change in France, A Change in Verne: Thanatos and Dystopia in Les 500 Million de la Bégum 19th-century French Studies Colloquium Tuscon.
- Schulman, P. (November , 2003). Alone in Paris: Cédric Klapisch and the Female Bachelor Women in French, MMLA Convention Chicago.
- Schulman, P. (March , 2004). Paris au Xxème Siècle: Résistance et renaissance à l'heure de la mondialisation .
- Schulman, P. (April , 2004). Identité personnelle, identité corse: le journal de 'Marie di Lola' 20th-21st Century French Studies Colloquium Talhassee, FLA.
- Schulman, P. (May , 2004). Jules Verne’s Peculiar Utopias Colloque "Utopie: Mémoire et Imaginaire" Haifa Israel.
- Schulman, P. (October , 2004). De la Tour Eiffel à la thèse de doctorat: Que représentent les études françaises pour les Américains Tokyo Japan.
- Schulman, P. (October , 2004). Jules Verne’s Very Far West: America as Testing Ground in Les 500 millions de la Bégum 19th-century French Studies Colloquium St.Louis, Mo..
- Schulman, P. and Metzger, D. ( 2004). Living in the Golem State: Duvivier’s Le Golem as Social Critique MLA Convention Philadelphia.
- Schulman, P. (February , 2005). Jules Verne: Friend or Foe? Verne’s Vision of America Atlanta, GA.
- Schulman, P. (March , 2005). L’espace du célibataire fantastique: Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz Mondiale Jules Verne- Centenaire Jules Verne Amiens, France.
- Schulman, P. (March , 2005). Ghosts in the Machine: Narratives of Disappearance in Contemporary French Fiction Madison.
- Schulman, P. (April , 2005). Wandering the Sepulchers of the World: Lee Miller’s Haunting Surrealism 20th-21st Century French Studies Colloquium Gainsville, FLA.
- Schulman, P. (May , 2005). L’esthétique de la disparition: Solitude et fantastique dans Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz Colloque Jules Verne dans les Carpathes Cluj-Narcopa, Romania.
- Schulman, P. (July , 2005). L’aventure de la solitude: L’horreur célibataire dans Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz de Jules Verne Congrès Mondial du CIEF Ottawa, Canada.
- Schulman, P. (September , 2005). The Eccentric Sage: Valentin Brû as Clinamen Raymond Queneau Symposium .
- Schulman, P. (September , 2005). Ellery Queen Mystère Magazine: Ellery Queen’s Popularity in France Panel on the Influence of Ellery Queen Chicago.
- Schulman, P. (November , 2005). The Nostalgic Pitch: Representations of the Brooklyn Dodgers in Contemporary American Fiction Malibu, California.
- Schulman, P. (November , 2005). The Quest for the ‘Infra-ordinary’: Jacques Réda’s Ex-Centered Wanderings CCCP: CUNY Conference on Contemporary Poetry .
- Schulman, P. ( 2005). 'Comment peut-on être Persan?' Satrapi’s Persepolis and the Quest for Forgetfulness l’extrême contemporain, MLA Convention Washington, DC.
- Schulman, P. (December , 2005). Les Fantômes de Jules Verne: Le célibataire mis-à-l’oeuvre dans Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz New York City.
- Schulman, P. (March , 2006). Aki Shimazaki: A la recherche d’une/des identité(s) Colloque SPPFA pour le Centenaire Lépold Sédar Senghor .
- Schulman, P. (April , 2006). Le poids des secrets: Hidden Mirrors of Identity in Aki Shimazaki’s Pentalogy 20th-21st Century French Studies Colloquium Miami, Florida.
- Schulman, P. (October , 2006). Stealth Destruction: Wilhelm Storitz, Verne’s Invisible [Bachelor] Machine Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium Bloomington, Indiana.
- Schulman, P. (October , 2006). Jules Verne’s American Perspectives: Dystopia and Melancholy in The Begum’s Millions Cairo, Egypt.
- Schulman, P. (October , 2006). Alternance de pouvoir chez Jules Verne: L’utopiste et son double Colloque Discours et Relations de Pouvoir Cairo, Egypt.
- Schulman, P. (November , 2006). Jules Verne’s Invisible Man, and Other Discoveries "What If...Science Fiction and Fantasy Lecture Series" Washington, DC.
- Schulman, P. (May 3, 2007). Crimes et secrets: Aki Shimazaki et la quête de la vérité L’Asie au Canada Montreal, Canada.
- Schulman, P. (May , 2007). Remembering Next Year: The Brooklyn Dodgers as Lieu de Mémoire in Contemporary American Fiction Imagining Brooklyn Conference New York.
