November Newsletter, 2003

   

Departmental News:

The Edward C. Armstrong Monograph series of Princeton has published Amy Ogden's first book, Hagiography, Romance and the Vie de sainte Eüfrosine.

Kandioura Dramé presented a paper on "Folktales as Textbooks for the Young in Africa" at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting in Boston, 31 October; on 4 November, he delivered an invited lecture on "The Baobab in the Grain: Ken Bugul for the Sake of Love" at Washington & Lee University; on 7 November he was invited to celebrate La Semaine du français with students of French at the Renaissance School, on the Downtown Mall.

Cheryl Krueger gave a paper on "Teaching with Film" at the ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) which met in Philadelphia this year.

Elisabeth Ladenson is pleased to report that EPEL (publisher of Leo Bersani, Judith Butler, David Halperin and Pat Califia in France) has contracted to bring out a French version of her book Proust's Lesbianism, translated by Guy le Gaufey. The book, possibly to be titled Gomorrhe, is scheduled to be published in October 2004. She also notes that two articles of hers came out in November: "Pussy Galore," in the volume The James Bond Phenomenon (Manchester University Press, ed. Christoph Lindner), and "The Imperial Superreader, or Semiotics of Indecency" in Romanic Review's special issue on Michael Riffaterre.

A. J. Arnold chaired the Plenary Session on Theory at the annual meeting of the Society for French Postcolonial Studies held at the French Institute of London on 28 and 29 November. His article "Institution littéraire, Discours identitaire, Supercherie littéraire" has been published in the Cahiers de l'Association Internationale des Etudes françaises.

Gladys Saunders will be attending the Colloque international - Phonologie et phonétique du français: données et théories, 11 - 14 December, at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, in Paris. Her paper is entitled "Pseudo-Phonetic vs Phonetic Descriptions in On-line French Pronunciation Guidelines."

   

Undergraduate News:

On Thursday, December 4th, from 4:00 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. in Cabell 329, Meghan Merwin, Administrative Assistant at the French Embassy in Washington [Secrétaire gestionnaire chargé du suivi de programmes de bourses d'échange franco-américain; et des relations avec les universités de la région de Washington] will visit the French Department and talk to students about opportunities for work and study in France offered by the French Embassy. Meg (UVa 2001) was a French major who participated in our Lyon semester program in September-January, 2000-2001. After graduation she worked as an "assistante" in Lorient. She will be happy to give more information about the "poste assistant" program as well as the Bourses Chateaubriand and Internship Programs. Refreshments will be served.

Reminder:
The deadline for submitting your completed application to teach at a lycee in France next year is fast approaching : December 1, 2003, first deadline; January 1, 2003, second deadline. Visit the web site of the Service Culturel de l'Ambassade de France (http://www.frenchculture.org/education) for more information.

Look under GRANTS and PROGRAMS, and click on "Assistantships in France" .

Tutoring in French
Please note that from now through the last day of classes, additional tutoring hours have been added to the French Department's tutoring service schedule. The sign-up sheet for this free service - provided by the French Department, and staffed by our Graduate Teaching Assistants - is on the door of Cabell 301. For more information, see the following page on our site: http://www.virginia.edu/french/resource/students/admin/tutoring.htm

   

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