Alison James - Curriculum Vitae#

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• July 2022 - present Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Professor of French, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (2020 - present), University of Chicago
  
• 2013 - 2020 Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
  
• 2005 - 2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
  

EDUCATION

• 2005 PhD in French Literature, Columbia University, New York (dissertation with distinction)
  
• 2003 Diplôme d’Études Approfondies in Literature, Université Paris 8 (Mention très bien)
  
• 2002 MPhil in French Literature, Columbia University
  
• 2000 MA in French Literature, Columbia University
  
• 1998 BA in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and German), University of Cambridge, UK (first class honours)

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

• 2018 - present: Co-founder and Vice-President, International Society for Fiction and Fictionality Studies/Société internationale des recherches sur la fiction et la fictionnalité (ISFFS/SIRFF)
  
• 2018 - 2022: Member of research network and co-director of 20th-Century team for “ALEA: Figures of Chance,” dir. Anne Duprat, supported by Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France
  
• 2011 - 2016: Member of research group DifdePo: “Différences de potentiel: Histoire, poétique et esthétique de l’Oulipo,” supported by Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France

ACADEMIC ADVISING

University of Chicago: 4 PhD dissertations directed; committee member for 12 dissertations; 8 MA theses directed.

International: committee member for Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université Paris I–Panthéon-Sorbonne.

SELECTED UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, 2022 - 2025
  
• French Section Head, University of Chicago, 2019 - 2021
  
• Graduate Advisor, French, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2014 - 2015, 2016 - 2017, 2019 - 2020
  
• Humanities Division Policy Committee, University of Chicago, 2016 - 2019.

REVIEWING/EVALUATION

For research institutes: NIAS Fellowship (Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study) and Fonds de la recherche scientifique (Belgium).

For journals: a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Contemporary Literature, Études littéraires, French Studies, Journal of Religion, Journal of Romance Studies, Modern Language Notes, Modern Philology, New Literary History, PMLA, Revue romane, Romanic Review, Style, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, Social and Cultural Geography, Symposium.

For presses: Northwestern University Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Delaware Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, UCL Press, Yale University Press.