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Education,
specializations, publications
- BA Knox
College, IL (English)
- MA Purdue
University, IN (English)
- MA College
of Notre Dame, CA (French)
- Certificat
de Langue Française, Centre International
d'Etudes Françaises, Université Catholique de
l'Ouest, Angers, France
I have also
taken courses at Roosevelt University, Loyola University, San
Jose State, College of San Mateo, UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley,
and Stanford.
I've
been teaching at College of San Mateo since 1968. My specialties
are twentieth-century literature, Shakespeare, modern French literature,
and French language and culture.
My
French
courses
are primarily in the first-year transfer classroom sequence: French
110 and 120 (and the courses they can be divided into: French
111, 112, 121, 122).
If you'd
like to read more about me and French, you might want to visit
CSM's French
page.
I
often teach English
writing
and literature courses such as basic writing, freshman composition,
and introduction to literature.
I
usually work also in The
Writing Center,
which provides the laboratory component of English 828, 838, 848,
100, 110, and 165, and which also gives individual instruction
in writing on an open-entry, open-exit basis, with credit/no-credit
grading, for students who enroll in English 850.
I also direct and work with language students in our Foreign
Language Center, Building 18, Room 112.
My
Publications
My
scholarly interests focus on recent French fiction. I have published
books on Michel Tournier and Françoise Mallet-Joris, articles
on a number of French novelists, dozens of reviews of contemporary
fiction and of books about that fiction, pedagogical articles,
and interviews. You can check out my bibliography
if you want the specifics.
For World Language Days at CSM
in fall 2007, my French 110 class
presented Jacques Prevert's
"Page d'écriture" (below).
This
picture below was taken during
World Language Days at CSM
in spring 2005.
It
shows me with my French 120 class
at the end of their presentation of
"Boucle d'or," which they
narrated and performed.
This
next picture is from World Language Week
in fall 2005, showing me with some
of my English 110 students who were
reading poems in languages
other than English.
American
Association of Teachers of French
American
Name Society
Association
of Literary Scholars and Critics
California
Community College Foreign Language Council
California
Language Teachers Association
Conference
on Christianity and Literature
Community
College Humanities Association
Foreign
Language Association of Northern California
Foreign
Language Association of Santa Clara County
F. Scott
Fitzgerald Society
Modern Language
Association
Pacific
Ancient and Modern Language Association
Phi Beta
Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa of Northern California
Simone de
Beauvoir Society
Women in
French
Contemporary
Authors 142. Ed. Donna Olendorf. Detroit: Gale, 1994.
Directory of American Scholars (10th ed.), 2001.
Dictionary of International Biography (33rd ed.), 2006.
Leading Educators of the World, 2005.
Strathmore's Who's Who, 2000-2001 Millennium Edition.
2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century (1st
ed.), 2001.
2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st century (1st ed.),
2001.
Who's Who in America since the 54th edition (2000).
Who's Who in American Education, 2004-05 edition.
Who's Who in the 21st Century (since the 1st ed.), 2001.
Who's Who in the West 1998-99 (26th ed.).
Who's Who in the World, 21st edition (2004).
Who's Who of American Women (25th ed.) 2005.
The Writers Directory 1996-98 (12th ed.).
This page was last updated 01-30-08.
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