Brian Kennelly is an elected member of the Modern Language Association of
America's Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee (2008 -2011) and is a Modern
Language Association Bibliography fellow (2008-11). He currently serves on the College
Board's AP © French Language and Culture Curriculum Development and Assessment
Committee and represents AP © French Language and Culture on a cross-disciplinary writing
team for the AP © World Languages and Cultures Vertical Teams Guide and as editor of the
Annotated Resource Guide for AP © French Language and Culture. In Fall 2008, he was
appointed by the Academic Senate of the California State University to represent
humanities faculty system-wide on an International Baccaulaureat Consultation Group. He
is moreover working as a module-developing consultant for VizCommunication. In September
2008, he presented "Swart Poes as Black Honey? Miscegenation and (Mis)Representation
in Zakes Mda's _The Madonna of Excelsior_" at West Virginia University's
Thirty-Second Colloqium on Literature and Film. In October 2008, he presented
"Intellectual GPS: Faculty Perspective on the Importance of a Digital
Repository" at the 10 October day-long colloqium at Cal Poly, "Putting
Knowledge to Work: Building an IR for Your Campus". He presided over a rountable
session ("Academic Freedom?") at the MLA convention in San Francisco in
December 2008 (for coverage see: _Inside Higher Education_, 3 November 2008; _The
Chronicle of Higher Education_, 29 December 2008; _Inside Higher Education_, 30 December
2008; _The Chronicle of Higher Education_, 9 January 2009; _The New York Times_, 9
January 2009). In February 2009, he led a workshop on the AP © French Language course for
new and experienced AP © teachers at Aragon High School in San Mateo, CA. In May 2009, he
presented "Pedophile as Paragon? Or (Mis)Representing Motherhood in Tony Duvert’s
_Quand mourut Jonathan_" as part of the Women's and Gender Studies Faculty
Lecture Series. He served as a Exam Leader (French Language and Culture Pilot
Examinations) at the 2009 AP © reading in French and as as an Assistant Examiner for the
2009 International Baccalaureat (French B). He presented "Baladodiffusion and
Beyond: Using Radio France Inside and Outside the Classroom" at the 82nd annual
American Association of Teachers of French convention and looks forward to co-presenting
"Designing Instruction for the AP © French Language and Culture Course" at the
November 2009 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages conference. [Updated:
4 July 2009]
Refereed Articles
After the Rehearsal: “Academic Freedom?” at the MLA and Beyond, Modern Languages and Literatures (2009)
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...