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CURRICULUM VITAE
VICKI L. HAMBLIN
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225 USA
TEL (360) 650-4859 / FAX (360) 650-6110
e-mail: hamblinv@wwu.edu
EDUCATIONAL PROFILE
Doctor of Philosophy in French, Department of French and Italian,
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (May 1984)
Dissertation title: The Fifteenth-Century French Mistere du siege
d'Orleans; An Annotated Edition, Director: Loyal A. T. Gryting, Ph.D.
Master of Arts in French, Department of Romance Languages, Arizona
State University, Tempe, Arizona (August 1976)
Thesis title: The Image of Joan of Arc in Fifteenth-Century French
Prose and Poetry
Bachelor of Science in Education cum laude, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri (May 1974)
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Associate Professor of French (Sep 1992 - present); Assistant Professor
of French (Sep 1989 - 1992), Department of Modern and Classical
Languages, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225
Visiting Professor, (Winter quarter 2003), American Heritage
Association-
Northwest Council on Study Abroad, Angers, France 49000
Visiting Professor (Winter quarters 1997, 1995, 1992), Intensive
French
Program, American Heritage Association-Northwest Interinstitutional
Council on Study Abroad, Avignon, France 84000
Resident Director/Undergraduate Programs (Sep 1987-Jul 1989),
Council on International Educational Exchange, Université de Haute
Bretagne II,
Rennes, France 35000
Assistant Professor of French (Sep 1984- Jun 1987), Department
of Foreign Languages, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606
Teaching Associate in French (Aug 1976-May 1984), Department
of French and Italian, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
Co-Director of Total Immersion Program in Tinchebray, France
(Summers 1983,1984), University of Arizona
Cross-Cultural Coördinator (Summer 1979), Outbound Programs
Orientation,
The Experiment in International Living, North Adams, Massachusetts
Program Coördinator (Aug 1978-May 1979), Academic Semesters
Abroad,
The Experiment in International Living, Toulouse, France 31000
Teaching Assistant (Aug 1974-May 1976), Department of Foreign
Languages, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85201
COURSE HISTORY AT WESTERN
Elementary French 101, 102 and 103
Intermediate French 201 and 202
Written Exposition 301 and 302
Oral Expression 305 (Modern French Culture, The Chanson since
World War II, La Chanson moderne, Le Débat)
French Civilization 331 (La France moderne)
Introduction to French Literature 340 (12th-18th centuries)
Introduction to French Literature 341 (19th and 20th centuries)
French 399 Histoire de la langue française
French 401 Structures et Stylistique
French 405 Communication et Discours (La Chanson éternelle,
La
France contemporaine, La France télévisée)
French 430 La Chanson d'Expression française
Seminar in French Studies 450 (L'Humanisme est un individualisme
(XVIème siècle), The Development of the Modern
Novel, L'Ecriture
féminine, L'Histoire de la langue française)
COURSE HISTORY AT TOLEDO
Elementary French 111 and 112
Intermediate French 214
Conversation and Composition 301, 302 and 303
Survey of French Literature 321 and 322 (Middle Ages - Twentieth century)
La Chanson française 371
Advanced Stylistics 401 and 402
French in Translation 407
Contemporary French Civilization 351
Twentieth-Century French Literature 481 and 482
RESEARCH FUNDED/TEACHING AWARDS
oSummer Research Grant, BFR, Western Washington University (2002)
oSummer Research Grant, BFR, Western Washington University,
(1999)
oNational Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Fellowship,
(summer 1998), Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, Italy
oMellon Grant, Vatican Film Library, Pius XII Memorial Library (Summer
1996), St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri
oFaculty Development Grants (Spring 1993, 1996), Western Washington
University
oSummer Research Grants (Summers 1990, 1993), Bureau for Faculty Research,
Western Washington University
oOutstanding Teaching Award (June 1987), Alumni Association, University
of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
oSummer Fellowship/Faculty Research Award (Summer 1986), Research Office
of the Graduate School, University of Toledo
oFive-Star Teaching Award (May 1984), Honors Program, University of
Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
oMeritorious Teaching Award (May 1982), University of Arizona Foundation,
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
oDissertation Research Grant (Nov 1980-Jun 1981), Cultural Affairs/Foreign
Affairs Bureau, Consulat Français de Los Angeles
Research Institutions: Sorbonne/Université de Paris IV; Bibliothèque
Nationale de France
PUBLISHED SCHOLARSHIP
Refereed Articles forthcoming:
o"A New Assessment of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana's Vat. Reg.
