October Newsletter, 2003    Departmental NewsKandioura Dramé presented a lecture on "THE LION AND THE HUNTER: AFRICAN CINEMA IN THE POSTCOLONIAL ERA" at UNC-Wilmington, 10/16/03, and "What's In A name" at Lakeside High, 10/17/03. On Friday October 17 Elisabeth Ladenson delivered a lecture entitled "Proust, Censorship and Indecency" at the Maison Française of Columbia University as part of Columbia's 250th Anniversary celebration. On October 24 she is off to Tucson for the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, where she will give a talk on "Flaubert and Masturbatory Art." She also forgot to mention in the last newsletter that the Larousse Dictionnaire des cultures gays et lesbiennes came out in June, for which she wrote the "Proust" entry and co-authored the "Critique littéraire" entry with Brigitte Mahuzier. On October 25th, Mary McKinley gave the plenary address at the Rutgers University French Department Colloquium celebrating the anniversary of the Rutgers Graduate School. The title of her talk: "Clandestine Encounters: Calvin, Marguerite de Navarre and the Rhetoric of Nicodemism." Cheryl Krueger's article "Humanizing Language Learning with Technology, Songs and Film" appears in a new volume of the Heinle Professional Series, Teaching with Technology (Lara Lomicka and Jessamine Cooke-Plagwitz, eds.) You will see a lot of familiar names in the acknowledgements section. Amy Ogden has been named a Mead Honored Faculty Member for 2003. Congratulations to Sara Dietzman and Cristina Ciudin, both of whom have been awarded Robert J. Huskey Travel fellowships from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Sara will present a paper this summer at the International Courtly Literature Society's Congress in Madison, Wisconsin. The title of her paper is "Mom as a Man: Aye de Nanteuil's Trans Identity." Cristina presented her paper, titled "Rhetoriques de la reception du feminin dans les litteratures francophones," this month at a colloquium jointly organized by the Department of French Studies of the University of Montreal, Concordia University, and the Literary Studies Department of the University of Quebec in Montreal. |
Undergraduate News:Congratulations to Meg Merwin (Class of 2003, French major, semester abroad in Lyon) who has just accepted a job offer with the French Embassy in Washington [L'Ambassade de France à Washington : Le Service de Coopération Universitaire Linguistique et Educative], as an Administrative Assistant [Secrétaire gestionnaire chargé du suivi de programmes de bourses d'échange franco-américain; et des relations avec les universités de la région de Washington]. Qualifications for the job included :
Nos félicitations les plus chaleureuses, Meg! Jude Leitten (Class of 2001, French Major, Foreign Affairs Minor) recently sent an update to the department. After graduation, Jude taught high school French in a private school, then joined a teaching assistant program with the French Cultural Embassy where she taught English in a French high school in Auxerre. Currently, Jude works for the White House in the Executive Office of the President in Presidential Correspondence. Additionally, Jude started a small study abroad company with a friend of hers from France who she met while studying at the University of Grenoble. The purpose of the company is to send American students to France to study at the University of Grenoble. For more information, please visit the company web site at www.eustudyabroad.com. The closing remarks of Jude's letter were as follows: "Hope you can pass this along to all possible future students of French - it's a worthwhile program open to an endless number of possibilities." Congratulations, Jude, on your many accomplishments, and thank you for sharing your story! Teaching Assistantships in France: Students interested in applying to be a TEACHING ASSISTANT in France for the 2004-2005 academic year may visit the web site of the Service Culturel de l'Ambassade de France : http://www.frenchculture.org/education. Look under GRANTS and PROGRAMS, and click on "Assistantships in France" . Job Announcement: Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington is looking to fill the following position: PROGRAM ASSISTANT |
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