Virginie POUZET-DUZER

Curriculum Vitae

Duke University, Romance Studies, Durham, NC

Ph.D. in French Spring 2008 (defended on April 14th 2008)
Dissertation: “L'Impressionnisme littéraire: capture de l'insaisissable”
Director: Professor David F. Bell, Duke University

 

Kent State University, Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, Kent, OH

M.A. in French, May 2001, Thesis: “L'Oxymore féminin chez Benjamin Péret et Robert Desnos”

 

Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III

D.E.A. de Lettres Modernes, Mention très bien (with honors), September 2002, Thesis: “Féminité, sexualité et genre ou la représentation de la femme dans le surréalisme”
Maîtrise FLE (French ESL Master), July 2000; Vocational training’s report : “Enseigner le français à Kent State University”
D.U. de Suédois(University Diploma in Swedish), July 1999

 

Institut d’études Politiques (Sciences-Po), Bordeaux

A.P. (preparatory year in politics, law & economics), 1995-96

 

Lycée Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux

Hypokhâgne (preparatory year in literature, philosophy & languages), 1994-95.

 

Honors and Awards

• Edouard Morot-Sir Research Fellowship, Institut Francais de Washington, The University of North Carolina, Summer 2008;
• Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Duke University Graduate School, 2008;
• Preparing Future Faculty Fellow (PFF), Duke University Graduate School, 2007-2008;
• Teaching Mini-Grant awarded from the Graduate School, Duke University, 2007-2008;
• Award for Dissertation Research Abroad, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University, 2004-2005;
• Departmental Fellowship, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University, 2002-ongoing;
• Kent State University, Kent, OH, Master Thesis Award for « L'Oxymore féminin chez Benjamin Péret et Robert Desnos » in April 2001.

Publications

ARTICLES

• « Du blanc lisse au pli de la crise : hyphologie mallarméenne » in Cahiers Stéphane Mallarmé Vol 4, edited by Gordon Millan, Peter Lang, Automne 2007; 
• « L'exposition surréaliste : une écriture » in Et in fabula, pictor…, edited by Florence Godeau, Kimé, 2006, (229-234);
• « Les paradoxes de l’allégorie surréaliste, ou comment révéler l’image voilée » in Déclins de l'allégorie ?, edited by Bernard Vouilloux, Modernités 22, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, 2006, (139-154);
•  « Unica Zürn, un Surréalisme de l'enfance et de la folie » in L'Entrée en surréalisme, edited by Emmanuel Rubio, Phénix édition, Collection des pas perdus, Ivry, 2004, (231-246);
• « Le Tombeau des Rois d'Anne Hébert: des dualités aux symboles » in The South Carolina Modern Language Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2003;
• « Les Jeux de Rouge dans Babylone: René Crevel sous l'arc-en-ciel » in Bulletin René Crevel, No. 3, A.A.R.C., Biviers, Feb. 2002, (21-32).

BOOK REVIEWS

• «  Une photo le long d’un chemin  » in Acta Fabula, Vol 8, No. 3, Mai-Juin 2007;
• « Visibles produits du désir » in Acta Fabula, Vol 6, No. 1, Printemps 2005.

Conferences

• « The Outsiders Characters in Racine’s Profane Tragedies: Taxile, Oreste, Antiochus and Eriphile on the Borders of Gender » presented at Duke University at the Annual Graduate Student Conference « Insiders and Outsiders », September 22, 2007;
• « L'exposition surréaliste : une écriture » presented at Lyon III (France) while participating to the colloquium Marge « Et in Fabula, pictor », December 2, 2005;
• « Des catalogues pour tout Manifeste » presented at Rennes 2 (France) during the conference « Les Rapports textes-images en littérature », September 30, 2005;
• « Constructing Femininity, from Poullain de la Barre to Sophia » presented at Duke University at the Annual Graduate Student Conference « Constructing Images of the Self », February 20, 2004;
• « Les paradoxes de l’allégorie surréaliste, ou révéler l’image voilée » presented at the Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, in the DEA seminar from Bernard Vouilloux, December 19, 2003;
• « Lights on the Wicker Cradle: The Mysterious Surrealist Child » presented at Emory University, Atlanta, GA while participating to the conference « Encountering Infancy: the Infant Figure in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy », March 22, 2003 ;
• Pedagogically oriented Websites « La Belle Musique des Mots » and « Le Voyage en France » presented at the « Ohio Foreign Language Annual State Conference », Akron, Ohio, March 16, 2001.

