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Annabel L. Kim
Department of Literature
Duke University
1316 Campus Drive
Campus Box 90670
Durham, NC 27708
1600 Anderson Street, B6
Durham, NC 27707
[email protected]
www.annabelkim.com
347.920.7156
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, NC, 2014–present
Provost’s Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Literature
EDUCATION
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT, 2008–2014
PhD in French (2014), M. Phil (2012), M.A. (2009)
Dissertation: “Against Difference: The Universality That Binds Nathalie Sarraute, Monique
Wittig, and Anne Garréta.”
Director: Alice Kaplan
WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Williamstown, MA, 2003–07
B.A. in French with Highest Honors and in Art History
Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
STUDY ABROAD
ÉCOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE, rue d’Ulm, Paris, France, 2012–13
Exchange student, French Literature
ÉCOLE DU LOUVRE, Paris, France, 2005–06
Exchange student, History of Art
UNIVERSITÉ DE PARIS, Paris, France, 2005–06
Exchange student, French Literature, Paris III (La Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Diplôme de langue et littérature françaises, mention bien [Diploma of French Language and
Literature, with Honors], Paris IV (La Sorbonne)
TEACHING INTERESTS
The novel (eighteenth to twenty-first centuries); the New Novel; French feminism; feminist writing
and theory; queer writing and theory; film and television; French popular culture; translation
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses Taught as Sole Instructor
Mother Dearest: Maternity and Modernity in the Francophone World, Literature (cross listed with
Women’s Studies and Romance Studies), Duke University, Spring 2015
Intermediate and Advanced French II, Yale University, Spring 2012
Elementary and Intermediate French II, Yale University, Spring 2011
Elementary and Intermediate French I, Yale University, Fall 2010
Teaching Assistantships
The Modern French Novel, Yale University, Professors Alice Kaplan & Maurice Samuels, Fall 2011
PUBLICATIONS
“All for ‘On’ and ‘On’ for All: Monique Wittig’s Pronoun Work in L’Opoponax.” The Opoponax
mobile phone application, January 2015
“Beyond 63 Bites: The Alchemy of Marie Darrieussecq’s Clèves.” (Under review)
“Nedjma: The Impossible Expiation.” Paroles Gélées, Vol. 28, Issue 1 (Forthcoming)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Report on “Kinship Trouble: The Equality and Difference Debates (NC, USA – France, Europe),”
an interdisciplinary workshop on same-sex marriage, Duke University, September 2014
“Paris Doesn’t Sleep Till Brooklyn.” L’Amuse-Bouche, October 2013
“Beverly Acha,” Yale Painting and Printmaking MFA Catalogue, Spring 2012
“Min Ha Park,” Yale Painting and Printmaking MFA Catalogue, Spring 2011
HONORS AND AWARDS
Marguerite A. Peyre Prize for Excellence in Graduate Study, Yale University Department of French,
May 2014
Ethel Boies Morgan Fellowship, 2013–14
University Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University, 2013–present
Henri Peyre Fellowship, Yale University, 2012–13
Harry Baltz and Joseph Seronde Fellowship, Yale University, 2009–10
Kenneth Cornell Memorial Graduate Research Grant for French and Francophone Studies, Yale
University, Summer 2009
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A. Bartlett Giamatti Fellowship, Yale University, 2008–10
Francis Sessions Hutchins, Class of 1900, Memorial Fellowship Prize, Williams College, 2007
Erastus C. Benedict, Class of 1821, Prize in French, First Prize, Williams College, 2007
Karl E. Weston, Class of 1896, Prize for Distinction in Art for Art History, Williams College, 2007
Class of 1960s Scholar in Art, Williams College, 2006–07
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Panelist, Roundtable, “What is the Contemporary Novel?” Symposium, Duke University, November
2014
“Missed Connections: Sarraute, Wittig, and Garréta as Guérillères.” Contemporary Novel Seminar,
Duke University, October 2014
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
“Reviving the Universal: Anne Garréta’s Queer Universalism and the Legacy of Monique Wittig.”
