Patrick Maxwell Bray Department of French 2090 Foreign Languages University of Illinois 707 South Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 pbray@illinois.edu Academic Appointments University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Assistant Professor, Department of French and Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory August 2008-present Indiana University, Bloomington Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian August 2006-July 2008 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of French August 2005-July 2006 Education Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures (French) June 2005 Dissertation: Novel Selves: Mapping the Subject in Stendhal, Nerval, and Proust Director: Professor Janet Beizer, Readers: Professors Tom Conley and Christie McDonald A.M. in Romance Languages and Literatures (French) March 2000 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York May 1998 B.A. cum laude in French Distinction in all subjects Fellowships and Awards Humanities Released Time, Campus Research Board, University of Illinois Fall 2009 Hewlett International Research Travel Grant, University of Illinois May-August 2009 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University ($8,000) May-August 2007 Overseas Conference Fund, Office of International Programs, ($700) March 2007 Indiana University Whiting Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University ($21,000) 2004-5 Edmund J. Curley Fellowship for Study in France, ($12,000) 2002-3, 2000-1 Harvard University
Summer Travel Grant, Harvard University ($1,000) 2001, 2002 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center, Harvard University 2001-2 Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship for Summer Study, ($1,000) 1999, 2001 Harvard University Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University 1998-2001 Fellowship ($12,000) Cornell Center for Excellence in French Studies Prize ($500) 1998 Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis in French Publications Book Manuscript The Subject of Space: Mapping the Self in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction Book manuscript Co-edited Volume Building the Louvre: Architectures of Art and Politics, co-edited with Phillip John Usher Volume of collected essays (in progress) Articles Prose Constructions: Nerval, Baudelaire, and the Louvre Book Chapter in Building the Louvre George Sand et le théâtre: Images du peuple et images pour le peuple under consideration The Debris of Experience : the Cinema of Marcel Proust and Raoul Ruiz Romanic Review, accepted Lire le spectacle dans Nanon Ecriture, Performance et Théâtralité dans les œuvres de George Sand. Eds. Catherine Nesci, Annabelle Rea, and Olivier Bara. Paris: Honoré Champion. (Forthcoming) Aesthetics in the Shadow of No Towers: Reading Virilio in the Twenty-First Century Yale French Studies, No 114 Writing and the Image Today (2008) 4-17. Lost in the Fold: Space and Subjectivity in Gérard de Nerval s Généalogie and Sylvie French Forum. 31:2 (Spring 2006) 35-51. Review Articles Review of The Strange M. Proust, ed. André Benhaïm. Oxford: Legenda, 2009. Forthcoming in The French Review 84.1 (October 2010)
Review of Les Confidences de Nicolas by Gérard de Nerval, ed. Michel Brix, Paris: Editions du Sandre, 2007. Nineteenth-Century French Studies Vol. 37 (Fall Winter 2008-2009), Nos. 1&2. Review Essay of Martine Beugnet and Marion Schmid, Proust at the Movies, Aldershot, UK and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004; William C. Carter, Proust in Love, New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 2006; Richard Davenport-Hines, Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris, New York and London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006. H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 115. Review of Carole Sweeney, From Fetish to Subject: Race, Modernism, and Primitivism, 1919-1935, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2004. Contemporary French Civilization. XXX: 1 (Winter/Spring 2006) 169-70. Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures Zola s Archive Department of French and Italian, Miami University of Ohio (Invited), November 2010 Mapping Chagrin Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Yale University, October 2010 Panel Respondent: Paris on the Periphery in Literature and Film Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, December 2009 Rancière, Zola, and the Contradictions of Literature Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, December 2009 George Sand: Images du peuple et pour le peuple Se Relire par l image, colloquium held at the Ecole Normale Supérieure- rue d Ulm, Paris, November 2009 Rancière s Zola Roundtable Rancière s 19 th Century, New York University, November 2009 (Invited) Mapping Creative Destruction in Zola s La Curée Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Salt Lake City, October 2009 Nanon s Illegible Utopia 18 th International George Sand Conference, Santa Barbara, September 2008. Stendhal and the Ghost in the Map Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY April 2008 Panel Organizer: Speed Limits: Assessing Paul Virilio s Thought Paper: Reading for the Accident: Virilio and the Image Twentieth and Twenty-first Century French and Francophone Studies Colloquium,