Research and teaching interests

• Nineteenth and twentieth century French literature and culture;
• « Avant garde » art and literary movements (from Impressionism to Surrealism);
• Words and images interactions in Art (literature, painting and cinema).

Teaching Experience

• Discussions of Readings : « Salomé : The Myth of the Femme-Fatale » (French 111S), Duke University, Department of Romance Studies, Fall 2007;
• Cultural & literary approach to « Frenchness » (French 100), Duke University, Department of Romance Studies, Spring 2006 & Spring 2007;
• Third-semester French (French 63), Duke University, Department of Romance Studies, Spring 2004;
• Second-semester French (French 2), Duke University, Department of Romance Studies, Fall 2003;
• Second-semester French (Elementary French Level 2), Kent State University, Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, Spring 2001, Fall 2000 and Spring 2000.

 Teacher Training Workshops and Conferences

• Instructional Uses of Technology Course coordinated by Dr. Hugh Crumley, Duke University, Fall 2007;
• Participated to the CIT (Center for Instructional Technology) Foreign Languages Workshop Series, Duke University, May 7-11 2007;
• Regularly attended the workshops « Teaching IDEAS : Instructional Development for Excellence And Success »  from Duke Graduate School, Spring 2007;
• College Teaching Methodology Course coordinated by Professor Clare Tufts, Duke University, Department of Romance Studies, Fall 2003;
• Participated to the KSU PT3 Grant « Linking the Present to the Future: Technology Empowering Our Students », Kent State University, Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, Spring 2001;
• Computers for L2 Teaching Methodology Course coordinated by Dr. Theresa Minick, Kent State University, Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, Fall 2000;
• College Teaching of Foreign Languages Methodology Course coordinated by Dr. Jessie Carduner, Kent State University, Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, Fall 1999.

University Committee Work

• Ongoing Graduate Student’s Dissertation group « Navigating Modernity from its margins » (NaMoMa) co-created in Fall 2007(project planned from A to Z, including departmental & university recognition, research for funding, etc.)  
• Participated to the panel « TA Survival skills » by presenting pieces of advice and advising/mentoring new Graduate Students, « Teaching  IDEAS »  workshop, Duke University, September 10, 2007;
• Departmental Conference « Romancing the Humanities: the Limits of English » organized practically for assisting Junior Faculty Members, Duke University, Department of Romance Studies, April 22 & 23, 2004;
• Annual Graduate Student Conference « Constructing Images of the Self » planned, prepared, co-organized, Duke University, Department of Romance Studies, February 20-22, 2004;
• Liaison committee representative of all the Graduate Students in French, Duke University, Department of Romance Studies, 2003-2004;
• Participated to the « French and Francophone Film Series » from Fall 2002 by introducing the movie « La Pianiste », Duke University, Center  for French and Francophone Studies, October 23, 2002.

Professional Affiliations

• « National French Honor Society » Pi Delta Phi (ΠΔΦ) member since November 2002;
• Modern Language Association (MLA) member since Fall 2002;
• « International Foreign Language Honor Society » Phi Sigma Iota (ΦΣΙ) member since March 2000.

Languages

• Native speaker of French, fluent in English;
• Very good knowledge of German (seven years at school & lived two years in Hamburg), fairly good knowledge of Swedish (three years);
• Basic notions of Spanish (two years), some notions of Dutch (one year).