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Graduate News
PhD Defense: Teresa Johnson-Evans, "History, Genre, Politics: The Cinema of Yamina Benguigui", July 10, 2009, 12:15pm, 1218 CL
PhD Defense: Sadrine Arons, "Reconstructing the Self through Writing and Alternating Literary Genres: André Gide, Annie Ernaux and Anais Nin", May 26, 2009, 10:00am, 1325 CL
PhD Defense: Robert Fagley, “Bachelors, Bastards, and Nomadic Masculinity: A Study of Illegitimacy in the Works of Guy de Maupassant and André Gide", May 13, 2009, 2pm, 1325 CL
The Inaugural French and Italian Graduate Student Conference, originally scheduled for Mar 19-20, 2009, has been postponed until Fall 2009. The theme is "In the Shadow of the City: Banlieue and Periferia."
Check back for info about the upcoming Grad Student Conference.
Katie Moriarty and Mert Ertunga were awarded FLAS Fellowships for the 2009-2010 Academic Year.
Katie Moriarty was awarded the 2009 Austrian Nationality Room Scholarship for research in Austria this summer.
Grad/ Faculty Seminar
The next Work in Progress seminar will take place on Fri, Mar 27th from 3-5pm in CL 1228.
- Dr. Brett Wells: "Is French fit?"
- Katie Moriarty: "Drunken Poetry: Baudelaire, Wine and Kristeva's Chora"
- Scott Bishop: "Deconstructing the Ringleader: Plurilingual Subjectivities in Fellini’s 8 ½"
STEP Seminars
Workshop
Fellowship-writing workshop with Prof. Todd Reeser
Fri, Jan 23, 2pm 1218CL
Writing a Graduate Level Reseach Paper
Friday, Septebmer 19, 2-4pm, CL 1218
French and Italian Library Research Orientation
Friday, September 5, 2-4pm, Hillman Library Rm G-20
ABD Workshops
Workshop: Interview Process
Covering both the MLA interview and the campus interview
Recommended readings are Charles Stivale, "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Interviewer"
and "Best Feet Forward"
Friday, November 21, 3-5pm, CL 1218
Workshop: Job Search
How to read the MLA job list and how to decide which jobs to apply for; the importance of deadlines; the preparation of a cover letter and a curriculum vitae
Wednesday, October 1, 3-5pm, CL G27