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Sophie Queuniet
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Lecturer in French & Francophone
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| Ph.D. |
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Yale University |
| Department Member Since: 1999 |
I joined Carnegie
Mellon University in 1999 as a part-time instructor then moved to the
position of full-time lecturer in 2003. As a lecturer, I am involved in
teaching French at all levels in the Department of Modern Languages. Besides
my teaching duties, I serve on the CMU Staff Recognition Award Committee.
Although I was academically trained as a literary scholar, my professional
experience has been mainly focused on the teaching of French as a foreign
language. Most recently, it involved material development and teaching
for the French component of the Language Online (LOL) project directed
by my colleague Chris Jones. The LOL courses in Elementary and Intermediate
French and Spanish were created for students who need a more flexible
approach to language learning than that offered in a standard classroom
course. All materials are newly created for the LOL project and are Web
based. My interest in the intersection of technology and the teaching
of language and culture has also led me to co-author with Diana Mériz
the CD-ROM Hyperfrançais, a French grammar resource for advanced-level
students. This term, I am in the process of redesigning the French culture
class in order to adapt its syllabus to those of other similar classes
in the Department, and to create a portfolio that would offer to future
teachers a wider variety of material to choose from (ranging from poems
to plays, movies, essays or novels).
My dissertation on the stakes of intelligence in Marcel Proust’s
work has been the starting point of a broader interest in the 19th and
20th century’s obsession with the categorization of the human mind
and the valorization of intelligence in society. I am currently writing
an article on Proust’s critique of the intellectual trend in the
literature of the first half of the 20th century. My research on the interest
in the role and functioning of intelligence in French society has led
me to study the question of education, which is after all the training
of minds. The 400-level class I am offering in the Spring 2005 on the
representations of the French school and nation is part of a reflection
on how and why citizens are shaped by a nation’s educational measures
such as the creation of elite schools, mandatory education or, most recently,
the law banning the wearing of religious signs in French public schools.
Recent presentations
and work
- "Redesigning the French Culture Curriculum at Carnegie Mellon University."
Talk presented at NCTFL, New York (April 2005).
- "The School and the Scarf: Reading the New French Law on Secularism.”
Invited talk at Clarion University of Pennsylvania (March 2005).
- "Teaching French online at the intermediate level."
- Multimedia showcase presented at the Robert Henderson Language Media
Center of the University of Pittsburgh (September 2004).
- "Proust’s answer to society’s valorization of intelligence."
Talk at the Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, University of Kentucky,
KY (April 2004).
- Co-author of Hyperfrançais with Diana Mériz
Sargent and Chantal Cornuejols. Distributed by the Robert Anderson
Language Media Center. University of Pittsburgh (2003).
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More Information
Sophie Queuniet
Department of Modern Languages
Carnegie Mellon University
Baker Hall 160
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Office: BH 369
Phone: (412) 268-4066
Fax: (412) 268-1328
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