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Alek Baylee Toumi
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Foreign Languages CCC 414
Stevens Point, WI 54481
atoumi@uwsp.edu
715-346-2791
Academic Training
BS, M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation
Langue française et identités nord-africaines: A study of the problem of French language and North-African identities in the works of Albert Memmi and Kateb Yacine, December 1993
Areas of Teaching and Research
Francophone studies: West Africa, Maghreb, Beur; French civilization and film Twentieth century: Camus-Sartre; theater across the centuries; language and culture
Professional Experience
University of Wisconsin-S.P., Professor, Foreign Langs Dept, 2011-present
University of Wisconsin-S.P., Associate Prof., Foreign Langs Dept, 2004-2011
University of Wisconsin-S.P., Assistant Prof., Foreign Langs Dept, 2000-2004
Franklin & Marshall College, Assistant Prof., French Dept, 1997-2000
Bates College, Assistant Prof., French Dept, 1995-1997
Louisiana State University, Visit. Assist. Prof., French Dept, 1994-1995
Middlebury College, Visit. Assist. Prof., French Dept, 1993-1994
Lawrence University, Lecturer, French Dept, 1992-1993
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Teaching Assistant, 1986-1991
Professional Services
Member of the reading committee and editor of the book review of the Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, section on North Africa, publication of the Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones, 2004-05
http://cief.info/nef/responsables.html
Member of advisory board of Lexington Book series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France, Prof. Valerie Orlando series editor, 2003
Reviewer of Francophone books for the University of Nebraska Press, 2004-06
Awards
Teaching Award
University Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, May 2012
Scholarship Award
University Scholar Award, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, May 2006
Language Teaching Award
Distinguished Teaching Fellow Award,
(given to top 2%, 24 out of 1500 UW TAs) for 1991 Outstanding University of Wisconsin Teaching Assistant, from the Letters and Science Teaching Assistant Instructional Development Program Committee of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1991
Publications
Books
La Tempê(s)te: a rewriting-sequal to Aimé Césaire’s Une Tempête- rewriting of Shakespeare’s Tempest, in a post- colonial world; prefaced by Judith G Miller, New York University. 2017.
Albert Camus Aujourd’hui: De l’Etranger au Premier Homme.
New York: Peter Lang, 2012.
Albert Camus, précurseur: Méditerranée d’hier et d’aujourd’hui.
New York: Peter Lang, 2009.
Albert Camus: entre la mère et l’injustice: (based on the short story
L’hôte), Aix: Edisud, 2004.
New edition, preface by Christiane Chaulet-Achour.
Montréal : du Marais, 2012.
Madah-Sartre:
The kidnapping, trial and conver(sat/s)ion of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir as staged by terrorists of the GIA-Group Islamic Armed
English translation of French play by Alek Toumi; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
De Beauvoir à beau voile.
Paris: Marsa, 2005.
(third part of the Sartre-Beauvoir trilogy www.cief.info/nouvelles.html#toumi2 )
Maghreb Divers: Langue française, langues parlées, littératures et représentations des Maghrébins, à partir d'Albert Memmi et de Kateb Yacine. New York: Peter Lang, Dec 2002.
Taxieur:
La libération miracu(l/ri)euse de Jean-Paul Sartre
French drama, second part of the trilogy, "Nouveau théâtre algérien", Paris: Marsa, Feb 2001.
Madah-Sartre: Le kidnapping, jugement et conver(sat/s)ion de Jean-Paul Sartre et de Simone de Beauvoir mis en scène par les islamistes du Groupe International Armé.
Paris: Marsa, 1996 ; new editions in 2000 and
2003 (out of print). Latest edition, Editions du Marais, Montreal Québec 2009
Submitted for publication
Alger(tu)rie, Alger(tu)pleures:
Mémoire des années de chaînes, de haines, et d’humiliations
Albert Camus: Exils d’Alger: Second play about Albert Camus; reviewed by Christiane Chaulet-Achour and Catherine Camus;
Albert Camus: Between my Mother and Injustice:
English version of French play: considered for publication
A Battle of Algiers: Torture vs. Terrorism
Historical play based on The Battle of Algiers; reviewed by Patricia Lorcin and Mimi Mortimer
Books in progress
Maghreb Carrefour:
A study of the context of Francophone literatures and cultures from
North Africa and from its immigration inside France.
Bleed… Ah, Fanon: Frantz Fanon revisits his hospital in Blida, is surrounded by terrorists of the GIA.
He is forced to confront his own justifications of violence.
