catherine masson - Wellesley College

CATHERINE MASSON
12 Russell Rd. Apt 401
Wellesley, MA 02482
[email protected]
(781) 431-6142
Wellesley College
French Department
Wellesley, MA 02481-8201
(781) 283-2417
EDUCATION
Ph.D., French, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988.
Dissertation : “Littérature et Tauromachie, une lecture de Michel Leiris.” Director: Ross Chambers.
Maîtrise de Français, langue et littérature médiévales, (mention très bien), Université de Haute-Bretagne,
Rennes, France, 1981.
Licence de Portugais, Université de Haute-Bretagne, 1980.
Diploma de Honra, Instituto de Cultura e Lingua Portuguesa, Lisboa, 1980.
Licence de Sciences du Langage et de la Culture, Université de Haute-Bretagne, 1979.
Licence de Lettres Modernes, Université de Haute-Bretagne, 1979.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2003-present
2010-2012
2008-2010
Spring 2010
2009-2010
Professor of French, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
Director of Junior Year Program, Wellesley-in-Aix, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Chair of Theatre Studies Reappointment and Promotion Committee.
Associate Director of Wellesley-in-Aix, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
Chair of Reappointment and Promotion Committee for the reappointment review of
Director of Theatre Studies
Spring 2007 Chair, French Department, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
Fall 2003
Director of Junior Year Program, Wellesley-in-Aix, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2002-2003
Director of Junior Year Program, Wellesley-in-Aix, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2001-2002
Associate Director of Wellesley-in-Aix, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
1999-2002
Chair, French Department, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
1996-2003
Associate Professor of French, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
1992-1993
Director of Junior Year Program, Wellesley-in-Aix, Aix-en-Provence, France.
1991-1992
Associate Director of Wellesley-in-Aix, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
1989-1991
Director of the French House, Wellesley College, MA.
1988-1996
Assistant Professor of French, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
1986-1987
Instructor, Residential College, Ann Arbor, MI, (also 1983, 1985).
1983-1986
Instructor, Summer Language School, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
1984-1988 Coordinator and Lecturer, University of Michigan.
Training and supervision of teaching assistants in second-year French program.
1982-1985
Director of the French House, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
1981-1984
Teaching Assistant of French, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE
2004
1996
Creative work for the stage
George Sand – Gustave Flaubert, Echanges Epistolaires. Play performed in France, Switzerland,
Monaco, and the USA (2004-2007), published in 2006.
Pour Faire le Portrait de Prévert, montage of Jacques Prévert’s poems. Play performed in the USA,
France, Germany and Switzerland (1996-2001). Text registered at the SACD (Société des Auteurs &
Compositeurs Dramatiques), Paris, 2001.
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2008
1996
1995
1994
1992
1991
1986
1985
1984
1983
Acting
Theatrical Readings: “Monologues” from Cosima by George Sand, The Eighteenth International George
Sand Conference: Writing, Performance, and Theatricality in George Sand’s Works, The University of
California at Santa Barbara, September.
Claire in Les Bonnes by Jean Genet, USA.
Participation in a student production of Always the Same Game, voice of Madame Danzard, the French
mother, Ruth Nagel Jones Theater, Wellesley College.
Entre le Gouffre et l'Azur, spectacle about Charles Baudelaire and his Works, USA.
(One of three main characters)
Estelle in Huis Clos by Sartre, Germany & Switzerland.
Estelle in Huis Clos by Sartre, Switzerland.
Estelle in Huis Clos by Sartre, Germany.
Estelle in Huis Clos by Sartre, USA.
in Entre le Gouffre et l'Azur, spectacle about Charles Baudelaire and his Works, USA.
Mme Pernelle in Tartuffe by Molière, Estelle, in Huis Clos by Sartre, USA.
Mme Boulingrin in Les Boulingrin by Courteline, USA. In Poétique Prévert, USA.
Georgette in L'Ecole des Femmes by Molière, USA. Mme Chouilloux in On purge bébé by Feydeau.
Staging
1997
2010
2007
2007
2006
2005
2004
Assistant to the Director for Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard, by Marivaux, USA.
Directing
Phèdre by Racine, sponsored by the French House, Wellesley College, May 7 & 8.
George Sand – Gustave Flaubert, Echanges Epistolaires. Play performed in Vevey, Switzerland, the
U.S.A and Puerto-Rico.
Huis Clos by Sartre: New Production Huis Clos 2005, performed in Weimar/Lahn and in
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
George Sand – Gustave Flaubert, Echanges Epistolaires. Play performed in Monaco for the National
Day, and in Fribourg and Berne, Switzerland.
Huis Clos by Sartre: New Production Huis Clos 2005 to celebrate Sartre Centennial. (Staging,
designing of decor and costumes), performed in France and the USA.
George Sand – Gustave Flaubert, Echanges Epistolaires by Catherine Masson (staging, designing of
decor and costumes). Spring 2004.
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
Nominated for the Price Sony Labou Tansi given by the House of Writers from Francophonies in Limousin
(France), January 2007.
Awarded “Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques” by the French Government, 2006.
Research Grant for research on Olympe de Gouges and George Sand, Committee on Faculty Awards.
Wellesley College, 2006.
Research Grant for an edition of 8 plays by Marguerite de Navarre, Committee on Faculty Awards.
Wellesley College, 2005.
Research grant for project on George Sand and The Revolution of 1848, Committee on Faculty Awards,
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Wellesley College, 2001.
Research grant for publication of L’Autobiographie et ses aspects théâtraux chez Michel Leiris, Committee on
Faculty Awards, Wellesley College, 1995.
