Modern Language Faculty

American Sign Language

Fred Farrior

Malthus Hall
503-883--2476
ffarrio@linfield.edu

French

Thierry René Durand - Associate Professor

Walker 315
503-883--2474
tdurand@linfield.edu

Education: Thierry Durand studied philosophy and obtained his masters from the University of Lyon III, in France. He also received his masters and PhD in French literature from Washington University in St Louis, MO. His work focused on Blanchot?s literary criticism. Before coming to Linfield as assistant-professor, he taught at Dickinson College, PA, and was a visiting assistant-professor at Middlebury College, VT, for one year. He was also twice the assistant-director for the University of Houston summer program abroad in Bourges, France and served as president of the Oregon Association of Teachers of French for two years, from 1998 to 2000.

Academic Interests: Literature (late XIXth and XXth century French) & Philosophy

CURRICULUM VITAE Thierry René Durand Linfield College Department of Modern Languages tdurand@linfield.edu (W) (503) 883-2474 (H) (503) 284-7840 EDUCATION Ph.D. French Literature Department of Romance Languages & Literatures Washington University, 1993 Dissertation title: Maurice Blanchot: l'écriture expiatoire Professor Michel Rybalka, Chair Master’s Degree French Literature and Second Language Pedagogy Department of Romance Languages & Literatures Washington University, 1987 Maîtrise Philosophie U.E.R. de Philosophie Université Lyon III, 1981-1986 Master's Thesis: L'émotion créatrice chez Henri Bergson (mention Très Bien) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Associate Professor, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR Department of Modern Languages (fall 1995 – present) Courses taught: -Inquiry Seminar (2005, 2006, 2007): “Perspectives on Evil” (a writing course for freshmen) -Introduction to Francophone Literature (introduction to genre-specific literary analysis) -Topic courses in French literature (most recent: “L’écriture ‘auto-sociobiographique’ d’Annie Ernaux,” “Réel et fiction dans les romans d’Emmanuel Carrère,” “La nouvelle des années 90,” “Le théâtre de boulevard contemporain”) -15th through 20th Century French Civilization survey courses -Topic courses in French Civilization (most recent: “Pouvoir et marginalisation dans le cinéma français contemporain,” “Le multiculturalisme dans la France contemporaine,” “Les papiers de la nation: y a-t-il une identité française?”) -Senior Seminar (most recent: “Se perfectionner à l’écrit: question de style,” “Création en collaboration d’un cours de civilisation sur la France contemporaine pour les élèves de troisième année,” “La littérature résistante durant l’Occupation”) -Supervision of independent studies and honor theses -Mentor with the Department of Continuing Education for senior project on French 20th century author Colette -Language (Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced French) -Language courses taught in France: January Term 2002 and 2003: Intermediate French in France (taught in Tours, France) January Term 2000: Elementary French in France (taught in Toulouse, France) Visiting Assistant Professor, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT Department of French (1994-1995) Courses taught: -Elementary and Intermediate French -Literature courses (third and fourth years): Introduction to French Poetry, 19th and 20th Century French Literature, 20th Century French Autobiography -Supervision of two independent studies (on Nathalie Sarraute and Marguerite Duras) Instructor, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA Department of French & Italian (1990-1994) Courses taught: -Intermediate through Advanced French courses -Introduction to French Literature -Senior Seminar: “The French Intellectual from the Dreyfus Affair to the Algerian War” OTHER EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant, Washington University in Saint Louis Department of Romance Languages & Literatures (1986–1989) Courses taught: -all level of language and conversation (lab & drills) Instructor, University of Missouri in Saint Louis Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures (1987-1988) Evening courses taught: -Elementary and Intermediate French Instructor, Alliance Française of Saint Louis (1987-1988) Courses taught: -Elementary and Intermediate French -Advanced Conversation Summer Courses: -University of Houston, Houston, TX Assistant Director of Summer Program in Bourges, France (1994, 1995) Courses taught: -Intermediate French -Advanced Grammar and Composition -Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA Course taught: -Intermediate French (summer 1993) -Washington University, Saint Louis, MO Course taught: -Elementary French (summer 1988) PRESENTATIONS AT NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIA "Politique de l'attente et prophétisme chez Maurice Blanchot" 3rd International Conference on Maurice Blanchot "Maurice Blanchot, Communauté, Politique et Histoire, 1931-2003" Université de Paris X at Nanterre, Paris (France), May 4-6, 2009 "Violence, immanence et représentation (sur la guerre de Bosnie)" 20th and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International colloquium. The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, March 26-29, 2009 "Régis Jauffret ou la méchanceté à fleur de peau" The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 21-23, 2008 “Le ‘non-sérieux de l’édification’ et la profondeur du bien” Colloque International: Lévinas, Blanchot: penser la différence” – UNESCO: Journée mondiale de la philosophie, Paris (France), November 13-16, 2006 “L’étranger en soi — Essai sur Emmanuel Carrère” Twenty-sixth Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, OH May 11-13, 2006 “Le retour du mal dans l’imaginaire de la littérature actuelle: l’exemple de Philippe Renonçay” 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, March 31 – April 3, 2005 “La philosophie à l’épreuve du théâtre chez Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt” 22nd Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, OH, May 9-11, 2002 “Portrait d’un intellectuel non-conformiste” Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Central Florida, Rollins College, Stetson University, Orlando, FL, March 2-4, 2000 “L’Internet: un texte sans qualités?” 