Jack Yeager
Professor
Phone: (225)578-6627
E-mail: jay@lsu.edu
Office: 409 Hodges
Area of ​​Interest
Southeast Asian Francophone literature; Francophone women's writing; gender studies
Selected Publications
"Jean's Hougron Indochina: Fantasy and Disillusionment." In France and Indochina:
Cultural Representations , Kathryn Robson and Jennifer Yee, eds. London: Lexington
Books, 2005: 207-217. "The challenge of Linda Lê." In Vietnam feminine . Gisèle Bousquet
and Nora Taylor, eds. Paris: The Learned Indies, 2005: 353-365. "Bach Mai and Chen
Ying. Immigrant Identities in Quebec" 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 The Lover . " 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 English: A Literary Response to Colonialism . Hanover and London, University Press
of New England, 1987. Vietnamese Literature in French . New Orleans: CELFAN Monographs
Edition (Tulane Univ.), 1999. Post Colonial Subjects: Francophone Women Writers .
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996, co-editor.
Other
MLA Divisional Committee, Francophone Literatures and Cultures (1999-2004)
MLA Delegate Assembly (1999-2004)
Board of Directors, International Francophone Studies Council (1999-2004)
President, Northeast MLA (1992-93)
Visiting Professor, Wellesley College (1997)
Visiting Professor, University of Oregon (1996)