Name: Stephen H. Fleck
Rank: Associate Professor
Education: BA Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1971
BA, Music, Sonoma State University, 1986
PhD, French, University of California, Davis, 1993
Contact Information:
Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures
CSULB
1250 Bellflower Bd.
Long Beach , CA 90840-2406
(562) 985-8525
Research and Teaching Interests:
Seventeenth Century Theater, Literature, Music; Comic Theory and Practice; French Cinema; 19 th Century French Poetry and Music.
Selected Publications:
Book
Music, Dance, and Laughter: Comic Creation in Molière's Comedy-Ballets . Tübingen/Paris/Seattle: PFSCL-Biblio 17 (88), 1995.
Articles
“ From Personnages to Personæ : On the Evolution of Molière's Late Dramaturgy.”
Article forthcoming in Le Nouveau Moliériste, Summer 2004.
“L'imaginaire du Malade : Musique, voix, et masque dans la fête ultime de Molière.”
Article in Jean Emelina, ed., Actes of the Biennales Molière, Molière et la Fête . Pézenas: Ville de Pézenas, France, 2003. Pp. 307-28.
“Le Bourgeois gentilhomme.” “Monsieur de Pourceaugnac.” Articles for the Molière Encyclopedia, James Gaines, ed. Greenwood, 2002.
“Rustic Games: George Dandin at the Limits of Genre.”
Article in Actes du 32e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth French Literature, Tulane University , 13-15 avril 2000 . Tübingen: Biblio-17/Gunter Narr, 2001. Pp. 179-89.
“Poesía y música en Les Nuits d'été de Berlioz-Gautier.”Article in Literatura: Espacio de contactos culturales . Cuartas Jornadas Nacionales de Literatura Comparada, 12 al 15 de agosto de 1998. Asociación Argentina de Literatura Comparada, Tucumán, Argentina (1999). Pp. 649-57.
“Enjoyment and Subversion in Molière's Comedy-Ballets.” Cahiers du Dix-septième siècle , Vol. 7 No. 1 (1997): 1-10.
“The Play of Illusions in Monsieur de Pourceaugnac.” Article in Car demeure l'amitié...Mélanges offerts à Claude Abraham (Francis Assaf, ed.). Tübingen: Biblio 17 (102)/Gunter Narr, 1997. Pp. 51-61.
“L'Évocation poético-musicale dans Les Nuits d'été de Berlioz-Gautier.” Bulletin de la Société Théophile Gautier, Vol. 18 (1996): 163-89.
“Barthes on Racine : A Different Speech-Act Theory.” Seventeenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 14 (1992): 143-55.
“Musicality of Vision in Phèdre.” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Vol. 15, No. 32 (1990): 263-72.
Awards and Honors:
Various research grants from CSULB.
Conference Presentations:
Conference Papers and Other Lectures
Scheduled: “Les Nuits d'été de Berlioz-Gautier, ou les réécritures de l'amour,” invited two-hour presentation at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, June 2004.
Scheduled: “Molière et la musique,” invited two-hour presentation at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, June 2004.
“Music, Corporality, and Spectacle.” Invited presentation at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 4 March, 2004 .
“L'imaginaire du Malade : Musique, voix, et masque dans la fête ultime de Molière,” conference paper on Molière's Le Malade imaginaire for the first Biennales Molière, themed “Molière et la Fête,” held in Pézenas, France, 8 June, 2001.
“Rustic Games: George Dandin at the Limits of Genre.” Conference paper at invitation of Professor David Lee Rubin (U. Virginia) delivered at the NASSCFL annual meeting, New Orleans, April 2000.
“Romantic Revisitings: on the Elusive Textures of Berlioz-Gautier's Les Nuits d'été.” Presentation at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) meetings, November 6, 1998, Claremont, California .
“Les Comédies-Ballets de Molière.” ‘Minicurso' (five-hour series of lectures in French) at the IV Jornadas Nacionales de Literatura Comparada, fourth annual meeting of the Asociación de Literatura Comparada de Argentina, Tucumán , Argentina, 13-14 August 1998.
“Poesía y Música en Les Nuits d'été de Berlioz-Gautier.” Presentation in Spanish at the IV Jornadas Nacionales de Literatura Comparada, fourth annual meeting of the Asociación de Literatura Comparada de Argentina, Tucumán, Argentina, 13 August 1998 .
“L'Évocation poético-musicale dans Les Nuits d'été de Berlioz-Gautier.” Presentation at the Colloque International Théophile Gautier, Maisons-Laffitte, France, 21 June 1996.
“False Steps and Minuets: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme 's Twists and Turns.” Invited presentation given at the Department of French and Italian's Molière Festival, UC Davis, 13 March 1995.
“Enjoyment and Subversion in the Comedy-Ballets.” Invited presentation given at the 1994 SE-17 conference, New Orleans, 15 October 1994 .
“Barthes on Racine : A Proto-Speech-Act Theory.” Presentation at the “Pragmatics and the Analysis of Drama” session, Modern Language Association, 29 December 1991 San Francisco .
“Structuring of Roles in Horace .” Presentation at the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast , 16 November 1991, Las Vegas .
Courses Taught:
French 312 A and B, Grammar Review and Composition
French 335 and 336, Literature Surveys, Middle Ages-20 th Century
French 456, French Cinema
French 472-572, Seventeenth Century
French 471-571, Renaissance
French 480, Capstone Course, ‘Self and Society'
French 490/590, Literature and Film
Various other courses in the department.