ELOISE A. BRIÈRE JUNE, 2011 Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Humanities 219 Tel: (518) 489-7001 (h), 442-4222 (w) E-mail: ebriere@albany.edu EARNED DEGREES - University of Toronto, French, Ph.D, 1982 -Université de Bordeaux, English, M.A., 1974 -Université de Dakar, French, French, M.A., 1971 - Middlebury College, French, M.A., 1970 - University of Massachusetts, French, B.A., 1967 EDUCATION ABROAD - Institut des Professeurs de Français à l'etranger, 1969-70 - Sorbonne, 1969-70 - Institut d'etudes Politiques de Paris, 1969-70 ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT - State University of New York at Albany, Associate Professor, 1992-present - University of Maine, Libra Visiting Professorship, June 1998 - State University of New York at Albany, Assistant Professor of French Studies, 1984-1992 - State University of New York at Albany, Visiting Assistant Professor of French, 1983-l984 - Rutgers University, Assistant Professor of French, 1981-1983 - State University of New York at Albany, Part-time Lecturer in French, 1979-198l SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY BOOKS : -Le Roman Camerounais et ses discours, Paris:Nouvelles du Sud, 1993, 267pp. -Franco-American Viewpoints, Exhibition Catalogue, Lionel Delevingne and Nicole Vaget, Northampton, MA: New World Press, 1988, 45 pp. -Rendez-vous: la France et la Francophonie, with Judith Fromer and Barbara Woshinsky, New York: Random House, 1982, 250 pp.
Eloise A. Brière 2 CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS -«Ventriloquie et esclavage: Du mutisme à la violence Chez Marie-Célie Agnant et Fabienne Kanor»Rebelles, Vilaines et Criminelles chez les écrivaines d expression française. Frédérique Chevillot and Colette Trout, eds. N.Y. and Amsterdam : Rodopi (forthcoming). - Werewere Liking s L Amour Cent Vies: Reubenism and Feminism, twin Therapies in the Postcolony The Original Explosion that Created Worlds: Essays on Werewere Liking s Art and Writings, IrèneAssiba d Almeida and John Conteh Morgan, eds. N.Y and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010 (109-122). - Aux Sources de la Négritude: L appel de la race Jean Price-Mars. Montréal: Encres Noires, 2009 (377-382). - Quand la Marge atteint le centre: Mongo Beti et le Postcolonialisme Francophonie littéraire du Sud : un divers singulier. Sous la direction de Najib Redouane. Paris : L'Harmattan, 2006 ( 57-70 ). - Calixthe Beyala, Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. NY: Oxford, 2008. Online resource : ULB : / HQ 1121 O98 2008 WWW - Le rire et les gens d en bas L Humour et le rire dans les littératures francophones des Amériques, Jozef Kwarterko, ed. Paris: l Harmattan, 2006 (97-110) - Confronting the Western Gaze Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist Discourses. Obioma Nnaemeka, ed. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2005 (279-306). - Quebec and France: La Francophonie in a Comparative Postcolonial Frame Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies, Ann Donnadey and Adlai Murdoch, eds. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2005 (151-174). - Writing Memory in Alien Places: Becoming a (Quebécois) Subject Haitian Literature: Writing Under Siege, Kathryn Balutansky and Agnès Souriau, eds. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004 (389-403) - Lire, enseigner et rencontrer Mongo Beti, Remember Mongo Beti, Ambroise Kom, ed. Bayreuth: Institut fur Afrikastudien, 2003 (101-107. - Au delà des frontières coloniales: Aimé Césaire et la Révolution Tranquille au Québec. Aimé Césaire: Une Pensée pour le XXIe siècle Paris: Présence Africaine and Centre Cesairien d E tudes et de recherches, 2003. (455-469). -"A la Recherche de moi-meme" Espaces de vie, espaces de rêve, Dean Louder and Eric Waddel, eds, Quebec: Presses de l'univ Laval, 2002 (258-267).
Eloise A. Brière 3 - Comment dire l indicible? Mongo Beti, la Francophonie et le Postcolonialisme, Fictions Africaines et le Postcolonialisme, Samba Diop, ed. Paris: L Harmattan, 2002(109-128). - Mongo Beti Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, John Hawley, ed, Greenwood Press, 2000 (57-59). -"Women Writing in Cameroon", introduction to Your Madness, not mine, collection of short stories by Makuchi, Ohio University Press, 1999(13-24). -"Interview: Calixthe Beyala" with Beatrice Rangira Gallimore, in. Beatrice Rangira Gallimore, L'Oeuvre de Calixthe Beyala, Paris: l'harmattan, 1998 (189-210). -"Initiation and Confession: Narrative Strategies in Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba", Critical Perspectives on Mongo Beti. Boulder, Colorado and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc. l998 (59-70). -"Remember Ruben: étude spatio-temporelle, Critical Perspectives on Mongo Beti. Boulder, Colorado and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc. l998. (191-206). -"Résistance à l'acculturation dans l'oeuvre de Mongo Beti" Critical Perspectives on Mongo Beti. Boulder, Colorado and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc. 1998. (355-366). - Diegou Bailly : Secret d état, Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires négro-africaines de langue française: 1979-1989, Ambroise Kom, ed Bethesda, MD: International Scholars' Press, l997 (509-510). - Marcel Eboi, Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires négro-africaines de langue française: 1979-1989, Ambroise Kom, ed Bethesda, MD: International Scholars' Press, l997. - Koffi Atta : Origines, Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires négro-africaines de langue française: 1979-1989, Ambroise Kom, ed. Bethesda, MD: International Scholars' Press, l997 (397-398).. - Maxime Ndbeka : Les Dernières paroles de Koime, Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires négro-africaines de langue française : 1979-1989, Ambroise Kom, ed. Bethesda, MD: International Scholars' Press, l997 (155-157). -"Antonine Maillet et la construction d une identité acadienne" article in Mélanges Marguerite Maillet, Moncton, New Brunswick: Editions d Acadie, l996 (97-109). -"Antonine Maillet and the Construction of Acadian Identity", Postcolonial Subjects: Francophone Women Writers. Mary Jean Green et al, eds., Minneapolis: Univ of Minnesota Press, l996 (3-21). -"The Harlem Renaissance and Negritude", African Text and Critical Voices/Approaches, Claude Bouygues ed. Paris:L'Harmattan, l992 (55-72).
