Language Professor's Article Published in Literary Journal

Dr. Ann Murphy, an associate professor of French and Spanish and chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Westminster College, had an article, "Origins, Loss, and Recovery in Patrick Modiano's Voyage de noces and Dora Bruder," published in Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature.

"Patrick Modiano is a contemporary French novelist whose works have interested me for quite a long time," Murphy said.  "This piece examines the relationship between two of his novels written in the 1990s.  Dora Bruder actually contains a reference to the writing of Voyage de noces, a fact that intrigued me.  My analysis demonstrates that the connection Modiano creates between the two works allows him to partially resolve a paradox expressed by his simultaneous preoccupations with absence and loss, on the one hand, and with the use of writing to compensate for these, on the other."

Murphy, who has been with Westminster since 1995, earned her undergraduate degree from Clark University, and master's and Ph.D. from Brown University.

Contact Murphy at (724) 946-7265 or e-mail dammroa@westminster.edu for more information.

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