1022 Manuscript," Manuscripta (Saint Louis University: Vatican Film
Library).
o"Orléans on Stage: Reconstructing the Performance History of
the French Mistere du siege d'Orleans,"
Parergon 19.2 ( 2002)
Refereed Book Chapter forthcoming:
o"'En l'honneur de la Pucelle:' Ritualizing Joan the Maid in Fifteenth-Century
Orléans," Joan of Arc and Spirituality, ed. Bonnie Wheeler
(Palgrave Press, May 2003).
Refereed Articles Submitted:
o "'Il y a pause:' Reading the Stage Directions of the
Mistere du
siege d'Orleans." (Ludus)
o "No Stone Unturned: Uncovering the Performance History of the Mistere
du siege d'Orleans," (European Medieval Drama)
Book in print:
oCritical edition: Le Mistere du siege d'Orleans (Geneva: les
Editions Droz, 2002), 826 p.
Refereed Articles and Chapters in print:
o"Lire les didascalies du Siège d'Orléans: conventions
théâtrales ou tradition commémorative?"
Langues,
codes et conventions de l'ancien théâtre: actes de la troisième
rencontre sur l'ancien théâtre européen (Paris:
Editions Champion, 2002) 93-100.
o"Le Siège d'Orléans: Procession, simulacre, mystère,"
in Le Jeu théâtral, ses marges, ses frontières,
(Paris: Ed. Champion, 1999) 165-179.
o"Exploiting French Songs as a Genre. Contemporary French
Civilization XVII.1 (Winter/Spring 1993): 131-143.
o"Le Clip et le look: Popular Songs in the 1980s." The French Review
64.4 (April 1991): 804-816.
o"Le Mistère du siège d'Orléans as a Representational
Drama." Rocky Mountain Review 42 (1988): 61-68.]
o"Integrating Popular Songs into the Curriculum." The French Review
60.4 (March 1987): 479-484.
o"Le Mistère du siège d'Orléans n'a pas
encore trouvé son public." Bulletin de l'Association des amis
du Centre Jeanne d'Arc (Orléans, France) 11 (1987): 7-11.
Reviews in print:
o Derbes, Annes. Picturing the Passion in Late Medieval Italy; Narrative
Painting, Franciscan Ideologies, and the Levant. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996. 270 p. in Studies in Iconography, vol. 20
(1999): 215-218.
oReview: Brenon, Anne. Les Femmes Cathares. Paris: Perrin, 1992.
410 p. in The French Review 67.3 (February 1994): 537-538.
oCholakian, Patricia Francis. Rape and Writing in the Heptaméron
of Marguerite de Navarre. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Press, 1991. 301 p. in Rocky Mountain Review 47.1-2 (1993): 72-74.
oCamporesi, Piero. The Fear of Hell: Images of Damnation and Salvation
in Early Modern Europe. Trans. Lucinda Byatt. University Park, PA.:
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. 221 p. in
Rocky Mountain
Review 45.4 (1991): 252-253.
oFléouter, Claude. Un siècle de chansons. Paris:
PUF, 1988; Salachas, Gilbert et Béatrice Bottet.
Le Guide de
la chanson. Paris: Syros/Alternatives, 1989; Sevran, Pascal. Le
Dictionnaire de la chanson française. Paris: Michel Laffon,
1988; in Contemporary French Civilization XV.3 (Winter/Spring 1991):
158-160.
REFEREED PROFESSIONAL PAPERS
o"(Dis)integrating Music and Noise in the Mistere du siege d'Orleans,"
Twenty-third
Medieval Forum, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire, 19-20
April, 2002.
o"Production Technics of the Mistere du siege d'Orleans," Stage
Production session, SITM (Société Internationale du Théâtre
médiéval), Groningen, The Netherlands, (1-7 July 2001).
o"From Dramatic Narrative to Narrative Drama: Creating the Maid of
Orléans," International Joan of Arc Society session, Thirty-sixth
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 3-6
May 2001.
o"Le Mystère du siège d'Orléans's Warrior
Maid: A Reconstruction," in Joan of Arc and Modes of Late Medieval Chivalry,Thirty-fifth
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 4-7
May 2000.
