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CURRICULUM VITAE
MARIA GLORIA MELGAREJO GRANADA, PH.D
EDUCATION
2005 Doctor of Philosophy in French. University of Kansas. Dissertation title: “Fragments
and Obstacles: Mallarmean Synthesis and Aesthetic Perspectives on the Unfinished
Work.” An interdisciplinary approach to Mallarme’s poetry and his aesthetical ideals.
1995 Master of Arts in Modern Languages (French). Kansas State University.
1988 Bachelor of Arts (with Distinction) in French. National University of Asuncion,
Paraguay.
1985 Bachelor of Sciences (with Distinction) in Journalism and Mass Communications.
National University of Asuncion, Paraguay.
1983-1984 Diplôme d’Etudes Françaises 1er et 2e degré. Centre d’Examens à l’Etranger,
Université de Paris-Sorbonne.
1981 Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures. Alliance Française d’Assomption, Paraguay.
LANGUAGES
French & English: near-native; Spanish: native; Portuguese, Italian: reading knowledge.
Knowledge of Guarani, indigenous language spoken in South America.
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 2004 - June 2015. Saint Cloud State University, Dept. of Languages and Cultures.
(Former Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures). Title: Professor of French.
Assignments in French: Teach all levels of language, literature and Culture (hybrid,
online and technology-based). Teach Spanish courses. University-wide Committee
service: Assessment, Curriculum, International Studies, Multicultural Student Services,
Academic Affairs, Professional Development Grants.
French Program coordinator, BS Teaching program faculty advisor, Teaching
Preparation Initiative participant, SCSU Senior to Sophomore program faculty liaison.
August 2004-May 2009. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Assistant
Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Assignments: French and Spanish
courses, all levels. Served as program coordinator for French.
August 2009-May 2010. Served as the College Assessment Coordinator. College of Fine
Arts and Humanities.
June 2007/2009/2011: AP Reader in Spanish language. Educational Testing Services
(ETS). Cincinnati, Ohio.
August 2002- July 2004. University of Kansas, Department of French and Italian.
Instructor of French. Courses taught: French 300 (Grammar & Composition), French 310
(Phonetics), French 326 (Intro. to Literature), French 352 (Business French) and French
440 (Studies in French Culture).
Spring 2003 University of Kansas. Research Intern. Center for International Business and
Research. Assistant to Dr. Placet-Kouassi in French 352 (French for Business &
Journalism).
1999-2002 University of Kansas, Dept. of French and Italian. Graduate Teaching
Assistant. Beginning & Intermediate courses: French 110, 120, 230, 231 (Honors), 234,
240.
1998-1999. KPMG Consulting (Paraguay branch). Executive Assistant and Translator.
1989-1999 Instituto Superior de Lenguas, National University of Asuncion, Paraguay.
Associate Professor of French and Academic Director. Courses taught: Advanced French
Grammar and Composition, French Literature and Civilization.
1992-1993 Consulate of Belgium in Paraguay. Bilingual Executive Assistant.
1990-1991 and 1994 Kansas State University. Department of Modern Languages.
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Courses taught: First and second-year level of French and
Spanish.
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1987-1988 Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers. Institut de Perfectionnement en
Langues Vivantes (IPLV). Spanish Lecturer, Courses taught: Conversation and
Translation French-Spanish.
1985-1990 Alliance Française d’Assomption, Paraguay. Teacher of French language and
Literature.
EDUCATION ABROAD EXPERIENCE
Study Abroad advisor (French) – Liaison for Center for International Studies in French
(CIEF), University of Burgundy – Dijon, France.
Director of Summer Study Abroad program Paris-Dijon (July 2009)
Director of Summer Study Abroad program in Angers, France (July 2007).
Director of the 2003 University of Kansas Summer Language Institute Program in
Strasbourg, France. June-July 2003.
Assistant to the Directors, University of Kansas SLI Program in Paris, June-July 2002.
Coordinator, Student Exchange Program between the National University of Asuncion
and the Université Catholique de l’Ouest of Angers. 1995-1999.
