aparna nayak-guercio - California State University, Long Beach

APARNA NAYAK-GUERCIO
Assistant Professor of French
e-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
PhD in French, University of Pittsburgh (2006).
D.E.A. (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies), University of Paris VII – Denis Diderot, Paris, France
(1998).
M.A. in French, University of Pittsburgh (1993).
B.A. in French, University of Bombay, India (1990).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
French literature and cinema of Fascism and the Resistance
Literature, history, memory
20th century French and Francophone prose fiction
Contemporary Indian fiction in English
PUBLICATIONS
“Wir sind doch keinen Barbaren”: Music, Musicality and Cultural Politics in Aragon’s Le droit
romain n’est plus," French Forum. Fall 2009. Vol. 34, no. 3. pp. 21-38.
“DJ Zaïfe: Remix de la cité du paradis: interview avec Faïza Guène, écrivaine”. Laura CeiaMinjares, written in collaboration with Aparna Nayak-Guercio. Contemporary French &
Francophone Studies. Vol. 11. no. 1, January 2007, pp. 93-97.
“The project of Liberation and the projection of national identity. France, literature and politics,
1944-1945” in Sites / Contemporary French & Francophone Studies. “French Studies Today”. Vol.
10. no. 2. Spring-Summer 2006, pp. 195-204.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Ambiguous identities: myth and self-reinvention in Un héros très discret (1996)
“Le droit d’étaler ses blessures” : questions of survival, testimony, and France in Guy Kohen’s
Retour d’Auschwitz
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COLLOQUIA
“Linguistic spaces: boundaries and bridges in Le Grand Voyage.” 27th annual 20th and 21st
century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Toronto, March 2010.
“On linguistic boundaries and bridges in Le Grand Voyage.” 58th Annual Mountain Interstate
Foreign Language Conference, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, October 2008.
“Of departures and returns: Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss,” 2008 American Comparative
Literatures Association conference, Long Beach, April 2008.
“Identifying “les enfants de la patrie”: the role of French newspapers in delimiting inclusion and
exclusion, June – August 1944,” 25th annual 20th and 21st century French and Francophone
Studies International Colloquium, Georgetown University, March 2008.
“The Front Populaire and the possibility of peace,” 9th Annual Space Between Society conference,
The Experience of War in the Space Between, 1914-1945. U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. June
2007.
« Unmasking the hero / heroism: les “nouveaux résistants” and “la France résistante” in Un héros
très discret ,» Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, April 2007.
“Ambiguous identities: myth and self-reinvention in Un héros très discret,” Spaces of War: France
and the Francophone World, European Studies Consortium, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis. October 2006.
“‘Le droit d’étaler ses blessures’ : questions of survival, testimony, and France in Guy Kohen’s
Retour d’Auschwitz,” 23rd Annual 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies
International Colloquium, March-April 2006.
CONFERENCE & LECTURE ORGANIZATION
20th & 21st century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium, to be co-organized
with Dr. Ceia-Minjares (Spring 2012).
“The poetics and politics of historical representation: Vichy France and its memory.” Organized
lecture series by Philip Watts (Columbia University), Andrew Sobanet (Georgetown University),
Andrea Loselle (UCLA), and Laura Ceia (CSULB). Fall 2009.
Invited Panivong Norindr (USC) for a guest lecture entitled “The Cinematic Practice of a 'cinéaste
ordinaire': Abdellatif Kechiche and 'French' Political Cinema” (May 2009).
Invited Amy Reinsel (IUPUI--Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis) for a guest
lecture entitled “Racial Theory and poetic practice in 19th century Haiti” (April 2008).
Invited Dr. Heather Allen (University of Miami) to speak on reading literacy and technology in
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the foreign language classroom (October 2006).
ACADEMIC HONORS
Nominee (University of Pittsburgh) for the Council of Graduate Studies – UMI Distinguished
Dissertation Award (2007).
Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2004-2005).
Lilian B. Lawler Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (1999-2000).
INTRAMURAL FUNDING
Scholarly & Creative Activities award (3 units assigned time, 2009-10).
Scholarly & Creative Activities award (Summer mini-grant, 2008).
Scholarly & Creative Activities award (Summer mini-grant, 2007).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
California State University, Long Beach
Assistant Professor of French (2006 - present).
Courses taught: elementary and intermediate French, composition, conversation, undergraduate
and graduate literature seminars (cross century literature Capstone course on Self & Society;
20th century seminar on the history and memory of Vichy France in literature and film).
University of Pittsburgh
Teaching Fellow (2005-06, 2003-04, 1998-97, 1995-97).
Courses taught: elementary and intermediate French, Approaches to French literature
(introduction to literary analysis), upper-division civilization course spanning the 19th and 20th
centuries.
Carnegie Mellon University
Adjunct Instructor, (Summer 2005).
Intensive elementary French.
Université François Rabelais, Tours, France
Lectrice d’anglais (1997-98).
Courses taught: English language, composition, conversation, phonetics.
American School of Bombay, Bombay, India
Middle school French teacher (1994-95).
Elementary French.
École Française Internationale de Bombay, Bombay, India
Kindergarten substitute teacher (1994-95).
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Université de Paris X - Nanterre, Paris, France
Lectrice d’anglais (1993-94).
Courses taught: English language, conversation, introductory and advanced phonetics.
University of Pittsburgh
Teaching Assistant (1991-93).
Courses taught : elementary and intermediate French.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
California State University, Long Beach
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International Education Committee (2009-present).
University Library Committee (2009-2010).
Co-director, French program, Dept. of Romance, German, Russian Languages & Literatures
(RGRLL) (Spring-Summer-Fall 2008).
Undergraduate and Graduate Advisor, French, Dept. of RGRLL (Spring-Summer-Fall 2008).
Curriculum and Educational Policies Council of the University Senate (Fall 2007).
CSULB representative to the CSU Foreign Language Council (2007-08).
Southern Representative-at-large to the Executive Board of the CSU Foreign Language
Council (2007-08).
RGRLL Advisory Council (2007-08)
RGRLL representative to the Faculty Hearing Panel (2007-2009)
Steering Committee to the Graziadio Center for Italian Studies (2007-2008)
South Asia Subcommittee (2006-present)
Steering Committee to the Yadunandan Center for India Studies (2006-present)
European Studies Subcommittee (2006-07)
Curriculum Committee, Dept. of RGRLL (2006-07)
LANGUAGES
English, French, Italian, Konkani – native fluency
Hindi and Marathi - fluently written and spoken
German and Spanish- reading knowledge
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