PASCALE BÉCEL

Associate Professor of French

Chair of the Department of Modern Languages

DM 497B

Phone: 305-348-1944

E-mail: becelp@fiu.edu

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS:

2005 – present: Chair, Department of Modern Languages.

1997 – present: Associate Professor of French, Department of Modern Languages

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:        

Florida International University.  Assistant Professor of French, 1992-1997.

University of California. Teaching Assistant in French and Women’s Studies, 1987-1992.

West Virginia University.  Teaching Assistant in French and Humanities, 1984-1987.

Kalamazoo College, Michigan.  French House Director, 1983-1984. 

Kalamazoo College.  Teaching Assistant in French, 1981-1982.

Collèges de Carentan, Villedieu, Saint-Lo (France).  Substitute Teacher, 1977-1978.

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., French Literature with interdepartmental designated emphasis in Critical Theory, University of California Davis, 1992.  Dissertation: “The Politics of Discourse in the Work of Marguerite Duras: A Reappraisal of Feminism in Colonial Contexts.”  Director: Professor Marc Blanchard.

M.A., Literature and Languages, West Virginia University, Morgantown, 1986.  Thesis: “Primitivism in Three American Novels.”  Advisor: Professor Ruel Foster.

Maîtrise C2, American Civilization, Université de Caen, France, 1983.  Collective project on Immigration in the United States, 1945-1980.  Advisor: Professor Jean-Pierre Fichou.

Licence, English, Université de Caen, 1981.

SCHOLARSHIP:

Articles in Refereed Journals:

“Errance et enracinement dans La vie scélérate de Maryse Condé,” Etudes francophones  XIII (1998): 135-49.

“From The Sea Wall to The Lover: Prostitution and Exotic Parody,” Studies in Twentieth Century Literature 21. 2 (Summer 1997): 417-32.

“(Un-)Reading Colonial Terrains in Un barrage contre le Pacifique and Le marin de Gibraltar,” French Literature Series  23 (Spring 1996): 215-27.

“Moi, Tituba sorcière... As a Tale of Petite Marronne,” Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters  18. 3 (1995): 608-615.

“Le vice-consul: Colonial Mimicry and ‘Partial Writing,’” The Cincinnati Romance Review  13 (May 1994): 218-27.

“Le tropisme sarrautien comme forme de l’abject?” Tropos  15.1 (Spring 1989): 1-14.

“Hemingway and Brancusi: A Relationship between Writer and Sculptor?” Philological Papers  34 (1988): 83-93.

Encyclopedia Entries:

 “Marguerite Duras”.   The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature.  Ed. by Eva Martin Sartori et als.  Westport [CT]: Greenwood Press, 2000.

“Postcolonialism”.  The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature.  Ed. by Eva Martin Sartori et als.  Westport [CT]: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Translations:

“Haitian Vodou.”  The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora.  Ed. By Carole Boyce Davies et als.  Greenwood Press (Forthcoming)

“Women and Islam.”  The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora.  Ed. By Carole Boyce Davies et als.  Greenwood Press (Forthcoming)

Book Reviews:

Elles écrivent des Antilles: Haïti, Guadeloupe, Martinique edited by Susanne Rinne and Joëlle Vitiello for Etudes Francophones XIV. 1 (1999): 232-36.

Freudian Slips: Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue by Mary Gossy for Modern Fiction Studies  43. 4 (1997).

Skirting the Issue: Essays in Literary Theory by Mary Lydon for Modern Fiction Studies  43. 4 (1997).

Conference Papers:

“Defining New Aesthetics in African Letters: Werewere Liking”, Colloquium on African Letters and Arts, Pretoria, March 2003

“Métissage linguistique et culturel comme contre-poétique dans l’écriture des Schwarz-Bart,” Conference on African Literatures, Africa Institute of South Africa, November 2002.

“Origi/nation et narration: Questions de voix/voies dans Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes,” Congrès International d’Etudes Francophones, Lafayette, May 1999.

“Le roman des Schwarz-Bart: Questions d’autorité, d’identité, de ‘relaté’ et de ‘relié’” Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures, March 1999.

“Le roman des Schwarz-Bart: Questions d’autorité, d’identité, de ‘relaté’ et de ‘relié’” International Conference on Caribbean Literature, November 1998.

“Métaphores spatiales de l’identité chez Maryse Condé,” Congrès International d’Etudes Francophones, Guadeloupe, May 1997.

 “Poétique de l’errance et l’enracinement dans La vie scélérate de Maryse Condé,” SAMLA, Savannah, November 1996.

“Configuration du lieu et configuration de la pensée dans l’oeuvre de Maryse Condé,” Congrès International d’Etudes Francophones, June 1996.

“The Gender Issue in a Post-Apartheid South Africa,” 14th Annual Women’s History Month Conference, Miami, April 1996.

“D’une histoire hybride à une position interstitielle: Tituba de Maryse Condé,” CIEF, Charleston, June 1995.

“(Un-)Reading Colonial Terrains in Un barrage contre le Pacifique and Le marin de Gibraltar,” 23rd Annual French Literature Conference on “Ethnography in Literature,” Columbia (SC), March 1995.

“De la structure de l’ennui au détail des ‘petites choses’: La subversion des codes littéraires et sociaux dans les Lettres de Mistriss Henley,” SAMLA, Baltimore, November 1994.

“Prostitution and Exotic Parody in Un barrage contre le Pacifique,” 11th Annual Wichita State University International Conference on Continental, Latin American and Francophone Women Writers, April 1994.

“Condé’s Witchcraft: Fabricating History,” SAMLA, Atlanta, November 1993.

“Colonial Mimicry in Le vice-consul,” 13th Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, May 1993.

