Fontaine Lien Curriculum Vitae

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1 Fontaine Lien Curriculum Vitae Assistant Professor, Valparaiso University Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Telephone: (310) / [email protected] GENERAL Education Ph.D., Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages M.A., Comparative Literature Six-Week Non-Degree Graduate Program, French School Middlebury College B.A., English, Magna Cum Laude with College Honors University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation The Intrusion Story and Lessons from the Fantastic: A Cross-Cultural Study Exam Fields Film and Visual Culture, Chinese Literature, French Literature, Critical Theory

2 PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese East Asian Languages and Literatures Colgate University Visiting Assistant Professor World Languages and Cultures Eastern Connecticut State University Associate Instructor Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages PUBLICATIONS 2015 Sixguns and the Shadowless Kick: Mythmaking and Generic Hybridization in Westerns and Martial Arts Fantasies. The New Western: Re-Purposing the Hollywood Genre. Ed. Scott Stoddart. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, Forthcoming Contemporary Migration and Unstable Translations: Dai Sijie and Amélie Nothomb. Intermingled Fascinations: Migration, Displacement, and Translation in World Cinema. Ed. Flannery Wilson and Jane Correia. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Rev. of Gothic Realities: The Impact of Horror Fiction on Modern Culture, by L. Andrew Cooper. JGCinema.org 9 Jan Oct < (8). TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses Taught as Visiting Assistant Professor Colgate University, Chinese 202: Intermediate Chinese Liberal Arts Core Curriculum 165C: China (Communities and Identities) Chinese 222: China through Literature and Film Chinese 303: Films and Broadcasts Chinese 405: Reading Chinese Newspapers

3 Courses Taught as Visiting Assistant Professor Eastern Connecticut State University, Chinese 110: Beginner Chinese Chinese 111: Beginner Chinese Chinese 250: Chinese Culture through Film First Year Experience 100: Fantasy in World Cinema (Liberal Arts Core) French 110: Beginner French French 111: Beginner French French 211: Business French Courses Taught as Sole Instructor, Chinese 2: Beginner Chinese Chinese 20A: Chinese for Heritage Learners French 1: Beginner French French 2: Beginner French French 3: Beginner French Teaching Assistant with Sections, Comparative Literature 28: Justice, Law, Violence Comparative Literature 22A: Women and the Novel Teaching Assistant, Linguistics 22: Language and Linguistics AWARDS AND HONORS Chancellor s Distinguished Fellowship Amount awarded: $123, Middlebury College Grant (French School) Amount awarded: $4, Provost s Honors List University of California, Los Angeles

4 CONFERENCE ACTIVITY 2012 Westerns and Martial Arts Fantasies: Mythmaking and Generic Hybridization. Annual Meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. Seattle, WA The Cine-Semiology of Chris Marker s La Jetée. (Dis)Junctions Annual Graduate Student Conference of the. Riverside, CA A Strange, Metallic Something : Meditating Cyborg Gender with C.L. Moore s No Woman Born. Gender Matters Interdisciplinary Conference. University Park, IL Beyond Indignation : The Confucianism of Liaozhai zhiyi. CU-Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Association Annual Conference. Boulder, CO Sixguns and the Shadowless Kick: Towards the Martial Arts Western. (Dis)Junctions Annual Graduate Student Conference of the University of California, Riverside. Riverside, CA Postcolonial Identities in Film and Literature. Discussant, Mellon Group graduate student panel, Asian/American Literary and Culture Studies. Riverside, CA Spotlight on Li Ang's The Butcher's Wife. Panel Chair, Annual Conference of the American Association of Chinese Studies. Fullerton, CA A Ritualistic Reading of Li Ang's The Butcher's Wife. Annual Conference of the American Association of Chinese Studies. Fullerton, CA Globalizing the Self: Performance and Translation in Dai Sijie's Migration Narratives. Annual Conference of the American Association of Chinese Studies. Fullerton, CA. DEPARTMENTAL TALKS 2013 Using the ipad in the Language Classroom, Eastern Connecticut State University, November ipad Apps for Classroom Use and Language Learning, Eastern Connecticut State University, November 11.

5 2013 Using ReLANpro and SCOLA ipad Apps in Language Teaching, Eastern Connecticut State University, November 4. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2015 Teaching into the Difficult: Race, Diversity, and Colgate for All: Workshop at Colgate University 2014 East Asian Language Pedagogy Workshop at Cornell University PROFESSIONAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE Coordinator, Foreign Film Series at Eastern Connecticut State University Coordinator, Chinese Corner and Table française at Eastern Connecticut State University 2013 Why Learn Foreign Languages? Interview on The Wayne Norman Show (1400 AM, Willimantic, CT), October Coordinator, Table française at 2010 Screening Committee, Tournées Film Festival at University of California, Riverside Vice President, Comparative Literature Graduate Student Association, Research Assistant to Dr. Michelle Bloom, University of California, Riverside LANGUAGE COMPETENCY Native Languages Particular Expertise Basic Reading and Speaking English, Taiwanese Mandarin French Japanese, Taiwanese Hokkien

6 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Association of University Professors Comparative Literature Graduate Student Association, University of California, Riverside American Association of Chinese Studies REFERENCES Provided upon request.