DOMINICA S. CHANG, Ph.D.
Department of French and Francophone Studies
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI 54912
dominica.chang@lawrence.edu
Academic Employment
September 2007 to present Assistant
Professor of French and Francophone Studies.
Lawrence
University, Appleton Wisconsin.
January to May 2007 Lecturer, University of Michigan.
September 1998- Ph.D. April 2007.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Department of
December 2006 Romance
Languages and Literatures. Dissertation: “Textually-Transmitted Revolutions:
Revolutionary Mimicry and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century France.”
Dissertation Chair: William Paulson.
June 1997 – August 1998 M.A. in French Studies. Middlebury
College.
Mémoire
de Maîtrise: “L’Argent-Roi: La Montée du capitalisme illustrée dans Eugénie Grandet de Balzac et La
Curée de Zola.”
Advisor:
Georges G. Gutman.
September 1997 – Diplôme
de Français des Affaires (DFA 1). L’Ecole de la
May 1998 Chambre
de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris. Paris, France.
September
1990 – B.A.
in French Language and Literature.
May 1995 University
of Wisconsin, Madison.
Languages
English: native
language; French: near-native fluency;
German:
reading knowledge; Korean: basic proficiency
Nineteenth-Century French Studies; Revolutionary Studies; Literary History and Historiography; Print Culture and Book History; Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Cultural and Media Studies, Film Studies, Language pedagogy.
Conference Presentations
October 2006 “From Printing clicher to Flaubertian cliché.”
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of
Indiana, Bloomington, IN.
October 2004 “Textually-Transmitted Revolutions: Print Culture, Revolutionary Mimicry and the Generation of 1848.”
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
March 2003 “Reading and Repeating Revolutions: Print Culture and Revolutionary Mimicry in Nineteenth-Century France.”
Sixteenth Annual Graduate Student Symposium, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
March 2001 “Negotiating Nomadism in Agnes Varda’s Sans toit ni loi.”
Fraker Graduate Student Conference, University of Michigan.
Awards, Honors, And Fellowships
October 2006 Naomi
Schor Memorial Award for best graduate
student
presentation
at 2006 Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Colloquium,
University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN.
January 2006 Departmental Nominee, University of Michigan “Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award.”
Summer 2005 Block Grant Award. Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, University of Michigan.
Summer 2003 Block Grant Award. Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, University of Michigan.
January – August 2003 Rackham Humanities Research Fellowship. University of Michigan.
September 1998 – Rackham Merit Fellowship. University of Michigan.
December 2002
September 1999 - Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
December 2006 Ten semesters of teaching French Language, Literature, and Culture at the elementary and intermediate levels.
January – May 2001 Course
Grader, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. Graded exams for “French New Wave Cinema,” an undergraduate class with
fifty students offered through the Department of Film and Media Studies.
September 2000 – Graduate Student Mentor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
April 2005. Served as Graduate Student Mentor for three academic years. Duties included mentorship of fellow graduate student instructors, class observations, participation in training workshop for new instructors. Was asked on three occasions during this period of time to visit the Pedagogical Methods class and share various teaching strategies with first-year instructors.
September 2003 – Co-organizer of the Fraker Conference planning committee.
March 2004
September 2000 - Co-organizer of the Fraker Conference, a two-day conference
March 2001 organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages and
Literatures Department.
Summer 2000 Research Assistant for Professor William Paulson.
References
William Paulson, Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(734) 647-2675
wpaulson@umich.edu
Michèle Hannoosh, Chair
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(734) 647-2339
Dena Goodman, Professor
Departments of History and Women’s Studies
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Helene Neu, Director of Elementary Language Program
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(734) 647-2323
hneu@umich.edu