Le Tempê(s)te: a rewriting of Aimé Césaire rewriting of Shakespeare’s Tempest, in a post- colonial world
SELECTED ARTICLES
Camus et le théâtre: D'exclusions en exils.
Barcelona: University Pompeu Fabra, Spain, 2011, pp 107-117
« Fanon en Amérique du nord », Mon Fanon à moi, Christiane Chaulet-Achour.
Algérie Littérature Action, special issue, Fall 2011
Albert Camus, l’Algérien : In Memoriam. Nouvelles Etudes Francophone, volume 25, n 2, 2011, pp 88-100
Literature and Power : Muslims vs. Islamists.
Religion and Literature, University of Notre Dame, 2011, volume 43.1, pg 126-132
« Boualem
Sansal: Lettre interdite », Diversité littéraire en Algérie,
Najib Redouane, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2010, pp 251-264
Intellectuels et femministes en Algérie.
Journal of The African Literature Association,
Stony Brook University, New York, Volume 2 No. 2, Summer/Fall 2008, pg 125-135
Introduction to Tahar Djaout’s novel
Last Summer of Reason
Foreword by Wole Soyinka, 1987 Nobel Prize Laureate
University of Nebraska Press, Sep 2007, pg v-xvii
Genèse d’entre la mère ou l’injustice: Camus l’algérian(iste)
Actes du colloque Albert Camus, Rencontres Méditerranéennes de
Lourmarin, éditions Edisud, Aix, 2004, pg 81-91.
La question du "qui tue qui" dans L'imposture des mots de Yasmina Khadra,
Francofonia, Cadix, Spain, vol. 12, December 2003, pg 13-25.
T’humours ou bien tu meurs: Dérisions contre folies dans Alger(qui)rit en Alger qui pleure,
Analyses, Université de Toulouse, France, pg 283-291, March 2002.
Le théâtre ou la vie: réflexion sur l’écriture théâtrale
Le Maghreb Littéraire, Toronto, vol 5, n 10, pp 111-126, December 2001.
Creolized North Africa: What do they really speak in the Maghreb?
French Cultural Studies: Criticism at the Crossroads, SUNY Press , pp 69-80, June 2000
Mémoires des années de chaînes, de haines et d'humiliations,
Le Maghreb Littéraire, vol III, n 5, pp 113-133, Toronto: La source, May 1999
Unbowed: An Algerian woman confronts Islamic fundamentalists
Consultant for the translation of Khalida Messaoudi's Une Algérienne debout, (Paris: Flammarion: 1995); translation by Anne Vila, University of Pennsylvania Press, June 1998
• extensive editing of the manuscript
• author of glossary and biographical profile pp 153-163
Ecrits et écrivain interdits: Le "cas" Kateb Yacine,
Exilés, Marginaux et Parias dans les littératures d'expression francophone, Editions du GREF, Collection Dont, Actes n 12 Toronto, October 1994, p 311-324.
BOOK REVIEWS
L’Olympe des infortunes: book review of Boualem Sansal’s novel
The French Review, vol 84,
n 6, May, 2011
La chambre de la vierge impure: book review of Amine Zaoui’s novel
The French Review, vol 84,
n 3, Feb, 2011
Le Rapt: book review of Anouar Benmalek’s novel
The French Review, vol 84, n 2, Dec 2010
Ce que le jour doit à la nuit:
book review of Yasmina Khadra’s novel
The French Review, vol 83, n 5, April, 2010
Je dois tout à ton oubli: book Review of Malika Mokeddem’s novel
The French Review, vol 83, n 2, December 2009
Le village de l’Allemand: book review of Boualem Sansal’novel
The French Review, vol 82, n 6, May 2009
Les douze contes de minuit:
book review of Salim Bachi’s novel
The French Review, vol 82, n 3, February 2009
O’Maria: book review of Anouar Benmalek’s novel
The French Review, vol 77, n 6, Oct 2008
Tuez-les tous:
book review of Salim Bachi’s novel
The French Review, vol 81, n 2, December 2007
Harraga: book review of Boualem Sansal’novel
The French Review,
vol 80, n 3, February 2007
Albert Camus, Le premier homme en perspective: book review of Raymond Gay-Croisier’s book,
The French Review, vol 80, n 3, February 2007
Mes hommes: book Review of Malika Mokeddem’s novel
Le Maghreb Littéraire, volume X, n.19, December 2006
La part du mort:
book review of Yasmina Khadra’s novel
The French Review, vol 79, n 3, February 2006
La Kahéna:
book review of Salim Bachi’s novel
