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Review Editor, Creative Works, The French Review
Ph.D. — French, Ohio State University, June 1999 M.B.A. — University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1991 Maîtrise — Anglais, Université de Tours, France, 1988 Maîtrise — Français Langue Etrangère, Université de Tours, 1987 Licence — Anglais, Université de Tours, 1980
Books: Liaisons, beginning-level French language textbook (coauthor). Cengage Heinle (in preparation). The Invention of Europe in French Literature and Film. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. ISBN 978-0-230-60553-4.
Articles: “Jean Renoir, l’Allemagne et la guerre : La Grande Illusion et La Règle du jeu.” Cincinnati Romance Review (forthcoming). “‘Faites régner la vertu’ : la morale économique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau.” French Review 82.5 (April 2009): 1022-32. “Vers une banalisation des instances européennes : L’Auberge espagnole.” French Review 82.4 (March 2009): 748-59. “Madame de Staël et Victor Hugo face à la réalité et la légende napoléoniennes.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 36.1-2 (Fall-Winter 2007-08): 9-20. “Un Conte politisé : A l’attaque ! de Robert Guédiguian.” French Review 81.1 (Oct. 2007): 124-34. “La Panique de M. Hire.” Cincinnati Romance Review 26 (2007): 63-78. “Denis de Rougemont and the Literary Construction of Europe.” Dalhousie French Studies 76 (Fall 2006): 73-84. “Film and the Popular Front: La Belle Equipe and Le Crime de M. Lange.” French Review 79.5 (April 2006): 952-62. “Victor Hugo’s European Utopia.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 34.1-2 (Fall-Winter 2005-06): 32-43. “Maurice Barrès, l’Allemagne et Mme de Staël.” Cahiers Staëliens 56 (2005): 183-93. “Knock : de guérisseur à dictateur.” Dalhousie French Studies 71 (Summer 2005): 91-102. “From le Moko to le Pew: Pépé’s Transmogrifications.” French Review 77.5 (April 2004): 902-11. “Aux accents, citoyens ! La Résistance à la réforme de l’orthographe.” French Review 77.3 (Feb. 2004): 490-99. “Latin Connections and Ordinary Immigrants: Jean Renoir’s Toni.” French Review 74.5 (March 2002): 688-96. “‘Et maintenant, mesdames et messieurs, le spectacle va commencer’ : l’espace théâtral dans trois films de Jean Renoir.” Cincinnati Romance Review 18 (1999): 90-98. “The Uses of a National Icon: The Eiffel Tower in René Clair’s Paris qui dort.” Nottingham French Studies 38.1 (Spring 1999): 47-55. “L’Homme aux quarante écus : Voltaire économiste.” French Review 72.3 (Feb. 1999): 493-502. Translation: “The Nation: An Enlightened or Fog-Shrouded Concept?” by Samir Amin. Research in African Literatures 28.4 (Winter 1997): 8-18. “French Cultural Studies: An Oxymoron?” Contemporary French Civilization 21.2 (Summer/Fall 1997): 87-99. “Ils sont frais, mes menhirs : Comic Strips in the Business French Class.” Journal of Language for International Business 8.2 (June 1997): 22-35. “Integrating Elements of the Communicative Approach into the Preparation for the Paris Chamber of Commerce Certificat Exam.” Global Business Languages 1 (1996): 109-15. “A la judaïque : Traces of Jewish Absence in François Rabelais’s Works.” MIFLC Review 6 (Oct. 1996): 9-18.
