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Faculty

 

Vicki DeVries
Assistant Professor of French
Ph.D. Michigan State University, 2006
Hiemenga Hall 427D
Phone: (616) 526-8736
email: vdevries@calvin.edu

 

Research interests
Women writers in French
Psychological approaches to literary criticism

Teaching interests
Women and gender in French literature
French linguistics
19th century French novel

Glenn W. Fetzer
Professor of French
Ph.D. City University of New York,1988
Hiemenga Hall 427 B
Phone: (616) 526-6486
e-mail: fetzer@calvin.edu

 

Glenn FETZER est professeur à l’Université Calvin College. Ses recherches portent sur la poésie moderne et contemporaine, ainsi que les rapports entre l’énonciation et poésie. Après avoir écrit sur les poètes de la “littéralité”, y compris Emmanuel Hocquard et Dominique Fourcade, il étudie la poésie de Lorand Gaspar. Parmi ses livres figurent Palimpsests of the Real in Recent French Poetry: Amsterdam: Rodopi (2004) et Emmanuel Hocquard and the Poetics of Negative Modernity: Birmingham: Summa Publications, (2004). Trois articles viennent de paraître: “ Guillevic et le rythme du familier ” dans Guillevic : La poésie à la lumière du quotidien, Ed. Michael Brophy (2009) ; “Contrepoints rythmiques et sonores chez Jean-Michel Espitallier et Lorand Gaspar,” dans  Irish Journal of French Studies, (2007); et “Stratégies adjectivales chez Guillevic” dans Guillevic et la langue, Ed. Laurence Bougault, (2009).

Irene Brouwer Konyndyk
Assistant Professor of French
M.A., Michigan State University, 1973
Hiemenga Hall 424
Phone: (616) 526-6366
Fax: (616) 526-8583
Office hours by appointment only
e-mail: ikony@calvin.edu

Irene Konyndyk's major area of teaching and scholarship is foreign language learning and learning disabilities. In 2001 she has developed a 3-course sequence (French 111-112-113) to meet the needs of at-risk students, helping them succeed at foreign language learning. The modified program is multisensory, structured, and has a large metacognitive component.

Otto H. Selles
Professor of French
D. de l'Université, Université de
Paris-IV (Sorbonne), 1994
Hiemenga Hall 427 C
Phone: (616) 526-6805
Fax: (616) 526-8583
e-mail: oselles@calvin.edu

Research interests:
The French Enlightenment and Protestantism
The development of tolerance; tolerance's contemporary boundaries

Teaching interests:
Francophone Literature and Culture in North America
French Cinema
Contemporary French society

Rita Selles
 Instructor of French
M.A., McMaster University, 1997
Maîtrise de Français Langue Étrangère, Université de Paris-X (Nanterre), 1992
Hiemenga Hall 427C
Phone: (616) 526-6805
email: rselles@calvin.edu

 

 

 

Alison Vander Woude
 Instructor of French
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
ABD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008
Hiemenga Hall 427B
Phone: (616) 526-7725
email: avwoud89@calvin.edu
Research interests:
18 th Century Bourgeois Drama
French performance theory
Commedia dell'arte and pantomime

 

 

Jolene Vos-Camy
Department Chair
Professor of French
Ph.D, Indiana University, 2000
Hiemenga Hall 427 A
Phone: (616) 526-6324
Fax: (616) 526-8583
e-mail: jvos@calvin.edu

Research interests:
17th century French historical novel
Catholicism and Saint François de Sales in 17th century France
Provincial theater in 17th century France

Teaching interests:
Medieval and Early Modern French Literature
Sub-Saharan Francophone African literature and cinema
Caribbean Francophone literature and cinema
Recent French cinema

Nyambura Mpesha
Instructor of Swahili
Hiemenga Hall 422
Phone: (616) 526-7540
email: nmpesha@calvin.edu

  
Staff  
Renée Van Keulen
Departmental Assistant
M.B.A. International Business
H.E.A.O. Enschede, 1995
Hiemenga Hall 427
Phone: (616) 526-6361
Fax: (616) 526-8583
e-mail: rvkeulen@calvin.edu
EMERITA FACULTY

 

Claude-Marie Baldwin
Professor Emerita (1968-1996)        
Ph.D.  Michigan State University

 

Leslie Mathews
Professor Emerita (1984-2009)      
M.A. Michigan State University

Retirement Festitivities Spring 2008

 

Arthur J. Otten
Professor Emeritus (1952-1988)
D. de l'U.