David Harrison Curriculum Vitae

 David Harrison Curriculum Vitae Office: Department of French and Arabic Grinnell College Grinnell, IA 50112 [email protected] CURRENT POSITION Professor of French Department of French and Arabic, Grinnell College EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2007‐2013 Director, Center for International Studies, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa As the Director of the Center, I administered a variety of programs designed to give greater international depth to the curriculum, including the International Visiting Fellows program, the Faculty Development Seminar, and multiple opportunities for faculty and students to travel abroad. I also administered the College’s international partnerships with Nanjing University (China) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India). 2012‐present Professor of French, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 2005‐2012 Associate Professor of French, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 2001‐05 Assistant Professor of French, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 1999‐2001 Instructor of French, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 1994‐99 Graduate Teaching Assistant, French, University of Wisconsin‐Madison EDUCATION 2001 Ph.D., French, University of Wisconsin‐Madison Dissertation: “Satire and the Ambiguous Comic: The Verbal Portrait and Saint‐Simon’s Mémoires.” Director: Richard Goodkin. 1994 M.A. with distinction, French, University of Wisconsin‐Madison 1989 B.A. with Highest Honors, French, Swarthmore College 1
PUBLICATIONS Journal articles and chapters in books “Comic Epitaphs: Lucian, Scudéry, and Boileau.” Seventeenth‐Century French Studies. 35.1 (2013): 38‐53. “L’art de Saint‐Simon: Une relecture de la ‘Catastrophe de Fargues’.” Cahiers Saint‐
Simon. 39 (2011): 123‐132. “The Politics of Politesse.” Teaching Seventeenth‐ and Eighteenth‐Century French Women Writers. Ed. Faith Beasley. New York: Modern Language Association, 2011. 303‐309. “Portrait of the Courtesan: The ‘Two Bodies’ of Ninon de Lenclos.” Papers on French Seventeenth‐Century Literature 34.67 (2007): 309‐17. “The Feminine Signature: Saint‐Simon, Elaine Marks and the Esprit Mortemart.” In Memory of Elaine Marks: Life Writing, Writing Death. Ed. Richard Goodkin. Madison: UW Press, 2007. 183‐203. “The Problem of Friendship in Tartuffe.” Dalhousie French Studies 76 (Fall 2006): 3‐12. “Saint‐Simon and the Ambivalence of Hate: The Portrait of Achille de Harlay III.” French Review. 78.3 (2005): 536‐545. “Saint‐Simon’s Dîner de cons.” Papers on French Seventeenth‐Century Literature 29.57 (2002): 443‐50. “Comic Discontinuity in Saint‐Simon’s Mémoires.” Seventeenth‐Century French Studies 24 (2002): 271‐76. Forthcoming “Les femmes, le roman, et l’enjouement : De Madeleine de Scudéry à Germaine de Staël.” Chapter of Mélanges en honneur de Jean Garapon, ed. Christian Zonza. Book reviews “Figurations of France: Literary Nation‐Building in Times of Crisis (1550‐1650).” By Marcus Keller. French Review 87.2 (November 2013). “Lectures de Saint‐Simon: autour de l’Intrigue du mariage de M. le duc de Barry.” Ed. by François Raviez. French Studies 67.1 (January 2013). 2
“Le Discours de vérité dans les Mémoires du duc de Saint‐Simon.” By Marc Hersant. French Review 84.3 (February 2011) “Poétique de Molière : comédie et répétition.” By Jean De Guardia. French Review 83.3 (February 2010) “Molière et son premier Tartuffe : genèse et évolution d’une pièce à scandale.” By Robert McBride. French Review 81.3 (February 2008). “Molière, dramaturge libertin.” By Antony McKenna. French Review 81.1 (October 2007). “Poétique de Saint‐Simon: Cours et détours du récit historique dans Les Mémoires.” By Delphine de Garidel. French Review 80.4 (March 2007). Translation “Italo‐Québécois Poets and Essayists: A Unique Trajectory.” By Simon Harel. Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec. Ed. Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx. Wesport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004. 227‐40. On‐line articles “International Education: So Much More than Study Abroad.” HuffingtonPost.com. May 8, 2012. “The American Character: A Box‐Office Blockbuster.” VanityFair.com. Feb. 2005. <http://www.vanityfair.com>. This essay was the third‐prize winner of the 2004 Vanity Fair Essay Contest. CONFERENCE PAPERS “Spaces of Death.” Paper at the Joint Meeting of the North American Society for Seventeenth‐Century French Literature and the Society of Seventeenth‐Century French Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, July 2011. “Saint‐Simon, Theorist of Conversation: The Space of Racine’s ‘Well’.” Invited lecture at the conference on “Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture: Circles of Sociability” sponsored by the Center for Seventeenth‐ and Eighteenth‐Century Studies, UCLA, October 2007. “Ninon de L’Enclos: The Courtesan as Moralist.” Modern Language Association National Convention, Washington, DC, December 2005. “The Problem of Friendship in Tartuffe.” North American Society for Seventeenth‐
