Barbara Petrosky, PhD Associate Professor of French Literature Place of birth: Paris (France) Eligible to work in the U.S (Permanent Resident) Address: 520 Bucknell Avenue, Apt. 1 Johnstown, PA 15905 Email: bap47@pitt.edu -- Phone: (814) 269-7153 EDUCATION Ph.D. in French Literature UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, May 2006 Dissertation title: Pierre Loti et Emile Zola: Deux écrivains photographes M. A. in French Literature UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1997-1999 Maîtrise in Lettres Modernes. Thesis title: L espace poétique chez Pierre Loti, 1996 Licence in Lettres Modernes, 1995 DEUG in Lettres Modernes, 1994 UNIVERSITY OF PARIS X Nanterre, 1992-1996 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT JOHNSTOWN since August 2006 Fall 2013 Elementary Spanish 1 (three sections) Intermediate French 1 Introduction to French Civilization Spring 2013 Elementary French 2 Elementary Spanish 1 Intermediate French 2 Literature in Translation: Nineteenth Century French Short Stories Advanced French Composition Fall 2012 Business French Intermediate Spanish I Summer 2012 Literature in Translation: Nineteenth Century French Short Stories 1
Spring 2012 Advanced French Conversation Elementary French II Fall 2011 Survey of French Literature I Intermediate Spanish I Summer 2011 Literature in Translation: Nineteenth Century French Short Stories Spring 2011 Introduction to French Civilization Intermediate Spanish I Fall 2010 Elementary French I I Business French Spanish Drama in Translation Summer 2010 Literature in Translation: Nineteenth Century French Short Stories Spring 2010 Elementary French II Advanced French Composition Fall 2009 Elementary French I I Advanced French Conversation Spring 2009 Elementary French II Francophone Literatures and Films 2
Fall 2008 Business French (Le français des affaires) Approaches to French Literature I Spring 2008 Elementary French II Advanced French Conversation Fall 2007 Advanced Composition I Summer 2007 Literature in Translation: Nineteenth Century French Literature Spring 2007 French Culture and Films I Fall 2006 Modern French Novel in translation UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA August 2000 to May 2006 Graduate Teaching Assistant For Elementary French and Intermediate French (Grammar and Conversation), 2000-2006 Creation of syllabus Creation of own lesson plans, exams and quizzes Selection of literary and cultural readings Selection of films Assistant Supervisor Elementary French Summer 2002 and 2003 Providing support to Teaching Assistants Responsible for creation of syllabus and exams Counseling undergraduate students Research Assistant of Graduate Research Professor for French William Calin, 2004-06 Administrative Assistant (proofreading, professional correspondence) 3
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1997-1999 Teaching Assistant For Elementary French and Intermediate French (Grammar and Conversation) 1997-1999 Creation of syllabus Creation of own lesson plans, exams and quizzes Selection of literary and cultural readings Selection of films CONFERENCES Ekphrasis et clichés : La représentation de Kyoto chez Pierre Loti et Olivier Adam. 26th Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference. Duquesne University, 20-21 September 2013. Le français des affaires : comment préparer les étudiants avancés au diplôme de français CFP A2 de la Chambre de Commerce et d Industrie de Paris. 25th Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference. Duquesne University, 21-22 September 2012. Comment enseigner Un Cœur simple et La Légende Saint-Julien l hospitalier de Gustave Flaubert en utilisant les nouvelles technologies. 24th Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference. Duquesne University, 23-24 September 2011. Comment étudier Entre les murs: un plan de cours pour les niveaux intermédiaire et avancé. NEMLA (North Eastern Modern Language Association) at Rutgers University, 7-10 April 2011. Japonisme et représentations du Japon : Les Cahiers de Pierre Loti et Félix Régamey. 23rd Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference. Duquesne University, 24-25 September 2010. La vie scandaleuse de Pierre Loti: transvestisme et décadence fin-de-siècle. Article presented in one of the Nineteenth Century French Studies Session of the MLA (Modern Language Association) Philadelphia, 27-30 December 2009. Maugis the Magician: the Trickster of Les Quatre fils Aymon. Article presented at the French I section of the SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) in Atlanta, 6-8 November, 2009. L activité imageante ou la mise en abyme dans Le Rêve d Emile Zola. 22 nd Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference. Duquesne University, 18-19 September, 2009. Le chronotope de la forêt : une lecture écocritique du Château de la Belle-au-Bois- Dormant de Pierre Loti. 34th Annual International Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium. Vanderbilt University, 16-18 October, 2008. 4
La découverte du moi dans le discours de l autre: les rencontres spéculaires dans Le Bel Inconnu, et Perceval ou le Conte du Graal. 21st Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference. Duquesne University, 19-20 September, 2008. The secret and the Cognitive Itinerary in the Châtelaine de Vergy. Article presented in the Medieval Literature Session at the SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) in Atlanta, 9-11 November, 2007. La Photographie, un art diabolique pour Pierre Loti. 20th Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference. 21-22 September, 2007. La mise en cadre d un cliché. Étude de Madame Chrysanthème. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2007. Visions cauchemardesques et troubles d identités chez Saint-Amant et Théophile Gautier. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2006. Le lieu du féminin dans la fontaine d Yvain de Chrétien de Troyes et ses prolongations. University of Cincinnati. Conference on «L artifice». September 2003. Une étude de deux contes algériens selon V. Propp. Romance Languages Faculty and Graduate Forum at the University of Florida. October 2001. PUBLICATION Articles L espace du port : Les représentations de Paimpol et de Brest dans Mon Frère Yves et Pêcheur d Islande. Bulletin de l Association des Amis de Pierre Loti. Paris : Juin 2013, nº28. «La prière de Gaud et la croix des veuves de Ploubazlanec dans Pêcheur d Islande.» Bulletin de l Association des Amis de Pierre Loti. Paris : Juin 2013, nº28. «Le français des affaires : comment préparer les étudiants avancés au diplôme de français CFP A2 de la Chambre de Commerce et d Industrie de Paris.» 24th Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference. Duquesne University. Rondas Literarias de Pittsburgh, August 2013. «Comment enseigner Un Cœur simple et La Légende Saint-Julien l hospitalier de Gustave Flaubert en utilisant les nouvelles technologies.» 24th Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference. Duquesne University. Rondas Literarias de Pittsburgh, August 2012. 5
