Curriculum vitae Scott D. Carpenter Department

Curriculum vitae
Scott D. Carpenter
Department of French and Francophone Studies
Carleton College
Northfield, MN 55057
(507) 222-4235
602 Prairie St.
Northfield, MN 55057
(507) 645-8501
CURRENT POSITION
Professor of French, Department of French and Francophone Studies, Carleton College; Director
of Carleton’s Global Engagement Initiative.
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin-Madison: Ph.D., French, 1987. Areas of concentration: eighteenth and
nineteenth century literature. Dissertation: “Discourses of Madness; A Study of Selected Texts in
the Nineteenth Century.” Minor: Related Fields (English, History of Science).
University of Minnesota: B.A. (1980), French, English, Latin. M.A. (1983), French; Minor:
Related Fields (German, History, Comparative Literature).
Study Abroad:
L’Université de Pau et des pays de l’Adour, Pau, France, 1983-84.
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, West Germany: Sommerkurs, 1983.
Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, 1978-79.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
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Carleton College “Targeted Opportunities” grant for writing project (awarded in 2010
for Winter 2012).
Co-author of institutional grant application (funded) to the Mellon Foundation for
Global Engagement ($53,000), 2010.
Associated Colleges of the Midwest FaCE Project grant, 2007.
Carleton College “Targeted Opportunities” grant (Mellon, Smith and Wallin faculty
development funds) for European Studies Project (awarded in 2003 for 2004).
Carleton College European Studies (UISFL Grant), for language study in German,
summer 2003.
Carleton College “Targeted Opportunities” grant for supplemental leave, 2000-2001.
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Mellon Foundation Grant for use of technology in the teaching of language
(administered by the Mellon Language/Technology Committee, Carleton and
Macalester Colleges), winter 1997.
Mellon Foundation Grant for curricular use of new technologies (administered by
Academic Computing and Networking Services) Carleton College (fall 1995)
Curricular Research and Development grant (with the Department of Romance Langs.
and Lits.) Carleton College (summer 1994)
Curricular Research and Development grant (with the Department of Romance Langs.
and Lits.) Carleton College (summer 1993)
Joyce and Knight Foundation Faculty Development Grant, Carleton College (1992)
Joyce and Knight Foundation Faculty Development Grant, Carleton College (1991)
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, (1990)
Summer Research Grant, Carleton College (1990)
Faculty Development Grant, Trinity University (1988)
Graduate School Computer Research Grant (Madison, 1987)
Knapp Dissertation Fellowship (Madison, 1986-87)
Vilas Travel Fellowship (Madison, 1986)
Scholarly Work:
Books:
In progress (with Anders Uhrskov): The Heart of Study Abroad.
The Aesthetics of Fraudulence in Nineteenth-century France: Frauds, Hoaxes, and
Counterfeits. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publications, 2009.
Reading Lessons: An Introduction to Theory. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Acts of Fiction: Resistance and Resolution from Sade to Baudelaire. University Park: The
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
Vagabondages littéraires (co-editor with the members of the French Section at Carleton)
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Articles, Essays, Entries:
“Mystification et esthétique littéraire” in Romantisme. Summer, 2012.
“Le degré zéro de la parole mériméenne” in Cahiers Mérimée, 2012, 4.
“Vampirisme et production littéraire : se nourrir du sang des autres,” in Écritures XIX 6:
Prosper Mérimée, Antonia Fonyi, ed. (Caen: Lettres Modernes Mindard, 2010), 2332.
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“Prosper Mérimée’s Short Stories,” The Literary Encyclopedia (http://www.litencyc.com/)
2010.
“Les Petits poëmes en prose, Charles Baudelaire,” The Literary Encyclopedia
(http://www.litencyc.com/) 2008.
“La Généalogie du faux : vers « La fausse monnaie » in Mélire : Lecture et Mystification,
Nathalie Preiss, ed. (Paris: Editions L’improviste, 2006.)
“Entre rue et boulevard : Les chemins de l’allégorie chez Baudelaire,” in Romantisme, 136,
December 2006, 55-65.
(with the Group Moo), “Et La Marquise resta pensive : Illusion et idéalisme dans La
Marquise et Sarrasine,” French Review, 79, 4 (March 2006), 749-59.