The French Review, vol 79, n 1, October 2005
La dernière nuit d’un damné: book review of Slimane Benaissa’s novel
Le Maghreb Littéraire, vol. IX, n. 17, June 2005
Allah Superstar:
book review of Y.B.’s novel
The French Review, vol 78, n 4, March 2005
Dis-moi le paradis:
book review of Boualem Sansal’s novel
The French Review, vol 78, n 3, February 2005
Les hirondelles de Kaboul:
book review of Yasmina Khadra’s novel
The French Review, vol 77, n 6, May 2004
L’imposture des mots:
book review of Yasmina Khadra’s novel
The French Review, vol 77, n 1, October 2003
L’écrivain:
book review of Yasmina Khadra’s novel
The French Review, vol 76 n 5, April 2003
L’enfant fou de l’arbre creux:
book review of Boualem Sansal’s novel
The French Review, vol 75, n 3, February 2002
A quoi rêvent les loups?:
book review of Yasmina Khadra’s novel
The French Review, vol 75, n 1, October 2001
Les fils de l’amertume: book review of Slimane Benaissa’s novel
Le Maghreb Littéraire, vol. IV, n. 8, December 2000
Le serment des barbares: book review of Boualem Sansal's novel
The French Review, vol. 74, n.1, October 2000
Morituri: book review of Yasmina Khadra's novel,
The French Review, vol. 73 n 4, March 2000
La tour sarrasine: book review of Michel Sionnet's novel
The French Review, vol. 71, n 5, April 1998
Lettres algériennes: book review of Rachid Boudjedra's novel
The French Review, vol. 71, n 1, October 1997
Madame Arnoul: book review of Jean-Noel Pancrazi's novel
The French Review, vol. 70, n 2, December 1996
Une peine à vivre: book review of Rachid Mimouni's novel
The French Review, vol. 67, n 5, April 1994
PUBLICATIONS ABOUT MY WORK
Articles
Julija Sukys,
Silence is Death,
The After Life of Jean-Paul Sartre,
University of Nebraska Press, 2007, Pp 111-112
Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics during the Decolonization of Algeria,
The politics of Identity, by James Le Sueur, forward by Pierre Bourdieu,
University of Nebraska Press, first edition: 2001, pg 256-260; second edition: 2005, pg 286-328
That was then, this is now: The Battle of Algiers and After
article by Professor David Prochaska, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Radical History Review, issue 85, winter 2003,
pg 133-146
Ghost walking in Algiers? Why Alek Baylee Toumi resurrected Sartre and de Beauvoir.
article by Professor James Le Sueur,
Modern & Contemporary France
vol 10, n. 4 , Birmingham / Leeds: Carfax Publishing, Nov 01, 2002, pg 507-518
Book Reviews
De Beauvoir à beau voile :
reviewed by Professor Elwood Hartman, Washington State University
French Review, Vol 80, No. 4, Mar 2007, Pg 959-960
Taxieur :
La libération miracul/ri)euse de Jean-Paul Sartre
reviewed by Professor Elwood Hartman, Washington State University
French Review, Vol 76, No. 3, Feb 2003, Pg 630-31
Madah-Sartre:
Le kidnapping, jugement et conver(sat/s)ion de Jean-Paul Sartre et de Simone de Beauvoir mis en scène par les islamistes du Groupe International Armé.
reviewed by Prof. Judy Graves Miller,
The French Review,
Vol 73, n 9. Oct. 1999, pp 156-57.
Book Mentions
Alec Hargreaves’s introduction of
Shantytown kid,
University of Nebraska Press, 2007, page xvii.
Julija Suky’s
Silence is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout
University of Nebraska Press, 2007, pg 111-112,
Panel about my work
Scenes of Algeria: In Honor of Alek Baylee Toumi,
Organized by Ann African Literature Association,
Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, April 24, 2008
Interviews
Interview given to Professor Evelyne Bornier and Le Maghreb Littéraire journal,
Le Maghreb Littéraire, vol 20, Toronto, May 2007, pg 85-99
Je ne suis chez moi nulle part : entretien avec l’écrivain francophone Alek Baylee Toumi
interview given to
Fréquences Francophones, Bulgarie, n 3, Fall 2004, pg 25-27
Alek Baylee: interview given to Parisian theater magazine
Cassandre, Paris, May, 1997.
