SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE (2018)

Anne Bernard Kearney was born in France from a French father and an Irish mother. She studied architecture in Les Beaux-Arts, Paris. She lived in Dublin, Ireland, from 1980 to 1999, then moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where she has lived since.

She teaches French and Core English part-time in Boston College, Department of Romances Languages and Literatures, and is also a professional artist.

Studies and degrees:

Baccalauréat‚ Paris 1971.

Graduate degree: Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, UP8, Paris‚ DPLG, 10 July 1978

Thesis “La Violence et la Ville”‚ an historical‚ sociological and aesthetic approach.

Books and translations:

Main publications:                                                                              

Books :

Six Femmes celtes‚ L’Herne‚ Paris‚ 1996

Lovers, Queens and Strangers, Strong Women in Celtic Myth‚ A.&A. Farmar‚ Dublin‚ 1999. Illustrated with 5 original etchings by the author (these were also part of an exhibition in la Galerie de L’Arche, Le Mans, France, July 2000)

Translated into Romanian: Șase Femei Fatale din Mitologia celților, Editura Pandora, Bucuresti, 2006

Books translated into French:

Quatorze Elégies pour l'Irlande suivies de Guerre civile, Seamus Deane, Editions Imago Poiesis, Paris, 1982     

Poèmes 1966-1984, Seamus Heaney, collection du Monde Entier, Gallimard, Paris, 1988.

(Prize: “Prix Amic” 1990, L’Académie française)

In collaboration with French poet Nicole Laurent-Catrice:

Ce Lieu que j’appellerai Chez Moi, Paula Meehan, a selection of poems from The Man who was Marked by Winter & Pillow Talk, éd. Maison de Poésie du Nord/Pas de Calais, 1999.

Les Irlandaises, Anthology, A selection of poems by Irish Poets, Editions Ecrits des Forges/Autres Temps/Grand Océan, Perce-Neige, Ottawa, 1999.

Poems in translations (in journals) :

Mark Strand, "Elegy for my father", "Élégie pour mon père", and 2 other poems with an introduction, journal "Triages", Editions Tarabuste, Montpellier, n°28, Spring 2015

James Tate, four poems, with an introduction, translated with Nicole Laurent-Catrice, in Revue "Triages", n° 29, , Éd. Tarabuste, Spring 2016, p. 6-11

Fanny Howe, two poems with an introduction, in "Triages", n° 30, Éd. Tarabuste, Spring 2017, p. 17-25

and many other poems translated and published in books and journals.

Articles and workshops:

"From Grief to Joy" the stories of Piaf, Barbara, Brassens and Brel, Café Riche (café philosophique), Pretoria, South Africa, May 12th 2017 (From grief to poetry - Anne Bernard-Kearney http://filosofiekafee.blogspot.com/2011/05/kan-die-ondenkbare-bedink-word-prof.html)

Introduction to "le Féminin Solaire dans la mythologie", Sylvie Verchère Merle, Ed. du Cygne, Paris, 2015.

“The Power of Art: Refiguring pain”, with Simone Kearney, in Making Sense Beauty, Creativity, and Healing, ed. by Bandy Lee, Bandy, Nancy Olson and Thomas P. Duffy, Peter Lang, NY 2015.

"Translating Seamus Heaney", conference organized by Jessica Stephens, Université de Paris 3, Sorbonne, Sept. 13th, 2015

"Stanislas Breton: a friend", Symposium on the Thought of Stanislas Breton, Organized jointly by Boston College and the Institut Catholique de Paris, 22 Jan. 2015

Articles translated into French (selection) :

"Épiphanies: Hopkins, Scotus, Joyce", Richard Kearney, in Métaphysique et Christianisme, Philippe Capelle-Dumont, Jean Greisch, Richard Kearney, Jean-Luc Marion, Andreas Speer, David Tracy, PUF, Paris 2015. p. 97-130

"Écrire la Chair : L'expression diacritique chez Merleau-Ponty", by Richard Kearney, in Chiasmi International, 15, Fall 2013, p. 183-196

« Vers une herméneutique de la traduction », Richard Kearney, in Paul Ricœur, De l’homme faillible à l’homme capable, Coordonné par Gaëlle Fiasse, PUF, Paris, 2008, p. 157-178

"Heidegger, le possible et Dieu", Richard Kearney in Heidegger et la question de Dieu, Ed. Richard Kearney et Joseph Stephen O'Leary, PUF, Paris 1980/2009 ; in collaboration with Richard Kearney, p. 145-188

Into English:

"II. The Problem of Touch", in the chapter " Incarnation and the problem of touch", Michel Henry, in Carnal Hermeneutics, ed. by R. Kearney and Brian Treanor, translated in collaboration with Simone Kearney, Fordham University Press, NY, 2015. p. 139-144

Interview with Seamus Deane‚ in La Lettre Internationale, n°16, Paris, Printemps 1988.

The Crane Bag, vol. 4 n°1, Dublin, 1980: "Creativity and Procreativity", "Joyce et l'imaginaire féminin" in Esprit, n°11-12, Paris, Nov-Dec. 1980.

Art Work:

Exhibitions:

Somerville Open Studios in Mixit Print Studio, every year since May 2000

Somerville Museum, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

Boston College, Bapst Library Gallery, Art Exhibition, Faculty & Staff, Fall 2004; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2013; 2014, in Carney: 2016, 2017, 2018

The Nave Gallery, Somerville, 2 prints (« la forêt », « Edain ») for the show: « Girls in the Woods », Nov. 2016

Cantor Art Gallery, Holy Cross college, September 2013- January 2014

Union Hall Center, West Cork, Ireland, août 2012, 2013 (https://www.irishtimes.com/news/kearneys-make-it-a-family-affair-1.534625)

Boston Public Library, Mixit@25, April-July 2012

Arsenal Center for the Arts: “From the Press”, Mixit group show, January-February 2007; Brush Gallery Members exhibit Nov. 21st - Jan. 5th, 2008; Nov.- Jan. 2009

Regis College: Carney Gallery, Fine Arts Center, “Drama of scale”, Prints from Mixit Print Studio, March 14-April 20, 2006

Soprafina Gallery, Boston, December Salon Show, 2004

Solo exhibitons: Prints and Paintings

Warren’s Boathouse Gallery, Castletownsend, Ireland, summer 2002

Galerie de l’Arche, Saint-Saturnin, (Le Mans), France, Summer 2000.

Art work in publications:

rethink Ink 25 years at Mixit Print Studio (an Exhibition of Fine Art Printmaking), 2013

“Redivider, A journal of new literature and art, issue 7.2; Spring 2010”, an Emerson College Publication Boston. “Edain”, “Pêche de nuit”

Collection: Art work in Boston College, Institute for Liberal Arts, 2013-2016

Member of “the Graphic Studio” Dublin, Ireland 1993-1999.

Member of “Mixit Print Studio”, Somerville, MA, since 1999. Link: https://www.mixitprint.com/

Board member of the Guestbookproject.org 'from Hostility to Hospitality" sponsered by Boston College, since 2009, link: http://guestbookproject.org/a