“Diversions in Reading: Aesthetics and Mérimées’s ‘La chambre bleue,’ in Short Story
Criticism, Vol. 77, Gale Publishing, 2004; reprinted from French Forum, 14, 3 (Sept.
1989), 303-10.
“Charles Baudelaire,” Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism, 2nd. Edition (Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2004).
“La Logique de la digression,” in Maldoror hier et aujourd’hui : du romantisme à la
modernité, Cahiers Lautréamont (Paris: Du Lérot: 2003).
“Supercherie et violence : Mérimée, ou le texte piégé,” in Romantisme (2002, vol. 116), pp. 4957.
“L’Education sentimentale of 1845,” in A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia, Laurence Porter, ed.
(Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001).
“Maxime du Camp,” in A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia, Laurence Porter, ed. (Westport,
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001).
“Achille Flaubert,” in A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia, Laurence Porter, ed. (Westport,
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001).
“Achille-Cléophas Flaubert,” in A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia, Laurence Porter, ed.
(Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001).
“Caroline Hamard,” in A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia, Laurence Porter, ed. (Westport,
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001).
“Les Faux Démétrius: Les ratés de l’histoire,” in Prosper Mérimée : Écrivain, Archéologue,
Historien, Antonia Fonyi, ed. (Genève: Droz, 1999), pp. 63-74.
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“Of False Napoleons and Other Political Prostheses: Writing Oppositionally from the Second
Empire” Nineteenth Century French Studies, Vol. 25, No. 3-4 (Spring-Summer,
1997), 302-319.
“Effigies et contrefaçons nationales: Pauvre Belgique! de Baudelaire,” in L’Oeuvre
d’identité: Essais sur le romantisme de Nodier à Baudelaire (Montreal: Paragraphes,
1996), pp. 75-86.
“Prosper Mérimée.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 119: Nineteenth-century French
Fiction writers: Romanticism and Realism, 1800-1860. Detroit and London: Bruccoli
Clark Layman, 1992, pp. 193-205.
“Sade and the Problem of Closure: Keeping Philosophy in the Bedroom,” Neophilologus, 75
(1991) 519-528.
“Diversions in Reading: Aesthetics and Mérimées’s “La chambre bleue,” French Forum, 14,
3 (Sept. 1989), 303-10.
“Figures of Interpretation in Nerval’s Aurélia,” Nineteenth Century French Studies, 17, Nos.
1&2 (Fall-Winter, 1988-89), pp. 152-60).
“Demythification in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Studies in American Fiction, 15, No.
2 (Autumn, 1987), pp.211-18.
“Metaphor and Madness in Mérimée’s ‘La Vénus d’Ille,’” Romance Notes, 27, No. 1
(Autumn, 1986 [May, 1987]), pp. 75-80.
“L’Enterprise classique et le paradoxe dans Les Caractères,” The French Review, 60, No. 6
(May, 1987), pp. 31-38.
“Montaigne couturier: Représentations et intertextualités dans ‘De L’amitié’,” Paroles
Gelées, 4 (1986), pp. 31-38.
Fiction:
Theory of Remainders (novel), forthcoming with Winter Goose Press (2013).
This Jealous Earth: Stories, MG Press (2013).
“Sincerely Yours” (reprint) in Carleton Voice (Spring, 2013).
“The Bait,” in Grey Sparrow Journal (Winter, 2013).
“Riddles,” in the anthology Best Indie Lit New England (2010-12), Black Key Press, 2013.
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“Thrift,” in Chamber Four (October 2012, issue 3).
“Donny, Donny,” in Midwestern Gothic (October 2012, issue 7; special “Nostalgia” issue).
“The Spirit of the Dog,” in The MacGuffin (Spring/Summer issue, 2012.
“The Spirit of the Dog,” in The MacGuffin (Spring/Summer issue, 2012.
“The Painting Boy,” in The Atticus Review (March 20, 2012)
“The Birthday List,” (reprint) in Eunoia Review (February, 2012).
“The Birthday List,” (reprint) in Carleton Voice (February, 2012)
“The Parasite,” in Subtle Fiction (January 16, 2012).