Alek Baylee interviews Nicky Diana Marquardt, about the "Algérie: Je ne quiterai pas mes amis", Paris April 17, 1997",
Le café de l'exil, editions Marsa, Col.
Algérie Littérature Action 10-11, April-May 1997, pp 257-262.
(This program was reviewed on Bernard Pivot's literary show
Bouillon de culture "La resistance algérienne," Paris, April 18, 1997).
L'auteur répond aux questions : interview d'Alek BAYLEE ,
Paris: Marsa editions, Dec 1996, p 99-102.
REVIEWER OF FRANCOPHONE BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Reviewed article on
Les procédés d’écriture dans
Nedjma de Kateb Yacine
For the Journal
Nouvelles Francographies , Sabine Loucif editor, April 2008
Reviewed article on
Cinema and the Struggle to (De)colonize the Mind in French/Francophone
in West Africa (1950-1960) for Lindsey Row and the Midwest MLA Journal, February 2006
Reviewed complete manuscript of the English translation of Azouz Begag’s novel
Le gone du chaaba,
University of Nebraska Press, November, 2005
Reviewed article on
Kateb Yacine for the PMLA Journal
Modern Language Association, November 2005
Reviewed manuscript of the English translation of Nina Bouraoui’s novel
Tom Boy, for James Le Sueur and Jeremy T Hall, acquisitions editor of the University of Nebraska Press, May, 2004
Reviewed manuscript about Algeria and Tahar Djaout,
The Underground Passage: A Book of Journeys, by Julija Sukkys, for Jeremy T Hall, acquisitions editor the University of Nebraska Press, Dec 2003-January 2004
Refereeing of a 30 page article
Ethnography and the Ethnographic novel in Colonial Algeria for Professor Leon Zamosc,
Journal of Historical Sociology, U of California San Diego, Mar 1998
RECENT CONFERENCES
Camus et Sétif 1945: Aux origines de la fracture coloniale
Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, Aix en Provence, May 31, 2011
Voyage au bout de l’enfer islamiste: de la Tour Eiffel aux Twin Towers
Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, November 5, 2010
Albert Camus et l’Algérie,
Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, Montréal, Canada, June 29, 2010
Camus-Sartre and the Tragedy of North African Intellectuals
Invited author and scholar to speak at the
Europe and the Mediterranean
Summer Teacher Workshops organized by Professor Csanád Siklós,
European Studies Alliance, UW-Madison, June 28, 2010
Invited Author and Scholar to participate in the
Table Ronde Albert Camus,
Alliance Francaise, Chicago April 24, 2010
Albert Camus : l’Etranger, l’Africain,
UW-Madison, April 23, 2010
Lecture d’œuvres d’Albert Camus,
Maison Francaise, UW-Madison, April 22, 2010
Albert Camus: Nostlagéries,
North East MLA, Montreal, CA, April 10, 2010
Ces Africains qui ont libéré la France
African Literature Association, Tucson, AZ, March 13, 2010
(unable to attend because of thick fog at CWA airport)
Albert Camus : The Stranger in the Kingdom of Exile
Humanities Forum, UWSP, Dec 03, 2009
Invited author and scholar to the Table Ronde with Francophone authors Azouz Begag,
Malika Mokkedem and Leila Sebbar, University of Notre Dame, November 17, 2009
Invited author and scholar at the Symposium on
The Place of Islam in Contemporary European Literature,
University of Notre Dame, November 16, 2009
Réformateurs / déformateurs en Algérie : d’Ali Belhadj à Malek Chebel et Soheib Bencheikh
Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, New Orleans, June 26, 2009
Invited author and scholar to the
Table Ronde, organized by Catherine Perry
Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, New Orleans, June 25, 2009
Le damné de sa terre : Boualem Sansal, l’interdit
African Literature Association, Burlingtron, VT, April 17, 2009
La langue française et la francophonie en Algérie,
Modern
Language
Association, Chicago, December, 28, 2008
Poésies Maghrébines : entre la valise et le cercueil,
Modern
Language
Association, Chicago, December, 28, 2008
Le voile dé(s) voilé(es): entre femministes et chadorettes
Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, Limoges, France, July 3, 2008
Keynote Speaker on “Resistance, Intellectuals and Women’s right”
Francophone Caucus, African Literature Association,
Western Illinois University, Macomb, Il, April 26, 2008
Kamikazes islamistes dans l’oeuvre de Yasmina Khadra
Modern
Language
Association, Chicago, December 28, 2007
Invited author and scholar to participate in
The Maghreb at the Crossroads:
Francophone Literature, Politics, Culture & Society in Transition
Colloquium,
