THE DAVID H. PINKNEY PRIZE
We seek an applied linguist (second-language acquisition) or generalist with the ability to teach undergraduate French courses in language, literature, and culture at lower and upper levels. Candidates must demonstrate evidence of excellence in teaching, an active research program, and native/near-native fluency in French and English.
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in French Media and/or Cultural Studies beginning August 2015.
Area of Specialization: A generalist with demonstrated excellence in undergraduate teaching who will support our ongoing study abroad initiatives. Training in the francophone literatures and cultures of the Caribbean and Africa desired, but not essential.
Description:
General Info: The Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures at James Madison University invites applications for a tenure-track position in French at the level of Assistant Professor, beginning August 2015.
Duties and Responsibilities: The teaching load is three courses per semester balanced among French 300 - 400 level language, literature and culture, possibly including interdisciplinary courses.
En attenand la création de notre rubrique "Scholarly resources", voici l'annonce d'une nouvelle édition en ligne de l'Astrée:
THE FRENCH REVIEW – ANNOUNCEMENTS – Vol. 88.2
Marc Lescarbot, Poésies et opuscules sur la Nouvelle-France, édition critique établie par Marie-Christine Pioffet et Isabelle Lachance, 393 p.
Date de parution : 20/11/2014. Éditeur : Nota bene. Collection : Galliana. ISBN : 978-2-89518-483-6.
Jean Racine, Théâtre complet, ed. Alain Viala & Sylvaine Guyot. Paris: Garnier, coll. "Bibliothèque du théâtre français", 2013. 1193 pgs. ISBN: 978-2-8124-0781-9
Contents
Introduction. Part I: Women Writ: Recuperating women and the man
behind the screen: (un)classical bodies in Les caquets de l’accouchée
(1622)?; The daughters’ sacrifice and the paternal order in Racine’s
Iphigénie en Aulide; The female mind reformed: pedagogical
counter-discourses, radical and regressive, under Louis XIV.
Part II: Women Writing: The heroine at war: self-divisions in La Guette’s
‘extraordinary’ memoirs; From the maternal metaphor to metonymy
and history: 17th-century discourses of maternity and the passion
Dans ses quarante proverbes dramatiques composés pour l’usage des jeunes filles
à l’école de Saint-Cyr, Madame de Maintenon présente des leçons de morale et de
bonne conduite, tout en fournissant des avertissements contre les dangers du grand
monde.
In these forty dramatic proverbs written for young girls at the school of Saint-Cyr, Madame
de Maintenon presents lessons in morals and good behaviour, while issuing warnings about
the dangers of society.
N o 20, 343 p., 15 x 22 cm