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Richard J.
Gray II
Assistant Professor of French
Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Major in Linguistics
(865) 471-3287
rgray@cn.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in French and
Francophone Literature (2006)
The
University of Texas at Austin.
Dissertation:
French Radio Drama from the
Interwar to the Postwar Period (1922-1973).
M.A. in French Literature
(1998)
Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
B.A. in French Language and
Literature (1995)
Eastern
Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Dean’s List, Departmental
Honors
Additional Studies (1994-5)
Diplôme de langue et de culture françaises,
Mention: Bien, Centre International d’Études Françaises, Université
Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers, France.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Carson-Newman College,
Jefferson City, Tennessee, Assistant Professor of French (Tenure-track),
2005-
FREN101-
Beginning French I (Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008)
FREN102- Beginning French II (Spring
2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008)
FREN201- Intermediate French I
(Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008)
FREN201- Intermediate French I
– Online (Summer 2008)
FREN202- Intermediate French
II (Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008)
FREN202- Intermediate French
II – Online (Summer 2008)
FREN301- Advanced Written
Expression (Fall 2005, Fall 2006)
FREN301- Advanced Written
Expression – Télévision Québécoise (Fall 2007)
FREN301- Advanced Written
Expression – Cinéma
français (Fall 2008)
FREN303- French Society from
Clovis to Louis XIV (Spring 2007)
FREN304- French Society from
Louis XV to Jacques Chirac (Spring 2006)
FREN310- Advanced Oral
Expression (Spring 2006)
FREN310- Advanced Oral
Expression/French Phonetics (Spring 2007)
FREN310- Advanced Oral
Expression/French Media (Spring 2008)
FREN314- Survey of French
Literature I (Fall 2005)
FREN314- French Women Writers
[Women’s Studies/French course] (Fall 2007)
FREN320-
La littérature fantaisiste: Les contes et les contes de fée (May 2008)
FREN320-
Les contes folkloriques canadiens et québécois (May 2009)
FREN415- Special Topics in
French: Translation [French<>English] (Fall 2007)
FREN415- Special Topics in
French: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax (Spring 2008)
FREN420-
La civilisation française et francophone - époque contemporaine (Spring
2006)
FREN420-
Écrire Paris dans la littérature française du XIXe siècle (Spring 2008)
FREN420-
Le théâtre français et francophone: Aperçu diachronique (Spring 2009)
LA101- Introduction to Liberal
Arts – Fantasy and Role Playing (Fall 2008)
LING327- Translation Theory
[Interdisciplinary major in Linguistics] (Fall 2008)
University of Mississippi,
Oxford, Mississippi, Instructor in French, 01/04-07/05
FREN201- Intermediate French I
(Fall 2004, Summer 2004)
FREN202- Intermediate French II
(Spring 2004, Summer 2004, Spring 2005, Summer 2005)
The University of Texas at
Austin, Austin, Texas, Assistant Instructor of French, 08/98-07/02
FR506- Beginning French I
(Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Summer 2000, Fall 2000, Summer 2001)
FR507- Beginning French II
(Spring 1999, Summer 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001)
FR301- French for Graduate
Students (Summer 2002)
FR310K- Intermediate French
Reading Skills I (Fall 2001)
FR310L- Intermediate French
Reading Skills II (Spring 2002)
FR118K- Practice in Spoken
French I (Spring 1999)
Austin Community College,
Austin, Texas, Adjunct Instructor of French, 08/00-07/02
FREN1511-
Beginning French I (Summer 2001)
FREN1512- Beginning French II
(Summer 2002)
FREN2311- Intermediate French
I (Fall 2000, Fall 2001)
FREN2312- Intermediate French
II (Spring 2001, Spring 2002)
Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana, Teaching Assistant of French, 08/96-05/98
FREN101- Beginning French I
(Summer 1997, Fall 1997)
FREN102- Beginning French II
(Winter 1997)
FREN103- Accelerated French I
(Fall 1996)
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
Acting
Chair, Department of Foreign Languages, Carson-Newman College, Jefferson
City, Tennessee (01/09-05/09)
Associate
Director, Interdisciplinary Major in Linguistics, Carson-Newman College,
Jefferson City, Tennessee (08/08 – Present)
Program
Manager, Mid-Continent Consortium for International Education, Summer
Study Abroad Program in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (2007- Present)
Interim
Program Manager, Mid-Continent Consortium for International Education,
Summer Study Abroad Program in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (2007)
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Co-Resident Director, Mid-Continent Consortium for
International Education, Study Abroad Program, École de langue française
et de culture québécoise, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (July 5-19,
2008)
EFTours Paris, Normandy, Brittany Tour (March
12-20, 2008)
EFTours Paris Orientation, Paris, France (November
21-25, 2007)
Resident Director, Mid-Continent Consortium for
International Education, Study Abroad Program, École de langue française
et de culture québécoise, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (July-August
2006)
Doctoral research, Bibliothèque Nationale de
France, Paris, France (09/02-10/02)
PEDAGOGICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES:
·
Twelve years of experience in commercial translation and interpretation
as well as in providing business and cultural information for companies
in England, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States.
