CHRISTOPHE IPPOLITO ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF FRENCH

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CHRISTOPHE IPPOLITO
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF FRENCH
SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES
(January 2011)
I.
EARNED DEGREES
Ph. D. 1998 Columbia University, French
M. Phil. 1995 Columbia University, French
Maîtrise 1992 University Paris III, Second Language Acquisition
DEA 1986 University Paris IV, Comparative Literature
Licence 1986 University Paris IV, Philosophy
Maîtrise and CAPES 1985 University Paris IV, French
Certified as an ACTFL Tester of French with full certification, 2002
II.
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, The Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-present
Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific, 2003-2007
Visiting Assistant Professor, Dickinson College, 2001-2003
Visiting Assistant Professor, Amherst College, 1999-2001
Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College, 1998-1999
Teaching Assistant, Columbia University, 1993-1998
High School Teacher, Versailles Academy, 1990-1992
Lecturer, University of East Asia, 1988-1990
Research Fellow, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Egyptian Government, 1986-1988
III.
TEACHING
A.
COURSES TAUGHT
Fall 2010
FREN 2001 C
FREN 2001 F
FREN 3061 B
Summer 2010 FREN 1001 R2
(GT-Lorraine) FREN 1001 RMZ
FREN 1002 RMZ
FREN 2813 RMZ
FREN 4813 RMZ
French Culture I (19 students)
French Culture I (11 st.)
Advanced Business French I (17 st.)
Elementary French I (25 st.)
Elementary French I (24 st.)
Elementary French II (17 st.)
Special Topics [Intermediate Fr. Proficiency] (15 st.)
Special Topics [Advanced French Workshop] (5 st.)
Spring 2010
FREN 3004 F
FREN 3008 E
French Culture I (23 st.)
France Today II (14 st.)
Fall 2009
FREN 2001 C
FREN 2001 F
FREN 4813 D
French Culture I (20 students)
French Culture I (24 st.)
Special Topics [Paris] (11 st.)
Summer 2009
FREN 1001 R1
Elementary French I (21 st.)
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(GT-Lorraine) FREN 1001 R2
FREN 1002 R2
FREN 2813 R2
FREN 4813 R2
Elementary French I (37 st.)
Elementary French II (10 st.)
Special Topics [Intermediate Fr. Proficiency] (6 st.)
Special Topics [Advanced French Workshop] (4 st.)
FREN 2001 D
FREN 2002 F
FREN 3012 C
(GT-Lorraine) FREN 4901 RMZ
French Culture I (20 st.)
French Culture II (11 st.)
France Today II (22 st.)
Special Problems [Cultural History, online course] (1 st.)
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
FREN 2001 B
FREN 3011 B
Summer 2008 FREN 1001 RMZ
(GT-Lorraine) FREN 1002 RMZ
FREN 2001 RMZ
FREN 4901 RMZ
FREN 4902 RMZ
(GT-Atlanta) FREN 4901 A
French Culture I (20 students)
France Today I (24 st.)
Elementary French I (20 st.)
Elementary French II (24 st.)
French Culture I (7 st.)
Special Problems [French Cultural History] (1 st.)
Special Problems [French Cultural History] (1 st.)
Special Problems [Cultural History, online course] (1 st.)
Spring 2008
FREN 2002 D
FREN 2002 F
FREN 3062 C
French Culture II (22 st.)
French Culture II (14 st.)
Advanced Business French II (16 st.)
Fall 2007
FREN 3004 E
FREN 3061 B
Drama Workshop (12 st.)
Advanced Business French I (19 st.)
B.
INDIVIDUAL STUDENT GUIDANCE
Spring 2010
FREN 4699 A
Undergraduate Research (1 st.)
Spring 2009
FREN 4699 A
Undergraduate Research (1 st.)
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OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Undergraduate Research:
• 3 students (Paris course 2009) published a paper on Paris in The Kennesaw Tower (2010).
• Obtained $741 research grant for student in 4699 A (Undergraduate Research) from
Bristol University and the Modern Humanities Research Association (UK) (spring 2009)
• 6 students published their paper on Europe in The Kennesaw Tower; article available at
http://kennesawtower.hss.kennesaw.edu/Beckett.html (France Today course, spring 2009)
• Published bilingual article on French commercial practices with 3 Business French
students, in the French Trade Commission Newsletter for the Southeast, May 2008
Curriculum Development:
• Created new courses: FREN 3000 Survey of French literature; FREN 3017 Paris:
Modernity today; FREN 3040 Rapid Reading and Translation; FREN 3500 Field Work
Abroad; FREN 4103 Francophone Africa Today.
