Resume (updated
2007)
I. ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
1984 Doctor of Philosophy
in French Literature, University of California, San Diego
1973
Maîtrise en Droit, Faculté de Droit de Strasbourg , France
(Masters Degree in Jurisprudence in International Law, University
of Strasbourg,
School of Law,
France)
1973 Licence en Sciences
Politiques, Institut d’Études Politiques, Université de Strasbourg,
France (Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Institute of Political
Science, University of Strasbourg, France)
1971 - 72 Exchange Student
Fellowship at Kansas University Graduate School of English and American
Literature
1971
Maîtrise en Lettres, Institut d’Études Anglaises et Nord
Américaines, Université de Strasbourg, France (MA in English & American
Literature, Institute of English & North American Studies, University of
Strasbourg, France)
1970
Licence en Droit, Faculté de Droit de Strasbourg, France
(JD, University of Strasbourg, School of Law, France)
II. TEACHING AND
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1987- Assistant
Professor in French Language and Literature at Villanova University
1985-87 Assistant
Professor in French Language and Literature at State University of New
York in Oswego
1984-85 Lecturer in French
Literature at the University of California in San Diego
1982-84 Lecturer in French
Language and culture at the University of California in San Diego
1979-82 Teaching Assistant
in French Literature at the University of California in San Diego
1977-79 Teaching Assistant
in French Language at the University of California in San Diego
1974-75
Executive in Personnel Management at Michelin Tire Corporation,
Clermont-Ferrand, France
III. COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate Level:
-Introductory French I and II
-Intermediate French I and II
-Beginning Conversational
French
-Intermediate Conversational
French
-Traveler’s French
-Conversation and Composition
I and II
-Advanced Grammar
-French Civilization
-Readings and Interpretations
in French Literature
-Explication de Textes
-Survey of French Literature
I and II
-XVIIth Century French
Literature I and II
-XVIIIth Century French
Literature I and II
-La France et
L’Union Européenne
-Core
Humanities Seminar
-French Women
Writers
-Introduction
to Francophone Literature
-Francophone
Women’s Voices
-Francophone
Writers and Cultural Identity
-Contemporary
France
Graduate Level:
-The Age of Reason and
Revolution
-Voltaire
IV.
PUBLICATIONS
Book:
*/** Le
Voyage autour du monde de Bougainville: droit et imaginaire
(Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1992), 140 pages.
This is a modified version of
my dissertation.
This publication has been
made possible thanks to a $12,000 grant from the Centre National des
Lettres (French equivalent to the American National Endowment for
the Humanities). This book went through two separate levels of
scrutiny. First, two blind referees who are specialists in the field
wrote favorable reports. Secondly, a group of 12 specialists judged it
worthy of being supported by a publication grant of the Centre
National des Lettres.
Chapter of Book
(Contribution)
*La
Querelle: Histoire, ethnologie, linguistique, littérature
(Reims: Presses Universitaires de Reims, 1999), 304 pages. My
contribution in Chapter IV is titled : “Les Paysans de Balzac:
Structures, techniques et stratégies
d’un récit
de querelles”, pp. 287-304.
Documentary Film (Contribution)
*June 2007 :
Argentinian documentary filmmaker, Antonio Cervi, extensively filmed an
interview with me, seeking my expertise on French explorer/writer
Bougainville and the early settlement of the Falkland Islands. This
historical documentary is scheduled to be released in 2007-08.
Articles
in Refereed Journals
*“Ruses de
langage et techniques de subversion dans Delphine de Madame de
Staël”, Australian Journal of French Studies (September-December
2000) 37th year, No 3, Victoria, Australia,
pp.
348-358.
(This is the most prestigious
French journal on the Australian continent. It has enjoyed this
reputation since 1964. It has highly selective blind reviewers.)
* “Imaginaire
rousseauiste, utopie tahitienne et réalite révolutionnaire”, Revue
d’histoire littéraire de la France (March-April 1997) 97th
year, No 2, Paris, France, pp. 219-231.
