Olivier Le Blond Curriculum Vitae University at Buffalo 906 Clemens Hall, North Campus Buffalo, NY 14260-4260 Phone : (304)282-1221 Email : ocle@buffalo.edu Skype : olivier-le-blond EDUCATION PhD Candidate French literature (ABD - 2008 present) Dissertation: Homosocialité Francophone: Écriture Identitaire dans la Littérature Contemporaine du Maghreb arabo-musulman. Defense scheduled on February 4th 2014 Dissertation Committee : Prof. Christian Flaugh (Chair), Prof. Carine Mardorossian, Prof. Jean- Jacques Thomas. M.A. French Language and Literature, minor TESOL (spring 2008) West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV Licence Langues, Littératures et Civilisations Étrangères (fall 2002) Université Paris 13, France D.E.U.G. (Diplôme d Études Universitaires Générales) (fall 2001) Université Paris 13, France PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Assistant to the Director of the French Language Program (fall 2013 present) Duties include: Supervision of the creation of exams Observation of the new Teaching Assistants Help in the reassessment of the language program General problem solving Instructor, French (fall 2013 present) 1
Teaching Assistant, French (fall 2008 spring 2013) Teaching Assistant, French (fall 2006 spring 2008) Department of Foreign Languages West Virginia University Teaching Assistant, French (fall 2003 spring 2004) Department of Modern Languages and Cultures Albion College, Albion MI GRANTS, AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS Melodia E. Jones Chair, Summer Research Fellowship, Romance Languages and Literature Department, (summer 2013) Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants, Graduate School, University at Buffalo, State University of New York (March 2013) Recruitment Fellowship, Romance Languages and Literature Department, University at Buffalo, State University of New York (fall 2008 spring 2012) Travel Grant, Modern Language Association (January 2012) CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Chair : Identités Sexuelles du Maghreb/Sexual Identities of the Maghreb International 44 th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention Boston, MA; March 21-24, 2013 Déterritorialisation et reterritorialisation du sujet dans l Armée du Salut d Abdellah Taïa Crossing, Frictions, Fusions : 20 th and 21 st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium Long Beach, CA; March 29-31, 2012 (Re)penser l identité nationale: l écriture Queer dans le roman francophone marocain International 42 nd Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention New Brunswick, NJ; April 7-10, 2011 Négation de la masculinité et confusion des genres dans Sarrasine et La Fille aux yeux d or de Balzac. 2010 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference University of Kentucky; Lexington, KY, April 15-17, 2010 2
Sex, Gender and Cultural Transformation: Nip/Tuck Under the Knife. Far West Popular Culture and American Culture Association 20 th Annual Conference Las Vegas, Nevada; January 25-27, 2008 COURSES TAUGHT : FR 212 - French Culture, language and literature 2 nd semester (spring 14, 10, fall 09) FR 152 - Intermediate French 2 nd semester (spring 12) FR 151 - Intermediate French 1 st semester (fall 11, 10) FR 104 - Transitional Elementary French (spring 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 09, fall 12, 08, summer 11) FR 102 - Elementary French 2 nd semester (spring 14, 13, 11, fall 09, summer 13, 08) FR 101 - Elementary French 1 st semester (fall 13, 12, 11, 10) West Virginia University: FRCH 204 - Intermediate French 2 (fall 07, spring 07) FRCH 203 - Intermediate French 1 (fall 06) FRCH 200 - Intensive Intermediate French (spring 08) FRCH 102 - Elementary French 2 (fall 07, spring 07) FRCH 101 - Elementary French 1 (fall 06) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE / CITIZENSHIP President, The French Connection (Graduate Student Association) Buffalo, fall 2011 to present. Creator and coordinator of La Table de conversation française Buffalo, fall 2009 to present Organizing Committee Member & Moderator, Graduate Conference: Minding the Gap : On Bridges, Breaches and Borders Buffalo October 11 & 12, 2013 Coordinating Member, Aimé Césaire s 100 First Lights: Aesthetics, Alternative Subjectivity, and Global Human Relations Symposium September 27-28, 2013 Editorial Board, SUNY Buffalo Graduate Romance Studies Journal, Plasticity 3D: Dismantlement April 2013 Vice President, The French Connection (Graduate Student Association) fall 2008 to 2011 3
Organizing Committee Member, International Colloquium: L oulipo à 50 ans/oulipo @ 50 Buffalo Hyatt Regency, October 5-8, 2011 Assistant Media Production and Audio/Visual Management, International Colloquium: L oulipo à 50 ans/oulipo @ 50 Buffalo Hyatt Regency, October 5-8, 2011 Moderator, Graduate Conference: Humanities at the Limit Buffalo November 4 & 5, 2011 Organizing Committee Member, International Colloquium: Urbanités Littéraires/Cityscapes Literary Escape Buffalo Niagara Marriott, September 10-13, 2009 Assistant Media Production and Audio/Visual Management, International Colloquium: Urbanités Littéraires/Cityscapes Literary Escape Buffalo Niagara Marriott, September 10-13, 2009 Jury member, Western New York French competition with the Alliance Française de Buffalo. March 2009 MEMBERSHIP MLA, Member, 2011 present ACTFL, Member, 2011 present AATF, Member, 2011 present NeMLA, Member, 2010 present LANGUAGES French Spanish Italian Native Fluent Reading knowledge Reading knowledge 4
REFERENCES Dr. Christian Flaugh, Associate Professor of French, SUNY at Buffalo cflaugh@buffalo.edu - (716) 645-0879 Dr. Jeannette M. Ludwig, Associate Professor of French, SUNY at Buffalo jmludwig@buffalo.edu - (716) 645-0877 x1175 Dr. Jean-Jacques Thomas, Professor of French, Melodia E. Jones Chair, SUNY at Buffalo tii2@msn.com - (716) 645-0862 5