
Peter Schulman Ph.D.
PROFESSOR
World Languages & Cultures
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Biography
Grew up in NYC, went to the Lycée Français de NY then Choate Rosemary Hall, then Columbia University (BA, MA,MPHIL, PHD) before coming to ODU as an Assistant Professor
Education/Credentials
Ph.D. in French and Romance Philology, Columbia University, (1997)
M.Phil. in French, Columbia University, (1992)
Other , École Normale Supérieure, (1992)
M.A. in French, Columbia University, (1989)
B.A. in French, Columbia University, (1988)
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Expertise
- France
- French culture and politics, French literature, French intellectual history, Jewish studies, Contemporary France, Chassidut and Jews in France, Corsica, Quebec
- World Cinema
- directors and screenwriters
- Poetry
- Quebecois French, German, Belgian poetry
- Literature
- Jules Verne, Acadian litature, Quebec, Manitoba
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Research Interests
- Jules Verne, Quebecois Contemporary Poetry, Politics, Novels and Environmental issues, French cinema, Eco-criticism, Eccentricity, Translation
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Articles
- Schulman, P. Les réfractaires à l’ère du vide : un retour a l’infraordinaire. Irish Journal of French Studies
- Schulman, P. (2017). "Fragmegration" of identity in Laurent Cantet's Ressources humaines and L'emploi du temps. Cincinnati Romance Review, 43, pp. 90-106.
- Schulman, P. (2010). "The Weight of Secrets : Hidden Mirrors of Identity in Aki Shimazaki’s Pentalogy,". Chimères, 31, pp. 15-29.
- Schulman, P. (2008). Christian Oster: Flight, Disappearance, and the Modern Bachelor. Francophonia, 55, pp. 33-49.
- Schulman, P. (2008). Raymond Queneau’s Eccentric Sage: Valentin Brû as Clinamen. Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate, 46, pp. 30-48.
- Schulman, P. (2007). Jacques Réda: The Jazz Critic as Flâneur. Lingua Romana, 6 (1), pp. 1-9.
- Schulman, P. (2006). Jules Verne’s Very Far West: America as Testing Ground in Les 500 millions de la Bégum. Dalhousie French Studies, Seventy-Six, pp. 63-73.
- Schulman, P. (2006). L’Oubli qui ensevelit nos souvenirs: L’écriture pseudo-autobiographique et le travail de la mémoire dans Marie di Lola : Une enfance corse en 1900. Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, 21 (2), pp. 223-234.
- Schulman, P. (2006). France’s Love Affair with Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine pp. 4-5/165-165.
- Schulman, P. (2005). L’espace du célibataire invisible: Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz. Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne (156), pp. 56-61.
- Schulman, P. (2005). A la recherche du ‘rayon vert’?: Jules Verne’s Bachelor Chronotopes. Australian Journal of French Studies, "Jules Verne in the Twenty-First Century", XLII (2), pp. 303-317.
- Schulman, P. (2005). L’espace du célibataire fantastique: Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz (An abridged version of "L’espace du célibataire invisible: Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz"). La Revue Jules Verne: Jules Verne Mondial (19-20), pp. 182-189.
- Schulman, P. (2003). Infraordinaire et excentricité dans le 11ème arrondissement de Cédric Klapisch. Francographies (12, Nouvelle Série), pp. 35-45.
- Schulman, P. (2002). Eccentricity as Clinamen: Jules Verne’s Error-Driven Geniuses. Excavatio, XVI (1-2), pp. 274-284.
- Schulman, P. (2001). Le Vent, le bus, le regard: la poétique du quotidien de Jacques Réda et de Louise Herlin. "La Poésie française aujourd’hui," Textes réunis par Daniel Leuwers, Littérature et Nation (23), pp. 7-17.
- Schulman, P. (2001). Paris au Xxème siècle’s Legacy: Eccentricity as Defiance in Jules Verne’s Uneasy Relationship with his Era. Romance Quarterly, 48, pp. 257-266.
- Schulman, P. (2000). La Liberté des rues: Le Quotidien engagé de Jacques Réda. Francographies (11, Nouvelle Série), pp. 111-118.
- Schulman, P. (2000). Paris en jeu de l’oie: Les fantômes de Nestor Burma. The French Review, 73 (6), pp. 1155-1164.
