331 MAJOR WILLIAMS HALL
(540) 231-5361
shryock@vt.edu
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
EDUCATION
BA Ohio State University 1980, MA University of Michigan
1984, Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies Université de Haute Bretagne -
Rennes II 1985, PhD University of Michigan 1987.
TEACHING INTERESTS
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, Symbolism, Surrealism, critical theory
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Late nineteenth-century French literature and, in particular, the relationship between ideology and esthetics.
CURRENT SCHOLARLY PROJECT
I am presently writing a book on the politics of the French Symbolist Movement. The book uses periodicals, personal correspondence (both published and unpublished), police and government archives of the late nineteenth century to determine the political orientations of the members of the Symbolist Movement.The literature of the movement is then studied from the perspective both of the Symbolists' politics and of the way their literature was understood at the time.
Gustave Kahn International Colloquium and Exhibition
I co-organized a colloquium and an exhibition on Gustave Kahn with Françoise Lucbert of the Université du Maine in Le Mans, France. The colloquium and exhibition took place at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme in Paris. The colloquium was on November 22-23, 2006 and the exhibition ran from October 2006 to January 2007.
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Gustave Kahn Digital Archive
This site contains unpublished letters addressed to the French symbolist poet Gustave Kahn and his wife Rachel. One of the first online collections of unpublished materials that are not in the public domaine. To discover the site click here: Gustave Kahn.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
books:
Lettres à Gustave et Rachel Kahn (préface, édition présentée et établie par Richard Shryock (Saint-Genouph : A -G Nizet, 1996).
Tales of Storytelling: Embedded Narrative in Modern French Literature (New York: Peter Lang, 1993).
recent articles:
"Becoming Political: Symbolist Literature and the Third Republic." Nineteenth-Century French Studies 33:3-4. (Spring-Summer, 2005): 385-98.
"Symbolism and Naturalism: Frères-Ennemis." Excavatio. XIV. (Oct. 2001): 267-276.
"Anarchism at the Dawn of Symbolism." French Forum. 25.3 (Sept. 2000): 291-307.
"Reaction Within Symbolism: The Ecole Romane." French Review. 71.4 (1998): 577-84.
"L'Autoréférentialité dans la littérature décadente-symboliste: De l'illisible au social." Symposium. XLVIII.1 (1994): 78-88.
"Ce Cri Rompit le Cauchemar Qui l'Opprimait: Huysmans and the Politics of A rebours." French Review. 66.2 (1992): 243-54.
"A Political Reading of Florent's Tale: Emile Zola's Use of Embedded Narrative in Le Ventre de Paris." The Journal of Narrative Technique. XXII.1 (1992): 48-56.
"Reading Models: Embedded Narrative and Ideology in La Goutte d'or." Modern Language Studies. XXI.3 (1991): 65-75.
"Discourse and Polyphony in La Peste." Symposium. XLIV.1 (1990): 58-66.
preface:
Les Odes de la Raison by Gustave Kahn, (Paris: Les Editions du Fourneau, 1995) a reedition of 1902 collection of political Symbolist poems.
recent presentations:
"Des Vers anarchistes?" Le vers libre, de 1886 à 1914: naissance, discours et réception. March 19-20, 2008. Université de Metz, Metz, France.
"La Critique sociale dans les petites revues symbolistes." "Les revues, laboratoires de la critique (1880-1920)." November 29-30, 2007. Université du Maine, Le Mans, France.
"Une Poésie incomplète." Colloque International Gustave Kahn (1859-1936). Ecrivain symboliste et critique d’art. Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme. November 21-22, 2006. Paris, France.
"The Role of Censorship in the Politicization of the Symbolists." 31st annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies at the University of Texas-Austin, Oct. 2005
"The Politics of Anatole Baju and Le Décadent" Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures." UNC-Chapel Hill. Also organized the panel for this conference "Crossing Lines in Fin-de-Siècle France." March 2002