• Co-organized with colleague at SUPELEC (Metz, France) 5 skype/video sessions
featuring interactions between students in France and in Atlanta (French 3008, spring
2010, Swann building)
Worked with Georgia Tech Lorraine staff and TAs on developing the GTL summer program
in French, including by
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increasing number of French courses taught (5 for summer 2010)
creating a new course (Intermediate French Proficiency) (from summer 2009)
creating a new course (Advanced French Workshop) (from summer 2009)
co-organizing with SUPELEC colleague 4 cross-cultural sessions (summer 2009)
creating a new (online) course: French Cultural History (summer 2008)
teaching one GTL 2000 session per summer semester (now on modern art) (from
summer 2008); GTL 2000 (2008): session co-taught with French advanced students.
Developed teaching materials including website for the study of French (fall 2008) at
http://christopheippolito.com/
Conducted standardized Spoken French interviews/assessment especially at the 2000 level
Recommended students for grants, graduate schools or jobs, in writing and/or by phone
Summary of courses taught in previous positions (including at Alliances françaises of Paris,
New York, San Francisco, Macau, and French cultural centers of Cairo & Beirut):
• All levels of language including 1st- and 2nd year sequence, conversation,
communication in context, advanced grammar, advanced writing, phonetics, Business
French, creative writing
• Cultural studies courses including Modern French Cultural History, Contemporary
French culture, Contemporary French Thought, Leisure and Civilization in Modern and
Contemporary France, French Culture and European Identity 1940–99 (through Film),
Francophone Diasporas in the Americas, French Identity: Minorities and
Multiculturalism in France and the Francophone World
• Literature courses including French literature survey (before 1800, after 1800),
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Literature: Madness, Alienation and
Modernity, Modern Poetry and Artistic Representation: From Baudelaire to Deguy;
The Nineteenth-Century French Novel, Nineteenth-Century French Novel and Society:
Constructing and Deconstructing Romanticism
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IV.
SCHOLARLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
A.
PUBLISHED BOOKS AND PARTS OF BOOKS
A1.
BOOKS
Authored
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Narrative Memory in Flaubert’s Works. Series “Currents in Comparative Romance
Languages and Literatures” (vol. 99). New York: Peter Lang, 2001, 248 pp. Reviewed in
The Romanic Review 91.3 (May 2000 [appeared in fall 2002]): 349–352; French Studies 56.3
(July 2002): 412–413; Nineteenth-Century French Studies 32.3–4 (Spring/Summer 2004):
412–413; Romanistisches Jahrbuch 55 (2004): 305–306.
Edited
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Résistances à la modernité dans la littérature française de 1800 à nos jours. Paris :
L’Harmattan, 2010. 470 pp. Edited and introduced (13-22) by Christophe Ippolito.
Lebanon: Poems of Love and War / Liban: Poèmes d’amour et de guerre, by Nadia Tuéni.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press; Beirut: Dar An-Nahar, 2006, 122 pp. Edited and
introduced (xi-xxxv) by Christophe Ippolito. Reviewed in Daily Star 8/11/2006; Bloomberg
News 9/15/2006; Banipal (Magazine of Modern Arab Literature) No. 27 Autumn/Winter
2006 (online publication); Arab Studies Quarterly 30.1 (Winter 2008): 75–76.
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A2.
REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS
3. “De Graffiti à Névralgies: Le dit de la souffrance et la veille poétique.” In Biringanine
Ndagano and Gervais Chirhalwirwa, eds., Léon-Gontran Damas : Poète moderne (Matoury,
Guyane, Ibis rouge Éditions, 2009) : 387–400.
2. “Naguib Mahfouz’s Alexandria.” In Ken Seigneurie, ed., Crisis and Memory: The
Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, Series
“Literaturen im Kontext,” 2003): 35–49.
1. “Le Syndrome Borel chez Baudelaire: comment peut-on être lycanthrope au second degré?,” in
Didier Maleuvre and Catherine Nesci, eds., L’œuvre d’identité. Essais sur le romantisme de
Nodier à Baudelaire (Montréal: Paragraphes, 1996): 87–99.
B.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
B.1.
REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
23. “Police du descriptif.” Romantisme. Revue du dix-neuvième siècle 146 (2009-3) : 101–111.
22. “La conclusion d’Indiana.” Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de la France, 109e année (2009-3) :
555–572.
21. “ ‘Le chant du signifié’: sur une lecture de Jean Cohen par Michel Houellebecq.” In
“Uncanny Poetry / Méconnaissance de la poésie,” L’Esprit Créateur 49.2 (Summer 2009):
105–118.