“Thursday,” in Subtle Fiction (January 16, 2012).
“Inheritance,” in Midwestern Gothic (Issue 4, Winter, 2012).
“Riddles,” in Anomalous, Issue 4 (Dec. 15, 2011).
“The Phrasebook,” in Red Ochre Press (Dec., 2011).
“The Visit,” in Spilling Ink, Issue 7 (Dec., 2011).
“Future Perfect,” in Short Fiction Collective (Nov. 7, 2011).
“Foundering,” in Prime Number, Issue 13.2 (October, 2011).
“Ke C Bo,” Amis de George Sand (September, 2011).
“The Birthday List,” in Every Writer Resource Short Stories (Sept. 20, 2011).
“Donny,” in Ducts, Issue 24 (Winter 2010).
“Sincerely Yours,” in Ducts, Issue 20 (Winter 2008).
“General Relativity,” published as an audiocast at Lit-Cast (www.lit-cast.com, also available
as a free download in iTunes), November, 2007.
Papers, presentations:
“Study Study Study Study (Study Abroad) Study Study Study,” presented as part of a panel,
“The Heart of Study Abroad,” CIEE conference, New Orleans, LA, November 2011.
“Can We Talk: Connecting People, Programs and Ideas across Cultural Differences” (with
Sarah Goodwin) at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges &
Universities, San Francisco, January 2011.
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“Les Silences de Mérimée,” lecture given at Mérimée Seminar, University of Paris
(Sorbonne), May 29, 2010.
“The Use and Abuse of Reading,” plenary lecture at DIS faculty seminar, Copenhagen,
March 20, 2010.
“Kinship, Myth, and Representation: Lévi-Strauss and Structuralism” (chair, presenter), round
table, Carleton College, January 23, 2010.
“Arts of Mystification in Nineteenth-Century France” invited lecture at Macalester College,
Feb. 23, 2010.
“Babel,” Pedagogical Round Table at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium;
Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, UT, October 2009.
“Memory and Identity,” presented at faculty seminar of DIS, held in Berlin, June, 2009.
“Balzac’s Skillful Disguises: ‘Pierre Grassou’,” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Colloquium; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, October, 2008.
“Creating Cultural Malcontents,” in the panel “Moving People, Changing Mindsets: Building
Intercultural Competence through Study Abroad,” CIEE conference; Toronto, CA;
November 2007.
“Vampirisme et production littéraire : se nourrir du sang des autres,” at the Colloque
Mérimée, Cerisy-la-Salle, September 2007.
“Potential and Possibilities for Literary Scholars and Undergraduate Language Students” on the
panel “Introducing the Esternay Project,” at Western Society for French History,
Longbeach, CA, 2006.
“Is Paris Burning?” (chair, presenter), round table, Carleton College, November 9, 2005.
“La généalogie du faux,” at the colloquium “Mé-lire,” Université de Reims, May 2005.
“Mérimée and the Ravages of Time,” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium;
Tucson, Arizona, October 2003.
“The Glance of Allegory: Baudelaire, in Passing,” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Colloquium; Columbus, Ohio, October 2002.
“Realism,” in “Roundtable on the Teaching of 19th-Century French Literature: The Concept
of Literary Movements in the Teaching of Literature,” at the Nineteenth-Century
French Studies Colloquium; Columbus, Ohio, October 2002.
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“La Logique de la digression,” at the colloquium “Lautréamont : du romantisme à la
modernité,” University of Tokyo, October 2002.
“The Originality of the Copy: Baudelaire’s “La fausse monnaie,” at Nineteenth-Century
French Studies Colloquium; Madison, WI, October 2001.
“Faking it: Baudelaire and the Counterfeit” at Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference;
Lexington, KY, April 2000.
“Teaching Theory,” invited discussion, with the English Department of St. Olaf College,
2000.
“The Image of the Counterfeit” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium;
Toronto, Canada, October 1998.
Chaired panel, “Historiography,” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium;
Athens, Georgia, October 1997.
“New Technologies and French Language Teaching,” at the Carleton-Macalester Mellon
Language Workshop, February, 1997.
