Student Activities
 

Spring 2008

• The Student Conference Committee is pleased to announce the theme of its annual student conference, to be held at the Graduate Center on November 21, 2008. Please visit the conference web page by clicking here.
• Desmond Hosford presented his paper “Antrhopomorphic Terror: The Bête-Machine, the Ballet de Cour, and the Tragédie en Musique” at the conference “Music, Body, and Stage: The Iconography of Music Theater and Opera” held by the Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale on 11-14 March.

Fall 2007

• Stève Puig published an article entitled "Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis de Louis-Philippe Dalembert : une émancipation littéraire ?" in Nouvelles Francographies (Winter 2007) and on November 30, he presented a paper entitled "Leon-Gontran Damas et les ecrivains de la Harlem Renaissance" at the Leon-Gontran Damas symposium in Cayenne, French Guyana.
• On November 30, John Sorrentino presented at the CUNY IT Conference at John Jay College of Criminal Justice on a panel titled "Using Wikis for Interdisciplinary Research." He discussed the pedagogical impact of wiki technology as it is integrated into Honors College Seminars. The presentation represents John's work as an Instructional Technology Fellow at the Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College.
• Desmond Hosford has published the articles “Marie-Antoinette,” “Opera,” and “Royalty, Queered” in the Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, ed. Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Macmillan Reference, 2007).
• Sophie Maríñez received the 2007 CUNY Doctoral Research Grant as well as the Marandon Fellowship granted by the Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d’Amérique (SPFFA) to conduct research in France on the castles and writings of Mlle de Montpensier. She is also a recipient of the 2007-2008 Carole & Morton Olshan Dissertation Fellowship granted by the Graduate Center.
• Chong J. Wojtkowski presented a paper entitled, "Whose gaze is it anyway? Alienation, identity, and the (female) spectator" at the Alienation and alterity: Otherness in modern contemporary Francophone Contexts colloquium. The colloquium was held at the University of Exeter, in Exeter, United Kingdom, 4-6 September 2007.

Spring 2007

• Stève Puig presented a paper entitled, "Rachid Djaïdani: une poétique de la banlieue" at the 20th/21st century French and Francophone studies colloquium in College Station, TX which took place on March 22-24. He is also a contributor for the Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion published by Greenwood in January 2007.
• Thanks to her Graduate Research Grant, in January 2007 Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly led interviews in France on spectators' as well as film professionals' perception of film titles. The result of this fieldwork is part of her dissertation. In addition, this summer, Noelle will return to teach at Bennington College's MATSL (Master's in Teaching a Second Language) Program. She will be responsible for the pedagogy component of the course: "Language and Pedagogy: Resistance(s)" which will focus on the French Resistance and the pedagogical notion of understanding.
• Chong Wojtkowski has published an article entitled, "100 % Marseillais: Marseille Rap and Defining Difference" in Initiales/Initials (Volume 21, 2006).
• Several students participated in the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, held in Baltimore, Maryland, March 1-4, 2007.
  Stève Puig presented a paper entitled, "Une identite caribéenne en mouvement: le "vagabondage" de Louis-Philippe Dalembert comme pratique littéraire" at the panel entitled "From Negritude de Creolization."
  Noelle-Rouxel Cubberly presented a paper at the "Gender and Spectatorship in Contemporary French Cinema" panel. Her presentation was entitled "Un Air de famille: les titres de Claire Denis, Nicole Garcia, et Agnès Jaoui."
  Chong Wojtkowski and Sophie Saint-Just both presented at the panel entitled "A Paradox of Identities: Reading Difference in French Fiction and Film."
  Chong's presentation was entitled, "Le parler phocéen: Linguistic Difference in the local speech of Marseille."
  Sophie presented a paper entitled, "Marginalized and Liberating Paradigms of French Caribbean Difference."