Coordinator, Faculty Exchange Program between the University of Granada and the
National University of Asuncion and organizer of a Translation seminar. Asuncion,
Paraguay. 1998.
PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Research areas: 19th, 20th and 21st Century French Literature, Poetry and the Arts, French
as a Foreign Language Pedagogy, French and Francophone Film and Culture, Latin
American Studies.
Current areas of research: Studies on landscape imagery in selected poetic works by
Yves Bonnefoy, Maurice Chappaz and Philippe Jaccottet.
Publications
Fragments et Obstacles: Mallarmé et le ‘génie’ du Livre inachevé/Poésie et dédoublement
esthétique. Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, Vol. 159.
New York: Peter Lang, 2009.
“Situación del Español y el Guaraní en el Paraguay.” Presented at the Fifth International
Colloquium for Lexical Studies. University of Granada, Spain on April 21, 1998.
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Published in Jornadas Internacionales sobre Estudio y Enseñanza del léxico. Granada, 1999.
“L’autobiographie comme Itinéraire d’Introspection.” A comparative study of
autobiographical narrative, from oral and written sources. Senior Thesis, College of
Philosophy, National University of Asuncion. 1988.
“Un air de famille/Un aire de familia” Translation from French into Spanish for the
stage of the screenplay by Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui (1996). Directed by Liliane
Solente and performed at the theatre of the Centro Cultural Paraguayo-Americano in
Asuncion, Paraguay in 1999.
“Nos arrancaron los ojos.”, short story published in Cuentos Hispanidad 74. Madrid:
Editora Nacional, 1975.
Conference presentations:
“Lieux et création poétique: demeures privilégiées en France.” Presented at the Colóquio
Internacional Interdisciplinar "Literatura, viagens e turismo cultural no Brasil, em França
e em Portugal". Lisbon, Portugal, January 20, 2015.
“Vers un nouveau profil du professeur de langues”/Un Nuevo perfil para profesores de
Lenguas” Research project co-authored with Professor Gloria Medina de Perez from the
National University of Asuncion, Paraguay. Presented at the Universidad de los Andes
(Bogota, Colombia, Octobre 2013). Presented in Asuncion and Encarnacion (Paraguay)
seminars for language teachers (March and May 2013). The second phase of this project
presented at the SEDIFRALE Teaching Conference in Costa Rica (February 2014).
« Le choc 'fatal': l'amour et l'art d'aimer dans Le Lys dans la vallée, de Balzac » Presented at
the annual MLA Convention in Seattle. January 5, 2012.
“Una poesía inscripta en el paisaje: Exploración y reencuentro en la obra de Philippe
Jaccottet/Une poésie inscrite dans le paysage: Exploration et rencontre chez Philippe
Jaccottet.” Presented at the 3rd International Congress of the European Association for
the Studies in Literature, Culture and the Environment. University of Alcalá de Henares,
Spain. October 19, 2008.
« Identités francophones à travers les films: Une expérience avec le Festival FaceTournées. » Congrès Mondial de la Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Français
(FIPF). Québec City. July 23, 2008.
“Vigencia del realismo mágico en la literatura: Cómo sobrevivir a García Márquez ? »
Presented at the 7th Congress of Hispanic Literature. Cuzco, Perú. March 4, 2008.
“Langages et paysages illimités: l’expérience Jaccottet. » Presented at the 20th and 21st
Century French and Francophone Studies International colloquium. Georgetown
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University, Washington D.C. March 8, 2008.
“Pascal Bruckner: l’intellectuel, sera-t-il jamais heureux ? » Presented at the 20th and 21st
Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. University of Texas
A&M-College Station. March 21-24, 2007.
“Faire passer le culturel en classe de langue au niveau débutant : Expérience de
l’interculturel avec des étudiants américains.» Presented at the Sedifrale XIV
International Colloquium of Teachers of French. Hotel Excelsior, Asuncion, Paraguay.
July 6, 2006.
“Mallarmé et Degas: la photographie et l’art de l’effet.” Presented at the 32nd Annual
19th C French Studies Colloquium. University of Indiana-Bloomington, October 19, 2006.
