Professor Emerita in French
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
- 156 Dauer Hall
- cmurphy@ufl.edu
- 352.273.3772
- Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Areas of Interest
- Twentieth/Twenty-First Century French Literature and Critical Theory
Biography
Carol Murphy is Professor Emerita of French and the founding Director of the France-Florida Research Institute at the University of Florida (2002-2012). Her fields of specialization are 20th- and 21st-century French prose fiction, theatre, and critical theory. She has published book-length studies on Marguerite Duras and also on Julien Gracq, as well as a translation of Jean Paulhan’s essay, Fautrier l’enragé. She was guest co-editor of two volumes of Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (Sites), “Verbal, Visual, Virtual” (Vol. 10, nos. 3-4) and has authored numerous articles on contemporary cultural production in France. Among her honors are her promotion to the rank of “Officier dans l’ordre des palmes académiques” (2006) and her decoration as “Chevalier dans l’ordre de la Légion d’honneur” (2009). Her graduate seminars have included courses on “French Beckett: the Post-War Writings in French,” “Representations of the Real in Twentieth-Century French Fiction,” “1913,” “Reading Fiction, the case of Proust,” “Le Roman au féminin” and “De l’impressionnisme au surréalisme: texte et image dans la littérature française au vingtième siècle.” Her most recent publications include an invited essay on the sublime for the Cahiers Duras in La Revue des Lettres Modernes (2022) and a refereed essay on Beckett for the Australian Journal of French Studies (2023). She serves as review editor for the journals French Forum and The French Review.