Department of French and Italian, University of Maryland College Park, Nov 15, 2007
Invited author and scholar to speak on
Camus au théâtre : D’exclusions en exils
University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, Nov 8, 2007
Invited speaker by the American Association of Teachers of French to participate at the
World Congress - American Association of Teachers of French, Milwaukee, WI, July 6, 2006
Invited author and scholar by Professor Valerie Orlando to speak on
Madah-Sartre,
Illinois Wesleyan College, Bloomington, IL, May 16-18, 2006
Invited author and scholar by Professor Dana Strand to speak on
Camus et l’Algérie
Carleton College, Northfield, MN, May 11-13, 2006
Entre la Beure patrie et l’injustice
20th-21st century French Studies Colloquium, University of Miami, Florida, March 31, 2006
Les intellectuels, 25 ans après Sartre
Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, WI, Nov 11, 2005
Invited author and scholar by Case Western University to present a talk on
Women in Algeria: Between military dictators and Islamic fundamentalists
Case Western University, Cleveland, OH, October 6, 2005
La perception du voile en Amérique du Nord
Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, Ottawa, Canada, June 28, 2005
Démystificaton de la question Kabyle
“The Berbers and other minorities in North Africa” International Conference
Portland State University, Portland, OR, May 14, 2005
Exilés, assassins : dix ans après Djaout et Mimouni
20th-21st century French Studies Colloquium, University of Florida, Gainesville, April 1, 2005
I laic France : Marianne et ses tchadorettes
Midwest Modern Language Association, St Louis, MS, November 5, 2004
Invited speaker by the American Association of Teachers of French to participate at the
Table ronde avec les écrivains: les littératures, expression culturelles de la diversité
World Congress of the American Association of Teachers of French, Atlanta, July 23, 2004
Yasmina Khadra: entre le marteau militaire et le mépris quituquiste
20th-21st century French Studies colloquium, Florida State University, April 3, 2004
Invited respondent to Elizabeth Schemla’s
The Current Battle over Secularism in France,
Nanovic Institute of European Studies, University of Notre Dame, March 22, 2004
Résistances
"femministes" plurielles dans le film Rachida de Yamina Bachir-Chouikh.
North East Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, PA, March 6, 2004
Invited author and scholar to present and debate the French film Chaos,
Nanovic Institute of European Studies, University of Notre Dame, IN, January 30, 2004
Invited author and scholar to give a talk on «Les femministes algériennes »
invited by Professor Catherine Perry, Chair of the Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, January 30, 2004
Résistances de femmes en Algérie : voilées, violées, puis décapitées
Midwest Modern Langage Association, Chicago, IL, Nov 7, 2003
Terreur sur l’airbus Alger-Paris dans
Chronique de l’impure de Malika Ryane
Modern
Language
Association, New York, NY, December 27, 2002
Invited author and scholar by the Albert Camus Society
Genèse d’entre la mère ou l’injustice : Camus l’algérian(iste)
Colloque Albert Camus, Rencontres Méditerranéennes, Lourmarin, France, October 10, 2003
Invited author and scholar to speak on
Vichy(i)slamisme : ces intellos néo-collabos dans L’imposture des mots de Yasmina Khadra
Congrès International des Etudes Francophones, New Orleans, LA, June 21, 2003
Invited author by the Amitiées Camusiennes, to participate at the
Albert Camus: solitaire et/ou solidaire, a three day round table on Albert Camus
Université de Poitiers, France, May 29-31, 2003
Invited by the French Department to give a talk
Femmes de la Résistance en Algérie
French Department Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, November 18, 2002.
Invited author to speak “About Madah-Sartre”
French Department, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, November 18, 2002.
Invited author and scholar at the international
France and Algeria 1962-2002: Turning the page? Discussant for James Le Sueur
Ghost Walking in Algiers: Why the GIA kidnapped Sartre and de
Beauvoir in Alek Baylee Toumi’s plays, Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl, March 25-26, 2002.
Invited author and scholar on Albert Camus, “In the authors’ word:
Transnational Cultures, Diasporas, and Immigrant Identities in France and in the Francophone World conference,”
Texas Tech University, March 22, 2002.