- Schulman, P. (June 10, 2007). Tribulations of a Chinese Gentleman Reconsidered North American Jules Verne Society Conference, "Volcanoes and Sky Vessels," Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Schulman, P. (June 23, 2007). Secrets and Identity Quests in Aki Shimazaki's Novels Asia and the Other Conference .
- Schulman, P. (June 26, 2007). Aki Shimazaki and the Korean Question Hong Kong.
- Schulman, P. (December , 2007). Where the Dark Streets Really Go: Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s Priests and the Quest for the Self MLA Convention Chicago.
- Schulman, P. (March , 2008). Représentations de la mort dans la Chine de Claudel et de Verne Modernismes/Postmodernismes Russia.
- Schulman, P. (March , 2008). Sophie Calle’s Eruv: Meditative Constraint in Jerusalem 20th-21st-Century French Studies Conference, “Limites/Limits,” .
- Schulman, P. (May , 2008). L’Asie et son double: Aki Shimazaki et Ying Chen “La problématique de l’entre-deux dans l’écriture francophone moderne et postmoderne” at the APFUCC Vancouver, Canada.
- Schulman, P. (July , 2008). Symbols of Change in a Shattered World: Jules Verne’s Begum’s Millions "Science Fiction and Symbolic Communication,” ISSEI Conference Helsinki, Finland.
- Schulman, P. (November , 2008). “Wings” of Desire: William Wellman and the Birth of the Aviation Epic "La conquête de l'air, naissance d'un nouvel imaginaire ? 1900-1920” Le Mans, France.
- Schulman, P. (March , 2009). Celine Zins's Zen Reactions to Cataclysms Paper 20-21st Century French Studies Conference Minnesota.
- Schulman, P. (May , 2009). The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz: Fathers and Sons at Work Paper Panel on Michel Verne at the Eaton Conference San Francisco.
- Schulman, P. (June , 2009). Jacques Reda's [Sub]urban Islands Paper ASLE Conference Victoria, BC, Canada.
- Schulman, P. ( 2009). Sophie Calle's Jerusalem: Finding Peace in a Turbulent City Paper South Central Modern Language Association Conference 2009 Baton Rouge, LA.
- Schulman, P. ( 2009). Found in Translation Paper Division of Twentieth Century French Literature, Modern Language Association Conference Philadelphia, PA.
- Schulman, P. (March , 2010). Lubljana-Paris-Europe: Brina Svit et l’art d’être ‘extra-communautaire Paper Colloque Dialogue des Cultures dans l'Espace Méditerranéen Athens, Greece.
- Schulman, P. (May , 2010). Fred Vargas: Debout les Morts Paper Danielle Lasser's Book Series New York City, New York.
- Schulman, P. (July , 2010). Les histoires d’une Histoire ‘pas propre’: Aki Shimazaki et la voix claire Paper Congrès du CIEF Montreal, Canada.
- Schulman, P. (November , 2010). Histoire(s) d’Aki Shimazaki : Mitsuba Paper American Council for Quebec Studies Conference Burlington, VT.
- Schulman, P. (March , 2011). The Golem's Take Manhattan: The Resurgence of the Golem in the Work of Cynthia Ozick and Thane Rosenbaum Paper Conference on Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Novel Madrid, Spain.
- Schulman, P. (May , 2011). Myriam Beaudoin et la notion de l'amour de l'autre Paper Association Coréene d’Etudes Québecoises Conference Seoul, South Korea.
- Schulman, P. (October , 2011). A Fin de Siècle Golem? New Takes on an Ancient Golem in Recent New York Writings Paper South Central Modern Language Association Convention Hot Springs, AR.
- Schulman, P. (December , 2011). Tristes utopiques: l’hüzün à travers l’Istanbul d’Orhan Pamuk Paper Colloque Utopies et Orients Tunis, Tunisia.
- Schulman, P. (March , 2012). Jacques Rivette’s Metaphysical Circus: 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup Paper Crossings, Fictions, Fusions, 20th-21st-Century French Studies Conferences Long Beach, CA.
- Schulman, P. (October , 2012). Mood Indigo: Jacques Réda’s Jazz Walks Paper South Central Modern Language Association Convention San Antonio, TX.
- Schulman, P. (June , 2013). Melancholies of Loss: Fragmented Love in Natacha Appanah's Latest Works Paper Transcultural Imaginaries: Making New, Making Strange Conference Singapore.
- Schulman, P. (July , 2013). Golems, Frozen Rabbis and Dybbuks: Steve Stern’s Mystical Humor Paper Panel on Jewish Humor, at the 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies Jerusalem, Israel.
- Schulman, P. (October , 2013). ’Osteria’: Christian Oster’s Male Hysteric Paper South Central Modern Language Association Convention New Orleans, LA.
- Schulman, P. (October , 2013). Jules Verne on the Frontiers of Decolonization: L’invasion de la mer Paper 39th Annual Nineteenth Century French Studies Conferences Richmond, VA.