Eloise A. Brière 4 - Ferdinand Oyono Mbia", Dictionnaire des littératures en langue francaise, J.P. De Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty and Alain Rey, eds Paris: Bordas, 1985 (1679-1680). - Guillaume Oyono Mbia Dictionnaire des littératures en langue francaise, J.P. De Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty and Alain Rey, eds Paris: Bordas, l985 (1680). -"René Philombe" Dictionnaire des littératures en langue francaise, J.P. De Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty and Alain Rey, eds Paris: Bordas, l985 (1747). -"Mongo Beti: La Ruine presque cocasse d'un polichinelle", Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires de l'afrique noire francophone, Ambroise Kom, ed. Sherbrooke Québec: CELEF, 1983 (507-509). -"G. Ahanda-Essomba: Le Fruit défendu", Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires de l'afrique noire francophone, Ambroise Kom, ed. Sherbrooke Québec: CELEF, l983 (264-265). -"R. Philombe: Histoires queue-de-chat, Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires de l'afrique noire francophone, Ambroise Kom, ed. Sherbrooke Québec: CELEF, l983 (283-284). -"R. Philombe: Africapolis", Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires de l'afrique noire francophone, Ambroise Kom, ed. Sherbrooke Québec: CELEF, 1983 (17-18).. -"R. Philombe: Choc Anti- choc, Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires de l'afrique noire francophone, Ambroise Kom, ed. Sherbrooke Québec: CELEF, 1983 (114-115). EDITED PUBLICATIONS -J Aime New York: A Bilingual Guide to the French Heritage of New York State, Albany: SUNY-Press, 2011, 145 pp. (forthcoming). -Bulletin d'automne du CIEF, Fall 1999, 30 pp. -Notre Librairie :"Les Nouvelles Ecritures Feminines" Nos 117 (May-June) and 118 (July-Aug.), 400 pp. -Vie Française June 1987, 132 pp. -J'aime le New York: a Bilingual Guide to the French Heritage of New York State, Albany: Franco-American and Quebec Heritage Series, 1986., 42 pp. -Franco-American and Quebec Studies: A Selected List of Materials Held by the Libraries of the State University of New York at Albany, Marjorie Benedict, 1984, 31 pp.
Eloise A. Brière 5 REFEREED ARTICLES - Ventriloquizing the Native: Whose Voice is it? French Review 84 :6 (May 2011) 1200-1212. - Recycler l'histoire de la décolonisation: Fiction et lieux de mémoire, French Colonial History 8 (2007) 139-155. - Transcultural Memory: Putting the Ghosts of Haiti to Rest, International Journal of Canadian Studies 29 (2004) 63-73. - Au-delà des frontières coloniales: Aimé Césaire et la Révolution Tranquille au Québec Etudes francophones: Complicités transaméricaines, Québec et Antilles. 18:3 (Fall 2003) 91-104. - Quand Erzulie investit l espace de Maria Chapdelaine Etudes Litteraires 34:3 (summer 2002) 29-38. - Langue d écriture et transculture: le cas des francophones des Amériques, Quebec Studies, 35, (summer 2002) 135-148. -"Mère Solitude d'emile Ollivier: apport migratoire à la société québécoise", International Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue Internationale d'études canadiennes 13 (Spring/printemps 1996) 61-70. -"L'enseignement de la littérature africaine aux Etats-Unis", Notre Librairie, 119 (oct-dec 1994) 116-19. -"Le Retour des mères dévorantes" Notre Librairie: Nouvelles Ecritures Féminines, ll7 (avril-juin 1994) 66-71. -"Problématique de la parole: Le cas des Camerounaises" L'Esprit créateur XXXIII: 2 (summer 1993) 95-106 -"Mutisme et prise de parole: Le personnage féminin chez Mongo Beti", Présence Francophone, 42 (1993) 73-87. -"Inquiétude généalogique: tourment du Nouveau Monde", Présence Francophone 36 (1990) 57-71. -"In search of Cultural Equivalencies: Translation of Camara Laye", Translation Review 27 (l988) 34-39. -"Poésie québécoise et situation coloniale", Revue Francophone de la Louisiane 3:3 (Spring l988) 9-18. -"Senghor et l'amérique" Sud 17 (1987) 317-343. -"Littérature et mentalités populaires: La Nouvelle-Angleterre", Vie Francaise (June l987): 111-120. -"L'Enfant Noir by Camara Laye: Strategies in Teaching an African Text", French Review 55:6 (May l982): 804-8l0
Eloise A. Brière 6 -"Résistance à l'acculturation dans l'oeuvre de Mongo Beti", Canadian Journal of African Studies l5:2 (1981): l8l-l99. -"Théatre camerounais: Rideau fermé", Peuples Noirs-Peuples Africains (automne 1979): 75-88. -"La Réception critique de l'oeuvre de Mongo Beti,"Oeuvres et Critiques III:2 and IV:l (1979): 75-88. -"Littérature camerounaise: faux espoirs ou nouvelles tendances?" Peuples Noirs-Peuples Africains 9 (mai-juin 1979) 69-80. -"Remember Ruben: Etude spatio-temporelle,"présence Francophone, 15 (automne 1977) 31-46. UNREFEREED ARTICLES -"Rediscovering the French Canadian Diaspora: A Personal Testimony" Journal of Cultural Geography 8:2 (Spring-Summer 1988):65-72. -"Senghor et l'amérique" Bulletin l986-1987:société des Professeurs français en Amérique (1986-1987):225-252. -"Nlan Mved Atan Enege: Histoire lyrique de Atan Enege recueillie par l'abbé Tobias Atangana, mort en 1944" Abbia 34-37 (June 1979) 214-231. PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS - La Ventriloquie: vecteur de transformation culturelle ou bien retour au meme?. (forthcoming). -"La réception de l'oeuvre d'antonine Maillet aux Etats-Unis", La réception des oeuvres d'antonine Mailet: Actes du Colloque International, Octobre 1988, Moncton: Chaire d'etudes Acadiennes, 1989. -"Senghor and America: The New Negro" Commentaries on a Creative Encounter, Keith Baird and Jean-François Gounard eds., Albany: New York African-American Institute, 1988. -"La Narration chez Mongo Beti: Du singulier au collectif", Perspectives Théoriques sur les Littératures Africaines et Caribéennes, Suzanne Crosta, Robert Miller and Gloria Onyeoziri, eds.,toronto: University of Toronto, 1987 (93-107).