Contemporary
North African Satirists:
Académie-Academia, on humor and theater
Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December 29, 2000
Invited scholar on the Maghreb to give a talk on
Le Maghreb, les intellectuels et la politique
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, October 13, 2000
COLLOQUIUM AND CONFERENCE ORGANIZER
Organizer and Chair of the committee of the Colloquium on
Albert Camus, précurseur: Méditerranée d’hier et d’aujourd’hui “ with the Center for
European Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 22-23, 2006
Organized and chaired 2 sessions on
Jean Paul Sartre’s centennial at the
Midwest Modern Language, Milwaukee, WI, November 11, 2005
Organized a session on the issue of the veil in France: Mettre le voile ou mettre les voiles at the CIEF-Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, Ottawa, Canada, June 28, 2005
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses taught at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point
Fr 470 Les Intellectuels: Camus-Sartre
Fr 381 Culture Clash: The Franco-American Experience (cinema and society through modern films)
Fr 370 Francophone literatures and cultures
Fr 370 Modern French theater
Fr 340 Introduction to French literature
Fr 317 Advanced conversation and composition
Fr 313 Conversation, culture and composition
Fr 102 Second semester French language
Fr 101 First semester French language
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCES
Courses taught in French at Middlebury College, Louisiana State University,
Bates College, and Franklin & Marshall College
Francophone studies
Fr 705 Seminar: Femmes Nord-Africaines, De Beauvoir à beau voile
Fr 408 Identités Francophones (Négritude, Maghreb, Beur)
ID 106 Francophone women writers and politics
Fr 365 France and its Dê(s)-colonizations: (Francophone North and West Africa)
Fr 364 Francophone literatures and cultures: Maghreb, West Africa
Fr 380 Camus-Sartre, the legacy (engagement, Algerian war)
ID 164 Francophone studies (taught in English)
Fr 490 Senior Thesis (directed student projects on French and Francophone studies)
French studies, civilization and film
Fr 302 French civilization (language and culture of Modern France)
Fr 306 Introduction to French Studies, 1789 to present
Fr 340 French Studies: Five Faces of Marianne (Lits. & films around the republics; 1789-1968)
Fr 381 French cinema and society (Bourdieu’s habitus and identities)
Fr 704 Civilization Seminar: Les intellectuels et la culture dans la France contemporaine
French theater, poetry and prose
Fr 228 Introduction to French theater (17th to 20th-century)
Fr 370 Modern French Theater
Fr 363 Topic courses: Camus-Sartre (existentialists)
Fr 250 Introduction to French literature (survey)
Fr 251 Introduction to French Literature, II (19th and 20th-century)
Fr 229 Introduction to 19th & 20th-century French novel
Fr 340 Survey of French literature (theater, poetry and prose)
The following courses have been and/or can be taught in English:
Fr 705 From Beauvoir to beau veil (Maghreb, Muslim world)
Fr 364 Francophone literatures and cultures
Fr 371 French cinema and society
Fr 363 Intellectuals, Camus-Sartre
GRANTS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND OTHER EXPERIENCES
Nominated for the University Scholar Award, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2003
Recognized for Vice Chancelor Merit for Excellence in Scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2003
Nominated for the University Scholar Award, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2003
Featured author with monograph Maghreb Divers, by the Scholar’s Choice, book exhibit,
Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, Nov 7-9, 2003
Recognized for Vice Chancelor Merit, for Excellence in Scholarship University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2002
Albert Camus: Return of the Stranger:
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, February 2001
Grant to travel to Paris for the publication of Madah-Sartre,
from the of Dean of Faculty of Bates College, February 1997
Fellowship Award to participate as an Assistant Professor at the Cultural Studies Summer Institute on "Identities, Communities and Cultural Practices" of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Northwestern University, June 21, 1995-August 4, 1995
Jullian E. Harris Fellowship Award, to reside at La Maison Française,
Department of French & Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 1991-May 1992
French House Memorial Award, for dedicated services as a graduate student, Department of French & Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 6, 1992
ACADEMIC COMMITTEES
at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point
• UWSP Curriculum Committee, Fall 2002-present
• UW system French Test Committee, Fall 2000 - Spring 2003
• UWSP International Committee, Fall 2001-Spring 2002
• Executive Committee, Fall 2000-present
• Student Award Committee, Fall 2000-present
• Salary and Merit Committee, Fall 2003-2004
• Retention and Tenure committee, Fall 2004
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Francophone studies; Francophone women writers
French and Francophone theater; colonial and post colonial literature;
Littérature engagée: intellectuals, Camus-Sartre;
20th century French literature, civilization, cinema and society
MEMBERSHIP
Modern Language Association
Conseil International des Etudes Francophones
North East Modern Language Association
American Association of Teachers of French
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