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Department of Foreign Languages Faculty

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Dr. Maryann Weber

Webster Hall, Room 358
417-625-3107
E-Mail - weber-m@mssu.edu

 

Spring 2008 Office Hours:

 

MWF

 

TR

W

10:00-11:00

11:50-12:20

09:15-11:00

03:00-05:00 APT.

Dr. Maryann Weber teaches French. She has extensive studies in France and in Canada. She began her academic career at Notre Dame College where she earned a bachelor's degree, and then she earned two master's degrees from Middlebury College, one in Spanish and one in French. In the meantime she also studied at Case-Western Reserve University and the Universite de Paris-Nanterre before completing a Doctor of Modern Language degree at Middlebury College. She taught high school in Ohio and Virginia and then taught at Notre Dame College of Ohio before coming to Missouri Southern. She has studied also in Mexico and in Senegal.

Courses Taught At MSSU:

Fren 101 Beginning French I
Fren 102 Beginning French II
Fren 203 Intermediate French I
Fren 204 Intermediate French II
Fren 250 Conversation & Grammar
Fren 298 Practicum in French
Fren 301 Read & Conversation
Fren 302 Contemporary French Culture & Civilization I
Fren 303 French Composition
Fren 305 Francophone Cultures

Fren 306 French Culture and Civilization
Fren 322 20th Century French Literature
Fren 325 French Cinema
Fren 326 French and the Media
Fren 350 Language & Civilization
Fren 403 19th Century French Literature
Fren 404 French Women Writers
Fren 405 Francophone Literature
Fren 498 History of France
Trans 300 Introduction To Professional Translation

Research Interests:
Socio-political satire in Francophone African literature
Balzac
Memory, place, and identity in Francophone literature

Professional Memberships:
Modern Language Association
American Association of Teachers of French
Foreign Language Association of Missouri
Pi Delta Phi (French Honorary)
Phi Sigma Iota (Foreign Language Honorary)
ACTFL
Rocky Mountain Foreign Language Association

Honors/Awards/Recognition
Who s Who in America 2000 - Present
Who s Who in the Midwest 1999
Who s Who Among America'sn Teachers, 1000, 2004
French Government Scholarship Grant to Dakar, Senegal, 1995
Sabbatical leave awarded by Notre Dame College, 1992-93
NEH Summer Seminar, "Issues in the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative," Ohio State University, 1991
Community Service Award of the Ohio Foreign Language Association, (with C. Thurner), 1990
NEH Summer Stipend for research at Stanford University and Biblioth que Nationale, Paris, 1989
Distinguished Faculty Award, Notre Dame College of Ohio, 1988
American Association of Teachers of French/Quebec Government Scholarship, 1988
NEH Summer Seminar, "Reading Ironies," Stanford University, 1987
Doctoral dissertation accepted "With Distinction," 1985
Outstanding Academic Advisor, Notre Dame College of Ohio, 1984
NEH Institute on Contemporary French Culture and Society, SUNY, Albany, 1981