o"Spatial Considerations in Performing the French Mistere du siege
d'Orleans," in Medieval Mystery Plays, Twenty-first Medieval Forum,
Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire, 14-15 April 2000.
o"Lire les didascalies du Siege d'Orleans: conventions théâtrales
ou tradition narrative?" Troisième Colloque International sur le
Théâtre médiéval,
Centre des Etudes Supérieures
de la Renaissance, Université François-Rabelais, Tours,
France, 23-24 September 1999.
o"Playing Between Performance and Text: the Case of the French
Mistère
du siège d'Orléans,"
Twentieth Medieval Forum,
Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire, 16-17 April 1999.
o"Le Siège d'Orléans: procession, simulacre, mystère,"
Deuxième Rencontre Internationale sur le Théâtre Médiéval,
Centre
des Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université
François-Rabelais, Tours, France, 24-25 March 1997.
o"Ethnicity in Song: A Model for Teaching French Civilization via the
Chanson." Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures,
Cincinnati, Ohio; May 1996.
o"Culture, Songs and the Curriculum: Une stratégie chansonnière."
SWCOLT
(Southwest Conference on Language Teaching); Albuquerque, New Mexico;
April 1996.
o"Recycling French Verse As Lyric," Literature and Other Arts section,
Rocky Mountain Language Association; Colorado Springs, Colorado; October
1994.
o"Teaching Pre-Modern French Civilization through Song Texts," Teaching
Foreign Language section, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
annual conference; Denver, Colorado; October 1993.
o"Lyrics and Lyricism in the Wake of the Rive Gauche Era," French Literature
and Civilization session, Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages
conference; Boise, Idaho; May 1992.
o"French Civilization in Song: A Lyrical Approach." French Culture
session, Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages conference;
Spokane, Washington; May 1991.
o"La Chanson française depuis1945:
A Sample Curriculum." Teaching Foreign Languages section, Rocky Mountain
Modern Language Association annual conference; Salt Lake City, Utah;
October 1990.
o"Le texte et le paysage du Mistère du siège d'Orléans."
Section: Les paysages réels et imaginaires dans la littérature
d'expression française,
Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones
world-wide conference; Fort-de-France, Martinique; April 1990.
o"Teaching Revolutionary Words and Music." Teaching Foreign Languages
section, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association annual conference;
Las Vegas, Nevada; October 1989.
o"The Mistère du siège d'Orléans: History
or Theater?" Medieval Theater section, Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance
Association conference; Boulder, Colorado; April 1987.
o"From Fact to Fiction and Beyond: The Creation of the Mistère
du siège d'Orléans." French Literature before 1800 session,
Rocky
Mountain Modern Language Association annual conference; Denver, Colorado;
October 1986.
o"L'un parle, l'autre pas: Yves Navarre's Indictment of Indifference
in Le Temps voulu and Le Jardin d'Acclimatation." New Masters
of the French Novel session, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
annual conference; Provo, Utah; October 1985.
REFEREED PROFESSIONAL PAPERS
•”(Dis)integrating Music and Noise in the Mistere du siege d’Orleans,”
Twenty-third Medieval Forum, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New
Hampshire, 19-20 April, 2002.
•“Production Technics of the Mistere du siege d’Orleans,” Stage Production
session, SITM (Société Internationale du Théâtre
médiéval), Groningen, The Netherlands, (1-7 July 2001).
•“From Dramatic Narrative to Narrative Drama: Creating the Maid of
Orléans,” International Joan of Arc Society session, Thirty-sixth
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 3-6 May
2001.
•“Le Mystère du siège d’Orléans’s Warrior Maid:
A Reconstruction,” in Joan of Arc and Modes of Late Medieval Chivalry,Thirty-fifth
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 4-7 May
2000.
•“Spatial Considerations in Performing the French Mistere du siege
d’Orleans,” in Medieval Mystery Plays, Twenty-first Medieval Forum, Plymouth
State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire, 14-15 April 2000.
•“Lire les didascalies du Siege d’Orleans: conventions théâtrales
ou tradition narrative?” Troisième Colloque International sur le
Théâtre médiéval, Centre des Etudes Supérieures
de la Renaissance, Université François-Rabelais, Tours, France,
23-24 September 1999.