- Schulman, P. (1999). Fin(s) de siècle(s) Blues: The Bachelor According to Jean Echenoz. Romance Notes, XL (1), pp. 111-118.
- Schulman, P. (1999). Temples, tombes et énigmes: structures de l'inconnue dans Les Contemplations. Les Lettres Romanes, 53 (1-2), pp. 49-62.
- Schulman, P. (1998). 'Le Nénuphar blanc': Manifeste pour une lecture 'mallarméenne'?. Francographies (7, Nouvelle Série), pp. 49-54.
- Schulman, P. (1998). Duras et Vercors: L'Occupation des silences. New Zealand Journal of French Studies, 19 (1), pp. 14-25.
- Schulman, P. (1998). Déracinement et gommages de l'identité: Le passé entre parenthèses dans Europa, Europa et La Statue de sel d'Albert Memmi. Romance Notes, XXXIX (1), pp. 15-24.
- Schulman, P. (1998). Jean-Pierre Miquel: On the State of Today's Comédie-Française. Western European Stages, 10 (3), pp. 43-47.
- Schulman, P. (1997). Autour de l'excentricité de Phileas Fogg et du Capitaine Nemo. Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne (123), pp. 33-37.
- Schulman, P. (1996). L'Art de la réfraction: les stratégies d'excentricité de L.F. Céline. French Studies in Southern Africa (25), pp. 101-116.
- Schulman, P. (1995). A rebours d'une fin de siècle à l'autre: des personnages à la recherche de.... Francographies, 4 (Nouvelle Série), pp. 47-54.
- Schulman, P. (1991). Quelques notes sur le pierrot dans Le Grand Meaulnes d'Alain-Fournier. Le Bulletin des Amis d'Alain-Fournier et de Jacques Rivière pp. 5-17.
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Books
- Schulman, P. (2006). "Léo Malet’s Post-War Paris," forward to From Surrealism to Less-Exquisite Cadavers: Léo Malet and the Evolution of the French Roman Noir by Michelle Emanuel. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi Press.
- Schulman, P., and Metzger, D. (2006). Chasing Esther: Jewish Expressions of Cultural Difference. Santa Monica, CA & Haifa, Israel: Kol Katan Press/University of Haifa.
- Schulman, P., and Brueggemann, A. (2005). Rhine Crossings: France and Germany in Love and War. State University of New York Press: Albany, NY.
- Schulman, P. (2005). The Begum’s Millions by Jules Verne. Introduction and notes by Peter Schulman. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
- Schulman, P., and Lubich, F. A. (2003). The Marketing of Eros: Performance, Sexuality, and Consumer Culture. Essen, Germany: verlag Di Blaue Eule.
- Schulman, P. (2002). The Sunday of Fiction: The Modern French Eccentric. Purdue University Press: West Lafayette, Ind: Purdue Studies in Romance Literature.
- Schulman, P., and Zabotin, M. (2001). Le Dernier livre du siècle. Paris: Editions Romillat.
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Book Chapters
- Schulman, P. (2009). "Représentations de la mort dans la Chine de Claudel et de Verne,". (pp. 12-18). Saint-Petersbourg: Université d’Etat de St. Petersbourg.
- Schulman, P. (2008). Jules Verne’s ‘Thanatopia’ : Thanatos and Dystopia in Les 500 Millions de la Begum. (pp. 155-167). Essen: Die Blaue Eule.
- Schulman, P. (2007). Alternance de pouvoir chez Jules Verne: L'utopiste et son double. (pp. 83-95). Cairo: Université du Caire.
- Schulman, P. (2006). Le célibataire invisible: Solitude et Fantastique dans Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz. (pp. 246-256). Valenciennes: Presses Universitaires de Valenciennes.
- Schulman, P. (2004). No Room for Squares: Jean-Pierre Melville, Jazz and the French Bachelor. (pp. 139-149). Jazz Adventures in French Culture. Nottingham French Studies.
- Schulman, P. (2002). Soleil noir, encre noir: Les Contemplations ‘zen’ de Céline Zins. (pp. 143-149). Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi.
- Schulman, P. (2000). 'Le Stylo-Caméra': Léo Malet vu par Jacques Tardi. (pp. 523-535). Limoges: P.U.Lim.