Eloise A. Brière 7 BOOK REVIEWS - Contemporary Matriarchies in Cameroonian Francophone Literature: On est ensemble, By Cheryl Toman Birmingham, AL: Summa, 2008. 187 pp. ISBN978-1-883479-60-2 cloth. Legal Oppositional Narrative: A case Study in Cameroon, By Stephen L. Bishop Lahnam; Boulder; NY: Lexington, 2008. Research in African Literature (forthcoming). - Les Ecrivaines Francophones en Liberté by Martine Fernandes, APELA (forthcoming). - Une Chine Pas Si douce: Sweet, Sweet China by Felicia Mihali, Canadian Literature Vol 199 (Winter 2008) 227-228. - Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean by Renée Larrier, Journal of Haitian Studies Vol 14:2 (Winter 2008). - Calixthe Beyala: Performances of Migration by Nikki Hitchcott International Journal of Francophone Studies 11:1 /2 (2008) 241-242. - L'Ouest Français et l'amérique, Gilbert Cesbron, ed, French Review (Fall 1997). -"Ousmane Sembene : Dialogues with Critics and Writers.", Research in African Literatures 26:3 (Fall 1995) 198-200. -"African novels and the Question of Orality", Callaloo 17:1 (1994) 272-274 -"Blank Darkness no more: Voices from both sides of the Sahara", Callaloo 16:1 (1993). -"Suite en sol indien et Les Fruits de la pensée". Francophonies d'amérique 2 (1992) 109-112. -"Socrates in Cameroon: The Life and Works of Bernard Nsokika Fonlon by Nalova Lyonga", Research in African Literature 21:4 (Fall l990). -"Littérature Canadienne Francophone," The American Review of Canadian Studies XVII: 4 (Winter l987-1988) 449-450. -"Turtle Mountain Music -Folkways Recording FES 4140,"North Dakota Quarterly, with B. Ouimet, (Winter l987)277-278. -"5, Place du Québec," French Review 58:3 (Feb. l985) 500-50l. -"Abel Eyinga: Mandat d'arrλt pour cause d'élection: De la démocratie au Cameroun l970-l978,"
Eloise A. Brière 8 Canadian Journal of African Studies, l5 (l98l):354-356. -"Mon Amour en noir et blanc: Jacqueline Manicom," Journal and Bulletin of the Canadian Alliance of Black Educators l:3 (l980) 23. SCHOLARLY PAPERS PRESENTED AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES -Du Mutisme à la violence chez Marie-Célie Agnant et Fabienne Kanor The Caribbean Unbound V : Vodou and Créolité, Lugano Switzerland, April 6-9, 2011. - Ventriloquie et esclavage NEMLA, Montreal, April 2010. - La Ventriloquie comme vecteur de transformation culturelle, ou bien retour au même?, CTHS conference, Quebec City, June 4-6, 2008. - Recycler l histoire: Litterature et lieux ce mémoire, French Colonial Historical Society, Dakar, Senegal, May 17-20, 2006. - Calixthe Beyala and Werewere Liking: two modes of transculturalism European Conference on African Studies, London, June 29-July 3, 2005. - Transcultural Memory: Putting the Ghosts of Haiti to Rest, American Council of Quebec Studies Biennial Meeting Quebec City, November 19, 2004. - Aimé Césaire et la Révolution tranquille au Québec, Colloque Aimé Césaire, Fort-de-France, Martinique, juin 2003. - Déconstruire le père de la nation: cinema de David Achkar, Conseil International d Etudes Francophones, Abidjan, Côte d Ivoire, Juin 2002. - Theorie postcoloniale et le transculturel Conseil International d Etudes Francophones, Portland, Maine, May 2001. - Refaire identité outre-frontière American Council of Quebec Studies, Montreal, October 2000. - Mongo Beti et le postcolonialisme Conseil Internatoinal d Etudes Francophones, Sousse, Tunisia, June 2000..-" Edwige Danticat and Calixthe Beyala", Haitian Studies Association, Port-au-Prince, November l998. -"Le Plagiat comme stratégie littéraire", Conseil International d'etudes Francophones, Moncton, NB,
Eloise A. Brière 9 May l998. -"A Quoi bon resister à l'assmilation: du théatre de Grégoire Chabot", Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, Toulouse, France l996. -"-Le Cinéma de David Achkar", Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, Charleston, S.C. l995. -"Teaching L'Enfant noir again/against "Allah Tantou" by David Achkar", African Studies Association, Toronto, Nov. l994. -"Figures aquatiques dans le roman camerounais", Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, Québec, Apr. 1994. -"Le Personnage féminin chez Mongo Beti", African Literature Association, Guadeloupe, Apr. l993 -"La maternité dans les romans de Calixthe Beyala", Conseil International des Etudes Francohones, Casablanca, July 1993.. -"Calixthe Beyala, écrivaine camerounaise", Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, Strasbourg, France, Juin l992.. -"L'Enseignement de la littérature africaine", American Association of Teachers of French, Paris. July l989 -"Inquiétude généalogique et écriture féminine du Nouveau Monde" International Council for Francophone Studies, New Orleans, April l989. -"Simone Schwarz-Bart et Antonine Maillet", African Literature Association, Dakar, Senegal, March l989. -"L'Inquiétude généalogique: tourment du Nouveau Monde ou fonction de la tradition orale dans la recherche du temps perdu", American Council for Quebec Studies, Quebec City, Oct l988. -"Réception de l'oeuvre d'antonine Maillet aux Etats-Unis, Coloque International Antonine Maillet, Moncton, New Brunswick, Nov. l988. -"The Franco-American and Quebec Heritage Series- an Example of Cooperation Across the Border", Popular Culture Association, Montreal, Mar. l987. -"The Life and Death of an Oral Culture: Views from Pelagie la Charette," Popular Culture Association, Montreal, Mar. l987.
