Curriculum Vitae

Marilyn Yalom
Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Stanford University
Stanford, Ca, 94305
(415) 723-1994


EDUCATION

1963 Ph.d. Comparative Literature, Johns Hopkins University Dissertation: The Myth of the Trial in the Works of Camus and Kafka (With Distinction) Dissertation Director René Girard

1956 M. A. T., French, German, Harvard University

1954 B. A. in French, Wellesley College (Honors in French)

1953 Diplôme de Littérature Contemporaine, University of Paris/Sorbonne (Mention honorable)

EMPLOYMENT

1987- Present Senior scholar, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University (unsalaried)

1976-1987 Deputy Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Lecturer, Modern Thought and Literature Program, Stanford University

1963-1976 Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Profesor of Foreign Languages, California State University / Hayward

1961-1962 Instructor in French, University of Hawaii

HONORS AND GRANTS

Officier des Palmes Academiques awarded by the French government, 1992

American Council of Learned Societies, Travel grant , 1992, $3000

Residence at Rockefeller Research and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, April 1988

California Council for the Humanities, "Dialogues with Western Women Writers," 1980, $10,000 (Principal Investigator)

National Institute of Education, "Dissemination of Research findings on Women," 1979, $18,519 (Co-Investigator)

National Endowmant for the Humanities #EP-28712-78-147, "The Female Experience: Victorian Heritage," 1978-79, $49,953 (Project Director)

PUBLICATIONS

I. Books

The American Resting Place: Four Hundred Years of History
Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds (May 15, 2008)

Birth of the Chess Queen (New York: Harper Collins, 2004)

A History of the Wife (New York: Harper Collins, 2001)

A History Of the Breast (New York: Knopf, 1997)

Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory (New York: Basic Books, 1993 - London: Pandora/Oram, 1998)

Le Temps des Orages: Aristocrates, Bourgeoises, et Paysannes Racontent (Paris: Editions Maren Sell, 1989)

Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness (University Park and London: Penn State Press, 1985)

II. Edited Books

Inside the American Couple: New Thinking, New Challenges, ed. Marilyn Yalom and Laura Carstensen, (University of California Press, 2002)

Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions ed. Barrie Thorne with M. Yalom (New York: Longman, 1982); Second Edition (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992)

Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography, and Gender, ed. With Susan Groag Bell. Includes our introduction and my essay on Adele Hugo (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990).

Rebecca Kosier Newcomer, A Mother's Journal for Her Son, 1887-1908, ed. And introduced by M. Yalom (Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1988).

Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century, ed. with Diane Middlebrook (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1985). Includes my chapter on Sylvia Plath.

Women Writers of the West Coast, ed. M. Yalom (Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1983). Includes my introduction and chapter on Tillie Olsen.

Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in Nineteenth-Century England, France, and the United States, General editors: Hellerstein, Hume, and Offen; Associate editors: Freedmen, Gelpi, and Yalom (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1981). Part IV "The Older Woman" and many French translations throughout book by Yalom.

Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy, by Irvin D. Yalom and Ginny Elkin, ed. And introduced by M. Yalom (Basic Books, 1974).

III. Articles

"Cynthia Ozick's Paradoxical Wisdom," in People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity, ed. Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Jefferey Rubin-Dorskey (University of Wisconsin Press, 1996), pp. 427 - 438.

"Madness," entry for The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States (Oxford University Press, 1994)

"Introduction to George Sand's Indiana, trans. Eleanor Hochman (Dutton Signet Classic, 1993).

"The Woman Warrior as Postmodern Autobiography," in Approaches to Teaching Kingston's "The Woman Warrior," ed. Shirley Geok-lin Lim (Modern Language Association of America, 1991), pp. 108 - 115.

"George Sand's Poetics of Autobiography," in The World of George Sand, ed. Datlof, Fuchs, and Powell (Greenwood, 1991), pp. 85 - 92.

"Beijing in five Days," (memoir) Sequoia (Stanford University Literary Magazine), Vol. 33, No. 1, Summer, 1989 pp. 65 - 76.

" Recent Minority Women's Literature in America," Bulletin of the Institute for Women's Studies, Ochanomizu University, in English with Japanese translation, Winter 1988-89, pp. 21 - 36.

