aparna nayak-guercio - California State University, Long Beach
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aparna nayak-guercio - California State University, Long Beach
APARNA NAYAK-GUERCIO Assistant Professor of French e-mail: [email protected] EDUCATION PhD in French, University of Pittsburgh (2006). D.E.A. (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies), University of Paris VII – Denis Diderot, Paris, France (1998). M.A. in French, University of Pittsburgh (1993). B.A. in French, University of Bombay, India (1990). RESEARCH INTERESTS French literature and cinema of Fascism and the Resistance Literature, history, memory 20th century French and Francophone prose fiction Contemporary Indian fiction in English PUBLICATIONS “Wir sind doch keinen Barbaren”: Music, Musicality and Cultural Politics in Aragon’s Le droit romain n’est plus," French Forum. Fall 2009. Vol. 34, no. 3. pp. 21-38. “DJ Zaïfe: Remix de la cité du paradis: interview avec Faïza Guène, écrivaine”. Laura CeiaMinjares, written in collaboration with Aparna Nayak-Guercio. Contemporary French & Francophone Studies. Vol. 11. no. 1, January 2007, pp. 93-97. “The project of Liberation and the projection of national identity. France, literature and politics, 1944-1945” in Sites / Contemporary French & Francophone Studies. “French Studies Today”. Vol. 10. no. 2. Spring-Summer 2006, pp. 195-204. WORK IN PROGRESS Ambiguous identities: myth and self-reinvention in Un héros très discret (1996) “Le droit d’étaler ses blessures” : questions of survival, testimony, and France in Guy Kohen’s Retour d’Auschwitz Aparna Nayak-Guercio, page 2 COLLOQUIA “Linguistic spaces: boundaries and bridges in Le Grand Voyage.” 27th annual 20th and 21st century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Toronto, March 2010. “On linguistic boundaries and bridges in Le Grand Voyage.” 58th Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, October 2008. “Of departures and returns: Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss,” 2008 American Comparative Literatures Association conference, Long Beach, April 2008. “Identifying “les enfants de la patrie”: the role of French newspapers in delimiting inclusion and exclusion, June – August 1944,” 25th annual 20th and 21st century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Georgetown University, March 2008. “The Front Populaire and the possibility of peace,” 9th Annual Space Between Society conference, The Experience of War in the Space Between, 1914-1945. U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. June 2007. « Unmasking the hero / heroism: les “nouveaux résistants” and “la France résistante” in Un héros très discret ,» Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, April 2007. “Ambiguous identities: myth and self-reinvention in Un héros très discret,” Spaces of War: France and the Francophone World, European Studies Consortium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. October 2006. “‘Le droit d’étaler ses blessures’ : questions of survival, testimony, and France in Guy Kohen’s Retour d’Auschwitz,” 23rd Annual 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, March-April 2006. CONFERENCE & LECTURE ORGANIZATION 20th & 21st century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium, to be co-organized with Dr. Ceia-Minjares (Spring 2012). “The poetics and politics of historical representation: Vichy France and its memory.” Organized lecture series by Philip Watts (Columbia University), Andrew Sobanet (Georgetown University), Andrea Loselle (UCLA), and Laura Ceia (CSULB). Fall 2009. Invited Panivong Norindr (USC) for a guest lecture entitled “The Cinematic Practice of a 'cinéaste ordinaire': Abdellatif Kechiche and 'French' Political Cinema” (May 2009). Invited Amy Reinsel (IUPUI--Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis) for a guest lecture entitled “Racial Theory and poetic practice in 19th century Haiti” (April 2008). Invited Dr. Heather Allen (University of Miami) to speak on reading literacy and technology in Aparna Nayak-Guercio, page 3 the foreign language classroom (October 2006). ACADEMIC HONORS Nominee (University of Pittsburgh) for the Council of Graduate Studies – UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award (2007). Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2004-2005). Lilian B. Lawler Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (1999-2000). INTRAMURAL FUNDING Scholarly & Creative Activities award (3 units assigned time, 2009-10). Scholarly & Creative Activities award (Summer mini-grant, 2008). Scholarly & Creative Activities award (Summer mini-grant, 2007). TEACHING EXPERIENCE California State University, Long Beach Assistant Professor of French (2006 - present). Courses taught: elementary and intermediate French, composition, conversation, undergraduate and graduate literature seminars (cross century literature Capstone course on Self & Society; 20th century seminar on the history and memory of Vichy France in literature and film). University of Pittsburgh Teaching Fellow (2005-06, 2003-04, 1998-97, 1995-97). Courses taught: elementary and intermediate French, Approaches to French literature (introduction to literary analysis), upper-division civilization course spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. Carnegie Mellon University Adjunct Instructor, (Summer 2005). Intensive elementary French. Université François Rabelais, Tours, France Lectrice d’anglais (1997-98). Courses taught: English language, composition, conversation, phonetics. American School of Bombay, Bombay, India Middle school French teacher (1994-95). Elementary French. École Française Internationale de Bombay, Bombay, India Kindergarten substitute teacher (1994-95). Aparna Nayak-Guercio, page Université de Paris X - Nanterre, Paris, France Lectrice d’anglais (1993-94). Courses taught: English language, conversation, introductory and advanced phonetics. University of Pittsburgh Teaching Assistant (1991-93). Courses taught : elementary and intermediate French. UNIVERSITY SERVICE California State University, Long Beach International Education Committee (2009-present). University Library Committee (2009-2010). Co-director, French program, Dept. of Romance, German, Russian Languages & Literatures (RGRLL) (Spring-Summer-Fall 2008). Undergraduate and Graduate Advisor, French, Dept. of RGRLL (Spring-Summer-Fall 2008). Curriculum and Educational Policies Council of the University Senate (Fall 2007). CSULB representative to the CSU Foreign Language Council (2007-08). Southern Representative-at-large to the Executive Board of the CSU Foreign Language Council (2007-08). RGRLL Advisory Council (2007-08) RGRLL representative to the Faculty Hearing Panel (2007-2009) Steering Committee to the Graziadio Center for Italian Studies (2007-2008) South Asia Subcommittee (2006-present) Steering Committee to the Yadunandan Center for India Studies (2006-present) European Studies Subcommittee (2006-07) Curriculum Committee, Dept. of RGRLL (2006-07) LANGUAGES English, French, Italian, Konkani – native fluency Hindi and Marathi - fluently written and spoken German and Spanish- reading knowledge 4