CURRICULUM VITAE - Bryn Mawr College

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Agnès Peysson-Zeiss
101 N. Merion Ave Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
[email protected]
EDUCATION:
1994
Ph.D. French Literature, Michigan State University, East Lansing,
Michigan.
Dissertation: “Rôle et fonction du monument médiéval dans la littérature
du dix-neuvième siècle.” Director: Laurence M. Porter.
1988 - 1990
M.A., French Literature, MSU.
1986 - 1989
Licence, Université de Provence (B.A.), France.
Major: American and English Literature.
Minor: Phonetics, Phonology, and F.L.E.
(Teaching French as a Foreign Language.)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2013 - Present
CNTT Lecturer in French in charge of the Intensive French Language
Track, Bryn Mawr College. http://www.brynmawr.edu/french/peyssonzeiss.html
2007 - 2013
Interim Lecturer in French in charge of the Intensive French Language
Track, Bryn Mawr College.
Fall 2016 and
Fall 2015
Adjunct Instructor University of Pennsylvania: French 202 a culture
course.
Summer 2013
Institut d’ Etudes Françaises d’Avignon : Course titled Approches
th
stylistiques du texte moderne : Study of the evolving literary styles in 19
th
and early 20 century France, with particular attention to the ways in
which literary movements express themselves through stylistic
innovations.
2009-2012
Recruitment Coordinator for the Institut d’Etudes Françaises d’Avignon:
promotion and advertisement of the program in US institutions.
Summer 2010-2011
Institut d’Etudes Françaises d’ Avignon: Course on Marseille which
explores the richly layered cultural heritage of the "Phocean city" from its
early settlement to the present, with particular attention to its recent past
as a city of immigration.
Summer 2009
Institut d’Etudes Françaises d’ Avignon. Graduate course: Atelier
d’écriture.
2004 - 2007
Lecturer in French, University of Pennsylvania, PA. Courses 2004-2007:
Advanced French, Grammar and Composition and Perspectives in
French Literature and History of Modern France from the Revolution to
1945.
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1998 - 2004
Upper School French and Spanish teacher, The William Penn Charter
School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Courses taught: French third,
fourth, and fifth year (Advanced Placement), and Spanish one.
Restructured French curriculum to increase focus on oral and cultural
proficiency.
1993 - 1998
Lecturer in French, Baylor University, Texas. Courses taught: beginning
through intermediate levels of French language and francophone culture;
intensive summer language program for honors students, fourth year
literature courses, and francophone literature in translation.
1988 - 1993
Graduate Teaching Assistant, MSU, Department of Romance and
Classical Languages and English Language Center.
Courses taught: beginning and intermediate French, conversational
French, intermediate and advanced English as a second language,
content courses in English as a second language (Drama, Film, &
Current Events)
1989 - 1992
Co-Coordinator of French Language Instruction, MSU.
1989 - 1990
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Seminar for Teachers of French, MSU.
PUBLICATIONS:
A. Books
Littérature et architecture: le dix-neuvième siècle. Maryland: University Press of America, 1997.
B. Articles in Books
“Marseille Provence 2013: a social facelift for an old lady?” forthcoming in Urban Bridges,
Liverpool University Press, 2016.
“Aesthetic Representations of Trauma Graphic Novel Style: Resilience and Survival”
forthcoming in Art and Healing: Gender, Genocide, and Aesthetic Expression, Nebraska
University Press 2016-17.
C. Articles
“Chants et vies de femmes dans Les silences du palais de Moufida Tlatli.” International Journal
of Francophone Studies. 9.2 (2006) : 223-238.
“La nouba des femmes du Mont Chénoua: de l’histoire muette au cinéma parlant,” CinémAction
N.111 (2ème trimestre 2004): 81-85.
“Blood and Oblivion: Women's History in the Works of Assia Djebar.” Phoebe 14.1&2 (Spring and
Fall 2002): 97-102.
Five Entries (Chateaubriand, François-René de; Dumas père, Alexandre; Gauthier, Théophile;
Hugo, Victor; Michelet, Jules) in. Laurence M. Porter, Ed. A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia.
Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001.
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“Le blanc de l'Algérie: une liturgie aux disparus, International Journal of Francophone Studies 2.3
(1999).
