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CURRICULUM VITÆ
XAVIER FONTAINE
Department of French and Italian
Princeton University
303 East Pyne
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-4500
[email protected]
[email protected]
EDUCATION
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Ph.D. Candidate, April 2010 – Present (Ph.D. expected in 2016)
Princeton, NJ
Thesis: “Transsubstantiations héroïques. Ulenspiegel – Rabelais – De Coster” (advisor: Göran M. Blix). Study of
the cultural transfers subjacent to the reappropriation of the medieval and Renaissance farcical register in
Charles De Coster’s La Légende d’Ulenspiegel (definitive ed. 1869), a vast illustrated epic commonly considered
to be the founding novel of Belgian literature.
M.A., French Literature, May 2009
ÉCOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE – Ulm
Visiting Fellow (Pensionnaire étranger), September 2010 – June 2011
Paris, France
ÉCOLE NATIONALE DES CHARTES
Visiting Fellow, September-December 2010
Paris, France
UNIVERSITÉ DE LOUVAIN (UCL)
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Agrégation (highest level of teaching diploma) in Romance Languages & Literatures,
January 2002. Magna cum laude
Licence (master’s degree) in Romance Languages & Literatures, September 2000. Summa cum laude
Master’s thesis: “Des Tropismes aux Tropismi: la traductibilité de Nathalie Sarraute en italien” (advisors: Silvia
Lucchini & Francine Thyrion)
Candidature (bachelor’s degree) in Romance Languages & Literatures, June 1998. Magna cum
laude
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Course Head Instructor
Cours Communaux de Langues Modernes (CCLM)
September 2014 – Present
Brussels, Belgium
Designed and taught evening French courses for international adults living and working in the Brussels area:
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Formation 4 (Intermediate French). One section (AY 2014-15: Fall; AY 2015-16: Spring)
Formation 3 (Low Intermediate French). One section (AY 2015-16: Fall)
Formation 1 (Elementary French II). One section (AY 2014-15: Spring)
Formation Débutant B (Elementary French I). One section (AY 2014-15: Fall & Spring)
Research Assistant
Princeton University, Department of French and Italian
July-August 2014
Princeton, NJ
Preliminary research in preparation of the course FRE 393 New Media 1400-1900 (Prof. Katie Chenoweth)
Assistant Instructor
Princeton University, Department of French and Italian
September 2008 – January 2013
Princeton, NJ
Courses taught:
FRE 207 Studies in French Language and Style: Le Fantastique. Two sections (AY 2012-13: Fall).
Interdisciplinary course including the study of major works of French and Francophone literature and
cinema.
FRE 105 Intermediate French. Two sections (AY 2009-10: Fall)
FRE 101 Beginner’s French I. One section (AY 2008-09: Fall)
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Teaching and Research Assistant
AY 2003-04
Université de Louvain (UCL), Department of Romance Studies
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Evaluation and grading of students’ essays written for the undergraduate course FLTR 1540 Pratiques du
français à l’université (introductory course to academic writing in the Humanities) / Supervision of master’s
theses / Follow-up of teaching internships (stages d’agrégation) / Participation in the workshops organized by
the CEDILL (Centre de Recherche en Didactique des Langues et Littératures Romanes) and GRIFED (Groupe de
Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Formation des Enseignants et en Didactique)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Scholarly Editor
October 2003 – August 2007
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (IRPA)
Brussels, Belgium
Supervision and editing of the Institute’s publications:
Bulletin, vols. 29 to 31 (see http://www.kikirpa.be/EN/115/365/Bulletin.htm)
Scientia Artis series, vols. 2 and 3 (see http://www.kikirpa.be/EN/116/366/Scientia+Artis.htm)
Publishing Assistant
January 2002 – March 2003
Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes (PIE-Peter Lang SA)
Brussels, Belgium
Case management
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
January 2014
Fulton McMahon Research Grant
October 2013
Fulton McMahon Research Grant
April 2013
Scholarly travel funding granted by the Centre Victor-Louis
Saulnier de Recherche sur la Création Littéraire en France au
XVIe siècle, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
October 2012 (twice)
Fulton McMahon Research Grant
September 2012
Dean’s Fund for Scholarly Travel Grant
AY 2011-12
Armstrong Grant
AY 2010-11
Donald and Mary Hyde Academic-Year Research Fellowship
AY 2010-11
ENS Fellow (Bourse d’accueil granted by the École Normale
Supérieure – Ulm)
October 2010
Edward C. Armstrong Grant
May 2010
Edward C. Armstrong Grant
AY 2008-09 – AY 2009-10
Armstrong Grant
AY 2007-08
Armstrong Prize
AY 2007-08
Halsted and Ruth Archbald Little Scholarship
AY 2007-08
Honorary Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF)
Fellowship
July-August 1999
37° Laboratorio Internazionale della Comunicazione Sociale,
Linguistica e Letteraria (Gemona del Friuli, Italy). One-month
scholarship granted by the Università Cattolica di Milano and the
Università degli Studi di Udine
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters and Articles
Du Volksbuch renaissant à l’Ulenspiegel de Charles De Coster. Éléments de caractérisation de la
tradition du livre espiègle. In: Perspectives facétieuses. Ed. by Dominique Bertrand. Paris:
Classiques Garnier [forthcoming].
