|
French |
| Faculty |
 |
Jean Fallon, (Homepage), Professor of French, Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, has been at Hollins since 1990. Her areas of specialization include 16th century French poetry and prose. Jean is also interested in 17th and 19th century literatures, and contemporary French culture and civilization studies, particularly as they relate to post World War II identity and diversity issues. She has developed and teaches a Humanities course about American writers and artists in Paris during the period 1900 - 1950. In addition to literature courses, Jean also teaches courses in French creative writing, French pop music, and French film. She is currently working on two projects: one involves French pop music from 1950 to the present, and the other treats French films from 1975 to the present. Jean spoke in Paris with French filmmaker Cédric Klapisch and has recently published an article on his films. She is planning a book-length study on Klapisch and his place in contemporary French cinema. Jean is a past recipient of the Elisabeth Lineberger Ramberg Chair in Modern Languages and is the author of two books, Voice and Vision in Ronsard's Les Sonnets pour Hélène (1993) and His Story, Her Story: A Literary Mystery of Renaissance France (2003).
|
 |
Annette Sampon-Nicolas, Professor of French, Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been at Hollins since 1985. Her areas of specialization are 20th-century French and Francophone literature and contemporary poetry. Annette's other interests include the relationship between literature and the visual arts, French for international business, and international studies. She has developed interdisciplinary courses on the Francophone world, the theme of water, nature and the environment, and the history of French gastronomy. Annette also teaches a Short Term course on global food studies and an international studies course on West African, North African, Caribbean, and Asian cultures through film and literature. She has recently published an article on ethical business practices in Dialogues et Cultures, and a chapter the history of French gastronomy for a volume on interdisciplinary approaches to teaching culture. Annette is currently working on a study of the relationships between landscapes, cultures, and identities in the works of post-colonial writers such as: François Cheng, Malika Mokeddem, Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Barthes, Rafaël Confiant, Anna Moï and Kim Lefèvre. She is the author of Francis Ponge: La Poétique du figural and Educating for International Expertise (editors Gilles Bousquet and Annette Sampon-Nicolas). She is the current Elisabeth Lineberger Ramberg Chair in Modern Languages.
|
 |
Edwina Spodark, (Homepage) Professor of French, Ph.D. from Northwestern University, has been with the French department since 1982. Her areas of specialization are medieval/renaissance French literature, computer-assisted language learning, teaching with the Internet, multimedia classroom instruction, and distance learning. Her article "Weaving the World Wide Web into Teaching the Culture of Quebec" in the French Review won the Edward Morot-Sir Pedagogical Prize from the Institut Français de Washington in March 2004.
|
102307 |
|
|
 |
|
