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Tomaz Cunningham

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Assistant Professor of French

Email: huie.t.cunningham@jsums.edu

Phone: 601.979.2868

Office Location: Dollye M.E, Robinson Liberal Arts Building, 4th floor, Office #442

 

 

 

 

DEGREES

Ph.D., Romance Languages. University of Missouri, Columbia 2014

M.A.   Foreign Languages and Literatures and ESL Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,   

           2003

B.A.    Physiology.   Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1990

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century French Literature

Literary Criticism and Cultural Studies

The Short Story

Adult Second Language Acquisition

 

COURSES TAUGHT

French 101, 102, 201, 202, 213, 230, 231, 320, 321, 422, 430, 431 and graduate level French coursework, English 436 (Literary Criticism)

 

English 505: Seminar in Literary Criticism

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages

American Association of Teachers of French

 

PUBLICATIONS: LITERARY ANALYSIS AND CULTURAL STUDIES

“When Ourika Discovered She Wasn’t White: A Lacanian Analysis of Romantic Ennui in Claire de Duras’s Ourika,” The French Review, vol. 90 no. 4 May 2017 pp 17 – 27 

Book Review: Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789 – 1865 by Marlene Daut, L’Esprit Créateur Spring 2016  vol. 56 no. 1 pp 146 – 147.

Book Review: Free and French in the Caribbean: Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire and    Narratives of Loyal Opposition by John Patrick Walsh, Journal of Haitian Studies, Fall 2014 vol. 20 no 2 pp 213 – 216.

Book Review: Edwidge Danticat: A Reader, ed. Martin Monro, Journal of Haitian Studies Spring 2013 vol. 19 no. 1 pp 311 – 313.

 

PUBLICATIONS: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, METHODOLOGIES AND MATERIALS

Text Reviewer: Encore: Niveau intermédiaire. First edition by Lair, Vanpatten, Weber-Fève and Wong. 2017

Book Review:  Controverses, Third Edition by Oukada, Larbi, Dider Bertrand and Janet Solberg. The French Review (May 2016) vol. 89 no. 4 pp 294 – 295

Text Reviewer: Interaction: Langue et Culture, 8th and 9th editions by St, Onge, Susan, Roland St Onge and Scott Powers.