“Des Faux Napoléon et d’autres prothèses politiques,” at the “Colloque Mérimée,” in Paris
(CNRS/Paris VII), January, 1997.
“Making Dead Kings Speak,” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium at the
University of Toronto, October, 1996.
“Occidentalism: Baudelaire’s Travelogue,” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Colloquium at the University of Delaware, October 1995.
“Of False Napoleons and Other Political Prostheses; Writing Oppositionally from the Second
Empire,” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium at the University of
California, Santa Barbara; October 1994.
“Poetry and Physics,” at the Carleton Panel on the Humanities, February, 1994.
Respondent, “Science and Literature,” panel at the Midwest Modern Language Association,
Minneapolis, November 1993.
Chair of “Visual Terror,” a panel at the Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium at the
University of Kansas, October 1993.
“Unnatural Histories in Balzac’s Human Comedy,” at the convention of the Midwest Modern
Language Association (MMLA), St. Louis, November, 1992.
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“Splitting Hairs and Chopping Heads in Balzac’s César Birotteau,” at the Nineteenth
Century French Studies Colloquium, Binghamton, New York, October, 1992.
“Traveling from the Orient to Aurélia: Nerval Looks for the Words,” at the Nineteenth
Century French Studies Colloquium, New Orleans, October, 1991.
“Esthetics and Ideology: Baudelaire’s Glazier and Le Spleen de Paris,” at the Nineteenth
Century French Studies Colloquium, Norman, OK, October, 1990.
“Upsetting the Aristocracy in Le Colonel Chabert,” at the Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference, Lexington, KY, April, 1990.
Organizer and Chair of “Writing and Memory in French Romanticism,” session at the 1989
Convention of the Modern Language Association.
“Reading as Diversion in Mérimée’s ‘La Chambre bleue,’” at the Kentucky Foreign
Language Conference, Lexington, April, 1989.
“Literature and Psychoanalysis; The Nerval Case,” at the American College in Paris, July,
1988.
“Figures of Interpretation in Nerval’s Aurélia,” at the Eighth Annual Romance Language and
Literatures Conference, Cincinatti, Ohio, May 1988.
“The Failure of Romantic Discourse; The Success of Romantic Prose,” at “Classics in
Context: The Romantics” Colloquium in Louisville, Kentucky, October, 1987.
“Narrative Discourses: A Strategy for Reading,” at Iowa State University, March, 1987.
Reviews:
Review of La Lettre tue: Spectre(s) de l’écrit fantastique. Villeneuve d’Ascq (France):
Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2009, in French Review (forthcoming).
Review of The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire. Ed. Rosemary Lloyd. Cambridge
(UK): Cambridge University Press, 2005, in French Review (forthcoming).
Review of Abramson, Julia. Learning from Lying: Paradoxes of the Literary Mystification.
(Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005). Pp. 195, in South Central Review, 25, I
(Spring 2008), 170-1.
Review of Pichois, Claude, and Michel Brix, eds. Dictionnaire Nerval. Ed. Michel Brix.
Tusson (France): Éditions Du Lérot, 2006, in French Review.
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Review of Wieser, Dagmar. Nerval : Une poétique du deuil à l’âge romantique. (Genève: Droz,
2004). ISBN 2-600-00875-6. Pp. 408. 43.90 €.
Review of Scott, Maria C. Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris: Shifting Perspectives.
Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2005, in Nineteenth-Century French
Studies (forthcoming).
Review of Fonyi, Antonia, ed. Mérimée à découvrir. Special issue of Littératures (51:
2004), in French Review.
Review of Schuerewegen, Franc. Balzac, suite et fin. (Paris : ENS Éditions, 2004, in French
Review.
Review of Christopher Prendergast, For the People by the People? Eugène Sue’s Les
Mystères de Paris, Legenda (Oxford UP), 2003, in Studi Francesi.
Review of Philippe Destruel, L’écriture nervalienne du temps: l’expérience de la temporalité
dans l’oeuvre de Gérard de Nerval, Nizet, 2004, in The French Review, 80: 1,
October 2006, 212-213.
Review of Oscar Mandel, Prosper Mérimée: Plays on Hispanic Themes, New York, Peter Lang
Publishing, 2003, pp. 208, in Studi francesi.
