Areas of expertise:
Nineteenth-Century French novel, Oulipo, digital humanities.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Recent courses taught:
Introductory and Intermediate French
Introduction to Global Studies
French Conversation and Composition
French for Business
Survey of French Literature from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century
French Cinema
The Avant-Garde in France
Distinctions (awards, fellowships, and grants):
CIC Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction (Spring 2014)
Central College (Pella IA) 2013-2014 Central College Abroad travel grant (2013-14)
Hartwick Faculty Research Grants (2009-2010, 2013-2014, 2015-2016)
Selected publications:
“Invoking the Oracle: Perec, Algorithms, and Conceptual Writing,” in The Afterlives of Georges Perec, ed. R. Wilken and J. Clemens, Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
“Reading Potential: The Oulipo and the Meaning of Algorithms,” DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly 1/1 (Spring 2007).
“Rules of the Oulipian Game: Authorship and Posthuman Literature,” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 11/1 (Spring 2007): 111-118.
“Individuality and l’Esprit Français: On Gustave Lanson’s Pedagogy,” Modern Language Quarterly 62/3 (September 2001): 239-257.
College service and professional affiliations:
Chair, Modern Languages (2009 to present)
Coordinator of French and Global Studies Programs
American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