Publications & Presentations

  • "In Other Professional Journals" column for The Modern Language Journal, 4 issues per year, 1997-present
  • "Review of William H. Shoemaker, God's Role and His Religion in Gald s' Novels 1876-1888. Anales Galdosianos 26: 96-97. (1993) (international)
  • "How to Do Things With Dreams: Dream Power in Balzac and Nerval." Romance Quarterly 37 (1990): 409-17. (national)
  • "Possible Witnesses: The Hypothetical Observers in La Com die humaine." Essays in European Literature for Walter A. Strauss. Ed. Alice Benston and Marshall Olds, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature 1 (1990): 63-72. (national)
  • "Pragmatic Ploys and Cognitive Processes in La inc gnita." Anales Galdosianos 23 (1988): 57-65. (international)
  • "L'observateur postiche dans La Com die humaine." in Ca parle. Ed. Jacqueline Wallace et al. Middlebury, VT: Middlebury College, 1986. p. 85-95. (national)
  • "Le lecteur virtuel dans trois textes narratifs fran ais du dix-neuvi me si cle: structures, strat gies, id ologies." UMI, Middlebury College, 1985
  •  Performing Visions and Scripting Film in Destins parall les,  African Literature Association, Madison, Wisconsin, April, 2004.
  •  Cinematographic Techniques and Narrative Structure in Kitia Tour s Destins parall les,  Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Misoula, MT, October, 2003.
  •  Memory of Place and the Place of Memory in the Novels of Calixthe Beyala,  San Diego, CA, African Literature Association, April, 2002.
  •  Songbirds Have Teeth: Socio-political Satire in Recent Francophone African Fiction,  Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Radford U., VA, November, 2000.
  •  Politics and Irony in Kourouma and Dongala,   Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Boise, ID, October, 2000.
  •  M moire des lieux et les lieux de m moire: les espaces litt raires dans Ass ze l Africaine de Calixthe Beyala,  Colloque international  Arts, Musique et Ecritures du monde francophone, Universit  de Cocody, Abidjan, C te d Ivoire, November 23-27, 1999.
  •  Hybid Poetics in Sadji s Ma mouna and Beyala s Ass ze l Africaine,  Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, November, 1999. Chaired session,  Hybrid Lives, Hybrid Texts 
  •  Reading against the Genre,  Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Santa Fe, NM, October, 1999
  •  Women at the Threshold: Initiation in Two Francophone African Novels,  Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Virginia Tech, October, 1998
  •  Absent by Design: Identity and Irony in Testimonios sobre Mariana,  International Narrative Conference, Northwestern University, April, 1998
  •  `Ka dara  and the Francophone Novel,  African Literature Association, U of Texas, Austin, March, 1998
  • "Narrative as Ritual: 'Ka dara' and the Postcolonial African Initiation Novel," International Narrative Conference, University of Florida, April, 1997
  •  Speaking from the Stone: Irony and Narration in Los recuerdos del porvenir,  International Narrative Conference, Ohio State University, April, 1996
  •  Sacred Forest and Secular City: Initiation Rites in Francophone African Literature,  Missouri Philological Association, March, 1996
  •  Feminist Irony in Elena Garro s Los recuerdos del porvenir,  IX International Symposium on Spanish, University of Texas-Pan American, April, 1995
  •  Short-Circuiting Memory: Women in Les Fran ais peints par eux-m mes,  Missouri Philological Association, Warrensburg MO, March, 1994
  •  Probing the Real: Two Balzacian Novels,  Arkansas Philological Association, Arkadelphia, AR, November, 1993
  • "The Wallpaper and the Wilderness: Irony in George Sand's Indiana." International Narrative Conference, Albany, NY, April, 1993
  • "Reading the Possible: Hypothetical Structures in Balzac's B atrix." International Narrative Conference, Vanderbilt University, April, 1992
  • "Beneath the paint: Women Writers' Contributions to Les Fran ais peints par eux-m mes." Cincinnati Romance Language Conference, May, 1990
  • "How to Do Things With Dreams: Dream Power in Balzac and Nerval." Cincinnati Romance Language Conference, May, 1989
  • "Possible Witnesses in La Com die humaine." Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures, Rollins College, Florida, 1988
  • "The observateur postiche in La Com die humaine." Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 1986
  • "Senegal," Presentation for Joplin Foreign Language Alliance, 1997
  • "Senegal 1995," Presentation for the combined FLAM and KFLA Convention, Kansas City, 1995
  • "Addressing Diversity in the FL Classroom," Central States Outreach Workshop, Missouri Foreign Language Association Convention, St. Louis, 1994
  • Codirector of workshop, "Teams and Roles: Getting Students Involved and Talking," 1992
  • "Teaching Language Through Literature," Presentation for the Northcoast Language Alliance, 1992
  • Codirector of workshop, "Student Motivation," 1991
  •  Interactive Writing Techniques," Presentation for the Northeast Ohio Educators Association, 1991
  • Director of workshop, "Creative Uses of Authentic TV and Video," 1990
  • Organizer of session, "Integrating Contemporary Culture into the Proficiency-Oriented Classroom, Ohio Foreign language Association Convention, March, 1990

 

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