Present | Faculty Member, Georgia Southern University ‐ Department of World Languages and Cultures | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Twentieth and twenty-first century French literature and cinema, Translation, Literary Theory, Visual Arts and Sound, Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle (OULIPO), Formal Constraints in French Literature, Modern & Contemporary Francophone Literature, Modern & Contemporary French Literature, and Teaching French Language, Literature, Civilization, Film, Business, Science, Medical & Culture
Grants
2019 | Spring Travel Award |
Faculty Development Committee Georgia Southern University | |
$1,700.00 | |
2018 | Campus Life Enrichment Committee (CLEC) Grant for the Speaker Alina Cher |
Georgia Southern University | |
On the Move: Study Abroad, Global Mobilities, and Jean-Philippe Toussaint | |
$2,100 | |
2018 | Online Course Development FREN 3136, CT2 |
Georgia Southern University | |
$2,000 | |
2017 | Online Course Development FREN 2002, CT2 |
Georgia Southern University | |
$2,000 | |
2016 | Manuscripts and Microfilms: Georges Perec, Jacques Bens, OULIPO; National Library of France (Arsenal) |
Research Fund from the Department of Foreign Languages, Georgia Southern University | |
$1,000 | |
2016 | Online Course Development FREN 1002, CT2 |
Georgia Southern University | |
$2,000 | |
2015 - 2016 | Flipped Learning Faculty Learning Community (Series of Workshops), Claudia Cornejo Happel and Anna Kowalik, CT2 |
Georgia Southern University | |
$200 | |
2015 | Second Prize in the France on Campus Award competition, sponsored by Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States |
Pi Delta Phi members of the Zeta Rho chapter at Georgia Southern University | |
he French Press - The Responsibility of Freedom of Speech | |
2015 | Undergraduate Research Funding |
Office of the Vice President for Research & Economic Development, Undergraduate Research, Georgia Southern University | |
Colleague(s): David Seaman | |
$2,000 | |
2008 | Gertrude F. Weathers |
Dissertation Fellowship, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN | |
$7,000 | |
2007 | The Grace P. Young Graduate Student Award |
French Literary Studies, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University | |
$500 | |
1996 | Best of Graduates Award |
French Philology, Department of Modern Languages, Alecu Russo State University | |
$100 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
2020 - Present | Member, Graduate Committee, Georgia Southern | 2019 - Present | Alternate, Faculty Senate, Georgia Southern University | 2018 - Present | Member, Institutional Review Board (IRB) A, Georgia Southern University | 2018 - Present | Member, Pi Delta Phi President's Graduate Student Scholarship Committee | 2014 - Present | Reviewer, GURC: Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference | 2013 - Present | Member, Pi Delta Phi Joseph W. Yedlicka Scholarship Committee | 2013 - Present | Board Member, South Vice President of Pi Delta Phi – The National French Honor Society | 2018 | Overseer, Majors Fair, Georgia Southern University | 2017 - 2018 | Member, Faculty Governance Committee, CLASS, Georgia Southern University | 2017 | External Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion of Dr. Irina Armeanu, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | 2014 | Member, South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Department of English, Georgia State University | 2014 | Member, South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA), University of Oklahoma | 2013 | Member, American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), Southern Illinois University | 2013 | Member, Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) | 2012 | Member, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) | 2011 | Member, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) | 2011 | Member, Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA), Loyola University | 2011 | Member, True Language | 2007 | Member, Modern Language Association (MLA) | 2006 | Member, Société Octave Mirbeau |
Honors and Awards
- Nominee, Georgia Southern University Award for Excellence in Contributions to Teachers (11/5/21)
- Commemorative Medal, Alexie Mateevici Memorial Museum, Zaim, Moldova (8/31/20)
- Fostering Partnership Award, Foreign Language Association of Georgia (3/9/2019)
- Alexie Mateevici Commemorative Medal, Republic of Moldova (7/17/2018)
- Nominated, Georgia Southern University Award for Excellence in Service (Spring, 2017)
- Second Prize, France on Campus Award, Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States (12/18/2015
Courses
- Advanced French Conversation (FREN 4001)
- Culture, Business, and Society in the French Speaking World (FREN 3400)
- Medical French (FREN 3330)
- Francophone Cultures and Civilization (FREN 3160)
- The French Novel (FREN 3030)
- French Composition (FREN 3002)
- Intermediate French II Online (FREN 2002)
- Elementary French I: Online (FREN 1001)
- Elementary French II (FREN 1002)
- Intermediate French I (FREN 2001)
- Intermediate French II (FREN 2002)
- Conversational French (FREN 3130)
- French through Literature: Short Story (FREN 3132)
- French through Writing (FREN 3134)
- French through Film (FREN 3136)
- Francophone Culture: African, Caribbean (FREN 3336)
- French for Professions (FREN 3530)
- Perspectives in Literature I (FREN 4431)
- Perspectives in Literature II (FREN 4432)
- Contemporary France (FREN 4330)
- Independent Study: Adventure Stories (FREN 4890)
- Independent Study: 21st Century Novel (FREN 4890)
- Introduction to Francophone Literature (FREN 4890)
- Global Citizens: European Holidays (FYE 1410)
2011 | Ph.D. in French Literature, Indiana University | |
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2004 | M.A. in French Literature, Indiana University | |
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1997 | M.A. in French Literature, Alexanddru Ioan Cuza University | |
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1991 | B.A. in French and English, Alecu Russo State University | |
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Contact Information
P.O. Box 8081
Statesboro, GA 30460
Phone: (912) 478-1373
Office: Interdisciplinary Academic Building #2061
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