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SOPHIE VAN HEES

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Professional experience

Lecturer at the FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO for Wallonia-Brussels International March 2010 – April 2013

Sent to Rio de Janeiro by Wallonia – Brussels International (WBI) to officially represent the Wallonia – Brussels

Federation, broadcast the French speaking culture of Belgium, and teach French classes at the FEDERAL

UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO (UFRJ).

Classes taught:

- Mainly French language classes for foreigners (Français Langue étrangère – FLE) but I also taught

Belgian literature classes, theater classes and creative writing classes in French.

Extraordinary projects:

- I worked on a social extracurricular project offering language classes to prepare students for

academic exchanges with francophone countries. The French for academic purposes (Français sur

objectifs universitaires – FOU) project has been taking place twice a year ever since and is based on the

course which I elaborated on in its first edition, in January 2012.

- I gave the Belgian literature class in Portuguese in order to make it accessible to the entire arts and

language faculty (Faculdade de Letras), reviewing its content to be more centered on European history

and on art history to compensate for the use of translated texts.

Official representation:

- I welcomed the economical mission in may 2010, plastic artists, University professors, theater troupes,

organized with the French and Swiss consulates the International Francophonie day (Fête de la

Francophonie) of 2012 and 2013 (diplomatic cocktails and film festivals) and helped creating a second

Belgian lecturership in Brazil, at the University of Brasilia (UnB).

French and Latin teacher in Brussels October 2008 – March 2010

Latin and French classes in Brussels general and technical high schools (12 – 18 years old children)

English – French translator September 2008

Translation of conference reports for ASIAFCO.

Education

UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE (France) Master in French as a Foreign language (FLE) 2013 – 2014

Distance-learning program in language didactics leading to a professional certification.

UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES (Belgium)

Postgraduate studies in international politics 2007 – 2008

Bilingual program.

Master degree in Romanic languages and literatures 2003 – 2008

Major: Romanic languages Italian – Latin

10 months Erasmus (exchange program) at the Università degli studi di Bologna, Italy. 2005 – 2006.

Master’s thesis in socio-literature: The israeli-palestinian conflict in French speaking literature.

Relevant skills and interests

- Specialist of the French language: grammar, linguistics, literature, francophone culture.

- Fluent in English and Portuguese, working knowledge of German, Italian, Dutch and Spanish.

- IT: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Photoshop, Lightroom

- Personal interests: history of languages, world religions, Photography, plastic arts, Traveling, hiking

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