Valérie de Courville Nicol February 1, 2012 Employment History

Valérie de Courville Nicol
February 1, 2012
Employment History
• Associate Professor (Concordia University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology)
May 2005‐present
• Assistant Professor (Concordia University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tenure track
appointment)
July 2001‐May 2005
• Assistant Professor (University of Ottawa, Department of Sociology, Limited term appointment)
July 2000‐July 2001
• Part‐time Professor (University of Ottawa, Department of Sociology, and Carleton University,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology)
January 1999‐July 2000
Academic Background
• Doctorate in philosophy (sociology), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University,
Ottawa, August, 1999.
Selected Publications
Single‐Authored Books With Peer Review
Social Economies of Fear and Desire: Emotional Regulation, Emotion Management, and Embodied
Autonomy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 261 p.
Le soupçon gothique: l’intériorisation de la peur en Occident, Québec, Presses de l'Université
Laval/Sodec‐Gallimard, with a foreword by Denis Duclos, Published with support from the Canadian
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ASPP), 2004, 303 p.
Single‐Authored Journal Articles and Book Chapters with Peer Review
"Du problème moral au problème social." Qu'est‐ce qu'un problème social aujourd'hui. M. Otero and S.
Roy (eds), forthcoming.
"Pour une sociologie culturelle foucaldienne...de la peur", Sociologie et Sociétés, 38.2, Fall, 2006, 133‐
149.
"From Pain to Pleasure: Moral Education Through Sublime Terror in The Mysteries of Udolpho", Witness
to Pain: Essays on the Translation of Art Into Pain, Nieves Pascual (ed.), Bern, Peter Lang A.G., 2005, 139‐
155.
"Personal Ghost Stories and the Hyper‐Rationalisation of Fear", Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular
Narrative, 4.1, 2003, 23‐43.
"Le rêve, l’imagination et l’excès: la peur et le développement de l'empirisme psychologique dans les
écrits gothiques", Le rêve et les lumières/The Dream and the Enlightenment, Jochen Schloback (ed.),
Paris, Honoré Champion, ISECS Series, International 18th century studies, 2003, 243‐259.
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"La production de l'homme moderne; ou le passage de la peur à l'intérieur", Sociologie et Sociétés, 34.1,
Spring, 2002, 174‐197.
"Teorie eugeniczne i behawiorystyczne w gotyczyzmie wiktorianskim", Wokol gotycyzmow : wyobraznia,
groza, okrucienstwo, G. Gazda, A. Izdebska et J. Pluciennik (eds), Crakow, Publishing House Universitas,
2002, 211‐219.
"La gouvernance de soi dans trois écrits gothiques anglais", Les œuvres noires de l'art et de la littérature,
Alain Pessin and M.‐C. Vanbremeersch (eds), vol. 2, colloquium proceedings, Paris, l’Harmattan, 2002,
129‐142.
"Du gothique à l'empirisme psychologique: la rationalisation de la peur", Edgar Allan Poe. Une pensée de
la fin, J.‐F. Chassay, J.‐F. Côté et B. Gervais (eds), Montréal, Éditions Liber, 2001, 37‐55.
"Monstrous Overflowing: A Gothic Counter‐Production of Modernity", Space & Culture, 1, 1997, 67‐84.
Book Reviews
"Review of Jackie Orr, Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder." Canadian Journal of Sociology
Online, March‐April, 2007, http://www.cjsonline.ca/reviews/panicdiaries.html.
"Review of Esthétique, littérature et modernité" (Les Cahiers de l'Imaginaire, Yves Laberge (ed.), 1998),
Communication Information, 22.2, Fall, 2003, 226‐228.
"Review of Susanne Becker, Feminine Forms of Gothic Fiction" (New York, Manchester University Press,
1999), In‐Between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism, G. R. Taneja (ed.), University of Delhi, 11.1,
2002, 135‐138.
Other Single‐Authored Reviewed Publications
Michel Lord's En quête du roman gothique québécois, Dictionnaire des œuvres littéraires du Québec
1981‐1985, vol. 7, A. Boivin (ed.), Montréal, Fides, 2003, 315‐317.
Other Publications
With Anouk Bélanger, "La sociologie culturelle: une tendance à suivre", Portrait en mosaïque de la
relève, Le cahier de l’ACSALF, 2.1, février, 2005, p.3.
Notable Awards or Honours
2006
Finalist for the Raymond‐Klibansky Prize awarded by the Canadian Federation for the
Humanities and Social Sciences (ASPP) for my book Le soupçon gothique.
L’intériorisation de la peur en Occident (2004).
2000
Nominated for the Distinguished Dissertation Award of the Canadian Association for
Graduate Studies
1999
Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement, PhD.
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