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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Liberal Arts 346

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

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

A study of selected readings dealing with a special topic chosen by the instructor. Recent special topics include New England Literature, Children's Literature, the Artist in Literature, Black Music, and Black Literature. May be repeated with change of content. Cross-listed as BLS 200; LST 200.

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

Continuation of FRN 101.

Review of grammar with composition and aural-oral practice. Introduction to French culture and civilization through intensive and extensive reading.

Continuation of FRN 201

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.

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.

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.

Variable topics, as determined by the faculty member; taught in English; may be repeated for credit with a change of topic. Example courses: French and Francophone Cinema; Cultural History of French Food; Latin American Cinema; Latin American Graphic Art & Comics.

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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