16th Annual Conference on 20th-Century French Studies, University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, March 25-27, 1999 “De l’intellectuel sanctifié: essai sur la grâce” Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Central Florida, Rollins College, Stetson University, Winter Park, FL, March 4-6, 1999 “L’amitié: nous sommes désolés de ne pouvoir donner suite à votre appel” Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, OH, May 7-9, 1998 “Une jeunesse dans le siècle: Maurice Blanchot dans les années trente” (two-hour-presentation) COFLT [Confederation in Oregon for Language Teaching], Lincoln City, OR, March 6-7, 1998 “Ecrire à bout de souffle: stylisation de l’absence d’inspiration” MLA Convention, Toronto, Canada, December 26-31, 1997 Chaired session entitled: “Expérience de la limite” Presentation: “Malheur de la pensée et pensée du malheur” Colloquium on 20th Century French Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, April 3-5, 1997 “Oscillations poétiques” Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 8-10, 1997 “Maurice Blanchot rencontre le surréalisme” International Conference entitled: “André Breton: The Power of Language —Speech and Silence” University of Glasgow, Scotland, September 21-23, 1996 "Ecriture et exil" Conference entitled: "Strangers in Paradise: Voices in Exile", California State University at San Bernardino, April 6-8, 1995 "Maurice Blanchot et l'écriture expiatoire" MLA Convention, Toronto, Canada, 1993 "L'écriture et la vie" Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University, September 24-26, 1993 "Blanchot et Robbe-Grillet: Qui écrit dans Le Voyeur?" Conference entitled: "Robbe-Grillet at seventy”, Washington University, October 1992 "Nature et fonctionnement du comique dans Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles bourguignonnes" Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures, Rollins College, Florida, February 1989 "Emile Zola: littérature et génétique" (one-hour presentation) Alliance française of Saint Louis December 1988 "La Jalousie: est-ce un roman bergsonien?" Symposium on Alain Robbe-Grillet. Participant in the Round Table Discussion of the Symposium with Professors Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michel Contat, Michel Rybalka, Jeffrey Mehlman. Washington University, November 1988 "Le mémorialiste: historien autobiographe" Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures Rollins College, Florida, February 1988 IN COLLABORATION WITH STUDENTS Introductory presentation for: “Maximazing learning in International Excursions” — a presentation by 5 students returning from their 2003 January course in Tours, France COFLT Spring Conference, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR, March 1, 2003 Introductory presentation for: “Learning the French way: Our Three Week Experience in Tours, France” — a presentation by 4 students returning from their 2002 January course in Tours, France COFLT Spring Conference, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, March 1-2, 2002 IN COLLABORATION WITH COLLEAGUES “Computer Mediated Communication Tools: Synchronous Chat, Threaded Discussions, PureVoice, and E-mail in the classroom”— A presentation by 4 members of the Linfield Department of Modern Languages COFLT Spring Conference, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR, March 1, 2003 COFLT Fall Conference Attended as President of OATF & moderated two sessions, October 1999 WORKSHOPS Oral Proficiency Interview Refresher Workshop ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages), San Antonio, TX, November 15, 2007 Year-long weekly workshops with consultant Dr. Paula Gunder on CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning), Department of Modern Languages, Linfield College, 2002-2003 Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication: “Creating Intercultural Consciousness” The Intercultural Communication Institute, Forest Grove, OR, July 17-21, 2000 “Culture and Comparisons Workshop” ACTFL, Portland, OR, May 13, 1998 Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Workshop California State University at Fullerton, ACTFL, November 14-17, 1995 ACTFL Workshop on Writing Department of French & Italian, Dickinson College, PA, January 25, 1993 LEADERSHIP & SERVICE -Co-chair of the Department of Modern Languages (January 2002-June 2006) -Chair of the 2006 COFLT Spring Conference, Linfield College, March 4, 2006 -Table Leader for ETS (Educational Testing Services), Princeton, NJ, (June 2006, 2007) -Reader for ETS - Grading French Advanced Placement (AP) examinations (June 2002, 2004, 2005) -Member of the Editorial Board for the Cincinnati Romance Review (1996-2002) -President of OATF (Oregon Association of Teachers of French) (1998-2000) -OATF Treasurer (2000-2004) -Linfield French Club Advisor -FLTA (Foreign Language Teaching Assistant) Advisor -Honor Thesis Advisor Committee assignments at Linfield: -Curriculum Committee (January 2006 – January 2008) -Judicial Council, fall 2002 - spring 2003 (Chair spring semester 2003) -International Programs Committee, fall 1999- spring 2001 (Chair 2000-2001) -Faculty Development Committee (fall 1996-spring 1998) -Academic Support Committee (fall 1998-spring1999) -several search committees MEMBERSHIPS: -Member of MLA (Modern Language Association) -Member of ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) -Member of AATF (American Association of Teachers of French) -Member of OATF (Oregon Association of Teachers of French) -Member of Pi Delta Phi - National French Honor Society -Washington University Lichter Fellow, 1989-1990 -Student Representative, 1988-1989 -Washington University Fellow, 1986-1988

