EDUCATION
 

The Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA)

Ph.D., French

Dissertation: “Oikos: Sustainability, Dwelling, and Culture in Urban France”
Committee chair and dissertation director: Monique Yaari
Committee: Kathryn Grossman, Jennifer Boittin, Sophie de Schaepdrijver, Jean-Pierre Le Dantec (École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette

2018

 

M.A., French

2014

 

St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY)

B.A., French and Francophone Studies (with Honors)

Minors in German Studies and Government


2011

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
 
• Modern and contemporary French cultural studies   • French and Francophone literature and culture   • Urban and landscape studies   • Environmental humanities   • Sustainability and ecology   • Poetics of space   • Deindustrialization   • Digital humanities   
EMPLOYMENT
 

Smith College (Northampton, MA)

Lecturer of French Studies and Landscape Studies


2022-present

 

Colby College (Waterville, ME)

Assistant Professor of French


2021-2022

 

Williams College (Williamstown, MA)

Visiting Assistant Professor of French

Visiting Lecturer of French


2019-2021

2018-2019

 

The Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA)

Lecturer of French for Penn State World Campus

Graduate Teaching Assistant of French (Instructor of Record)


2018-2019

2012-2018

PUBLICATIONS
 

Articles

“Un aller simple, or Rewriting L’Immoraliste in Reverse”

French Review, vol. 95, no. 1, 2021, pp. 147-62, doi:10.1353/tfr.2021.0183

“Past into Future: the ‘Rewriting’ of Angoulême's Identity”

Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 43, no. 2, 2018, pp. 185-211, doi:10.3828/cfc.2018.11

Book Manuscript in Progress

Recycling Industry: The Livable French City Today


Chapter in Edited Volume in Progress

“The Villes Nouvelles and the Question of Autonomy from Paris: The Case of Cergy-Pontoise”

Proposal accepted for inclusion in the Routledge Handbook on the History of Paris since 1789, edited by Kory Olson, Amanda Vincent, and Erin-Marie Legacey. Revised chapter to be submitted by February 15th, 2023

Book Review

Olson, Kory. The Cartographic Capital: Mapping Third Republic Paris. Liverpool UP, 2018.

Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 45, no. 1, 2020, pp. 137-39, doi:10.3828/cfc.2020.8
GRANTS AND AWARDS
 

Faculty Discussion Seminar Grant

“Weaponizing Gender: Intersectionality of Anti-feminist and Islamophobic Discourse in Right-Wing Populism in Europe and the U.S.”
Funder: The Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Williams College

Chateaubriand Fellowship

Dissertation Research in France
Associated with the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette
Funder: The Embassy of France in the United States

Outstanding Teaching Award, Basic Language Program

Department of French and Francophone Studies, The Pennsylvania State University

Grants for Overseas Research and Conference Travel

Funder: Department of French and Francophone Studies, The Pennsylvania State University

2019

 

 

 

 

2016-2017

 

 

 

2016

 

 

2014-2015

COURSE COORDINATION AND DESIGN EXPERIENCE
 

Smith College

Course Designed

· Human Experiences of Place

2022-present

 

2021-2022

 

2018-2021

 

The Pennsylvania State University

Coordination of Basic Language Program Courses

· Elementary French I (9 sections)

Coordination of Summer Intensive Language Institute Courses

· Elementary French I (1 section)
· Elementary French II (1 section)
· Intermediate French (1 section)

Coordination of Penn State World Campus Online Courses

· Elementary French I (1 section)
· Elementary French II (1 section)
· Intermediate French (2 sections)
· Paris: Anatomy of a City (1 section)
· French Culture through Film (1 section)
· France and the French-Speaking World (1 section)

Course Redesigned

· French Culture through Film, online

Course Adapted

· Advanced Oral Communication

2012-2018

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (33 SECTIONS OF 24 COURSES TOTAL)
 

Smith College (1 section of 1 course)

Language Course

· High Intermediate French (1 section)

2022-present

 

Colby College (4 sections of 3 courses)

Language Courses

· French I (2 sections)

Literature and Culture Courses

· Sustainable Development in/of the French-Speaking World (1 section)
· French Studies Lab Project (1 section)

2021-2022

 

2018-2021

 

The Pennsylvania State University (18 sections of 13 courses)

Language Courses

· Elementary French I (2 sections)
· Elementary French I, online (1 section)
· Elementary French II (1 section)
· Elementary French II, online (2 sections)
· Elementary French II, summer intensive, co-taught (1 section)
· Intermediate French (4 sections)
· Intermediate French, online (1 section)
· Intermediate French, summer intensive, co-taught (1 section)

General Education Courses

· Paris: Anatomy of a City, co-taught (1 section)
· French Culture through Film, co-taught (1 section)
· French Culture through Film, online, summer intensive (1 section)

Culture Courses

· Oral Communication and Reading Comprehension, summer intensive (1 section)
· Advanced Oral Communication (1 section)

2012-2019

DIGITAL HUMANITIES EXPERIENCE
 

Williams College

Spatial and Network Analysis of Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder (1997)

· Undergraduate Classroom Project (Instructor)

 

2018

 

The Pennsylvania State University

Research Assistant

· CINEmap Project (mapping locations in films released in France, Germany, and Japan between 1914 and 1945), Center for Humanities and Information

Graduate Assistant for Digital Humanities at Penn State’s Libraries


Undergraduate Classroom Projects (Coordinator)

· Digitization and Analysis of the Magasin des demoiselles
· Paris in Film
· Mapping Bel-Ami

2016




2014-2015



2014-2015

2014-2015

2014

INVITED TALK
 
“What Are the Digital Humanities?”
With Hélène Huet, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA

2015

CONFERENCE TALKS
 
“Architecture as Medium: The Lieu Unique and Nantes’s Turn toward Sustainable Development”
39th Annual 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Pittsburgh, PA

2022

 

2019

 
“Mapping Nantes's Geography and Imaginary, 1716-1940”
46th Annual Western Society for French History Conference, Portland, ME

2018

 
“Digital Humanities, the Undergraduate Classroom, Feminist Scholarship: The Theoretical Possibilities of Upsetting Centers and Margins”
Round table led with Bénédicte Monicat
8th International Women in French Conference, Gettysburg, PA

2016

 
“Industrial Memory: Rebuilding Cultural Identity in Today's Angoulême”
40 Years of Contemporary French Civilization Conference, Baltimore, MD

2015

 
“Van Cauwelaert’s Un aller simple as a Postmodern Rewriting of Gide’s L’Immoraliste”
130th Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Vancouver, BC

2015

 
“Urban Agency: A Psychogeographical Reading of Denise's fuites in Au Bonheur des Dames”
40th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, San Juan, PR

2014

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
 

Reviewer, Journal of the Western Society of French History (WSFH)

2021

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
 

Colby College

Faculty Liaison, French Student Advisory Board
Liaison, Department of French and Italian to the Library
Co-coordinator, Departmental Tutoring Program
Teaching Mentor to a Colby College language assistant

2022

2021-2022

2021-2022

2021-2022

 

Williams College

Mentorship of Fulbright Teaching Associates from France

 

2018-2021

 

The Pennsylvania State University

Graduate Representative, Departmental Graduate Committee
Secretary, French and Francophone Studies Graduate Organization
Member, Departmental Website Redesign Committee
Member, Search Committee for Bednar Undergraduate Internship in Digital Humanities at Penn State's Libraries

 

2015-2016

2014-2015

2014

2014

LANGUAGES
 
English: native proficiency
French: near-native proficiency
German: reading proficiency
Spanish: reading proficiency
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
 
Modern Language Association of America (MLA)
American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
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