| CONTACT | |
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and Classical Languages and Literatures 132 Swan Hall University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881, USA Ph: 401-874-4708; FAX: 401-874-4694 adurand@uri.edu http://www.uri.edu/artsci/ml/durand |
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| EDUCATION | |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill Ph.D., French Literature, August 1999 Dissertation: Nouveaux espaces électroniques dans le roman français des années 1980 et 1990 Director: Yves de la Quérière Committee: David F. Bell, Fredric Jameson, G. Mallary Masters, Monica Rector. Minor: Luso-Brazilian Studies University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
M.A. With Honors, French Literature, May 1994 Emporia State
University, Emporia, KS |
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| INTERESTS | |
| Contemporary
Novel (Europe, US, Latin America), French Cinema, Hip-Hop, Cultural
Studies and Criticism, French Travel Accounts in Latin America, Balzac,
Jorge Amado |
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| LANGUAGES | |
| French (native), Spanish (advanced), Portuguese (fluent), Italian (reading), Old French and Provençal (reading). | |
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| PUBLICATIONS | |
| Books | |
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Le Jorge Amado Français/The French Jorge Amado. In preparation. Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles. A collection of essays. In press. Forthcoming Rodopi, 2008. Novels of the
Contemporary Extreme. (Co-Edited with Naomi Mandel). London
& New York: Continuum,
2006. Black, Blanc, Beur: Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture in the Francophone World. A collection of essays. Foreword by Adam Krims. Lanham, MD.: Scarecrow Press, 2002. |
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| Book Chapters |
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| "Introduction." Frédéric
Beigbeder et ses doubles. CRIN. Ed. Alain-Philippe Durand.
Forthcoming Rodopi,
2008. "Défense de Narcisse." Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles. CRIN. Ed. Alain-Philippe Durand. Forthcoming Rodopi, 2008. "Entretien avec Frédéric Beigbeder." Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles. CRIN. Ed. Alain-Philippe Durand. Forthcoming Rodopi, 2008. "Exhiber la violence de l'événement: L'exemple du onze septembre." Violence et écriture, violence de l'affect, voix de l'écriture. Eds. Sandrine Bazile et Gérard Peylet. Collection Eidôlon (81). Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2008. 365-75. "Pascal Bruckner et Michel Houellebecq. Deux transécrivains au milieu du monde." Michel Houellebecq sous la loupe. Eds. Murielle Lucie Clément and Sabine van Wesemael. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 153-67. "Introduction" (with Naomi Mandel). Novels of the Contemporary Extreme. Eds. Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel. London & New York: Continuum, 2006. 1-8. "Beyond the Extreme: Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World." Novels of the Contemporary Extreme. Eds. Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel. London & New York: Continuum, 2006. 109-20. "Sensitive Stomachs: Culinary Anecdotes From French Travelers in Latin America." Homage to Alexander von Humboldt. Travel Literature to and From Latin America XV Through XXI Centuries. Ed. Lilianet Brintrup. Oaxaca, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de Oaxaca, 2005. 373-81. "Marseille". Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Vol. VII. Eds. John Shepherd, David Horn, and Dave Laing. New York: Continuum, 2005. 181-83. "Jorge Amado". Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 307. Brazilian Writers. Eds. Monica Rector and Fred Clark. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli, 2005. 26-39. |
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| Articles | |
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<>"Jorge
Amado and Albert Camus: Formative Literary Visions and Prewar Politics"