20. “La collection ‘Patrimoine’ de Dar An-Nahar : Une bibliothèque de la Pléiade libanofrancophone.” In “Franco-Arabic Dialogues”, Contemporary French and Francophone
Studies. Sites 13.3 (June 2009): 331–338.
19. “Intercultural Politics: Translating Post-Colonial Lebanese Literature in the United States.”
In “Translation in French and Francophone Literature and Film.” French Literature Series 36
(2009): 170–190.
18. “ ‘Faire Verdurin’ : Formes et extériorité dans Tropismes et Les Fruits d’or. ” Marcel Proust
Aujourd’hui 6, “Proust dans la littérature contemporaine” (Rodopi: Amsterdam / New York,
2008): 81–102.
17. “Engendering Poetic Memory: Nadia Tuéni’s Sentimental Archives of a War in Lebanon.”
LittéRéalité 20.2 (Winter 2008): 77–89.
16. “Intermediate French Online: Pedagogical Uses of Multiple Interfaces.” Romanitas, lenguas y
literaturas romances 2.1 (November 2007) [on-line journal, 10 pages].
15. “Parler ou dire le moderne: Flaubert et la littérature populaire dans L’Éducation sentimentale
et son manuscrit.” Symposium 59.3 (Fall 2005) : 131-143.
14. “Extérieur nuit: sentimentisme et noctambulismes dans le Paris de Jean de Tinan.” Dalhousie
French Studies 69 (Winter 2004) : 55–62.
13. “Conversion et décadence dans l’écriture de Claudel.” Paul Claudel Papers 2 (January 2004):
33–46.
12. “Discours francophones et enjeux critiques dans le champ libanais.” In Christiane Ndiaye, ed.,
“Questions de réception des littératures francophones,” Palabres 5.2 (2004-2005): 207–215.
Selected Proceedings of the 2002 Université de Montréal Colloquium.
11. “L’Échange: une éthique de la dramaturgie.” Paul Claudel Papers 1 (January 2003): 61–72.
10. “Écrire, régner, (se) faire admirer: dérives exhibitionnistes au Grand Siècle?” Cahiers du Dixseptième 8.2 (2003): 1–10.
9. “Critique du positivisme et fictions d’un gai savoir dans Bouvard et Pécuchet.” The Romanic
Review 91.1–2 (January-March 2000 [appeared in summer 2002]): 61–75.
8. “Subtexts in Flaubert: The Underlying Currents of Meaning.” RS/SI. Recherches
sémiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry 21.1–2–3 (2001): 271–296.
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7. “Flaubert’s Chateaubriand: Plagiarism or Palimpsest?” Romance Notes 41.2 (Winter 2001):
161–168.
6. “Paris, 1890: la décadence au miroir alexandrin.” Romance Studies 18.2 (December 2000):
125–133.
5. “Flaubert’s Pearl Necklace: Weaving a Garland of Images in the Reader’s Memory.”
Symposium 54.3 (Fall 2000): 169–187.
4. “Histoires d’engendrements et engendrement d’Histoire.” With Véronique Gaultier. In Ralph
Sarkonak, ed., “Claude Simon 3. Lectures de Histoire,” La Revue des lettres modernes, Série
Claude Simon (Paris/Caen: lettres modernes minard, 2000): 41–59.
3. “Flaubert’s Literary Shop in Times of ‘Industrial’ Art.” LittéRéalité 11.2 (Winter 1999): 63–
73.
2. “Système du bonnet flaubertien,” in Sima Godfrey, ed., “Fashion & Fashionability in Modern
French & Francophone Culture,” L’Esprit Créateur 37.1 (Spring 1997): 55–65.
1. “La Vérité toute nue sort du puits: communication et sexualité dans La Fortune des Rougon.”
Excavatio, vol. X (1997): 166–171.
C.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
PROCEEDINGS:
4. “From the Shtetl to Montreal: Cultural Migrations, Deterritorialization and the Hyperreal
Condition in Régine Robin’s La Québécoite.” In Diaspora: Movement, Memory, Politics and
Identity. Proceedings from a two-day symposium held November 16–17, 2002 at Dickinson
College. Carlisle, PA: The Clarke Center at Dickinson College (Contemporary Issues Series,
14), November 2003: 139–146. Reprinted in French as “Du shtetl à Montréal :
déterritorialisation chez Régine Robin,” in C. Ippolito, ed., Résistances à la modernité dans
la littérature française de 1800 à nos jours (Paris : L’Harmattan, 2010), 391-402.