“Out of Memory and Time: Poetic Landscapes in Bonnefoy and Jaccottet.” Presented at
the MLA Conference in Washington D.C. on December 29, 2005.
Chair of the Session: « The treachery of prior knowledge on L2 Listening
comprehension » 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics. University of WisconsinMadison, July 28 2005.
“Readings of the Unfinished Book: Mallarmé’s A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish
Chance, Illustrated by Christiane Vielle.” MLA conference in San Diego, December 27,
2003.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Teaching preparation Inititiative (TPI) mini-grant for the K-12 World Languages
Licensure Program. (October 25, 2013), collaborative project with Professor Shawn
Jarvis (German section) and Dr. Elena Kurinski (Spanish section). Award: $ 4.215.
SCSU Short-term Professional Development grant ($ 2.600). Office of Sponsored
Programs, April 2012. University of Richmond, Virginia French Film Festival
Workshops for teachers of French.
SCSU Short-term Professional Development grant ($2,300). Office of Sponsored
Programs, April 2011. University of Nantes Summer Seminary. July 3-20, 2011.
SCSU Professional Development Funds ($ 200). University Assessment Office. October
2008.
French American Cultural Exchange grant, Face-Tournées Film Festival. Total Award
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amont: $ 9,000 to organize Film festivals on campus. Fall of 2006 and Spring editions
of 2007, 2008 and 2010.
Roy & Barbara Saigo Foundation Paper Presenter Award ($300) for the FIFP World
Congress, Quebec, Canada, July 2008. Title: « Identités francophones à travers les
films: Une expérience avec le Festival Face-Tournées. »
SCSU Short-term faculty development grant ($ 1,800), to attend a workshop on FL
pedagogy and evaluation (DELF/DALF) at the CIEP in Sèvres, France in February
2007.
University of Kansas School of Business. Travel grant ($500). Research Intern.
Miami, April 4-6, 2002.
University of Kansas Graduate School. Travel fund ($200) to present a paper at the 19th
Century French Studies Colloquium. Columbus, Ohio, October 2002.
Newberry Library Consortium for Renaissance Studies Travel Grant ($600). Seminar
“The Manuscripts of Guaman Poma de Ayala.” Newberry Library, Chicago. March
2002.
Kenneth Cornell Memorial Scholarship, Department of French and Italian. Research
grant for a manuscript on Symbolism and the Poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé ($2000).
Paris. Summer 2000.
Annette E. Rolli Award Fund for Excellence in Graduate Studies (Ph.D. program),
awarded by the Department of French & Italian in 2000, 2001 and 2002.
French Government International Scholarship ($5,000). Teaching Language Pedagogy
Seminar at the Centre Audiovisuel de Langues Modernes (CAVILAM). Vichy, France.
October-December 1993.
Undergraduate Academic Award: National Gold Medal of Honor as Best graduate of
the College of Philosophy in 1985. Major: Journalism and Mass Communications,
National University of Asuncion, Paraguay.
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND CERTIFICATIONS
MLA: Modern Languages Association
ACTFL: American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages
MWLC: Minnesota State Universities World Languages Consortium
FIPF: Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Français
AUF: Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie Research Group
EASLCE: European Association for Studies in Literature, Culture and the Environment
APPF: Association Paraguayenne des Professeurs de Français
Certified Public Translator (Ministry of Justice, Asuncion, Paraguay). Since 1993. License
renewed in 2014. French-English-Spanish.
REFEREES
Professor Lisa Loftis. St. Cloud State University, Department of Languages and Cultures.Professor of
Spanish, and department Chair.
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 320-308-4122
Professor Shawn Cecilia Jarvis. SCSU, Department of Languages and Cultures. Professor of German,
former department Chair. (On leave Spring 2016 semester)
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 320-308-4141
Professor Agustin Boyer. Professor of Spanish. Department of Languages and Cultures.
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 320-308-4121
Professor Gloria Medina Coronel. Professor of French. National University of Paraguay.
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: ++595-21-445063
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