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Ibrahima Wade

Ibrahima Wade

Department Chair

Associate Professor
Department of French

The Colorado College
14 East Cache La Poudre Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Tel. 719.389.6629
Fax 719.389.6837
Email iwade@coloradocollege.edu

 

Education:
Ph.D. University of Illinois 1996;
M.A. University of Illinois 1991;

 

Courses: Language including Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced French Literature Francophone/French/Traditional African Cultures, French/Caribbean/Quebec General Studies including socio-political African issues (past and contemporary), Independent readings in French and Wolof (Senegalese dialect).


Research Interests: Francophone literatures and cultures: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb, French Quebec, Applied Linguistics, Introduction to Literary Analysis, French Civilization, Cultures and Civilizations of French-speaking regions, Topics in Francophone Literature and Culture, Themes in Francophone Literature, Topics in modern French and Francophone Culture.

Dr. Wade's current book project, Mémoires Francophones d'Inchone is in progress and is funded in part through the MacArthur Fellowship.

Dr. Wade is the director of the Cultural Studies in Senegal program taught in Senegal.

 

Courses 2008-2009:  FR308, FR431, FR305, FR101, FR317/CO200, FR432

Michael O'Riley

Michael O'Riley

(Leave of Absence 2008-2009)

Associate Professor
Department of French

The Colorado College
14 East Cache La Poudre Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Tel. 719.389.6625
Fax 719.389.6837
Email moriley@coloradocollege.edu

 

Education:
Ph.D. University of Oregon 1998;
M.A. Bowling Green University 1995;

 

Courses: French Language and Culture, Spoken French composition, Introduction to Literary Analysis, French Civilization Literature and Film, Independent Readings, topics in French Lituerature and Culture, Genres in French Literature: Fiction in Post-Revolutionary France, Director of the Avignon Program taught in France, One block course taught in Paris: Paris and the Arts
Research Interests: French Literature, French Culture, Italian Language and Culture, French Civilization, Literature and Film, Literature and drama in Post-Revolutionary France, French Cimena, and French Art (Old regime to post revolutionary France), French colonialism.

Michael O'Riley is Associate Professor of French. He has published over 12 articles in refereed journals such as Mosaic, Romance Notes, The French Review, Dalhousie French Studies, and Romance Languages Annual and has authored Francophone Culture and the Postcolonial Fascination with Ethnic Crimes and Colonial Aura   published by Edwin Mellen Press and Postcolonial Haunting and Victimization: Assia Djebar's New Novels, published by Peter Lang New York.

Dr. O'Riley was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at Boston University and was an NEH Fellow at Harvard University in 2000. He is the director of the Study Abroad program in Avignon and the Study French, Italian and the Arts in Paris and Florence.

Alistaire Tallent

(sabbatical Fall 2008)

Assistant Professor
Department of French

The Colorado College
14 East Cache La Poudre Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Tel. 719.389.6623
Fax 719.389.6837
Email alistairetallent@coloradocollege.edu

 

Education:
Ph.D. Vanderbilt University 2005;
M.A. University of Tennessee 2000;
B.A. Birmingham-Southern College 1997

 

Courses: Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced French Language, Cultural Contexts and Written Expression, Cultural Contexts and Oral Expression, Cultural Contexts and Critical Analysis, Fiction in Pre-revolutionary French Literature, French Theatre


Research Interests: Eighteenth-century French Culture and Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, French Revolution, Non-canonical Literature, Theories of Public and Private Space, Classical Ballet and Performance

Courses 2008-2009:  FR300 (in France), FR306, FR316, FR304

Visiting Professors

 

Monica Garoiu

Visiting Instructor

Department of French

14 E. Cache La Poudre

Colorado Springs, CO  80903

Tel. 719-389-6625

Fax 719-389-6837

Email: Monica.Garoiu@ColoradoCollege.edu

Education:

Ph.D. (ABD)in French and Francophone Literature.  University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 2007

MA in French Language and Literature. Portland State University, OR

BA in French Language and Literature. University of Timisoara

Research Interests:  Twentieth/Twenty-first century French and Francophone fiction; philosophy and literature; exile and migration in French and Francophone Literature; autobiography/autofiction; mythological approaches to literature; second language acquisition and teaching with technology.

Courses 2008-2009:  FR310, FR159, FR101,FR201

Maha Foster

Visiting Instructor

Department of French

14 E. Cache La Poudre

Colorado Springs, CO  80903

Tel.719-389-6902

Fax 719-389-6837

Email:  maha.foster@coloradocollege.edu

 

EDUCATION

 Currently, a candidate for another Master/Ph.D. in Linguistics at CU Boulder

 1963 - 76  College Protestant Français

French Baccalaureate, first and second parts

 1976 - 79      American University  

B.A. in Linguistics with distinction. 

Teaching Diploma

 1979 - 82     American University 

M.A. Teaching English as a Second Language

 1976 - 81    The Goethe Institute 

German Language Studies

 Summer 1979   The Goethe Institute 

German Language Studies

 Summer 1979    University of Freiburg, Germany. 

German Language Studies

 Summer 1981   Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT

German Language Studies

 1986-88    University of Washington,  Seattle, WA.

Took four courses towards a Ph.D.  in Neurolinguistics

 The Music Conservatory

Diploma in Piano Performance

My education also includes a multitude of workshops and training in classroom management, assessment, curriculum development, language acquisition, methods in teaching a foreign language and many others.

Courses 2008-2009:  FR101, AR101, AR201, AR202

Kobi Chumash

Adjunct Instructor, Hebrew Language

Department of French

14 E. Cache La Poudre

Colorado Springs, CO  80903

Tel.

Fax 719-389-6837

Email:  kchumash@hotmail.com

Education:

1987-1990 -- College for Architecture and Design in Tel Aviv

1983-1986 -- University of Tel Aviv, Major in Geography & Political Science

Courses 2008-2009:  HE121, HE122, HE221, HE222, HE321, HE322