Professor of French
College of the Holy Cross
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester , MA 01610 -2395
Tel.: (508)273-2291 (office)
(617)861-0592 (home)
FAX: (508)793-3708
E-mail: cschick@holycross.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D., French, The Pennsylvania State University , 1973
M.A. , French, Columbia University , 1968
B.A., French, Annhurst College , 1966
NDEA Language Institute, Tufts University , Summer 1965
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
A: Books
Editor, Introduction, and Notes, Révélation by Gabriel Crevier. Rhode Island: L’Union Saint-Jean Baptiste Educational Foundation, 2003.
Seductive Resistance: The Poetry of Théophile Gautier. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 1994.
B: Articles
“Emigrations of l’Art pour l’Art to America ,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 32: 1&2 (Fall-Winter 2003-04), 121-133.
“L’invitation à la danse,” Cahiers de l’Association Internationale des Études Françaises 55 (May 2003), 481-500.
“A Picaresque Revenant,” The French Review 76:2 (December 2002), 373-383.
“Octave Crémazie et l’héritage de Gautier au Québec.” Bulletin de la Société Théophile Gautier 21 (1999), 241-252.
“Le donner à voir de Gautier ou pour un Candaule.” Relire Gautier, Le plaisir du texte, ed. Freeman Henry. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 1998, 243-263.
“Un terrorisme carnavalesque au service de la survivance des Franco-Américains: Les Tisserands du pouvoir,” Les littératures d’expression française d’Amérique du Nord et le carnavalesque, eds. Denis Bourque and Anne Brown. Moncton: Éditions d’Acadie, 1998, 235-254.
“Jeanne la fileuse et le rapatriement des émigrés,” The French Review: 71:6 (May 1998), 1007-1017.
“Death Comes to the Cathedral: Romantic Allegorizations of the Symbol.” French Forum 22:2 (May 1997),149-164.
“La Mort du poète.” Bulletin de la Société Théophile Gautier 18 (1996), 517-532.
"Textual Matters of Life and Death, or Gautier's ‘As You Like It.’" L'Esprit Créateur 35:4 (Winter 1995), 49-58.
"Ecrire le corps québécois: Le Coup de poing de Louis Caron." The French Review 67:6 (May 1994), 1024-1032.
"L'écriture poétique de Gautier: évasion? conformisme? ou opposition sociale?" Bulletin de la Société Théophile Gautier 15 (1993), 77-96.
"Baudelaire's `Allégorie' and the Aesthetics of Allegory," Romance Languages Annual III (1992), 111-114.
"Théophile Gautier's Poetry as Coquetterie Posthume," Nineteenth-Century French Studies 20 (1991-92), 62-72.
"Nostalgies d'obélisques," Actes du Colloque International, Bulletin de la Société Théophile Gautier 12 (1990), 261-271.
"Albertus: Narrating Poetic Allegory," French Literature Series XVII (1990),60-68.
"Judith Gautier's Autobiography: Supplementing the Self," The French Review 63:4 (March 1990), 623-631.
"La Comédie de la Mort de Théophile Gautier," Bulletin de la Société Théophile Gautier 11 (1989), 11-22.
"La sémiotique du rève de pierre dans le paysage de Théophile Gautier," Bulletin de la Société Théophile Gautier 9 (1987), 27- 36.
"A Case Study of Descriptive Perversion: Théophile Gautier's Travel Accounts," The Romanic Review 78:3 (May 1987), 359-367.
"Irony as Auto-Deconstruction: A Look at Charles Cros' Coffret de Santal," French Literature Series XIV (1987), 116-124.
C: Book Reviews
Lavaud, Martine. Théophile Gautier, militant du romantisme . Paris : Honoré Champion, 2001. In Nineteenth-Century French Studies 32:1&2 (Fall-Winter 2003-04), 181-182.
Lacoste-Veysseyre, Claudine, ed. Correspondance générale de Théophile Gautier, XII (Genève-Paris: Librairie Droz, 2000). In Nineteenth-Century French Studies 30: 1&2 (Fall-Winter 2001-02), 227-229.
Ducharme, Réjean. Gros Mots. Paris : Gallimard, 1999. In The French Review 75:5 (April 2002), 996-997.
Ollivier, Emile. Mille eaux. Paris: Gallimard, 1999. In The French Review 74:4 (March 2001), 848-849.