3. “Eurydice Lost: African Identity and Cruelty in Werewere Liking’s Orphée-Dafric,” in
Vincent Desroches, ed., Literature and Cruelty. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Graduate
Conference in French, Francophone and Comparative Literature (New York: Columbia
University, 1996): 97–103.
2. “Autorité du témoignage et manipulation de l’auteur: le cas d’Aurélia de Nerval,” in Vincent
Desroches and Geoffrey Turnovsky, eds., Authorship, Authority. Proceedings of the Fifth
Annual Graduate Conference in French, Francophone and Comparative Literature (New
York: Columbia University, 1995): 63–69.
1. “‘Faire Verdurin’, ‘être Guermantes’.” Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Graduate Student
Conference in French and Comparative Literatures (New York: Columbia University, 1994):
35–40.
DICTIONARY ENTRIES:
3. “Aloysius Bertrand.” The Literary Encyclopedia [http://www.litencyc.com]. 3/8/2008. 2 pp.
2. “Joffre Dumazedier.” In Christopher J. Murray, ed., Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought
(New York and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004): 188–189.
1. “Louis Bertrand.” In Robert Beum, ed., Nineteenth-Century French Poets, Vol. 217,
Dictionary of Literary Biographies series (Detroit: Gale Research, 2000): 47–51.
BOOK REVIEWS:
A. Annual Reviews of Field:
3. “French literature, 1900–1945.” The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 70 (2008).
Leeds: Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association, 2010. 178–196.
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2. “French literature, 1900–1945.” The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 69 (2007).
Leeds: Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association, 2009. 194–218.
1. “French literature, 1900–1945.” The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 68 (2006).
Leeds: Maney Publishing for the MHRA, 2008. 234–257 [MLA database for journal articles].
B. Other Book Reviews:
8. Review of Les Amoureux de Schéhérazade. Variations modernes sur les Mille et Une Nuits,
by Dominique Jullien (Genève : Droz, Collection « Histoire des Idées et Critique littéraire »,
2009). The Romanic Review 100.4 (November 2009 [appeared in fall 2010]: 565–567).
7. Review of Seul dans l’Orient lointain. Les Voyages de Nerval et Du Camp, by Lise Schreier
(Saint-Étienne : Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2006). The Romanic Review
100.3 (May 2009 [appeared in spring 2010]: 393–395).
6. Review of Journal des Goncourt. Tome I: 1851-1857. Edition critique publiée sous la
direction de Jean-Louis Cabanès (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2005). The Romanic Review 98.4
(November 2007): 528–530.
5. Review of Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life, by Katharine
Conley (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003). Women in French Studies 14 (2006):
138–139.
4. Review of Des liseuses en péril. Les images de lectrices dans les textes de fiction de La
Prétieuse de l’abbé de Pure à Madame Bovary de Flaubert (1656-1856), by Sandrine Aragon
(Paris: Éditions Honoré Champion, 2003). Women in French Studies 12 (2004): 142–143.
3. Review of Vérité des choses, mensonge de l’Homme dans Madame Bovary de Flaubert: De
la Nature au Narcisse, by Didier Philippot (Paris: Éditions Honoré Champion, 1997), in
Nineteenth-Century French Studies 27 (Spring-Summer 1998): 429–431.
2. Review of Flaubert correspondant, by Martine Reid (Paris: Sedes, 1995), in The Romanic
Review 88.1 (January 1997): 197–198.
1. Review of Paris à l’époque de Balzac et dans la “Comédie Humaine”. La ville et la société,
by Jean Ygaunin (Paris: Nizet, 1992), in The Romanic Review 87.3 (May 1996): 431–434.
D.
PRESENTATIONS
64. “Nostalgy of Pre-War Lebanon in Nadia Tueni’s Poetry.” SAMLA Convention, Atlanta,
November 2010.
63. “Apories culturelles et mémoire de la diaspora : migration et écriture chez Régine Robin.”
Colloquium “Migrations, Exils, Errances, Ecritures,” Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La
Défense, CREE/CREA (EA 370), June 2010.
62. “Un détournement interculturel : l’image du paria vertueux dans la littérature française.”
“Changing Images of India and Africa,” Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France, June 2010.
61. “Régine Robin : migration, mémoire, minorités.” Summarized presentation at colloquium
“Migration and Intercultural Identities in Relation to Border Regions,” Centre for the History of
Intercultural Relations, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kortrijk Campus, Belgium, May 2010.
60. “From Beirut to New York: Middle East Politics and Post-Colonial Translation,” International
Colloquium “La traduction/la transmissibilité et la communication transculturelle dans les
sciences sociales,” Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May 2010.
