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EDUCATION:

United States

Columbia University, New York

Department of French and Romance Philology

May 2001 Ph.D. in French and Francophone studies

Dissertation: "Time and Space in Prévost's Literary Universe"

(Advisors: Professors Henri Mitterand, Gita May, and Pierre Force)

Columbia University, New York

Department of French and Romance Philology

May 1996 M. Phil. (Master in Philosophy)

Major field: Eighteenth-century and Francophone studies Narratology and the novel, Theory of literature

Columbia University, New York

Department of French and Romance Philology

May 1994 Graduated with a M.A degree in French and Francophone studies

Specialization: Prévost, Jacques Roumain, and Maryse Condé

Master’s thesis: “Perceptions migratoires chez Prévost, Jacques Roumain et Maryse Condé”

(Advisors: Professors Gita May and Henri Mitterand)

City University of New York (Hunter College)

June 1993 Graduated with a B.A degree

Major: French literature

Minor: Anthropology.

City University of New York (Hunter College)

June 1992 Graduated with a B.A degree

Major: Geography

Europe

Université La Sorbonne, Paris IV

June 1995 D.E.A (Diplôme d’Études Approfondies)

Specialization: Comparative literature (Francophone literatures)

Thesis: “Discours sur la pauvreté chez Édris Saint-Amand, Patrick Chamoiseau et Tahar Ben Jelloun”

(Advisors: Professors Robert Jouanny and Régis Antoine)

Université de La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III

June 1995 D.E.A (Diplôme d’Études Approfondies)

Specializations: French literature and Civilization

Thesis: “L’abbé Prévost: les enjeux du temps et de l’espace romanesques”

(Advisors: Professors René Démoris and Philippe Hamon)

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATIONS

-Francophone Africa and the Francophone Caribbean

-French studies: Eighteenth-century

-French Civilization, Comparative literature, Creative writing: poetry,

-Postcolonial and literary theory, Inter-trans-disciplinary studies

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2009-2010 Presidential Award for excellence in research (Spelman College)

2005-2006 Presidential Award for excellence in research (Spelman College)

2003-2004 Grant for Summer Research, Spelman College

2011-2012 Grant for Summer Research, Spelman College

1993-1998 President’s Fellowships, Columbia University

1998-2000 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia

2002-2007 Assistant Professor of French and Francophone studies

2008- Tenured Associate Professor of French and Francophone studies

Courses Taught

-FR 200 (Elementary and Intermediate French)

-FR 306 (Advanced French grammar and composition)

-FR 308 (Introduction to literary studies)

-FR 309 (Survey of French literature: from the Middle Age to 1700)

-FR 310 (Survey of French literature: from 1800 to 2000)

-FR 311 (Survey of Francophone literatures: the Caribbean, Guinea, the Maghreb, Quebec, Republic of Congo, and Senegal)

-FR 322 (French and Francophone civilization)

-FR 400 (Seminar on French lit: Migration from 18th to 21st centuries)

-FR 458 (Seminar on Francophone lit: time, space and memory: Aimé Césaire, Jacques Roumain, Ben Jelloun, Maryse Condé, Frankétienne)

Columbia University, New York

1998-2001 Instructor: Teaching the courses Advanced French

Grammar and composition, French and Francophone literatures.

Columbia University, New York

1996-1998 Instructor: Taught the courses Advanced French grammar and

Conversation, Survey of French and Francophone literatures,

Devised syllabi. Lectured and administered grades.

Columbia University, New York

1993-1994 Instructor: Taught the courses “Elementary, and Intermediate French.”

Helped compose exams and assignments, formulated courses structure

and requirements, administered all grades.

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AND RELATED EXPERIENCE

2006-2011 Director of the Study Abroad Program (French section)

2015-2017 Director of the Study Abroad Program in France, Montpellier

February 1988 Board of Education in the City of New York

to June 1992 (Clara Barton High School)

Position: Family Worker, Translator, Assistant Manager for the School Based Support Team (S.B.S.T)

TEACHING INTERESTS:

French and Francophone studies, Civilization, Film studies

Postcolonial theory, Inter-trans-disciplinary studies, Creative writing

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

Perceptions de l'espace chez Frankétienne et Tahar Ben Jelloun, USA, Bern, Oxford, Peter Lang, International Academic Publisher, 2021.

