Julia Abramson
Assistant Professor of French
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
University of Oklahoma
jabramson@ou.edu
Education
Ph.D. Princeton University (1999)
Dissertation: “The Literary Mystification: Diderot, Mérimée, Hildesheimer”
Advisor: J. Lionel Gossman
Second Reader: Theodore J. Ziolkowski
M.A. Princeton University (1993)
M.A. Bryn Mawr College (1991)
B.A. Bryn Mawr College summa cum laude and with Honors in French (1991)
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellow, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany (1995)
White Fellow, Institut d’études françaises d’Avignon-Bryn Mawr College, Avignon, France (1989)
Publications
Articles
“Hildesheimer’s Art of Literary Mystification,” Fakes and Forgeries, eds. Peter Knight and Jonathan Long, foreword by Nick Groom (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming 2004)
“Legitimacy and Nationalism in the Almanach des Gourmands (1803-1812),” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 3.2 (Fall/Winter 2003): 101-135
“Grimod’s Debt to Mercier and the Emergence of Gastronomic Writing Reconsidered,” Exemplary Essays, eds. Julia V. Douthwaite and David Lee Rubin, EMF: Studies in Early Modern France 7 (2001): 141-162
“Translation as Metaphor in Hildesheimer’s Marbot Eine Biographie,” Paroles gelées 14.2 (1996): 103-113
Dictionary Entries
“Grimod de la Reynière (1758-1837),” Dictionary of Culinary Biography, ed. Alice Arndt, Houston, Texas: Yes Press (forthcoming)
“Baron Carl Friedrich von Rumohr (1785-1843),” Dictionary of Culinary Biography, ed. Alice Arndt, Houston, Texas: Yes Press (forthcoming)
Translations
Michel Tournier, “Jules Verne and Around the World in 80 Days” (“Jules Verne et Le Tour du monde en 80 jours”), World Literature Today 76.2 (Spring 2002): 107-108
J. M. G. Le Clézio, “On Reading as True Travel” (“De la lecture comme seul voyage”), World Literature Today 76.2 (Spring 2002): 103-106
Book Reviews
“French Food, eds. Lawrence R. Schehr and Allen S. Weiss,” Gastronomica 2.4
(Fall 2002): 107-108
“Laure Adler’s A ce soir,” World Literature Today 76.2 (Spring 2002): 182
“Annie Ernaux’s Se perdre,” World Literature Today 76.1 (Winter 2002): 171-72
“Maryse Condé’s Célanire cou-coupé,” World Literature Today 75.2 (Spring 2001): 306
“Jacques Roubaud’s Poésie:,” World Literature Today 75.1 (Winter 2001): 139
“Paul Fournel’s Foraine,” World Literature Today 74.2 (Spring 2000): 387-88
Consulting
PBS The Power of Ideas, “Paul Rozin: Food and Culture,” March 2002
(national broadcast throughout 2002 and 2003)
Papers and Lectures
2004
“Fantasizing Life in the Ferme: The Apocryphal Continuation to Marivaux’s Le Paysan parvenu,” Artful Deceptions: Verbal and Visual Trickery in French Culture, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland (April 16-17)
“The Noble Art of Carving after the Guillotine,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (March 24-28)
“Saving Civilization at the Dinner Table,” Mornings with the Professor Lecture Series, University of Oklahoma College of Continuing Education, Norman, OK (March 9)
2003
“Le réseau encyclopédique dans la gastronomie,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Annual Conference, Newport Beach, CA (October 26)
“Contre Stendhal: Mérimée’s Le Théâtre de Clara Gazul (1825),” Nineteenth-Century French Studies (NCFS) Annual Conference, Tucson, AZ (October 24)
“Dissecting History in a Carving Manual,” Hillel Foundation Faculty Lecture Series, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (April 23)
“Delectable Visions,” keynote speech for the Symposium on Food, Fantasy, and the Body, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (March 15)
2002
“Iteration and Invention in Grimod’s Manuel des Amphitryons (1808),” GEMCS Annual Conference, Tampa, FL (November 16)
“On Literary Mystification in the Digital Age,” Fakes and Forgeries, Conmen and Counterfeiters, Durham Castle, United Kingdom (July 10)
“The New Gastronomic Writing, 1800-1830,” University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL (April 15)
2001
“Consuming Passions and the Consummate Professional,” East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cape May, NJ (October 20)
“Toward a New History of Gastronomic Writing,” NCFS Annual Conference, Madison, Wisconsin (October 18)
“Good Taste(s) and Hard Work,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA (July 3)
“Images of America in French Gastronomic Writing,” ASECS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (April 20)
“Legitimate Appetites, Imperial Concerns,” Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics Faculty Colloquium, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (March 15)
Teaching
Le roman du dix-huitième siècle
La littérature en prose du dix-septième siècle
Autour de la gastronomie
Undergraduate Seminars
Stratégies fictives
Food and Culture (Honors College)
Food and French Film (Film and Video Studies)
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