Office Hours:
On leave Fall 2008

Carol Rifelj
Jean Thomson Fulton Professor of French; Dean for Faculty Development and Research
Le Chateau
Phone: 802.443.3146
Email: rifelj@middlebury.edu
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Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Teaching Interests

Eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century literature and society; language teaching and technology

Research Interests

Nineteenth-century literature; philosophy and literature; detective fiction; the Internet and language teaching

Recent Publications

“Le Langage des coiffures.” Le Roman du signe : Fiction et herméneutique au XIXe siècle. Ed. A. Del Lungo and B. Lyon-Caen. Saint-Denis: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2007. 125-139.

"Nobody's Perfect: Hair and Sexual Identity in Mademoiselle de Maupin." Dalhousie French Studies 69 (2004): 33-41

"Rimbaud: Poetics and Politics," Poetry Criticism 57. Ed. Lawrence Trudeau. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2004. 201-15.

"Jolies Victimes aux cheveux épars," Revue des sciences humaines, 271 (juillet-septembre 2003): 129-38.

The Language of Hair in the Nineteenth-Century Novel," Nineteenth-Century French Studies 32 (2003): 83-103.

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