Markus E. Muller
Long Beach , CA 90806
(562) 988-5688
mmuller2@csulb.edu

Education:
•  Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
1991 M.A., University of Kansas, Lawrence
1986 B.A. French and History, University of Tübingen, Germany
1987 Institut d'Etudes Françaises, Avignon, France
1986-87 Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne

Professional Experience:
August 2001- Assistant Professor and Language Coordinator, RGRLL,
California State University, Long Beach

1998-2001 Assistant Professor of French and German,
Missouri Southern State College, Joplin

Publications :
From Parody to Paradox: Jacques Cazotte and the Emergence of the Literary Fantastic. (Submitted to: Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, September 2003).

“The French Enlightenment beyond France and the Eighteenth Century,” Review Essay of Vérité et Littérature au XVIIIe Siècle. Mélanges rassemblés en l'honneur de Raymond Trousson. Ed. Paul Aron et al. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2001.

and

Review of Jenny Mander. Circles of Learning: Narratology and the Eighteenth-Century Novel . Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 1999. ASECS Book Reviews Online, December 2002.

“Reconsidering the Fantastic: An Anthropological Approach,” Anthropoetics II, 2 (January 1997)

“Interview with René Girard,” Anthropoetics II, 1 (June 1996)

Review of Rita Thalmann. La Mise au Pas. Idéologie et stratégie sécuritaire dans la France occupée. Paris: Fayard, 1991. L'Esprit Créateur 32 (1992): 119.

Überleben auf Kreolisch . Translation of Survival Creole by Bryant C. Freeman. Port-au-Prince: La Presse Evangélique, 1991.

In Progress:

Review of William Donoghue. Enlightenment Fiction in England, France, and America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.

Conferences/Lectures

“Palm Pilots as Instructional Tools in the Foreign Language Classroom,” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Hawaii, January 8-11, 2004.

“The Coming of Age of the Communicative Approach: A Panel Discussion with Foreign Language Teachers,” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Hawaii , January 8-11, 2004.

"Technology in the Classroom: False Friend or Reliable Ally?" Florida International University CIBER Conference, April 2-5, 2003 .

“Language Coordination, TA Training and the Importance of Critical Thinking,” SUN Conference, University of Texas, El Paso, March 7-8, 2003.

“From Beast to Beauty and Back,” Princeton Eighteenth Century Society Conference, Princeton University, May 11, 2002.

“Romantic Resentment in Nineteenth-Century French Fantastic and Realist Narratives,” University of Cincinnati, May 2001.

“From Parody to Paradox: Jacques Cazotte and the Emergence of the Literary Fantastic,” University of Cincinnati, May 2000.

Co-Chair and Organizer, Conference on International Education at MSSC, April 2000.

“Fantastic Lies, Ethical Truths,” Emory University, February 1998.

Chair and Organizer, Second Graduate Student Conference at UCLA (“States of Identity: Limits and Possibilities of Writing French”), April 1997.

“Love and Desire in the Lais of Marie de France,” Duke University, 1996.

In the Event of Language,” Graduate Student Conference, UCLA 1995.

Boule de suif as Allegory,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 1992.

Grants :
Academic Computing Services : Software Development Grant for the Development of a Hybrid Course in French.

Teaching Experience :
California State University, Long Beach
French 101 A: Introduction to French (First semester)
Spanish 424/524: Second Language Acquisition
Spanish 490/590: Special Topics (Teaching Methodology).
German 599: Independent Studies

Missouri Southern State College, Joplin
French 101, 102, 203, 204 (Language, lower division)
German 101, 102, 203, 204 (Language, lower division)
French 301 and German 301 ( Readings and Conversation)
French 302 (Contemporary French Culture and Civilization)
French 303 (Advanced Grammar and Composition)
French 304 (Introduction to French Literature)
German 498 (German Cinema)
German 498 (German Culture and Civilization)
Independent Studies in both Business French and German
German 250 and 350 (Study Abroad Program in Germany )

UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management
Instructor for Business French

UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies
First and second year French
French 495 (Theory and Practice of Language Teaching)
Advanced Grammar and Composition
Introduction to Contemporary French Civilization
Introduction to the Formal Study of French Literature
French Conversation
Pilot classes for first and second year French

Administrative Experience:
California State University, Long Beach
Language Coordinator for French, German, Spanish lower division courses

Academic Honors:
Dean's Fellowship, UCLA, 1992-1993
S. Neale Carman and Annette E. Rolli Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies at the Ph.D. and M.A. level, University of Kansas, 1991 and 1992.

DAAD Scholarship, University of Washington, Seattle, 1988-1989

Bryn Mawr College Scholarship for the Institu d'Etudes Françaises, Avignon, 1987

Phi Delta Phi (Société d'Honneur Française)

Editorial Experience
Editorial Board Anthropoetics, 1996-2002
Editor of Paroles Gelées, 1997
Editorial Board Paroles Gelées, 1993-1997
Editorial Assistant for PFSCL, ELF, and Biblio 17