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“[F]ourmille[ment] de vie et de vérité” (Victor Hugo): fonction d’indétermination diégétique des
gravures de l’Ulenspiegel de Charles De Coster. In: Écrire l’illustration: le rapport à l’image
dans la littérature des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Ed. by Sarah Juliette Sasson. Clermont-Ferrand:
Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal [forthcoming].
Les futures ruines de Paris chez Méry, Dumas et Franklin. Modalités de l’archéologie rétroanticipative. In: (Bé)vues du futur. Les imaginaires visuels de la dystopie (1840-1940). Ed. by
Clément Dessy and Valérie Stiénon. Villeneuve d’Ascq, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion,
2015, pp. 73-92.
La photo mystère de Bruges-la-Morte. In: Transactions photolittéraires. Ed. by Jean-Pierre Montier.
Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015, pp. 137-156.
[Co-written with Matthew Sandefer] Ingratitude. In: Dictionnaire de la méchanceté. Ed. by Lucien
Faggion and Christophe Regina. Paris: Max Milo, 2013, pp. 164-167 [erroneously credited by
the editors with “Pierre-François Lacenaire (20 décembre 1803, Lyon - 9 janvier 1936, Paris),”
pp. 188-189].
The Bibliophile’s Book as Theatrical Performance: Pelléas et Mélisande Illustrated by Fernand
Khnopff. In: The Art of Theatre: Word, Image and Performance in Nineteenth-Century France
and Belgium, c. 1830-1910. Ed. by Claire Moran. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013, pp. 257-285.
La photographie non identifiée de Bruges-la-Morte. Tentative de percée d’un mystère, lui-même
fonction de l’interprétation du lecteur. In: Actes du colloque “Photolittérature, littératie visuelle
et nouvelles textualités” (New York University in Paris, 26-27 octobre 2012). Ed. by Paul
Edwards, Vincent Lavoie and Jean-Pierre Montier. URL: http://phlit.org/press/?p=1721
(05/31/2013). Complementary note on Bruges-la-Morte co-written with Paul Edwards
(http://phlit.org/items/show/2190).
Joseph Van der Veken (1872-1964): faussaire et restaurateur de génie. In: L’affaire Van der Veken
(Bruxelles, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 27 janvier-20 février 2005). Exhibition
catalog. Brussels: Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, 2005, pp. 5-6 [also in Dutch].
Approche philologique des Tropismes de Nathalie Sarraute. Les Lettres Romanes, LV, 1-2, 2001,
pp. 97-106.
In Progress
La main de Palamède. Le baron de Charlus et son pendant antique.
Transformisme et rationalité dans la démonologie ronsardienne.
Rabelais était-il espiègle?
L’apidologie poétique de Maurice Maeterlinck: l’altérité levinassienne appliquée à l’entomologie.
Edited Volume
[Co-edited with Ludovic Nys, Dominque Vanwijnsberghe and Jacques Debergh] Campin in Context.
Peinture et société dans la vallée de l’Escaut à l’époque de Robert Campin, 1375-1445. Actes du
Colloque international organisé par l’Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis, l’Institut
Royal du Patrimoine Artistique et l’Association des Guides de Tournai (Tournai, Maison de la Culture,
30 mars-1er avril 2006), Valenciennes-Brussels-Tournai: Presses Universitaires de ValenciennesInstitut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique-Association des Guides de Tournai, 2007.
Book Review
Ari J. Blatt, Pictures into Words: Images in Contemporary French Fiction. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 2012 [forthcoming in Symposium].
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PAPERS PRESENTED
November 5, 2015
On the “champs renouvelés par l’industrie”: The Sung Ecology of Pierre Dupont.
Contamination. 41st Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium.
