Anne M. François. Eastern University 1300 Eagle Rd St Davids, PA / afrancoi@eastern.edu /

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1 Anne M. François Eastern University 1300 Eagle Rd St Davids, PA / afrancoi@eastern.edu / Education Ph.D. Department of French, New York University, January 2003 M.A. Department of French, New York University, January 1996 B.A. Department of French, New York University, May 1994 Awards, Fellowships, Grants Eastern University Provost Fellowship, 2014 Fulbright Scholarship, Burkina Faso, West Africa, French American Cultural Exchange Grant for Film Festival, 2008 The School of Theory and Criticism Tuition Grant, Cornell University, 2006 Mendenhall Dissertation Fellowship at Smith College, Paris American Club Summer Fellowship, France, Teaching Assistantships, New York University, Tuition Fellowship, New York University Research and Teaching Interests French and Francophone Studies, Caribbean Studies, Postcolonial Theory and Literature, Women Studies, Translation. Publications Article on Anthony Phelps in the Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin Biography. New York, Oxford University Press. Forthcoming publication. Dieu a-til une stratégie? [Does God have a strategy?] Translation of Philippe Carey and Jean François Phélizon s theological essay. Wipf and Stock Pulblishers. Forthcoming publication. Islands without Borders: Teaching the Caribbean across Languages and Cultures in Reimaging the Caribbean. Conversations among the Creole, English, French and Spanish Caribbean. Ed. Valerie Orlando, Sandra Messinger Cypess. Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc Simone Weil: Ambivalence in Search of God in French Women Authors. The Significance of the Spiritual ( ) Ed. Kelsey Haskett, Holly Faith Nelson. Delaware U.P Rewriting The Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers. Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc Reflections SCT 2006 for The Newsletter of the School of Criticism and Theory. Cornell University. Fall Haiti in African Caribbeans: A Reference Guide, Chapter 8. Wesport: Connecticut:Greenwood Press. 2003

2 Une histoire de danse et de pluie, Translation of Louis-Philippe Dalembert s short story Calabash (A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters). Vol.I, Fall 2000 Professional Presentations The absence of slave narratives in French. The case of Haiti (St-Domingue) Expanding Frontiers. College Language Association Conference. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas March L importance du vaudou dans l identité culturelle haitienne. Pathways and Porticos. The Caribbean and The South as Catalyst in Languages and Literatures. College Language Association Conference. Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, March Negotiating race, cultures, and languages: The formation of Haitian-Cuban Cultural Identity. Congreso Internacional de Literatura. Cartagena, Columbia, March Toussaint Louverture: History, Myth, and Controversy. NYU Visiting Faculty Program. February, Migrant Identities: Exile and memory in the poetry of Marie Célie Agnant. Haiti in a Globalized Frame. International Conference. Winthrop King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Florida State University, Tallahasse, Florida, Februray Teaching the Caribbean Across Cultures & Languages. Modern Language Association Convention. Boston, January Proverbs, Memory and Cultural Survival in Simone Schwarz-Bart s Pluie et Vent sur Télumée Miracle. In the Spirit of Sankofa. Moving Forward, Looking Back in Languages and Literatures. College Language Association Conference. Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, March Emeline Michel: Transcultural Borders and the Problematic of Language. Narrativity and Musicality: A Confluence of Language, Literature and Culture. College Language Association. University of South Carolina Upstate, April 2011 Women in Politics. Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. February, The Problematic of identity in the works of Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra. Centre Culturel Américain, Ouagadoudou, Burkina Faso, November Les effets négatifs de la polygamie sur la santé de la femme dans Juletane de Myriam Warner-Viera et Une si longue lettre de Mariama Bâ. Maison Francophone, University of Pennsylvania, November The Identity Quest in Maryse Condé s Desirada. Caribbean Association Studies. San Andres Island, Colombia, May 2008 Ecrire et lire la femme antillaise dans la littérature féminine. MMLA Convention. St-Louis, Missouri, October 2004 A Daughter s Search for Liberation in Maryse Condé s Desirada. Focalizing the body: Contemporary Women s Writing and Filmmaking in France. Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, October 2003.

