Dr. Donato

and visiting professor

Walo Deuber

Clorinda Donato
Professor of Italian and French; French Advisor
Ph.D.,UCLA 1986; M.A.,UCLA 1980; B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1974
e-mail: donato@csulb.edu

Clorinda Donato received her Ph.D. at UCLA in Romance Languages, Literatures and Linguistics in 1987. She is Professor of French and Italian at California State University, Long Beach, where she has served two terms as Department Chair. She has published extensively on eighteenth-century encyclopedism, including the edited volume and catalogue The Encyclopédie in an Age of Revolution with Robert Maniquis (G.K. Hall, 1992). Slated to appear by the end of 2004 with Slatkine Press is Une Encyclopédie à vocation européene: le Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines de F.-B. De Felice (1770 – 1780) , a volume co-edited with Jean-Daniel Candaux, Alain Cernuschi, and Jens Haesler. Her over forty articles cover a wide range of eighteenth-century topics. R ecently she has been working on various figures of the Italian enlightenment including Giovanni Bianchi, the Prince of San Severo, Gaetano Filangieri and Cagliostro to better determine their place in the European enlightenment. She teaches the French eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, women writers, and the first half of the Italian survey of literature, as well as history of the Italian language. She served as co-book review editor for Eighteenth-Century Studies with Carl Fisher, and continues with him in the same capacity for EBRO (Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews Online) . Please visit this website at www.csulb.edu/ebro .

Steve Fleck
Professor of French
B.A., Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1971; BA, Music, Sonoma State University, 1986; PhD, French, University of California, Davis , 1993
e-mail: sfleck@csulb.edu

I enjoy teaching French Literature from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century in various survey courses and seminars. These latter include Renaissance and 17th Century; the Capstone seminar “Self and Society”; “French Comic Traditions”; and “Literature and Film.” I’ve also enjoyed teaching French Cinema for a decade. As for research I publish mainly in two areas, Molière and music, concerning the comedy ballets and associated works; and lyrical works of Berlioz, especially the "Nuits d’été” on poems of Gautier. I also teach 312A-B, Grammar Review and Composition, regularly. I’m planning a second book on the direction of Molière's late theater; a book on comic theory and practice; and a series of articles combining linguistics and musical analysis on French lyricism.

Najib Redouane
Associate Professor French and Arabic
e-mail: nredouan@csulb.edu

Markus Muller
Assistant Professor of French
Language Coordinator
Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, 1998; MA,
e-mail: memuller@csulb.edu

Markus E. Muller received his Ph.D. in French (1998) from UCLA. He taught French and German languages and literatures at Missouri Southern State University from 1998 to 2001 before accepting the position of language coordinator for French, German, and Spanish at CSULB. Every Fall, he teaches the Teaching Methodology course which goes hand in hand with the training of the department?s new and returning Teaching Associates. He also teaches Second Language Acquisition and French language courses. Occasionally, he offers a seminar in French literature whose focus is primarily on French 19th-century literature and the fantastic. He has published and presented papers on the fantastic, pedagogy, and technology in the language classroom.

Jean-Jacques Jura cques Jura

Assistant Professor
Single Subject Credential Coordinator, French
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1988; MA, California State University, Long Beach, 1983; Secondary Teaching Credential, University of California, Long Beach, 1973; BA, University of California, Riverside, 1972
e-mail:jjura2@csulb.edu

Jean-Jacques Jura received his Ph.D. in French literature from UCI in 1988, and has since taught and developed curriculum at various levels -- university, junior college, high school, and middle school. In teaching French, Dr. Jura has taught all kinds of methodologies -- the natural approach, total immersion, the communicative approach, as well as traditional classes in French Phonetics and French Civilization at CSULB. At UCI (1989), Dr. Jura taught in the Writing Program and as a section leader of the Humanities Core Program. In 1995, Dr. Jura was selected by RGRLL as a consultant for the Center for Language Minority Education and Research at CSULB to develop an intensive French course for classroom teachers of the Long Beach Unified School District. Then Dr. Jura was a consultant for the LBUSD (1995-1997) at the Jackie Robinson Academy (K-8), to develop, implement, help pilot, and assess their middle-school French immersion curriculum. For seven years (1997-2004), Dr. Jura taught English and French in the LBUSD -- regular English classes (7th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades), as well as Honors English, AP English Literature and Composition, and tenth-grade Pacesetter English, involved with other programs to promote greater student success for college: 1) Center for the Advancement of Philosophy in Schools (CAPS); 3) AVID; 4) AP French training and methodologies at Stanford University. Dr. Jura also served a two-year term (2002-2004) as the English Department Co-Head at Wilson Classical High School. Moreover, Dr. Jura has published articles at French universities and a film history book, Balboa Films, on the silent movie studios of Long Beach. Please visit this website www.csulb.edu/depts/singsubj to find the "LOTE" link under "Subject Area Programs."

