Armelle Crouzières-Ingenthron
Professor of French
Email: crouzier@middlebury.edu
Phone: work802.443.2427
Office Hours: SPRING 2013: M 11:00-12:00, W 1:30-2:45, Th 3:00-4:30, F 10:00-12:15, and by appointment
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Armelle Crouzières-Ingenthron has a master's and a doctorate from Boston College and D.E.U.G, Licence, Maîtrise, DEA degrees from l'Université de Paris IV. She is chair of the French Department and director of the African Studies program.
Her teaching interests include French Language, Francophone Literatures, Contemporary French Literature, Women's Literature, Multicultural Literature. Her research is in the fields of 20th and 21st-century Postcolonial Francophone literatures / Women's Literature / Politics and Literature / Writing Techniques and Strategies / Black and Beur French Literature / Children and Civil War / North-African and West-African Film.
She has published Le Double pluriel dans les romans de Rachid Boudjedra, with a preface by Rachid Boudjedra (Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 2001). With Hafid Gafaïti, she has edited Femmes et écriture de la transgression. (Paris: L'Harmattan, Collection Etudes Francophones et Comparées/Francophone and Comparative Studies, vol. 2. 2005)
Courses
Courses offered in the past four years.
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▹ indicates offered in the upcoming term[s]
FREN 0103 - Beginning French Part Three
Beginning French
Emphasis on increased control and proficiency in the language through audiovisual, conversational, and drill methods. Readings and film enlarge the student's view of French life and culture. (FREN 0101 and FREN 0102) 5 hrs. lect./disc.
Spring 2009
FREN 0105 / FREN 0203 / FREN 0101 - Accelerated Beginning French
Accelerated Beginning French
This intensive course is a condensation of FREN 0101 and 0102 for students who have never before studied French. We will focus on the development of all four communicative skills in an immersion-style environment. Primary emphasis will be placed on increased oral proficiency through audiovisual, conversational, and drill methods. Upon successful completion of this course students will be prepared for second-year French in the fall. Weekly attendance at the French language table will be required. 6 hrs. lect./disc./1 hr. drill
Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2013
FREN 0205 - Toward Liberated Expression ▲
Toward Liberated Expression
A course designed to increase and perfect the ability to express oneself in spoken and written French. Emphasis on precision, variety, and vocabulary acquisition. Sections limited to 15 students. (FREN 0203 or placement) This requirement for the major and the minor may be satisfied by placement at a higher level. 3 hrs. lect./disc.
Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2013
FREN 0210 - Identity in French Literature
Identity in French Literature
Exploration of differing views of the self, society, and the world in major works of French poetry, drama, and prose. This course is designed to develop students' ability to read and critique literature in French, as a transition from FREN 0205 to more advanced literature courses. (FREN 0205 or by placement) 3 hrs. lect./disc.
Fall 2011
FREN 0221 - From Romanticism to Modernism ▲
From Romanticism to Modernism
The 19th and 20th centuries were marked by social and political revolutions and by literary and artistic movements that changed our attitudes to art and to ourselves, including romanticism, realism, symbolism, surrealism, and existentialism. We will study literary texts, artistic and philosophical movements, and the social circumstances that conditioned them. Close readings of the texts (including prose, drama, and poetry) will develop critical vocabulary and writing skills. Authors may include Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Gide, Camus, Sartre, and Francophone writers. (FREN 0210 or placement) 3 hrs. lect./disc. (1 additional hour for CW, Fall).
Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Fall 2013
FREN 0394 - New French Identities
New French Identities: Black and Beur Expression
This course will focus on second-generation children of immigrants from the Caribbean, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, and will examine the problems of the (re)construction of the self, gender identity, relationship to family and country of origin, the role of the French educational system, and the challenges of social adaptation, stereotypes, and cultural ghettoes. We will analyze the historical, social, and political events that have shaped the identities of this young generation in France, as reflected in literature and film. Readings and films may include works by Allouache, Begag, Beyala, Diome, Dridi, Mabanckou, Pineau, and Sebbar. 3 hrs lect./disc. (FREN 0221 or by waiver)
Spring 2012
FREN 0396 / CMLT 0396 - Francophone Fiction
(Re)Constructing Identities: Francophone Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction*
This course will focus on major works written in French by writers from North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Caribbean. We will explore the complex (re)construction of identities through fiction writing as it evolves from traditional folktale to political criticism, and as it shifts from colonial alienation to post-colonial disillusionment. We will also examine the emergence of cultural blending or métissage. (FREN 0221 or by waiver) 3 hrs. lect./disc.