Century French Literature, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, May 2004. 3
“La Fronde vous a nommé, je ne vous connais plus: The Problem of Friendship in Tartuffe.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 2004. “Montespan, Maintenon, and Third‐Republic Drama.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 2003. “Myths of Retreat in Molière and Saint‐Simon.” Society for Interdisciplinary Seventeenth‐
Century Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 2002. “Saint‐Simon’s Dîner de cons.” Modern Language Association National Convention, New Orleans, December 2001. “Comic Discontinuity in the Mémoires of Saint‐Simon.” Society of Seventeenth‐Century French Studies, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, September 2001. OTHER PRESENTATIONS “Did the French Revolution Ruin French Literature?” Presentation for Alumni College, Grinnell College, June 2013. “The French Revolution: History and Present‐Day Consequences.” Two‐day presentation for the Adult Community Education Series of Grinnell College, July‐August, 2011. “Small School, Big Partnership: A Case Study of Grinnell College’s Relationship with Nanjing University.” Webinar presented for the Institute of International Education, August, 2011. “Two Models of Faculty Development Seminars.” Invited presentation at the Annual Conference of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), San Francisco, California, February, 2011. “Changing the Topic? Talking with Students about Liberal Education.” Presentation to First‐Year Advisers at the University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, October, 2009 “Internationalizing Student Research.” presentation at the 2009 Annual Conference of NAFSA: The Association of International Educators, Los Angeles, California, May 2009 “Montesquieu and Internationalism.” All‐campus lecture delivered as part of the “Thursday Forum” series, Grinnell College, October 2007. “French Literature in the Age of Enlightenment.” Presentation made to the University Retirement Community of Davis, California, as part of the “Inquiring Minds” lecture series, October 2007. 4
“The Feminine Signature: Saint‐Simon, Elaine Marks and the Esprit Mortemart.” Reading at a symposium honoring the legacy of Elaine Marks, UW‐Madison, April 2007. “Molière and His Directors.” Presentation to Grinnell College Alumni as part of the Alumni College, May 2006. “Molière and His Play Tartuffe.” Presentation made to the University Retirement Community of Davis, California, as part of the “Inquiring Minds” lecture series, June 2006. TEACHING Courses taught at Grinnell College Introductory French I and II Intermediate French I and II Sites of Myth and Memory: French Civilization I From Knights to Libertines: Introduction to French Literature from the Middle Ages to the Revolution Power and Resistance in Seventeenth‐ and Eighteenth‐Century French Literature Theatre and Society in Seventeenth‐ and Eighteenth‐Century France Comedy in French Literature Before the Revolution Molière: Text and Performance from the Seventeenth to Twenty‐First Centuries Courtship and Conversation in French Literature French Poetry First‐year Tutorial: Literary Self‐Expression First‐year Tutorial: Family Tragedy in Literature Mentored Advanced Projects supervised at Grinnell College “Regards scéniques derrière le masque de Tartuffe” “La sexualité féminine chez Rabelais” “La fille rebelle chez Molière” “Sensibilité et morale dans l’esthétique de Diderot” “Le narrataire de Jacques le Fataliste” “L’héroïsme dans la tétralogie de Pierre Corneille” Independent Study directed French Views of America: Crèvecoeur, Tocqueville, Beauvoir, Baudrillard PROFESSIONAL SERVICE At Grinnell College 5
Chair of Teaching & Learning subcommittee for Grinnell College Strategic Plan, 2011‐12. Chair, French Search Committee, 2011‐12. Member, Campus Plan Update Committee, 2009‐11. Keynote speaker, Admissions Office events, April 2009 and April 2003. Chair, Search Committee for Arabic Language Instructor, Fall 2007 Member, Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations, and Human Rights, 2002‐2006 Member, Faculty Organization Committee, 2004‐2006 Member, Admissions Committee, 2003‐2006 Participant, Recruiting Team for selecting Posse Washington DC, December 2004. Member, Instructional Support Committee, 2001‐03 Chair, Committee to Foster Foreign Language Study, 2002‐03, 2004‐05 Nationally Consultant for Committee on International Programs at Williams College, October 2012. Reviewer of Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Beloit College, April 2012. Reviewer of McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives, Mount Holyoke College, April 2012. Reviewer of Department of French, Reed College, November 2011. Reviewer of Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Lewis & Clark College, February 2009 Reviewer of manuscripts submitted to Cahiers du Dix‐septième: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Outside reader of scholarship for a promotional review at Colorado College. LANGUAGES French: near‐native fluency Latin: basic reading knowledge Ancient Greek: basic reading knowledge 6