Taches d''encre: French Composition

About Cheryl KruegerH. SiskinMaryse Fauvel

H. Jay Siskin (Ph.D. Cornell) is Professor of French and Program Chair of World Languages at Cabrillo College. He is the author of five textbooks in French as well as numerous articles and reviews that have appeared in such publications as THE FRENCH REVIEW FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS and the PMLA. Prof. Siskin serves as chair of the Modern Language Associations Division on the Teaching of Language a member of that associations Committee on Awards and Honors and its Delegate Assembly. Cheryl Krueger is associate professor of French at the University of Virginia where she teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate level courses on French language literature culture and cinema. She has served as chair of the Department of French Language and Literature and as director of undergraduate programs. In addition she is part of the editorial board of DIX-NEUF (JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF DIX-NEUVIMISTES) has served on the AAUSC editorial board and is an elected member of the MLA's 19th-Century French Literature Division Executive Committee. Krueger is author of PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING LANGUAGE AND CONTENT (Yale University Press 2020) and THE ART OF PROCRASTINATION: BAUDELAIRE'S POETRY IN PROSE (University of Delaware Press 2007); editor of APPROACHES TO TEACHING BAUDELAIRE'S PROSE POEMS (MLA 2017); and co-author of MISE-EN-SCNE: CINMA ET LECTURE. Her articles have appeared in such journals as DIX-NEUF FRENCH FORUM FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS LITERATURE/FILM QUARTERLY MODERN LANGUAGES OPEN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES ROMANCE NOTES WOMEN IN FRENCH STUDIES and LITTERATURE. Kruegers current research focuses on 19th-century French literature and culture French cinema and the senses olfaction and perfume. Her interest in helping students find their voice in French developed over the many years she served as language program director at UVA. Her approach to teaching writing is informed by a combination of research in SLA and plenty of practice experimenting with new techniques and course design. Cheryl advocates the book's interactive process-writing for writers at any level -- from students just beginning to professionals writing for publication. Maryse Fauvel is professor emerita in French and Francophone studies at the College of William and Mary where she served as chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures from 2013-2017. She has taught advanced writing courses as well as 20th-century French literature women writers French cinema European cinema literary theory secrets and revelations and ecocriticism. Her research areas include literature and the visual arts cinema contemporary women writers and filmmakers postmodernism and postcolonial cultures. In addition to numerous articles Fauvel published EXPOSER L'AUTRE: ESSAI SUR LA CIT NATIONALE DE L' HISTOIRE DE L'IMMIGRATION ET LE MUSE DU QUAI BRANLY (Paris: L'Harmattan 2014); A VOUS DE VOIR: DE L'IDE AU PROJET FILMIQUE (Paris: Casteilla 2010) co-authored with Martin and Martin; and SCNES D' INTRIEUR: SIX ROMANCIERS DES ANNES 1980-1990 (Birmingham: Summa 2007). She received a B.A. and M.A. from CAPES Universite de Paris and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.