“Lamartine et le mythe du paradis perdu: “la chute d'un ange” Tropos (1993) 81-88.
PRESENTATIONS:
“Civic Engagement in the Languages: How to Teach Translation and Social Justice.” PSMLA 2016.
Proposed abstract
“Assistance mortelle: une recalibration de l’aide humanitaire.” CFP Raoul Peck, Antwerp 2016
“Aesthetic Representations of Trauma Graphic Novel Style: Resilience and Survival.” ALA,
Bayreuth, 2015
“ Regaining one’s voice: metalangue and aesthetic representation in post-genocidal areas.”
INOGS, Cape Town, 2014
“Danseuses cambodgiennes : l’envers du miroir.” French Colonial Historical Society, Siem Reap,
Cambodia, 2014.
“Romans graphiques et génocides : entre effondrement et résistance” CIEF, île Maurice, 2013
“L’enfant multiple: un rêve impossible dans une méditerranée tourmentée?” CIEF, Thessaloniki,
Greece 2012
“Marseille: Immigration et identité.” CIEF, Aix-en-Provence, France 2011
“Satin rouge ou le tournage d’une Renaissance.” SAMLA, Atlanta, GA 2009
“Global Simulation: a Convergence of Culture, History and Experience.” ACTFL, Orlando, FL,
2008.
“A door to the sky: a cinematic palimpsest.” University of Alabama, April 2006.
“La reconstitution mémorielle ou l’entre-deux artistique entre Essence ordinaire et Zeida de nulle
part.” MMLA, Milwaukee WI, November 2005.
“Satin rouge : entre enfermement et libération.” ALA, Boulder CO, April 2005.
" Chants et vies de femmes dans Les silences du palais de Moufida Tlatli," C.I.E.F. (Conseil
International d’Etudes Francophones), Liège, Belgium, June 2004.
"Le gône du Chaâba ou la représentation cinématographique d’une identité interculturelle,"
Colloque International sur le cinéma de la France et du monde francophone depuis 1980, Halifax,
Canada, September 2002.
“Haïti chérie ou le rêve américain interrompu.” African Literature Association, Richmond, Virginia,
April 2001.
“Francophonie and History: Teaching Past, Present and Future,” Session Chair, South Central
MLA. San Antonio, Texas, September 2000.
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“Le sang et l'oubli: histoires de femmes dans l'oeuvre d'Assia Djebar,” C.I.E.F. (Conseil
International d’Etudes Francophones), Sousse, Tunisia, May 2000.
“Virtual Reality in the Works of Nicole Brossard,” South Central MLA, New Orleans, Louisiana,
November 1998.
"Le blanc de l'Algérie: une liturgie aux disparus," International Colloquium of Twentieth Century
Studies, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, September 1998.
" Assia Djebar: esthétique et représentation,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference,
Lexington, Kentucky, April 1998.
“A Pedagogical Approach to Teaching Assia Djebar: Cries and Whispers in the Classroom,”
PAMLA, San José, California, November 1997.
“Vaste est la prison: Assia Djebar’s Novel of Effacement,” Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1997.
“L’amour la fantasia: Unveiling the Self,” Cincinnati Modern Language Conference, Cincinnati,
Ohio, May 1996.
“Our Texts OurSelves,” (respondent) Midwestern MLA, Saint Louis, Missouri, November 1995.
“Autobiography and the Discourse of Fragmentation in Villon’sThe Testament,” Southeastern
Medieval Conference, Washington D.C., Fall 1994.
HONORS, AWARDS
AND GRANTS:
2013
Melon Grant: Voice Thread
Faculty Awards and Grants: Genocide, Trauma and Survival
2012
Mellon Tri-College Residency Grant. Working with Mahi Binebine, our
artist in residence on questions of migration, hybridity and urban
discourse in the context of the 360 Mediterranean port-city project.
2010
Tri-Mellon Grant. Developing cross-curricular ties and courses on
Mediterranean port-cities: dealing with issues of modernity, immigration,
and diaspora.
2008
Curriculum Development Grant, Bryn Mawr College. Redesigning
“French 260: Stylistics and Translation.”
