Pamela
Genova, Professor of French
Pamela Genova, Professor of French, received her Ph.D. from
the University of Illinois in 1991, and she has been in the
Department of Modern Languages since that date. She has also
served as Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences
since January, 1999.
Her scholarly publications include two
single-author books, "Andre Gide dans le labyrinthe de
la mythotextualite" (Purdue, 1995) and "Symbolist
Journals: A Culture of Correspondence" (Ashgate, 2002)--which
won the 2003 South Central Modern Language Association Book
award--as well as an edition of essays, "Twayne Companion
to Contemporary World Literature from the Editors of 'World
Literature Today'" (Twayne/Gale, 2003). She has also published
numerous articles appearing in such journals as Nineteenth-Century
French Studies, Romanic Review, Dalhousie French Studies, French
Forum, Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature, Bulletin des
amis d'Andre Gide, and Bulletin des etudes valeryennes.
Her
research interests focus on French literature from the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries, with specific concentration on such
topics as Symbolism, Decadence, Surrealism, and the figure
of the Dandy. Dr. Genova has received a number of fellowships
and awards, including the Presidential Professorship and
the Regents' Award for Superior Teaching at the University
of Oklahoma, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship,
a Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Fellowship, and an
American Philosophical Society Research Grant. She is currently
working on a new book project, focusing on the influence of "Japonisme" in
nineteenth-century French writing.
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