Charles R. Batson
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Interrelationships among literary, theatrical, and dance texts. Modern French and Francophone literature. Interdisciplinarity. Contemporary theory, including cultural studies and performance theory.
PUBLICATIONS :
Book:
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Dance, Desire, and Anxiety in Early Twentieth-Century French Theater: Playing Identities. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. |
Articles:
"Imaginer l'identité sexuelle : Salvador Dali et l'autre sexe." Co-author with Yana Hashamova. Translator of full article. Gradiva: Revue Européenne d'Anthropologie Littéraire (Forthcoming; accepted with revision.)
"Men in Tights: The Ballets Russes, Nijinsky, and Inter-War Melancholia in Paris." Contemporary French Civilization. 28.1 (Winter/Spring 2004): 90-110.
"Seeing an Americanism: America the Specular in Parade and Création du monde." Nottingham French Studies. 44.3 (Autumn 2005): 24-39
"Jeanne Moreau euro." New Europe at the Crossroads. Ursula Beitter, Ed. New York : Peter Lang, 2001. 1-12.
"Borlin, Masculinity, and l'Homme et son désir." Dance Chronicle. 22.2 (October 1999): 239-249.
Critical Guide Entries:
"Dance." Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. 181-183.
"Proust, Marcel." Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. 474-477.
"Diaghilev, Sergey." Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. 183-185.
Reviews:
Berrong, Richard. In Love with a Handsome Sailor: The Emergence of Gay Identity and The Novels of Pierre Loti (Toronto: Univ of Toronto Press, 2003). Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly. 7.1 (2005). 133-135.
Huston, Nancy. Dolce agonia (Paris: Actes Sud, 2001). The French Review. 76.3 (Feb 2003). 671-672.
Huston, Nancy. Nord perdu (Paris: Actes Sud, 1999). The French Review. 75.6 (May 2002). 1314-1315.
Koenig, Gaspard. Octave avait vingt ans. Paris: Editions Grasset, 2004. The French Review. Forthcoming.
Mehta, Binita. Widows, Pariahs, and Bayadères: India as Spectacle (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2002). The French Review. 78.2 (Dec 2004). 362-363.
Mehta, Brinda. Diasporic (Dis)locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the Kala Pani. Kingston, Jamaica: The U. of the West Indies P, 2004. The French Review. Forthcoming [79.6 (May 2006)].
Nicole, Robert. The Word, the Pen, and the Pistol: Literature and Power in Tahiti (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000). The French Review. 76.6 (May 2003). 1230-1231.
Double review. Norman, Buford. Touched by the Graces: The Libretti of Philippe Quinault in the Context of French Classicism (Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, 2001). And Tomlinson, Philip, ed. French "Classical" Theatre Today: Teaching, Research, Performance. (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2001). The French Review. 76.5 (April 2003). 1238-1239.
Singleton, Brian. Artaud: Le Théâtre et son double (London: Grant and Cutler, 1998). The French Review. 76.3 (Feb 2003). 621-622.
Terence, Mathieu. Les filles de l'ombre (Paris: Editions Phebus, 2002). The French Review. 77.1 (October 2003). 244-245.
CONSULTING:
French language and culture consultant. Free Fall. Musical theatre. Showcased at Broadway Theatre Institute, March 2003. Submitted for Regional Theater, Tampa, FL, 2005.