News from French & French Studies

Dr. Mills’ latest book published

2012-04-11T18:43:33Z

In Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert, Kathryn Oliver Mills argues that despite the enduring celebrity of Baudelaire and Flaubert, their significance to modern art has been miscast and misunderstood. To date, literary criticism has paid insufficient attention to these authors' literary form and their socio-cultural context. To purchase from Barnes and Noble or Amazon, please read more.

Southern Teacher’s Agency has begun placing French teachers

2011-12-12T20:13:28Z

Southern Teachers Agency has begun to receive French vacancy listings from schools for the 2012-13 school year. These jobs range from teaching French to elementary students through AP French Literature and Language courses. Occasionally, the jobs will call for an ability to teach an additional foreign language as well. STA is the oldest teacher-placement service in America. We receive job listings from hundreds of PK-12 private schools around the South. Schools come to STA because they recognize the value of STA's help in recruiting & screening talented candidates. Certification is not required by private schools for many French jobs.

Dr. Mills awarded ACA fellowship

2011-12-07T15:02:41Z

Kathryn Mills will use the sabbatical year afforded by the Appalachian College Association grant to organize and archive the papers of her late husband, Wilmer Mills, in order to safeguard Wil's legacy to poetry. Only 41 when he passed away last summer after a short battle with liver cancer,Wilmer Mills, C’92, T’05, had already established himself as one of his generation's foremost poets. In addition to organization, Kathryn Mills’ work will involve sending out individual unpublished poems to journals, editing Wil’s third book, and writing on certain themes that evolved in his poetry.

Article by Dr. George Poe to appear in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

2011-11-17T14:38:01Z

George Poe’s article entitled “The post-Revolutionary France of Paul Claudel’s Trilogy” (having appeared earlier in Claudel Studies) has been selected for inclusion in Gale/Cengage Publishing’s Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, containing “criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers who lived between 1900 and 1999” — scheduled for release in the second quarter of 2012.

Dr. Glacet invited to lecture at Princeton

2011-11-21T17:21:06Z

Dr. Aymeric Glacet has been invited to speak at Princeton University on November 17th, 2011 in 103 Scheide-Caldwell House at 4:30 p.m. The title of his lecture is "Ecrire au nom de l'insulte: Butor et autres noms d'oiseaux".

French is #2 Most Useful Foreign Language for Success in Business

2012-04-11T17:31:40Z

According to a recent Bloomberg Survey, French is the second most useful language to be successful in business. Foreign languages were ranked according to the number of speakers, number of countries where it is the official language, along with the population of those countries, financial power, educational and literacy rates, and related measures. Second only to Chinese, French is spoken by 68 million people and is the official language of 27 countries. This means that a major or minor in French would be a perfect accompaniment to an Economics major for those students seeking an edge over the competition for increasingly scarce jobs in business.

Dr. Mills’ upcoming Book

2011-09-15T16:51:31Z

Kathryn Oliver Mills' book, Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert, is forthcoming from the University of Delaware Press.

Job Opportunities for French Majors

2011-08-19T20:03:23Z

The Southern Teachers Agency, the oldest teacher-placement service in America, currently has several French vacancies listed by schools for the 2011-12 school year. These jobs range from teaching French to elementary students through AP French Literature and Language courses. For most PK-12 French positions, a bachelor's degree with a major in French (or at the very least a minor) is essential, but teacher certification is not. Visit them at http://www.southernteachers.com

Dr. Glacet’s publication on Le Clezio, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature

2011-03-21T16:31:25Z

An article by Dr. Glacet entitled "Comme un coup de pied dans une fourmilière," in French Studies in Southern Africa, Etudes françaises en Afrique australe, Revue No 40 - 2010. This article examines, in The African and Onitsha, the African chilhood of J.M.G. Le Clezio, his confrontation with his father, and, through the metaphor of the termite, his condemnation of colonialism.

Dr. Glacet’s publication on Alain Robbe-Grillet

2010-11-19T14:26:27Z

An article by Dr. Aymeric Glacet entitled "Et si la page blanche était un mythe," Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010. Ce manuel éclaire Les Gommes et La Jalousie en fonction de leurs configurations narratologiques, dans un contexte de vives polémiques. Au-delà des décennies d’histoire littéraire et d’interprétations superposées, les auteurs y proposent des lectures contemporaines qui aideront les étudiants (au programme de l’Agrégation), et plus largement les lecteurs, à se construire diverses visions des textes.

Recent Sewanee Graduate Accepted into the Teaching Assistant Program in France

2010-10-15T14:42:15Z

Amory Walker, a 2010 graduate of the college who majored in Biology, was accepted into the Teaching Assistant Program in France. This program is a joint initiative of the French Ministry of Education, the Centre international d'études pédagogiques (CIEP) and the Cultural Services Department of the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. Since the fall of 2010, Amory has been teaching in the town of Talange in the Nancy-Metz school district, in the Northeast of France.

Dr. Glacet is published in the Romanic Review

2010-09-10T18:29:06Z

An article by Dr. Aymeric Glacet entitled "Ah! Quel terrible cinq heures du soir... ou des boites dans l'oeuvre de Claude Simon" in The Romanic Review, Volume 100, May 2009.

Review by Dr. Mills published in The Sewanee Review

2010-09-06T16:25:49Z

Kathryn Oliver Mills' review of Craig Hill's "The Complete Fables of Lafontaine" (Arcade, 2008) just appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of The Sewanee Review.

Dr. Mills’ Latest Publication

2010-08-26T22:05:36Z

Kathryn Oliver Mills' article "Painting Modern Life: Baudelaire and Crime Fiction" has just come out in the most recent, late-appearing edition of of Nineteenth Century Studies (2008/Vol.22).

Dr. Poe’s Book Reviews Published

2010-05-05T21:14:19Z

George Poe has published five book reviews over the past year and a half, three in The French Review, one in Contemporary French Civilization, and one in the current edition of The Sewanee Review, with another scheduled to appear in the upcoming spring edition of The Sewanee Review wherein Professor Poe critiques Frederic Spotts's recent book entitled The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation (Yale Univ. Press, 2008).