Selected Publications and Conference Papers of Dr Ursula Tidd Books (single ( single-authored): (1) Simone de Beauvoir in Critical Lives series, Reaktion Books, 2009; ISBN 978 1 86189 434 2, 192pp. (2) Simone de Beauvoir. London and New York, Routledge 'Critical Thinkers' series, 2004; ISBN 0-415-26363, xiv +157pp. (3) Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony in 'Cambridge Studies in French' series, Cambridge University Press, 1999; ISBN 0-521-66130-7, xii +250pp. Books (co ( co-edited): (4) Women in Contemporary France (with Abigail Gregory), Oxford, Berg Publishers, 2000; ISBN 1-85973 353 0; x + 227pp. Edited Works: Contributions (* indicates refereed) (5) * Contingent Selves and Necessary Fictions: Simone de Beauvoir's Use of the Journal intime in Marginal Forms, Marginal Voices: Diaries in European Literature, ed. Russell West and Rachael Langford, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1999; ISBN 90-420- 0437-1, pp.136-146. (6) * Bodily Dissymmetries and Masculine Anxiety: Herculine has the Last Laugh in Body Matters: Feminism, Textuality, Corporeality, ed. Avril Horner and Angela Keane, Manchester University Press, 2000; ISBN 0-7190-5469-9, pp.75-84. (7) * Visible Subjects: The Situation of Lesbians in Contemporary France in Women in Contemporary France (see above), pp.171-190. (8) * The Self-Other Relation in Beauvoir s Ethics and Autobiography in special issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy on Simone de Beauvoir, has been reprinted in Margaret Simons, Issue 14.4, Fall 1999, Indiana University Press, 2006. This article has just been selected to be reprinted in Margaret Simons (ed) The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Critical Essays forthcoming with Indiana University Press in 2005. (9) For the Time Being: The Representation of Temporality in Simone de Beauvoir s Autobiography in Lester Embree and Wendy O Brien (eds) The Existential Phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir (Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 107-126.
(10) * Le Deuxième Sexe, la conscience noire et la conscience lesbienne in Christine Delphy and Sylvie Chaperon (eds) Cinquantenaire du Deuxième Sexe (Paris: Syllepse, 2002), pp. 72-80. (11) * Testimony, Historicité and the Intellectual in Simone de Beauvoir s Les Mandarins, commissioned chapter for Sally J. Scholz and Shannon Mussett (eds) The Contradictions of Freedom: Simone de Beauvoir s Les Mandarins (New York: State University Press of New York, 2005), pp. 87-103. (12) * Les belles images: countering the refusal of history, invited chapter for Alison Holland and Louise Renée (eds) Simone de Beauvoir: Women and Language (New York: Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 137-156. (13) * Female Masculinity and Simone de Beauvoir in Wendy Michallat and Renate Gunther (eds) Lesbian Inscriptions in Francophone Society and Culture (Durham: DMLS, 2007), pp. 143-165. (14) * Teaching the Holocaust in French Studies in Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film, eds, Robert Eaglestone and Barry Langford (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 91-101. (15) Invited critical introduction to Simone de Beauvoir s 1966 lecture, La Femme et la création for Margaret Simons and Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir (eds) The Beauvoir Series, seven-volume series of Beauvoir s previously untranslated and unpublished texts (Illinois University Press, 2009). (16) Invited critical introduction to Simone de Beauvoir s 1963 radio interview Une histoire que je me racontais for Margaret Simons and Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir (eds) The Beauvoir Series, seven-volume series of Beauvoir s previously untranslated and unpublished texts (Illinois University Press, 2009). Editorships: Journals (17) Edited Women in French 1996 conference proceedings with Kate Ince (Birmingham) and Christine Everley (Birmingham), which appeared as Women in French Studies (USA), Vol.5 1997 (ISSN 1077-825X). Academic Journal Papers: published (18) *'Entretien avec Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir' in Simone de Beauvoir Studies Vol.12 (1995), 10-16. (19) * Some Current Issues in Beauvoir Studies: An Interview with Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir also appeared in Simone de Beauvoir Studies Vol. 12 (1995), 17-25. (Article analysing interview). (20) * Telling the Truth in Simone de Beauvoir's Autobiography in New Readings, Vol.2 (1996), 7-19, published by School of European Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff. Also appeared as Working Paper no.26 (February 1996) European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford. (21) * From Disciplining the Self to an Autobiography of Praxis: Simone de Beauvoir's Cycle of Testimony, Women in French Studies (USA), Vol. 5 (1997),
253-264. (22) * Gendering Depersonalization: Simone de Beauvoir s Monologue and R.D. Laing in French Studies, A Quarterly Review, Vol. LVI No. 3, (July 2002), 359-369. (23)* Simone de Beauvoir: The Subject in Question in special issue of Nottingham French Studies special issue, Thinking in Dialogue: the role of the interview in postwar French thought, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2003), 21-32. (24)* The Infinity of Testimony and Dying in Jorge Semprún s Holocaust Autothanatographies in special issue of Forum for Modern Language Studies on Autothanatographies, Vol. 41, No. 4 (October 2005), 407-417. (25) * Mourning and the Ethics of Form in Sartre s La Nausée and Woolf s To the Lighthouse in special issue of Journal of Romance Studies marking the centenary of J-P Sartre s birth (Spring/Summer 2006), 209-220. (26) * Exile, Language and Trauma in Recent Autobiographical Writing by Jorge Semprún, The Modern Language Review 103 (2008), 697-714. Popular Journal Papers: (27) Gendering the Subject in The Truth about Existentialism forum in The Philosopher s Magazine, Issue 16, Autumn 2001 (ISSN 1354-814X), pp. 41-43. Other Publications: Research: Encyclopedia Entries: (28) Simone de Beauvoir entry in Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture, ed. Alex Hughes and Keith Reader (London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 55-57. (29) Simone de Beauvoir entry in Encyclopedia of Literary Translation, ed. Olive Classe (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001), pp. 119-122. Conference Presentations: International invitations: The Representation of Temporality in Beauvoirian Philosophy, invited paper given at research symposium: The Existential Phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir, organised by the Centre for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (CARP) at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 21-23 May 1997. Invited panellist at roundtable discussion on Simone de Beauvoir s philosophy at World Philosophy Congress, Boston, Mass., USA,10-16 August 1998. Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics of Autobiography at 8th IAPH Women Philosophers' Symposium, Boston University, Boston, Mass., USA, 6-10 August 1998, published in Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, (see above). Invited speaker at day conference organised by University of Gothenburg to
commemorate the Swedish translation of Simone de Beauvoir s Le Deuxième Sexe at ABF, Stockholm, Sweden, 19 October 2002. Invited speaker at an international symposium to commemorate the centenary of Jean- Paul Sartre s birth: Sartre et ses autres, 15-16 April 2005 at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; symposium proceedings published in the Journal of Romance Studies in 2006 (see above). Invited speaker at North American Sartre Society conference, 27-29 October 2006, at Fordham University, New York City. Invited guest speaker on Simone de Beauvoir s philosophy at day event to commemorate centenary of Simone de Beauvoir s birth organised by Dept of Gender Studies, University of Gothenburg and Kvinnofolkhogskolan, Gothenburg, 16 May 2008. Invited speaker as part of Simone de Beauvoir panel held at the annual conference of Association Internationale des Etudes Françaises held at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 8 July 2008. Invited keynote speaker at Simone de Beauvoir hier et aujourd hui, 10-14 November 2008 at Nanjing University, China, travel funded by British Academy Overseas Conference grant. Invited guest speaker on Simone de Beauvoir s philosophy to French Department, Fudan University, Beijing, China, 21 November 2008. National invitations: The Body as Other(s) in Simone de Beauvoir s Auto/Biographical Writing, invited paper at Department of French Research Seminar, University of Sheffield, 11 February 1997. Invited panellist at Cross-Channel Perspectives: Women in France and Britain debate organised by Institut français, Ambassade de France, London, 6 March, 2001. Invited speaker on Simone de Beauvoir s interviews at Thinking in Dialogue: the role of the interview in post-war French thought, an international symposium held at the University of Nottingham, 27 June 2002, in which major international French Studies scholars participated (eg, Kamuf, Lavers). Paper subsequently published as Simone de Beauvoir: The Subject in Question in Christopher Johnson (ed) Nottingham French Studies special issue, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2003), 21-32. Invited Keynote Speaker at Assuming a presence: Lesbian Inscriptions in Francophone Society and Culture conference at the University of Sheffield, 2-4 April 2004. Invited speaker at an interdisciplinary two-day conference, Teaching Holocaust Writing and Film, 18-19 February 2005 organised by the English Subject Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London. Selected international papers:
'From Disciplining the Self to an Autobiography of Praxis: Simone de Beauvoir's Cycle of Testimony' at Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century conference at Northern Kentucky University, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 18-20 April 1997, published in Women in French Studies (Autumn 1997), see above. Photo-Testimony and Crises of Memory in Simone de Beauvoir s Autobiography at the 114th Modern Languages Association of America convention in San Francisco, California, USA, 27-30 December 1998. Black Consciousness, Lesbian Consciousness and Le Deuxième Sexe at 50th Anniversary Conference marking the publication of Simone de Beauvoir s Le Deuxième Sexe, Ministère de la Recherche et de l Education and Sorbonne, Paris, 19-23 January 1999. Published in selected conference proceedings in 2002, see above. A moitié victime, à moitié complice? Simone de Beauvoir s Monologue and Samuel Beckett s Happy Days at Simone de Beauvoir, l engagement d une oeuvre et d une vie, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, funded by British Academy Overseas Conference Grant and grant from Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, 26-29 May 2000. Published in French Studies, Vol. LVI No. 3 (July 2002), see above. Testimony, Historicité and the Intellectual in Simone de Beauvoir s Les Mandarins (1954) at the International Simone de Beauvoir Society conference, Maison de L Europe and Sorbonne, Paris, 18-21 June, 2003. Published in 2005 with SUNY, see above. Selected national papers: 'Inscribing the Female Witness in Simone de Beauvoir's Autobiography', given at Simone de Beauvoir, Ten Years On conference held at Trinity College, Dublin, 6-8 September 1996; also given at French Department Research Seminar, University of Birmingham, 19 November 1996. Ethics, Universalism and the Politics of Testimony in Simone de Beauvoir s Autobiography at Cultures of Remembrance/Culture as Remembrance conference at Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, 30 June-1 July 2000. Testimony and the Moment of Death in Jorge Semprún s L Ecriture ou la vie at the Society for French Studies annual conference, University of Sheffield, UK, June 30-July 2, 2003. Published in FMLS in 2005, see above. My main current research projects are as follows: I am working on a single-author book on the Holocaust writing of Jorge Semprún I am co-editing a volume on Beauvoirian existentialism and contemporary cinema (with Jean-Pierre Boulé, Nottingham Trent University, UK).