•"Playing Between Performance and Text: the Case of the French Mistère
du siège d'Orléans," Twentieth Medieval Forum, Plymouth State
College, Plymouth, New Hampshire, 16-17 April 1999.
•"Le Siège d'Orléans: procession, simulacre, mystère,"
Deuxième Rencontre Internationale sur le Théâtre Médiéval,
Centre des Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université
François-Rabelais, Tours, France, 24-25 March 1997.
•"Ethnicity in Song: A Model for Teaching French Civilization via the
Chanson." Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati,
Ohio; May 1996.
•"Culture, Songs and the Curriculum: Une stratégie chansonnière."
SWCOLT (Southwest Conference on Language Teaching); Albuquerque, New Mexico;
April 1996.
•"Recycling French Verse As Lyric," Literature and Other Arts section,
Rocky Mountain Language Association; Colorado Springs, Colorado; October
1994.
•"Teaching Pre-Modern French Civilization through Song Texts," Teaching
Foreign Language section, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association annual
conference; Denver, Colorado; October 1993.
•"Lyrics and Lyricism in the Wake of the Rive Gauche Era," French Literature
and Civilization session, Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages
conference; Boise, Idaho; May 1992.
•"French Civilization in Song: A Lyrical Approach." French Culture
session, Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages conference; Spokane,
Washington; May 1991.
•"La Chanson française depuis 1945: A Sample Curriculum."
Teaching Foreign Languages section, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
annual conference; Salt Lake City, Utah; October 1990.
•"Le texte et le paysage du Mistère du siège d'Orléans."
Section: Les paysages réels et imaginaires dans la littérature
d'expression française, Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones
world-wide conference; Fort-de-France, Martinique; April 1990.
•"Teaching Revolutionary Words and Music." Teaching Foreign Languages
section, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association annual conference;
Las Vegas, Nevada; October 1989.
•"The Mistère du siège d'Orléans: History or Theater?"
Medieval Theater section, Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
conference; Boulder, Colorado; April 1987.
•"From Fact to Fiction and Beyond: The Creation of the Mistère
du siège d'Orléans." French Literature before 1800
session, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association annual conference;
Denver, Colorado; October 1986.
•"L'un parle, l'autre pas: Yves Navarre's Indictment of Indifference
in Le Temps voulu and Le Jardin d'Acclimatation." New Masters of
the French Novel session, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association annual
conference; Provo, Utah; October 1985.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS/PANELS
•“The Relevancy of Manuscript Evidence to Text Analysis: The Fifteenth
Century French Mistere du siege d’Orleans,’’ Bureau for Faculty Research
Presentation, 2 March 2000.
•Invited Commentator, "From Belle Epoque to Afropop; A Hundred Years
of French Popular Culture" (session), Western Society for French History,
Charlotte, North Carolina; October l996.
•Panelist, Professional Leave Workshop, Western Washington University;
May 1996.
•"'World History' and the Multicultural Curriculum," Department of
Liberal Studies and the Center for International Studies and Programs,
Western Washington University, October 17, 1994.
•"Activating Cultural Documents: The French Chanson in Research
and in the Classroom," Faculty Research Lecture series, Bureau for Faculty
Research and Sigma-Xi, Western Washington University; April 1993.
•"The Northwest Faculty Role in the Avignon Program." Northwest
Interinstitutional Council on Study Abroad Orientation program; Portland,
Oregon; May 1992.
•"Integrating Students into French Families." Workshop Coördinator,
Annual Meeting of Academic Directors in France, Council on International
Educational Exchange; Paris, France; December 1987.
•Oral Proficiency Workshop on Foreign-Language Teaching Methodologies;
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages; Colombus, Ohio;
May 1986.
•"The Oral Proficiency Movement." Panel Discussion, Toledo Foreign
Language Conference; Toledo, Ohio; May 1986.
SERVICE COMMITMENT
•French Program Coordinator, Department of Modern and Classical Languages,
WWU, 2001-2003.
•New faculty mentor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages,
WWU, 2002-2003.
•Study-Abroad Advisor in French, Department of Modern and Classical
Languages, WWU, 1993-2003.
•Faculty Monitor, Pi Delta Phi (National French Honor Society), WWU,
1999-2003.
•Faculty Monitor, French Club, WWU, 1998-2002.
