Brian G. Kennelly currently serves as Co-Chair of the Advanced Placement® French Language and Culture Development Committee. He looks forward to: serving as a Table Leader at the 2012 AP® reading in June and leading the week-long session on AP® French Language and Culture at the second annual West Vancouver Advanced Placement Summer Institute (July 2012); as well as co-presenting (with Davara Potel) "Unpacking the Free-Response Scoring Guidelines on the AP® French Language and Culture Exam" and "Designing Thematic Instruction with Authentic Resources: Alienation and Assimilation" at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages' Convention (November 2012). More information on his teaching and research can be found on his website: http://calpoly.edu/~bkennell [Updated: 2 April 2012]
Refereed Articles (excluding those published in _The French Review_--permission to publish here not granted)
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...
Books
Unfinished Business: Tracing Incompletion in Jean Genet's Posthumously Published Plays (1997)
This is the first study systematically to appraise Splendid's, «Elle», and Le Bagne, the three...
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...