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.

 

 

Education

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

 

 

Teaching And Research Interests

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

 

 

Teaching And Mentorship Activities

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.

 

 

Related Academic Activities

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

hannoosh@umich.edu

 

Dena Goodman, Professor

Departments of History and Women’s Studies

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

goodmand@umich.edu

 

Helene Neu, Director of Elementary Language Program

                                                Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

(734) 647-2323

hneu@umich.edu