(Co-Authored with Ralph Schoolcraft III). Forthcoming in PMLA. "Liter@ry Seminars: The Interactive Contemporary French Novel." Forthcoming in the ADFL Bulletin 39.2 (2008). "De
l'interprétation des musiques électroniques dans la
littérature française contemporaine." L'Esprit
créateur 47.2 (2007): 138-49. "Report on the AATF National Survey of Graduate Studies in French/Francophone Culture and Civilization (FFCC)". The French Review 77.1 (2003): 126-39. "La Mondovision". The French Review 76.3 (2003): 534-44. "Understanding and Negotiating the Telephone Interview". ADFL Bulletin 34.1 (2002): 47-50. "Lucien Chardon - de Rubempré: Champion du Monde en titre(s)". Romance Quarterly 48.4 (2001): 250-56. "Les Envahisseurs. Sur La Télévision de Jean-Philippe Toussaint". L'Atelier du Roman 26 (2001): 130-36. "Le français est la langue des champions". AATF National Bulletin 26.2 (2000): 17-19. "Quatre mariages et deux enterrements: Helena de Machado de Assis". Romance Notes 41.1 (2000): 97-104. "Le côté de Belleville: Négociation de l'espace migratoire chez Calixthe Beyala". Etudes Francophones 15.2 (1999): 53-65. "Discothèques. Sur Sphinx d'Anne Garréta". L'Atelier du Roman (La Table Ronde) 18 (1999): 126-34. "Le Troisième texte". Romance Languages Annual 9 (1998): 46-52. "Le rire est le propre de l'homme: le texte de Rabelais comme satire Ménippée". Romance Notes 38.2 (1998): 179-89. "Grassou et Frenhofer: Chef d'oeuvre connu ou inconnu?" Romance Quarterly 44.3 (1997): 131-42. "Le monde d'O físico prodigioso selon Girard". Romance Notes 37.2 (1997): 207-16. "French Graduate Studies and the Multicultural Hope". Transculture: Interpretations and Applications of Cultural Studies in the Languages 1.2 (1996): 101-103. "L'importance des lieux et de l'espace dans Bajazet". Chimères 22.1 (1995): 37-45. "Le Reflet de
Julien". Chimères
21.1 (1994): 31-33. |
| Book Reviews | |
| William Jelani Cobb. To the Break of
Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic. New York: New York
UP, 2007. Choice Sept. 2007. Franc Schuerewegen. Balzac, suite et fin. Lyon: ENS Editions, 2004. Nineteenth-Century French Studies 35.2 (2007): 486-87. Guy Tournaye. Le Décodeur. Paris: Gallimard, 2005. The French Review. 80.6 (2007): 1424-25. Sabine van Wesemael, ed. Michel Houellebecq. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004. The French Review. 80.1 (2006): 222-23. David Foenkinos. Le potentiel érotique de ma femme. Paris: Gallimard, 2004. The French Review. 79.5 (2006): 1095-96.David Beriss. Black Skins, French Voices. Caribbean Ethnicity and Activism in Urban Murielle Lucie Clément. Houellebecq, Sperme et sang. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003. The French Review 79.2 (2005): 422-23. Takao Kashiwagi, éd. Balzac, romancier du regard. Saint-Genouph: Nizet, 2002. The French Review 79.2 (2005): 414-15. Imani Perry. Prophets of the Hood. Politics and Poetics
in Hip Hop. Mohammed Dib. Simorgh. Paris: Albin Michel, 2003. The French Review. 78.4 (2005): 812-14. Lucienne Frappier-Mazur et Jean-Marie Roulin, éds. L'Erotique Balzacienne. Paris: SEDES, 2001. The French Review. 78.2 (2004): 371-72. L'Année Balzacienne 2002: Génétique balzacienne. Paris: PUF, 2002. Nineteenth-Century French Studies 33.1-2 (2004-2005): 191-93. Claudie Bernard et Franc Schuerewegen, éds. Balzac, Pater Familias. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2001. The French Review. 77.4 (2004): 786-87. René de Ceccatty. Fiction douce. Paris: Seuil, 2002. The French Review. 77.3 (2004): 615. Christian Oster. Dans le train. Paris: Minuit, 2002. The French Review. 77.2 (2003): 424-25. Tanguy Viel. L'Absolue Perfection du crime. Paris: Minuit, 2001. The French Review. 76.2 (2002): 445-46. Stéphane Vachon, éd. Honoré de Balzac. Mémoire de la critique. Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1999. Nineteenth-Century French Studies 30.3-4 (2002): 394-96. Laurent Mauvignier. Apprendre à finir. Paris: Minuit, 2000. The French Review 75.3 (2002): 644-45. Janell Watson. Literature and Material Culture From Balzac to Proust. New York: Cambridge UP, 1999. Romance Quarterly 49.1 (2002): 76-78. Jean-Yves Cendrey. Les petites soeurs de sang. Paris: L'Olivier, 1999. The French Review 74.3 (2001): 591-92. Timothy Unwin, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997. Romance Quarterly 47.2 (2000): 115-17. Norman Buford, ed. French Literature in/and the City. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997. Romance Quarterly 47.3 (2000): 181-82. L'Année Balzacienne 1998. Nouvelle série 19. Paris: PUF, 1998. The French Review 73.4 (2000): 745. Peter Fysh and Jim Wolfreys. The Politics of Racism in France. New York: St. Martin's P, 1998. The French Review 73.6 (2000): 1243-44. Mohammed Dib. Si Diable veut. Paris: Albin Michel, 1998. The French Review 73.6 (2000): 1255-56. Robert Soucy. French Fascism: The Second Wave, 1933-1939. New Haven: Yale UP, 1995. The French Review 72.5 (1999): 966-67. Robert Pinget. Taches d’encre. Paris: Minuit, 1997. The French Review 72.5 (1999): 942. Les Représentations de l’Affaire Dreyfus dans la presse en France et à l’étranger. Tours: Publications de l’Université François Rabelais, 1997. The French Review 72.2 (1998): 347-48. L’Année Balzacienne 1996. Nouvelle série 17. Paris: PUF, 1996. The French Review 71.5 (1998): 843-44. L’Année Balzacienne 1995. Nouvelle série 16. Paris: PUF, 1996. The French Review 71.4 (1998): 662-63. Christopher Rivers. Face Value: Physiognomical Thought and the Legible Body in Marivaux, Lavater, Balzac, Gautier, and Zola. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. Romance Quarterly 45.1 (1998): 62-63. Claude Duchet et Isabelle Tournier, éds. Genèses des fins. De Balzac à Beckett, de Michelet à Ponge. Manuscrits Modernes. Paris: PU de Vincennes, U. de Paris VIII, 1996. Nineteenth-Century French Studies 26.1-2 (1997): 221-22. |
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| CONFERENCES | |
| "The BA in
French, Don't Leave URI Without It!" Northeast
Modern Language Association Annual Convention. 12 April 2008.
Buffalo, NY. "Frédéric Beigbeder's Truth(s) or Dare(s)." The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. 22 February 2008. University of Louisville, KY. "Réappropriation du quotidien et anthropologie littéraire dans Navegação de cabotagem de Jorge Amado." 3 August 2007. XVIIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. "Défense de Narcisse (Frédéric Beigbeder)." 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. 23 March 2007. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. "Pascal Bruckner et Michel Houellebecq: Omnipotence du désir". 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. 1 April 2006. University of Miami. "Liter@ry Semin@rs: The Interactive Contemporary French Novel." 29 December 2005. Modern Language Association (MLA), Washington D.C. "L'extrême avec vue." 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. 1 April 2005. University of Florida, Gainesville. "Beyond the Extreme: Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World and Bernard-Henri Lévy's Who Killed Daniel Pearl?" American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference. 17 April 2004. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "Des Supporters fans de hip-hop". 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. 3 April 2004. Florida State University, Tallahassee. "Echantillonnages et collages dans l'œuvre de Patrick Bouvet". 20th - Century French Studies International Colloquium. 29 March 2003. University of Illinois, Urbana. "Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s T.V. Junkies". International Congress of the German Semiotics Association, “Body – Embodiment – Disembodiment.” 19 July 2002. University of Kassel, Germany. "I Could Not Fit French Into My Schedule"! 13 July 2002. American Association of Teachers of French Convention. Boston, MA. "Des écrivains pris dans la toile". 12 July 2002. American Association of Teachers of French Convention. Boston, MA. "Le Roman techno: le cas de Frédéric Beigbeder". Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. 19 April 2002. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. "Télérama".
20th - / 21st - Century French Studies International Colloquium.