Book / Film Reviews: L’Ecran des Lumières : regards cinématographiques sur le XVIIIe siècle, by Martial Poirson and Laurence Schifano, eds. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2009:07). French Studies (forthcoming). Locke’s Political Liberty: Readings and Misreadings, by Christophe Miqueu and Mason Chamie, eds. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2009:04). French Studies (forthcoming). America through European Eyes: British and French Reflections on the New World from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, by Aurelian Craiutu and Jeffrey Isaac, eds. French Studies (forthcoming). Foreword. France in the Twenty-First Century: New Perspectives, by Marie-Christine Weidmann Koop and Rosalie Vermette, eds. Summa (forthcoming). Edouard Drumont, by Grégoire Kauffmann. Dalhousie French Studies (forthcoming). 14-18 dans la bande dessinée. Images de la Grande Guerre de Forton à Tardi, by Bruno Denéchère and Luc Révillon. Dalhousie French Studies (forthcoming). The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France: Foreigners, Undesirables and Strangers, by Shannon Fogg. Dalhousie French Studies (forthcoming). “L’Année terrible”. Tome 1: La Guerre franco-prussienne, septembre 1870 - mars 1871. Tome 2: La Commune, mars - juin 1871, by Pierre Milza. French Review (forthcoming). Sépharade, by Eliette Abécassis. French Review (forthcoming). L’Histoire bling-bling. Le Retour du roman national, by Nicolas Offenstadt. French Review (forthcoming). Biribi. Les Bagnes coloniaux de l’armée française, by Dominique Kalifa. French Review (forthcoming). Archives secrètes du cinéma français (1945-1975), by Laurent Garreau. French Review (forthcoming). Pascal ou les intermittences de la raison, by Raphaël Enthoven, et al. French Review (forthcoming). Prolongations, by Alain Fleischer. French Review (forthcoming). Constellation, by Alain Lacroix. French Review (forthcoming). The French Comic Imagination: From Rabelais to Céline, by Stephen Werner. French Review (forthcoming). Le Mouvement Poujade : de la défense professionnelle au populisme nationaliste (1953-1962), by Romain Souillac. French Review (forthcoming). Immigration, antisémitisme et racisme en France, XIXe-XXe siècle. Discours publics, humiliations privées, by Gérard Noiriel. French Review (forthcoming). Panorama des revues littéraires sous l’Occupation : juillet 1940-août 1944, by Olivier Cariguel. French Review (forthcoming). La Barque silencieuse, by Pascal Quignard. World Literature Today 83.6 (Nov.-Dec. 2009): 77. Impardonnables, by Philippe Djian. World Literature Today 83.6 (Nov.-Dec. 2009): 65. Mes Hommes à moi, by Ken Bugul. World Literature Today 83.6 (Nov.-Dec. 2009): 63-64. Héroïnes françaises, 1940-1945. Courage, force et ingéniosité, by Monique Saigal. French Review 83.2 (Dec. 2009): 429. Rethinking the French City: Architecture, Dwelling, and Display after 1968, by Monique Yaari. French Studies 63.4 (Oct. 2009): 512-13. “Privileged Moments” in the Novels and Short Stories of J.M.G. Le Clézio: His Contemporary Development of a Traditional French Literary Device, by Keith Moser. French Studies 63.4 (Oct. 2009): 494. Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution, by Michael Sonenscher. French Studies 63.4 (Oct. 2009): 473-74. S’amuser en Europe au siècle des Lumières, by Elisabeth Détis and Françoise Knopper, eds. French Studies 63.4 (Oct. 2009): 470-71. La Pensée de l’abbé Grégoire : despotisme et liberté, by Jean Dubray (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2008:02). French Studies 63.4 (Oct. 2009): 466-67. Diderot: Natural Philosopher, by Kurt Ballstadt (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2008:09). French Studies 63.4 (Oct. 2009): 463-64. Rousseau and L’Infâme: Religion, Toleration, and Fanaticism in the Age of Enlightenment, by Ourida Mostefai and John Scott, eds. French Studies 63.4 (Oct. 2009): 463. Farces du Grand Siècle. De Tabarin à Molière. Farces et petites comédies du XVIIe siècle, by Charles Mazouer, ed. French Studies 63.4 (Oct. 2009): 458-59. Corneille à l’Ecole républicaine : du mythe héroïque à l’imaginaire politique en France 1800-1950, by Ralph Albanese. French Studies 63.4 (Oct. 2009): 456-57. La Traduction, by Marie-Françoise Cachin. French Review 83.1 (Oct. 2009): 220-21. Les Voyageurs du temps, by Philippe Sollers. World Literature Today 83.5 (Sept.