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...Gita May Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Gita May FROM DOCTORAL STUDENT TO UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR: THE TRAJECTORY OF A BRILLIANT CAREER I have the sad distinction of being the only surviving faculty member of the Department of French and Romance Philology who has...

...Geoffrey Turnovsky Abstract Régis Sauder’s touching 2011 documentary, Nous, Princesses de Clèves , which follows a group of Marseille high school students over the course of a year as they read La Fayette’s novel while preparing for the Baccalauréat exams, juxtaposes two distinct types of reading...

...Holly Engel [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 student needs combined departments postgraduation departmental resources When I was asked to contribute to this issue of the Romanic Review , I have to say I...

... student interest in learning French, colors this future in ever-somber tones. We all heard our colleagues’ grievances, and we also expressed our own complaints about today’s students’ lack of motivation and interest, inability to retain the material we cover in class, or increased absenteeism. To add...

...Annabel L. Kim [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 humanities higher education liberal arts marginality capitalism Works Cited Cardona Miguel (@SecCardona) . “ Every student should have...

[email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 demystification accommodation graduates I was deeply saddened in 2018 to learn of Hayden White’s death. 1 I had the privilege of meeting White my first year as a graduate student. He...

... should be doing. As an educational and applied linguist, I am drawn to questions of what we should be teaching and, more broadly, what our students should be able to do when they leave our classrooms and programs. I will argue in this essay that one of the key skills that we should strive to foster...

... scholars I’ve known, studied with, or collaborated with for many years and some I’ve never met. (This was a great benefit to saying yes to guest editing this special issue; I discovered the work of great scholars I hadn’t yet come across.) I invited graduate students, lecturers, and professors of all ranks...

..., with fifteen tenured/tenure-track people, many adjuncts, lecturers, and assistant teachers, as well as a couple of dozen student majors each year. If we fast forward to fall 2022, our teaching staff is approximately half of what it was at the end of the twentieth century, and while still comparatively large...

...," i.e. encounters staged both within featured texts and across time through their post-medieval adaptations or manifestations. The essays that follow offer a wealth of materials and ideas for the design of courses at levels ranging from general education to graduate, for students of varying experience...

..., and elected officials to investigate local perceptions of those artifacts. Students will showcase their findings on a dedicated website. 3. There is no such thing anymore. All pedagogically sound intro courses explore French beyond the realm of language. 4. I am using the word in the sense...

... generously made time to meet with me. In fact, it was that conversation that convinced me to choose Columbia University. I am forever grateful to Professor May for her guidance on my career path. She had a holistic approach to teaching and was committed to every one of her students, always taking a deep...

... to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs. We read Wallace Stevens in the creative writing class I was taking. I remember after one particularly good discussion, a student asked our professor: Why do we read literature? He had to think about it, but then he knew: “We read because we want...

...Jennifer Tamas I am attending a faculty meeting and we are thinking about the future of the French department, how to attract students, and what we can change to boost our enrollments. All of a sudden, a colleague of mine looks me in the eyes and asks me, “Well, Jennifer, how do you feel...

... the visiting professors who had occupied the office and had added to it pieces of their lives-eomputers, books, family pictures-had not really disturbed the imposing atmosphere which, for years, had galvanized me and many other students. With the help of Cristina and Stephanie, two work-study students, I...

..., was to assure students that they would also be taught and allowed to study these histories and their cultural products (see Mabanckou and Thomas). However, in my personal experience, the performative addition of “and Francophone” into department names has not had the effect of decentering France but of further...

.... Gita May knew and communicated to her students that perfectibility as a scholar was all about determination and rigor. Yet it is her generosity of spirit that I remember most about her. She did not seek to cultivate acolytes who would replicate her own approaches, but rather helped her students develop...

...Steven Winspur Steven Winspur OF NECKTIES AND DOUGHNUTS (HOMAGE TO A REMARKABLE TEACHER) Every person is complex but perhaps no one appears more so than a masterful teacher in the eyes of students. Many things dazzled me when I was enrolled in Professor Riffaterre's stylistics class during my...

... was packed: directly in front of the altar sat the choir, a bevy of older women, perpetual grad students of a species since gone extinct, a phalanx of illuminated devotees. In the back sat recalcitrant grad students, mostly from other departments, eager to express their doctrinal disbelief, to prove...

...Yazan Kamalulddin As for bilingual students, university-level French departments have the opportunity to turn the momentum of K–12 French immersion programs to their advantage. While French programs at universities are experiencing decline in enrollment, as previously mentioned, the bilingual...