Martha B. van der Drift Ph.D. University of North Carolina 2007

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Martha B. van der Drift
Ph.D. University of North Carolina 2007-present:
Comprehensive exams on the relationship between memory and identity 2009
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Prospectus defense: Sept. 7 , 2011.
Dissertation: JMG Le Clézio – leclézien hybridity:
“Relation”s of genres, histories, cultures and mediation in selected works
Research Interests: Interdisciplinary relations of cultural (arts, literature, film and music) and historical expressions of
hybridity and interculturality
Writers of Future Research Interest: Issa Asgarally, Albert Camus, Driss Charaïbi, Maryse Condé, Ananda Devi,
Assia Djebar, Edouard Glissant, Yasmina Kadra, JMG Le Clézio, Alain Mabanckou, Régine Robin, Lyonel Trouillot,
Education
B.A. French. Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, August 2005. Summa Cum Laude
M.A. Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, June 2007. Comprehensive exams: literature and culture from Middle Ages through
21st century.
Felllowships & Awards
Department Travel Award December 2010
McCullough Summer Research Fellowship Summer 2011
Department Publication Award & Travel Reward November 2011
Ferdinand Summer Dissertation Fellowship Summer 2012
Request for Travel Assistance awards for 2012 with Graduate School and CES (Centre International des Etudes
Francophone world conference, Greece June 2012)
Submissions for dissertation completion fellowships October 2011: The Ford Foundation, UNC
Conferences, Interviews and Publications
- Interview with JMG Le Clézio, Paris, 7 November 2011
- “Kalima“ et Coeur brûle: Le chemin de l’hybridité. Colloque et journées de rencontre de l’Association Le Clézio et
l’Université de Rabat, Maroc. juin 2011. Requested for publication in Les Cahiers Le Clézio Spring 2013
- “Révolutions: la mémoire comme espace de Relation”. Colloque “Le Clézio, Glissant, Segalen: la quête comme
déconstruction de l’aventure”. Laboratoire LLS (Langages, LIttératures, Sociétés). Présidence de l’Université de
Savoie, Cambery: France, 2-4 décembre 2010. Publication by the Université de Savoie Jan 2011
- “Identity of Relation and Identity Tout-monde in Régine Robin’s l’immense fatigue des pierres” Carolina Conference
on Romance Literatures, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 27, 2008. Publication. Romance
Notes. Vol. 48 Issue 3, p335-343, 9p.
- “The Self as the Other: Recreating Identity in Malika Mokeddem’s N’zid”, Franco-Arabic Cultures Today Conference.
April 16-19 2008. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 18, 2008.
Teaching Experience:
UNC- CH August 2007 – present
Instructor:
French 102
French 203 Intermediate French
French 204 Advanced reading and grammar and course coordinator 2011/2012
French 260 Introduction to French / Francophone Literature where I designed my own course
Graduate Research Consultant
ASIA/FREN/INTS 451: Orientalist Fantasies, Spring 2010
GRC: French 372 19th - 21st Century French and Francophone literature Survey Course, Fall 2011
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GRC: Fren 375 20 -21 Century Francophone Literature, Spring 2012
Ohio University August 2005-July 2007
Instructor: French 101, French 102, and French 211-212-213
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Assistant Director for the 2006 Ohio University Spring Quarter Study Abroad at the Université d’Avignon, France