La Saveur des mots, Montréal, Canada, Éditions CIDIHCA, 2012.

Réveil du soleil, Montréal, Canada, Éditions CIDIHCA, 2010.

Agonie du soleil, Montréal, Québec, Éditions CIDIHCA, 2009.

Les Blessures du soleil, Montréal, Québec, Éditions CIDIHCA, 2006.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES:

“La Métaphore du silence.” (Jacques Roumain, Aimé Césaire, Yasmina Khadra, Assia Djebar, Camus, Sartre, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Frankétienne, Maryse Condé) (Forthcoming article)

“Présence d’auteur et du narrateur dans Texaco de Chamoiseau et Les Enfantômes et Gros mots de Réjean Ducharme” (forthcoming article)

“Propos sur Les Convictions,” in Michel-Ange Momplaisir, Montréal, Canada, Le Rocher, 2012, pp. 9-19

“The Meaning of Space and the Choice of Places in Prévost,” in

LittéRéalité, vol. XVIII, # 1, Printemps/Été 2006, pp. 21-34.

“Profil du langage et du style chez Édris Saint-Amand,” in the College Language Association (CLA), vol. XLIX, # 2, Dec. 2005, pp. 205-38.

“Édris Saint-Amand: Culture, History, Politics,” in the Encyclopaedia France and the Americas, Oxford and Santa Barbara, ABC-Clio, 2005.

“Gérard Étienne: Culture, History, Politics,” in the Encyclopaedia France and the Americas, Oxford and Santa Barbara, ABC-Clio, 2005.

“The Textual Space and Space of the Text in Prévost,” in LittéRéalité,

vol. XVI, number 2, Automne/Hiver 2004, pp. 7-14.

“Perceptions identitaires dans le langage,” in the College Language

Association (CLA), vol. XLVIII, # 2, December 2004, pp. 213-235.

“La Déchirure de l’espace: Désirada de Maryse Condé,” in the

Romanic Review vol. 94, numbers 3-4, May/Nov. 2003, pp. 329-44.

“L’Idéologie et la révolte dans l’oeuvre d’Édris Saint-Amand,” in the

College Language Association (CLA), vol. XLVI, # 3, March 2003,

pp. 383-407.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

“L’Écriture de l’urgence chez Franckétienne,” in Typo/Topo/Poétique:

sur Frankétienne, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2009, pp. 57-76.

“L’Effet de sens: Les trois symphonies de la vie chrétienne,” in Les Trois

symphonies de la vie chrétienne de Fritz Fontus, Miami, Fl, Educa Vision, 2009, pp 61-77

“Le Chemin de l’espérance dans l’univers romanesque de Fritz Fontus,” in Florilège d’Appréciaiton, Miami, Fl, Educa Vision, 2007, pp. 81-109.

BOOK REVIEW:

Dézafi (novel). By Frankétienne, translated by Asselin Charles. University of Virginia Press, Charlottes Ville and London: 2018, ISBN 978-0-8139-4139-4. 200 pp. (Forthcoming)

“Œuvres complètes de Jacques Roumain,” edited by Leon-François

Hoffmann, with Preface René Depestre. Madrid and Nanterre: Allca

XX, 2003. ISBN, 8489666-68-7, 1690 pages. $135.00 cloth Reviewed by Jean Norgaisse, in the Journal of Haitian Studies, vol. XVI, fall 2009, pp. 120-125.

“Accords retrouvés.” By Fritz Fontus. Connut Creek, FL: Educa Vision, 2001, 160 pp. Reviewed by Jean Norgaisse, in the College Language Association vol. XLVI, # 2, December 2002, pp. 285-89.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND COLLOQUIA:

November 2019 "Perceptions du voyage et de l'exil chez Victor Hugo, Tahar Ben Jelloun et J.M.G. Le Clézio"

Host: L'Université de Montréal

June 2018 "La Poétique du mal dans La Peste d'Albert Camus"

Host: Université de La Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris III

April 2016 "L'Espace et la mémoire chez J.M.G. Le Clézio et Frankétienne"

Host: Focal (Cultural Center, Haïti)

May 2014 "Le temps et la mémoire dans Le Lac de Lamartine"

Host: City University of New York

June 2012 “Le Tricentenaire de la naissance de Jean-Jacques Rousseau”

Host: L'Université de Genève

April 2011 “Vers une géographie littéraire: La Géopoétique”

Host: Université La Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris III

July 2010 “Haiti: Les Gémissements de l’espérance”

Host: Rotary Club, Fort-de-France, Martinique.