6 April 2002. Hartford, CT. "Preliminary Report on the AATF National Survey of Graduate Studies in French/Francophone Culture and Civilization (FFCC)". 7 July 2001. American Association of Teachers of French Convention. Denver, Colorado. "Représentations de la culture hip hop dans le stade Vélodrome de Marseille". 6 July 2001. American Association of Teachers of French Convention. Denver, Colorado. "The Art of Eating". 22 June 2001. Alexander von Humboldt Conference. Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA. "Le Champion du Monde en Titres". 19 October 2000. Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Highbrows and Headless Bodies". 14 August 2000. International Comparative Literature Association Congress, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. "Des voyageurs français en Amérique Latine ou les aventures d'estomacs délicats". 19 February 2000. Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film, and the Other Arts, University of San Antonio, TX. "Les Envahisseurs." 28 December 1998. Modern Language Association (MLA), San Francisco, CA. "Cuisine(s) en images." 23 October 1998. Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Pennsylvania State University, College Station, PA. "La mécanique de Jean Renoir." 10 October 1998. Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. "Abusive Narratives: French Travel Accounts in South America." 25 September 1998. Latin American Studies Association (LASA), XXI International Congress, Chicago, IL. "De Le Bon à Le Pen: Un siècle de racialisme français." 20 November 1997. American Association of Teachers of French, Nashville, TN. "Le poids des mots, le choc des photos." 19 October 1997. Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Georgia, Athens. "Le troisième texte." 10 October 1997. Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures & Film, West Lafayette, IN. "Le Disc-Jockey, nouveau maître du monde." 8 May 1997. Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati. "Un chef-d’oeuvre inconnu nommé ‘Pierre Grassou’." 18 April 1997. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington. "Ménippe et Rabelais, même combat." 6 April 1997 (in abstentia). Renaissance Society of America, Vancouver, Canada. "Janvier 1996: Géant-Casino fait son entrée dans la Revue des Deux Mondes." 4 April 1997. Annual International Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Ohio State University, Columbus. "O físico prodigioso According to René Girard." 19 April 1996. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington. "France Today." 16 January 1996. Executive MBA Program, Kenan-Flager School of Business, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Auguste de Saint-Hilaire: un Français dans l’île de Santa Catarina." 29 June 1995. Department of French Studies, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil. "Les voyageurs français au Brésil au dix-neuvième siècle." 27 June 1995. Alliance Française, Florianópolis, Brazil. |
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| Sessions Organized | |
| "Désirs."
1 April 2006. 20th/21st Century French
and
Francophone Studies International Colloquium. University of Miami. "The Agitators." 29 March 2003. 20th - Century French Studies International Colloquium. University of Illinois, Urbana. "New Technologies in the Classroom and Beyond." 12 July 2002. American Association of Teachers of French Convention. Boston, MA. "Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Literature." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. 20 April 2002. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. "Search for Identity in Latin American Literature." Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures. 4-6 October 2001. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. "Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture in France and Francophone Africa." American Association of Teachers of French Convention. 6 July 2001. Denver, Colorado. "Autour de Balzac." 19 October 2000. Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "De la présence française en Amérique Latine au dix-neuvième siècle." 23 October 1998. Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Pennsylvania State University, College Station, PA. "Perspectives on the French and Francophone Film." 10 October 1998. Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. "Luso-Brazilian Literatures." 18 March 1999. Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Parallelisms of the Search for Identity in Contemporary African, French, Latin American, and Spanish Literatures." 19 March 1999. Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. |
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| INVITED LECTURES | |
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"Jorge Amado en France." 20 March 2008. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil. "Introduction au roman français contemporain." 19
March 2008. Universidade Federal de
Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil. "Novels of the Contemporary Extreme" with Naomi Mandel. 19
September 2007. Read/Write
Series, University of Rhode Island, RI. "De l'inteprétation des musiques électroniques dans la littérature française contemporaine." 12 April 2007. Professional French Masters Program. Dept. of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. "Exhiber la violence de l'événement: L'exemple
du 11 septembre." International Colloquium "Violence et Ecriture."9
December 2006. Maison des
Sciences de l'homme d'Aquitaine, Université Michel de
Montaigne Bordeaux 3, Bordeaux, France. "Why Send Your Kids to a French School?" 3 May 2006. French American School of Rhode Island
(FASRI), Providence, RI. "Le Jorge Amado français." Séminaire Vérité et Fiction. 13
