MONIKA GIACOPPE

Associate Professor of Comparative World Literature
B.A. in French from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(Additional certification in Latin American Studies)
M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Pennsylvania State University.

Year Joined RCNJ: 2000

Courses Offered:

• Literatures of the Americas; African American Women Writers; Survey of European Literature; Fictional Histories in the Americas; College English, Readings in the Humanities, Introduction to Literature

Teaching Interest:

• Literatures of the Americas; International Women’s Writing; Francophone Literature; Translation Theory and Practice

Research Interest:

• Literatures of the Americas; Louisiana Literature & Culture; Francophone Literature; Translation Theory and Practice

Recent Publications:

• “‘Lucky to be so bilingual’:  Québécois and Chicano/a Literatures in a Comparative Context.”  Reprinted in Canada and Its Americas, ed. Sarah Casteel and Winfried Siemerling.  Forthcoming from McGill University Press, 2009
• “‘The Task of the Translator’ in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Mauve Desert.” (Special issue of Bucknell Review).  Ed. Katherine Faull.  Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell U.P., 2004: 
  124-38.
• The Transparent Girl and Other Stories.  A translation of selected short works by Swiss writer S. Corinna Bille, done with Christiane Makward.  Lanham, MD:  Lexington Books, 2006.