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<< back to Faculty Ph.D., University of California-Davis, 1979. M.J. Muratore, Professor of French and Co-Editor of the Afro-Romance Writers Series, is a specialist in seventeenth-century French literature and dramatic theory with complementary research and teaching interests in narratological and poetic analysis, contemporary critical theory and practice, francophone studies and, as reflective of her most recent work, the problematics of exile, alienation, marginalization and otherness in post-World War II literature. Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures from 1995 to 2002, Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of Romance Languages from 2002-2005, Dr. Muratore was the co-founding Director of the Afro-Romance Institute and the co-writer of two funded NEH Summer Institute/Seminar Grants for University Teachers. In 1991, the inaugural year of a university-wide competition, Dr. Muratore was named a Kemper Fellow by the University of Missouri, in recognition of outstanding teaching. Dr. Muratore’s scholarly pursuits include articles appearing in a broad spectrum of international journals and focused on French and European writers, among them: Tristan L’Hermite, Mme de Lafayette, La Fontaine, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Guillerargues, Perrault, Scarron, Cyrano de Bergerac, Calvino, Machado de Assis, Camus. Her books include the following: The Evolution of the Cornelian Heroine (1982); Cornelian Theater: The Metadramatic Dimension (1990); Mimesis and Metatextuality in the Neo-Classical Text (1994)—nominated for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize in French Studies, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America; Expirer au féminin: Narratives of Female Dissolution in the French Neo-Classical Text (2003); and two textbooks: Introduction to French Literature: Medieval to Eighteenth Century (2003), and Introduction to French Literature: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2005)—both designed for the distance learning program at the University of Missouri. Her current research projects extend significantly beyond the French frame and encompass analyses reflective of her evolving interests. These include: Exiles, Outcasts, Strangers: Icons of Marginalization in Post-World War II Fiction; and, a collection of essays provisionally titled: “The Rape of Paradise” and other Broken Paradigms: Re-Discovering the Vision and Artistry of Jan Carew. Dr. Muratore serves as co-editor for the "Afro-Romance Writers" series of the University of Missouri Press, as Associate Editor for the journal Symposium, as Managing editor of the on-line journal Virtualities: International Review of Distance Learning, as Advisory Director for Franklin Publishing Inc., and serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Papers of the Missouri Philological Association (1990-present). |
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