Laura Ceia-Minjares

Assistant Professor of French

Ph.D., University California at Davis

e-mail: lceiamin@csulb.edu

Dr. Laura Ceia-Minjares earned her Ph.D. in French Studies from the University of California, Davis, and her MA in French and Romanian Literatures from the Western University of Timisoara, Romania. She attended the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (Ulm) in 2000-2001, and the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University in 2002. She specializes primarily in turn-of-the-twentieth-century French Literature and Cultural Studies, as well as French Cinema.

In her dissertation “Between a Melancholic History, and an Urgent Revolution: Performance, Identity, Francophonie in the Early Works of Tristan Tzara,” Dr. Ceia-Minjares proposes new parameters through which Tzara’s work can be understood and analyzed. Using the tools provided by Francophone postcolonial theories and adapting them to the specifics of the Eastern-European context, she argues that Tzara’s work is consistent with the manifestations of an atypical Francophonie (a Francophonie avant la lettre) which permeated the French letters at the turn-of-the-twentieth-century, and has been re-emerging in literature within the past twenty years. She argues that Tzara’s work articulates a specifically Eastern-European Francophonie which is historically, and in its socio-cultural practices, a repository of incorporated and rejected Western and Eastern influences.

Dr. Ceia-Minjares’s areas of research and interests also include French experimental art and literature, popular culture and advertising, urban studies, modern intellectual history, nouvelles francophonies, as well as border and trans-national studies, with an emphasis on Eastern-and Central-European Literature, culture and film.

Before joining the faculty at CSULB, Dr. Ceia-Minjares taught numerous courses in French and Film Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University and UC Davis.

Aparna Nayak-Guercio

Assistant Professor of French

Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh

e-mail: anayakgu@csulb.edu

B.A. in French, Univ. of Bombay; M.A. in French, University of Pittsburgh; D.E.A. in French, Université de Paris VII; Ph.D. in French, University of Pittsburgh.

In her dissertation entitled The project of Liberation and the projection of national identity. Calvo, Aragon, Jouhandeau, 1944-1945, Dr. Nayak-Guercio focused on the question of writing and national identity at a moment of crisis. This study draws on three little-know works and reads them in the context of the contemporary political situation as well as the contemporary press.

Dr. Nayak-Guercio has taught courses in French language, civilisation, and literature at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests center on French wartime writings from World War II, and the inter-relations between literature, history, politics, and memory. She is also interested in French literary fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, and Indian literature in English.

Kathryn Bailey
Adjunct Professor of French
e-mail: kbailey2@csulb.edu

Teaching Associates

Nicolas Bordage
Teaching Associate of French
e-mail: nicolasbordage@hotmail.com

Richere Breault
Teaching Associate of French
e-mail: rbreault@csulb.edu

Kelly Burkhard

Teaching Associate of French

e-mail: sdkangaroo@yahoo.com

Emilie Delacour

Teaching Associate of French

e-mail: emilie-elodie@hotmail.fr

Andrew Gard

Teaching Associate of French

e-mail: agard@csulb.edu

Cedric Oliva

Teaching Associate of French

email: cedricoliva@hotmail.com

Philana Rustin

Teaching Associate of French

e-mail: fee_mauvise@yahoo.com

Rose Villalobos

Teaching Associate of French

e-mail: rvillalo@csulb.edu

Kristen Whitfield

Teaching Associate of French

e-mail: dickiejan@gmail.com