-Oct. 2009): 78-79. L’Influence de l’histoire contemporaine dans l’œuvre de Marguerite Yourcenar, by Mireille Blanchet-Douspis. French Studies 63.3 (July 2009): 357-58. Voltaire Historiographer: Narrative Paradigms, by Síofra Pierse (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2008:05). French Studies 63.3 (July 2009): 338-39. Où on va, papa ? by Jean-Louis Fournier. World Literature Today 83.3 (May-June 2009): 76. Les Inséparables, by Marie Nimier. World Literature Today 83.3 (May-June 2009): 62. Nouvelles Mythologies, by Jérôme Garcin, et al. French Review 82.6 (May 2009): 1344-45. Bon Cop bad cop. Dir. Erik Canuel. French Review 82.6 (May 2009): 1331-32. Crises dans la culture française. Anatomie d’un échec, by Antoine de Baecque. Dalhousie French Studies 86 (Spring 2009): 171-72. France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007: The Geopolitical Imperative, by Michael Sutton. Dalhousie French Studies 86 (Spring 2009): 168-69. The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought, by Daniel Brewer. Dalhousie French Studies 86 (Spring 2009): 158-59. La Pièce d’or, by Ken Bugul. French Review 82.5 (April 2009): 1091-92. La Revue Blanche. Une Génération dans l’engagement 1890-1905, by Paul-Henri Bourrelier. French Review 82.5 (April 2009): 1061-62. Media French: A Vocabulary of Contemporary Usage, by Adrian Ritchie. French Studies 63.2 (April 2009): 249. French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville: Liberty in a Leveled society? by Annelien de Dijn. French Studies 63.2 (April 2009): 219-20. Opinion. Voltaire. Nature et culture, by Ursula Haskins Gonthier, et al. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2007:12). French Studies 63.2 (April 2009): 213-14. Le Sec et l’humide, by Jonathan Littell. World Literature Today 83.2 (March-April 2009): 77-78. Inassouvies, nos vies, by Fatou Diome. World Literature Today 83.2 (March-April 2009): 65. L’Ancienne France au quotidien. La Vie et les choses de la vie sous l’Ancien Régime, by Michel Figeac, ed. French Review 82.4 (March 2009): 896-98. Douze Mythes qui ont fondé l’Europe. Une Table ronde de grands récits, by Michel Blain. French Review 82.4 (March 2009): 834-35. Histoire de l’anticolonialisme en France du XVIe siècle à nos jours, by Claude Liauzu; La France et ses esclaves. De la colonisation aux abolitions (1620-1848), by Frédéric Régent; and Dictionnaire de la France coloniale, by Jean-Pierre Rioux, ed. French Review 82.3 (Feb. 2009): 643-45. Dictionnaire des livres et journaux interdits par arrêtés ministériels de 1949 à nos jours, by Bernard Joubert. French Review 82.3 (Feb. 2009): 637-38. Fado, by Kettly Mars. World Literature Today 83.1 (Jan.-Feb. 2009): 69. La Consolante, by Anna Gavalda. World Literature Today 83.1 (Jan.-Feb. 2009): 66. French Laughter: Literary Humor from Diderot to Tournier, by Walter Redfern. Dalhousie French Studies 85 (Winter 2008): 202-03. Biography and the Question of Literature in France, by Ann Jefferson. Dalhousie French Studies 85 (Winter 2008): 200-02. Liberté, égalité, discriminations. “L’Identité nationale” au regard de l’histoire, by Patrick Weil. Dalhousie French Studies 85 (Winter 2008): 199-200. Molière. Dir. Laurent Tirard. French Review 82.2 (Dec. 2008): 408-09. Robert Desnos, by Anne Egger. French Review 82.2 (Dec. 2008): 400-01. Le Cinéma et la Shoah. Un Art à l’épreuve de la tragédie du 20e siècle, by Jean-Michel Frodon, ed. Dalhousie French Studies 84 (Fall 2008): 161-63. V comme Vian, by Marc Lapprand. Dalhousie French Studies 84 (Fall 2008): 148-49. Madame de Staël: The Dangerous Exile, by Angelica Goodden. Dalhousie French Studies 84 (Fall 2008): 146-47. Voltaire, by Pierre Milza. Dalhousie French Studies 84 (Fall 2008): 141-43. La Mondialisation, by Olivier Dollfus; and Les Français contre l’Europe ? Les Sens du référendum du 29 mai 2005, by Nicolas Sauger, Sylvain Brouard, and Emiliano Grossman. French Review 82.1 (Oct. 2008): 183-85. Le Cinéma obscène, by Estelle Bayon. French Review 82.1 (Oct. 2008): 174-75. Les Années, by Annie Ernaux. World Literature Today 82.5 (Sept.-Oct. 2008): 76. Ah ! Mbongo, by Paul Lomami Tchibamba. World Literature Today 82.5 (Sept.