Alison James
Assistant Professor of French Literature
Office: Classics 119
asj@uchicago.edu
Alison James focuses on modern and contemporary French literature. Her teaching and research interests include the Oulipo group, experimental poetry and prose, the connections between literature and philosophy, and representations of the everyday. Her book Constraining Chance: Georges Perec and the Oulipo has been recently published by Northwestern University Press (2009). She has edited a special issue of L'Esprit créateur on the theme of literary formalism (Summer 2008) and has published articles on Louis Aragon, Jacques Roubaud, Georges Perec, Harry Mathews, and the philosopher Clément Rosset.
Education
- PhD in French, Columbia University, 2005
- Diplôme d'études approfondies, Université de Paris VIII, 2003
- MA in French, Columbia University, 2000
- BA in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and German), University of Cambridge, 1998
Selected Courses Taught
- Readings in World Literature
- Georges Perec et l'Oulipo
- La Stylistique
- La Littérature à l'âge des révolutions (Introduction à la littérature française III)
- Du moderne au contemporain (Introduction à la littérature française IV)
- L'écriture du quotidien au XXe siècle
- The Literary Avant-Garde