Leslie Boldt-Irons

Department of French, Italian and Spanish

SSHRCC General Research Grants

• ($300.00) Writing the Limit: The question of the subject in the works of Bataille, Artaud, Michaux and Blanchot.

• ($1,500.00) Conference at the University of London

• "The framed image: the chain of metaphors in Balzac's Le Père Goriot," Nineteenth Century French Studies, Volume 19, No. 4, Summer 1991.
• "Irony/Humor in the Fast Lane: The route to Desire in L'abbé C.", The Romanic Review, March 1994.

• Organizer, with two colleagues, of the Colloque International, "Exilés, marginaux et parias dans les littératures d'expression francophone," Brock University, October 1992.
• Organizer and chair of session entitled "Bataille: Pre-War, Post-War" for the 1992 MLA Convention in New York.

• "The violence of Bataille's literary image: reflections from/upon the Mise en Abîme," International Conference on Georges Bataille, University of London, May 1991.
• "Artaud and the erasure of his other," 20th Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Kentucky, February 1992.
• "In search of a forgotten culture: Artaud, Mexico and the balance of matter and spirit," Old World Domination versus New World Regionalism Conference, SUNY/Binghamton, April 1992.
• "En écrivant à partir de la peinture de Michaux," Art and Literature since 1970 in France and Quebec, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 1992.
• "Glory as Unproductive Expenditure: Bataille's Writings on World War II," MLA Convention, New York, December 1992.

• "Michel Tournier and the Glory of the Holy Spirit," Colloquium on Glory and Ethics of Joy, November 6-7, 1992.
• "Artaud dans les marges de son être," Colloque International, "Exilés, marginaux et parias dans les littératures d'expression francophone," October 1992.
• "Glorious Guilt: Bataille at the Mercy of Loss," Joyful Wisdom Conference, November 1992.