Princeton University, November 5-7, 2015
July 21, 2015
Le positionnement mouvant du fripon voyageur au sein des littératures
nationales: le cas de l’Ulenspiegel de Charles De Coster. Borders and
Crossings/Seuils et traverses. 12th Interdisciplinary Conference on Travel
Writing. Queen’s University, Belfast, July 21-23, 2015
February 27, 2014
The Flemish Ulenspiegel and the Search for a Belgian Literary Identity. French
& Italian Department’s Works-in-Progress Session. Princeton University
January 9, 2014
The Dutch War of Independence Revisited by the Ulenspiegel Tradition:
Troubled Times, Interculturality, and the Emergence of Belgian Literature.
Vulnerable Times. 129th Modern Language Association Annual Convention,
Chicago, January 9-12, 2014
October 24, 2013
La nation: seuil à atteindre ou à dépasser? L’universalisme de Victor Hugo à
l’épreuve des spécificités nationales. Thresholds and Horizons. 39th Annual
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium. University of Richmond,
October 24-26, 2013
April 6, 2013
Du Volksbuch renaissant à l’Ulenspiegel de Charles De Coster. Origine, fortune
et enjeux de la tradition du livre espiègle. La facétie au Cabinet des Livres du
château de Chantilly. Perspectives facétieuses, III. International Study Day
organized by the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), Château de Chantilly,
Oise
October 26, 2012
La photographie non identifiée de Bruges-la-Morte. International Colloquium on
Photolittérature, littératie visuelle et nouvelles textualités. Plenary Session. New
York University in Paris, October 26-27, 2012
October 12, 2012
Le come-back de Rabelais au XIXe siècle et la “stature gastronomique” des
littératures française et francophone. Feast & Famine. 38th Annual NineteenthCentury French Studies Colloquium. North Carolina State University, October
11-13, 2012
November 20, 2010
The Bibliophile’s Book as Theatrical Performance: Pelléas et Mélisande
Illustrated by Fernand Khnopff. International Conference on The Art of Theatre:
Word, Image and Performance in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium.
Queen’s University, Belfast, November 19-20, 2010
October 14, 2010
Théorie de l’art et paléographie. Le cas des futures ruines parisiennes. Theories
and Methods. 36th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium.
Yale University, October 14-16, 2010
April 21, 2010
Dialogue texte-image et nation. Les débuts de la littérature francophone belge.
Dissertation Proposal Practice. French & Italian Department’s Works-inProgress Session, Princeton University
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (Princeton University)
March 24, 2015
Presentation, under the framework of the FrenchSpeaking Movies Film Club, of Yolande Moreau’s and
Gilles Porte’s When the Sea Rises… (Quand la mer
monte…) [read in absentia]
AY 2014-15
[With Liliane Ehrhart] Foundation, launching, and coorganization of the French-Speaking Movies Film Club
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May 8, 2014
Acting the main role of Fulgenzio in a performance, in
Italian, by L’Avant-Scène (the Department of French and
Italian’s French Theater Workshop) of excerpts from Carlo
Goldoni’s Gl’innamorati at the Princeton University Art
Museum
December 11, 2013
Respondent for a conference by Liliane Ehrhart (French &
Italian Department’s Works-in-Progress Session): L’essai
comme genre thérapeutique: La pudeur ou l’impudeur
(Hervé Guibert, 1992)
AY 2009-10 – AY 2011-12
Representative within the French & Italian Department
Graduate Liaison Committee (GLC)
September 8-9, 2008
Participation in an orientation to improve undergraduate
instruction (teaching training course given by the McGraw
Center for Teaching and Learning)
September 2008 – May 2010
April 2013 – June 2014
Tutor in French for the Department of Classics (official
on-campus job)
December 13, 2007
[With Ronah Sadan] Co-organizer of and respondent for a
graduate student colloquium: “Ni ange, ni bête”: Pascal
Reader of Montaigne. Invited speaker: Hall Bjørnstad
AY 2007-08
September 2007 – December 2009
AY 2009-10
September-December 2012
AY 2013-14
French Table Host
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
19th- and 20th-century French and Francophone literature
History of the book / Illustrated book / Literature and the arts / Art history / Media and literature
Renaissance literature
Literature and mythology / Literature and folklore / Chapbooks (Littérature de colportage)
Nationalism and literary history
Literature and philosophy / Literature and science
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association of America (MLA)
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association (NCFSA)
Association Internationale d’Études Françaises (AIEF)
February 2013 – Present
October 2010 – Present
July 2010 – Present
LANGUAGES
French: native
English: near-native
Italian: very good
Dutch: fair
German: reading knowledge
Latin: reading knowledge
Ancient Greek: reading knowledge
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