Sylvie Debevec Henning
Links
- 2002-2005 Russian Studies Grant
- 2006-2009 Asian Studies Grant
- Virtual Friendship Quilt Block
Administrative Experience
- Director of International Programs and MAIS, Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, 2004-2013
- Chair, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, 1997-2004
Areas of Interest
- Twentieth Century French Literature
- Literature and Philosophy
- Foreign Language Pedagogy and Assessment
Publications
Books
- Genet’s Ritual Play, “Degré Second, 6”. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1981.
- Beckett’s Critical Complicity: Carnival, Contestation, Tradition. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1988. Winner of the 1987 Midwest MLA Book Award.
Scholarly Articles
- “La Lutte entre carnaval et carême: Tripes d’or de Fernand Crommelynck et Magie Rouge de Michel de Ghelderode,” La Revue des langues vivantes, XLIII, 1977, pp. 172-83.
- “The Theater of Jean Tardieu: Experiments in the Grotesque,” in Savage Comedy: Structures of Humor, ed. Kenneth White. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1978, pp. 45-57.
- “Film: A Dialogue Between Beckett and Berkeley,” Journal of Beckett Studies, 7 (Spring, 1982), pp. 89-100. Reprinted as “Film: Ein Dialog zwischen Beckett und Berkeley” in Samuel Beckett, Hartmut Engelhardt, ed. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1984, pp 197-210.
- “La Forme In-formante: A Reconsideration of the Grotesque,” Mosaic, XIV, 4 (Fall, 1981), pp. 107-21.
- “Le Meuble: Tardieu’s Grotesque Con-trap-tion,” Stanford French Review, VI, 1 (Spring, 1982), pp. 49-64.
- “In lustris scaena / Scaena inlustris,” Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 16, 1 (Spring, 1983), pp. 18-33.
- “Writing the Body: Qui tient le / la greffe?” Mythology, Plattsburgh Studies in the Humanities. Eds. Jurgen Kleist and Bruce Butterfield, New York: Peter Lang, 1992, pp. 147-156.
- “On the Play of Nature,” in Waiting for Godot and Endgame, ed. Steven Connor. New Casebooks Series. London: MacMillan Press, 1992, pp. 100-118. (An edited extract from the Endgame chapter of Beckett’s Critical Complicity).