Mary Poteau-Tralie
Mary Poteau-Tralie joined the Department of Modern Languages as a Lecturer in French. She received her PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University. She is Professor Emerita of French from Rider University where she taught French language, literature, film, culture, and French for business and the professions. Her scholarship and publications span the canonical works of writers like Maupassant, Flaubert and Camus, and she has more recently published in the area of francophone literature and film, including works by Assia Djebar and Kamel Daoud from Algeria, and Maryse Condé from Guadeloupe.
Department
Teaching
Intermediate French 1
Research Interests
- 19th and 20th Century French Prose and Poetry
- Maupassant Studies
- Francophone Works of Assia Djebar, Maryse Condé, and Kamel Daoud
- French Culture through Film
- French for Business and the Professions
Recent Work
“Maternal Metaphor in Kamel Daoud’s Recasting of Camus’s L’Étranger. Postcolonial Text. Vol. 15, No. 1(2020).
“Fictionalizing Fiction and Kamel Daoud’s Metaphor of (De)Construction in Meursault: contre-enquête” Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature Vol. 43: Iss. 2, Article 39. 2019