March 2006. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France. "La littérature peut-elle transcrire l'ineffable?" Séminiare du Centre d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (C.A.M.C.). 13 March 2006. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France. "The Challenges of Writing (or not) in the Context of New
York City's 9/11." 10 February 2006. Great
Cities in Literature, Film, and Culture Lecture Series,
University of Illinois at Chicago. "Les dieux du stade". 15 December 2005. Professional French Masters
Program. Dept. of French and Italian, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, WI. "From Paris to Mars and Beyond: The French Side of Rap Music." 23 October 2004. Black Atlantic. Travelling Cultures, Counter-Histories, and Networked Identities. House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany. "Rap the (Francophone) World". 22 April 2004. Plenary Lecture. Connelly Center, Villanova University."Les Rappeurs de la République". 2 October 2003. Professional French Masters Program. Dept. of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. "MC France". 19 October 2002. Plenary Lecture to the AATF section of the Rhode Island Foreign Language Association. RIFLA Annual Conference, Community College of Rhode Island, Warwick, RI. "Get up To speed on Postmodernism". 20 March 2002. Symposium Organized by the URI Honors Program during Prof. Fredric Jameson's visit on campus (2002 URI Foundation Distinguished Scholar). "Le Roman techno". 4 April 2001. Dept. of French and Italian, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. "La vie (académique) est un long fleuve tranquille parfois semé d’embûches." 4 October 2001. Lecture given to the graduate students of the course “Introduction to French Graduate Studies” in the departement of French and Italian at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Université Blaise Pascal,
Dept. de Français, Clermont-Ferrand, France. "France and the Cross-Cultural Communications Challenges Between Americans and the French". 29 February 2000 and 1 March 2001. Lectures given to the students of the course Letters 151J: Global Business Studies. University of Rhode Island. "Black, Blanc, Beur: Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture in Contemporary France". 24 February 2000. Multicultural Center Lecture Series. Multicultural Center, University of Rhode Island. "French Postmodern Theory: The Example of Jean Baudrillard". 8 November 1999. Lecture given to the students of the course Philosophy 318: Power/Justice-Contemporary Critical Philosophies. University of Rhode Island. |
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| TEACHING EXPERIENCE | |
| University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Honors Professor of French, Film Media, and Comparative Literature, 2008-present Head, French and Francophone Studies (2005-present) Honors Program Faculty Member (2006-present) Courses Taught: Beginning French 1 and Beginning French 2, Intermediate French 1 and Intermediate French 2, French Oral Expression 1, French Oral Expression 2, Studies in French Cinema: Survey of French Cinema, Studies in French Cinema: Luc Besson, Studies in French Cinema: French Comedies, Non-Places in the French Novel of the 1980's and 1990's, Destinies and Identities in the 20th-Century French Novel, Business French, Modern French Culture and Literature, Extreme Literatures Compared, Francophone Hip-Hop Culture, 21st Century French Novel, 9/11, Novels of the Contemporary Extreme. Universitat Stuttgart, Germany Institut für Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Scholar in Residence, Master Erasmus Mundus MacLands, Dec. 2009 - Feb. 2010 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Honors Associate Professor of French, Film Media, and Comparative Literature, 2004-2008 Interim Chair of English (2007-2008) University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Assistant Professor of French, Film Media, and Comparative Literature, 1999-2004 Euromed
Marseille Ecole de
Management, Marseille, France North Carolina Central University, Durham,
NC, USA University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill Durham Technical Community
College University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS |
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| THESES/DISSERTATIONS | |
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University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill: University of Rhode Island: Member
of the dissertation committee of Ms. Darlene Netcoh,
Ph.D.
candidate in English. Title of dissertation:
"Dystopian Terrorscapes: The Permutations of Terror and Terrorism
in Dystopian Science Fiction." April 2007-present. Member of the dissertation committee of Mr. George Steele, Ph.D. candidate in English. Title of dissertation: "(Re)Scoring the Silent Film: Music, Modernism, Affect." April 2007-present. Member
of the exams and dissertation committee of Mr. James Patrick Gorham,
Ph.D.
candidate in English. 2007-present. Member
of the exams and dissertation committee of Ms. Laurie Carlson, Ph.D.
candidate in English. Title of dissertation:
"Reconfigurations in Disability Studies and Cyborg Fiction." 2007-present. Advisor
of the Honors Thesis of Ms. Emily Macaux, BA candidate in French. Title
of thesis: "Rendering the Unconscious: A Surrealistic
Exploration of Creative Expression". Thesis successfully defended on
May
1, 2008. Advisor of the Honors Thesis of Ms. Kristina Suorsa, BA candidate in French and Psychology. Title of thesis: "The Difference Between French and American Work Ethics". Thesis successfully defended on December 17, 2007. Advisor
of the Honors Thesis of Ms. Amber Castle, PharmD candidate in Pharmacy.