3 A Daughter s Quest for Identity and Space in Maryse Condé s Desirada. The Humanities: Community, Identity, and the Quest for the Good Life The Ohio State University, Columbus, November 2003 La face cachée de l immigration clandestine dans le film La Promesse des frères Dardenne. CIEF (Conseil International d Études Francophones). Université de Liège, Belgique, June 2003 Staying on the Margins: Simone Weil on faith. Women of Faith Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, July 2003 The Rewriting of History in Simone Schwarz-Bart s Ti Jean L Horizon. International 20 th-- 21 st Century French Studies Conference. University of Connecticut, Hartford, April 2002 Africa, the absent Father: the problematic of identity in Maryse Condé s Heremakhonon and The Last of the African Kings. French Accents Conference, New York University, March 2001 Résistance dans la littérature des Antilles (Martinique et Guadeloupe). Department of French and Italian, University of Iowa, April 2000 Understanding the Fragmentation and Reconstruction of the Self in Francophone Caribbean Literature. Mendenhall Lecture, Smith College, April 2000 Maryse Condé s Work in a Cultural and Political Context. Department of French, Smith College, Mars L impact de la langue créole dans la révolution haïtienne. Department of French, Smith College, February The Problematic of identity in the works of Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra. Centre Culturel Américain, Ouagadoudou, Burkina Faso, November Les effets négatifs de la polygamie sur la santé de la femme dans Juletane de Myriam Warner-Viera et Une si longue lettre de Mariama Bâ. Maison Francophone, University of Pennsylvania, November The Identity Quest in Maryse Condé s Desirada. Caribbean Association Studies. San Andres Island, Colombia, May 2008 Ecrire et lire la femme antillaise dans la littérature féminine. MMLA Convention. St-Louis, Missouri, October 2004 A Daughter s Search for Liberation in Maryse Condé s Desirada. Focalizing the body: Contemporary Women s Writing and Filmmaking in France. Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, October A Daughter s Quest for Identity and Space in Maryse Condé s Desirada. The Humanities: Community, Identity, and the Quest for the Good Life The Ohio State University, Columbus, November 2003

4 La face cachée de l immigration clandestine dans le film La Promesse des frères Dardenne. CIEF (Conseil International d Études Francophones). Université de Liège, Belgique, June 2003 Staying on the Margins: Simone Weil on faith. Women of Faith Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, July 2003 The Rewriting of History in Simone Schwarz-Bart s Ti Jean L Horizon. International 20 th-- 21 st Century French Studies Conference. University of Connecticut, Hartford, April 2002 Africa, the absent Father: the problematic of identity in Maryse Condé s Heremakhonon and The Last of the African Kings. French Accents Conference, New York University, March 2001 Résistance dans la littérature des Antilles (Martinique et Guadeloupe). Department of French and Italian, University of Iowa, April 2000 Understanding the Fragmentation and Reconstruction of the Self in Francophone Caribbean Literature. Mendenhall Lecture, Smith College, April 2000 Maryse Condé s Work in a Cultural and Political Context. Department of French, Smith College, Mars L impact de la langue créole dans la révolution haïtienne. Department of French, Smith College, February Le réalisme merveilleux dans Ti Jean L Horizon de Simone Schwarz-Bart. Départs du réel: French Graduate Student Association Conference, New York University. March Teaching Experience 2000-present Eastern University Professor of French Courses selected French language, literature and culture French Phonetics and Phonology Francophone literatures and cultures Introductory Spanish Post-colonial Women s novels (English Department) Fall 2009-Summer 2010 Université de Ouagadougou, School of Letters, Arts and Communication, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Fulbright Scholar and Researcher, Courses selected Survey of American Literature Literary Theory and Criticism

5 Poetry Co-directed Master s theses on American literature and culture New York University Graduate Teaching Assistant, French Department Introductory French Intermediate French French Conversation and Composition Department of Classics & the Morse Academic Plan Preceptor, Conversations of the West: Antiquity and the 19 th Century. Summer 1998 & New York University in France Graduate Teaching Assistant Fall and Spring 2000 Smith College Lectured on Francophone Literatures and Cultures Fall 1996 Grace Church School, New York City French Teacher for Kindergarten, First and Second grade. Related Professional Activities Spring 2014, AP French Reader. College Board AP Reading Scoring AP French Essays Kentucky, Ohio. June 11-18, 2014 Spring 2013, AP French Reader. College Board AP Reading Scoring AP French Essays Kentucky, Ohio. June 11-18, Spring 2012, AP French Reader. College Board AP Reading Scoring AP French Essays Kentucky, Ohio. June 10-17, Spring 2011, AP French Reader. College Board AP Reading Scoring AP French Essays Kentucky, Ohio. June 11-18, Spring 2010, AP French Reader. College Board AP Reading Scoring AP French Essays Kentucky, Ohio. June 10-18, Spring 2009, AP French Reader. College Board AP Reading Scoring AP French Essays Louisville Kentucky. June 4-12, Spring 2008, AP French Reader. College Board AP Reading Scoring AP French Essays Louisville Kentucky. June 4-11, 2008.

6 Professional Affiliations MLA (Modern Language Association) CIEF (Conseil international des études francophones) ACTFL (American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages) WIF (Women in French) CAS (Caribbean Association Studies) CLA (College Language Association) Languages French, Haitian Creole, Spanish.