· Six
years of Foreign Language Laboratory experience using computer technology
for second-language acquisition.
·
Professional development workshops: Adding Visual Impact to Course
Materials; Selecting Media to Support Instruction; Blackboard; Streaming
Media Development; The Power of Videoconferencing in Education; Copyright
and Fair Use; Electronic Information Literacy.
AWARDS/HONORS/GRANTS:
Alpha Chi student sponsor (09/08)
Pew Grant from Carson-Newman College to attend the
“L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables and the Idea of Classic”
conference presented by the L.M. Montgomery Institute of the University
of Prince Edward Island, Delta Prince Edward Hotel, Charlottetown, Prince
Edward Island, Canada, $500.
(06/08)
Appalachian
College Association Teaching and Learning Institute Grant, $3,400 to
organize the ACA French Scholar Bowl on February 23, 2008. (08/07)
Pew Grant from Carson-Newman College to attend
the 27th
Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures at the
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, $500. (05/07)
U.S. Fund for UNICEF Delegate (04/07)
Alpha Chi student sponsor (09/06)
Pew Grant from Carson-Newman College to attend
the 34th
Annual 20th Century Literature & Culture Conference at the University
of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, $500. (02/06)
Recipient
of Dale Sievers Fund for the Future Grant, Tennessee Foreign Language
Teaching Association, TFLTA Conference, Franklin, Tennessee. (11/05)
MEDIA:
“New
liberal arts curriculum pushes students out of comfort zones,” Orange and Blue, October 3, 2008.
“C-N
Professor to examine French radio programs Thursday evening,” Standard Banner, September 16,
2008.
“C-N
Wins Inaugural French Scholar Bowl,” Orange
and Blue, March 7, 2008.
“C-N
Team wins French Scholar Bowl,” Standard
Banner, March 4, 2008.
“C-N
to host French Scholar Bowl,” Citizen
Tribune, February 21, 2008.
“C-N
to host French Scholar Bowl,” Standard
Banner, February 19, 2008.
“All
Aboard the Study Abroad Programs,” Orange
and Blue, March 23, 2007.
“French
202 at Ole Miss,” 90 second video segment, Lyndsay Brown, University of
Mississippi campus-news station Channel 12, July 2005.
PUBLICATIONS: (*
indicates peer-reviewed)
“Exploring Niggerdom: Racial Inversion
in Language Taboos in Chappelle’s
Show” (with Michael Putnam), in Meaning,
Identity, and the Comedy of Dave Chappelle. Ed. Kevin Wisniewski
(Jefferson, McFarland and Co.), 2009.
*
“Performing War: Vichyite Ideology from Across the Sea in Camille Morel’s
poetic radio dramatic work ‘France!..Présent!..
Poème épique Radiophonique et Théâtral en un acte
et deux tableaux’,” InterCulture
5:3 (2008): 205-213.
“The Art and Science of French Radio Drama”
(monograph accepted for publication).
“Colette,”
“Marcel Proust,” “Paul Valéry,” Biographical
Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century Ed. John
Powell, (Greenwood Press, 2004).
“Visual
Representation: The Fragmentation of/by the Image in the Twentieth
Century in Michel Tournier’s La Goutte d’or,” Proceedings of the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of
Social Imagery, University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo, Colorado, 2000.
RESEARCH
IN PROGRESS:
“Maryse Condé, papilllon: Racial Identity as
‘Butterfly Effect’” (article – working title)
“Radio
Resists: The Censored Radio Dramatic Work of Antonin Artaud” (article –
working title)
RECENT PRESENTATIONS:
“An
Alternative Learning Experience through a Team-Based Model: A Report on
the 2008 Appalachian College Association French Scholar Bowl
Competition,” 2008 Appalachian College Association Summit, Southwest
Virginia Higher Education Center, Abingdon, Virginia, 10/08.