(This is one of the most
widely read literary journals in France, enjoying a circulation of
2,500. It was founded in 1894 and has published the essays of some of
the most renowned French literary critics. It has highly selective
blind reviewers.)
* “Art abstrait pictural et
poétique dans Les Fenêtres de Delaunay et d’Apollinaire”,
Revue de littérature comparée (July-September 1995) 69th
year, No 3, Paris, France, pp. 287-295.
(This is one of the most
widely read literary journals in France, enjoying a circulation of
2,000. It was founded in 1921 and has published the essays of some of
the most renowned French literary critics. It has highly selective
double-blind reviewers.)
* “Law and Urban
Planning in the Americas during the Renaissance”, Journal of
Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Volume 15 (1990),
Villanova University, pp. 236-254.
(The PMR journal accepts less
than 50% of the papers submitted after being read at the yearly
International Conference and not all papers published are delivered at
the Conference. This places it among the refereed journals since it has
two reviewers and also solicits evaluations from readers outside
Villanova University.)
* “Renaissance Cartography as
a socio-Political Production”, Journal of Patristic, Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, Volume 12/13 (1987-1988), Villanova
University, pp. 229-237.
(Same comments as above)
Articles in Refereed
Conference Proceedings
*”Decolonization and
Surrealism in Aime Cesaire’s Two Plays: Tragedy of King Christophe
and A Season in the Congo”, Proceedings of the 5th
Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities (2007),
Honolulu, Hawaii. This is an electronic publication to be found at
http://www.hichumanities.org/proceedings
* “A Comparison Between the
Debates in Spain and in France over the Nature of the Indians”,
Proceedings of the International Beresit II Conference, Volume 2
(1992), Toledo, Spain, pp. 105-113.
* “A Comparison of the Celtic
Influence in Brittany and Galicia”, Proceedings of the Second
Galician Congress (1988), Brown University, Providence, pp. 489-497.
* Translation of the above
article in Galician magazine Galiza-Breizh, No 7 (Winter 1997),
Coruna, Spain, pp. 7-9.
* “La
Cartografía del Descubrimiento: Obra “científica” o socio cultural y
política”, Actas del Congreso International sobre la Lengua y
la Literatura Hispanicas entre el Siglo XV y el XVII, (1988),
Madrid-Pastrana, Spain, 12 pages.
V. PRESENTATIONS
*5th Annual Hawaii
International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii,
“Decolonization and Surrealism in Aime Cesaire’s Two Plays: Tragedy
of King Christophe and A Season in the Congo”, January
2007.
*33rd Annual
Conference of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies (EC/ASECS). Rosemont College, “Transmutation of the Traveler
into a Performer of ‘Otherness’ in Bernardin’s Paul and Virginie”,
October 2002.
*33rd Annual
Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS).
Colorado Springs, “Construction d’une altérité
exotique dans Paul et Virginie”, April 2002.
*22d Annual Meeting of
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium. University of Toronto,
Canada, “Literary Strategies Circumventing Censorship in de Staël’s
Delphine, October 1996.
*Neuvième
colloque international de la Société d’Analyse de la Topique Romanesque,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee & University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Violence de l’oppression napoléonienne et stratégies du discours
staëlien dans Delphine”, September 1995.
*Northeast
Modern Language Association 1994 Convention, Eighteenth Century French
panel, Pittsburgh, “Imaginaire rousseauiste et utopie tahitienne dans
l’Histoire-progrès”, April 1994.
*Conference
on French/Francophone Literature and the Other Arts, Bryn Mawr and
Haverford Colleges, “Art Abstrait pictural et poétique dans Les
Fenêtres de Delaunay et d’Apollinaire”, March 1993.
*International Beresit II
Conference, Villanova University, “A Comparison Between the Debates in
Spain and France over the Nature of the Indians”, October 1992.