- Schulman, P. (1998). L'Evolution du mot 'excentrique' en France: Du lexique à la métaphore. (pp. 175-185). Toronto: Centre d'Etudes Romantiques Joseph Sablé.
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Presentations
- Schulman, P. (August, 2017). Sands of Desire: Lee Miller’s Egyptian Period and Surrealist Photography Paper presented at Seligmann Center Lecture Series 2017 Chester, NY.
- Schulman, P. (June, 2017). In Search of Place: The importance of Chiac in Contemporary French Acadian Poetry Paper presented at American Society of Geolinguistics Annual Convention New York.
- Schulman, P. (May, 2017). Dark Matter: Spaces of Occupation, and the Occupation of Spaces in Danielle Darrieux’s films of the early 1940s Paper presented at Colloque International Danielle Darrieux Bordeaux, France.
- Schulman, P. (May, 2017). Tristes Utopiques: Ruines et mélancolie dans l’oeuvre d’Orhan Pamuk Paper presented at Colloque Ruines et Vestiges Mulhouse, France.
- Schulman, P. (April, 2017). Fragmentation of Identity in Laurent' Cantet's Films Paper presented at Contemporary French Cinema lecture series New York.
- Schulman, P. (November, 2016). Aki Shimazaki's Melancholic Japan Paper presented at Pacific Modern Language Association Conference Pasadena, CA.
- Schulman, P. (October, 2016). Rues étrangères (à nous-mêmes): “le chez soi” de Sarah Marylou Brideau Paper presented at 26ème colloque de l’APLAQA New Brunswick, CA.
- Schulman, P. (July, 2016). Adventures in Translating: The Hidden Charms of Some of Jules Verne’s Unpublished Plays Paper presented at 23rd Annual North American Jules Verne Society Conference Philadelphia, PA.
- Schulman, P. (June, 2016). ’Acoustic Shadows’: Civil War Spaces in Contemporary Song and Poetry Paper presented at Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth, Conference on Ecopoetics Perpignan, France.
- Schulman, P. (May, 2016). The Challenges of Translating a Marie Nimier into English Paper presented at GTT International Colloquium, Theatre and Theatrical Translation Pampulha, Brazil.
- Schulman, P. (November, 2015). Unbearable Lightness of Beings in Jacques Rivettes’s 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup Paper presented at Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association Conference Portland, OR.
- Schulman, P. (June, 2015). La “voix claire” d’Aki Shimazaki: Nouveau Monde, Nouvelle(s) histoire(s) du Japon Paper presented at CIEF Conference Winnipeg, CA.
- Schulman, P. (March, 2015). Songs of the Wandering Aengus: Echoes of the Political Yeats in Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s The Habit of Fear Paper presented at "Yeats and Kipling: Retrospectives, Perspectives" Conference Delhi, India.
- Schulman, P. (March, 2015). Habits of Fear: Irish Nationalism in the work of Yeats and Dorothy Salisbury Davis Paper presented at Crime and Literature Conference Delhi, India.
- Schulman, P. (March, 2015). Voices from the Grave: Ghosts of Irish Nationalism in Yeats and Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s The Habit of Fear Paper presented at UGC International Conference, “Of the Indian, Literary Constructs and Responses" Rajkot, India.
- Schulman, P. (2014). Fragmegration” of Identity in Laurent Cantet’s Ressources humaines and L’emploi du temps Paper presented at FFS Money Conference, 20th-21st Century French Studies Conference New York City, NY.
- Schulman, P. (October, 2014). Tango Express: La littérature monde de Brina Svit Paper presented at La Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d'Amérique Conference New York University.
- Schulman, P. (July, 2014). "Gestes perdus: La langue derrière le timbre” dans le théâtre de Marie Nimier Paper presented at Marie Nimier: Absence and Loss Colloquium Paris, France.
- Schulman, P. (May, 2014). Melancholic Mirages: Jules Verne’s Vision of a Saharan Sea Paper presented at 21st Annual North American Jules Verne Society Conference New Orleans, LA.
- Schulman, P. (October, 2013). Jules Verne on the Frontiers of Decolonization: L’invasion de la mer Paper presented at 39th Annual Nineteenth Century French Studies Conferences Richmond, VA.
