Certificate in Spanish and six weeks intensive Spanish study, Universidad La Salle, Mexico City, Summer 2000
Ph.D. in French Literature, Specialization in the Nineteenth Century, Minor in Literary Theory, Indiana University Bloomington, 1995
D.E.A. de Lettres Modernes, Universit茅 de Lille III, France, 1989
Ma卯trise de Lettres Modernes, Universit茅 d鈥橝ix-en-Provence I, France, 1987
M.A. in French Literature, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1986
B.A. in English, Minors in French and Physical Education, Wartburg College,
Waverly, Iowa, 1984
About
Teaching Experience
Academic
Assistant Professor of French, University of New Orleans, 2005-present
Assistant Professor (1997-2001) and Associate Professor (2001-2005) of French, Coordinator of Foreign Languages and Director of the Language Laboratory - Christian Brothers University, Memphis TN, 1997-2005
Acting Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Visiting Assistant Professor of French, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, 1996-1997
Visiting Assistant Professor of French, University of Southern Indiana, 1995-1996
Associate Instructor of Graduate Reading and Elementary French, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1989-1993
Teaching Assistant of First-Year French, Marquette University, Milwaukee, 1984-1986
Others
French Teacher for gifted children, Cardinal Stritch School, Milwaukee, Summer 1986
Activities Coordinator and French Teacher, Marquette University鈥檚 Undergraduate Exchange Program - Limoges, France, Summer 1985
French Teacher and Camp Counselor, 鈥淟es Ch芒lets Fran莽ais鈥 French Camp, Deer Isle, Maine, July 1984
Credit Teacher, Concordia College Language Camps - Hackensack, Minnesota, June 1984
Research Interests
Interdisciplinary approaches to 19th-century French literature, art, and opera
19th-Century French novel and short story
Feminism
Representations of women
Awards and Prizes
Selected to teach on the 色色研究所 鈥淕lories of France鈥 program in summer 2009
鈥June Scholar鈥 - University of New Orleans Summer Research Stipend, Summer 2008
Business French Seminar for American French Professors, Universit茅 de Montpelier, France, July 1998. Award Sponsored by the French Embassy.
Teaching Assistant in English, Lyc茅e Camille Saint Sa毛ns - Rouen, France, 1993-1994
French Government Teaching Assistantship Award, Lyc茅e Louis Pasteur, Lille, France, 1988-1989
Rotary Foundation Scholar, Universit茅 d鈥橝ix-en-Provence I, France, 1986-1987
Publications
Journal Articles
鈥淧ygmalion Politics in Balzac鈥檚 Le chef d鈥檕euvre inconnu鈥:&苍产蝉辫;French Studies Bulletin 30 (2009): 17-19.
鈥淐oal Miners鈥 Daughters: Representations of Women in Germinal, Matewan, and Harlan County, USA鈥:&苍产蝉辫;Excavatio XXII (July 2007): 73-86.
鈥淭he Two Faces of Eve: Villiers鈥 response to Zola鈥檚 La Faute de l鈥檃bb茅 Mouret鈥:&苍产蝉辫; Excavatio XVI (October 2002): 179-187.
鈥淢en Looking at Art: Aesthetic Voyeurism in Two Novels by Emile Zola鈥:&苍产蝉辫; Excavatio XIV (October 2001): 173-185.
鈥淧ainting on the Periphery: Women Artists in Three French Texts鈥:&苍产蝉辫; The Journal for the Association of the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts (Spring 2001): 51-83. Guest Editor for the special volume titled 鈥淐reating Women Creating: 19th-Century Representations of the Female Imagination and the Woman Artist.鈥
鈥淒igestive Divas: Women and Food Problems in Two Novels by J.-K. Huysmans鈥:&苍产蝉辫; Excavatio XIII (September 2000): 100-105.
鈥淔iguring Frames: Painting as Inspiration for a New Literary Aesthetic in Two Novels by J.-K. Huysmans鈥:&苍产蝉辫; The Journal for the Association of the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts (Spring 1998): 53-66.
