Alina Cherry (ee1491)

479 Manoogian Hall

906 W. Warren

Detroit, MI 48202

Alina Cherry received her Ph.D. from New York University in 2009, with a dissertation on the treatment of time, history, and memory in the novels of Claude Simon. Her current research and teaching interests include contemporary French and Francophone fiction, mobilities studies, geocriticism, space and place, Claude Simon studies, temporality and narrative, intersections of philosophy and literature. Her book, Claude Simon: Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present was published in 2016 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

• Modern and Contemporary French and Francophone Literatures
• Claude Simon Studies
• Narrative and Temporality
• Space and Place
• Mobilities Studies
• Catastrophe Studies

• Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship, “Transition,” Wayne State University, 2021
• Career Development Chair, 2019-2020
• Graduate Research Assistant Award, 2018-2019
• Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship, “Mobilities,” Wayne State University, 2016
• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award, Wayne State University, 2016
• Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship, “Borders and Intersections,” Wayne State University, 2012
• University Research Grant, Wayne State University, 2011
• Andrew Dulau Dissertation Fellowship, New York University, 2008
• Dean’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award in the Humanities, New York University, 2004

• Claude Simon: Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016.

• "Le potentiel de la marge: Fonctions du terrain vague chez Jean-Philippe Toussaint." The French Review 97.4 (May 2024): 37-52.
• "Catastrophe Televised: Accelerated Time, Telescoped Events, Distorted Perceptions." Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 27.4 (2023): 570-578. 
• “Painterly Letters: On the Possibilities of the Textual Reterritorialization of Painting.” Symposium 70.2 (Summer 2016): 53-65.
• “Miroitements pronominaux: vers la construction d’un agencement textuel dans Les Géorgiques de Claude Simon.” Nouvelles Francographies 4.2 (Fall 2013): 17-25.
• Dictionnaire Claude Simon. Ed. Michel Bertrand. 2 vols. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2013. “Tom Bishop” 1:121-122, “Chronologie” 1:191-197.
• "Personnages et lieux ou le vide de l'appropriation dans Le Vice-consul de Marguerite Duras." Modern Language Notes 127.4 (Sept. 2012): 865-888.
• “Espaces: transports, croisements, traversées dans Fuir de Jean-Philippe Toussaint.”  French Forum 37.3 (Fall 2012): 143-162.

 Translations

• Gilles Deleuze, Painting and the Question of Concepts, Seminar 2 (19,980 words; supported by an NEH grant). deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/