"Women's Autobiograpies in French, 1793 - 1939," French Literature Series (University of South Carolina, 1985, pp. 197 - 205.

"Toward a History of Adolescence: The Contribution of George Sand," George Sand Colloquium, ed. Janis Glasgow (Whitson, 1986), pp. 204 - 215

"Dédoublement in the Works of George Sand," George Sand Papers : Second Series (AMS Press, 1982), pp.21-31.

"Changes in Female Sexuality : A study of Mother/Daughter Relationships," with Suzanne Estler and Wenda Brewster, Psychology of Women Quarterly , Autumn, 1982, vol. VII, No. 2, pp. 141 - 154.

"Women of the Fifties : their Past Sexual Experiences and Current Sexual Attitudes in the Context of Mother/Daughter Relationships," with Wenda Brewster and Suzanne Estler, Sex Roles : A Journal of Research , September, 1981, pp. 877 - 888.

"They Remember Maman : Attachment and Separation in Leduc, De Beauvoir, Sand and Cardinal, " Essays in Literature, Spring, 1981, pp. 73 - 90.

"Triangles and Prisons - A Psychosocial Study of Stendhalian Love, Hartford Studies in Literature, Vol. VII, No. 2, 1976, pp. 82 - 97.

"Ernest Hemingway - A Psychiatric View," with Dr. Irvin Yalom, Archives of General Psychiatry, June 1971, pp.285 - 494.

"Camus and the Myth of the Trial," Modern Language Quarterly, December 1964, pp. 434 - 450.

" La Chute and A Hero of Our Time," French Review, December 1962, pp. 138 - 145.

IV. Review Articles

Social Science and the Self: Personal Essays on an Art Form. By Susan Krieger (Rutgers University Press, 1991).
Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts. By Nancy K. Miller (Routledge, 1991). Signs, Winter, 1993, pp.455 - 458.

The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage. By Ferdnand Mount (Free Press, 1992).
Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultry and Divorce. By Helen E. Fisher (Norton, 1992). The Washington Post, Book World, December 20, 1992.

Autobiographical Tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir, Natalie Serraute, Margeurite Suras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Conde. By Leah D. Hewitt (University of Nebraska Press, 1990). a/b: Auto Biography Studies, Spring, 1992, pp. 124 - 126.

The Secret Ring: Freud's Inner Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis: Helene Deutsch, Karen Horney, Anna Freud, and Melanie Klein. By Janet Sayers (Norton, 1991). New York Newsday, Oct. 20, 1991, pp. 41 - 42

Deborah, Golda and Me. By Larry Cottin Pogrebin (Crown, 1991).The Washington Post, September. 8, 1991, p. 7.

"Feminism's Latest Makeover,"Review article of The Paradox of Change: American Women in the 20th Century. By William H. Chafe (Oxford, 1991) and The Beauty Myth: How Imges of Beauty are Used Against Women. By Naomi Wolf (Morrow, 1991) The Washington Post, June, 1991, P. 7.

Prisoners of Men's Dreams: Striking out for a New Feminine Future. By Suzanne Gordon (Little, Brown). San Francisco Chronicle. February 3, 1991, p. 6.

Sexual Moralities in France, 1780 - 1980. By Anthony Copley (Routledge, 1989) in Nineteenth - Century French Studies, Vol. 19, Nos. 3&4, Autumn -Winter, 1990 - 1991.

The Looney-Bin Trip. By Kate Millett (Simon and Shuster, 1990) in The Washington Post, May 13, 1990; Reprinted in the International Herald Tribune, May 26, 1990.

Lives of Courage: Women for a new South Africa. By Diana E. H. Russell (Basic Books, 1989) in San Francisco Chronicle, January 7, 1990, pp. 3 - 4.

Men / Women of Letters, ed. Charles Porter, Yale French Studies (No. 71, 1986), in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Spring, 1986, pp. 397 - 398.

"The Washington School of Psychiatry Publishes: Psychiatry and the Humanities,"Hartford Studies in Literature,Vol.III, No. 3, 1976, pp. 243 - 245.