Associate professor of French & Film
French and Francophone studies
MA French,
PhD University of Iowa (French & Film doctoral program) http://www.uiowa.edu/
Dissertation: Writing Nostalgia: Fiction and Photography.University of Florida Affiliations:
Film
and Media Studies
Women's Studies & Gender research
Center for African Studies
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Twentieth & Twenty-first Century French literature, French Cultural Studies, European cinema, Migrant narratives, Photography.
CURRENT RESEARCH & PROJECT:
A book-length project exploring migration narratives in European Cinema.
2005 MLA regional assembly delegate nomination
May Convocation. Faculty recognition Class 2004.
Teacher's Award Nomination, College of Liberal Arts, Fall 2002
Anderson/College of Liberal Arts Scholar Faculty Honoree, fall 1999 & 2001
Statut de Chercheur Associe, Summer-fall 2000, Paris: Forum des Images
Student Affairs Vice-President list for University of Florida Counseling Center, Spring 2000 (students' survey)
Anderson Scholar Faculty Honoree, U. Florida, Fall 1999
Teaching Improvement Award, Fall 1998
French Film Festival- FFRI Funded, Assisted by French Cultural Services of New York and Miami, Spring 2012. Program -
FACE (French film festival grant, New York, spring 09. Program
FACE (French film festival Grant, New York- Spring 08. Program. poster
Hippodrome state theatre
FACE (French Film Festival Grant, New York) -spring 07 festival. Program.festival07(description/location, contact)
FACE (French Film Festival Grant, New York) -spring 06 festival
Center for European Studies grant “ new course proposal : European Identities, European
Cinemas summer 05
FACSEA (French Film festival grant, New York) Spring 2004 festival
Humanities Enhancement Scholarship, College of Liberal Arts, summer 2003
RLL Research Mini-Grant, Summer 2003
Fine Arts and Humanities Scholarship, summer 1998
CLAS Research Initiation Project Grant, summer 1997
N.E.H. Fellowship for University Teachers, SUNY Albany, 1991.Summer Seminar
Council International Study Program, International Faculty Development Seminar, Tradition & Transformation in Vietnam, July 7-17, 2001.
Recent Course offerings:
New course: fall 2012: Women and Fashion in French cinema
New Course.: “Correspondences between music and texts in French literature: Textes et musiques. La litterature francaise a l’ecoute de la musique” proposed by Sylvie Blum-Reid and Miriam Zach has been selected for inclusion in the Honors Program.. The course will be team taught in the near future by Dr. Blum-Reid, Associate Professor of French and Film and by Dr. Zach, Assistant Professor of Music in the Honors program at UF--- spring 2012.
Jacques Tati: "Tatiland" Course description
European Cinemas, European Identities-fall 2010 class. Eurocine
Francophone cinema
Women and film: Paris was a woman
French theatre (20th & 21st century)
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