59. “Curriculum Development in Business French: Building Bridges between Georgia and
France,” CIBER Annual Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 2010.
58. “Tendances antidémocratiques dans la fiction du jeune Blanchot.” KFLC, University of
Kentucky, April 2010.
57. “La copie flaubertienne à l’époque de la reproduction mécanisée. ” SAMLA Convention,
Atlanta, November 2009.
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56. “Flaubert et les fossiles du discours moderne.” 35th Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Colloquium, Brigham Young University, October 2009.
55. “Du rouge comme effet d’aurore boréale : entre Riopelle et Breton.” SAIT Colloquium,
Institut du monde anglophone (Université Paris III-Sorbonne nouvelle), June 2009.
54. “La Québécoite de Régine Robin, entre la mémoire des minorités émigrées et les règles du
Nouveau Monde.” Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, June 2009.
53. “L’Idylle et la logique du consentement.” Colloquium “Maurice Blanchot, communauté,
politique et histoire,” Université Paris X-Nanterre, May 2009.
52. “Polices du descriptif au dix-neuvième siècle.” KFLC, University of Kentucky, April 2009.
51. “Fostering Research and Creativity in the Business French Class.” CIBER Annual
Colloquium, Kansas City, Missouri, April 2009.
50. “Fractures au Proche-Orient : La création du Liban moderne.” 20th and 21st-Century
French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, March 2009.
49. “L’Orient du Mémorial : discours du même et stéréotypes de la différence.” 34th Annual
Colloquium in 19th-Century French Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, October 2008.
48. “Aspects intertextuels de la mise en scène de l’intériorité dans la conclusion d’Indiana.”
Eighteenth International George Sand Conference, University of California at Santa Barbara,
September 2008.
47. “La Revue Phénicienne et la lutte nationaliste pour le Liban après la Grande Guerre. ” 22nd
International Council for Francophone Studies (CIÉF) Colloquium, Université de Limoges,
France, July 2008.
46. “Naissance d’une nation: La Revue Phénicienne au Liban en 1919.” International
Colloquium “Revues modernistes et politique dans les années 1900 à 1939,” Université du
Maine, Le Mans, France, June 2008.
45. “Student Presentations in the Business French Classroom: Content, Techniques, and
Assessment.” CIBER Annual Colloquium, St Petersburg, Florida, April 2008.
44. “La collection ‘Patrimoine’ de Dar An-Nahar : Une bibliothèque de la Pléiade libanofrancophone.” “Franco-Arab Cultures Today” Colloquium, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, April 2008.
43. “Intercultural Politics: Translating Post-Colonial Lebanese Literature in the United States.”
Translation in/and French and Francophone Literature and Film. 36th annual French Literature
Conference. University of South Carolina, March 2008.
42. “Editing Contemporary Francophone Lebanese Poems: Challenges and Facilitating Factors.”
MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions Panel on “Editing for Access: Preparing Scholarly
Editions for a Cross-Cultural Audience.” MLA Convention, Chicago, Dec. 2007.
41. “Memory as an Umbilical Cord: Nadia Tuéni’s Poems on the Lebanese War.” Panel on
Francophone Literature and Cultures, Session I (Ecritures du désastre: guerres, génocides,
banlieues et bayous). MLA Convention, Philadelphia, Dec. 2006.
40. “Mariage et/ou espace intertextuel utopique, de La Chaumière indienne à Indiana.” George
Sand Association Panel, Session II (The Politics of “Place” in George Sand’s Works). MLA
Convention, Philadelphia, Dec. 2006.
39. “Against propaganda: Tropes and ‘sexual difference’ in Nadia Tuéni’s Sentimental Archives
of a War in Lebanon.” PAMLA Annual Colloquium, University of California at Riverside, Nov.
2006.
38. “Back to the Past: Alexandria, ‘Born-again’ Metropolis or Literary ‘Myth’?” PAMLA Annual
Colloquium, Pepperdine University, Malibu, Nov. 2005.
37. “War and Peace in Lebanon.” The Institute for Global Commerce and Government (IGCG),
Tracy (California), May 2005.
36. “Intermediate French Online: Pedagogical Uses of Multiple Interfaces.” 2005 Technology in
Teaching and Learning Fair, University of the Pacific, Stockton, April 2005.
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35. “Teaching Intermediate French On-Line in the Smart Classroom.” Panel on “Smart
Classrooms, Hybrid Courses, and the Teaching of Languages,” Committee on the Teaching of
Language, MLA Convention, Philadelphia, Dec. 2004.