*Villanova Cultural Film
Series, Villanova University, “Trilogie d’une Autobiographie”,
presented before viewing of Diane Kurys’ film C’est la vie, April
1992.
*International Conference on
Travel and Discovery: Real and Imaginary, Monash University, Melbourne,
Australia, “ Law and the Imaginary in Bougainville’s Voyage around
the World”.
July 1991.
*XVth International
Conference of Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Villanova
University, Law and Urban Planning in the Americas during the
Renaissance”, September 1990.
*Northeast Modern Language
Association Conference, Eighteenth Century French Literature panel,
Toronto, Canada, “Utopie Tropicale et corpus juridico-politique
révolutionnaire”, April 1990.
*Temple University Lecture
Series, Temple University, Philadelphia, “Travel Literature and the
French Revolution”, June 1989.
*Villanova Cultural Film
Series and the Alliance Française, Villanova University, “L’Oeil
rajeunissant de François Truffaut”, presented after the viewing of
Les 400 coups, April 1989.
*Villanova Cultural Film
Series and the Alliance Française, Villanova University, “Agnès Varda et
le regard fixe de sa caméra vagabonde”, presented after the viewing of
Sans toit ni loi”, April 1989.
*Second Congress of the
Association of Galician Studies, Brown University, RI, “A Comparison of
the Celtic Influence in Brittany and Galicia”, November 1988.
*XIIIth International
Conference of Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Villanova
University, “Renaissance Cartography as a Socio-Cultural and Political
Production”, September 1988.
*Congreso Internacional sobre
la Lengua y la Literatura Hispanicas, Madrid-Pastrana, Spain, “La
Cartografía del Descubrimiento: obra científica o socio-cultural y
política”, July 1988.
New York State Association of
Foreign Language Conference, Kiamesha Lake, New York, “Récit de voyage:
utopie et mythe”, Octobre 1986.
VI. PARTICIPATION IN
SEMINARS AND SYMPOSIA/SERVICE TO PROFESSION
Chairperson. Session on
Postcolonial Identities, 5th Annual Hawaii International
Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2007.
Chairperson. Session on
French Literature & Films, Conference on Foreign Films & Literatures,
Villanova University, November 1998.
Chairperson. Session on
Modern Adaptation of 18th & 19th Century French
Novels, Conference on Foreign Films & Literatures, Villanova University,
November 1996.
Chairperson. Session on
Eighteenth Century French Literature, Northeast Modern Language
Association Conference in Buffalo, New York, April 1992.
Secretary. Session on
Eighteenth Century French Literature, Northeast Modern Language
Association Conference in Hartford, CT, April 1991.
Participant. 3 week summer
seminar for faculty on “Political Identity in the Arab World”, Villanova
University, May 30-June 22, 1989.
VII. AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
of America (MLA)
Northeast Modern Language
Association (NEMLA)
Patristic,
Medieval and Renaissance Studies (PMR)
Études
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Société
d’Analyse de la Topique Romanesque (SATOR)
The American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
The East-Central American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (EC/ASECS)
Cahiers Staëliens
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
New York State Association of
Foreign Language Professors (NYSAFLP)
VIII. SERVICES TO DEPARTMENT & UNIVERSITY
Committee on Majors & Minors 2007, Chair. Responsible for setting up activities to attract students
to Majors
and Minors in European languages. Includes
advising of students and promoting cultural events.
Ad-hoc Committee on
Proficiency 2007. Working on a system of proficiency exam for
graduating undergraduate students in order to
better assess their level of assimilation, retention and
practical use of acquired knowledge.
Evaluation Committee
2003-2004, Chairperson. Determined standards to be used for
evaluation of faculty by the Chairperson of the Department.
Majors & Minors 1998-2003,
Chairperson. Organized all Majors/Minors Awareness events at ML
Department level & represented ML Dept. at University Career Day and
Academic Advisor Committee
University Majors/Minors Day. 2000-2004. Personally
Responsible for orienting, advising and guiding a dozen of Liberal Arts
Students in their beginning years at Villanova University.
