Visiting Assistant Professor of English and French
Students of Language Adviser
International Programs Coordinator
Education:
B.A., French Literature, The Evergreen State College; Certificates: Rural Community Development, United States Peace Corps, Cotonou, Benin and Agriculture Extension, United States Peace Corps, Bamako, Mali; M.A., French Literature, Louisiana State University; Diploma: Pensionnaire Scientifique Etranger, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France; Ph.D., French Literature, Louisiana State University
Specialization:
French literature; Composition studies; Children’s literature; Cultural studies; Second-language Acquisition
Courses Taught:
English 101 & 102: Composition
English 210: Themes in Literature
- Caribbean Literature
English 212: Literature for Teachers
French 101, 102, 201, 202
Accomplishments:
Conference Presentations:
“Bayou Region French Activists,” Invited Session of the American Association of Anthropologists, New Orleans, LA
“Eloi Landry Plantation Log: A Reading of Acadian Material Culture,” The Symposium of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Madison, GA
“Creole Contradictions: A Reading of Sidonie de La Houssaye’s National Ethnic Fallacies in Les Quarteronnes de la Nouvelle-Orleans (1895), Southern Comparative Literature Conference
Publication:
“George Rapp and the Harmony Society,” Translation from the French and Introduction. Communal Societies: Journal of Communal Studies Association, Vol. 30:1.
Reader for Advanced Placement, French, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 2011.
Contact
256 B Peltier Hall
Telephone: 985-448-4854
Email: robin.white@nicholls.edu