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'''Raylene Lammas Ramsay''' (born 1945) is a professor emerita of French culture, in New Zealand. She is a Fellow of the [[Royal Society Te Apārangi]]. |
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'''Raylene Lammas Ramsay''' (born 1945) is a professor emerita of French culture, in New Zealand. She has published on avant-garde French novelists, French women politicians, and has translated Kanak poems and published a cultural history of New Caledonia. She is a Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities and was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society Te Apārangi]] in 2009. |
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== Education == |
== Education == |
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Ramsay attended [[Otago Girls' High School]], |
Ramsay attended [[Otago Girls' High School]], where she won a university entrance scholarship in 1964.<ref>{{Cite web |last=The Press |date=18 January 1964 |title=Seven Entrance Scholarships To Christchurch Pupils |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19640118.2.96 |access-date=2022-03-04 |website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz}}</ref> She undertook doctoral studies under the direction of Ida Frandon (1907–1997) at [[University of Poitiers|the University of Poitiers]], publishing her thesis, a study of the works of writer and film director [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], in 1972.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Ramsay O'Callaghan |first=Raylene Lammas |url=https://odebuplus.univ-poitiers.fr/permalink/33UDP_INST/113bbkm/alma991005199709706171 |title=La complémentarité multiple : Une étude de l'oeuvre d'Alain Robbe-Grillet |year=1972 |date=1972 |degree=Doctoral |publisher=[[University of Poitiers]]}}</ref> |
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== Career == |
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Ramsay has written extensively on the avant-garde novelists [[Nathalie Sarraute]], [[Marguerite Duras]], and Alain Robbe-Grillet, and the nature of their autobiographical writing. Ramsay's book ''Robbe-Grillet and Modernity: Science, Sexuality, and Subversion'' was published by the University Press of Florida in 1992, followed by ''The French New Autobiographies: Sarraute, Duras and Robbe-Grillet'' in 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |last=UPF |title=The French New Autobiographies |url=https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813013978 |access-date=2022-03-04 |website=University Press of Florida: The French New Autobiographies |language=en-US}}</ref> |
Ramsay has written extensively on the avant-garde novelists [[Nathalie Sarraute]], [[Marguerite Duras]], and Alain Robbe-Grillet, and the nature of their autobiographical writing. Ramsay's book ''Robbe-Grillet and Modernity: Science, Sexuality, and Subversion'' was published by the University Press of Florida in 1992, followed by ''The French New Autobiographies: Sarraute, Duras and Robbe-Grillet'' in 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |last=UPF |title=The French New Autobiographies |url=https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813013978 |access-date=2022-03-04 |website=University Press of Florida: The French New Autobiographies |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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''French Women in Politics'', published in 2003, analysed the writings by and about French women politicians and included interviews with [[Huguette Bouchardeau]], [[Simone Veil]] and [[Édith Cresson]], among others.<ref>{{Cite web |title=French Women in Politics: Writing Power: Paternal Legitimization and Maternal Legacies |url=https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/RamsayFrench |access-date=2022-03-04 |website=www.berghahnbooks.com}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Ramsay married veterinary surgeon and former All Black [[Mick O'Callaghan|Michael O'Callaghan]] on 30 January 1971 in [[Poitiers]], France.<ref>{{Cite web |last=The Press |date=19 September 1970 |title=All Black to wed in France |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19700919.2.162 |access-date=2022-03-04 |website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=The Press |date=13 February 1971 |title=Marriage |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19710213.2.238.3 |access-date=2022-03-04 |website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz}}</ref> |
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Returning to New Zealand from North America in 1994, Ramsay was Head of the School of European Languages and Literatures at [[University of Auckland]] from 2000 to 2004. She expanded her focus to include Francophone languages of the Pacific, and published a translation of the poems of [[Kanak people|Kanak]] leader [[Déwé Gorodey]], and other works on the cultural history of [[New Caledonia]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Adrienne |first=Fulop, Erika Angelo |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/897349114 |title=Cherchez la femme : women and values in the Francophone world |date=2011 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars |isbn=978-1-4438-2933-5 |oclc=897349114}}</ref> Since her retirement in 2014, she has been Professor Emerita.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=View our current Fellows |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-fellows/view-our-fellows/ |access-date=2022-03-04 |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}</ref> |
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== Awards == |
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''Professor Raylene Ramsay is a distinguished authority on major trends in contemporary French cultural production. She began by establishing her knowledge and understanding of some of the most influential and difficult of the French postmodern writers, including Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras and, especially, Alain Robbe-Grillet. Her book on 'Robbe-Grillet and Modernity' (1992) related Robbe-Grillet's work to a paradoxical modern scientific spirit, and her study of 'The French New Autobiographies' (1996) emphasized underlying principles of complementarity; both received warm praise and were admired for their well-informed theoretical perspectives, including the extended fields of microphysics, chaos theory and psychoanalysis. Professor Ramsay then continued her work on French women. Her study of 'French Women in Politics' (2003) received a major editorial award. On her return to New Zealand from North America in 1994, Professor Ramsay extended her work to the Francophone literatures of the Pacific, in particular translating Kanak texts from New Caledonia and publishing studies of indigenous writing in French. This culminated in a theoretically based monograph, ‘Rethinking Hybridity. The Literatures of the French Pacific’, in the University of Liverpool Francophone series (2014). Professor Ramsay is a productive scholar, with four monographs, two edited books, a number of translations including a co-authored translation of the first Kanak novel, and over 50 articles. She has made an energetic and committed contribution to the profession generally, writing reviews, frequently attending conferences (often to present plenary sessions), serving on several editorial boards, reading manuscripts, and sustaining an active membership of several research networks. She fostered collaborations between French departments in New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, France and the USA, and the development of a number of younger scholars, supervising 11 doctoral theses and assisting her students in seeking academic positions. At Auckland University she served as the Head of the School of European Languages and Literatures (2000-2004) and Head of French. She has been a member of the Humanities panel for the Marsden Fund and of the Humanities and Law panel for the PBRF. Throughout her career, Professor Ramsay managed relations with the French academic and cultural world through some difficult times, and in 2006 she was made a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, an award bestowed by the French Ministry of Culture for her outstanding contribution to French culture. Raylene has been Professor Emerita since her retirement in 2014.'' |