Eloise A. Brière 10 -"Voix Narratives chez Mongo Beti," University of Toronto Graduate Department of French, Feb. l987. -"Senghor et l'amérique", Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, France, Aug. l986. -"The Teaching of Quebec Civilization through public programs, International Federation of Teachers of French (FIPF) World Meeting, Quebec, July 1984. -"Use of Resources and Development of Materials in Teaching about Franco-Americans" FIPF,July l984. -"Remember Ruben: étude spatio-temporelle" Canadian Association of African Studies, Sherbrooke, Quebec, May 1977 "Messianism and Salvation in the Works of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o", Canadian Association of African Studies, York Univ, Toronto, March 1975. SCHOLARLY PAPERS: NATIONAL AND REGIONAL CONFERENCES - Freedom to be? Literary Ventriloquism on both sides of the Colonial Divide, or Whose totem is it anyway? African Literature Association Annual Meeting, Burlington, VT. April 18, 2009. - Ventriolquizing the Native: whose voice is it anyhow?, North-East Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, March lst, 2009. - Quebecois Postcolonial Expression: the third wave? Association for Quebec Studies, Cambridge, MA, October 2006. - Language Choice and the Translinguial Imagination Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., Dec. 2000. -" Postcolonialism and France", Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April l999 -"Le Plagiat chez Calixthe Beyala", Table ronde sur le plagiat, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1998. -"Camara Laye, Guinea and Human Rights", AATF. Nashville, Nov. 1997. -"Warrior Marks" and "Femmes aux yeux ouverts", two views of African women. African Literature Association, East Lansing, MI, April 1997.
Eloise A. Brière 11 -"Confronting the Western Gaze", Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., Dec l996. -"Littérature haitienne au Canada: Emile Ollivier et l'inquétude généalogique", The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, Seattle, Nov. 1995. -"Where Silence Reigns: Women finding a voice in Francophone Cameroonian Literature", African Studies Association, Boston, Dec. 1993. -"Questions d'identité: voix féminines du Cameroun", Société des Professeurs Francais et Francophones d'amérique, New York, Mar. l992. -"Crossing the Threshold of Change: Women Writing in Cameroon" African Literature Association, New Orleans, March 1992. -"Negritude and the United States", Conference on the Culture and Literature of Francophone Africa, SUC Buffalo, Oct. 1987. -"The Je-Nous Shift in Mongo Beti," African Literature Association, Cornell University, April 1987. -"Liens entre Senghor et l'amérique," Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d'amerique, Oct. 1986. -"Du contexte colonial au texte littéraire camerounais: Le cas du Christianisme," Southern Council for Francophone Studies, Lafayette,Louisiana, March l986. -"French Colonial Legacy in West Africa: the Case of Cameroonian Literature," French Colonial Association, Ste. Geneviève, Mo., May 1986. -"Franco-American Profiles" New Hampshire Council for the Humanities, Rochester, NH, May 1984. -"Francophone Images in French Textbooks", MLA Annual Meeting, New York Dec. 1983. -"From Rome to the Bush: Religion and Revolution in the works of V.Y. Mudimbe", African Literature Association, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana, April 1983. -"Littératures et mentalités populaires : La Nouvelle Angleterre",AATF, New York, Nov. l982. -"The North American French Language in New York State", Société des Professeurs Français en Amérique, Rutgers Univ., Feb. l982. -"Traditional Religion and Christianity in the Cameroonian Novel", African Literature Association annual meeting, Apr. 1982.
Eloise A. Brière 12 -"Maintien et renaissance du français", AATF Regional Conference, Worcester, MA, Oct. 198l. -"Cameroonian Theatre: Plays Unseen", African Literature Association, Gainesville, FL, Apr. 1980. -"Religion and Literature in Cameroon" African Studies Association, Los Angeles, Oct. 1979. -"René Philombe Speaks Out", African Literature Association, Bloomington, Ill, Apr. 1979"Exile and National Literature in Cameroon", MLA, Chicago, Dec. 1977. -"Strategies in Teaching an African text: L'Enfant Noir by Camara Laye", Ontario Modern Language Teachers' Association, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, April 1976. OTHER SCHOLARLY PAPERS - Using the concept of Ventriloquization to analyze the Native American Voice in French LLC Research Conference, UAlbany, April 3, 2009. -"The Self and the Other: French Studies and "La Francophonie", Cultural Diversity and the Liberal Arts Curriculum. UAlbany, May 1990 OTHER PRESENTATIONS (INVITED SPEAKER) -Keynote speaker, CUNY Conference, Graduate Program in French: Locating Empire: Seduction, Domination and Revolt in the French Cultural Reach, October 2006 -Francois Dupeyron, Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran, Coming of Age Film Series, UAlbany October 2009. - Nwame Ngangura, La Vie est Belle, International Film Series, UAlbany, October 2004. - Franco-Americans, the invisible minority, Race in the 21 st Century, third Biennial World Affairs Symposium, Keene State College, Keene, NH Oct. 31, 2003. -Keynote speaker Franco-Américains: Une Identité pour le 21e siècle?, Institut Français, Assumption College Awards Banquet, Sept. 9, 2003. - Afrique sur Seine, Postcolonial Colloquia Series, Univ. of Rochester, Oct. l, 2003. - Christianity: Making Africa Safe for Commerce, Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture and the Eleanor O Leary Chair in Francophone Studies, Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA, April 2001.