Publications: PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS “Emmanuel Carrère: L’étranger en soi” The French Review (Forthcoming 2010) “Essai sur Régis Jauffret: Le monde comme désir et délire.” The Australian Journal of French Studies (Forthcoming 2009) “Le ‘non-sérieux de l’édification’ et la profondeur du bien” in Lévinas-Blanchot: penser la différence (Actes du colloque de l'UNESCO, novembre 2006), Presses Universitaires de Paris X & Editions Complicités, Paris, France “Le regard du mal chez Philippe Renonçay” Études Françaises, 2006, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada “Blanchot, Antelme, Lévinas — Qu’est-ce qu’autrui?” Compagnie de Maurice Blanchot 2006 (forthcoming) “De l’amitié et de la grâce: Le temps de l’autre” (http://www.mauriceblanchot.net/blog/index.php/2006/02/20/124-thierry-durand-de-l-amitie-et-de-la-grace-le-temps-de-l-autre-texte-integral), 2006 Site: “Maurice Blanchot et ses contemporains” (http://www.mauriceblanchot.net/) “Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: De Dieu qui vient au théâtre” The French Review Vol. 78, February 2005 (506-521) “Internet: un texte sans qualités?” Dalhousie French Studies, Vol. 59, Summer 2002 (145-160), Dalhousie University, Canada “Le sujet en souffrance dans l’œuvre de Louis-René des Forêts” French Forum 26:3, September 2001, University of Pennsylvania “Une rencontre désastreuse: Maurice Blanchot et le surréalisme” André Breton — The Power of Language ((Elm Bank Publications, Exeter 2000, 246-250), Glasgow University, Scotland “Littérature et ruine de l’écriture” Chimères Volume XXV no. 1 Fall 1998 (35-57), University of Kansas “L’écriture ou la vie: essai sur Maurice Blanchot” Etudes françaises, 33, 3, 1997 (121-139), Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada "Diderot et Heidegger: la poétique du bavardage dans Jacques le Fataliste et son maître" Diderot Studies XXIV, Genève: Droz, 1991, pp. 67-84 "Le temps dans La Jalousie d'Alain Robbe-Grillet" Constructions 1988-1989 (27-41), Stanford University, CA Essays in progress and research projects: BOOK REVIEWS In progress for The French review Dugast-Portes, Francine. Le Nouveau Roman: une césure dans l'histoire du récit. Nathan, 2001 Robin, Régine. Le Golem de l’écriture — De l’autofiction au Cybersoi, XYZ Editor, 1997 The French Review (Vol 77, n 2, December 2003) Datia, Venita. Birth of a National Icon — The literary Avant-Garde and the Origins of the Intellectual in France, State University of New York Press, 1999 The French Review (Vol 76, n3, February 2003) Bruns, Gerald L. Maurice Blanchot — The Refusal of Philosophy. Baltimore & London, 1997. The French Review ( Vol 74, n 1, October 2000) Baron, Philippe & Pickup, Ian, Editors. Aspects de la critique —Colloque des Universités de Birmingham et de Besançon. Annales littéraires de l’Université de Franche-Comté. Diffusion Les Belles Lettres, 1997. The French Review (Vol 74, n 2, December 2000) Maurice Blanchot, Une Voix venue d'ailleurs, Plombières-les-Dijon: Cahiers Ulysse Fin de Siècle, 1992. The French Review (Vol 68, 1994) / French Rachid Mimouni, La Malédiction, Paris: Stock, 1993. La Revue francophone (Spring 1993, pp.154-155) Jean-Paul Jouary, Diderot et la matière vivante, Paris: Messidor-Editions sociales, 1992 The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography,1992.

