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Brian Quinn
Curriculum vitae
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
MA
BA
French and Francophone Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
June 2015
French Cultural Studies, Columbia University, 2002
Anthropology and French, Fordham University, 2001
EMPLOYMENT
2015-
Assistant Professor, French, University of Colorado-Boulder
PUBLICATIONS
"Staging Culture: Senghor, Malraux and the Theatre Programme at the First World Festival of
Negro Arts", The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966. Ed. David Murphy.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016. 83-96.
"Ruines D'Utopies: L'Ecole William Ponty et L'Université du Futur Africain", co-authored
with Ferdinand De Jong. Politique Africaine. Eds. Aïssatou Mbodj and Guillaume Lachenal.
135 (October 2014) 71-93.
“De-Centering Theatrical Heritage: Forum Theater in Contemporary Senegal.”
African Studies Quarterly. Eds. Devin Bryson and Molly Enz. 14.3 (March 2014) 75-88.
REVIEWS / TRANSLATIONS
Senghor, Léopold Sédar. "Critical Standards of African Art," (translation and introduction).
African Arts. 49.4 (Winter 2016) 10-15.
Mara Leichtman. Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa: Lebanese Migration and Religious
Conversion in Senegal (review). Shii Studies Review (2016).
HONORS / AWARDS
2016
2014-15
2014
Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities research grant (CU-Boulder)
Kayden Research Grant (CU-Boulder)
Dissertation Year Fellowship (UCLA, graduate division)
Fulbright IIE to fund performance fieldwork in Senegal
Lennart travel fellowship (UCLA graduate division)
Brian Quinn, curriculum vitae
2013
2012-13
2012
2011
2010
2009
2
Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) award (UCLA)
Summer Foreign Language Area Studies fellowship (FLAS) for Wolof, Dakar
Pensionnaire étranger at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris
Mellon Fellowship of Distinction
Dissertation research fellowship to fund archival research in Dakar
(Center for European Studies, UCLA)
Graduate Summer Research Mentorships (UCLA Graduate Division)
Dept. support to attend Dartmouth College's Institute of French Cultural Studies
Graduate Summer Research Mentorships (UCLA Graduate Division)
Mellon Fellowship of Distinction
Del Amo Fellowship, Regents Stipend
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
2016
"The Saint and the Stage: Mouride Performance Culture in Bamba Mos Xam," African
Studies Association conference, Washington DC. December.
"Senghor and Malraux at the Festival Mondial des arts nègres," The Performance of PanAfricanism conference, Tallahassee, Florida. October.
2015
"Resistance in Ruins: Performance and memory at the site of the Ecole William Ponty,"
European Conference for African Studies (ECAS), Paris. July.
2014
"Commemorating the Future: Contemporary Curators of Senegal's William Ponty
School," Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, London. November.
"The Phoenix of the Ecole William Ponty," co-authored paper presented by Ferdinand De
Jong, Infrastructure of Utopia conference, Cambridge University. June.
"Sébikotane and the Université du Futur Africain," Centre d'études et de recherches
internationales (CERI) at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris. March.
2013
"Remembering the Pontins: material remembrance of the Ecole William Ponty,"
Representations of Remembrance, UCLA French and Francophone graduate conference,
September.
“Archives of Performance: Theatrical staging at the William Ponty school,” Utopian
Archives Research Network Conference, University of Stirling, February.
2012
“Cue the nation: Emerging nationalisms in the Francophone theater of FESMAN ’66,”
Archives of Post-Independence Africa and its Diaspora, CODESRIA (org.), Dakar, June.
2011
“A Post-industrial aesthetic: French street theater and the crisis of dimension,”
Geographies of Space, graduate student conference, UC Santa Barbara, April.
Brian Quinn, curriculum vitae
2010
3
“Performing the Crisis: Contemporary Street Theater in France,” University of Oregon,
Dept. of Romance Languages, graduate student conference, October.
“Salvation in the Secular Theater of Marguerite de Navarre,” Renaissance Society of
Southern California’s conference, February.
INVITED TALKS
2015
"Whose Culture, Where? Senghor and Malraux at the First World Festival of Black
Arts," UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, February.
2014
"Sebiponty comme site de patrimoine culturel sénégalais," organized by the Cultural
Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Dakar, at the West African Research Center,
November.
"La place du théâtre forum dans le paysage théâtral sénégalais," talk at a meeting of
forum theater practitioners of the Dakar region, Yarakh, Senegal, April.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
CU-Boulder
FREN 3500 - "Francophone Cinema in Action: Contemporary Issues through Film," Fall 2016.
FREN 3800 - "France and the Muslim World," Spring, Fall 2016.
FREN 5120 - "La Parole Montée: la représentation théâtrale dans/de l'Afrique francophone,"
graduate seminar, Fall 2015.
FREN 3120 - "Voies d'auteurs: Main Currents in French Literature of the 19th and 20th
centuries," Fall 2015.
UCLA
"Performing the nation: literature and nationalism in post-colonial Senegal," winter quarter 2014.
French summer intensive language course, lead instructor, June-July 2013.
TA for writing-intensive course on French culture, spring quarter 2012.
TA for departmental course in French Cinema, spring quarter 2011.
Taught all levels of first and second year French, 2011-2013.
NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Brian Quinn, curriculum vitae
2004-2014
2007-08
2004-07
2004-07
2002-07
2002-04
4
English-language translator for HorsLesMurs, the French national association for
the circus and street arts and Stradda, French magazine for the street arts.
Assistant researcher / translator of French research material for Mona Lisa in
Camelot, Margaret Leslie Davis.
French to English translator, with clients including television news channel
France 24 and several documentary film production companies.
Taught English-language drama workshops in high schools throughout the Paris
region with the Drama Ties Company.
Performed on stage in Paris, employing performance as a pedagogical tool, with
productions at the Musée National de la Marine (Némo, ou le voyageur
impossible, on the work of Jules Verne) with Le Théâtre de l'Equinoxe, the
Comédie Française, and throughout the Ile-de-France region with the children's
theater company La Compagnie Oz.
Taught business English course at Nokia and France Télécom, as well as at the
business colleges IDRAC, ACMP and IGEFI.
LANGUAGES
French
Wolof
Spanish
Near native
Advanced
Advanced
AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association (MLA), West African Research Association (WARA), West
African Research Center (WARC), African Studies Association (ASA).