«Japonisme et représentations du Japon : Les Cahiers de Pierre Loti et Félix Régamey» Rondas Literarias de Pittsburgh. Duquesne University 2009-2010, 175-185. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Department of Modern Languages, 2011. «Le Château de la Belle-au-Bois-Dormant: Pierre Loti écologiste avant la lettre». Bulletin de l Association des Amis de Pierre Loti. Paris : Juin, 2010, nº 22, 12-17. Le Rêve d Émile Zola: Une réécriture de La Légende dorée. Rondas Literarias de Pittsburgh. Duquesne University 2008-2009, 209-218. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Department of Modern Languages, 2010. «L espace merveilleux des contes dans Japoneries d automne de Pierre Loti.» Bulletin de l Association des Amis de Pierre Loti. Paris : Juin 2009, nº20. «La Photographie, un art diabolique pour Pierre Loti». Rondas Literarias de Pittsburgh 2006-2007, 145-54. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Department of Modern Languages, 2008. «Écriture, photographie et mémoire chez Pierre Loti.» Bulletin de l Association des Amis de Pierre Loti. Paris : Décembre, 2007, nº17, 28-30. «Le Japon de Pierre Loti: La mise en cadre d un cliché.» Bulletin de l Association des Amis de Pierre Loti. Paris: Juin, 2007, nº16, 9-11. Book Reviews Reed, Christopher. The Chrysanthème Papers. The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysanthème and Other documents of French Japonisme. Honololu: University of Hawai i Press, 2010. The French Review volume 85.3 Pierre Taminiaux. The Paradox of Photography. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2009. The French Review volume 84.4 (March 2011). Robert Ziegler, The Nothing Machine. The fiction of Octave Mirbeau.» New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. Volume 62: 2 Fall 2008. Hugh Thomas, Beaumarchais in Seville. The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. Volume 62: 1 Spring 2008. Creative work «Comment je suis devenue lotiste» Bulletin de l Association des Amis de Pierre Loti. Juin 2010, nº22, p.18. 6
Public Lectures France and the Fight About Global Warming. Climate Change Forum. International Perspectives. University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. March 30 th, 2010. Intertextuality in the novel Indiana by George Sand (1804-1876). UPJ Faculty Lecture Series. University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. January 26 th, 2010 The Value of Languages and Appreciating the Culture of Other Countries. UPJ International Education Week, September 29 th, 2009. The Importance of Ecology in the Life of Pierre Loti. UPJ Faculty Lecture Series. University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. April 10 th 2009. The Development of the French Educational System: The Importance of the Humanities. Humanities Colloquia Series 2008-2009: Perspectives on Higher Education. University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, 6 November, 2008. ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES Member of the Faculty Senate Council (2012-2014) Member of Marissa Landrigan s Peer Review Committee Member of the Climate Change Forum committee (2010-2011) Interim coordinator of the University Center for International Studies (spring 2010) Member of the Vannucci Awards Review Committee for 2010 Member of the Vira I Heinz Scholarship Committee 2010 Advisor Student Council of World Affairs Chair of a session on Algerian Literature at the Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference. Duquesne University, 25 September 2010 Chaired a session on the Forbidden in medieval literature for the SAMLA in Atlanta, GA. 6-8 November, 2009 Member of the Welfare Committee (since 2010) Member of the JPBC Committee (2009-2010) 7
Secretary, section on medieval literature at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Louisville, KY, November, 2008 Member of the International Studies Advisory Committee since fall 2008 Co-chair of the WG 4 for the UPJ Task Force on Global Education, spring 2008 Member of the UCIS (University Center for International Studies) COURSEWORK Smart Board training, March 2013 Estrada training, November 2008 Blackboard training, August 2007 Certification from the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (C.C.I.P.): Coursework/practical training in Business French. Université d'été 2007: "Comment préparer aux examens de la CCIP: CFP1, CFP2, DFA1" (par Maité Bagarry). AWARDS and GRANTS University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Faculty Research Grant (Summer 2013) University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Faculty Research Grant (Summer 2009) University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Faculty Research Grant (Summer 2008) UCIS Small Grant (Summer 2008) Ernest G. Atkin Memorial Endowment Fund, summer, 2004 (University of Florida) University of Florida Graduate Teaching Award, 2002 Romance Languages Teaching Award, 2002 (University of Florida) DSR Grinter Supplemental Award Fellowship, 2001/2002 (University of Florida) French: native Spanish: fluent Catalan: reading Italian: reading LANGUAGES MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AATF (American Association of Teachers of French) Association des Amis de Pierre Loti MLA (Modern Language Association) NEMLA (North East Modern Language Association) 8