Yves-Antoine Clemmen
Professor of French
Native of Belgium, Yves-Antoine Clemmen grew up in the French speaking region of Charleroi. He learned Dutch, Latin and English in high school (Athenée royale de Marcinelle) where he was also a math major. He went to college in Namur and in Liège, and completed a Master's degree in Germanic Philology with a thesis on Anglo-Saxon poetry before studying in the United States, first at Washington University in Saint Louis, Mo., and then at the University of Illinois where he completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. He has been a faculty member at Stetson University since 1992. He also teaches yoga at the Yoga Shed in DeLand.
Education
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Illinois
- M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Illinois
- Agrégation de l'enseignement secondaire supérieur, Université de l'État à Liège
- Licences de Philologie Germanique, Université de l'État à Liège
Research
- Narratology, contemporary French novel, word and image studies, theory of photography. Special topics: Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb, Grand-Guignol Theatre (French theatre of horror 1897-1962).
Courses
- Reading Photography
- Introduction to general linguistics
- French Linguistics
- Elementary French II
- Intermediate French I
Publications
- "Stupeur et Tremblements : La lecture du cinéma," Lehman and Grieb Ed. Cultural Perspectives on Film, Literature, and Language. Boca Raton: Brown Walker Press, 2010. 57-69
- "Où a quand même lieu la littérature française: Amélie Nothomb à la rentrée littéraire 2005," Journal of Contemporary French and francophone Studies: Sites. November 2007.
- "Peut-être un peu monstrueux, peut-être un peu différent," (lecture d'une nouvelle d'Amélie Nothomb). Parallèles II : Ecrits de monstres/ Monstres Ecrits. Québec: Instant-Même, 2007.
- "Discursive Spaces in Photography," Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography. New York: Routledge, 2005.
- "Rosalind Krauss," Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Faculty Expert
Belgian Writer Amélie Nothomb
Grand-Guignol Theatre
French and General Linguistics
Phone
386-822-7540
Fax
386.740.3609