April 7-10 Seventieth Annual Convention of the College Language Association

2010 A paper on "La Symbolique de l’espace chez Frankétienne et Tahar

Ben Jelloun"

August 2009 “A Quoi sert la poésie?” A paper on poetic discourse in Aimé Césaire

Host: Focal (Cultural Center, Haïti)

April 5-6 66th Annual Convention of the College Language Association

2006 A paper on “L’effet de style chez Jacques Stephen Alexis.”

July 2005 “La Question de couleur en Haïti: une ambiguité sociale.” A paper in

the context of literary history and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Host: L'Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (Martinique)

May 15-16 “La Vengeance des lois dans Les Arbres musiciens de Jacques Stephen 2007 Alexis.” A paper on Magic Realism

Host: Tennessee State University

May 19-20 “Le Vent de janvier ou le vent de la révolte.” A paper on the

2004 bicentennial independence of Haïti

Host: Queens College, New York.

April 2004 Sixty-fourth Annual Convention and the Sixty-seventh Anniversary of

the College Language Association: A paper on “Perceptions identitaires

dans le langage chez des écrivains francophones: Édris Saint-Amand,

Jacques Stephen Alexis, and Patrick Chamoiseau.”

Host: University of Georgia, Atlanta

April 2003 Sixty-third Annual Convention and the Sixty-sixth Anniversary of the

College Language Association: “La Description littéraire des classes

sociales: essai d’une approche sémantique et structurale de l’univers

romanesque d’Édris Saint-Amand.”

Host: Howard University, Washington

Nov. 2002 “La Déchirure de l’espace: Désirada de Maryse Condé.” Colloquium

on Maryse Condé’s literary universe.

Host: Columbia University, New York.

March 1999 Columbia University: Graduate Conference in French, Francophone

and Comparative Literature: “La Symbolique du mal dans Le Mât de

cocagne de René Depestre.”

March 1998 Columbia University: First Annual National Caribbean Studies

Conference on “Cultural awareness”

April 1998 Columbia University: Graduate Conference in French, Francophone

and Comparative Literature: A paper on “Perceptions du vaudou

dans le roman haïtien.”

Fall 1997 Columbia University: Professor Maryse Condé’s Seminar, Guest

lecture: “Jean-Price Mars et l’Indigénisme: Pionnier du Mouvement

de la Négritude.”

COLLEGE SERVICE

2018-2019 Advisor: Honor's Thesis: "Une lecture postcoloniale dans Moi Tituba sorcière de Maryse Condé"

2016-2017 Advisor: Honor’s Thesis: “La tristesse et le deuil chez Gérard de Nerval”

2010-2011 Advisor: Honor’s Thesis: “L'idée du voyage Chez J-M.G Le Clézio”

2008-2009 Advisor: Honor’s Thesis: “Le mouvement de la Négritude et la Créolité”

2005-2006 Advisor: Honor's Thesis: "La migration chez Jacques Roumain"

2002-2005 Member of the International Affairs and Educational Committee.

2006-2013 Member of the Library Committee

2014-2016 Member of the Welfare Committee

2017- Member of the Faculty Council

2002 - Adviser for French majors and French minors.

LANGUAGES SKILLS:

Native fluency in French and Creole

Near-native fluency in English

ACTVE MEMBERSHIPS

AATF American Association of Teachers of French

CIEF Centre International des Études Francophones

CLA College Language Association (Associate Editor for 12 years)

MLA Modern Language Association

REFERENCES:

Adrien Berthaud, Ph.D. <<ady6v7@r.postjobfree.com>>

City University of New York / Board of Education

Nestor Fils-Aimé, Ph.D. <<ady6v7@r.postjobfree.com>>

Université de Montréal

Ronald Borgellin, Ph.D. <<ady6v7@r.postjobfree.com>> Spelman College

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