PETER J. EUBANKS Curriculum Vitae

PETER J. EUBANKS
Curriculum Vitae
420 Keezell Hall
Department of Foreign Lang., Lit. and Cultures
James Madison University
MSC 1802
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
(540) 568-3511
[email protected]
66 Hope Street
Harrisonburg, VA 22801
(540) 908-5899
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY________________________________________________
James Madison University
Assistant Professor of French, Dept. of Foreign Lang., Lit., and Cult. (2011-present)
Colgate University
Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Dept. of Romance Lang. and Lit. (2010-11)
University of Iowa
Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of French and Italian (2007—10)
EDUCATION____________________________________________________________
Princeton University
Ph.D. Department of French and Italian (2007)
M.A.
Department of French and Italian (2004)
University of Virginia
B.A.
Medieval Studies/French (2002)
(with high distinction)
HONORS, AWARDS and GRANTS_________________________________________
2013-14
Selected Participant, JMU Center for Instructional Technology Blended Course
Institute
2013
Seed Grant ($300), JMU Center for Instructional Technology
(to purchase LiveScribe technology for use in the classroom)
2012-13
Madison Teaching Fellow, JMU Center for Faculty Innovation (full academic
year; initiative on student motivation in collaboration with the JMU Motivational
Research Institute)
2012-13
Madison Teaching Fellowship, Tier II Grant ($2000), JMU Center for Faculty
Innovation (to continue Deep Learning group project from previous year)
2012
Seed Grant ($150), JMU Center for Instructional Technology
(to purchase Adobe course design/digital video software, Summer 2012)
2012
Selected Participant, JMUDesign Course Design Institute, Center for Faculty
Innovation (Summer 2012)
2012
Department Faculty Development Grant ($500) to study Van Gogh exhibit at
Philadelphia Museum of Art, in preparation for GHUM course on Provence
2012
Fellow, Arboretum Collaborative, JMU Center for Faculty Innovation and
Institute For Stewardship of the Natural World (Spring /Summer 2012)
2012
Selected Participant, JMU Center for Instructional Technology Faculty Institute
for Online Course Development (Spring 2012)
2011-12
Madison Teaching Fellow, JMU Center for Faculty Innovation
(full academic year; group research project on Deep Learning initiative at JMU)
2011
Faculty Research Grant, to present research in Montréal (Colgate)
2010
Faculty Development Grant, to study Princeton Gauguin Exhibit (Colgate)
2010
Romance Department Grant, to attend conference at National Sporting Library
(Colgate)
2010
Class of 2010 Influential Faculty Member, U. of Iowa
2009
Class of 2009 Influential Faculty Member, U. of Iowa
2008
Judith Popovich Aikin Award in Renaissance Studies, Newberry Consortium
2007
Edward C. Armstrong Fund for research at Beinecke Library, Yale University
2002-06
Armstrong Prize for Graduate Study in French, Princeton University
PUBLICATIONS_________________________________________________________
Book Project
The Limits of Renaissance Aesthetics: Jean Lemaire de Belges and the Rhetoric of Self-Assertion
(submitted to Legenda Press [UK])
Articles
“Memory and Nostalgia in Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight in Paris’” (forthcoming in Revista de
Humanidades)
“Poetry and Prophecy in Robert Fanning’s American Prophet (Notes on Contemporary Literature,
v. 43.2, March 2013, pp. 6-8)
“Mixité and Maturity in Edith Wharton’s French Ways and Their Meaning” (Contemporary
French and Francophone Studies, 17:2 [2013], 212-219)
“Gesta Dei per Franca: Christine de Pizan and the Divine Commission of Joan of Arc”
(Literature and Belief, v. 33 [2013] no. 1, pp. 41-54)
“Jean Lemaire de Belges’s Rhetorical Masks in the Amant Vert and the ‘Regretz de la Dame
Infortunée’” (Romance Quarterly, 59.3 [2012] pp. 166-76)
“Montesquieu et l’intériorisation de la religion” (Romance Notes, v. 51 [2011] no. 2, 191-98)
“Why We Inflate Grades” (Inside Higher Ed, Aug. 9, 2011)
“Montaigne’s Cannibalistic Communion” (Montaigne Studies, vol. XXII [Spring 2010] no. 1-2,
pp. 53-60)
“The Limits of Renaissance Aesthetics: Jean Lemaire de Belges’s 1504 Plainte du Désiré”
(Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, Tome LXX [2008] no. 1, pp. 147-55)
“Poetic Self-Assertion in Jean Lemaire de Belges’s 1506 ‘Les Regretz de la Dame Infortunée’”
(Romance Notes, v. XLVII [Spring 2007] no. 3, pp. 313-21)
“Redemption, Order, and the Undoing of Plot in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy”
(Literature and Belief, v.27 [2007] no. 1, pp. 43-53)
Book Review
Lettres missives et epitres dedicatoires (French Studies, v. 67 [2013] pp. 545-546)
CONFERENCES AND TALKS_____________________________________________
“The Paris Art Missionaries and the Ghost of Vincent Van Gogh,” JMU FLLC Conference,
Harrisonburg, VA, April 3, 2014.
