Faculty & Staff

Part-Time Faculty: French

Kerri Conditto Miller
Part-Time Lecturer of French
Contact: 617-627-4693 | Email
Degrees: B.A., French, University of North Texas; M.A., French, University of North Texas.
Expertise: Second Language Pedagogy, French culture and film.

Selected Publications/Conferences:

• "Inspiring Students with Feature Films: Teaching French Language and Literature," Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages; NYC, NY; March 29, 2008.
• "Cinéphile: French Language and Culture through film," A Linguistic Approach to Studying Film for the Second Year Language Student; Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2007.
• Cinéphile series: étude de films en français élémentaire:
  L'Auberge espagnole; Focus Publishing, Newburyport, MA, 2007
  Le Papillon; Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2006
  Les Triplettes de Belleville; Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2005
  Etre et avoir; Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2005
  Les Visiteurs; Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2004.
• "Problèmes de l'adaptation filmique d'un texte littéraire: Etudes comparées de Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert et du Colonel Chabert d'Honoré de Balzac," UMI Dissertation Services, 1998.

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Annie Poignant Geoghegan
Part-Time Lecturer in French
Contact: (617)-627-4053| Email
Degrees: Maîtrise, Université d'Amiens; M.A. in Law and Diplomacy (The Fletcher School, Tufts University).
Expertise: Second Language Pedagogy, 20th century Francophone literature and culture, African films, Business French and translation.

Selected Publications/Conferences:

• "Introduction à Madagascar", Massachusetts Foreign Language Association (MaFLA), 1996
• "The rise of Islam among the French" and "Traditions of Provence", Tufts Travel-Learn Program, 2005

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Marie-Pierre Gillette
Part-Time Lecturer in French
Contact: (617) 627-4035| Email
Degrees: Maîtrise d'anglais, Université de Toulouse
Expertise: Foreign Language Acquisition, Translation

Selected Publications/Conferences:

• Co-writer, Pimsleur Language Programs: Croatian – Vidan/Gillette, Simon and Schuster, February 2009
• Writer/speaker, Pimsleur Language Programs: French Plus – Gillette/Rettig, Simon and Schuster, 2007
• Co-writer, Pimsleur Language Programs: Tagalog – Tan/Gillette, Simon and Schuster, 2007
• Writer/speaker, Pimsleur Language Programs: French II & III – Gillette/Rettig, Simon and Schuster, 2005/2006
• Writer/speaker, Pimsleur's French for Japanese Speakers – Gillette/Abramoff, published in Japan by U-Can, 2005

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John Julian
Part-Time Lecturer in French & Spanish
Contact: 617-627-2771| Email

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Larysa Smirnova
Part-Time Lecturer in French
Contact: 617-627-4053 | Email
Degrees: Ph.D. in French Literature, Yale, 2007

Selected Publications/Conferences:

• "Poétique du cinéma" by Raoul Ruiz, translation, accepted for publication in Russian by Kolonna Publishing, ed. Dmitry Voltchek.
• "Les exils de Roland Barthes". Romance Review XIV (2006).
• "Reporting on "The Passenger", Undercurrent (film criticism magazine, bimonthly online publication of FIPRESCI), 3(2006).
• "Le cinéma des traces: notes sur la collaboration de Jacques Tourneur et Val Lewton" (in collaboration). CinémAction (ed.Gilles Menegaldo) 120 (2006).
• "La Poésie de l'impossible." Romance Review IX (1999).

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Luisella Simpson
Part-Time Lecturer in French
Contact: (617) 627-4053 | Email
Degrees: M.A., D.E.A., Université de Paris-I Sorbonne; CAPES.

Selected Publications/Conferences:

• "The King Alfred/St Cuthbert Episode in the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto: Its Significance for mid-Tenth-Century English History", in Saint Cuthbert, his Cult and Community to a.d.1200, ed. G.Bonner (Woodbridge, 1989).

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