Eloise A. Brière 13 - Quebec and Albany, three centuries of contacts, La Societe Historique de Quebec, February 2000. - In Search of the Elusive Franco-American, University of Maine, June l998. - Teaching about Franco-Americans: a Faculty Development workshop University of Maine at Orono, November l993. -"La France, les Franco-Américains et l'inquiétude généalogique", a presentation in the French Senate: Assises de la Francophonie Américaine, Paris. Dec.1990. -"Les Franco-Américains et le Québec" testimony before the Constitutional Hearings on the Future of Quebec, Quebec City, December l990. -"Transatlantic Connections: the Harlem Renaissance and the Negritude Movement" Rockefeller Scholars Seminar, Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture, New York, May l989. -"Franco-Americans in our midst", Boston Public Library, Nov. l984. PANELS CHAIRED AT SCHOLARLY MEETINGS - Ecrivaines Caribbennes, The Caribbean Unbound V : Vodou and Créolité, Lugano Switzerland, April 6-9, 2011. - Poetique du bilinguisme Modern Language Association, New York, December 2002. - Cinema Africain Conseil International d Etudes Francophones, Abidjan, Juin 2002. - Enseigner les Franco-Americains Conseil International d Etudes Francophones, Juin 2001. "Postcolonialism and France", Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April l999. -"Translating and Teaching the Maghreb", Le Maghreb à la Croisée des chemins", Hamammet, Tunisia, June l997. -Plenary session: Round Table on the Francophone Writer and Identity, American Assn of Teachers of French, Lyon, France l996. -"A Quoi bon resister à l'assimilation?", Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, Toulouse, France, l996. -"Bridging the Gap that Divides: Cameroonian Literature", African Literature Assn, SUNY-Stony-Brook, l996.
Eloise A. Brière 14 - Franco-American studies Conseil international des Etudes Francophones, Casablanca, July l993. -"Léopold Sédar Senghor de la Négritude à la Francophonie," African Literature Association, Dakar, Senegal, March l989. -"Comment peut-on enseigner les littératures africaines et caribéennes?" International Council for Francophone Studies, New Orleans, April l989. - The Franco-American Experience, a Resource for the French Classroom, AATF annual meeting, Montreal, July 1986. - Current Films and Novels by Franco-Americans, Northeast Council for Quebec Studies, Amherst, Massachusetts, Oct l984. - The Oral Tradition, African Literature Association, Baltimore, April l984. - North-American French: Franco-Americans, Cajuns and the French Language, AATF, New York, Nov. l983. ACADEMIC HONORS, AWARDS & GRANTS -UUP, Individual Development Award, The Caribbean Unbound Conference, Lugano, Switzerland, April 2011 ($700.) -Chancellor s Award for Excellence in Teaching, May, 2010 -President s Award for Excellence in Teaching, April, 2010 -Lake Champlain Basin Project grant for research on a guide to the French heritage of New York State (with David Graham of the American Association of Teachers of French), July, 2009, ( $10,000.) -ITLAL Grant for the improvement of undergraduate instruction, 2009 ( $500). -Quebec Studies matching grant award for the U/Albany Quebec Studies Collection (assist principal grant writer:jesus Alonso-Regalado), 2008, ($1,000.) -First U/Albany Diversity Award, May, 2007, ($2500.) -Two Awards for the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures from the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program for the teaching of Arabic, 2005-2006. 2006-2007. -Post-Doctoral Award for the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures from the International Association for Quebec Studies.Spring semester 2006 (Dr. Névine El Nossery).
15 - Francophone Postcoloniality: Necropolitics on the Home Front, FRAP B, 2006 (,$1800.) -Faculty Council Travel Award, FCHS Conference (Dakar, Senegal), 2006,( $912.) -UUP, Individual Development Award, FCHS Conference, 2006 ($525.) -Quebec Ministry of International Affairs grant received for one-day residency at U/Albany for writer Marie Célie Agnant, April 27, 2005 U/Albany Affirmative Action grant to support Black History month lecture by Dr. Flore Zephir,2004. -National Award : Certificat de mérite. Recognition for service to, research on and publications about the Franco-American community, Annual Award Ceremony, Assumption College, French Institute, September 27, 2003. -Selected to participate in the Quebec Summer Seminar organized by the Center for the Study of Canada (SUNY-Plattsburgh), Montreal and Quebec, August 1999. -SUNYA Award for Excellence in Service, April l988. -French Cultural Services Grant: workshop on Francophone Cultures, l996. -NY State United University Professions Classroom Scholarship Grant, 1995. -Faculty Research Award 1994. -Grant from French Cultural Services to develop Franco-American data base, l993. -Nuala Drescher McGann Affirmative Action Leave, Fall l990. -NEH Travel to Collections summer grant, l988. -New York African-American Institute, summer research grant 1988. -SUNYA Faculty Research Award 1988. -Rockefeller Foundation Scholar in Residence: Schomburg Center for Black Culture, l987-l988. -SUNY Grant for the Improvement of Undergraduate Instruction, l986. -New Faculty Development Award, SUNYA l985 -National Endowment for the Humanities Grant ($ l09,000) l984. -National Endowment for the Humanities Grant ($ 80,000) l983. -Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy Grant ($ 6,000) l982.