- Schulman, P. (October, 2013). ’Osteria’: Christian Oster’s Male Hysteric Paper presented at South Central Modern Language Association Convention New Orleans, LA.
- Schulman, P. (July, 2013). Golems, Frozen Rabbis and Dybbuks: Steve Stern’s Mystical Humor Paper presented at Panel on Jewish Humor, at the 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies Jerusalem, Israel.
- Schulman, P. (June, 2013). Melancholies of Loss: Fragmented Love in Natacha Appanah's Latest Works Paper presented at Transcultural Imaginaries: Making New, Making Strange Conference Singapore.
- Schulman, P. (October, 2012). Mood Indigo: Jacques Réda’s Jazz Walks Paper presented at South Central Modern Language Association Convention San Antonio, TX.
- Schulman, P. (March, 2012). Jacques Rivette’s Metaphysical Circus: 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup Paper presented at Crossings, Fictions, Fusions, 20th-21st-Century French Studies Conferences Long Beach, CA.
- Schulman, P. (December, 2011). Tristes utopiques: l’hüzün à travers l’Istanbul d’Orhan Pamuk Paper presented at Colloque Utopies et Orients Tunis, Tunisia.
- Schulman, P. (October, 2011). A Fin de Siècle Golem? New Takes on an Ancient Golem in Recent New York Writings Paper presented at South Central Modern Language Association Convention Hot Springs, AR.
- Schulman, P. (May, 2011). Myriam Beaudoin et la notion de l'amour de l'autre Paper presented at Association Coréene d’Etudes Québecoises Conference Seoul, South Korea.
- Schulman, P. (March, 2011). The Golem's Take Manhattan: The Resurgence of the Golem in the Work of Cynthia Ozick and Thane Rosenbaum Paper presented at Conference on Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Novel Madrid, Spain.
- Schulman, P. (November, 2010). Histoire(s) d’Aki Shimazaki : Mitsuba Paper presented at American Council for Quebec Studies Conference Burlington, VT.
- Schulman, P. (July, 2010). Les histoires d’une Histoire ‘pas propre’: Aki Shimazaki et la voix claire Paper presented at Congrès du CIEF Montreal, Canada.
- Schulman, P. (May, 2010). Fred Vargas: Debout les Morts Paper presented at Danielle Lasser's Book Series New York City, New York.
- Schulman, P. (March, 2010). Lubljana-Paris-Europe: Brina Svit et l’art d’être ‘extra-communautaire Paper presented at Colloque Dialogue des Cultures dans l'Espace Méditerranéen Athens, Greece.
- Schulman, P. (2009). Found in Translation Paper presented at Division of Twentieth Century French Literature, Modern Language Association Conference Philadelphia, PA.
- Schulman, P. (2009). Sophie Calle's Jerusalem: Finding Peace in a Turbulent City Paper presented at South Central Modern Language Association Conference 2009 Baton Rouge, LA.
- Schulman, P. (June, 2009). Jacques Reda's [Sub]urban Islands Paper presented at ASLE Conference Victoria, BC, Canada.
- Schulman, P. (May, 2009). The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz: Fathers and Sons at Work Paper presented at Panel on Michel Verne at the Eaton Conference San Francisco.
- Schulman, P. (March, 2009). Celine Zins's Zen Reactions to Cataclysms Paper presented at 20-21st Century French Studies Conference Minnesota.
- Schulman, P. (November, 2008). “Wings” of Desire: William Wellman and the Birth of the Aviation Epic presented at "La conquête de l'air, naissance d'un nouvel imaginaire ? 1900-1920” Le Mans, France.
- Schulman, P. (July, 2008). Symbols of Change in a Shattered World: Jules Verne’s Begum’s Millions presented at "Science Fiction and Symbolic Communication,” ISSEI Conference Helsinki, Finland.
- Schulman, P. (May, 2008). L’Asie et son double: Aki Shimazaki et Ying Chen presented at “La problématique de l’entre-deux dans l’écriture francophone moderne et postmoderne” at the APFUCC Vancouver, Canada.
- Schulman, P. (March, 2008). Sophie Calle’s Eruv: Meditative Constraint in Jerusalem presented at 20th-21st-Century French Studies Conference, “Limites/Limits,”.
