Stéphanie Boulard, associate professor of French in the Ivan Allen College School of Modern Languages, has been invited as a guest speaker by the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at the University of Tulsa (Tulsa, OK). Boulard will deliver a lecture exploring the theme of the guillotine in the literature of Victor Hugo. Author of Rouge Hugo (Septentrion, 2014), Boulard has directed special issues of SITES on Pascal Quignard (Contemporary French & Francophone Studies: Sites 18.3, 2014) and La Revue des Sciences Humaines on Victor Hugo (Ego Hugo, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2011), and a book of essays on Claude Louis-Combet (Visions/visitations/passions : en compagnie de Claude Louis-Combet, Corlevour, 2008). She has published and presented extensively on authors such as Hugo, Balzac, Cixous, Quignard, Michaux and Genet. She is the author of over 20 essays published as chapters in books, or as articles in journals including Revue des Sciences Humaines, Littérature, Review SITES Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, and Paroles Gelées.

Link to the event here: http://humanities.utulsa.edu/events/