Title
of thesis: "The Changing Role of Pharmacists: A Comparison of
the French and the American Model". Thesis successfully defended on May
1, 2007. Advisor of the Honors Thesis of Ms. Kelly McBrien, BA/BS candidate in French and International Business. Title of thesis: "Globalization and the French National Identity". 2006-present. Thesis successfully defended on May 1, 2007. Member
of the graduate committee of Ms. Justine Lutzel, MA candidate in
English. Portfolio successfully defended on April 16, 2007. Member
of the exams and dissertation committee of Mr. John Hodgkins, Ph.D.
candidate in English. Title
of Dissertation: "The Drift. Rethinking the Dynamics of
Adaptation." 2006-present. Member of the exams and dissertation committee of Ms. Meredith Krall, Ph.D. candidate in English. 2006-present. Advisor of the Honors Thesis of Ms. Kristen Murphy, BA candidate in French and Political Science. Title of thesis: "Baudelaire's Double Life: Bipolar Disorder and Opium Dependence". Thesis successfully defended on May 1, 2007. Member of the exams and dissertation committees of Ms. Maria Chiancola Glade, Ph.D. candidate in English. 2005-present.Member of the dissertation committee of Mr. Kyle Hetrick, Ph.D. candidate in English. 2004-present. Member of the exams and dissertation committees of Ms. Agata Stepien, Ph.D. candidate in English. 2004-present. Member of the exams and dissertation committees of Mr. Piotr Skuza, Ph.D. candidate in English. 2003-present. Advisor
of the Honors Thesis of Ms. Laura Sharp, BA candidate
in French. Title
of thesis: "Mai 1968: Une Révolution culturelle".
Thesis successfully defended on May 2, 2006. Member
of the thesis committee of Ms. Catherine Michna, M.A. candidate in
English. Title
of thesis: "No Room of Her Own: Spatiality in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." 2005-present.
Thesis successfully defended on April 27, 2005. Advisor of the Honors Thesis of Ms. Angela Wyche, BA candidate in French and in Political Science. Title of thesis: "Script French Translation of Mary Healey-Conlon's Film Documentary Holy Water-Gate". Thesis successfully defended on May 11, 2005. Advisor of the Honors Thesis of Ms. Stefany Joaquin, BA candidate in French, Math, and Secondary Education. Title of thesis: "Postmodern Representations in the Films of Luc Besson". Thesis successfully defended on May 11, 2005. Member of the graduate committee of Mr. Michael Delnero, M.A. candidate in English. September 2003-2004. Title of Project: "Look Ma, No Me: Mediated Images and the Construction of the External Collective Cyborg and the Technologically-Constructed Cyborg." Portfolio successfully defended on June 17, 2004. Member of the exams and dissertation committee of Ms. Jamie Carr, Ph.D. candidate in English. Title of dissertation: "Queer Times: Christopher Isherwood's Modernity." Dissertation successfully defended on June 10, 2004. Advisor of the Honors Thesis of Ms. Amy Concannon, BA candidate in French and BS candidate in Nursing. Title of thesis: "The Nursing Shortage. France vs. The United States. An Analysis". Thesis successfully defended on May 5, 2004. Advisor of the Honors Thesis of Ms. Jennifer Wendell, BA candidate in French and Philosophy. Title of thesis: "Literature: The Philosophical Vehicle for the People". Thesis successfully defended on May 5, 2004. Advisor of the thesis of Ms. Cristina Ross, M.A. candidate in Hispanic Studies. Title of thesis: "La frontera de cristal de Carlos Fuentes: La creación de un tercer espacio de identidad postmoderna". May-December 2003. Thesis successfully defended on December 10, 2003. Advisor of the Honors Thesis of Ms. Alexis Percival, BA in French and BFA in Art Studio. Title of thesis: “The Mechanized Sex.” May 2001-May 2002. Thesis successfully defended in May 2002. Member of the dissertation committee of Mr. Samuel Kwaku Bonsu, Ph.D. candidate in Business Administration. Title of dissertation: “Death and Identity: Consumer Behavior in Asante Death Rituals.” Dissertation successfully defended on January 12, 2001. Member of the dissertation committee of Mr. Detlev Zwick, Ph.D. candidate in Business Administration (Marketing). Title of dissertation: "The Speed of Money: Investment as Consumption in the Age of Computer-Mediated Communications." Dissertation successfully defended on September 14, 2001. Member of the thesis committee of Ms. Marta Belén Rodríguez Galán, M.A. candidate in Hispanic Studies. Title of thesis: "La Conceptualización de la cultura en la obra de Sarmiento y las implicaciones políticas para la formación de una identidad cultural argentina." Thesis successfully defended on April 27, 2001. Member
