Pauline de Tholozany`s teaching portfolio

Pauline de Tholozany
Department of French Studies, Box 1961, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 USA
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EDUCATION
Brown University, Department of French Studies (Providence, RI)
Ph.D.
Director: Professor Pierre Saint-Amand, Brown University
Second reader: Professor Kevin McLaughlin, Brown University
Masters of Arts
expected 2011
Université Paris IV Sorbonne
Master 2 en Etudes Anglophones, mention Très Bien
“Redécouverte de Pompéi et espaces imaginaires: émergence d’un
nouveau mythe esthétique dans l’Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle”
Master 1 en Etudes Anglophones, mention Très Bien
2008
2003
2002
Université Toulouse II le Mirail
Licence d’Etudes anglophones
DEUG d’Etudes Anglophones
2001
2000
Classe préparatoire aux Grandes Ecoles, Lycée Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
1999
RESEARCH INTERESTS
 XVIIIth
and XIXth century French Literature.
 Travel narratives, anthropological
writings.
 Everyday life studies.
 Social customs, salons and rules of civility.
 Nineteenth-century “physiologies” and social types, panoramic literature, prints and book
illustrations, caricatures.
 Nineteenth and twentieth century popular fictions.
DISSERTATION ABSTRACT
My dissertation project deals with shifting perceptions of clumsiness in Rousseau’s works and in
nineteenth-century fiction. I interweave several critical perspectives in order to look at how
clumsiness came to be valued as a sign both of sincerity and originality. From Jean-Jacques’
numerous and unfortunate faux-pas – which result in his social exclusion – to Rastignac’s blunders –
which on the contrary allow him to enter and become part of high society – the ways in which
clumsiness is looked at change dramatically in the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Clumsiness will eventually imply a derision of social rules, rules that the maladroit in fact exploits
and dramatizes, claiming one’s ineptness becoming a powerful way to asserts one’s originality.
TEACHING COMPETENCIES
Language classes
Basic French I and II, Intermediate French I and II, Writing and Speaking French I and II
Literature/culture classes
Survey of French Literature
French Heroes and Mythologies
Fictions of Childhood: Puerility in France from the Ancien Regime to the Nineteenth Century
Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth century
French Romanticism
The Age of Enlightenment: Philosophers and Writers in Eighteenth-century France
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Brown University
Instructor, French Heroes and Mythologies
Chose a topic, created a syllabus and gathered primary material to build
an advanced language class.
Teaching Assistant, language courses
Created activities and tasks to accompany the primary material and
syllabi mandated by the department.
Writing and Speaking French II, Sixth-semester French
Basic French, Second-semester French
Basic French, First-semester French
Spring 2010
2006-08
Fall 2008
2007/2008
2006/2007
Bard College, NY
Teaching Assistant/Tutor, language courses
- Taught parts of beginner and intermediate classes, using materials and
syllabi provided by the Department. Designed activities and exercises.
- Corrected tests and papers, and provided one-to-one help for students.
- Tutored conversation groups for intermediate classes. Designed topics
of discussions and primary material to accompany the discussions.
- Tutored weekly review sessions for a French Philosophy class.
Organized small group discussions around a philosophical text.
2003/2004/2005
SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
Cogut Center for the Humanities Graduate Fellowship
2010-11
Yearlong research fellowship awarded to four graduate students in the
humanities by the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University
Nominated for the President’s Award for excellence in teaching
Annual prize awarded by the Graduate School to recognize outstanding
pedagogical achievement by a Brown University graduate student
Mellon stipend (for coordinating a graduate workshop)
Cogut Center for the Humanities Tuition Fellowship
Financial support for the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell
University
Sevaux Dissertation Fellowship, Brown University
Nominated for the Horst Frenz Prize, ACLA
Awarded to the best paper presented by a graduate student at the
annual meeting of American Comparative Literature Association
Spring 2010
2009-10
Summer 2009
Spring/Fall 2009
Spring 2009
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Brown Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning: Certificate III
Professional developmental seminar organized around the
development of the teaching portfolio
2010-11
Brown Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning: Certificate I
Yearlong program introducing participants to the basic elements of a
reflective teaching practice
2009-10
Coordinator for a Mellon Graduate Workshop
Proposed a seminar for graduate students entitled Perspectives on
Everyday Life. Drafted a description of the workshop, a bibliography,
and a syllabus. Organized bi-monthly meetings and lectures, invited
hosts speakers, and managed the annual budget.