鈥淢en Looking at Women Through Art: Male Gaze and Spectatorship in Three Nineteenth-Century Novels鈥:&苍产蝉辫;The Frontenac Review 10-11 (1993-1994): 8-34.
Review
鈥淟鈥橦irondelle et Le Corbeau: 脡crits sur G茅rard de Nerval鈥:&苍产蝉辫;Nineteenth-Century French Studies 37, no. 1-2 (2008-2009): 167-169.
Items Accepted to be Published
鈥淭he Mummy鈥檚 Dance: Staged Transpositions of Th茅ophile Gautier鈥檚 Egyptian Tales鈥 - Translations/Transpositions: A Conference in Honor of Rosemary Lloyd -article to be published in the conference proceedings book.
鈥淒ancing into the Spotlight: Louise Bertin and La Esmeralda鈥 - article to be published in the journal Women in French Studies.
鈥淗ugo, Louise Bertin et La Esmeralda鈥 - lecture transcription to be published in the journal L鈥櫭塩ho Hugo: Bulletin des Amis de Victor Hugo.
Conferences
鈥淔orgotten Divas: Women鈥檚 Struggle for Artistic Identity in the 19th-Century Opera World鈥: paper presented at the 34th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium - Vanderbilt University (October 2008)
鈥淭he Song of Controversy: Louise Bertin and Opera in Paris in the 1820s and 1830s鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the 4th Annual Women in French Conference - University of North Texas (April 2008)
鈥淭he Mummy鈥檚 Dance: 鈥淗igh鈥 and 鈥淟ow鈥 Stage Adaptations of Gautier鈥檚 Egyptian Tales鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the 33rd Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium - University of South Alabama (October 2007)
鈥凄颈诲别谤辞迟鈥檚&苍产蝉辫;The Nun: A Feminist Novel?鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the Southeast Region Conference on Christianity and Literature - Loyola University, New Orleans (April 2007)
鈥淭he Mummy鈥檚 Dance: Staged Transpositions of Th茅ophile Gautier鈥檚 Egyptian Tales鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at Translations/ Transpositions: A Conference in Honor of Rosemary Lloyd - Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, England (March 2007)
鈥淭he Mummy鈥檚 Revenge: Hegemonic Violence in Th茅ophile Gautier鈥檚 Egyptian Tales鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the Society of Dix-Neuvi茅mistes Conference - Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, England (March 2007)
鈥淩omancing the Stone: Egyptian Discoveries and Gautier鈥檚 Mummy Narratives鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the 32nd Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium - Indiana University (October 2006)
鈥淐oal Miners鈥 Daughters: Representations of Women in Germinal, Matewan, and Harlan County, USA鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the 15th Annual International Conference on Emile Zola and Naturalism (special topic, film) - CUNY Graduate Center (May 2006)
鈥淩eading Madame Bovary: Flaubert and the Trial of the Century鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature - New Orleans (April 2006)
鈥淭he Mummy鈥檚 Revenge: Pygmalion Politics in Balzac and Gautier鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the 31st Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium - University of Texas (October 2005)
鈥淪eeking their Place at the Table: Woman and Culinary Ritual in 19th-Century Art and Literature鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the 2004 Romance Studies Colloquium - Montclair State University (October 2004)
鈥淏rave New Woman or Stepford Wife?: Villiers鈥 Robot in L鈥櫭╲e future鈥: paper presented at the 29th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium - University of Arizona (October 2003)
鈥淒esire and the Body in Delibes鈥 尝补办尘茅: paper and vocal performance presented at the 28th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium - Ohio State University (October 2002)
鈥淭he Two Faces of Eve: Villiers鈥 response to Zola鈥檚 La faute de l鈥檃bb茅 Mouret鈥: paper presented at the 10th Annual International Conference on Emile Zola and Naturalism - University of Pennsylvania (October 2001)
鈥淎bolishing Aphrodite: The Masculinization of Artistic Genius in Four Nineteenth-Century French Texts鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the 54th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference - University of Kentucky (April 2001)