Huston, Nancy. L’empreinte de l’ange. France/Canada: Actes Sud/Leméac, 1998. In The French Review 73:5 (April 2000), 1009-1010.
Blais, Marie-Claire. Soifs. Québec: Boréal, 1995. In The French Review 71:6 (May 1998), 1088-1089.
Lacoste-Veysseyre, Claudine, ed. Correspondance générale de Théophile Gautier, X and XI (Genève-Paris: Librairie Droz, 1996). In Nineteenth-Century French Studies 26: 1&2 (Fall-Winter 1997-98), 227-229.
Matherne, Beverly , La grande pointe. N.Y.:Cross-Cultural Communications, 1995. In Etudes Francophones 12:2 (Fall 1997), 267-270.
Ducharme, Réjean. Va savoir. Paris : Gallimard. 1994. The French Review., 70:4 (March 1997), 612-613.
Lacoste-Veysseyre, Claudine, ed. Correspondance générale deThéophile Gautier,1862-1864,VIII; 1865-1867,IX (Genève-Paris: Librairie Droz, 1993, 1995). Nineteenth- Century French Studies 24:3&4 (Spring-Summer 1996), 475-477.
Huston, Nancy . Cantique des plaines . France/Canada: Actes Sud/Leméac. 1993. The French Review 69:2 (December 1995),370-371.
Monette, Madeleine. Amandes et melon (Montreal: Hexagone, 1991). The French Review 67: 5 (April 1994), 907-908.
Lacoste-Veysseyre, Claudine, ed. Correspondance générale de Théophile Gautier, 1858-1861. VII (Genève-Paris: Librairie Droz, 1992). Nineteenth-Century French Studies 21: 3&4 (Spring-Summer 1993), 524-526.
Lacoste-Veysseyre, Claudine, ed. Correspondance générale de Théophile Gautier, 1852-1853, V and 1854-1857, VI. (Genève-Paris: Librairie Droz, 1991). Nineteenth- Century French Studies 21: 1&2 (Fall-Winter 1992-1993), 256-257.
Caron, Louis. Le Coup de poing (Paris: Seuil, 1991) The French Review 66:5 (April 1993), 843-844.
Lydie Dattas. Le Livre des Anges (Paris: Arfuyen, 1990). The French Review 66:1 (October 1992), 175-176.
Bertin, Charles. Le Voyage d'hiver (Lausanne: l'Age d'Homme, 1989). The French Review 65:3 (February 1992), 514.
Lacoste-Veysseyre, Claudine, ed. Correspondance générale de Théophile Gautier, 1848-1851, IV. (Genève-Paris: Librairie Droz, 1989). Nineteenth-Century French Studies 19:3 (Spring 1991), 481-482.
“The Creoleness of Jack Kerouac,” for the 14 th Biennial Conference of the American Council for Québec Studies, held in Quebec City , November 2004.
Chair and Respondent for the Gérard de Nerval session, Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium ( Washington University in St. Louis ), October 2004.
“Finding French Canada in Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer,” for the 13 th Biennial Conference of the American Council for Québec Studies, held in Mobile Alabama , October 2002.
“L’Invitation à la danse,” Congrès de l’Association Internationale des Études Françaises (l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris), July 2002.
“Une littérature de revenants,” Congrès mondial du Conseil International des Études Francophones (held in Portland, Maine), June 2001.
“The Emigration of L’Art Pour L’Art to Burgeoning National Literatures,” Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium ( U. of Illinois ), October 2000.
“Les Fidélités de Gabriel Crevier,” Congrès mondial du Conseil International des Études Francophones (held in Sousse, Tunisia), May 2000.
“Octave Crémazie et l’héritage de Théophile Gautier au Québec,” Colloque International Héritage et héritiers de Théophile Gautier, Centre d’Etudes Romantiques de l’Université Paul Valéry à Montpellier et la Société Théophile Gautier (held in Paris, France), June 1999.
“A Francophone Experience of the Civil War.” Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium ( University of Georgia ), October 1997.
“Jeanne la fileuse: roman franco-américain ou roman québécois?” Congrès mondial du Conseil International des Études Francophones (held in Guadeloupe), May 1997.
“Où en sommes-nous en ce qui concerne les écrivains franco-américains?” Colloquium: Current Research Projects on Franco-Americans held at the Institut Français of Assumption College ( Worcester ) on May 31, 1997 .