Cheikh Thiam - Assistant Professor

Walker 315
503-883-1--2231
cthiam@linfield.edu

German

Gudrun Hommel - Associate Professor of German; Coordinator of European Studies

Walker 319
503-883--2476
ghommel@linfield.edu

Education: Gudrun Hommel, Associate Professor of German, graduated from Gymnasium and received her Abitur in 1975 in Mainz, Germany. She studied International Business for several semesters, then earned her B.A. with emphasis on German literature and Education from Portland State University in 1986. She earned her M.A. in German Language and Literature from Portland State Universiy in 1989, and her Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Oregon in 1999. She wrote her dissertation about social criticism through female figures in German crime novels.

Academic Interests: Prof. Hommel's professional interests include technology in the Foreign Language classroom; socially critical crime novels; foreign language pedagogy; popular German culture; German politics; teaching with German film; film studies, in particular East German film (DEFA) and post-war film, East and West; German Studies

Publications: second-language acquisition using German language novels for young adults; "Soundscapes"; foreign language pedagogy, in particular teaching language and culture through authentic texts

Peter Nichols Richardson - Professor of German; Co-chair of Modern Languages On sabbatical spring 2009

Walker 322
503-883-2249
prichard@linfield.edu

Education: B.A. Stanford University (1964) M.A. Ohio State University (1966) M.Phil. Yale University (1968) Ph.D. Yale University (1970)

Academic Interests: Language pedagogy, linguistics, Latin, folklore, German literature, American English

His graduate work included a year at the University of Marburg, where he studied German dialects and language history, and a year in Switzerland, where he wrote his dissertation. He taught at Yale for ten years before coming to Linfield in 1980. His ongoing scholarly work involves a museum archive high in the eastern Swiss Alps.

Publications: Germanic philology and linguistics; folklore; literature; applied linguistics; Swiss German; academic administration

Japanese

Christopher Keaveney - Associate Professor; Administrative Coordinator of International Studies

Walker 321
503-883-2584
ckeaven@linfield.edu

Education: BA Manhattan College (New York); MA, PhD Washington University (St. Louis)

Publications: Articles: "Yu Dafu and Sato Haruo: Literature, Friendship and Nationalism", Sino-Japanese Studies "Tanizaki Junichiro and the Generic Variations in Travel Writing from China", B.C. Asian Review "Uchiyama Kanzo's Shanghai Bookstore and its Impact on Sino-Japanese Relations", E-ASPAC Book: The Subversive Self in Modern Chinese Literature: The Creation Society's Reinvention of the Shishosetsu. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Mafumi Omura - Assistant Professor; Coordinator of Asian Studies

Walker 325
503-883-2475
momura@linfield.edu

Education: Education: BA-Kansai University of Foreign Studies (Kansai Gaidai: Osaka, Japan); M.A. University of Iowa

Academic Interests: Teaching Area: Japanese language classes at all levels, Contemporary Japanese Culture (Fall, 2006) Research Area: What teachers can do to nurture student motivation at the college level.

Publications: Publication: Reeve, J., Jang, H., Hardre, P., and Omura, M. (2003). Providing a rationale in an autonomy-supportive way as a strategy to motivate others during an uninteresting activity. Motivation and Emotion, 26, 3.

Spanish

Stephanie Caceres - Visiting Professor of Spanish

Cook 106
503-883-1--2361
scacere@linfield.edu

Juan Manuel Gomez - Associate Professor of Spanish Modern Languages, Spanish Language and Literature

Walker 317
503-883-1--2544
jgomez@linfield.edu
http://www.linfield.edu/~jgomez

Violeta Ramsay - Associate Professor of Spanish Modern Languages, Spanish Language and Literature; Coordinator of Latin American Studies; Co-chair of Modern Languages

Walker 316
503-883-1--2544
vramsay@linfield.edu
http://www.linfield.edu/~vramsay

Sonia Ticas - Assistant Professor; Coordinator of Latin American Studies

Walker 324
503-883-2367
sticas@linfield.edu