Review of Chelebourg, Christian. Prosper Mérimée : le sang et la chair, une poétique du sujet.
(Paris : Lettres Modernes Minard, Collection Archives des lettres modernes, no. 280,
2004); in French Review.
Review of De Nerval, Gérard. Contes et facéties. Ed. Michel Brix. Jaignes (France): La Chasse
au Snark, 2000. ISBN: 2-914015-03-8. Pp. 120; in French Review.
Review of Droulia, Loukia and Vasso Mentzou, eds., Vers l’Orient par la Grèce: avec Nerval et
d’autres voyageurs. Littérature des Voyages VI. Paris: Klincksieck, 1993, in The French
Review (1998).
Review of Méry, Joseph, et Gérard de Nerval. Le Chariot d’enfant. Eds. Michel Brix et
Stéphane Le Couëdic. Jaignes (France): La Chasse au Snark, 2002. ISBN: 2-914015-224. Pp. 272; in French Review, 2004.
Review of Claude Duchet et alia, Explorer la ‘Comédie humaine, Groupe International de
Recherches Balzaciennes, Acamédia 1999, CD-ROM for Mac and PC, in Nineteenth
Century French Studies, 29, 1&2 (Fall-Winter, 2000-01), pp.156-159.
Review of Bony, Jacques: L’Esthétique de Nerval. Paris: SEDES, 1997; in Nineteenth-Century
French Studies (2002).
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Review of Truesdell, Matthew. Spectacular Politics: Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte and the
Fête Impériale, 1849-1870. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, NineteenthCentury French Studies (1999).
Review of Brix, Michel. Manuel bibliographique des oeuvres de Gérard de Nerval. Namus:
PU de Namur, 1997, in Nineteenth Century French Studies, 26, 3&4 (SpringSummer, 1998), pp.467-8.
Review of Droulia, Loukia and Vasso Mentzou, eds., Vers l’Orient par la Grèce: avec
Nerval et d’autres voyageurs. Littérature des Voyages VI. Paris: Klincksieck, 1993,
in The French Review (1998).
Review of Peter Dayan, Nerval et ses pères: Portrait en trois volets avec deux gonds et un
cadenas, in Nineteenth Century French Studies, 22: 1&2 (Fall-Winter 1993-94), pp.
264-5.
Review of Avital Ronell, Crack Wars, in Nineteenth Century French Studies, 21, 1&2 (FallWinter, 1992-93), pp.223-224..
Review of Frank Paul Bowman, French Romanticism, in Modern Philology, 90, 1
(November 1992), 274-276.
Review of Sandy Petrey, Realism and Revolution, in MLN, 105, No. 5 (December, 1990),
1100-04.
Review of Christopher Prendergast, The Order of Mimesis, in Modern Language Notes
(MLN), 103, No. 4 (Sept. 1988), 935-9.
Review of Marie-France Etienne, Gérard de Nerval: Janus multiplié, in The French Review,
62, No. 2 (Dec. 1988), 335.
Review of D.A. Williams, “The Hidden Life at its Source”: A Study of Flaubert’s
L’Education sentimentale, in Nineteenth Century French Studies, 17, Nos. 1 & 2
(Fall-Winter, 1988-89), 236-7.
Digital Publications:
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With Jeff Ondich, Hachette Mulitmédia-Ultralingua Dictionnaire Français-Anglais.
Paris: Hachette Multimédia 2005.
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Joint author of Sin Falta, a computerized writing environment for English speaking
students of Spanish, distributed by McGraw-Hill, Inc., in press.
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With Chris Carter-Smith, Friedericke von Schwerin-High, Jeff Ondich, Philippe
Caudron, Ultralingua German-English Dictionary, a computerized dictionary distributed
by McGraw-Hill. (Programming done by Philippe Caudron and Jeffrey Ondich.), 2003.
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With Leland Guyer, Jeff Ondich, Philippe Caudron, Ultralingua Spanish-English
Dictionary, a computerized dictionary distributed by McGraw-Hill. (Programming done
by Philippe Caudron and Jeffrey Ondich.), 2003.
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With Jeff Ondich, Philippe Caudron, Ultralingua French-English Dictionary, a
computerized dictionary distributed by McGraw-Hill. (Programming done by Philippe
Caudron and Jeffrey Ondich.), 2001.