“La mort du poète.” Colloque International Théophile Gautier, La Comédie de la Vie et de la Mort, Centre d’Etudes Romantiques de l’Université Paul Valéry à Montpellier et la Société Théophile Gautier (held in Paris, France), June 1996.
“Comment survivre malgré l’assimilation: Les tisserands du pouvoir.”Congrès mondial du Conseil International des Études Francophones (held in Toulouse, France), June 1996.
"Narrer l'émigration sans trahison: le cas de Jeanne la fileuse." Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium ( University of Delaware ), October 1995.
"Death Comes to the Cathedral: Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris and Gautier's La Comédie de la Mort." Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium ( University of California at Santa Barbara ), October 1994.
"Théophile Gautier's Art Poétique: Is It Really so Hard?" American Association of Teachers of French Conference, Québec , Canada , July 1994.
"Une vérité fictive: Les Tisserands du pouvoir et les Franco-Américains." 11th Colloquium of the Institut Français, Assumption College (Worcester, MA.), June 1994.
"Théophile Gautier: Terroristic Transformations." Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium (The University of Kansas , Lawrence , Kansas ), October 1993.
"L'écriture poétique de Théophile Gautier: évasion, conformisme ou opposition sociale?" Colloque international Théophile Gautier en son temps, Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier, France), June 1993.
"Repressing the Dead(ly) in Théophile Gautier." Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium ( State University of New York at Binghamton ), October 1992.
"Ecrire le corps québécois: Le Coup de poing de Louis Caron." Congrès du Conseil International des Études Francophones (Strasbourg, France), June 1992.
"Baudelaire's `Allégorie' and the Aesthetics of Allegory." Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures, and Film ( West Lafayette , Indiana ), October 1991.
"Les `Nostalgies d'obélisques' de Théophile Gautier." Colloque international L'Orient de Théophile Gautier (Paris, France), May 1990.
"Albertus: Narrating Poetic Allegory." University of South Carolina French Literature Conference ( Columbia , South Carolina ), March 1989.
"Théophile Gautier, Art Nouveau and Postmodernism." Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference ( University of Kentucky , Lexington , Kentucky ), April 1988.
"Judith Gautier's Autobiography: Supplementing the Self." Wichita State University Conference on Foreign Literature ( Wichita , Kansas ), April 1988.
"La lumière dans l'oeuvre de Baudelaire." Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures ( Rollins College , Winter Park , Florida ), February 1988.
"A Case Study of Descriptive Perversion: Théophile Gautier's Travel Accounts." Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium ( University of Nebraska , Lincoln , Nebraska ), October 1986.
"Irony as Auto-Deconstruction: A Look at Charles Cros' Coffret de Santal." University of South Carolina French Literature Conference ( Columbia , South Carolina ), April 1986.
"Earth Rêverie in Théophile Gautier: A Bachelardian Analysis." Modern Language Association Convention ( New York ), December 1978.
"Travel Literature Is Literature." Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium ( State University of N.Y. at Fredonia , New York ), October 1975.
Elected member of the Administrative Council of the French Institute at Assumption College , Worcester , MA (1997- present).
Organized session “Diversité de voix et de présences franco-américaines,” Congrès Mondial du Conseil International des Études Francophones (held in Sousse, Tunisia), May 2000.
Presided at the Session on Balzac, Nineteenth Century Studies Colloquium, held at the Pennsylvania State University , October 1998.
Chair of the Section for 19th Century French Literature, American Association of Teachers of French Convention, July, 1995.
Presided at the Session on French Literature in Black Africa , American Association of Teachers of French Convention, July, 1995.
Presenter at the Alumni Continuing Education Day of 1995, Holy Cross, “The fin de Siècle and Creative Decadence”
Consultant reader/reviewer of articles for Nineteenth Century French Studies 1993, 1994.
Organized two sessions on Théophile Gautier for the Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium at the University of Kansas , October 1993.
Section Head at the University of South Carolina French Literature Conference ( Columbia , South Carolina ), March 1992.
Section Head at the 10th Colloquium, l'Institut Français, Assumption College ( Worcester , MA ), May 1991.
Memberships in the Modern Language Association, the American Association of Teachers of French, Nineteenth Century French Studies, the Société Théophile Gautier, the Conseil International des Études Francophones, the American Council for Quebec Studies, and L'Institut Français of Assumption College.