“An
Evening of French Radio Drama,” Phoenix Theatre, Carson-Newman College,
09/08.
“Vichyite
Ideology from Across the Sea: Camille Morel’s Poetic Radio dramatic work France!..Présent!.. Poème épique
Radiophonique et Théâtral en un acte et deux tableaux,” 2007 Annual
Convention of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Renaissance
Atlanta Hotel Downtown, Atlanta, Georgia, 11/07.
“Teaching
and Learning Foreign Languages in the Internet Age,” (Co-presented with
Mary Baldridge), 2007 Appalachian College Association Summit, Mountain
Trails – Global Highways, Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center,
Abingdon, Virginia, 10/07.
“A
Theater of Morality and Justice: Jean-Louis Lespine’s Le procès du
Loup qui assassina l’agneau,” 27th Cincinnati Conference
on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, Ohio, in a panel entitled “Theater and Justice, Artistry and
Order (French),” Chaired by Richard Gray, Carson-Newman College,
05/07.
“Embers,” Dr. Shawn O’Hare’s Major
British Authors course (Joyce and Beckett - ENG451), Carson-Newman
College, 04/07. (Invited Lecture)
“The
Intersection of Radio and Religion in Cita’s and Suzanne Malard’s Le Dieu vivant,” 60th
Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference at the University of Kentucky,
Lexington, Kentucky, 04/07.
Department
of Foreign Languages and Bilingual Studies Annual Awards Banquet, Eastern
Michigan University, 04/07. (Invited Speech)
“A War
of the Worlds for the 1920s: Pierre Cusy’s and Gabriel Germinet’s Marémoto,” 34th Annual
20th Century Literature & Culture Conference at the University of
Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 02/06.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE/SEMINARS:
Webinar,
Council for Independent Colleges, Network for Effective Language
Learning, Drake University, (3:00-4:30 EDT): “Strengthening and Expanding
Language Offerings Through Self-Instructional Alternatives: Can
traditional language classes and self-instructional language learning
programs co-exist?” (02/08)
Webinar,
Council for Independent Colleges, Network for Effective Language
Learning, Drake University, (3:00-4:30 EDT): “’Big Questions’ in
Beginning and Intermediate Language Study.” (11/07)
Webinar,
Council for Independent Colleges, Network for Effective Language
Learning, Drake University, (3:00-4:30 EDT): “Learning Strategies and
Reflection.” (09/07)
Appalachian
College Association ARTstor Seminar, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, North
Carolina. (08/07)
Council
for Independent Colleges, Network for Effective Language Learning, Drake
University, Des Moines, Iowa. (07/07)
Appalachian
College Association Teaching and Learning Institute, Brevard College,
Brevard, North Carolina (06/07)
Board
of Directors, Mid-Continent Consortium for International Education (2005-
Present)
Certified
AP Course Auditor, College Board (2007-Present)
SAT
French Subject Test Pre-tester (2007-Present)
AP
French Reader, Educational Testing Service (2006-Present)
La
Table française, Faculty Advisor, Carson-Newman College (2007- Present)
Founder
and Director, A Helping Hand (New Faculty Move-In Group), Carson-Newman
College (2007)
Student
Retention Planning Committee Retreat (August 9, 2007)
Concert-Lecture
Series Committee, Carson-Newman College (2006-2009)
Honor’s
Project Advisor, Carson-Newman College (2006-2008)
Chi
Tau Kappa – Faculty Advisor (2008-Present)
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
AYSO Girls’ Soccer Coach (2007- Present)
“Trick or Treat for UNICEF” (2006- Present)
ORGANIZATIONS:
South
Atlantic Modern Language Association
Tennessee
Foreign Language Teaching Association
REFERENCES:
Dr. Mary Baldridge
Assistant
Professor of Spanish, Chair of Department of Foreign Languages
Carson-Newman
College
Jefferson
City, Tennessee 37760
(865)
471-3473
mbaldridge@cn.edu
Dr. Warren Roby
Professor
and Chair of Modern Languages
John
Brown University
Siloam
Springs, Arkansas 72761
(479)
524-7309
wroby@jbu.edu
Dr. Karen Sorenson
Professor
of French
Austin
Peay State University
Clarksville,
Tennessee 37044
(931) 221-6246
sorensonk@apsu.edu
Dr. Jean
Marie Walls
Department
Chair & Professor of Language
Union
University
Jackson,
Tennessee 38305
(731)
661-5359
jwalls@uu.edu
Updated November 2008
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