-Oct. 2008): 70-71. Michel Houellebecq revisité. L’Ecriture houellebecquienne, by Murielle Lucie Clément. Dalhousie French Studies 83 (Summer 2008): 160-61. Stendhal, Balzac, Dumas : un récit romantique ? by Lise Dumasy, Chantal Massol, and Marie-Rose Corredor, eds. Dalhousie French Studies 83 (Summer 2008): 152-53. L’Aigle et la synagogue : Napoléon, les juifs et l’Etat, by Pierre Birnbaum. Dalhousie French Studies 83 (Summer 2008): 150-52. Le Citoyen Genet. La Révolution française à l’assaut de l’Amérique, by Claude Moisy. French Review 81.6 (May 2008): 1284-85. La Gloire de Bergson. Essai sur le magistère philosophique, by François Azouvi. French Review 81.6 (May 2008): 1271-72. L’Esprit des Lumières, by Tzvetan Todorov. French Review 81.5 (April 2008): 1014-15. Permanence d’André Gide. Ecriture – Littérature – Culture, by Peter Schnyder. French Review 81.5 (April 2008): 1003-04. L’Imprévisible, by Metin Arditi. French Review 81.4 (March 2008): 806-07. Les Droites aujourd’hui, by René Rémond; and Le Président a promis... Une France qui change, by Jean Viard, ed. French Review 81.4 (March 2008): 805-06. Vous plaisantez monsieur Tanner, by Jean-Paul Dubois. French Review 81.3 (Feb. 2008): 620-21. Les Musulmans en France. Courants, institutions, communautés : un état des lieux, by Bernard Godard and Sylvie Taussig. French Review 81.3 (Feb. 2008): 610-11. Moderne ? Comment le cinéma est devenu le plus singulier des arts, by Jacques Aumont. French Review 81.3 (Feb. 2008): 599-600. That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present, by Robert and Isabelle Tombs. French Review 81.2 (Dec. 2007): 400-01. Exercices de lecture. De Rabelais à Paul Valéry, by Marc Fumaroli. French Review 81.2 (Dec. 2007): 368-69. Les Sciences sociales en mutation, by Michel Wieviorka, Aude Marie Debarle, and Jocelyne Ohana, eds. Dalhousie French Studies 80 (Fall 2007): 200-01. La Politique culturelle en débat. Anthologie, 1955-2005, by Geneviève Gentil and Philippe Poirrier, eds. Dalhousie French Studies 80 (Fall 2007): 198-200. Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France, by Elena Russo. Dalhousie French Studies 80 (Fall 2007): 180-81. Les Anti-Lumières, du XVIIIe siècle à la guerre froide, by Zeev Sternhell. Dalhousie French Studies 79 (Summer 2007): 146-47. La Pension Marguerite, by Metin Arditi. French Review 80.6 (May 2007): 1403-04. L’Avenir des juifs de France, by Shmuel Trigano. French Review 80.6 (May 2007): 1401-02. L’Adieu au Nord, by Pascale Kramer. French Review 80.5 (April 2007): 1159-60. Le Roman historique, by Gérard Gengembre. French Review 80.5 (April 2007): 1122-23. Le Génie français, by Michel Guénaire; and Du bon usage de la guerre civile en France, by Jacques Marseille. French Review 80.4 (March 2007): 938-40. Sacrés Français, le roman ! Un Américain en Picardie, by Ted Stanger. French Review 80.3 (Feb. 2007): 736-37. De la séparation des Eglises et de l’Etat à l’avenir de la laïcité, by Jean Bauberot and Michel Wieviorka, eds. French Review 80.3 (Feb. 2007): 715-16. La Possibilité d’une île, by Michel Houellebecq. French Review 80.2 (Dec. 2006): 490-91. Victor Hugo et le romanesque. Etudes romanesques 9, by Agnès Spiquel, ed. French Review 80. 2 (Dec. 2006): 459-60. Joyeux Noël. Dir. Christian Carion. French Review 80.1 (Oct. 2006): 261-62. The Simplest of Signs. Victor Hugo and the Language of Images in France: 1850-1950, by Timothy Raser. French Review 80.1 (Oct. 2006): 210-11. Revolutionary Acts: Theater, Democracy, and the French Revolution, by Susan Maslan. Dalhousie French Studies 76 (Fall 2006): 73-84. Un Débat sur la laïcité, by Alain Renaut and Alain Touraine. French Review 79.6 (May 2006): 1422-23. Mise en scène de l’opinion publique dans la littérature des Lumières, by Nicolas Veysman. French Review 79.5 (April 2006): 1060-61. La Poésie philosophique de Voltaire, by Gwenaëlle Boucher; and Voltaire and the Temple of Bad Taste: A Study of La Pucelle d’Orléans, by Jennifer Tsien (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2003:05). French Review 79.4 (March 2006): 835-36. Sixties. Cinéroman, by Robert Belleret. French Review 79.3 (Feb. 2006): 656-57. La Tentation antisémite. Haine des juifs dans la France d’aujourd’hui, by Michel Wieviorka, et al. French Review 79.3 (Feb. 2006): 647-48. Issues in the French-Speaking World, by Michael Kline and Nancy Mellerski. French Review 79.2 (Dec. 2005): 468-69. L’Américain, by Franz-Olivier Giesbert. French Review 79.2 (Dec. 2005): 444. Français, comme vous avez changé. Histoire des Français depuis 1945, by Henri Mendras and Laurence Duboys Fresney. French Review 79.1 (Oct. 2005): 184-85. La Vie fractale, by Marc J. Bloch. French Review 78.6 (May 2005): 1273-74. L’Empire américain ? by Michel Wieviorka, ed. French Review 78.6 (May 2005): 1266-67. Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After, by Peter Sahlins. French Review 78.5 (April 2005): 1046-47. Les Hommes forts, by Daniel Hebrard. French Review 78.3 (Feb. 2005): 615-16. The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000, by Michael Bess. French Review 78.3 (Feb. 2005): 601-02. La Violence, by Michel Wieviorka. French Review 78.2 (Dec. 2004): 394-95. Ecrire à Coppet : nous, moi et le monde, by François Rosset. French Review 78.2 (Dec. 2004): 369-70. Itinéraires du XIXe siècle II, by Roland Le Huenen and Stéphane Vachon, eds. French Review 78.1 (Oct. 2004): 151-52. Récits de la pensée : études sur le roman et l’essai, by Gilles Philippe, ed. French Review 77.6 (May 2004): 1223-24. La France que je vois, by Henri Mendras. Contemporary French Civilization 28.1 (Winter/Spring 2004): 146-48. Naissance d’une liberté. Contraception et avortement : le grand combat des femmes au XXe siècle, by Xavière Gauthier. French Review 77.3 (Feb. 2004): 609-10. Histoire de la femme cannibale, by Maryse Condé. World Literature Today 77.3-4 (Oct.-Dec. 2003): 82-83. Atlas des Français : grand angle sur un peuple singulier, by Laurence Duboys Fresney. French Review 77.1 (Oct. 2003): 182-83. Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919-1939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths, by David Henry Slavin. Contemporary French Civilization 27.1 (Winter/Spring 2003): 177-79. La Différence culturelle : une reformulation des débats, by Michel Wieviorka and Jocelyne Ohana, eds. French Review 76.4 (March 2003): 838-39. L’Histoire dans la littérature, by Laurent Adert and Eric Eigenmann, eds. French Review 76.4 (March 2003): 804-05. Maurice Barrès, by Sarah Vajda. The French Review 76.1 (Oct. 2002): 128-29. Le Prix de l’incompétence : histoire des grandes erreurs de management, by Christine Kerdellant. Journal of Language for International Business 12.1 (Jan. 2001): 87-88. Les Chroniques de l’ingénieur Norton : confidences d’un Américain à Paris, by Christine Kerdellant. Journal of Language for International Business 11.2 (June 2000): 71-72. Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, by Bruce Robbins. Midwest Modern Language Association Journal 33.2 (Spring 2000): 100-03. An Introduction to Caribbean Francophone Writing: Guadeloupe and Martinique, by Sam Haigh, ed. World Literature Today 74.2 (Spring 2000): 341-42. Régisseur du rhum, by Raphaël Confiant. World Literature Today 73.4 (Autumn 1999): 798. Karukéra : présence littéraire de la Guadeloupe, by Micheline Rice-Maximin. World Literature Today 73.2 (Spring 1999): 376-77. Making Business French Work: Models, Materials, Methodologies, by Steven Loughrin-Sacco and Jayne Abrate, eds. Journal of Language for International Business 9.2 (June 1998): 50-51.
2006: Associate Professor, 2001-06: Assistant Professor, Western Washington U.
1999-2001: Visiting Instructor, U. of Kansas. 1994-99: Graduate Teaching Associate, Ohio State U. 1990-91: Teaching Assistant, U. of Kentucky. 1988-89: Instructor, French Library in Boston. 1983-84: Teaching Assistant, Harvard U. 1981-88: Professeur, Institut d’Etudes Françaises de Touraine.
Review Editor, Creative Works, The French Review (2005-). French Section Coordinator (2008-10 & 2004-06), Study Abroad Advisor (2008-10 & 2005-07), and Major/Minor Advisor (2008-10 & 2002-04). Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Western Washington U. Member, Faculty Senate (2005-06), Faculty Affairs Council (2002-04), Computer Advisory Committee (2003-06), Student Technology Fee grant proposal Committee for the Language Media Center upgrade (2003), Library Committee (2001-03), and French Search Committee (2007-08 & 2001-02). Western Washington U. Webmaster, French Program (2001-), and Department of Modern and Classical Languages (2002-04). Western Washington U. Director, U. of Kansas Summer Language Institute in France (Advanced program in Strasbourg, Sept. 2000-Aug. 2001). Co-Director, U. of Kansas Summer Language Institute in France (July program in Paris, Oct. 1999-Aug. 2000).
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