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Dr. Timothy J. Williams

 Associate Professor of French, Franciscan University of Steubenville ( Ohio ) USA

twilliams@franciscan.edu

(740) 284-5290

 Research:

Books

Desire and Persecution in Thérèse Desqueyroux and Selected Works of François Mauriac.  

Foreword by Paul C. Cooke, University of Exeter and Association Européenne François Mauriac. (Forthcoming in the Edwin Mellen Press, 2007.)

The Mirage of Eschatology.  Trans. of  Le Mirage de l’eschatologie: Royauté, Règne et Royaume

de Dieu… sans eschatologie. By Jean Carmignac. Paris : Letouzey et Ané, 1979.  (Work currently in progress.)

Articles

“Some Allusions to French Literature in François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451.” (Forthcoming in

West Virginia Philological Papers, Vol. 53.)

“Sartre, Marcel and The Flies: Restless Orestes in Search of a Café.”  (Forthcoming in

The Midwest Quarterly, Spring 2007.)

“Thérèse and Anne: Mauriac’s Mimetic Rivals.”  Romance Quarterly 48:2 (Spring 2001):

75-88.

“The Chalice as a Key Symbol in the Death Scene of Atala.”  Romance Notes 38.1

            (Fall 1997): 37-43.

“Le sauvage et le civilisé dans les Lettres d’une Péruvienne.” Continental, Latin-American             and Francophone Women Writers.  Vol. 4.  Ed. Genette Adamson and Eunice Myers. 

Lanham: UP of America , 1997.  149-55.

Review of Pascal and Disbelief: Catechesis and Conversion in the Pensées, by David Wetsel. 

Review of Metaphysics 50.2 (December 1996): 428-29.

“Dessein hagiographique balzacien: A propos de Pierrette.”  Dalhousie French Studies 28             (Fall 1994): 87-97.

“Violence and Sacrifice in Mauriac’s Thérèse Desqueyroux.”  Midwest Quarterly 33.2             (Winter 1992): 168-80.

“La Menace du héros: A propos du Cid de Pierre Corneille.”  Cahiers du Dix-septième

4.2 (Fall 1990): 141-50.

“Pascal et le problème du ‘présent’.”  Chimères: A Journal of French and Italian

 Literature 19.2 (Automne 1988): 103-17.

Conference papers & society lectures:

“Mauriac’s L’agneau: A Christ Figure for a post-Christian Age.”  Christ in Contemporary

Cultures: A Cultural Studies Conference,  Gordon College , Wenham , MA , Sept. 28-30,

2006.

“The Forbidden French Literature of François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451,” at the Thirtieth Annual

Colloquium on Literature and Film, West Virginia University , Morgantown , West Virginia ,

September 17, 2005 .

“La conquête tyrannique de la mort: une lecture de Tête d'Or de Paul Claudel,” at the Conference

on Romance Languages and Literatures. Cioncinnati, Ohio, May 15, 2003.

“Reflections on The Flies of Jean-Paul Sartre,” at the Southwest Regional Conference on

Christianity and Literature, Tulsa , Oklahoma , Oct. 4, 2002   

Participant in a Liberty Fund Colloquium on “Love, Liberty , and Order in Chaucer’s             Canterbury Tales.”  Portsmouth , New Hampshire , March 30 to April 2, 2000 .

“Scapegoat Persecution in Mauriac’s Le Sagouin,” at the Mideast Conference on Christianity and Literature, Steubenville , Ohio , October 16, 1999 . 

“French Poets of the 20th-Century Catholic Renaissance: Translations and Commentary,” at the Mideast Conference on Christianity and Literature, Steubenville , Ohio , October 11, 1997 .

“Chalice or Ciborium? – Symbolism in the Death Scene of Chateaubriand’s Atala,” at the

South-Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, New Orleans , Louisiana ,

Feb. 2, 1995 .

“The Hagiographic Nature of Balzac’s Pierrette,” at the South-Central Conference on             Christianity and Literature, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, Feb. 7, 1992.

“Belloc and the French Proverb,” at a meeting of the Hilaire Belloc Society of Lawrence, Kansas,          

April 25, 1991 .

“Belloc and Rabelais,” at a meeting of the Hilaire Belloc Society of Lawrence, Kansas, April 16,       1990 .

“Le Sauvage et le civilisé dans les Lettres d’une Péruvienne,” at the Wichita State University

Conference on Foreign Literature, Wichita , Kansas , April 6, 1990 .

“Thérèse Desqueyroux: The Sacrificial Victim,” at the South-Central Conference on             Christianity and Literature, New Orleans , Louisiana , Feb. 9, 1990 .