鈥淢en Looking at Art: Aesthetic Voyeurism in Two Novels by Emile Zola鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the 9th Annual International Conference on Emile Zola and Naturalism - University of Alberta, Edmonton (September 2000)
鈥淏e a Man! Rosa Bonheur and her Cross-Dressing Career鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the Women Seeking Expression: France 1789-1914鈥 Conference - Indiana University (October 1999)
鈥淒igestive Divas: Women and Culinary Problems in Two Texts by J.-K. Huysmans鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the 8th Annual International Conference on Emile Zola and Naturalism - City College of San Francisco (September 1999)
鈥淧ainting on the Periphery: Women Artists in Three French Texts鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the 12th Annual International Conference on Literature, Visual Arts and Cinema - State University of West Georgia, Atlanta (October 1997)
鈥淲orkshop in International Business for Foreign Language Specialists鈥:&苍产蝉辫; participant - Center for International Business Education and Research - University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (August 17-19, 1997)
鈥淧ainting Her Husband鈥檚 Pictures: Zola鈥檚 Madame Sourdis鈥: paper presented in the Special Session titled 鈥淟es Travailleuses: Women and Work in French Literature (1870-1914)鈥 at the Modern Language Association Conference - Chicago (1995)
鈥淔iguring Frames: Painting as Inspiration for a New Literary Aesthetic in Two Novels by
J.-K. Huysmans鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the 13th Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures - University of Cincinnati (1993)
鈥淢en Looking at Women Through Art: Male Gaze and Spectatorship in Three Nineteenth-Century Novels鈥:&苍产蝉辫; paper presented at the French Department Graduate Student Colloquium - Indiana University (1993)
鈥淒es Esseintes and Salome: Visual Pleasure and the Masculine Gaze in J.-K. Huysmans鈥 A rebours鈥: paper presented at the 12th Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures - University of Cincinnati (1992)
鈥淎 Telling Presence鈥:&苍产蝉辫; session chaired at the Southeast Region Conference on Christianity and Literature - Loyola University, New Orleans (April 2007)
鈥淩ealism and its Discontents鈥:&苍产蝉辫; session chaired at the 15th Annual International Conference on Emile Zola and Naturalism (special topic, film) - CUNY Graduate Center (May 2006)
鈥淔rom Alchemy to Science Fiction鈥:&苍产蝉辫; session chaired at the 26th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium - University of Illinois (October 2000)
鈥淓pistemologies鈥:&苍产蝉辫; session chaired at the 23rd Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium - University of Georgia (October 1997)
鈥淔rench Film: Renoir, Pontecorvo, Toussaint, Nuyten鈥:&苍产蝉辫; session chaired at the 20th-Century Literature Conference - University of Louisville (1996)
Professional Society Membership
AIZEN - International Association for Multidisciplinary Approaches and Comparative Studies related to Emile Zola and his Time, Naturalism, Naturalist Writers and Artistes, Naturalism and the Cinema Around the World
CCL - Christianity and Literature Society
MLA - Modern Language Association
Phi Beta Delta - Honor Society for International Scholars
SDN - Society of Dix-Neuvi茅mistes
WIF - Women in French Studies
Other Services and Activities
Grader of French AP exams, the College of New Jersey and the University of Louisville, 2002-2009
Member of the founding board of the International High School of New Orleans, a new school offering foreign language immersion and the International Baccalaureat, January 2009
Member of the NOLA Opera Chorus and Jefferson Performing Arts Society performer January 2006 - April 2009. Included the role of Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, two Gala Benefit Evenings for New Orleans with Placido Domingo, and performing in the chorus of the operas The Marriage of Figaro, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Boh猫me, Faust, Il Trittico, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, Carmen, and La Traviata.
Translator of a scientific article from the French journal Lait, August 2006