Research grant for project on women playwrights, Committee on Faculty Awards, Wellesley College, 1991.
Pew Summer Seminar on Literary Criticism, Wellesley College, 1990.
Research grant to study the role of the director as rewriter, interview of Eugene Ionesco and Antoine Vitez,
director of the Comédie-Française, Committee on Faculty Awards, Wellesley College, 1988.
International Scholarship, Foundation Gulbenkian for a paper on “Comparaçao da apresentaçao de Inês de
Castro em Os Lusiadas de Camoes e em La Reine Morte de Montherlant,” and to study at the University
of Coïmbra, Portugal, 1980.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Edition and Presentation of Cosima by George Sand, Paris: Le Jardin d’Essai, 2013.
Co-editor of George Sand : Une écriture expérimentale, New Orleans: Presses Universitaires du Nouveau
Monde, 2006.
Co-editor of 8 plays by Marguerite de Navarre in Théâtre de femmes de l’Ancien Régime. Vol. 1 : XVIe siècle.
Saint-Etienne, coll. « La cité des dames » nº 5, déc.2006.
Play : George Sand-Gustave Flaubert, échanges épistolaires, Paris : Le Jardin d’essai, 2006.
L'Autobiographie et ses aspects théâtraux chez Michel Leiris, Paris: L'Harmattan, 1995.
Articles
« Lupo Liverani, adaptation du Damné pour doute de Tirso de Molina et testament théosophique de George
Sand », in « Staging the Self », Women's Voices: Critical Essays on Francophone Women's Theater, C.
Beach & J. Johnston éds., Women in French Studies, (Forthcoming 2014).
« George Sand: ‘Un auteur dramatique honnête dans la peau d’un romancier’», Écriture, performance et
théâtralité dans l’oeuvre de George Sand, O. Bara et C. Nesci éds., Ellug, Grenoble,
(Forthcoming 2014).
13 Entries on plays by George Sand, one entry on « Adaptation des romans à la scène », one on « Bérengère »
in Dictionnaire George Sand, Paris, Champion (forthcoming).
« De la correspondance à la scène : les coulisses de la pièce George Sand-Gustave Flaubert, échanges
épistolaires, in Des vérités de raison et de sentiment. Lectures de la correspondance FlaubertSand, Thierry Poyet éd, CELIS, collection “Ecritures de l’intime”, Cahier no22, Presses Universitaires
Blaise Pascal, 2013.
« George Sand, fille naturelle de Diderot ? Du Père de famille de Diderot au Pressoir de George Sand », Sand
et les arts du XIXe siècle, O. Bara éd. Les Amis de George Sand, no. 34, 2012.
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« Le secret révélé : mise en scène de la marginalité dans Cosima de George Sand », La Marginalité dans
l’œuvre de George Sand, Clermont-Ferrand, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, coll. Révolutions et
Romantismes, 2012.
« Le Père Va-tout-seul : théâtralisation de l’article politique sandien, » Une autorité paradoxale, t. 1 Sand
journaliste, Marie-Ève Thérenty éd., Saint-Etienne, Presses Universitaires de Saint-Etienne, 2011.
“As you like it de Shakespeare comme il a plu à George Sand”, George Sand : Intertextualité et Polyphonie I,
Nigel Harkness & Jacinta Wright éds, Bern, Peter Lang, 2010.
“La guerre de 1870 et la Commune sous les plumes épistolaires de Sand et Flaubert”, Histoire(s) et
enchantements. Hommages offerts à Simone Bernard-Griffiths, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal,
Clermont-Ferrand, 2010.
“Féminisation et subversion du héros romantique dans le théâtre de George Sand,” George Sand Studies, vol.27,
2008.
“George Sand’s L’Autre: From ‘Auto-adaptation’ to rewriting”, in Novel Stages. Drama and the Novel in
Nineteenth-Century France, ed. Pratima Prasad & Susan Mcready University of Delaware Press, 2007.
“George Sand et l’‘auto-adaptation’ de ses romans à la scène,” in George Sand, Pratiques et imaginaires de
l’écriture, B. Diaz et I. Hoog Naginski (dir.), Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2006 .
“Michel Leiris” in Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought, ed. Christopher John Murray, Fitzroy Dearborn
Publishers, 2004.
“Préfaces de George Sand à son théâtre: Manifeste théâtral et témoignages historiques,” George Sand Studies,
Volume 22, 2003.
“George Sand, le ‘génie devenu fou’ et sa conquête de l’Amérique,” in Œuvres et Critiques XXVIII, 1.
Réception internationale de George Sand à l’étranger (XIXe siècle), Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen,
Germany, 2003.
“Olympe de Gouges anti-esclavagiste et non violente,” Women in French Studies, Volume 10, 2002.
“Le Roi attend, Retour de la République et Retour de George Sand au théâtre,” Les Amis de George
Sand, no. 24, 2002.
“George Sand à la Comédie-Française,” in Gislinde Seybert / Gisela Schlientz, eds., George Sand
– jenseits des Identischen (Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2000).
“Pratique de l'oral par le théâtre,” in RELIEF, Revue de Linguistique et d’Enseignement du Français, Vol. 3,
Toronto, July 1994.
“Le Pendule révolutionnaire et la giclée de sang du texte leirisien,” in Mélanges offerts à Jean Peytard, Annales
Littéraires de l'Université de Besançon, Vol. 502, Les Belles Lettres,1993.
“Prostitution and Racism in Sartre's The Respectful Prostitute,” in Text & Presentation, Journal of the
Comparative Drama Conference 12, Gainesville, FL, Maupin House Publishing, March 1992.