- Schulman, P. (March, 2008). Représentations de la mort dans la Chine de Claudel et de Verne presented at Modernismes/Postmodernismes Russia.
- Schulman, P. (December, 2007). Where the Dark Streets Really Go: Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s Priests and the Quest for the Self presented at MLA Convention Chicago.
- Schulman, P. (June 26, 2007). Aki Shimazaki and the Korean Question Hong Kong.
- Schulman, P. (June 23, 2007). Secrets and Identity Quests in Aki Shimazaki's Novels presented at Asia and the Other Conference.
- Schulman, P. (June 10, 2007). Tribulations of a Chinese Gentleman Reconsidered presented at North American Jules Verne Society Conference, "Volcanoes and Sky Vessels," Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Schulman, P. (May, 2007). Remembering Next Year: The Brooklyn Dodgers as Lieu de Mémoire in Contemporary American Fiction presented at Imagining Brooklyn Conference New York.
- Schulman, P. (May 3, 2007). Crimes et secrets: Aki Shimazaki et la quête de la vérité presented at L’Asie au Canada Montreal, Canada.
- Schulman, P. (November, 2006). Jules Verne’s Invisible Man, and Other Discoveries presented at "What If...Science Fiction and Fantasy Lecture Series" Washington, DC.
- Schulman, P. (October, 2006). Alternance de pouvoir chez Jules Verne: L’utopiste et son double presented at Colloque Discours et Relations de Pouvoir Cairo, Egypt.
- Schulman, P. (October, 2006). Jules Verne’s American Perspectives: Dystopia and Melancholy in The Begum’s Millions Cairo, Egypt.
- Schulman, P. (October, 2006). Stealth Destruction: Wilhelm Storitz, Verne’s Invisible [Bachelor] Machine presented at Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium Bloomington, Indiana.
- Schulman, P. (April, 2006). Le poids des secrets: Hidden Mirrors of Identity in Aki Shimazaki’s Pentalogy presented at 20th-21st Century French Studies Colloquium Miami, Florida.
- Schulman, P. (March, 2006). Aki Shimazaki: A la recherche d’une/des identité(s) presented at Colloque SPPFA pour le Centenaire Lépold Sédar Senghor.
- Schulman, P. (December, 2005). Les Fantômes de Jules Verne: Le célibataire mis-à-l’oeuvre dans Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz New York City.
- Schulman, P. (2005). 'Comment peut-on être Persan?' Satrapi’s Persepolis and the Quest for Forgetfulness presented at l’extrême contemporain, MLA Convention Washington, DC.
- Schulman, P. (November, 2005). The Quest for the ‘Infra-ordinary’: Jacques Réda’s Ex-Centered Wanderings presented at CCCP: CUNY Conference on Contemporary Poetry.
- Schulman, P. (November, 2005). The Nostalgic Pitch: Representations of the Brooklyn Dodgers in Contemporary American Fiction Malibu, California.
- Schulman, P. (September, 2005). Ellery Queen Mystère Magazine: Ellery Queen’s Popularity in France presented at Panel on the Influence of Ellery Queen Chicago.
- Schulman, P. (September, 2005). The Eccentric Sage: Valentin Brû as Clinamen presented at Raymond Queneau Symposium.
- Schulman, P. (July, 2005). L’aventure de la solitude: L’horreur célibataire dans Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz de Jules Verne presented at Congrès Mondial du CIEF Ottawa, Canada.
- Schulman, P. (May, 2005). L’esthétique de la disparition: Solitude et fantastique dans Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz presented at Colloque Jules Verne dans les Carpathes Cluj-Narcopa, Romania.
- Schulman, P. (April, 2005). Wandering the Sepulchers of the World: Lee Miller’s Haunting Surrealism presented at 20th-21st Century French Studies Colloquium Gainsville, FLA.
- Schulman, P. (March, 2005). Ghosts in the Machine: Narratives of Disappearance in Contemporary French Fiction Madison.
- Schulman, P. (March, 2005). L’espace du célibataire fantastique: Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz presented at Mondiale Jules Verne- Centenaire Jules Verne Amiens, France.
- Schulman, P. (February, 2005). Jules Verne: Friend or Foe? Verne’s Vision of America Atlanta, GA.
