Associate Professor 20th-Century French Literature, Women's Studies, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Avant-Garde Ph.D., Indiana University, 1976 Email: lane-nancy@sc.edu Phone: (803) 777-6867 Fax: (803) 777-0454 Humanities 817

Dr. Lane is a specialist in twentieth-century French literature, avant-garde theater, and feminist theory. Major publications include Understanding Eugène Ionesco (University of South Carolina Press, 1994); "Expressing the Inexpressible: Ionesco and the Struggle With Language," Postscript 9 (1991): 1-9 (winner of the Joiner Prize for outstanding article); "From Saint-Hilaire to Martinville and Beyond: Self, Desire and Writing in Remembrance of Things Past." Style 22 (1988): 391-401; "The Subject in/of History: Hiroshima mon amour." Literature and Film in the Historical Dimension. Ed. John D. Simons. Gainesville, FL: UP of Florida, 1994. 89-100; "L'Amant de la Chine du nord: Sacred Prostitution or Recovery?" Thirty Voices in the Feminine . Ed. Michael Bishop. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996. 34-41; "Duras and Cardinal: Writing the (M)Other," French Forum 24 (1999): 215-232. She teaches graduate courses in twentieth-century French literature, as well as courses in avant-garde theater and French feminist thought (for the Comparative Literature program) and feminist theory (for the Women’s Studies program). She directs numerous master’s theses and serves on many dissertation committees (in English, comparative literature, and nursing). She has directed three French Literature conferences in areas of her own research (the essay, feminism and "the mother"). Dr. Lane has taught a wide variety of undergraduate courses in language and literature, including basic proficiency, intermediate reading and writing, grammar and composition, survey of literature, and techniques of literary analysis. She has been active in teaching first-year students as an instructor of University 101, and she is a Dean’s advisor of freshmen in the College. She has also directed the summer study program in France.