Emily Zants. Curriculum Vitae

Education:: B.Arch., Univ. of Hawaii, 1982 (Architecture); Ph.D., Columbia University, 1965 (French); M.A., Columbia University, 1961 (French); B.A., Stanford University, 1958 (French)
Employment:: Professor of French, Univ. of Hawaii, 1980-1998; Associate Prof. of French, Univ. of Hawaii, 1972-1980; Assistant Professor of French, Univ. of Calif., Davis, 1967-1972; Instructor of French, Univ. of the City of New York, Brooklyn 1963-1967
Academic Honors and Grants:: UH Travel Award for presentation at Society for Literature and Science, L.A., Nov. 1995; UH Travel Award for Sarasota French Film Festival, Nov. 1994.; UH Travel Award for AATF Conference, May 1993.; Principal Humanities Scholar, "Gateau et Guillotine: Film Festival for the Bicentennial of the French Revolution", Honolul Academy of Arts, Feb. 10-Mar. 1989 - ($18,000).; Obtained the Anita Hecht Endowment for use by the UH French Division, UH Foundation, 1987; Mabelle McLeod Lewis Award from Stanford Univ., 1970.; Fulbright Teaching Assistantship, Lycée Jean de la Fontaine, Paris, 1963-64.; French Government Scholarship for study in Paris, 1958-59.

Books:

Bertrand Tavernier: Fractured Narrative and Bourgeois Values. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1999.
Chaos Theory, Complexity, Cinema, and Evolution of the French Novel, Edwin Mellen Press, 1996.
Creative Encounters with French Films. Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen Research Univ. Press, 1993. Reviewed in French Review, Dec. 1995: 359-60.
The Aesthetics of the New Novel In France. Boulder: Colorado UP, 1968.

Major Articles:

"Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet: A Socio-Political Critique," Folio, December 1982: 41-48.
"L'Individu nation: A Structural Analysis," in Proust et le texte producteur, ed. John Erickson and Irene Pages (Guelph: Univ. of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 1980): 123-130.
"Trois Contes: A New Dimension in Flaubert," Nottingham French Studies, May 1979: 37-43.
"Flaubert's Tentation: An Escape from Power Over Others," French Review, March 1979: 604-10.
"The Comic Structure of A la recherche du temps perdu, French Review, Special Issue no. 6, 1978: 144-50.
"Proust's Magic Lantern," Modern Fiction Studies, Summer 1973: 211-216.
"Proust and the New Novel in France," PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association), Jan. 1973: 25-33.
"The Relation of Epiphany to Description in the Modern French Novel," Comparative Literature Studies, Winter 1969: 317-28.
"Dialogue, Diderot and the New Novel in France," Eighteenth-Century Studies Winter 1968: 317-28.
"Valéry and the Modern French Novel," Esprit Createur, Summer 1967: 81-90.
"The Relationship of Judge and Priest in `La Peste'," French Review, February, 1964: 419-425.
"Camus' Deserts and Their Allies, Kingdoms of the Stranger," Symposium, Spring, 1963:30-41.

Community Involvement:

Friends of the School of American Research, Member 1998

Santa Fe Institute, Contributor

AIA/Santa Fe, BOD - 1997

Rotary del Sur/Santa Fe - 1997

Northern New Mexico Horseman's Association, Secretary 1997

Sarasota French Film Festival, Donor, 1993, 1994, 1995

Society for Cinema Studies, Member-1996

Society for Literature and Science - 1996

Honolulu Academy of Arts, Member and film consultant - 1996

Stanford Alumni Association - Life member

Stanford Alumni Gourmet Club of Hawaii, originator and director, 1974-1996.

American Association of Teachers of French - 1996.