16 -Fulbright-Hays Grant for research in Cameroon, 1978. -Doctoral Fellowship from the Canadian Department of External Affairs, 1974-1978 TEACHING COURSES TAUGHT: Graduate: -Francophone Literatures -Senegal through film and Literature -Caribbean Issues -Childhood in African Literature -Neo-Quebecois Literature -Postcolonial African Film -Literature of Quebec -Postcolonial Francophone Theatre -Women Writing in West Africa -Francophone African Literature -Antonine Maillet: Novels and Theatre -Teaching College French -The Novel of Quebec Rutgers University: -Black Francophone Literature Undergraduate: -African Cinema (in English) -Francophone Women Writers -Field-course in Haiti -Francophone Cultures (in English) -Haiti at the Crossroads (in English) -Women Writers from Africa and the Diaspora (in English) -Quebec through Film and Literature (in English) -Francophone Cultures -Introduction to Global French Studies -All levels of language courses -Phonetics Rutgers University: -Introduction to French Literature -Phonetics -Composition -Business French -Intermediate language courses
17 DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS : Chair of Committee: In progress -Kristen Bini prospectus in progress -Anoumou Amekudji Le Thème du retour dans le roman et le cinéma africains -Charlene Grant Femmes Maghreb et Amerique du Sud Chair of Committee: Completed -Danielle Jouet-Pastré «Recits de filiation : Etude de trois perspectives dans la littérature quebecoise contemporaine». Spring 2011. -Jacqueline Byrne (co-chair) Colette et Gabrielle Roy, Spring 2008. -Louis Pascal Yapo The Dynamics of Subversion and Resistance in Ahmadou Kourouma s Novels, Spring 2008. Published 2009: The Portable Ahmadou Kourouma. Saarbrucken, Germany: LAP Lambert. -Carrie Kuehl, "Songs, Society and identity in Contemporary Quebec" Spring, l997. -Jayne Boisvert "The Myth of Erzulie and Female Characters in the Haitian Novel", Summer l998. -Rosemary Lyons Chase A comparison of the works of Antonine Maillet of the Acadian Tradition of New Brunswick, Canada, and Louise Ertrich of the Ojibwe of North America, With the poems of Longfellow", Summer 1999. Published 2002: A Comparison of the Works of Antonine Maillet and Louise Erdrich with the Poems of Longfellow. Lampeter UK, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. Member of Committee: In Progress -Nabila El Guenounni Prospectus in progress -Abeer Alouch Prospectus in progress -Evens Domond Exams forthcoming -Komla Amegashi Member of Committee: Completed -Menoukha Case Representation and Performance in African-diasporic Religion -Marco Brucher "L'Image de l'autre: Les Suisses en Algerie" -Louise Charbonneau "Le Francais parlé au Vermont", Fall l997 -Kevin Hickey Tropics of travel the place of movement in nineteenth-century British and twentieth-century African and Afro-Diasporic (travel) literatures, Fall 1998 -Nicola Kfoury, "La Femme orientale dans l'oeuvre de Flaubert", Spring l999
18 OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE -Organized and led course on Culture and Customs of Senegal, in the US Feb-April and in Senegal June-July 2011for 7 UAlbany students and 9 others from the Capital District. -Launched and taught webcasting course between UAlbany and the Université de Haute Alsace 2008-2010. -Consultant/resource for students in Franco-American Women s Voices course, Fall 2004-present, Keene State College -Developed and taught field-course in Haiti, Spring 2003 -Invited to address the Multicultural Women's Institute, University of Maine, June l998 -Interpreting the North American French Experience, ten month course for educators (SUNYA credit) Oct.-July l985 -French Writing Lab, Univ. of Toronto, l975-l978 -English language: Centre Audio-Visuel de Royan, Université de Poitiers l974 -Teacher, Collège Sainte-Jeanne-D'Arc, Dakar, Sénégal (Francophone African Literature) l970-l972 OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE -Instructional Leadership Academy (ITLAL) web-enhanced teaching, August 18-20, 2009 U/Albany -Attended Quebec Winter Symposium, Montreal, April 8-10. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Canada (SUNY-Plattsburgh) March 27-29 2009 -Attended ADFL National Conference for New Chairs, June 17-21, Albuquerque, NM 2004 -Attended Quebec Winter Symposium, Montreal, April 8-10. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Canada (SUNY-Plattsburgh) 2004 -Wrote grants for one-year residencies at UAlbany for Fulbright scholars: -Professors Ambroise Kom (1992-3) Professor Nalova Lyonga (l993-94) Andre Ntonfo (1996-97), Therese Bell (1998-99), Gilbert Doho (200-1001) -Testified before the Belleau Commission of the National Assembly of Quebec on the impact of the proposed referendum, December l994 -Seminar on la Francophonie at the Chambre de Commerce et d'industrie de Paris. Funded by the French Cultural Services, May l988 (participant) -New York State Delegate to the Rassemblement des Peuples Francophones d'amérique meeting, Quebec City, June 1987 -Producer of radio programs: "Points de vue Franco Américains/Franco-American Viewpoints" Massachusetts Aug. 1982-Oct, l983 -Organized student trip to Louisiana & homestays with French-speaking families for CDHP course participants May 1982 -Panel participant, Rencontre des Peuples Francophones, Foundation for Humanities & Public Policy, July l98l -Panel Chair: "L'Education franco-américaine", Fourth Annual meeting of the Association for Franco-Americans, Burlington, VT, Oct 1981 -NEH Summer Seminar: Strengthening and Maintaining Ethnic Languages in the US", University of New Mexico, Las Cruces, June 1981 -Group Leader: Research seminar in Senegal, World University Service of Canada, Summer l978
