Errance: Wandering and Straying in 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Literature Instructor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Clark University

L'école de la maladresse: de J.J. Rousseau à J.J. Grandville, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles
Visiting Assistant Professor, French and French Studies, Bryn Mawr College

Aesthetic Experimentation and the Search for a Caribbean Idiom.
Assistant Professor of French, Mars Hill College >>More info

Writing in French "et non autrement" 1529-1592.
Assistant Professor Romance Languages, Washington and Lee University.

Femme de Siècle: Malevolent Female Sexuality, Masculinity and Linguistic Authority in the Decadent Novel.
Visiting Instructor Department of Modern Languages and Literature, University of Centeral Florida

Transcending Nature and the Ordinary: Portrayals of the Female Adolescent in Montherlant's Theater.

Autour De Cénie: Le Témoignage Épistolaire De Françoise De Graffigny Sur Son Succès Théâral En 1750.

Women Healers Crossing Gender Role Boundaries in Old French Narrative.

The Immobile Voyage: Textual Movements in Contemporary French-Language Poetry.
Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures College of the Holy Cross >>More info

Literary Ethics and the Problem of Moral Rationalism in Proust and Sartre.

Healthy Appetites: Diet and the Representation of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France

Valérie Orlando is Professor of French & Francophone Literatures in the Department of French & Italian and currently the Director of the Honors Humanities Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of four books: Nomadic Voices of Exile: Feminine Identity in Francophone Literature of the Maghreb, (Ohio University Press, 1999), Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood Through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean (Lexington Books, 2003), Francophone Voices of the 'New Morocco' in Film and Print: (Re)presenting a Society in Transition (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009) and Screening Morocco: Contemporary Film in a Changing Society (forthcoming, Ohio UP, 2011). She writes on and teaches courses about Francophone women's writing from the African diaspora, African Cinema, and French literature and culture. She previously taught at Illinois Wesleyan University (1999-2006); Purdue University (1997-1999); and Eastern Mediterranean University in the Northern Turkish Republic of Cyprus (1996-1997). >>More Info

Through the White Male Gaze: Black Venus.
Auther of: Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. Negritude Women. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Fanon: A Critical Reader . Ed. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting et al. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
Spoils of War: Women of Color, Culture, And Revolutions . Ed. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Renée T. White. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. The Black Feminist Reader . Ed. Joy James and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.   Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.  Director of African American and Diaspora Studies, Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French, Vanderbilt University.>>More Info

Exotica: Narratives of the Exotic Body and the Fin-de-siècle .