Research Committee 1996-2003,
member. Participated in workshops where members shared helpful tools
and techniques facilitating the process of research and publications.
Curriculum
Committee 1988-2003, member. Helped defining needs
for new courses. Discussed and evaluated new courses proposals to be
added to ML Department’s curriculum at Villanova University.
1985-86, Chairperson. Responsible for restructuring and updating the
curriculum in French section of ML Department at SUNY-Oswego.
Lecture Committee
1988-2003, member representing the French Section in ML
Department. Responsible for selecting and inviting lecturers as well
as organizing, advertizing and reviewing lectures.
2000-01, Chairperson.
1990-91, Chairperson.
Public Relations Committee
1991-93, Chairperson. Responsible for publicizing all important events
in Modern Languages Department.
1993-98, member.
Library Committee
1994-97, Chairperson. Defined needs for books and subscriptions to
literary journals in Falvey Library. 1991-98, member.
French Club 1988-91,
Advisor at Villanova University. Sponsored & organized French
Club activities such as:
-Viewing
and discussing French films.
-Attending Major French theatrical productions such as Les Misérables
-Visiting French art exhibits at Barnes Collection, Rodin Museum,
Academy of Fine Arts Museum & Philadelphia Museun of Art.
-Setting
of French exhibit at yearly international week on campus.
1985-87,Advisor at SUNY-Oswego. Sponsored & organized French Club
activities such as:
-Viewing
and discussing of French films & slides shows on France.
-Students participation in “Soirée Café Théâtre”.
-3 day cultural excursion to Montréal and
Québec’s Winter Festival.
French Honor Society
1990-present, Advisor. Sponsored and organized Pi Delta Phi French
Honor Society activities such as:
-Recruiting of new members for Villanova Chapter Kappa Nu.
-Initiation ceremony to induct new members.
-Invitation of French speaker at induction ceremony.
-Cultural
field trips at local theaters and museums.
Film Series 1988,
organized a Foreign Film Series in the ML Department at Villanova
University featuring films from the silent era to the present.
1986, organized a French Classic Film series at SUNY-Oswego
Program in
France 1991-92, Director of 6 weeks Summer French Program in
Université de Bourgogne and Paris, France. Responsible for all
organizational aspects.
Acting Chairperson
Summer 1990 & 1991. Responsible for all daily routine functions of ML
Dept.
Faculty Senate
1999-2000. Member serving as Arts representative, completing Prof.
Brook’s term.
IX. CULTURAL AND
COMMUNITY SERVICES/SERVICE TO PROFESSION
2003-05 Coordinating
French Book Club and directing discussion group for the francophone
community of the Main Line area.
1999 Coordinated
$7,000 donation of Dr. Wagner’s library of French lit. to Falvey
library.
1999 Reviewed
university French textbook, Invitation au monde francophone,
published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
1998- Member of jury
for selection of Fulbright Fellowship’s candidates applying for program
in France.
1996- Advisor for
Internships Abroad Program.
1992- Member of the
French Conversational Group for the Greater Philadelphia region.
1991- Member of the
Villanova Speakers’ Bureau.
1991-92 Responsible for
selection and organization of cultural event offered during the
Villanova Sesquicentennial celebration in 1992: “Elisabeth Hodes Vocal
Theater in Three Legends: Lenya, Dietrich and Piaf”.
1991 Involved
with recruitment efforts for École Internationale de Philadelphie
which opened in Sept. 1991 at the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr.
1988- Participating
member of the Alliance Française of Philadelphie. Delivered
lecture during the bicentennial celebrations in 1989. Lectured and led
discussions on 2 French films sponsored by Alliance Française and
Villanova Cutural Film Series.
1979–85 Participating member of the Alliance
Française in San Diego. Provided lecturers for lecture Series. Hosted
lecturers from France.
1979-85 Member of the La
Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art.
1979-83 Participating member
of the Organizing Committee of the San Diego International Film Series.