-Guide-interpreter for French agriculturalists' study tour of the US, Fall l969 -Translator (French/English), European & Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization, Paris, l968-l969 -Interpreter, IFYE-France, June l968 -International Farm Youth Exchange Delegate to Switzerland, l967 19 ACADEMIC SERVICE ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: -Chair, Department of Languages Literatures and Cultures 2004-2007 -Director of Undergraduate French Studies 2001-2004 -Organizer: French Film Series 2003 -Graduate Advisor, l997-1999 -Undergraduate Advisor, l989-1995, l997-1999 -Franco-American database program (supervise one graduate student and one undergraduate intern 1993-1998 -Language course coordinator, supervisor of Teaching Assistants, Department of French, SUNYA 1985-87 -Coordinator: French in the High Schools program, SUNYA, l985-l987 -Director, Franco-American and Quebec Heritage Series l984-l985 State University of New York/Albany. Administrator of a one-year NEH grant ($l09,000), organized and coordinated programs at four sites: Albany, SUNY Plattsburgh, St Lawrence Univ., Univ. of Mass., Amherst. -Coordinator with Lionel Delevingne of "Points de vue franco-américains/franco-american Viewpoints", a Photographic Essay" an exhibit touring New England l983-l988. -Director, Franco-American and Quebec Heritage Series l983-l984, State University of New York, Albany. Administrator of one-year grant ($80,000): Organized and coordinated programs in History (l0 sessions), Language (5 sessions) Music, Dance and Folklore (12 sessions), MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC COMMITTEES AND ORGANIZATIONS -Elected Delegate State UUP for 2011-2012 -Elected Member University Life Council for 2011-2012 -Chair, executive Committee Department of Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures 2010-1011 -Chair ad hoc Crisis committee, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures 2010-present -Chair Peer Review Committee, Department of Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures 2010-2011 -Member Curriculum Committee, College of Arts and Sciences (2009-2010) -Member, Executive Committee, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (2008-present) -Chair, Executive Committee, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (2008-2009) -Member, Hiring Committee, Coordinator for Language Learning Technology and Infrastructure (2007) -Chair, Hiring Committees(2), Personnel for LLC, 2007 -Member, Hiring Committee for Arabic instructor, 2007 -Organized lecture on Microcredit at UAlbany by Alex Counts Fonkoze board member, founder and
CEO of the Grameen Foundation, USA Sept. 2007. -Member Africacollaborative (Capital District association of Africanists). Invited and introduced keynote speaker, Dr. Juliana Abbenyi for first annual conference, March 2007. -Chair, Search Committee for candidate in Spanish: successfully concluded 2007 -Chair, Search Committee for candidate in French: successfully concluded 2007 -Chair, Search Committee for candidate in Russian: successfully concluded 2007 -Chair, Search Committee for VAP in French: successfully concluded 2006 -Chair, ad hoc outside lecturers committee 2006 -Chair, ad hoc committee to select Frank Carrino, Gisolfi, and Class of l952 awards, 2006 -Chair, ad hoc committee to set up internships with translation agencies 2006 -Member Council of Chairs 2004-2007 -Advisory board, Institute for Research on Women 1997-2000 -Faculty Senate 2003-2005 -Council on Research 2003-2005 -Committee on Journals and Conferences 2003-2005 -Sought and received funding for and organized visit and lecture by Dr Chantal Zabus from the University of Paris 2003 -Advisor to Haitian Students Association 1999-2004 -Organized Languages and Careers Workshop, Spring 2004 -Presentation on Haitian religion for on-campus CHARGE cultural programs, Oct 20, 2003 -Undergraduate Academic Committee 2002-2003 -Undergraduate ad hoc Grievance Committees, 2003 -Member of Committee on Journals and Conferences 2003-2005 -Faculty Review Committee 2002-2003 -Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Literatures Languages and Cultures 2000-2002 -LLC Advisory Fund-raising Committee 2000-2002 -Graduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Spring l999 -Honors Thesis reviewer for English Department, Spring l999 -Selection Committee: Distinguished Service Awards, l999 -Search Committee: Administrative Assistant, Department of Literatures Languages and Cultures, Fall 1998 -Search Committee: Chair of Literatures Languages and Cultures Oct. l997-may l998 -General Education Committee l995-96 -College Council l994-6 -Assessment Committee: Undergraduate Education (co-author of report) summer l995 -Institute for Research on Women, Executive Board 1994 -Center for the Arts and Humanities, Advisory Board l994-1995 -College Council (departmental representative) 1994-1996 -Academic Committee 1994-1995 -General Education Committee 1994-1995 -Academic Committee(French Studies) -University Committee on Continuing Appointment and Promotion Fall 1993 -Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies l989-1990 Committee on General Education l990 -Chair Undergraduate Academic Committee, Department of French l987-l988 -Co-Chair Reception for new women, College of Humanities l987 -Holmes Commission l986 20
-College Foreign Language Futures Committee l986-1992 -Ad Hoc Committee on the Capital District Humanities Program l986 -Senator, SUNYA presidential appointee l985-l986 -Co-chair, World Week language and culture committee l986 -Undergraduate Academic Council l985-l986 -Committee on Academic Standing l985-l986 -Vice-President's Advisory on International Programs l986 -Advisory to the Committee on Freshman Seminar l986 -Selection Committee: Grenoble Program 1985-l986 -Undergraduate Academic Committee l984-l987 -Ad hoc Grievance Committee College of Humanities l984-l985 -World week language and linguistics committee l985 -Organized and administered Business French examinations for the Paris Chamber of Commerce, Rutgers University 21 SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Representative -Steering Committee, U.S. Representative: Encyclopedia of North American French Heritage, Laval University 2006- present. -Secretary, MLA Division Executive Committee for Francophone Literature 2004-2005. -MLA Delegate Assembly representative for Francophone Literature 2003-2005. Officer -Elected to Modern Language Association of America division executive committee: Francophone Literatures 2001-2005. -President, Conseil International d'etudes Francophones,1998-2000. -Vice President, Conseil International d Etudes Francophones, 1996-1998. Evaluator,Tenure and Promotion: -University of Rochester, -Mount Holyoke College, -University of Pennsylvania, -University of Maine, -University of Montreal, -University of Missouri-Columbia, -University of Arizona, declined), -University -of Maine/Orono, -University of Oregon, -Emory University (declined), -Boston University, -Cal State -University at Long Beach (declined), -Albany College of Pharmacy, -Case Western Reserve University(2), -UAlbany. Outside Evaluator: -CUNY graduate center program in French, February 2000 -French Department, University of British Columbia, 2007 (declined) External Examiner: Doctoral Defenses -Lucienne Nicolas, University of Montreal, October 2000 -Pius Andesanmi, University of British Columbia, April 2002
