Marcelline Block's Page

Profile Information

Who I am:
Marcelline Block (BA, Harvard; MA, Princeton; PhD candidate, Princeton) is Lecturer in History at Princeton.

http://www.amazon.com/Marcelline-Block/e/B002WWLQI4/ref=ntt_athr_dp...

http://hadarfoundation.org/?p=668

http://www.princeton.edu/fit/people/display_person.xml?netid=mblock...
Connect with me online! My site, blog, or Twitter handle are:
@MarcellineBlock
Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
Marcelline Block edited Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema (Cambridge Scholars, 2008; 2010), which was translated into Italian as Sguardo e pubblico femminista nel cinema del dopoguerra (2012); World Film Locations: Paris (2011); World Film Locations: Las Vegas (2012), and co-edited "Collaboration," a special issue of Critical Matrix (vol. 18, 2009), as well as Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative (Cambridge Scholars, 2010) and Unequal Before Death (Cambridge Scholars, 2012). She contributed chapters to anthologies including The Many Ways We Talk about Death in Contemporary Society: Interdisciplinary Studies in Portrayal and Classification (2009); Vendetta: Essays on Honor and Revenge (2010), and Cherchez la femme: Women and Values in the Francophone World (2011). Her articles have appeared in the journals Excavatio, vol. XXII: Realism and Naturalism in Film Studies (2007); The Harvard French Review (2007), and Women in French Studies (2009, 2010). Her writing has been published in French in Vingtième Siècle: revue d'histoire (vol. 96, 2007). She has been translated and published in Russian in Русское арт-зарубежье: Вторая половина ХХ века - начало ХХI века/Russian Art Beyond Borders: Late 20th Century-Early 21st Century (2010).
Media outlets that I currently write for:
Member of the editorial board of WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society.
My writing is:
Nonfiction, Memoir, Journalism, Blog Posts, Lit Crit, Theory
Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
Book reviews are as follows: Jean-François Sirinelli, Les Vingt décisives: le passé proche de notre avenir, 1965-1985 (XXème Siècle: Revue d’histoire, October-December 2007 issue, vol. 96, 276-277); Susie Hennessy, The Mother Figure in Emile Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart: Literary Realism and the Quest for the Ideal Mother (Women in French Studies, 2010); Ada Uzomaka Azodo, ed., Emerging Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall: The Real and the Imaginary in Her Novels (Women in French Studies, 2009)
Services I offer to other writers:
Yes, I edit manuscripts: academic, fiction, and memoir.
My professional associations:
Women in French (WIF); Modern Language Association (MLA); Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA); Mensa; American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA); Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages (WCML); National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA); Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG)
I found out about She Writes from:
word of mouth (saw it on various women writer's blogs)

Marcelline Block's Blog

"The Aesthetics of Migration" published

Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:00am 0 Comments

My review of "Where Do We Migrate To?", the national touring multimedia exhibition curated by Niels Van Tomme, was recently published. My review of the show (and its catalogue) is entitled "The Aesthetics of Migration."

Unequal Before Death published

Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:02pm 0 Comments

Unequal Before Death, an interdisciplinary collection of essays I co-edited, was recently published.…

Continue

Featured in Visual Culture Blog

Posted on May 20, 2012 at 10:30pm 0 Comments

Check out Visual Culture Blog for Marco Bohr's essay about "Koyaanisqatsi" which was published in World Film Locations: Las Vegas.

Italian Translation Published

Posted on March 26, 2012 at 4:17pm 0 Comments

I wish to share the exciting news that the Italian translation of my first edited collection, Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema, was recently published and is now available. Please feel free to check out Sguardo e pubblico femminista nel cinema del…

Continue

Comment Wall (3 comments)

You need to be a member of She Writes to add comments!

Join She Writes

At 2:59pm on July 12, 2011, Meg Waite Clayton said…
Marcelline, Belated welcome to She Writes. I hope you're enjoying the site! Your work looks fascinating. Do come sit by me anywhere here!

Meg Waite Clayton
Moderator, Novelist Group
Bestselling Author of The Four Ms. Bradwells, The Wednesday Sisters, and The Language of Light, a finalist for Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize
At 5:50am on May 21, 2011, Julie Jeffs said…
Marcelline,

Welcome to the Bloggers Let’s Make it Work group! So glad you are here. Please visit the discussion New Members Visit Here First, tell us about your blog so we can list it on the members blog index.

I hope you will find, as I did, a great sense of community, loads of information and resources, and an incredible amount of talent.

Jump in on ongoing discussions or start one if there is an issue you would like to discuss.

Let me know if you have any questions. Look forward to reading your posts.

Warm regards,
Julie Jeffs
Beginning a Life at 50
At 9:09am on May 17, 2011, Julia Barry said…
Hi Marcelline,

So glad you are here, and welcome to She Writes! 

You can check out the Getting Started section to help you find your way around, or a great way to jump in is to get involved with our Groups and Live Chats.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!

Warm best,
Julia Barry
Social Community Manager @ She Writes
 
 
 

Latest Activity

Jayne Martin commented on the group 'Funny Women'
1 minute ago
Nanci Arvizu posted a status
"Ready to explode your business on the mobile market? Get your own app NOW http://dld.bz/a75x2"
5 minutes ago
Valorie Grace Hallinan joined a group
Thumbnail

Librarian Writers

A group for librarians and fans of libraries.
6 minutes ago
Valorie Grace Hallinan joined a group
Thumbnail

Baby Boomers

Women born between 1945 and 1964 who write about and are interested in contributing material about their lives- then and now.
10 minutes ago

Members

Badge

Loading…

© 2012   Created by Kamy Wicoff.

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service