Department of French

A Canadian by birth, Professor Santoro studied at the University of Victoria, McGill University, the University of Burgundy and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris before completing her doctorate at Princeton in 1994.

Her book, entitled _Mothers of Invention: Feminist Authors and Experimental Fiction in France and Quebec_ (McGill-Queens University Press, 2002), compares avant-garde aesthetics and experimental writing strategies in the novels of contemporary French and Québécois feminists. This work is in part the result of research conducted at the Ecole Normale and Paris VIII under the direction of Professor Hélène Cixous, with whom she completed a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies in Women's Studies in 1992.

Since arriving at Georgetown in 1996, Professor Santoro has pursued her interest in the literature and culture of Québec, and in women writers of the Francophone world through courses she has created on "Contemporary French Canada," "Quebec Film and Society," "Modern Francophone Women Novelists," "Urban Fiction of Montreal" and "Women's Wor(l)ds in the Modern Quebec Novel." Most of the course syllabi written by Professor Santoro are available on Blackboard. In addition to her teaching, Professor Santoro has directed several senior thesis projects, and is the coordinator for the Linguistic Competency Evaluations for Study Abroad for the French Department. She also served as Project Coordinator for the French Department's Curriculum Renewal Grant from 2006-2008.

Professor Santoro has published articles, reviews and translations in Women in French Studies (for which she served as Book Review Editor for four years), Quebec Studies, The American Review of Canadian Studies, the International Journal of Canadian Studies, Francographies, Etudes francophones, the Antigonish Review, and the International Poetry Review, among others. She has written chapters for the critical anthologies Women by Women (Fairleigh Dickinson, 1997), Doing Gender (2001), and Ut philosophia poesis: Etudes sur l'oeuvre de Jeanne Hyvrard (2001). At the Editions Galilée, her work on Hélène Cixous appears with the conference proceedings from "Hélène Cixous: croisées d'une oeuvre" held at Cérisy-la-Salle in June of 1998. Santoro's translation of and introduction to a full chapter of Michèle Sarde's Histoire d'Eurydice pendant la remontée was included in Daughters of Sarah: Anthology of Jewish Women Writing in French (Holmes and Meier, 2006).

Professor Santoro is a member of several professional associations, including the Modern Language Association, the American Council for Québec Studies, the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (she served as its Secretary-Treasurer from 2003-2007), the Association Internationale des études québécoises, Women in French, and the Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones. She is currently on the editorial board of the American Review of Canadian Studies, and is Associate Editor of the International Review of Canadian Studies.