-Joubert Satyr, University of Montreal, January 2003 22 External reviewer: Grants -Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada (declined 2008) -Society and Culture Council of Quebec (declined 2007) -Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada -Social Science and Humanities Funding Agency of Quebec -Calgary Institute for the Humanities -National Endowment for the Humanities Reviewer -University Press of Virginia -University of Nebraska Press -Modern Language Association -Etudes Francophones -Presence Francophone -Francophonies d Amerique -Research in African Literature -Quebec Studies Editorial Board -Quebec Studies 2009-present -CELFAN Review 2003-present -Etudes Francophones 1996-2004 -Présence francophone 1993-1996 -Francophonies d'amérique 1995-1999 Other -Review of French to English translation, article Women, the Sacred and the State by Fatou Sow for Christine Bose, Department of Sociology, U/Albany, April 2008. -Correspondent: Année Francophone Internationale 1995-1998. -Correspondent: Bulletin Francofemmes 1994-1997. -Reader: Thesis Awards Committee, North American Association of Graduate Schools, 1990. -Advisor to the American Association of Teacher of French Commission on Professional Standards for Francophone studies, 1990. CONFERENCES ORGANIZED -Co-organized Colloquium on African Literature with Prof. Gareth Griffith. Oct. 25., 2004. -Conference convener, International Council for Francophone Studies (600 participants), Sousse, Tunisia, May 2000. -Conference convener, International Council for Francophone Studies (400 participants), Lafayette,
Louisiana, May 1999. 23 -Planning committee: "Altérité et métissage" (Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-francaise: Univ. of Ottawa), Nov. l999. OTHER SERVICE RECORDINGS and EXHIBITS -13 one-hour radio programs (WFCR, Amherst, MA) based on 42 taped oral histories of Franco-Americans in Massachusetts, l982-l983. -5 videotaped interviews of Franco-American writers and artists, l985. -Co-producer with Lionel Delevingne of "Points de vue franco-américains/franco-american Viewpoints...a Photographic Essay" Boston Public Library and Wisteriahurst Museum, Holyoke, Mass., 1983 and l988. COMMUNITY SERVICE -Presentation on Strategies for teaching the Caribbean, University in the High Schools Program, U/Albany, November 6, 2009. -Public presentation on the French History of North America, Champlain Quadricentennial at Guilderland Public Library, June 3, 2009. -Public presentation on Haiti s history for the Lenten Global Poverty Series: Albany Pine Hills/ New Scotland Churches Cluster. February 9, 2009. -Public talk on Haiti and microcredit at Guilderland Public Library, October 2008. -Part of working committee, fundraising dinner for Fonkoze, Microcredit Bank in Haiti, Sept 2007. -As a member of Fonkoze: Organized, obtained funding for and directed on campus activities for Haitian bicentennial: lectures by J.F. Brière and Flore Zephir, Haitian Film Festival (5 films) (2004). -Panelist: Haiti: a Dream Deferred Pastoral Center, Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, April 12, 2004. -Radio interview: Current events in Haiti with Steve Braeman On the Barricades WRI, March 24, 2004. -Volunteer fundraiser for Albany branch of FONKOZE, Haiti s alternative bank for the poor 1999-present. -Organized Public Debate on Hydroelectric Power from Quebec, Rockefeller Institute, Oct l994. - Who is Jean-Bertrand Aristide? Siena College, Sept. l994. -Organized Public Debate on the Constitutional Crisis in Quebec, Rockefeller Institute, Oct. 1993. -l4-week Intermediate Conversation course, NEH Franco-American & Quebec Heritage Series
-"Brush-up your French" 4 week intensive language review, Capital District Humanities Program, SUNYA, Jan. l982 -"Franco-American Life, Language and Literature, 14 week public lecture & discussion series, Capital District Humanities Program, SUNYA, Jan.-Apr. l982. -Founded La Petite Ecole with Michèle Pollard, a Capital District after-school French program 1993 -Member, Albany Tricentennial Commission 1985-l986. -Tricentennial International Exchanges Committee 1985-l989. -Albany/Quebec sister city program l985-l989. 24 SERVICE TO ASSOCIATIONS -Vice-President, University of Fondwa, Haiti; USA Board of Directors, elected 2011 -President, Franco-American Federation of New York 1996-1998 -Vice President: Action for Franco-Americans in the Northeast, 1994-l995 -Vice President: Franco-American Federation of New York, 1989-l990 -Program Committee Chair: Franco-American Federation, 1988-l989 of New York -Advisory Board and Education Committee, Franco-American Federation of New York, 1985-1997 -New York representative to the Board of Action for Franco-Americans in the Northeast, 1985-1995 RESIDENCE IN FRANCOPHONE COUNTRIES -Cameroon 1978-1979 -Canada 1974-1978 -France 1972-1974 -Sénégal 1970-1972 -France 1968-1970 -Switzerland 1967 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS -Association pour l'étude des littératures africaines (France) -Modern Language Association -African Literature Association -International Council for Francophone Studies -American Council for Quebec Studies -American Association of Teachers of French