34. “On-Line in the Classroom: Using the Internet with Intermediate French Learners.” PAMLA
Annual Colloquium, Reed College, Portland, November 2004
33. “Representations of Gender in Recent Beur Cinema.” SCMLA Annual Colloquium, New
Orleans, October 2004.
32. “An Integrated SLA Model Combining Personal Websites with Course Management Systems
in Second-Year French.” Language Learning and Technology Panel, Session I, Division for
Applied Linguistics, MLA Convention, San Diego, December 2003.
31. “Diasporic Reflections: A Case of Virtual Identity in Modern Québécois Culture.” Women in
French (WIF) Session, MLA Convention, San Diego, December 2003.
30. “Flaubert et la littérature populaire.” Flaubert session, 29th Annual Colloquium in
Nineteenth-Century French Studies, The University of Arizona, Tucson, October 2003.
29. “L’éternité change peu: culture de la mort et mémoire narrative chez Flaubert.” Kentucky
Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 2003.
28. “East-West: Mahfouz’s Alexandrian Fictions and European Travel Narratives on Alexandria.”
Signposts: Discourse on Travel, The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., April
2003.
27. “Face à l’entre-deux tours: capital symbolique et discours identitaires des minorités en pays
banlieusard.” Twentieth-Century French Studies Annual Colloquium, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, March 2003.
26. “La Québécoite: Cultural Migrations, Deterritorialization and the Hyperreal Condition,”
Conference on “Diaspora: Movement, Memory, Identity and Politics,” Dickinson College,
November 2002; Panel on “Exile, Migration and Ethnicity in Quebec,” Global Diaspora
Conference, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, November 2002.
25. “Extérieur nuit: sentimentisme et noctambulismes dans le Paris de Jean de Tinan,” 28th
Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, The Ohio State University,
Columbus, October 2002.
24. “Discours francophones et enjeux critiques dans le champ libanais,” Colloquium on “la
réception des litératures francophones,” Université de Montréal, October 2002.
23. “Poésie-écran et machine de guerre chez Nadia Tuéni,” Women in French Panel on “French
and Francophone Women Writing History,” International Colloquium in 20th/21st-Century
French Studies, University of Connecticut, Hartford, April 2002.
22. “Gender and the Writing of History in Contemporary Francophone Poetry: Nadia Tuéni’s
Sentimental Archives of A War in Lebanon,” University of Hawai’i at Manoa, February 2002.
21. “The Poetics of War in Nadia Tuéni’s Sentimental Archives of A War in Lebanon,” Women in
French Panel on “Les femmes écrivent leur pays,” MLA Convention, Dec. 2001.
20. “Is There a Life After the New Wave? From Diva to Betty Blue: Beineix and the cinéma du
look.” Oberlin College, March 2001.
19. “Reading, Alienation, Identity: The Case of Emma Bovary,” Hiram College, Jan. 2001.
18. “L’Échange: une dramaturgie philosophique du mal dans l’espace américain,” Panel on
L’Échange, Paul Claudel Society, MLA Convention, December 2000.
17. “Contemplation esthétique, méditation et mémoire dans les voyages de Flaubert,” 26th
Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, October 2000.
16. “Alexandria in European Literature,” Department of English, American University in Beirut,
January 2000.
15. “Conversion et décadence dans l’écriture de Claudel,” Panel on “Paul Claudel at the Fin de
Siècle,” Paul Claudel Society, MLA Convention, December 1999.
14. “Les jardins secrets de Tityre,” Panel on “Gide and the Nineteenth Century,” Association des
Amis d’André Gide, MLA Convention, December 1999.
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13. “ ‘C’était comme une tortue avec des ailes qui aurait galopé parmi les roches’,” Panel on
“Flaubertiana,” 25th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of
Western Ontario, London, October 1999.
12. “Using the Internet in the Upper-Level French Class,” North East Association for Language
Learning (NEALL) Conference, “Bring Technology Into the Fold: Success Stories to Guide Us in
the Future,” Hamilton College, March 1999.
11. “Qu’est-ce que la mémoire narrative?,” The Ohio State University, Columbus, Feb. 1999.
10. “Peripheral Alexandria? The Mythical City as the ‘Center of Things’,” 23rd Annual
Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Oct. 1997.
9. “Écrire, régner, (se) faire admirer: dérives exhibitionnistes au Grand Siècle?,” SE 17,
Georgetown University, October 1996. Previous versions of this paper presented at Graduate
Conferences at CUNY, May 1993; Boston College, Feb. 1994; Brown University, Apr. 1994.
8. “La Vérité toute nue sort du puits: communication et sexualité dans la Fortune des Rougon,”
AIZEN International Conference, Hunter College, September 1996.