Washington, DC, March 2008 The Subject of Space: Maps and Narrative in Stendhal s Vie de Henry Brulard Department of French and Italian, University of California, Irvine, January 2008 (Invited) Panel Organizer: French National Space in Focus: The Louvre at the Intersection of Art and Politics Paper: Prose Constructions: the Louvre in Nerval and Baudelaire Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, December 2007 Devenir moins paysanne, c est-à-dire plus Française; Charting Utopia in Sand s Nanon Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Mobile, AL, October 2007 Prose Poses: Prose as Oppositional Space in Nerval and Baudelaire Society of Dix-Neuviémistes Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, March 2007 Pour contrarier les chemins de fer: Nerval, Trains, and the Politics of Space Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Bloomington, IN, October 2006 Literature versus Cinema: Ruiz, Proust, and the Search for Cinematic Time Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 2006 HB/HC: Situating the Writing Subject in Cixous and Stendhal Twentieth and Twenty-first Century French and Francophone Studies Colloquium Miami, FL, March 2006 Dismembering History: Stendhal s Writing of the Revolution in the Vie de Henry Brulard Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Austin, TX, October 2005 In Search of Lost Space: The Invention of a Proustian Subject Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, December 2004 Spatial Legacies: Mapping Subjectivity in Nerval s Généalogie fantastique Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Saint Louis, MO, October 2004 Unfolding Identity: Subjectivity in Nerval s Sylvie and the Généalogie fantastique GRA Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, March 2004 Le Dénouement vous échappe : Chasing Desire, Fleeing Narrative in Nerval s Sylvie Society for the Study of Narrative Conference, UC Berkeley, March 2003 Textuality/Sexuality in Stendhal s Vie de Henry Brulard Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, UC Santa Cruz, March 2003 Affective Cartography, Metaphysical Itineraries in Stendhal s Vie de Henry Brulard Entralogos Conference, Cornell University, February 2002 Teaching University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
French 209 Introduction to French Literature I Fall 2010 French 541 Studies in 20 th Century French Literature: Espaces littéraires Spring 2010 French 322 Representations of Wandering in French Literature Spring 2010 French 210 Introduction to Modern French Literature Spring 2009 French 530 Introduction to Research and Textual Analysis Fall 2008 French 207 (Required course for French Majors and Minors) Spring 2006 Grammar and Composition French 501 (Graduate Level French) Fall 2005 French for Reading Knowledge French 208 (Required course for French Majors and Minors) Fall 2005 Critical Reading and Writing Introduction to Writing about Literature Indiana University, Bloomington F450 Tradition and Ideas (advanced undergraduate seminar) Révolutions de la littérature au XIXe siècle Spring 2008 F640 Novel and Self (Graduate Seminar) Fall 2007 Subjectivity and The French Novel: 1800-1857 F311 Contemporary France: Film and Culture (non-specialist course) Spring 2007 Survey of French Film from 1950 to the present F300 (Required course for French Majors and Minors) Fall 2006 Reading and Expression in French Harvard University Instructor French S-Ax (Summer School Graduate Level French) Summer 2004 French for Reading Knowledge Tutor French 98 (Junior Tutorial) Spring 2004 Literary Encounters with Art in 19th Century French Literature Tutor French 91r (Supervised Reading and Research) Spring 2004 19th Century French Literary Constructions of Paris Teaching Fellow French 70b (Introduction to French Literature) Fall 2003 Professor Janet Beizer 19th and 20th Century French Literature, from Romanticism to Postmodernism
Tutor French 99 (Senior Individual Tutorial and Thesis supervision) 2003-2004 Charles Dickens and Gustave Flaubert Tutor - French 98 (Junior Individual Tutorial) Spring 2002 Narrative in 18th and 19th Century French Literature Teaching Fellow - French A 2001-2002 Beginning French Teaching Fellow, Core Curriculum - Foreign Cultures 21 Fall 2001 Professor Tom Conley French Cinema from 1896 to the Present Teaching and Research Fields 19 th and 20 th Century French Literature Critical Theory and History of Ideas Text and Image Film Analysis and French Film Theory Languages French (near-native), Italian (fluent), German (reading), and Latin (reading) Professional Service French Studies Graduate Advisor, Department of French, UIUC Fall 2010-present Co-organizer of the conference, Proust and his Era/Proust et son époque, UIUC April 2010 Reflective Teaching Seminar, LAS Teaching Academy, UIUC September 2008-April 2009 French Studies Graduate Advisor, Department of French, UIUC Spring 2009 Ad Hoc Committee on the Structure of the Annual Convention 2006-2009 Modern Language Association French Honors Advisor, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University 2007-8 French Literature Graduate Studies Committee 2007-8 Department of French and Italian, Indiana University Associate Instructor Awards Committee 2006-7 Department of French and Italian, Indiana University Organizing Committee, Tournées French Film Festival, Champaign, IL October 2005 Graduate Writing Fellow, Derek Bok Center, Harvard University Spring 2002 Workshop on the improvement of undergraduate student writing Romance Languages Graduate Student Association, Harvard University Spring 2002 French Section Representative to Faculty
Member, Modern Language Association 2001-present Graduate Student Faculty Search Committee, Harvard University Spring 2000 Additional Education and Formation Institute of French Cultural Studies Summer 2003 Dartmouth College École Normale Supérieure, rue d Ulm, Paris, France 2002-3, 2000-1 Pensionnaire étranger Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy January 2003 Borsista di scambio Exchange Fellowship Institut d études françaises d Avignon Summer 1998 Bryn Mawr College Universities of Paris I and VII 1996-7 Exchange Student in Licence ès lettres