“Jean Perréal—Grand Rhétoriqueur?” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, San Juan,
Puerto Rico, Oct. 24-27.
Mode rator, special session on “The Cinematic Emancipation of the Muslim Immigrant Woman
in France: Yamina Benguigui’s 2001 film, ‘Inch’allah Sunday,’” JMU FLLC Conference,
Harrisonburg, VA, March 22, 2013.
Moderator, special session on “Aspects of Struggle for Freedom and Equality at Home and
Abroad,” JMU FLLC Conference, Harrisonburg, VA, March 21, 2013.
“Sustainability through the Humanities: Teaching Jean Giono’s Complete Short Stories in the
General Education Curriculum,” Virginia Humanities Conference, Newport News, Virginia,
March 15-16, 2013.
“Beyond the Paratext: Literary Self-Promotion in Jean Lemaire de Belges’s 1503 Temple
d’Honneur et de Vertus,” JMU College of Arts and Letters Faculty Colloquium, Jan. 22, 2013.
“Stop Texting in Class: Faculty and Student Perceptions of Technology and Deep Learning at
James Madison University,” JMU 2012 Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference,
Oct. 22, 2012, with Dr. Karin Tollefson-Hall.
“Defending the Study of Literature in Hard Economic Times: A Latter-day Saint Perspective,”
Association of Mormon Scholars in the Humanities, Southern Virginia University, Buena Vista,
VA; May 18-19, 2012.
“Jean Lemaire de Belges’s Theology of Otherness,” Renaissance Society of America,
Washington, D.C., March 22-24, 2012.
“Mixité and Maturity in Edith Wharton’s French Ways and Their Meaning,” Interdisciplinary
Conference at the University of Pittsburgh on “The Idea of France/L’Idée de la France,”
Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 10-12, 2011.
“Literature as Religious Experience,” Invited Talk Given at Heretics Club, Colgate University,
Hamilton, NY; April 16, 2011.
“A Different Kind of Eco-criticism: Umberto Eco and the Infinity of Lists in Du Bartas's La
Semaine (1578),” Renaissance Society of America, Montréal, Canada, March 24-26, 2011.
Chair, “Le texte de la Renaissance: Honoring François Rigolot II: Rabelais and De Navarre,”
session at Renaissance Society of America, Montréal, Canada, March 24-26, 2011.
“Jean Lemaire de Belges and the Infinity of Lists,” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference,
Montréal, Canada, Oct. 14-17, 2010.
“Beyond the Paratext: Literary Self-Promotion in Jean Lemaire de Belges’s Temple d’Honneur et
de Vertus,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 15-17, 2010.
“The Limits of Renaissance Patronage: Jean Lemaire de Belges’s Épîtres de l’Amant Vert and
‘Les Regretz de la Dame Infortunée,’” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, St. Louis, MO,
Oct. 23-26, 2008.
“The Limits of Renaissance Aesthetics: Jean Lemaire de Belges’s 1504 Plainte du Désiré”
French and Italian Forum, University of Iowa, Oct. 12, 2007.
Chair, “Poetry and Politics” session of international conference on “Poetry, Knowledge, and
Community in Late Medieval France,” held at Princeton University, Nov. 1-4, 2006.
