French & Italian
Colloquium brings unique insightsT he French and Italian department presented the very successful sixth annual Graduate Student Colloquium on April 4-6, 1997. There were sessions on medieval literature (moderated by Cristina Martonffy and Kira Moore), "Perspectives on Course Development" (moderated by Margaret Laboe), foreign language pedagogy (moderated by Joyce Carlton Johnston), 20th-century Italian literature (moderated by Max Creech), women/gender roles in French literature (moderated by Heather McCullough), linguistics (moderated by Dan Golembeski), and "Rereadings: Borrowing and Stealing from the Literary Past" (moderated by Martha Johnson). The keynote address was delivered by Cynthia Fox, PhD’89, who teaches in the Department of French Studies at SUNY. She spoke on "Linguistics and the Politics of Language Teaching."
The session "Transitions: Perspectives on the Profession" was introduced by Professor Charlotte Gerrard and was moderated by Julia Davis (ABD). All of the panelists have graduated from the Department of French and Italian within the last five years. Through their varied experience, each brought unique insight to getting, surviving, and enjoying "the job." Panelists were Sarah Jourdain, PhD’96, University of Louisville; Molly Lynde-Recchia, PhD’93, University of Western Michigan; Sayeeda Mamoon, PhD’96, University of South Dakota; Molly Morrison, PhD’96, University of Michigan; and Laura Salsini, PhD’95, Purdue University.
Scholarly papers included James T. Stevens, Department of Comparative Literature, "Roles and Limits of Miracles and Divine Assistance in La Chanson de Roland"; Mariangela Parenti, "La passione amorosa nei personaggi femminili nell’ Orlando Furioso"; Jennifer Reiser, "Guilhem de Montanhagol’s Lyrical Inquisition"; Denise Philippe, "(Mostly) Practical Aspects of Syllabus Development"; Professor John Isbell, "Designing Beginning Literature and Civilization Courses: My Fun with F300 and F362"; Catherine Fraser and Rex A. Sprouse, Department of Germanic Studies, "Continuing Language Proficiency Development Beyond Intermediate German: Curricular Issues and Choices"; Candis M. Driver, Department of Applied Linguistics, "A Look at Pragmatics in Language Teaching"; and Bruce Anderson, "Overcoming the Language Barrier in L2 Writing."
Other speakers were Victor Berberi, "Distance in the Poetry of Sandro Penna"; Colleen Marie Ryan, "La vita finisce dove commince: Pier Pasolini’s Edipo Re"; Paolo Villa, "Leonardo Sciascia: A Fool for Justice"; Margaret Dempster, "Manon: Encadrée sans sexe et sans identité dans Manon Lescaut"; Joyce Carlton Johnston, "Oswald as Heroine: Reversal of Gender Roles in Germaine de Staël’s Corrine ou l’Italie"; Catherine Lerat, "Adolphe ou Ellénore: L’étude d’une réflexion qui s’éfface"; Professor Barbara Vance, "The Nature of spec Agr(S)P in French"; Bruce Anderson, "The Acquisition of De-phrases by Classroom Learners of French"; John Moses, "Looking into the Future: A Preliminary Investigation into the Expression of Future Events in French as a Foreign Language"; Debra Karr, "Dante and Virgil among the Other Magicians"; Laura Dennis, "Old Women in the Textual World: Using the Celestina to Examine the Role of Agathe in Sorel’s Histoire comique de Francion"; and Amelia Tundo, "The Last of the Nose in the Commedia."
A True Vers poetry reading was hosted by Francesca Parmegianni, and an opportunity for language instructors to swap ideas, strategies, and techniques they’ve developed for classroom use was co-moderated by Anita Alkhas and Mary Vogl.
Young scholar joins department
We
are fortunate that Julie
Auger, who taught at Indiana
University in the department
of French and Italian as
a visiting lecturer in 1993-94
and subsequently at McGill
University as assistant professor
in 1994-97, has returned to
IU, where she has accepted
a tenure-track position as
assistant professor in our
linguistics program. Last
semester, she taught a graduate
class in dialectology and
sociolinguistics and an introduction
to sociolingiusitics graduate
course for the linguistics
department. Currently, she
is teaching classes on the
structure and development
of French and on bilingual
individuals and communities.
She defended her PhD thesis, "Pronominal Clitics in Colloquial Québec French: A Morphological Analysis," at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. Her academic interests include Gallo-Romance morphosyntax (Québec French, Acadian French, spoken French in general, and Picard), Romance linguistics, sociolinguistics, morphosyntax, and variation and linguistic theory. Her current research, for which she has received major funding in Canada and from the College of Arts and Sciences at IU, focuses on grammatical and sociolingistic issues in Picard. She has made field trips in the summers of 1995, 1996, and 1997 to gather data (recorded interviews with Picard speakers in Vimeu, Somme). She has just obtained a summer faculty fellowship to prepare a book proposal on Picard morphosyntax.
Auger has published a book titled Les Structures impersonnelles et l’alternance des modes en subordonnée dans le français parlé de Québec (Québec City: Centre international de recherche en aménagement linguistique, 1990). Her most recent journal articles include "Le Redoublement des sujets en français informel québécois: une approche variationiste," in Canadian Journal of Linguistics (1997); and "Redoublement des clitiques en français parlé: une approche morphologique," in Revue québécoise de linguistique (1995). She has presented many papers at conferences and is a member of the Association canadienne de linguistique and the Linguistic Society of America.
Her recreational interests include listening to music, watching movies, reading, cooking, and swimming.
Felicitations!
Last
year, Professor Emanuel
Mickel was named Chevalier
dans l’Ordre des
Palmes Acadé-miques
by the French minister of
education. This award recognized
his years of distinguished
service as head of one of
the largest and most prestigious
departments of French studies
in the United States and his
eminent international reputation
as a scholar of medieval and
19th-century French literature.
Pictured above at the presentation
ceremony are, from left: Professor
Emeritus Edward
Najam, a former recipient
of the Palmes Académiques;
Professor Mickel; Gérard
Dumont, consul general of
France in Chicago; Professor Albert
Valdman, also a previous
recipient of the Palmes Académiques;
and Professor
Edoardo Lèbano.
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