Cheryl L. Krueger
Associate Professor
Department of French
305 Cabell Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
434/924-4628
cherylkrueger@virginia.edu

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin

2008-2009: On Leave

Ph.D. Wisconsin (1992). Language Program Director (French 101-232). All-University Outstanding Teaching Award 2000-2001. French Section Head, AAUSC 2000-2002. Secretary to the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. French Project Director (Center for the Liberal Arts).

 Teaching and Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century French Studies; French Cinema; Theoretical and practical approaches to the study of language, literature and film.

 Courses Taught: Intensive Summer Language Institute (Director and Master Teacher); graduate seminar on Baudelaire; Intensive Grammar and Composition; The Reading and Writing of Texts; Introduction to French Cinema; The French Novel on Film; French Poetry; Survey of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Literature; Theories and Methods of Language Teaching; undergraduate seminar on Madame Bovary.

 Representative Publications

• The Art of Procrastination: Baudelaire's Poetry in Prose. University of Delaware Press, 2007.
• “Princesse Tam-Tam: A Cultural Makeover Story.” French/Francophone Culture and Literature through Film. Eds. Catherine R. Monfort and Michèle Bissière. Women in French Studies (January 2006): 182-202.
• Mise en scène: Cinéma et Lecture. Co-authors Elizabeth Weber and Brigitte Martin. Prentice Hall, 2006.
• Tâches d’Encre: Cours de composition, 1st and 2nd editions (co-authors Siskin and Fauvel). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996 and 2004.
• “Being Madame Bovary.” Literature/Film Quarterly 31.3 (2003):162-168.
• “Humanizing Language Courses with Film, Songs and Technology.” Teaching with Technology. Eds. Lara Lomicka and Jessamine Cooke-Plagwitz. Boston: Heinle, 2003. 56-63.
• “Surgical Imprecision and the Baudelairean poème en prose.” French Forum 27.3 (2002): 55-72.
• "Baudelaire's Graphic Details." Romance Notes, 42.2 (2002): 223-234.
• “Telling Stories in Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 30.3-4 (2002): 281-299.
• "Form, Content and Critical Distance." Foreign Language Annals 34.1 ( 2001): 18-27.
• Entretiens: Cours de conversation, 1st and 2nd editions (co-author H. Jay Siskin). Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1995 and 2001.

Multilingualism? Mais oui!
From Arts & Sciences Magazine January 2002.

Editorial on Language Courses
From The Cavalier Daily, April 18, 2001.

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