“Proust and Unctuousness,” Ninth Annual Penn Graduate Romanic Association Colloquium on
“Imagination, Intuition, Innovation,” held at the University of Pennsylvania, March 21-22, 2003.
“The Marketable Saint Joan: Private Agenda and Public Propaganda in Various Treatments of
Her Story,” Yale Graduate Association of French Students Conference on “Rewritings,” held at
Yale University, April 2002.
COURSES TAUGHT______________________________________________________
Love, War, and Religion in Early Modern France
The Renaissance in France
Introduction to French Literature: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Introduction to Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Cross-Cultural Encounters in French Literature and Society: From the Renaissance to the Present
Crossing Borders in French Literature and Film
Cultural Misunderstandings: France and USA (both on-line and in traditional format)
Provence and the Art of Living
The Savage in Society
Studies in French Language and Style, “Mémoires de France”
Introduction to Reading and Writing in French Literature
French Oral and Written Communication
French for Reading
Business French
Business and Society in France
Stylistics and Translation
History of French Civilization
Contemporary French Civilization
All levels of French language (introductory, intermediate, and advanced)
SERVICE_______________________________________________________________
Invited Participant, Communication Rubric Development (seven 3-hour sessions, Summer 2014)
Participant, GCOM Assessment Faculty Development (two 8-hour sessions Summer 2014)
President, Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference JMU Committee (2014-16)
JMU Nobel Laureate Faculty Committee (2013-present)
MadRush Committee (on undergraduate research at JMU; 2013-present)
Mentor, JMU Here to Help Program (2013-present)
Faculty Mentor, JMU Center for Instructional Technology/ 4VA program (2013-present)
Freshman Advisor, Office of Career and Academic Planning (2013-present; 60 students/semester)
Coordinator, JMU Medieval and Renaissance Studies Minor (2013-present)
Member, Digital Letters Committee (Fall 2013)
Writing Assessment Rater, University Studies Program and Cluster One (Spring/Summer 2013)
Acting JMU Delegate, Virginia Humanities Conference (Spring 2013)
FLLC representative, CAL Dean’s Faculty Advisory Committee (2012-15)
Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) Task Force (2012-13)
Participant, CAL Faculty Colloquium (2012-13)
Representative, CAL Faculty Advisory Subcommittee on “Compelling Case” Policy (2012)
Second Reader, Senior Art History Thesis on Provence (2012-13)
Faculty Reviewer, third edition of Parlons Affaires! French Business Textbook (Spring 2012)
FLLC Assessment Exams Committee (2012-present)
FLLC Faculty Liaison, Carrier Library (JMU, 2011-present)
JMU Faculty Advisor, French Club and weekly Pause-café (2011-present)
JMU Faculty Advisor, Latter-day Saint Student Association (2011- present)
Supervisor, Second-Year Language Program (U. of Iowa, 17 course sections/year; 2008-10)
Program Director, First-Year Language Program (U. of Iowa, 18 course sections/year; 2009-10)
Faculty Mentor, Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates, U. of Iowa (2008-09)
Comprehensive Exams Committee, Dept. French and Italian, U. of Iowa (2008-09)
Dissertation Committee, Dept. French and Italian, U. of Iowa (2007-08)
Senior Thesis Advisor, Dept. French and Italian, U. of Iowa (2007-09)
Director, Dept. French and Italian Senior Thesis Writing Workshop, Princeton U. (2005-06)
LANGUAGES___________________________________________________________
Native: English and German
Near-native: French
Advanced Knowledge: Latin, Old French, Middle High German, Old English
Reading Knowledge: Spanish
REFERENCES___________________________________________________________
François Rigolot (advisor), Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature (emeritus)
[email protected]
(609) 258-4509
François Cornilliat, Professor of French, Chair of Department
[email protected]
(732) 932-3750 ext. 19
Mary McKinley, Professor of French
[email protected]
(434) 924-4632
Geoffrey Hope, Professor of French
[email protected]
(319) 335-2258
Patrick Riley, Associate Professor of French, Chair of Department
[email protected]
(315) 228-7299