of the thesis committee of Mr. Pablo García, M.A. candidate in
Hispanic Studies. Title
of thesis: "Interpretación de Latinoamérica a
través de la literatura y la ideología en el Canto
General
de Pablo Neruda." Thesis successfully defended on March 22, 2001. |
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| EDITORIAL WORK | |
| URI
French and Francophone Studies Webmaster of the URI French and Francophone Studies Program Web Site, 2005-present Site Officiel Marie Darrieussecq Editor and Webmaster of the French novelist's web site, 2001-present College Literature Reader, 2002-present (evaluate articles submitted to this journal for publication) Social Identities. Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture Reader, 2007-present (evaluate articles submitted to this journal for publication) NCSRLL. North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures Editorial Assistant, 1996-1998 Chimères, Journal
of French Literature, Lawrence, KS |
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| PROFESSIONAL
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| DTS Language Services
Translator, Summer 1996 Gosnell &
Associates, Olathe, KS MISTRAL FM
103.9, Aubagne, France ORANGINA FRANCE, Service
Marketing, Les Milles, France RGA 102FM, La
Ciotat, France |
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| GRANTS | |
| URI Eric F.
Kumpf Memorial Center for the
Humanities Research Grant (2007): $1,200.00 for research in Brazil. Consulate of France in Boston (2007): $3,000.00 for study abroad scholarships. URI Faculty Development Fund Allocation (2006): $1,100.00 for congress and research in Brazil. Consulate of France in Boston (2006): $2,000.00 for study abroad scholarships. Consulate of France in Boston (2005): $1,000.00 for study abroad scholarships. URI Council for Research Career Enhancement Grant (2005): $5,500.00 for research at BNF François Mitterrand in Paris, France and at the Casa Fundação Jorge Amado in Salvador, Brazil for my book project The French Jorge Amado. University of Rhode Island Foundation (Fall 2004): $1,500.00 for purchasing films, CDs, and books on Francophone hip-hop culture for the URI Library. URI Council for Research Grant (2002): $6,500.00 for research at BNF François Mitterrand in Paris, France, and writing support of my book Un monde techno. URI Faculty Development Fund Allocation (2002): $1,500.00 for Un monde techno. URI Foundation Faculty Assistance Fund (2002): $1,000.00 for presentation of my research at the University of Kassel, Germany. University of Rhode Island Foundation (Spring 2000): $1,000.00 for promoting and traveling to Marseille, France in order to launch URI in Marseille, a new exchange program. University of Rhode Island Foundation (Fall 1999): $1,500.00 for purchasing French films for the URI Library. |
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| FELLOWSHIPS | |
| URI J.H. White
Center for Ethics and Public Service Faculty Fellowship
($3,000.00),
2007 URI Center for the Humanities Richard Beaupre Faculty Sabbatical Fellowship in the Humanities ($1,500.00), 2005 Florence T. McCullouch Dissertation Research Fellowship, for interviewing authors in Paris, Dept. of Romance Languages, UNC-CH, 1998 City of Gemenos Study Abroad Fellowship, Gemenos, France, 1996 Merit Assistantship Award, Graduate School, UNC-CH, 1995 Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Graduate Fellowship (FLAS), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, Summer 1995 Summer Research Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Kansas, 1994 Galloo-Neuenschwander Summer Research Fellowship, Dept. of French and Italian, U of Kansas, 1993 J. Neale Carman Scholarship, Emporia State University, 1993 Educational Opportunity Fund Scholarship, Emporia State University, 1990-1992 Earl R. Fraysier Scholarship, Emporia State University, 1990 Florence Cram Scholarship, Emporia State University, 1990 Minnie Miller Scholarship, Emporia State University, 1990 Ames Family Scholarship Fund, Emproia State University, 1989 Ina M. Schottler Scholarship, Emporia State University, 1989 |
