Professional Documents
Culture Documents
MILENASANTORO
ASSOCIATEPROFESSOR
GEORGETOWNUNIVERSITY
EDUCATION
Ph.D.(1994),M.A.(1990),RomanceLanguages,PrincetonUniversity,198894.
D.E.A.,EtudesFminines,UniversitdeParisVIII,1992.Director:Dr.HlneCixous.
B.A.,FrenchLiterature,UniversityofVictoria,Canada,1987.FirstClassHonors.
EcoleNormaleSuprieure,ExchangeScholar,Paris,199192.
McGillUniversity,FrenchLiterature,Honorsprogram,198586(transferyear).
LavalUniversity,SummerBursaryProgramforFrenchLanguageStudy,1983.
ACADEMICANDPROFESSIONALHISTORY
ProfessionalAppointments
2002 AssociateProfessorofFrenchwithtenure,GeorgetownUniversity
19962002 AssistantProfessorofFrench,GeorgetownUniversity
19951996 LecturerinFrench,HumboldtStateUniversity
19941995 VisitingAssistantProfessorofFrench,VassarCollege
19931994 LecturerinFrench,PrincetonUniversity
19881993 AssistantinInstructioninFrench,PrincetonUniversity
1990 GuestlecturerofFrench,SummerSession,UniversityofVictoria
19871988 EnglishLanguageTeachingAssistant,LyceCarnot,Dijon,France
GrantsandHonors
2017: GrandPrixdelaFrancophonie,FestivalAnnueldelaFrancophoniedeWashingtonDC,
March24.
2016: LiverpoolUniversityPress2015AwardforOutstandingJournalReviewersfor
reviewingworkforQuebecStudies.
2016: FLLSummerResearchGrant;SeniorFacultyResearchFellowship.
2016: QubecStudiesProgramGrantoftheMRIF($4000)fortheAIEQ/GU/WWICColloque
dejeuneschercheurs,Quebecand/intheAmericas,January1516.
2014: CenterforNewDesignsinLearning&Scholarship(CNDLS)CurriculumEnrichment
GrantforFrench434
2014: FLLSummerResearchGrant.
2013: GraduateSchoolofArtsandSciencesSummerResearchGrant.
201213: Nominee,ExcellenceinTeachingAward,CollegeAcademicCouncil
2011: US$750fromtheQuebecGovernmentSupportProgramfortheAcquisitionofMaterial
onQuebec.CoverletterofsupportandpurchaselistfortheLauingerLibraryapplication
(collaborator:DavidGibbs).
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2011: US$6,990fromtheCanadianStudies201011FacultyResearchGrantProgram,funded
bytheGovernmentofCanada,andadministeredbytheAcademicRelationsdivisionof
theCanadianEmbassy.
2011: US$1000fromtheACSUSFundfortheArtstosupportthevisitbyDr.DenisBachandto
Georgetown.CoauthoredwithSylvieDurmelat.
2011: $3000grantforspecialguestsforthe2011ACSUSBiennialinOttawafromthe
AssociationInternationaledtudesqubcoises.Idraftedandcoordinatedthisgrant
requestwithassistancefromDr.AmyRansom(CentralMichiganUniversity)andDavid
Archibald,ExecutiveDirectorofACSUS.
2011: FLLSummerResearchGrant.
201011: SabbaticalleavefromGeorgetownUniversity.
2010: TheHumanitiesandSocialSciencesFederationofCanada,AidtoScholarlyPublications
subsidy($8000)forthepublicationofTransatlanticPassages
200910: Nominee,ExcellenceinTeachingAward,CollegeAcademicCouncil
2009: MatchingGrantawardedbytheCanadianStudiesLibrarySupportProgramintheUnited
States.IcoordinatedthisgrantapplicationwithLauingerLibrary.
2009: QubecStudiesProgramGrant($2500)toProfessors/ResearchersofferedbytheQubec
MinistredesRelationsinternationalesforresearchinQubec.
2009: QubecStudiesSpeakersGrant($1050)tobringPhilippeFalardeautoGeorgetown.
2008: GeorgetownGraduateSchoolofArts&SciencesSummerAcademicGrant.
2007: QubecStudiesSpeakersGrant($950)tobringMoniqueProulxtoGeorgetownforthe
20thand21stcenturyFrenchandFrancophoneStudiesConference.
2007: GeorgetownCollegeAmericasInitiativePresenter($500).
2005: QubecStudiesSpeakersGrant($800)andanACSUSFundfortheArtsGrant($500)in
supportofthevisitofElisabethVonarburgtoGeorgetown.
2003: QubecStudiesProgramGranttoProfessors/ResearchersofferedbytheQubec
MinistredesRelationsinternationalesforresearchinQubec.
200203: SabbaticalleavefromGeorgetownUniversity.
2002: $5000InternationalCouncilforCanadianStudiespublishinggrantforthepublicationof
MothersofInventionatMcGillQueen'sUP.
