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Michelle Cheyne

faculty

Michelle Cheyne, PhD

she/her/hers

Professor

Global Languages and Cultures

Staging Europe Adrift

Contact

508-999-8335

508-910-6646

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Spruce Hall 0168

Education

2021Utrecht UniversityLLM in Public International Law
2003Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyPhD in French
1992Université Lumière-Lyon 2DEA in Lettres Modernes
1991Université Lumière-Lyon 2maîtrise in Lettres modernes
1991University of PennsylvaniaMA in French

Teaching

  • French Culture and Language
  • European and French Literature (Poetry, Theater, Narrative)
  • Performance Arts
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Health and Society

Programs

Courses

Introduction to study in the disciplines of the College of Arts & Sciences. This course facilitates a successful transition to college life by engaging students in a structured curriculum of academic and life skills enhancement and encouraging the development of enduring relationships between students, faculty and advisors, and classmates.

Freshman seminar focused on helping students in their second semester develop skills related to academic and personal success.  Designated for students who have successfully completed their University Studies 1E requirement but are at risk for academic probation.

Essentials of aural-oral, reading and writing usage, with intensive drilling in pronunciation, intonation and grammar.

Essentials of aural-oral, reading and writing usage, with intensive drilling in pronunciation, intonation and grammar.

Continuation of FRN 101.

Important works of French literature in translation readings, lectures and discussions in English. No knowledge of the French language is required. Topics will vary; check with instructor listed in COIN for current topic. Past topics have included: Bestsellers vs. Classics in French Literature, Princesses, Harlots, Saints: Women in French Literature, Not All Black and White: Cross-Racial Desire in French Restoration Fiction. Upcoming topics likely to include: Music with Words: French Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Present, World War II in French Film and Literature.

Important works of French literature in translation readings, lectures and discussions in English. No knowledge of the French language is required. Topics will vary; check with instructor listed in COIN for current topic. Past topics have included: Bestsellers vs. Classics in French Literature, Princesses, Harlots, Saints: Women in French Literature, Not All Black and White: Cross-Racial Desire in French Restoration Fiction. Upcoming topics likely to include: Music with Words: French Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Present, World War II in French Film and Literature.

Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area covered in a regular course not currently being offered. Conditions and hours to be arranged.

Research

Research interests

  • French and European Theater, Poetry, and Narrative
  • Performance Arts
  • Human Rights and Disenfranchisement
  • International Law
  • European-Bound Migration

Select publications

  • Michelle S. Cheyne (2021).
    Le chien de Montargis by R-C Guilbert de Pixerécourt, ed. Michelle Cheyne
    Théâtre complet : Mélodrames (1792-1835). vol. 5. Roxane Martin, series ed., Paris: Classiques-Garnier, 2021
  • Michelle S. Cheyne (2020).
    “Leaving Lethe for the Bardo: Staging the Disembodied Voices and Silent Bodies of Lampedusa Migrants in the Underworld of Europe”
    Forum Modernes Theater, 31:1 Winter 2020, 198-210.
  • Michelle S. Cheyne (2020).
    “Le Nègre ou Le Fils naturel du théâtre balzacien : la légitimité à l’épreuve”
    Théâtre de Balzac, Eric Bordas and Agathe Novack-Lechevalier, eds. Paris: Classiques-Garnier, 2020, 85-105.
  • Michelle S. Cheyne (2018).
    “‘Une action par trop vigoureuse’: writing and re-writing Pyracmond, ou Les Créoles”
    Parcours de génétique théâtrale : de l’atelier d’écriture à la scène, Ana Clara Santos, Sophie Proust, Ana Isabel Vasconcelos, eds. Paris: Le Manuscrit, 2018, 213-223.
  • Michelle S. Cheyne (2014).
    “La mémoire coloniale censurée : Pyracmond, ou les Créoles de Jacques-Louis Lacour (1826)”
    Personnage historique de Théâtre, Ariane Ferry and Sylvain Ledda, eds., Paris: Classiques-Garnier, 2014, 363-379.

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