Kirk Anderson
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Main Interests
French pop music, Paris World’s Fairs, Tocqueville’s America, Occupation and Collaboration, Historiography as Literature, Beckett, Céline, Sarraute
Other Interests
NEH Summer Institute: “The Continuing Significance of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America,” Bethel University, June 18-29, 2007.
NEH summer seminar: “Images of Nation in Interwar France,” University of Iowa, June-August 1994.
Wheaton Faculty intern at the Yupparaj Wittayalai school in Chiang Mai, Thailand, May-July 1993.
Degrees
M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University (1991)
B.A., St. Olaf College (1983)
Research Interests
Will present a paper, “Extrêmement pop: Gainsbourg et le ‘Swinging London’”, at the first international conference on Serge Gainsbourg, Paris-Sorbonne, 9-11 April 2018.
Currently considering 1966 as a watershed year in French popular music, with a shift from imitation to appropriation of the Anglo-American model (Dutronc, Antoine, Polnareff, Gainsbourg).
Teaching Interests
French perspectives on the USA, Translation, Chanson, 20th century French literature
Publications
“Song ‘Adaptations’ and the Globalization of French Pop, 1960-1970,” French Cultural Studies 26 (3), August 2015.
“Brown Hounding,” a translation of Franck Pavloff’s “Matin brun,” Metamorphoses (Spring 2012).
“Vive Voix,” a website for French poetry, both text and sound.
“Culture without Subtitles,” Global Dispatch, Spring 2006.
“Writing the Expo: Parisian literati and the 1900 World’s Fair”, paper delivered at Carleton College, 14 Jan 2000.
“‘Familistère rénové or ‘Révolution moyen
Performances
Accordionist and guitarist for “Consuelo’s Revenge”