PhD in French Literature and Narrative Theory, UC Riverside 1982
MA in Art and Archeology, Université de Strasbourg
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P: 909.748.8646
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daniele_slusser@redlands.edu
Nineteenth Century French Literature
Narrative Theory and Narratology
Science Fiction
French Cinema
Art History
Architecture and Urbanism
The impact of science on literary forms
I have published a number of articles, in French and English, on questions of narrative theory. I have also written on narrative form in science fiction. I have one book of literary theory, Perceiving and Telling, and have co-edited two volumes of essays from international conferences. I am translator and co-author of two translations/critical editions for Wesleyan University Press, one of Balzac's Le Centenaire, the other of three novellas of the Belgian writer J-H Rosny. I have co-authored a web exhibit on the urban landscape of Paris in Balzac's time (1800-1850). My most recent article is on Jules Verne, scientist Claude Bernard and the creation of scientific sense of wonder. I am currently working on a book on science and fiction in 19th century French fiction. I make a point of returning to France for several months each summer, not only to see my family, but to keep abreast of French cultural and social issues, which is very important for my teaching.
French 101-102
French 301
FREN 452 French Poetry
FREN 450 The French Novel
FREN 456 Cinema in France
Paris: Art and Architecture
FREN 459 Francophone Africa
French Short Stories
FREN 450 French Theater
UC Riverside, Teaching Associate, French
From Prehistory to the End of the Earth: Three Novellas of J.H. Rosny, translation and critical edition, Wesleyan University Press, (Summer 2011) Author and translator.
Balzac's The Centenarian, translation and critical edition, Wesleyan University Press, 2005. Author and translator.
H.G. Wells's Perennial Time Machine, Essays from the Wells Centenial Conference, Imperial College, London, University of Georgia Press, 2001. Co-editor.
Transformations of Utopia: Changing Views of the Perfect Society. Essays from the Yverdon-les-bains conference celebrating 600 years of the Swiss Confederation. Bi-lingual publication, AMS Press, 1999. French-language editor.
Perceiving and Telling: A Study of Iterative Discourse, San Diego State University, 1998.
Tentatively entitled "Cartesian Mediations: Science and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France." The study deals with the increasing impact of materialist science on the Cartesian paradigm (the mind-matter duality and, especially, the mind-body problem) which defines French culture and the French novel. Specifically, it discusses works by Balzac, Flaubert, Verne, Zola, Maupassant and Proust.
"The Creation of Scientific Wonder: Jules Verne's Dialogue with Claude Bernard," Verniana, Volume 2, 2010.
"Rosny's Evolutionary Ecology," in From Prehistory to the End of the Earth, Wesleyan UP, 2011. Co-author.
"Balzac's Centenarian and French Science Fiction," in Balzac's The Centenarian, Wesleyan UP, 2005. Co-author.
"Conveying Unknown Worlds: Patterns of Communication in Science Fiction," Science- Fiction Studies 29, 2002.
"Wells and the Sequency-Simultaneity Paradox: Heinlein's Re-Writing of The Time Machine in "By His Bootstraps," in H.G. Wells's Perennial Time Machine, University of Georgia Press, 2001.
"Spacetime Geometries: Time Travel and the Modern Geometrical Narrative," Science-Fiction Studies 22, 1995. Co-author.
"Frontiers of the Iterative," Style 21, 1987.
"Frontières de l'itératif," Poétique 68, 1986.
"Itération interne et scène classique," Poétique 51, 1982.
"Récit itératif et concrétisation," The Romanic Review LXXII, 1981.
American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship 1987-88, for writing of book Perceiving and Telling: A Study of Iterative Discourse
North American Jules Verne Society
