Michael J. West

Department of Modern Languages
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
(412) 268-5669
Home address:
33 Keibs Way
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
(412) 381-8828


Areas of Specialization:
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Literature and Culture, Lesbian and Gay Studies, Critical Theory, Translation, Teaching Methodologies, Uses of Computers in Foreign Language Instruction.


Education:
1989 Ph.D., French, University of California, Santa Barbara
1983 M.A., French, University of California, Santa Barbara
1981 Certificat, l'Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
1980 B.A., French and Economics, University of Kansas, Lawrence


Publications

Book chapters:
"Sex Acts: Performances of Gender and Sexuality in Mallarmˇ, Zola and Proust." In Press. Performance and History. Della Pollock, ed. University of North Carolina Press.

"Cannibals and Anorexics, or Feast and Famine in French Occupation Narrative." in War Stories, Paul Holsinger, ed. Bowling Green, KY: Popular Press, 1992.

Translations:
Translation of Daniel Defert, "l'Homosexualisation du sida" ["The Homosexualization of AIDS"]. In Press. Uncommon Citizens: A Lesbian and Gay Politics Sourcebook. M. Blasius, S. Phelan, eds. Routledge.

Book reviews:
Whitney Walton, France at the Crystal Palace. Journal of Social History, Spring 1994.

D. A. Miller, Bringing out Roland Barthes. Accepted. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

Journal Articles:
"Stories and Stances: Cross-Cultural Encounters with African Folktales." Co-authored with Richard Donato. Foreign Language Annals. (Forthcoming Fall 1995.)

"Les Machines Infernales: The Role of Technology in Paul Nizan's Antoine Bloyˇ," Romance Notes 30, 2, 185-96.


Manuscript in Preparation:
Spectacular Ideology: Cultural Display and the Expositions Universelles, Paris 1855-1937. An examination of the Parisian Expositions Universelles and their role in the formation of a national cultural identity. The narrativization of Progress and History in the Expositions and their figurations in literature from Flaubert to Cˇline are also studied.


Presentations and Invited Papers:
1995 "Discipline, Profession, and Community." Invited Lecture, Département d'Etudes anglaises, Université de Montréal.

"Comme ça." Presented at Queer Pedagogy Panel, annual meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston.

1994 "Excursions in la Francophonie: Plaisir, Danger et Politique." Presented at Sixth North American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Studies Conference, University of Iowa.

"Stories and Stances: Francophone African Literature in the Advanced French Curriculum." Presented at annual meeting of American Association of Teachers of French, Québec.

"Queer Questions, Straight Answers: A Forum on Lesbian and Gay Studies." Panel Discussion, University of Pittsburgh.

1993 "Beyond the Conversation Course." Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Toronto.

"Hervé Guibert and the Writing of Affirmation." Annual Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University.

"Multiculturalism in the Advanced French Curriculum". Seventeenth Annual Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Youngstown, Ohio.

"Recent French and Francophone Discourses on AIDS." Colloquium organized by the Rhetoric Unit, English Department, Carnegie Mellon University.

"The Current Conjuncture: Lesbian and Gay Studies." Annual Meeting of Marxist Literary Group, Carnegie Mellon University.

"Now Playing: Hervé Guibert," Northeast Modern Languages Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.

1992 "Discours autour du SIDA," presented at conference "La Ville en Rose: Lesbiennes et Gais à Montréal, Histoires, Cultures, Sociétés", Université du Québec à Montréal and Concordia University, Montréal

"Les Expositions Universelles et les Origines de la France Moderne", presentation to the Alliance Française, Pittsburgh, PA.

"Carmen from Mérimée to Bizet: Text to Libretto", public lecture, Carnegie Mellon University.

1991 "Constructions of Gender and Gender Roles in the Foreign-Language Curriculum," ACTFL Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Session chair, Fifth Annual Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference, Rutgers University

"Hervé Guibert's Oncle d'Amérique," presented at conference "The Canon and Marginality", SUNY Binghamton

Presentation and discussion of censorship in France in the nineteenth century featuring works by Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Daumier, Philipon and Gill, Hunt Library, Carnegie Mellon University.

1990 "Foucault, Mode d'emploi: How to Do Things with Michel Foucault," presented at Fourth Annual Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference, Harvard University.

"Cannibals and Anorexics, or Feast and Famine in French Occupation Narrative." presented at Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh.

1989 "HyperCard in the French and German Classroom," presentation and session chair, ACTFL Annual Meeting, Boston.

"'Pires que des tantes': Baiting and Bashing à la française," presented at Third Annual Conference on Gay and Lesbian Studies, Yale University.

"Form, Structure and Ideology in the Interwar Bildungsroman: Four Examples," presented at International Conference on Narrative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

"Microcomputers and Instructional Media: Applications," presented at University of California, Santa Barbara.

1988 "The Role of Technology in the Work of Paul Nizan," delivered at Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Kentucky.

1987 "Towards a Definition of the Ideological Hero as Seen in the Works of Paul Nizan and Drieu la Rochelle," delivered at Graduate Student Symposium, Department of French and Italian, University of California, Santa Barbara.


Awards:
1994 Elliott Dunlap Smith Teaching Award
1993 Falk Grant to pursue research on World's Fairs in Paris
1989 Academic Senate Research Committee Travel Grant to present paper at University of Wisconsin, Madison
1988-89 Humanities Dissertation Year Fellowship
1988 Academic Senate Research Committee Travel Grant to present paper at University of Louisville
1988 Instructional Development Grant to develop tutorial for students of French using the Macintosh
1981-82 Regents Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara
1976-80 National Merit Scholarship, University of Kansas


Professional Memberships and Activities:
Certified Oral Proficiency Interviewer
American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA); Member of Executive Council, 1994-1997



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