Education         

New York University, New York, NY
Ph.D. French Literature and French Studies, September 2012

L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
D.E.A. History and Civilizations, Mention Bien, June 2004

Columbia University, New York, NY
M.A. French Cultural Studies, October 2003

University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
B.A. French with a concentration in Women’s Studies cum laude, December 2000

Academic Appointments

Fordham University, New York, NY
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Lecturer in French, 2014-present
Adjunct Instructor of French, 2010-2011, 2012-2014

Barnard College, New York, NY
Department of French
Adjunct Lecturer in French, 2012-2014

New York University in Paris, Paris, France
Instructor of Literature, 2009-2012, 2011-2012

Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Department of Modern Languages
Adjunct Instructor of French, Fall 2010

New York University, New York, NY
Department of French
Graduate Instructor of French, 2005-2007

Honors and Awards

Dulau Fellowship, Department of French, New York University, 2009-2010
Chateaubriand Fellowship, Embassy of France in the United States, 2008-2009
MacCracken Fellowship, GSAS, New York University, 2004-2008
Freeland Faculty Award in French, University of Tulsa, 1999

Publications

“Vers le chemin de la vie : Le scandale des bagnes d’enfants dans le discours communiste” Revue d’histoire de l’enfance « irrégulière » 15 (2013)

Invited Talks

“L’écriture du scandale: Bagnes d’enfants et medias populaires, 1920-1945,” Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Centre de recherche en histoire du 19e siècle, Les bas-fonds et l’imaginaire sociale February 23, 2010.

“Journalism and the Bagnes d’Enfants Scandal,” Columbia University –Reid Hall, Paris, March 2009.

Conference Papers

“Albert Londres’ Guyane: Bringing the Exotic Back Home,” Locating Guyane, University of London Institute in Paris, July 10-11, 2014.

“Misery and Outrage: Uses of Emotion in Interwar Investigations of Juvenile Penal Colonies in France,” IALJS Ninth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies, Literary Journalism: Local, Regional, National, Global American University in Paris, May 15-17, 2014.

“Carceral Voyages: Interwar Investigations of Juvenile Penal Colonies in France,” Borders and Crossings/Seuils et Traverses Liverpool Hope University, July 22-24, 2013.

“Jacques Prevert: Reporting and the Screen,” Society for French Studies, Swansea University, July 5-7, 2010.

“Writing Scandal: The 1934 escape from Belle-Ile,” France Now and Then. University of Chicago Center in Paris. April 16-17, 2009.

“Aux Armes Les Femmes: Thirty Years of Symbolic Violence,” Fractured Reflections: The Breaking Point between Text / Image, New York University, February 24-25, 2006.

Teaching Experience

Fordham University, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
France Today: La France en crise?
French Language and Literature
Intermediate French II
Intermediate French I
Elementary French II
Intensive Elementary French

Barnard College, Department of French
Intermediate French II
Intermediate French I
Review of French Fundamentals

New York University in Paris
Paris in French and Expatriate Literature: The Flâneur and the City
Paris in French and Expatriate Literature: Bohemian Paris
Workshops in Academic Publishing Instructor and Coordinator

Montclair State University, Department of Modern Languages
Elementary French I
Elementary French II

New York University, Department of French,
All levels of Elementary and Intermediate French

University Service

Conference organizer, Echanges, NYU in Paris / Université de Paris1 – Panthéon
Sorbonne, June 2012
Conference Co-organizer and Treasurer, NYU French graduate student conference:
Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory of Everyday Life, February 2006
President, French Graduate Students Association, 2007-2008
Treasurer, French Graduate Students Association, 2005-2007
Graduate Delegate, House of Delegates, GSAS, 2006-2008
Resident Assistant, NYU Summer program in Paris, June – August 2006

Professional Affiliations

American Comparative Literature Association
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Society for French Studies
Modern Language Association