Spring 2013
FREN 0398 - Children&War in FR Africa Lit
Children and Civil War in Francophone African Literature
In this course we will study the repercussions of civil war on child soldiers and children as depicted in contemporary Francophone African literatures. How does one become a child soldier and murderer? How do orphans survive war? Authors use literary fiction written from a child’s perspective to reflect upon and to denounce a tragic historical reality as well as to defy censorship. We will analyze their writing strategies and techniques, and assess both the literary and humanistic impact of the novels. Readings will include novels by Ivorian Ahmadou Kourouma, Congolese Emmanuel Dongala, Guinean Tierno Monémembo, and by Djiboutian Abdourahman Waberi. (FREN 0221 or by waiver). 3 hrs. lect./disc.
Spring 2010
FREN 0492 - Maghreb:Denunciation & Lit.
Senior Seminar: Literature and Denunciation: The Awakening of the Maghreb
This course will focus on main novels by major Maghrebian authors from Algeria, Morocco, and France, which have given birth to a literature of identity and of transgression. As taboos are unveiled, sons and daughters denounce their societies by attacking fundamental Arabo-Muslim values, such as the family unit and religion, and by crititizing and opposing their fathers. We will explore the relationship between parents and children, husbands and wives, the role of sexuality and violence, gender issues, the importance of Islam among other themes. We will also examine the painful process of denunciation, the political act of writing, and the deliberate choice and use of the French language by replacing these works in a colonial, postcolonial, and post-independent historical context. This seminar will include an important research component. (Open to French Senior Majors, other students by waiver). 3 hrs. lect./disc.
Spring 2011
FREN 0500 - Independent Projects ▲
Independent Project
Qualified students may be permitted to undertake a special project in reading and research under the direction of a member of the department. Students should seek an advisor and submit a proposal to the department well in advance of registration for the term in which the work is to be undertaken. FREN 0500 projects or essays proposed by senior majors for fall or spring may be eligible for departmental honors. (Approval required by the department as a whole. See requirements above.)
Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Winter 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Winter 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2013
FREN 0700 - Senior Research ▲
For senior majors who are candidates for departmental honors. Students should seek an advisor and submit a proposal to the department well in advance of registration for the term in which the work is to be undertaken. (Approval required by the department as a whole. See requirements above.)
Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Winter 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Winter 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2013
Recent Publications
« Pour une dialogique de l'humain : les enfants-victimes dans Johnny chien méchant d'Emmanuel Boundzéki Dongala ». Nouvelles Etudes Francophones. Forthcoming.
"De l'écriture de l'urgence à l'écriture du renouveau". Présence Francophone. Actualité de Rachid Boudjedra (Charles Bonn, Editor) 68 (2007) : pp. 23-34.
"Merzak Allouache ou le nouveau cinéma algérien". CinémAction : les cinémas du Maghreb. Etat des lieux. 111 ( March 2004) - (Michel Serceau, Ed.) pp. 177-183.
"Ici, Là-Bas : altérité et errance identitaire dans le théâtre de Leïla Sebbar". Leïla Sebbar (Michel Laronde, ed.). Toronto : La Source/L'Harmattan, 2002, pp. 221-238.
"A la recherche d'une voie/voix : la marche des Beurs dans l'écriture". Cultures transnationales de France. Des "Beurs" aux...? Collection Etudes Transnationales Francophones et Comparées/Transnational, Francophone, and Comparative Studies. (Hafid Gafaïti, Ed.) Paris : L'Harmattan, 2001, pp. 107-141.