•Chair, Chair Selection Committee for the History Department, WWU,
Spring 2002.
•Member, General Education Task Force, WWU, 2001-2002.
•Chair, Appointments and Elections Committee, Faculty Senate, WWU,
2001-2002; 2000-2001.
•At-large Senator, Faculty Senate, WWU, 2000-2002.
•Executive Council, Faculty Senate, WWU, 2000-2002.
•New faculty mentor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages,
WWU, 2001-2002.
•Member, French Search Committee, Department of Modern and Classical
Languages, WWU, 2001-2002.
•Departmental Representative, Western Preview, 2001, 2000.
•Member, French Search Committee, Department of Modern and Classical
Languages, 2000-2001.
•Member, Scholarship Committee, Department of Modern and Classical
Languages, 1999-2001.
•Mentor, Women's Faculty Mentor Program, 1994-2000.
•Coordinator, French section, Modern and Classical Languages, 1997-1999.
•Campus Representative, National Policy Committee, Université
de Haute Bretagne and Paris Internship Programs, Council on International
Educational Exchange, 1989-1997.
•Chair, Professional Leave Committee, College of Arts and Sciences,
1997-1998.
•Member, General Merit Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1995-1997.
•Member, Professional Leave Committee, College of Arts and Sciences,
1995-1997, 1998-1999.
•Member, French Search Committee, Department of Foreign Languages,
1996.
•Member, Limited-Term Faculty Evaluations Committee, Foreign Languages
and Literatures, 1996.
•Secretary, Japanese Search Committee, Department of Foreign Languages,
Spring 1996.
•Member, Professional Leave Advisory Committee, 1995-1996.
•Transfer Student Advisor, Department of Foreign Languages, 1993-1997.
•Member, Advisory Committee, Department of Foreign Languages, 1996-1997.
•Moderator, Advisory Committee, Department of Foreign Languages, 1995-1996.
•Member, ad hoc committee on governance, Department of Foreign Languages,
1995.
•Member, Talitha E. Carlton Scholarship Committee, 1995-1996.
•Member, ad hoc Chair Selection Committee, Department of Foreign Languages,
1995.
•Member, Study-Abroad Advisory Committee, Department of Foreign Languages,
1994-1996.
•Member, Faculty Club Board, 1993-1996.
•Member, International Programs Advisory Committee, 1989-1992, 1993-1995.
•Mentor to new faculty member, Department of Foreign Languages, 1994-1995.
•Summerstart Freshman Advisor, 1994.
•Member, Legislative Committee, Faculty Senate, 1993-1994.
•Member, Advisory Board, Center for International Studies, 1993-1994.
•Member, Search Committee for the Director of the Center for International
Studies, 1993-1994.
•Chair, Faculty Affairs Council, College of Arts and Sciences, 1992-1993.
•French Section Coördinator, Department of Foreign Languages,
1991-1993.
•Member, Faculty Affairs Council, College of Arts and Sciences, 1991-1993.
•Member, ad hoc committee on Catalogue Revisions, Department of Foreign
Languages, 1992-1993.
•Chair, Teaching Foreign Languages section, Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association, 1991-1992.
•Member, French Search Committee, Department of Foreign Languages,
1991-1992.
•Chair, Foreign Study Advisory Committee, 1990-1991.
•Secretary, Teaching Foreign Languages section, Rocky Mountain
Modern Language Association, 1990-1991.
•Member, Graduate Committee, Department of Foreign Languages, 1990-1991.
•Member, ad hoc committee on Placement Testing, Department of Foreign
Languages, 1989-1990.
•Member, Spanish Search Committee, Department of Foreign Languages,
1989-1990.
•Replacement senator, Faculty Senate, Fall 1989.
•Member, Program Planning Committee, The Humanities Institute, University
of Toledo, 1986-1987.
•Faculty Monitor, Beta Tau chapter, Pi Delta Phi (National French Honor
Society), University of Toledo, 1984-1987.
•Departmental Coördinator, Poetry and Prose Composition Competitions,
Department of Foreign Languages, University of Toledo, 1985-1987.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
American Association of Teachers of French
Amis du Centre Jeanne d'Arc (Orléans, France)
Fifteenth-Century Society
International Joan of Arc Society
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Société pour l'Etude du Théâtre Médiéval
Western Society for French History