- Schulman, P., and Metzger, D. (2004). Living in the Golem State: Duvivier’s Le Golem as Social Critique presented at MLA Convention Philadelphia.
- Schulman, P. (October, 2004). Jules Verne’s Very Far West: America as Testing Ground in Les 500 millions de la Bégum presented at 19th-century French Studies Colloquium St.Louis, Mo..
- Schulman, P. (October, 2004). De la Tour Eiffel à la thèse de doctorat: Que représentent les études françaises pour les Américains Tokyo Japan.
- Schulman, P. (May, 2004). Jules Verne’s Peculiar Utopias presented at Colloque "Utopie: Mémoire et Imaginaire" Haifa Israel.
- Schulman, P. (April, 2004). Identité personnelle, identité corse: le journal de 'Marie di Lola' presented at 20th-21st Century French Studies Colloquium Talhassee, FLA.
- Schulman, P. (March, 2004). Paris au Xxème Siècle: Résistance et renaissance à l'heure de la mondialisation.
- Schulman, P. (November, 2003). Alone in Paris: Cédric Klapisch and the Female Bachelor presented at Women in French, MMLA Convention Chicago.
- Schulman, P. (October, 2003). A Change in France, A Change in Verne: Thanatos and Dystopia in Les 500 Million de la Bégum presented at 19th-century French Studies Colloquium Tuscon.
- Schulman, P. (July, 2003). No Room for Squares: Jean-Pierre Melville and ‘the Birth of the Cool’ presented at Colloque Jazz Hot and Cool Seysses, France.
- Schulman, P. (June, 2003). Sensibilités modernes, sensibilités anciennes: La Notion du quartier chez Cédric Klapisch presented at Congrès Mondial du C.I.E.F. New Orleans, LA.
- Schulman, P. (May, 2003). A la recherche de soi-même: le cas du célibataire presented at Colloque: ‘Conceptions du masculin’.
- Schulman, P. (April, 2003). Jazz and the French Bachelor presented at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference Lexington KY.
- Schulman, P. (March, 2003). Echenoz and Oster: Flight, Disappearance, and the Modern Bachelor presented at Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium Champaign-Urbana.
- Schulman, P. (December, 2002). [De]Constructing the Bachelor's Space: Des Esseintes, Folantin, and Fogg presented at MLA Convention New York.
- Schulman, P. (October, 2002). A la recherche du ‘rayon vert’: Jules Verne’s Bachelor Chronotopes presented at Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium Columbus OH.
- Schulman, P. (April, 2002). Jouer le jeu: The Poetry of Jacques Réda's Jazz Criticism presented at Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium Hartford.
- Schulman, P. (December, 2001). Jacques Réda: The Jazz Critic as flâneur presented at MLA Convention New Orleans.
- Schulman, P. (October, 2001). La Notion du génie chez Jules Verne: erreurs et clinamen presented at International AIZEN conference Philadelphia PA.
- Schulman, P. (July, 2001). Les Mille et une nuits de Jean-Pierre Melville: les espaces du célibataire presented at Society for French Studies Conference Dublin, Ireland.
- Schulman, P. (April, 2001). Eccentricity as Clinamen: Jules Verne’s Error-Driven Geniuses presented at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.
- Schulman, P. (April 1, 2001). ‘Chacun cherche son...’: Infra-ordinaire et excentricité dans le 11ème arrondissement de Cédric Klapish presented at Twenty-First Century Studies Conference.
- Schulman, P. (October, 2000). ‘Mon cher ami...’: Hetzel’s Fatherly Rejection of Paris au Xxème siècle presented at Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium.
- Schulman, P. (April 2, 2000). Le Noir à l’écran: Feuillade, Clouzot, Melville presented at Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium.
- Schulman, P. (September, 1999). Le Vent, le bus, le regard: La Poétique du quotidien de Jacques Réda et de Louise Herlin presented at Yves Bonnefoy and Contemporary French Poetry Halifax, CA.
- Schulman, P. (April, 1999). Paris en jeu de l'oie: Nestor Burma ou l'espace du célibataire presented at 51st Kentucky Foreign Language Conference Lexington KY.
- Schulman, P. (March, 1999). Les Réfractaires à 'l'ère du vide': un retour à l'infraordinaire.