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| AWARDS/HONORS | |
| Finalist for the
National Society of Collegiate Scholars' Inspire
Integrity Award (NSCS), 2008 Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques, 2007 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 2004 URI Foundation The 2002 Teaching Excellence Award Outstanding Recent Graduate Award, College of Arts & Sciences, Emporia State University, 1995 Pi Delta Phi French Honorary Society, 1989 Sigma Delta Pi Spanish Honorary Society, 1989 |
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| PROFESSIONAL SERVICES | |
| Interim
Chair of URI English Department,
2007/2008 Chair, Search Committee Assistant Professor of English, 2007/2008 Search Committee Assistant Professor of French, spring 2007 Search Committee Lecturer of Portuguese, spring 2007 Subcommittee Standard Five, Self Study Report to NEASC, 2006-present Head, URI French and Francophone Studies, 2005-present Director of URI in Marseille, Study Abroad Exchange Program: created, promote, and direct this exchange program between URI and Euromed Marseille Ecole de Management, Marseille, France, 2000-present French American School of Rhode Island Executive Board, Providence, RI, 2006-present Disability Resource Mentor, 2004-present Comparative Literature Studies Advisory Committee, URI, July 2003-present Chair, Search Committee, Chair of URI's English Department Search Committee, Assistant Professor of French, Spring 2007 Chair, URI Foundation Teaching Excellence Award Committee, 2003/2004, 2004/2005 Co-Chair, URI Foundation Teaching Excellence Award Committee, 2002/2003 Director, Open Division, Visualizations Film Festival, URI, 2003-2005 Ad-hoc Committee on the teaching of Portuguese at URI, Fall 2002 Center for the Humanities Executive Committee, Spring 2002-2004 Film Studies Executive Committee, URI, 2002-present Film Studies Committee, URI, September 1999-2004 Dean's Advisory Council (DAC), 2000-2003 Chair of a national survey of Graduate programs in French Cultural Studies, commissioned by the American Association of Teachers of French Commission on Cultural Competence, May 2000-December 2001 Multicultural Center Faculty Fellows, Fall 2000-Spring 2001 Major Recruitment Ad-hoc Committee, September 1999-May 2000. Search Committee, Assistant Professor of French, Fall/Spring 2000/2001 Search Committee, Advisor, URI Office of International Education, Spring 2000 Search Committee, French Lecturers, Dept. of Languages, Spring/Summer 2000 Co-organizer,
Third and Fourth Annual Carolina
Conference on Romance Literatures, UNC-CH, March 1997
and 1998. |
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| MEMBERSHIPS | |
| Modern Language Association of America
(MLA) Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) |
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| PERSONAL | |
| Teaching and
Research Portfolios
available upon request. Travel, living experience: France, Belgium, England, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Caribbean islands (Guadeloupe, Dominica, Turks and Caicos, Dominican Republic), Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, Québec, South Africa. |
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| REFERENCES | |
| Dr. Yves de la
Quérière Associate Professor of French (Emeritus) Dept. of Romance Languages University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dr. Fredric Jameson (919-684-4155) William A. Lane, Jr., Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies Literature Program Duke University Dr.
Jean Walton (401-874-9467) Richard Chapple Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics and Chair Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics Florida State University Dr. Ralph Schoolcraft III (979-845-1752) Associate Professor of French Dept. of European and Classical Languages and Cultures Texas A&M University
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