7. “Naming the Beloved: Ronsard’s Sonnets pour Hélène,” Pennsylvania Foreign Language
Conference, Duquesne University, September 1996. Chair, Twentieth-Century French Literature
Panel.
6. “Sight-seeing, Reading and Remembering in Flaubert’s Narratives,” University of Pittsburgh,
September 1996.
5. “Intertextual Contamination and Lycanthropy: Baudelaire’s ‘Le Joueur généreux’,” NEMLA
Convention, Montréal, April 1996.
4. “Quignard essayiste lu par Quignard critique: les caractères des Petits Traités,” MLA
Convention, December 1995.
3. “De Thaïs à Aphrodite: Alexandrie, emblème de la fin-de-siècle,” 21st Annual Colloquium in
Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Delaware, Wilmington, October 1995.
2. “Le Syndrome Borel chez Baudelaire: comment peut-on être lycanthrope au second degré?,”
20th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of California, Santa
Barbara, October 1994.
1. “Queneau critique de Robbe-Grillet: la crise du roman en France dans les années 50-70,” Third
Annual French Graduate Student Conference, Columbia University, March 1993.
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Reading of Nadia Tuéni’s poems, Ivy Writers Paris, Paris, May 2010.
“Commercial Practices in France as Seen by Georgia Tech Students” (with Anne T.
Bidgood, Sarah S. Mc Elveen, and Emily K. Pechar [Advanced French Business students]).
French Trade Commission Newsletter for the Southeast, May 2008 [online, 2 pages].
Contribution to the panel “Looking Backward, Looking Forward: MLA Members Speak,”
PMLA Millenium Issue. PMLA 115.7 (December 2000): 2057.
Vis-à-vis CD-ROM (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996). Collaboration (cultural material).
Les Clips Francophones (New York: Gessler, 1994). Collaboration (editing, pedagogy).
SERVICE
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PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Associate Member, “Ecritures” Research Center (EA 3943), Université Paul-Verlaine, Metz,
France (from Summer 2009)
Advisory Board Member, Romanitas (from fall 2007)
Contributor, The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies (YWMLS), responsible for the
annual section on French literature (1900 to 1945) (from spring 2006)
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Peer Reviewer (fall 2007-present) for Romanitas (1 article, fall 2007), Nineteenth-Century French
Studies (1 article, fall 2009), South Atlantic Review (1 article, fall 2009), Modern & Contemporary
France (1 article, fall 2010)
Member, CIÉF, MLA, SPFFA, SAMLA, NCFS, Paul Claudel Society
Panel Chair, Graduate Students’ Forum in French, SAMLA, Atlanta, November 2009
Panel Chair, Session on “Flaubert’s Fossils”, 35th Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Colloquium, Brigham Young University, October 2009 (all 4 panelists invited to publish their
papers in the journal Flaubert: Revue critique et génétique)
Panel Chair, “Contesting Frenchness in the Interwar Period”, 20th and 21st-Century French
and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University of Minnesota, March 2009
Panel Chair, Session on “Identity and Orientalism.” 34th Annual Colloquium in NineteenthCentury French Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, October 2008
Panel Secretary, “Editing, Language, Translation.” 22nd International Council for
Francophone Studies (CIÉF) Colloquium, Université de Limoges, France, July 2008
Panel Chair, Session on “Representations of Gender in Recent Beur Cinema.” SCMLA
Annual Colloquium, New Orleans, October 2004
Panel Chair, Paul Claudel Society Session. MLA Convention, New Orleans, 2001
Panel Chair, “Bordercrossings: A Nomadic Francophonie.” NEMLA, Philadelphia, 1997
Panel Chair, Twentieth-Century French Literature Session. Pennsylvania Foreign Language
Conference, Duquesne University, September 1996
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CAMPUS CONTRIBUTIONS
A. GT-Atlanta
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Faculty Advisor to the French Club @ Georgia Tech (co-founder, February 2008). Reports of
activity at http://frenchclubatgt.blogspot.com/ and http://christopheippolito.com/
Member, Ivan Allen College Africa Advisory Committee (from fall 2010)
Member, Student Academic and Financial Affairs Committee (2009-2011)
School of Modern Languages Representative, Georgia Institute of Technology Senate, from
fall 2009 (also reported to School of Modern Languages on Senate meetings since fall 2007)
Name Announcer, GT Commencement (May 2009)
Invited member of the French Trade Commission in Atlanta to speak on campus (spring 08)
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Co-organized with GTL staff and Lorraine Region Board of Education dinner at French
families for 17 students (summer 2010)
Created a facebook site for GTL, Supelec and ENSAM students in Metz (from fall 2009)
Drafted agreement (jointly with University of Metz’s French Literature Dept.) to benefit
advanced students in French at Georgia Tech Lorraine (summer 2009)
Organized a recruitment event for Georgia Tech Lorraine (Swann bldg, fall 2008)
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Service at the University of the Pacific: Advisor of French Majors; Committee Work:
Committee on Academic Planning and Development (2003-2006), Admissions and Financial
Aid Committee (2004-2006), Study Abroad Program Advisory Committee (2003-2004,
replacing faculty on leave), Dean-appointed one-year Humanities Task Force (2003-2004);
Departmental Coordinator, language laboratory project (planning, fundraising, software
acquisitions, training in teaching with technology), 2003-2004; Departmental Webmaster
(2004-2005); Co-Founder and Advisor, French Cultural Society (2003-2005)
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Advisor, French Club, Dickinson College, 2001-2003. Website for the study of French (2002)
Advisor, French Club/radio program; invited speaker to campus (Hamilton College, 1998-99)
Conducted a one-year pedagogy and applied linguistics workshop for incoming Teaching
Assistants. Columbia University. Coordinated first-year courses.