2009-10
School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University
Attended the Seminar “Voice, representation, and Ideology” lead by
Michael Steinberg and Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg.
Summer 2009
Participant in Mellon Graduate Workshop
Attended a graduate student-run seminar entitled Bodies and Nations in
the Nineteenth Century.
2008-09
PUBLICATION
“Le ‘curieux exercice’ : voyeurisme et conscience du meurtre dans Les Bienveillantes.” Les
Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell. Etudes réunies par Murielle Lucie-Clément. Cambridge : Open Book
Publishers, 2010, 197-212.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Making mistakes: clumsy children in Mme de Genlis and Berquin.” American Society for EighteenthCentury Studies (Vancouver, March 17-20 2011).
“Clumsy and clumsier: la maladresse from Rousseau to Jean-Jacques.” Cogut center for the humanities
forum, Brown University (October 19th 2010).
“The naturalist’s gaze: Balzac’s contributions to Les français peints par eux-mêmes.” Fossilization and
Evolution. 35th annual Nineteenth-Century French Colloquium, Salt Lake City, (October 22-24
2009).
“De l’art de renverser un verre à celui d’étaler la tache: la maladresse chez Rousseau.” Graduate
Student Forum. Department of French Studies, Brown University (October 15th 2009).
“The Importance of Being Maladroit: Gauche Seduction and Awkward Sincerity in Rousseau.”
Global Languages, Local Cultures. American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University
(March 26-29, 2009).
“Creating the self: Maladresse and the unstable identity in Stendhal.” Reimagining Identity in Language,
Literature and Culture, French and Italian Graduate Conference, U-T. Austin (April 3-4, 2009).
“ ‘L’animal que je ne suis pas’: Humanity and State of Exception in Suite Française.” The Literary
Animal. Romance Studies Graduate Conference, Cornell University (Feb. 8-9, 2008).
“Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Circumstances: the Ambiguity of Heroism in Un roi sans
divertissement.” Behind the Cape: Heroes and Antiheroes in Romance Studies. Graduate Conference,
Boston College (April 4-5, 2008).
“Traduction et conversion: le rôle des animaux dans Les Mille et Une Nuits D’Antoine Galland.”
Conversions. Graduate Conference in French and Italian, Stanford University (January 26-27, 2007).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Graduate Resident in the Maison Française at Brown
Organized cultural events for the undergraduate students living in the
house.
2009-11
Assistant at the John Hay Library, Brown University
Worked on the Digital initiatives project Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century.
- Chose prints and photographs from the Brown collections to be
scanned and downloaded on the website.
- Wrote data files and commentary texts of the images.
- Wrote an annotated bibliography of Brown resources: Paris: Capital of
the 19th Century. A Bibliography.
2006-10
Co-curator of three exhibits at the John Hay Library, Brown University
Planned contents of exhibits with the librarian, chose items to put on display,
organized sections and cases, wrote the commentary texts accompanying
each item.
-Aimé Césaire Memorial Symposium and Exhibit
-The Demon of Melancholy: Genealogies, Modernities
-Baudelaire and the Arts
2007-09
Spring 2009
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Graduate conference co-organizer and Journal editor for Equinoxes,
A Graduate Journal of French and Francophone Studies
Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2008
Designed the conference posters, participated in the writing of the Calls for
papers, invited keynote speakers, organized the events and wrote the editorial
for two issues of the journal, in the Springs of 2006 and 2007.
Equinoxes, Intersections
Spring 2008
Equinoxes, Snobismes
Spring 2007
Equinoxes, La consommation littéraire
Spring 2006
LANGUAGES
Languages : French (Native Speaker), English (Native proficiency), Spanish (advanced), Hebrew
(beginner).
REFERENCES
Professor Pierre Saint-Amand, Brown University.
Professor Kevin McLaughlin, Brown University.
Professor Annie Wiart, Brown University.