Yvonne Hsieh, PhD (Stanford), Professor Emerita
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Yvonne Y. Hsieh has a B.A. (Honours) in French from the University of British Columbia, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in French Literature from Stanford University. Before coming to the University of Victoria in 1987, she taught for two years at U.B.C., and held an Isaac Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship there. She has served as Chair of the Department of French at UVic (1999-2002), and as Vice-President (2000-2002), then President (2002-2004), of the Canadian Association of University and College Teachers of French (CAUCTF). She specializes in French Literature of the 20th and 21st century, and has published on novelists, poets, and playwrights from this period. Her research work is primarily cross-cultural and interlingual in nature. She has a particular interest in East-West literary relationships (especially between France and China), in the perception and representation of other cultures in French Literature throughout the centuries, in French writers who have drawn inspirations from China, and in Chinese writers who have adopted French as their preferred language of creation.
Specializations
- 20th- and 21st- century French Literature (theatre, fiction, and poetry).
- East-West literary relations.
- Exoticism and Alterity in French Literature.
Administrative Positions
Chair of Department of French, 1999-2002
President, Association of University and College Teachers of French / Association des professeurs de français des universités et collèges canadiens, 2002-2004
Selected Publications
Books
Segalen: Stèles. (Glasgow Introductory Guides to French Literature 53.), Glasgow: University of Glasgow French & German Publications, 2007. (email publisher)
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt ou la philosophie de l'ouverture, Summa Publications, Inc. Birmingham, 2006.
From Occupation to Revolution: China Through the Eyes of Loti, Claudel, Segalen and Malraux (1895-1933), Summa Publications, Inc. Birmingham, 1996.
Segalen's Literary Encounter with China: Chinese Moulds, Western Thoughts, University of Toronto Press, 1988.
Most Recent Articles
« L’Emprise du passé : crime, châtiment et culpabilité dans la création de Philippe Claudel ». Voix plurielles, Vol 7, No 2 (2010) : 2-15. http://www.brocku.ca/brockreview/index.php/voixplurielles/issue/view/45
« Famille et filiation dans le théâtre expérimental de Noëlle Renaude ». Tangence 91 (automne 2009) : 81-94.
« A Poetics of Relationality: Victor Segalen's Stèles.» Empire Lost: France and Its Other Worlds. Ed. Elisabeth Mudimbe-Bovi. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009. Chapter 6, pp. 89-104.
« Mr. Muo’s Traveling Couch: Dai Sijie’s Picaresque Novel (戴思杰的流浪小说 ＜莫先生的飞行躺椅＞)». Cultural Studies and Literary Theory 中外文化与文论 (University of Sichuan Press), No. 16 (April 2008): 37-50.
« Ars moriendi ou que faire devant la mort: Le cycle de l'invisible d'Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. » Frontières 19.2 (printemps 2007) : 62-67.
« Décrire l'indescriptible : Stratégies évasives dans Windows on the World de Frédéric Beigbeder.» Voix plurielles, vol 02, No. 02 (décembre 2005). http://www.brocku.ca/brockreview/index.php/voixplurielles/issue/view/30
« Roman picaresque, exotique et ethnographique : Le Complexe de Di de Dai Sijie. » Voix plurielles, vol 01, No. 02 (février 2005). http://www.brocku.ca/brockreview/index.php/voixplurielles/issue/view/18
« Victor Segalen et le théâtre. » Tentation théâtrale des romanciers. Paris : Sedes, 2002. pp. 112-120.
« Splendeurs et misères des mots : Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise de Dai Sijie. » Etudes francophones 17.1 (juin 2002): 93-105.
« Entre deux équinoxes: Variations énigmatiques d'Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. » Dalhousie French Studies 58 (Spring 2002): 143-151.
« Un théâtre total: Par-dessus bord de Michel Vinaver. » French Review 75.3 (February 2002): 489-499.
« Stèles en anglais: une étude comparative de trois traductions. » Cahier Victor Segalen 6 (2000): 89-113.
« Le problème de l'altérité dans Les Immémoriaux de Victor Segalen. » Revue Francophone XIII.I (Spring 1998): 43-54.
« André Dhôtel: sage taoïste? » André Dhôtel (Actes du colloque d'Angers des 6 et 7 décembre 1996). Angers: Presses de l'université d'Angers, 1998. 143-151.
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