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Jack Yeager
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of French Studies
416 Hodges Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge LA 70808 USA
Phone: 1-225-578-6627
Fax: 1-225-578-6628
Email: jay@lsu.edu


Research Interests
Southeast Asian Francophone literature; Francophone women's writing; gender studies

Notable activities
MLA Divisional Committee, Francophone Literatures and Cultures (1999-2004)
MLA Delegate Assembly (1999-2004)
Conseil d’administration, Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (1999-2004)
President, Northeast MLA (1992-93)
Visiting Professor, Wellesley College (1997)
Visiting Professor, University of Oregon (1996)

Recent and notable publications

“Jean Hougron’s Indochina: Fantasy and Disillusionment.” In France and Indochina: Cultural Representations, Kathryn Robson and Jennifer Yee, eds. London: Lexington Books, 2005: 207-217.

“Le défi de Linda Lê.” In Le Viêt Nam au féminin. Gisèle Bousquet and Nora Taylor, eds. Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2005: 353-365.

“Bach Mai and Ying Chen: Immigrant Identities in Québec.” In Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec, Susan Ireland and Patrice Proulx, eds. Westport CT : Greenwood Press, 2004: 137-47.

"Colonialism and Power in Marguerite Duras's L'Amant." In Of Vietnam: Identities in Dialogue, Jane Bradley Winston and Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier, eds. New York: Palgrave (St. Martin's), 2001: 224-35.

The Vietnamese Novel in French: A Literary Response to Colonialism. Hanover and London, University Press of New England, 1987.

Vietnamese Literature in French. New Orleans: CELFAN Edition Monographs (Tulane Univ.), 1999.

Post Colonial Subjects: Francophone Women Writers. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996, co-editor.


Recent Teaching
From Viet Nam: French Writing and the Problem of francophonie F 04
Questions québécoises: Literature and Film S 07

Department of French Studies
416 Hodges Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
Phone: 225.578.6627
Fax: 225.578.6628
E-mail: lsufren@lsu.edu
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