Dr. Jardine was recently honored by being included on the prestigious Choice Outstanding Academic Title List in 2021 for her book, At The Risk of Thinking.
ARLINGTON, MA, October 03, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Alice Jardine has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Jardine is internationally known as a scholar, teacher, feminist theorist and author who has been affiliated with the prestigious Harvard University for more than 40 years. Hired as an Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures in 1982, she subsequently became an Associate and Full Professor and also was for several years the Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies, today known as Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. In addition to teaching 20th- and 21st-century French/Francophone literature, poststructuralist and feminist theory, and studies of women, gender and sexuality, Dr. Jardine has been serving as the Director of the Study Abroad Program in Paris via the Harvard Summer School since 2010. She has also served on numerous curricular, promotion, and policy committees during her time at Harvard.
As an extension of her work, Dr. Jardine served as a Visiting Professor of Comparative Studies in the Program for Public Intellectuals at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton in 2002. Dr. Jardine has also given a multitude of lectures throughout the world in such places as Israel, Senegal, Egypt, Mauritius and the former Soviet Union.
During her professional career, Dr. Jardine co-founded the Boston Consortium in Women's Studies with Ruth Perry, a professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Consortium was created to provide graduate students with advanced training in approaches to the theorization of gender and sexuality. Dr. Jardine also co-founded the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies in the 1980's, a center now recognized as the Mahindra Center for the Humanities at Harvard University.
Having published extensively on how issues of women, gender and sexuality shape politics, culture and society, Dr. Jardine has also emphasized Post-World War II fiction and critical theory, as well as French poststructuralist, American feminist, and queer thought. Becoming widely published as the result of her research, she has authored and edited numerous books, including, most recently, an award-winning biography entitled At The Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva (Bloomsbury2020). Other books include Living Attention: On Teresa Brennan (SUNY Press, 2012), Shifting Scenes: Interviews on Women, Writing, and Politics in Post-68 France (Columbia University Press, 1991), Social Control And The Arts: An International Perspective (New Cambridge Press, 1990), Men in Feminism (Methuen Publishing Ltd., 1987), and The Future of Difference (G. K. Hall & Co., 1980, reprinted by Rutgers University Press, 1985). Dr. Jardine plans to continue writing once she retires in 2024. Her newest book project is entitled Picaresque Paris: Bringing Theory Back to Life.
Apart from her books, Dr. Jardine has published numerous scholarly articles and has also served in several editorial roles. Dr. Jardine's papers will be collected by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, a feminist research center that is dedicated to collecting papers of renowned feminists.
Prior to embarking upon her professional journey, Dr. Jardine received a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Comparative Literature, Summa Cum Laude, from The Ohio State University in 1973. She subsequently studied at Columbia University where she earned a Master of Arts in French in 1977 and a Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature in 1980 and 1982, respectively. Additional educational pursuits to Dr. Jardine's credit include studying at the Université de Paris I and III 1973-1974, the Ecole Normale Supérieure-rue d'Ulm in Paris, 1979 - 1980 and the Université de Paris VII, 1980-1981.
To remain aware of developments affecting her field, Dr. Jardine is a prominent member of the Modern Language Association and the American Association of University Women.
Dr. Jardine was recently honored by being included on the prestigious Choice Outstanding Academic Title List in 2021 for her book, At The Risk of Thinking. The honor reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed by the organization each year, which is notably a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Dr. Jardine was also recognized as a Prose Prize Humanities finalist by the Association of American Publishers in 2021. She was also selected as a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University in 2021.
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