Les Femmes s’entêtent: Feminism, Writing, Art and Film 1975–2015: Bilan(s) et Avenir(s). Women in
French Conference, University of Leeds, May 2015
“Traversing Truismes: From bio-graphy to zoo-graphy.” Transitions and Transgressions. Department of
French Graduate and Post-Graduate Conference, Rutgers University, March 2015
“A Thorn in the Side of Autofiction: Anne Garréta’s Pas un jour as Trojan Horse.” Faire le point:
Quand la littérature fait savoir. 20th- and 21st- Century French and Francophone Studies
Conference, Louisiana State University, February 2015
“Vexing Corporeal (Il)legibility: Erasing Sex and Marking Race in Anne Garréta’s Sphinx.” Defiant
Bodies: Corporeal Politics and Unheard Voices. Department of History Graduate Student
Conference, Rutgers University, March 2014
“An Offering to a Goddess: Monique Wittig’s Living Linguistic Body.” 21st Annual Lavender
Languages Conference, American University, February 2014
“Beyond 63 Bites: The Alchemy of Marie Darrieussecq’s Clèves.” Bad Literature. Department of
French Graduate Student Conference, Yale University, January 2014
“Pronoun Trouble: The Queer Pronouns of Anne Garréta.” Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies Colloquium, Yale University, November 2013
“Held by the Fragment: The Relational Novels of Nathalie Sarraute and Anne Garréta.” Traces. 20thand 21st- Century French and Francophone Studies Conference, Georgia Tech, March 2013
“Spilling on Suzanne: Blotting Desire and Language on(to) Diderot’s La Religieuse.” Conference-inprogress. Department of French Graduate Student Conference, NYU, March 2012
“Sacrificing Nedjma: The Impossible Expiation.” Alone/Together. 2011 French and Francophone
Studies Graduate Student Conference, UCLA, October 2011
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“Sly Intertextuality in Ô Pays, mon beau peuple!: Turning French on Itself.” Relire les ‘Classiques’ Africains
Francophones. 2011 NeMLA (Northeastern Modern Languages Association) Convention,
Rutgers University, April 2011
“Sapphic Suzanne: The Desire for Language and the Language of Desire in Diderot’s La Religieuse.”
Besoin de désirer: Appetite Between Wants and Needs. Department of French Graduate Student
Conference, Yale University, October 2009
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Juror, James T. King prize for the best senior essay, Yale University French Department, April 2014
Undergraduate advisor, Proust Marathon, Yale University, Fall 2013
Editorial Board member, Yale French Studies, 2013–2014
Graduate Student Mentor, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, 2012–present
Mentored a recipient of the MMUF, which aims to increase diversity in higher education, discussing his
research and writing and advising on the graduate school application process.
Student representative, Graduate Studies Committee, French Department, Yale University, 2010–12,
2013–present
Panel moderator for the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Yale University, October
2010
French Table Host, Ezra Stiles College, Yale University, Spring 2010
Cochair, Graduate Association of French Students (GAFS), Yale University, 2009–10
Co-organizer of the Yale University French Graduate Student Conference, Besoin de désirer: Appetite
Between Wants and Needs, Fall 2009
Member of the Dively Committee for Human Sexuality and Diversity, Williams College, 2006–07
Helped organize and sponsor various queer programming events on campus to promote awareness and
acceptance of sexual diversity.
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Translation from French of keynote address for Byzantium/Modernism conference, Department of the
History of Art, Yale University: Marie-José Mondzain, “Tarkovsky: Voice and Incarnation in
Contemporary Images,” April 2012
Cataloguing Assistant, Yale University Art Gallery, Department of Prints, Drawings, and
Photographs, Fall 2011
Social media consultant for the third edition of French in Action, Spring and Summer 2011
Advised the editorial committee on how to incorporate social media like Twitter as instances of authentic,
interactive contemporary language that undergraduates can relate to.
Preventive Caseworker through the New York Intern Program (Episcopal Service Corps), Lutheran
Social Services, New York, NY, 2007–08
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Worked closely primarily with single mothers, making evaluative home visits and connecting them to city,
state and federal resources dedicated to education, housing, and health services, in order to help them care for
and keep custody of their children.
Katzenberger Intern and Curatorial Research Assistant at the Smithsonian Institute, National
Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C., Summer 2007
Archival Assistant, Williams College Archives, Williams College, Summer 2005
LANGUAGES
French: Near-native
Korean: Conversational
Italian: Reading knowledge
Old French: Reading knowledge
REFERENCES
Alice Kaplan, John M. Musser Professor of French, Yale University, [email protected]
Maurice Samuels, Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French, Yale University,
[email protected]
R. Howard Bloch, Sterling Professor of French, Chair of Humanities Program, Yale University,
[email protected]
Ruth Koizim, Senior Lector, Yale University, [email protected]
Margaret Homans, Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale
University, [email protected]
Anne Garréta, Research Professor of Romance Studies and Literature, Duke University,
[email protected]
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