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

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.

Glenn FETZER est professeur à Calvin College. Ses recherches portent sur la poésie moderne et contemporaine. Après avoir écrit récemment 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). Deux articles viennent de paraître: “Poésie et patrie chez Edmond Rostand” dans Edmond Rostand: Renaissance d'une œuvre  (2007), et “Claudel et la rhétorique de la haine,” dans Paul Claudel Papers (2007).

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

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

Leslie Mathews
Professor Emerita       
M.A. Michigan State University