Mary Donaldson-Evans
Elias Ahuja Professor Emerita
University of Delaware
103 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
Mary Donaldson-Evans taught at the University of Delaware from 1969 until her retirement in 2011. Her field of specialization was 19th century French literature. Besides the literature and civilization courses, she most enjoyed teaching courses in phonetics and translation.
At Delaware, she was active at all levels, including serving as Chair of the Departmental Undergraduate and Graduate Studies Committees, Chair of the Commission on the Status of Women, Member of the A & S Promotion and Tenure Committee, etc. In addition to the University of Delaware Press editorial board, she served on several editorial boards for journals in her field.
In her retirement, Mary has prepared a scholarly edition of Maupassantās Bel-Ami (1885), to be published by Garnier (Paris). She has also had several creative works (short stories, anecdotes and personal essays) published by The New York Times āMetropolitan Diary,ā The Lowestoft Chronicle, grandmagazine.com, and Blizzard, the publication of the Armyās Tenth Mountain Division.
Degrees
PhD University of Pennsylvania, 1975
M.A. University of Wisconsin, 1968
B.A. Marquette University, 1965
Publications
Madame Bovary at the Movies: Adaptation, Ideology, Context, Rodopi, 2009.
Medical Examinations. Dissecting the Doctor in French Narrative Prose (1857-1894), University of Nebraska Press, 2000
A Womanās Revenge: The Chronology of Dispossession in Maupassantās Fiction (French Forum Monographs, 1986)
Four co-edited books and numerous articles
Professional Activities
Honors and Awards:
Named Professorship (Elias Ahuja), 2002
Outstanding Teacher in the College of Arts and Sciences, 1995
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for College Teachers, 1993-94
āChevalierā in the Order of French Academic Palms, 1989
Excellence-in-Teaching Award, 1983
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