Beyond Their Limits of Longing: Contemporary Writers & Veterans on the Lingering Stories of WWI
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In America, WWI became overshadowed by WWII and Vietnam, further diluting the voices of poets, novelists, essayists, and scholars who unknowingly set a precedent for all successive war writers who appear in this collection. Those who survived WWI and wrote about it opened the space for readers and writers alike to explore the complexity both of
Monique Brouillet Seefried
Monique Seefried was born a French citizen in Tunisia and became a U.S. citizen in 1985. She holds a PhD in history from Sorbonne University in Paris. She is fluent in English, French, German, and Italian. She spent the last forty years working in education and the museum world. A curator for twenty years at the Carlos Museum of Emory University, she became in 1999 the founding executive director of CASIE (Center for the Advancement and Study of International Education). From 2003 until 2009, she chaired the Board of Governors of the International Baccalaureate (IB). President of the Croix Rouge Farm Memorial Foundation, she was appointed in 2014 a commissioner on the U.S. WWI Centennial Commission and will serve until the inauguration in 2024 of the WWI National Memorial in Washington. A knight in the French Order of the Academic Palms, in the Order of Merit and in the Order of the Legion of Honor, she is also an officer in the French Order of Arts and Letters. In 2019, she was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service.
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