Stacey Weber-Fève                                                                   WLC Department Site
    Assistant Professor of French
    Department of World Languages and Cultures
    Iowa State University
    3102 Pearson Hall
    Ames, IA 50011-2205
    515-294-0315
    sweber@iastate.edu
    

Ph.D. The Ohio State University  (Columbus)            CV (pdf)                                                                                                                 


Ph.D. The Ohio State University (2006). Assistant Professor of French (ISU). Languages and Cultures for Professions Point Person for French (ISU). French Internship Coordinator (ISU). Assistant French Language Program Director (OSU, 2005-2006). Peer Teaching Supervisor & French Course Coordinator (OSU, 2002-2006). Undergraduate French Placement Advisor and Examination/Transfer Credit Coordinator (OSU, 2004-2006). Council on International Programs Grant (ISU, 2008). All-University Graduate Associate Teaching Award (OSU, 2001). Reviewer of Pedagogical Materials for the French Review.

Research Interests: French & Francophone Cinemas; Contemporary French & North African Literatures; Domesticity; Gender Studies; Postcolonial France; French and Francophone Cultural Studies; Life Narratives.

Teaching Interests: French & Francophone Cinemas; 20th/21st-Century French & Francophone Literatures; French & Francophone Cultural Studies; French for Special Purposes; French Language (all levels).

Courses Taught: French and Francophone Cinematic Art; Stars and Stardom in French Cinema; History of French Cinema; French Cinema for Conversation and Composition; Reading and Writing French; Modern French Literature; Introduction to Textual Analysis in French; French for Business and Professions; France and Francophone Worlds Today; Introduction to French Cultural Phenomena; Representations of Femininity in the 'Métropole' and the 'Maghreb'; Basic French for Reading for Graduate Students; All levels of French Language; Independent Study (Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen).


Representative Publications:

Books

• Homemaking, Making Home: Women's Filmmaking and Lifewriting of France, Algeria, and Tunisia. (working title) (2009) Lexington Books in "After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France" active series. (monograph).
• Female Representation in Performance and Visual Culture. (working title) (forthcoming) Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. (co-edited anthology with Olga Mesropova).

Articles

• "Housework and Dance as Counterpoints in French-Tunisian Filmmaker Raja Amari's 'Satin rouge' (2002)." Quarterly Review of Film & Video 27.1 (forthcoming): 20+ pages.
• "Assia Djebar as Film Theorist in 'Touchia: Ouverture' and Ces voix qui m'assiègent." French Review 81:3 (2008): 60-68.
• "A Writing Design: Using Abstracts in the Writing Process." In. French Review 82.6, May Special Issue on "Pedagogy" (2009): 103-115.
• "Integrating Language and Literature: Teaching Textual Analysis with Input and Output Activities and an Input-to-Output Approach." In. Foreign Language Annals. (forthcoming).

Textbooks

• Liaisons: Beginning Level French Program. (working title) (forthcoming) Cengage-Heinle. (1st-year textbook & ancillaries with Wynne Wong, Edward Ousselin, and Bill VanPatten).
• Encore un mot: Intermediate Level French Program. (working title) (forthcoming) Cengage-Heinle. (2nd-year textbook & ancillaries with Wynne Wong, Edward Ousselin, and Bill VanPatten).

Workshop Flyer Link:

• "Film as a primary source for language, history, culture, literature, & film studies learning and teaching." ISU Educational Video Interest Group (April 2008).

Prof. Weber-Fève's ISU French Program Links:

• French 304 Brochure Project & Slide Show
• Café+
• My French Course Flyers: French 301, French 304, French 326, French 378