Department of English
Diane Cousineau
Adjunct Professor in English
E-mail: dcousineau2@washcoll.edu
Phone: (800) 422-1782, ext. 7480
Office: Daly 201
Education
B.A., Queens College, 1967; M.A., University of California at Davis, 1968; Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 1974.
Teaching Areas
- The Female Subject in 20th Century Literature
- Forms of Literature and Composition
- Highlights of Western Drama
- Jewish-American Writers
Published Work
Books
- Artists' Estates: Reputations in Trust, coed. with Magda Salvesen. Rutgers University Press, 2005.
- The Sound of Sleat: A Painter's Life, coed. with Magda Salvesen. St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- Letters and Labyrinths: Women Writing/Cultural Codes. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997.
Articles
- "The Legacies of Artists." Provincetown Arts. 2006/2007: 86-88.
- "Women and Autobiography: Is there Life Beyond the Looking Glass?" Caliban (University of Toulouse) (January 1994), 97-105.
- "Virginia Woolf's 'Sketch of the Past': Life-writing, the Body and the Mirror Gaze." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (December 1993), 51-71.
- "Leslie Silko's Ceremony: the Spiderweb as Text." Revue Française des Etudes Américaines (February 1990), 19-31.
- "Division and Difference in A Lost Lady." Willa Cather issue of Women's Studies (1984), 305-22.
- "The Desires of Women, the Presence of Men." Grace Paley issue of Delta (University of Montpellier) (May 1982), 55-66. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Thomas Votteler. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1991.
Honors
- NDEA Fellowship (1967-1970)
- Teaching Assistantship (1968-1970)
- Recommendation for Fulbright Award (1995)
Biographical Note
Diane Cousineau received her Ph.D from the University of California at Davis after completing a dissertation on Virginia Woolf and Henry James. She then taught American and British literature at the Sorbonne and other campuses of the University of Paris, the US Naval Academy and the University of Delaware. Appointments at French Universities brought her back to France in 1995 (the Universities of Paris and Artois) and in 2003 (University of Avignon).
Here at Washington College, Professor Cousineau teaches both undergraduate-and graduate-level courses on Jewish-American Writers, Drama, and Twentieth Century Fiction. She has published a literary study, Letters and Labyrinths: Women Writing/Cultural Codes and edited two art-related books. Her current research involves contemporary international fiction. Her passions are traveling and hiking with her husband in desert landscapes.
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