- Schulman, P. (October 25, 1998). Paris au XXème au XIXème: Eccentricity and Revolt in Jules Verne's Vision of the Nineteenth Century presented at Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium.
- Schulman, P. (May, 1998). Le 'stylo caméra': Léo Malet vu par Jacques Tardi presented at Littératures populaires: mutations génériques, mutations médiatiques Limoges, France.
- Schulman, P. (April, 1998). Fin(s) de siècle(s) Blues: Les beaux dimanches du célibataire presented at NEMLA Convention Baltimore, MD.
- Schulman, P. (March, 1998). La Liberté des rues: le quotidien engagé de Jacques Réda presented at Création et Réalité d'Expression Française.
- Schulman, P. (April, 1997). Duras et Vercors: Deux perspectives de l'Occupation presented at NEMLA Convention Philadelphia, PA.
- Schulman, P. (December, 1996). Beauté Suburbaine: Jacques Réda's Mapping of the Parisian banlieue presented at MLA Convention, 20th-Century Panel Washington DC.
- Schulman, P. (October, 1996). The Evolution of the Word Excentrique in France: From the Clinical to the Metaphoric presented at International Colloquium on Nineteenth-Century French Studies.
- Schulman, P. (April, 1996). Autour de l'excentricité de Phileas Fogg et du Capitaine Nemo presented at Colloque de la Société Jules Verne Saint-Malo, France.
- Schulman, P. (March, 1995). The Modern French Eccentric.
- Schulman, P. (April, 1994). Céline, est-il excentrique? presented at NEMLA Convention Pittsburgh, PA.
- Schulman, P. (March, 1993). Albert Memmi, Simone Weil, qui êtes-vous? presented at International Colloquium on Twentieth Century French Studies Boulder, CO.
- Schulman, P. (October, 1992). A rebours d'une fin de siècle à l'autre: des personnages à la découverte de...? presented at Conference on "The Word and the World of Discovery," Atlanta, Ga.
- Schulman, P. (August, 1992). Mallarmé's Sacred Use of Poetic Language: `The White Waterlily,' presented at I.S.S.E.I. Conference on European Integration and the European Mind Denmark.
- Schulman, P. (May, 1992). Le Pierrot d'Alain-Fournier: vers un imaginaire poétique presented at Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures.
- Schulman, P. (May, 1992). A la recherche du `moi' perdu, à la recherche de La Place de l'Etoile presented at Graduate French Literature Colloquium.
- Schulman, P. (April, 1992). Déracinement et gommages de l'identité: Europa, Europa presented at NEMLA Convention Buffalo, N.Y..
- 2021: Named Officier des Palmes Académiques, French Mininstry of Education
- 2020: Winner of the Provost’s Leadership in International Education Award , ODU
- 2013: Winner of the College of Arts and Letters (ODU) Outstanding Contributions to Interdisciplinarity Award, Old Dominion University
- 2008: Nominated for Best Inter-Disciplinary Faculty Award , College of Arts and Letters, Old Dominion University
- 2007: NEH grant
- 2007: Visiting Scholar (Faculty Exchange), Kita Kiyushu University (Japan)
- 2006: Robert L. Stern Award for Excellence in Teaching , College of Arts and Letters, Old Dominion University
- 2005: Halls-Bascum Visiting Scholar, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 2004: Elected to the MLA Executive Committee of the Division on Twentieth-Century French Literature
- 1999: Quebec Summer Seminar
- 1998: French Government/CIBER Summer Business French Seminar, Montpellier, France
- 1991: Beatrice M. Timins Award in French Literature, Columbia University
- 1987: Lily M. Parker Prize for outstanding student of French, Columbia University
- 1986: Sisson Prize for excellence in French studies, Columbia University
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Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research
- Schulman, P. "Federal Government Title 6B Grant (with the College of Business, Old Dominion University)" . 1998 - 1999
- Schulman, P. "Bourse Chateaubriand, French Government Fellowship" . 1995 - 1996
- Schulman, P. "President's Fellowship" . 1992 - 1993
- Schulman, P. "École Normale Supérieure/Columbia University Fellowship" . 1990 - 1991
- Schulman, P. "5-year Columbia University Faculty Fellowship" . 1988 - 1991