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Ramsay was made [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres|Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]] in 2006, for her "outstanding contribution to French culture".<ref name=":0" /> |
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Ramsay is a Fellow of the [[New Zealand Association of Humanities|New Zealand Academy of Humanities]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=List of Fellows 2008.doc |url=https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE15635228 |access-date=2022-03-05 |website=ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz}}</ref> and was elected Fellow of the [[Royal Society Te Apārangi]] in 2009.<ref name=":0" /> |
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| ⚫ | Ramsay married veterinary surgeon and former All Black [[Mick O'Callaghan (rugby union, born 1946)|Michael O'Callaghan]] on 30 January 1971 in [[Poitiers]], France.<ref>{{Cite web |last=The Press |date=19 September 1970 |title=All Black to wed in France |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19700919.2.162 |access-date=2022-03-04 |website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=The Press |date=13 February 1971 |title=Marriage |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19710213.2.238.3 |access-date=2022-03-04 |website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz}}</ref> |
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== Selected publications == |
== Selected publications == |
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* Ramsay, Raylene, editor. ''[http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wqpp5 Nights of Storytelling: A Cultural History of Kanaky-New Caledonia]''. University of Hawai’i Press, 2011. |
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* Gorode, Dewe, ''The Wreck'' (1 September 2011); Translated by Walker-Morrison, Deborah; Ramsay, Raylene L. ISBN 9781877484162 Little Island Press Ltd |
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Latest revision as of 03:49, 18 May 2024
Professor Emerita Raylene Lammas Ramsay | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | MA (University of Otago) DU (University of Poitiers) |
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| Discipline | French culture, French language |
| Institutions | University of Auckland |
Raylene Lammas Ramsay (born 1945) is a professor emerita of French culture, in New Zealand. She has published on avant-garde French novelists, French women politicians, and has translated Kanak poems and published a cultural history of New Caledonia. She is a Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2009.
Education
[edit]Ramsay attended Otago Girls' High School, where she won a university entrance scholarship in 1964.[1] She undertook doctoral studies under the direction of Ida Frandon (1907–1997) at the University of Poitiers, publishing her thesis, a study of the works of writer and film director Alain Robbe-Grillet, in 1972.[2]
Career
[edit]Ramsay has written extensively on the avant-garde novelists Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, and Alain Robbe-Grillet, and the nature of their autobiographical writing. Ramsay's book Robbe-Grillet and Modernity: Science, Sexuality, and Subversion was published by the University Press of Florida in 1992, followed by The French New Autobiographies: Sarraute, Duras and Robbe-Grillet in 1996.[3]
French Women in Politics, published in 2003, analysed the writings by and about French women politicians and included interviews with Huguette Bouchardeau, Simone Veil and Édith Cresson, among others.[4]
Returning to New Zealand from North America in 1994, Ramsay was Head of the School of European Languages and Literatures at University of Auckland from 2000 to 2004. She expanded her focus to include Francophone languages of the Pacific, and published a translation of the poems of Kanak leader Déwé Gorodey, and other works on the cultural history of New Caledonia.[5][6] Since her retirement in 2014, she has been Professor Emerita.[5]
Awards
[edit]Ramsay was made Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2006, for her "outstanding contribution to French culture".[5]
Ramsay is a Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities,[7] and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2009.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Ramsay married veterinary surgeon and former All Black Michael O'Callaghan on 30 January 1971 in Poitiers, France.[8][9]
Selected publications
[edit]- Ramsay, Raylene, editor. Nights of Storytelling: A Cultural History of Kanaky-New Caledonia. University of Hawai’i Press, 2011.
- Raylene Ramsay (31 December 1999). "Chapter 9. Postmodernism and the Monstrous Criminal". Detecting texts: the metaphysical detective story from Poe to postmodernism: 199–214. doi:10.9783/9780812205459.199. Wikidata Q109897263.
- Raylene Ramsay (1 December 2008). "In the belly of the canoe with Ihimaera, Hulme and Gorod. The waka as a locus of hybridity". International Journal of Francophone Studies. 11 (4): 559–579. doi:10.1386/IJFS.11.4.559_1. ISSN 1368-2679. Wikidata Q109897260.
- Gorode, Dewe, The Wreck (1 September 2011); Translated by Walker-Morrison, Deborah; Ramsay, Raylene L. ISBN 9781877484162 Little Island Press Ltd
References
[edit]- ^ The Press (18 January 1964). "Seven Entrance Scholarships To Christchurch Pupils". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ Ramsay O'Callaghan, Raylene Lammas (1972). La complémentarité multiple : Une étude de l'oeuvre d'Alain Robbe-Grillet (Doctoral thesis). University of Poitiers.
{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ UPF. "The French New Autobiographies". University Press of Florida: The French New Autobiographies. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ "French Women in Politics: Writing Power: Paternal Legitimization and Maternal Legacies". www.berghahnbooks.com. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ a b c d "View our current Fellows". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ Adrienne, Fulop, Erika Angelo (2011). Cherchez la femme : women and values in the Francophone world. Cambridge Scholars. ISBN 978-1-4438-2933-5. OCLC 897349114.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "List of Fellows 2008.doc". ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ The Press (19 September 1970). "All Black to wed in France". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ The Press (13 February 1971). "Marriage". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