“The (De)(Re)construction of Gender and Cultural Codings in L’amant,” 10^th Annual Wichita State University International Conference on Continental, Latin American and Francophone Women Writers, April 1993.

“Gender and Race: Conflictive Agendas in the Work of Marguerite Duras?” 11th Annual Women’s History Month Conference, March 1993.

“Hemingway and Brancusi: A Relationship between Writer and Sculptor?” Annual Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film, October 1986.

Invited Lectures:

“L’existentialisme dans le contexte français,” Pi Delta Phi Honor Society, Florida International University, October 1998.

“Histoire, mémoire et imagination dans l’oeuvre de Maryse Condé,” The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 1996.

“Aspects de l’Afrique et des Antilles francophones,” Foreign Language Summer Institute, Broward County School Board, June 1994.

“Teaching French Composition,” Foreign Language Summer Institute, Broward County School Board, June 1994.

“The Francophone World,” Foreign Language Summer Institute, Broward County School Board, June 1993.

“Teaching French Composition,” Foreign Language Summer Institute, Broward County School Board, June 1993.

“Marguerite Duras: Literary and Critical Mappings,” Pi Delta Phi Honor Society, Florida International University, November 1992.

Session Moderator and Panel Participant:

Moderator, “France I” at the 29^th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Miami, April 2008.

Panel participant at the France – Florida Education Forum: “Global Florida” organized by the French Government and the Florida Department of Education, June 2007.

Moderator, « Francophone Geographies: Africa” at The 20^th and 21^st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Miami, March 2006.

Moderator, Women’s History Month Conference, Miami, March 1999.

Moderator, 1996 International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, Miami, April 1996.

AWARDS/GRANTS:

1998                            Teaching Incentive Program Award

Summer 1995             African-New World Studies Program Grant to conduct research in South Africa

Spring 1995                African-New World Studies Program Grant to develop courses in African and Caribbean Literatures

Fall 1994                     Faculty Development Grant to travel to library collections

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Courses Taught at Florida International University:

            Women Writing in French

            Literature of Exile

            Introduction to Francophone Literature

            Francophone Literature in the Caribbean

            Francophone Literature of Africa

            Twentieth Century French Novel

            Travel, Exile, and Cross-Cultural Encounters

            French Romantic Literature

            French Literature II

            Literary Analysis

            Contemporary French Society

            Advanced Language and Culture

            Adv. Syntax & Composition I, II (3rd year Review Grammar & Writing)

            Advanced French Conversation

            Intermediate French Conversation

            Intermediate French Instruction (2nd year)

            Elementary French Instruction I, II (1st year)

Courses taught elsewhere:

            University of California

            Introduction to Women’s Studies

            Intermediate French Instruction (2nd year)

            Elementary French Instruction (1st year)

            West Virginia University

            Survey courses in the Humanities (I and II)

            Intermediate French Instruction (2nd year)

            Elementary French Instruction (1st year)

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE:

Department Chair, Department of Modern languages, 2005-present.

French Program Director, 2000-2005.

French Program Acting Director, 1998-2000, 2007-2008.

Search and Screen Committee for assistant professor in Spanish linguistics, 2008-2009.

Search and Screen Committee for assistant professor in Spanish Peninsular literature, 2006-2007.

Search and Screen Committee for instructor in Japanese, 2006-2007.

Department Strategic Planning Committee, 2008-present.

Department Online Committee, 2008-present.

Third-Year Review Committee, 2006-2007.

Personnel Committee, 2004-present.

Institutional Effectiveness Measures Committee, 1999-present.

Committee for the Department By-Laws, 1998-99.

Search and Screen Committee for Visiting French Instructor, 1997.

French Studies Curriculum Committee, 1994.

Tenure and Promotion Committee, 1992-93.

Committee for the MA in French, 1992-93.

French Club Advisor, 2001-2002.

French Honor Society Advisor, 2000-2001.

Student Advisor, 1992-present.

College and University Service

College Strategic Planning Committee, 2007- present.

G-51 Committee on roles and functions of chairs, 2007-2008.

Sub-Committee on QEP Parallel Initiatives, 2008-present.

Statewide Faculty Discipline Committee, 2008-present.

Reorganization of the College of Arts and Sciences Task Force (Humanities and Liberal Arts), 2005-2006.

ANWS Faculty Advisory Committee, 2006-2008

Council of Chairs, 2005-present

Curriculum Committee, 1994-96, 1997-2002, 2003-2005.

Coordinating Committee for the European Studies Certificate, 1998-present.

Coordinating Committee, Women’s History Month Conference, 1998-99.

Committee on External Issues and Models in the Women’s Studies Program review, 1998-99.

Language Requirement Committee, 1998.

Budget Committee, 1993-94, 1996-1997.

Coordinating Committee, 1996 International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, 1995-96.

Committee for search of translators/interpreters, International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, 1995-96.

Administration of foreign language examination to graduate students

Service to the Academic Profession

Reader, « Apercu de la situation linguistique en Belgique et en Suisse » for publication in The French Review 81.6 (May 2008).

Evaluator, article manuscripts for special issue of Thamyris on « Caribbean Women Writers: Imagining Caribbean Space » (Guest editor, Carole Boyce Davies), 1999.

Princeton Educational Testing Services: Pretesting of new questions for College Board Achievement Test (2nd and 3rd year French level), Spring 1996, Spring 1997, Fall 1997, Spring 1998.

Service to the Community 

Keynote speaker, World Language Honor Ceremony 2008, Herbert A. Ammons International Baccalaureate Program, May 2008.

Judge, Congrès de la Culture Française en Floride, Orlando, 1994, 1995.

Judge, French Language Contest organized by the Association of Foreign Language Teachers of Dade County, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000.