Emile J. Talbot
Office: 1205 1/2 Nevada St Rm 106
Phone: 244-2728
Email: ejtalbot@illinois.edu
Although Professor Émile Talbot has attained emeritus status, he maintains an active research program and continues to teach in both the Department of French and the Campus Honors Program. His areas of interest include nineteenth and early twentieth century French literature, French intellectual history, lyric poetry, and Québec literature.
Professor Talbot is a past president of the American Council for Québec Studies and a former editor of the journal, Québec Studies.
Publications include:
Reading Nelligan. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.
Stendhal Revisited. New York: Twayne, 1993.
Stendhal and Romantic Esthetics. Lexington: French Forum Monographs, 1985.
"Serge Patrice Thibodeau and the Sufi Encounter." Studies in Canadian Literature 31.2 (2006): 160-72.
"Conscience et mémoire: Ying Chen et la problématique identitaire." Nouvelles Études francophones 20.1 (2005): 149-62.
"Rewriting Les Lettres chinoises: The Poetics of Erasure." Québec Studies 36 (2003-04): 83-91.
"L’Écriture dramatique et la crise des années trente au Québec." Revue d’histoire du théâtre 3 (2003): 231-44.
"Choquette’s Urban Fables: Questioning a Certain Modernity." Québec Studies 34 (2002-03): 47-58.
"The Québec Novel in the 1990s: A Preliminary Discernment." World Literature Today Magazine 2 (2002), 48-51.
"The End of the Sacred: A Religiological Reading of Le Matou." Dalhousie French Studies 61 (2002), 104-12.
"Serge Patrice Thibodeau: Conjugation the Sensual and the Spiritual." World Literature Today 73 (1999) 261-68.
"Literature and Ideology in the Thirties: Fictional Representations of Communism in Québec." International Journal of Canadian Studies 20 (1999): 53-66.
"Reading Ambiguity: Violence, Character, and Change in Jacques Godbout's Une histoire américaine." Dalhousie French Studies 36 (1996): 135-43.
"Proletarian Poetics in the 1930s: Clément Marchand's Les Soirs Rouges." American Review of Canadian Studies 26 (1996): 101-14.
"Anne Hébert´s ´La fille maigre´: Gendering Poetics." Studies in Canadian Literature 20.1 (1995): 80-92.
"The Signifying Absence: Reading Kamouraska Politically." Canadian Literature 130 (1991): 194-200.