2003
Technology Development Grant, William Penn Charter School
(integration of technology in the classroom using Web class Tools, and
Smart Board technology).
2000
Research Travel Grant (Tunisia), Old Penn Charter Alumni Association.
1999
Curriculum Development Grant (articulation of beginning to advanced
levels in the French program) William Penn Charter School.
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1998
Faculty Development Travel Grant, William Penn Charter School.
1995
Summer Research Fellowship with the Institute of Oral History
(Interviews with members of the Félibrige cultural movement), Baylor
University.
1994
Research Development Grant,and sabbatical to develop a course in
Provençal Culture, Baylor University.
1991, 1992
Departmental Merit Fellowship, MSU.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
Department of French and Francophone Studies
2007-present
Coordinator of the French Language Program (Beginning and
Intermediate)
Teaching Assistants Coordinator: Organize, recruit and lead training
workshop for incoming undergraduates apprentice teachers in language
instruction. Responsible for the administrative part of the program as well
as of language specific sessions.
Organize the OPI (Oral Proficiency Interviews) that we administer to our
005 and 002 students)
Administer and grade the Proficiency exam for French 002 Intensive and
non-intensive tracks yearly.
Teacher Training: Working closely with our Graduate Assistants teaching
the second section of French 001-002 Intensive.
Integration of Technology into French language, literature and culture
courses.
Textbooks reviews and adoptions
2011
Senior thesis reader for work on Assia Djebar (2011)
2011
Participant in the Bryn Mawr/Haverford Teacher Education Committee
(TEC). Supervising Teaching Certification in French for a Bryn Mawr
Student.
2012
Organized talk by Karen Bouwer on “The gendered legacy of Patrice
Lumumba”
2013
Organized Neema Namadamu’s visit with Praxis III students
Other
2014
Participated in panel Dissent, Violence and Justice. Structural Violence:
Global and Local. Bryn Mawr College.
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Helped Carol Solomon (Haverford College) with translations for exhibit
Memory, Place, Desire.
2013-2014
Praxis III Empowering Women through Digital Media: organized and led
a blog translation group of 10 students working with women from the
Eastern Part of the Congo in partnership with World Pulse.
2013-present
Praxis Steering Committee Member
2013
Presentation to the Bryn Mawr Alumnae group in Dartmouth about the
360 program.
2010-present
Outreach Program with NSC (Nationalities Service Center) and AFAHO
(African Family Health Organization) for language exchange.
2011-present
Steering Committee Member: International Faculty Group, Bryn Mawr
College.
2009-present
Proofreading French for undergraduate thesis on Celtic language.
Praxis: Integrating a community-based learning component in French
courses by working with BMC students and immigrant French speaking
communities in the Philadelphia under the auspices of the Praxis and
Civic Engagement Office at BMC.
2008
Proofreading for DatAsia: George Groslier’s Danseuses
Cambodgiennes: anciennes et modernes. Paris: Augustin Challamel,
1913.
2004 - 2006
Diversity Committee Member: The French International School of
Philadelphia.
Summer 2003
Organized and led a three-week home stay program to France for Penn
Charter students.
2000 -2004
Community Service/Reading program, Taylor School (English/Spanish
Bilingual School).
2000 - 2004
Diversity Committee, the William Penn Charter School.
2000 - 2004
Technology Committee Member, the William Penn Charter School.
1993 - 1998
La Table Française, Baylor University.
1991 - 1993
Co-Editor Tropos (graduate student journal indexed in the MLA Annual
Bibliography), MSU.
INTERESTS:
French and Francophone Literatures and Cultures (North, West African, Caribbean and South
East Asian [Khmer])
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19 , 20th and 21 Century French Literature and Culture
Foreign Language Pedagogy and Technology
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MEMBERSHIPS IN ACADEMIC
ORGANIZATIONS AND JOURNALS:
African Literature Association (ALA)
American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones (CIEF)
Language Learning and Technology (LLT)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
South Eastern Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
LANGUAGES:
Bilingual in French and English.
Excellent knowledge of oral and written Spanish.
Some Knowledge of Russian
Some Knowledge of Khmer
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MacroMedia Dreamweaver, Imovie (video camera editing), Blackboard,
and Moodle.