Acting Administrator, Maison Française of Columbia University, 1996-1998: program
coordination; fundraising; newsletter editor; management of student personnel, building, and
educational resources; relations with the Francophone community; initiated Film Program
(Tournées) with financial support from French Embassy Cultural Services; co-organization or
organization of about 60 lectures, colloquia and international conferences, with assistance of
“Missions” Program at French Cultural Services (in particular), 7 art exhibits and several
fundraisers and other special events. 95–96: Part-Time Assistant at the Maison Française.
Promoted French Music. Collaborated on a book on some recent French and Francophone
songs (French Music Office, New York City, spring 1993).
Co-organized an exhibition on Kavafis and Alexandria. Secured iconic material on
Alexandria for the IFAO (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale) in Cairo, Egypt (1987)
University of East Asia: Created a short-term study abroad program in collaboration with the
French Consulate in Hong-Kong. Co-organized a conference on Europe and a painting
exhibition.
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
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American Embassy in Paris / EHESS (150 euros), May 2010
Junior Research Grant for the summer ($1500), May 2010
Modern Languages/CIBER grant for 2010 CIBER conference paper, Philadelphia ($777).
Faculty Professional Development Grant ($2775), December 2009
Junior Research Grant for the summer ($4000), May 2009
Modern Languages/CIBER grant to develop materials for the summer ($3000), March 2009
Modern Languages/CIBER grant for presentation, 2009 CIBER conference, Missouri ($594).
Georgia Tech Foundation grant to deliver paper at the Université du Maine (Le Mans,
France), June 2008 ($500)
Modern Languages/CIBER grant for presentation, 2008 CIBER conference, Florida ($280)
In previous positions:
• University of the Pacific Committee on Academic Planning and Development grant for work
on on-line teaching material presented at the 2004 MLA Convention, 2004
• Tuéni Foundation grant for publishing Lebanon: Poems of Love and War, 2004
• University of the Pacific Center for Professional and Continuing Education grant for
developing material on French civilization for an on-line course, 2004
• Dickinson College Research and Development Grant for ACTFL OPI (American Council on
the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Oral Proficiency Interview) Tester Training at
Middlebury College, 2001
• Amherst College Faculty Research Grant for work on Lebanese culture, 1999
• Two Grants for Internet projects on French culture and European integration (Hamilton
College, Mellon Fund), 1998 & 1999
• Columbia University Alumni Research Grant for work at the Flaubert Research Center,
ITEM (Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes), CNRS, Paris, France, 1996
• Éric Vernaz Travel Grants (Maison Française of Columbia University), 1994-95, 1997
• Peter H. Kaufman Memorial Fellowship, Columbia University, 1997-1998
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President’s Fellowship, Columbia University, 1993-1998
Research Fellow, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Egyptian Government, 1986-1988
VII. HONORS AND AWARDS
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Georgia Tech CETL “Thank A Teacher Program” citations “in appreciation of your teaching
style and dedication to helping students learn in French 2001” (April 2010)
Georgia Tech CETL “Thank A Teacher Program” citations “in appreciation of your teaching
style and dedication to helping students learn in French 4813” (April 2010)
Georgia Tech CETL “Thank A Teacher Program” citations “in appreciation of your teaching
style and dedication to helping students learn in French 2001, 2002” (March 31, 2009)
Selected for inclusion in Who’s Who in American Education (from 2003)
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