Richard L. Shryock

• French Symbolist movement in literature
• French anarchism in the fin de siècle
• Decadence in in the fin de siècle France
• Gustave Kahn
• Intersections of literature and politics
• Literary censorship

• PhD, University of Michigan 1987
• Diplôme d’études approfondies. Université de Haute Bretagne – Rennes II 1985
• MA, University of Michigan 1984
• BA, Ohio State University 1980

• Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures (2006-2012)
• Associate Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures (2005-2006)
• Director of the French Program (1989‑90, 1993‑1994, spring 1995, 1995-1996, 1997-1998, 1999-2000, 2004-6, 2013-15, 2017-19)

• College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Award for Excellence in Administration 2012
• Provost's Award for Excellence in Advising 2002
• Certificate of Teaching Excellence spring 2001

Books

• Gustave Kahn. Un écrivain engagé. Rennes (France), Presses universitaires de Rennes.   2013. Co-edited with Françoise Lucbert (Université de Laval, Quebec City,  Canada).
• Lettres à Gustave et Rachel Kahn.  Saint-Genouph:  A.-G. Nizet, 1996.  Selection, annotation, and preface by Richard Shryock.
• Tales of Storytelling:  Embedded Narrative in Modern French Literature.  New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1993.

Journal Articles

• “Paterne Berrichon, Avant de devenir le beau-frère posthume de Rimbaud,” Parade sauvage. Revue d’études rimbaldiennes, 29, 2018 : 119-131.
• “Decadent Anarchists and Anarchist Decadents in 1880s Paris.” Dix-neuf: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes. 21. 2-3. 2017: 104-15.
• "Reading Models:  Embedded Narrative and Ideology in La Goutte d'or."  Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 249, Gale Cengage, Farmington Hills, MI, 2008, pp 66-73. This is a reprint in of a 1991 article. (See below.)
• "Becoming Political: Symbolist Literature and the Third Republic." Nineteenth-Century French Studies 33:3-4. (Spring-Summer, 2005): 385-98.
• "Anarchism at the Dawn of Symbolism" Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Gale Cengage, Farmington Hills, MI, 2004. Vol 144, pp 97-105.  This is a reprint of the article published in 2000 in French Forum. (See below.)
• “French:  The Most Practical Foreign Language.” American Association of Teachers of French National Bulletin. 29: 1. (2003): 39-40.
• "Symbolism and Naturalism: Frères-Ennemis."  Excavatio.  XIV. 1-2 (2001): 267-76.
• "Anarchism at the Dawn of Symbolism" French Forum, January 2000: 291-308.
• “Reaction Within Symbolism:  The Ecole Romane.” French Review 71: 4. (1998): 577-84.
• "L'Autoréférentialité dans la littérature décadente‑symboliste:  De l'illisible au social."  Symposium XLVIII.1 (1994): 78‑88. 
•  "Ce Cri Rompit le Cauchemar Qui l'Opprimait:  Huysmans and the Politics of A rebours."  The French Review 66.2 (1992):  243-254.
  
•  "A Political Reading of Florent's Tale: Emile Zola's Use of Embedded Narrative in Le Ventre de Paris."  The Journal of Narrative Technique XXII.1 (1992):  48‑56.
• "Reading Models:  Embedded Narrative and Ideology in La Goutte d'or."  Modern Language Studies XXI.3 (1991):  65‑75. 
• "Discourse and Polyphony in La peste."  Symposium XLIV.1 (1990):  58‑66.  

Book Chapters

• “The Symbolist Movement: Anarchism and the Avant-Garde in Fin-de-Siècle France” in Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective. Brill: Leiden, 2019. 13-36.
• “Introduction: Le Rêve est indistinct de la vie.” Gustave Kahn. Un écrivain engagé. Presses universitaires de Rennes. 2013: 17-51. Co-authored with Françoise Lucbert.
• “Transformer le monde à travers l’art pur.”  Gustave Kahn. Un écrivain engagé. Presses universitaires de Rennes. 2013: 53-67.
• “Des Vers anarchistes?”  Le Vers libre dans tous ses états: Histoire et Poétique d’une forme (1886-1914), 101-108. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009.

• US Department of Education Title VI Grant: Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program.  Grant title: “Developing International Opportunities in Business and French” (July 1, 2001- June 30, 2004; $388,659 [includes matching funds]).  Co-written by Sharon Johnson and Richard Shryock.  Co-directed by Sharon Johnson, Richard Shryock and Robert Sumichrast.

“Decadent Anarchists and Anarchist Decadents in Fin-de-Siècle France,” La Décadence dans tous ses états / States of Decadence, Østfold University College, Halden, Norway, June 11-13, 2014. Keynote presentation.

Co-curator with Françoise Lucbert of “Gustave Kahn (1859-1936): Écrivain symboliste et critique d’art” at the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme in Paris, France (October 24, 2006 – January 24, 2007).  The exhibition consisted of approximately 180 items most of which were held privately by Kahn’s grandson and included original manuscripts, photographs, correspondence, a voice recording of Kahn reciting his poetry and art from several neo-impressionist and Ecole de Paris artists.  

Director of the Virginia Tech Summer Study Program in Paris (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 [co-director], 1999, 2000, 2006 [co-director]), 2015).

Co-organizer with Gayle Zachmann (Univ. of Florida) and Sophie Lucet (Université de Paris) an annual workshop “Cultural Production in the 19^th Century” held at the Université de Paris (2014 to the present).

Co-organized the International Colloquium “Gustave Kahn (1859-1936): Écrivain symboliste et critique d’art” at the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme in Paris.  November 22-23, 2006.