- Schulman, P. (May , 2014). Melancholic Mirages: Jules Verne’s Vision of a Saharan Sea Paper 21st Annual North American Jules Verne Society Conference New Orleans, LA.
- Schulman, P. (July , 2014). "Gestes perdus: La langue derrière le timbre” dans le théâtre de Marie Nimier Paper Marie Nimier: Absence and Loss Colloquium Paris, France.
- Schulman, P. (October , 2014). Tango Express: La littérature monde de Brina Svit Paper La Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d'Amérique Conference New York University.
- Schulman, P. ( 2014). Fragmegration” of Identity in Laurent Cantet’s Ressources humaines and L’emploi du temps Paper FFS Money Conference, 20th-21st Century French Studies Conference New York City, NY.
- Schulman, P. (March , 2015). Voices from the Grave: Ghosts of Irish Nationalism in Yeats and Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s The Habit of Fear Paper UGC International Conference, “Of the Indian, Literary Constructs and Responses" Rajkot, India.
- Schulman, P. (March , 2015). Habits of Fear: Irish Nationalism in the work of Yeats and Dorothy Salisbury Davis Paper Crime and Literature Conference Delhi, India.
- Schulman, P. (March , 2015). Songs of the Wandering Aengus: Echoes of the Political Yeats in Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s The Habit of Fear Paper "Yeats and Kipling: Retrospectives, Perspectives" Conference Delhi, India.
- Schulman, P. (June , 2015). La “voix claire” d’Aki Shimazaki: Nouveau Monde, Nouvelle(s) histoire(s) du Japon Paper CIEF Conference Winnipeg, CA.
- Schulman, P. (November , 2015). Unbearable Lightness of Beings in Jacques Rivettes’s 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup Paper Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association Conference Portland, OR.
- Schulman, P. (May , 2016). The Challenges of Translating a Marie Nimier into English Paper GTT International Colloquium, Theatre and Theatrical Translation Pampulha, Brazil.
- Schulman, P. (June , 2016). ’Acoustic Shadows’: Civil War Spaces in Contemporary Song and Poetry Paper Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth, Conference on Ecopoetics Perpignan, France.
- Schulman, P. (July , 2016). Adventures in Translating: The Hidden Charms of Some of Jules Verne’s Unpublished Plays Paper 23rd Annual North American Jules Verne Society Conference Philadelphia, PA.
- Schulman, P. (October , 2016). Rues étrangères (à nous-mêmes): “le chez soi” de Sarah Marylou Brideau Paper 26ème colloque de l’APLAQA New Brunswick, CA.
- Schulman, P. (November , 2016). Aki Shimazaki's Melancholic Japan Paper Pacific Modern Language Association Conference Pasadena, CA.
- Schulman, P. (April , 2017). Fragmentation of Identity in Laurent' Cantet's Films Paper Contemporary French Cinema lecture series New York.
- Schulman, P. (May , 2017). Tristes Utopiques: Ruines et mélancolie dans l’oeuvre d’Orhan Pamuk Paper Colloque Ruines et Vestiges Mulhouse, France.
- Schulman, P. (May , 2017). Dark Matter: Spaces of Occupation, and the Occupation of Spaces in Danielle Darrieux’s films of the early 1940s Paper Colloque International Danielle Darrieux Bordeaux, France.
- Schulman, P. (June , 2017). In Search of Place: The importance of Chiac in Contemporary French Acadian Poetry Paper American Society of Geolinguistics Annual Convention New York.
- Schulman, P. (August , 2017). Sands of Desire: Lee Miller’s Egyptian Period and Surrealist Photography Paper Seligmann Center Lecture Series 2017 Chester, NY.
- 2021: Named Officier des Palmes Académiques, French Mininstry of Education
- 2020: Winner of the Provost’s Leadership in International Education Award , ODU
- 2013: Winner of the College of Arts and Letters (ODU) Outstanding Contributions to Interdisciplinarity Award, Old Dominion University
- 2008: Nominated for Best Inter-Disciplinary Faculty Award , College of Arts and Letters, Old Dominion University
- 2007: NEH grant ,
- 2007: Visiting Scholar (Faculty Exchange), Kita Kiyushu University (Japan)
- 2006: Robert L. Stern Award for Excellence in Teaching , College of Arts and Letters, Old Dominion University
- 2005: Halls-Bascum Visiting Scholar, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 2004: Elected to the MLA Executive Committee of the Division on Twentieth-Century French Literature ,
- 1999: Quebec Summer Seminar,
- 1998: French Government/CIBER Summer Business French Seminar, Montpellier, France ,
- 1991: Beatrice M. Timins Award in French Literature, Columbia University
- 1987: Lily M. Parker Prize for outstanding student of French, Columbia University
- 1986: Sisson Prize for excellence in French studies, Columbia University