Grant from the Committee on Research and Publication (Holy Cross) towards travel to the Congrès Mondial du Conseil International des Études Francophones (held in Sousse, Tunisia), May 2000.
Grant from the Committee on Research and Publication (Holy Cross) towards travel to the Colloque International Héritage et héritiers de Théophile Gautier, held in Paris , France (June 22-24, 1999).
Grant from the University of Georgia to attend the conference “Slavery in the Francophone World” held at the University of Georgia , October 14-16, 1997 .
Grant from the Committee on Research and Publication (Holy Cross) towards travel to the Congrès Mondial du Conseil international d’études francophones held in Toulouse, France (June 8-16, 1996) and to the Colloque international Théophile Gautier, La Comédie de la Vie et de la Mort held in Paris, France (June 18-22,1996).
Hewlett-Mellon Presidential Discretionary Fund Grant from Holy Cross College : “Cultural Diversification: Introducing Non-European Francophone Studies.”(Spring 1995)
Hewlett-Mellon Presidential Discretionary Fund Grant from Holy Cross College :”Software for French Composition.” (1995)
Grant from the Committee on Research and Publication (Holy Cross) towards travel to the Gautier conference in Montpellier , France (June 1993).
Travel and Research Grant, The Pennsylvania State University , 1968.
NDEA Title IV Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University , 1967.
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1966.
Fulbright Research Grant, 1966 (I did not accept the grant however but chose the Woodrow Wilson.).
NDEA Summer Language Institute Grant, Tufts University , 1965.
College of the Holy Cross, Professor of French (2001-present); Associate Professor of French: 1995-2001; Assistant Professor of French: 1991 – 1995; Visiting Assistant Professor: 1990-91.
Courses taught: Elementary French, Intermediate French, Introduction to French Literature, Survey of French Literature I and II, Nineteenth Century Novel, From Realism to Symbolism and Impressionism (Special Topics), The Fin de Siècle (Special Topics), La Francophonie.
Memphis State University, 1987-1989: Assistant Professor of French.
Courses taught: Elementary French; Intermediate French; Stylistics (graduate-level); 19th Century French Poetry and Drama (graduate-level); 19th Century French Fiction (graduate-level).
Stonehill College , Associate Professor of French 1975-86; Assistant Professor of French 1970-75.
Courses taught: Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced French; French Culture and Civilization; Survey of French Literature; 17th Century French Classicism; 18th Century French Literature; 19th Century French Literature; Modern Poetry; 20th Century Novel; 20th Century Drama; The New Novel; Teaching Foreign Languages (taught in English); Modern France (culture course taught in English); Existentialism in Literature (Comparative Literature taught in English); Perspectives on Art and Literature: The Rise of Modernism (Comparative Literature taught in English); Western Literary Traditions: Masterpieces and the Evolution of Style (two- semester World Literature course taught in English).
Iona College , 1969-1970: Assistant Professor of French.
Courses taught: Intermediate French; Advanced French; Elementary Spanish.
The Pennsylvania State University , Winter 1968: Teaching Fellow.
Course taught: Advanced French.
TUTORIALS and INTERNSHIPS
College of the Holy Cross: "Baudelaire: The New Aesthetics," Spring 1992.
Stonehill College : tutorials on Baudelaire, Ionesco, the Romantic Novel, and on Franco-American relations; several internships with the French Embassy in Boston , the Quebec cultural Bureau in Boston , and Special Collections: Franco-American newspaper archives at the Boston Public Library.
MAJOR COLLEGE AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Chairperson of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, College of the Holy Cross, 1998-2001
Acting Chairperson of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, College of the Holy Cross, 2003-04
Coordinator of the French & Italian Programs, College of the Holy Cross, 2005-06, 2003-04
Chairperson, Department of Languages and Literature ( Stonehill College ), 1981-1986.
Coordinator of Study Abroad ( Stonehill College ) 1984-85; 1976-81.
Member of Board of Fellows ( Stonehill College ) (electors of College trustees), 1981- 84.
Commencement Master of Ceremonies ( Stonehill College ), 1982.
Assistant to the Dean of Freshmen and Advisement ( Stonehill College ), 1980-81.
Member of Board of Trustees for Annhurst College (Alumnae representative), 1971-1973.