Brian G. Kennelly currently serves as Co-Chair (with Geneviève Delfosse) of the College Board's AP® French Language and Culture Development Committee. He successfully completed his Modern Language Association Bibliography fellowship in June 2011. He served as a Table Leader (French Language) at the 2011 AP® reading and as an Assistant Examiner for the 2011 International Baccalaureat (French B). His most recent article, "Mothers and/as Monsters in Tony Duvert’s _Quand mourut Jonathan_" appears in the Fall 2010 edition of _Dalhousie French Studies_. A translation of his article, "Rewriting, Rereading _Récidive_," was published in Spring 2011 in the Russian edition of Duvert's novel (Kolonna Publications). He continues to serve as a module-developing consultant for VizCommunication. He led the session "AP® French Language and Culture" at the 1st-Annual West Vancouver AP® Summer Institute, the 17th-Annual Rice University AP® Summer Institute (both in July 2011), the 2011 West Virginia Center for Professional Development AP® Summer Institute (in August 2011; see picture on website of West Virginia Center for Professional Development: http://www.wvcpd.org/); at Nashville's East Literature Magnet School (in October 2011); for the Los Angeles Unified School District at UCLA (October 2011); and at Denver's George Washington High School (November 2011). He also: presented “Teaching and Assessing Presentational Communication in AP® French Language and Culture” as well as “Results from the 2011 AP® French Language Exam Administration” at the 2011 Advanced Placement Annual Conference in San Francisco (July 2011); led a one-day workshop on "Strategizing for Success" in the new AP® French Language and Culture course and on the new exam at the University of Southern California Francophone Research and Resource Center (December 2011); and participated in the Modern Language Association's Language Consultancy Workshop (January 2012). He looks forward to: presenting another one-day workshop on "AP® French Language and Culture" at Segerstrom High School (in Santa Ana, March 2012); and serving as a Table Leader (French Language and Culture) at the 2012 AP® reading in June. In addition he will present: "Rape Fantasy Redux? Textual Victimhood In and Between Versions of Tony Duvert's _Portrait d'homme couteau_" at the 20th- and 21st- Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, "Crossings, Frictions, Fusions" (March 2012); "Helping Students Succeed on the First Exam in AP® French Language and Culture" at the California Language Teachers' Association annual conference (March 2012); and the week-long session on AP® French Language and Culture at the second annual West Vancouver Advanced Placement Summer Institute (July 2012). [Updated: 17 January 2012]
Refereed Articles (excluding those published in _The French Review_, which are listed on my CV but which _The French Review_ will not permit to be duplicated on this website)
Reading Differently, Rereading for Difference in Versions of Rimbaud's "Mouvement", Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics (2007)
How to engage students to reread Arthur Rimbaud’s 1886 poem “Mouvement” differently? What can they...
Beauty in Bastardy? Breytenbach on Afrikaans and the Afrikaners, PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies (2005)
Throughout the twentieth century activists in South Africa for the Afrikaans language struggled with, yet...
Rewriting, Rereading Récidive, Dalhousie French Studies (2004)
Author of some dozen works of homoerotic fiction, two polemical essays, and recipient of the...
Truth and Consequences: Renaud Camus and the Personal, Dalhousie French Studies (2002)
A year before his untimely death in 1980, in the days before the internet, before...
Other
After the Rehearsal: “Academic Freedom?” at the MLA and Beyond, Modern Languages and Literatures (2009)
Presentations
AP French Language and Culture: Strategizing for Success, Francophone Research and Resource Center at University of Southern California (2011)
Title Designing Thematic Instruction with Authentic Resources: Science and Technology, Cincinnati AP Reading Professional Night (2011)
Conference Proceedings
Results from the 2011 AP® French Language Exam Administration, AP Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA (2011)
Teaching and Assessing Presentational Communication in AP® French Language and Culture, AP Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA (2011)
Hello and Goodbye?, Modern Language Association Convention (2011)
Opening remarks on the panel, "Why Can’t We Teach What We’re Trained to Teach? Program...