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Joint author of Sans-Faute, a computerized writing environment for English speaking
students of French, distributed by McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2001.
Guest lectures in classes
Class on Victor Hugo and medievalism in the nineteenth-century, for Introduction to
European Studies, taught by Bill North, Carleton College, 2009.
Class on the development of cultural symbols for national identity, in Introduction to
European Studies, taught by Stephen Strand, Carleton College, 2003.
Class on the uses of Psychoanalysis in literary theory, Introduction to Theory course, taught
by Richard DuRocher, St. Olaf College, 2002.
Class session on Freud and Psychonalysis, German Literature Seminar taught by Anne
Ulmer, Carleton College, 2000.
Class on Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew, in course on the Englightenment, taught by Roger
Paas, Carleton College, 1991.
Teaching experience
Carleton College (1990 - present): Professor of French, (tenured 1995). Upper and lower
division courses in French language and literature; literary theory. Frequent director of the
College Spring Term Programs in France.
Trinity University (1987-90): Assistant Professor, tenure track; upper and lower division
courses in French language, civilization, and literature, including seminars on nineteenth
century French prose and nineteenth and twentieth century lyric poetry.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison: (1984-1987) Faculty Assistant, Teaching Assistant; first
and second year French. Teaching Methodologies orientation with Profs. Sally Magnan and
Constance Knop.
L’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour: (1983-84) Lecteur: responsible for courses in
conversation and literature. Assisted in course on translation (level of the C.A.P.E.S.).
University of Minnesota: (1981-83) Teaching Associate I; courses in beginning and
intermediate French, assisted in courses of French literature in translation. Also taught
courses in English composition. Teaching Methodologies orientation with Prof. Betsy
Barnes.
Study Abroad Programs
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Carleton French Program, Paris, France, Spring 1995, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2010
Carleton French Program, Pau, France, Spring 1991, 1992.
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Modern Language Association
Nineteenth Century French Studies
American Association of Teachers of French
Phi Beta Kappa
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Director of Carleton’s Global Engagement Initiative (2010-2011)
Chair of Admissions and Financial Aid Committee (2010-2011)
Organizer of reading groups through the Carleton Humanities Center
Departmental Chair (2003-8)
Faculty Grants Committee (2000-4; 2008-9)
French and Francophone Studies Committee (ongoing)
Cross-Cultural Studies Committee (ongoing)
European Studies Committee (ongoing)
Section head (French), Winter 2001
Faculty Mentor (2007-8)
Educational Curriculum Committee (2007-8)
Off-Campus Studies Committee (2005-7)
Common Reading facilitator (French group, 2003)
FAC designee for informal tenure review (2002-03)
Head of French section (1999-2000)
Environment and Technology Studies Committee (1995-1996)
Faculty Personnel Committee (Fall, 1997 - 2000)
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Cross-Cultural Studies Committee (Fall, 1997-9)
Academic Computer Advisory Committee (1994-7)
Junior Faculty Affairs Committee (1991-4)
Faculty Affairs Committee (1993-6)
Faculty liaison with the French House (1993-6)
Organizer of “Ink-wiring Minds,” a reading group for theory in the humanities (19921997).
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Regular reader of dossiers for promotion of scholars at other institutions.
Reader for essays in Comparative Literature.
Manuscript reviewer at University of Delaware Press and Ashgate Publishing.
Editorial Board for Nineteenth-Century French Studies. (2003--)
Regular book reviewer for Nineteenth-Century French Studies and The French
Review.
Advisory Board of the Center for University Programs Abroad (CUPA).
Occasional translator of documents required for pro bono legal work (usually
political asylum cases)
Translator of Italian entries in The Balloon Historian’s Friend, a newsletter published
by the Special Collections of Wilson Library, University of Minnesota.
Translator of “Annonay’s Monuments to the Balloon,” by Marie-Hélène Reynaud, in
Annals of Balloon History and Museology, I, 1991, 1-13.
Translator/editor of Texts Pertaining to the Invention of the Balloon in 1782, by Paul
Maravelas (Watertown, MN: 1985).
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