2001: GeorgetownGraduateSchoolofArts&SciencesCompetitiveGrantinAid($1500).
2001: TheHumanitiesandSocialSciencesFederationofCanada,AidtoScholarlyPublications
Programmesubsidy($7000)forthepublicationofMothersofInvention.
2000: CNDLSTeachingandTechnologyGrant,withProfessorGuySpielmann.
1999: GeorgetownGraduateSchoolofArts&SciencesJuniorResearchLeave(Fall).
(Competitiveselection.)
1999: GeorgetownGraduateSchoolofArts&SciencesSummerAcademicGrant.(Competitive
selection.)
1998: GeorgetownGraduateSchoolofArts&SciencesSummerAcademicGrant.
(Competitiveselection.)
1998: GraduateSchoolofArts&SciencesCompetitiveGrantinAid.
1997: $5000MatchingGrantawardedbytheCanadianStudiesLibrarySupportPrograminthe
UnitedStates.IcoordinatedthisgrantapplicationwithLauingerLibrary.Government
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liaison:Dr.DanAbele,AcademicRelationsOfficer,EmbassyofCanada,Washington,
DC.
1995: $500TravelgrantfromtheHumboldtStateUniversityFoundationandtheHSUCollege
ofArtsandHumanities.
1994: $500VassarCollegeLibraryGrantinFrenchCanadianLiterature.Ievaluatedtheir
collectionandproposedalistofbookstobepurchasedtoenhancetheircollection.
199193: SocialSciencesandHumanitiesResearchCouncilofCanadaDoctoralFellowship.
199293: PrincetonUniversityGraduateFellowship.
199192: FrenchGovernmentScholar.
1991: SummerResearchGrantsfromtheCouncilonRegionalStudies,TheAssociationof
GraduateAlumni,andtheDepartmentofRomanceLanguages,PrincetonUniversity.
198891: PrincetonUniversityGraduateFellowshipandStipend.
ProfessionalDevelopment
20112016: GeorgetownCollegeAmericasInitiativeSeminar
March2011: RedCrossCertificationinFirstAid,CPR,AED
June2010: Borderlines/Borderlands:CultureandtheCanadaU.S.InternationalBoundary,
LibraryofCongressSymposium.
200910: GeorgetownCollegeAmericasInitiativeSeminar.
May2008: Teaching,Learning&InnovationSummerInstitute,GeorgetownUniversity.
20068: GeorgetownCollegeAmericasInitiativeSeminar.
May2006: Teaching,Learning&InnovationSummerInstitute,GeorgetownUniversity.
May2000: Teaching,Learning&TechnologySummerInstitute,GeorgetownUniversity.
April2000: QubecWinterSymposium,"Orientalismesqubcois:YingChen."Byinvitationof
SUNYPlattsburgh'sCenterfortheStudyofCanada.
June1998: QubecSummerSeminarParticipant,St.Malo,France,OrganizedbytheCenterfor
theStudyofCanada,SUNYPlattsburgh.(RestrictedtopreviousSummerSeminar
Alumni.)
June1997: QubecSummerSeminarParticipant,MontralandQubec.OrganizedbytheCenter
fortheStudyofCanada,SUNYPlattsburgh.(Competitiveentry.)
May1997: Teaching,Learning&TechnologyRoundtableSummerInstitute,Georgetown
University.
July1991: "ContemporaryQubecCulture,"UniversityofMontreal,SummerSession.
June1989: MellonSeminaron"WomenandtheCinematicImage,"PrincetonUniversity.
198788: Masters'coursework,FrenchLiteratureandFilm,UniversityofBurgundy.
July1988: IntensiveBeginners'German,GoetheInstitute,Paris.
PUBLICATIONANDSCHOLARSHIP
BooksAuthored/Edited
thevolumeismychapter,ReelVisions:SnapshotsfromaHalfCenturyofFirstNations
Cinema.
CoeditedvolumewithPaulaRuthGilbert,TransatlanticPassages:LiteraryandCulturalRelations
betweenQuebecandFrancophoneEurope.McGillQueensUniversityPress,2010.ISBN:
9780773537873and9780773537903(Cloth,Paper).Forthisvolume,forwhichIhadthe
originalidea,Icoauthoredtheintroduction,Introduction:OnPassages,Passeursand
PasseusesinParisandMontreal,IwrotetranslationsforpoemsbyNicoleBrossard(fromJe
menvaisTrieste),forshortessaysbyLouiseDuprandWernerNold,andassistedinthe
translationofanessaybyMoniqueProulx.MycolleagueandIworkedtogetherondeveloping
thescopeofthevolume,theinvitationstocontributors,andthefinalselectionandeditingofall
contributions.Icompletedthefinalpageproofstagebecausemycoeditorwasabroadatthe
time.
MothersofInvention:FeministAuthorsandExperimentalFictioninFranceandQuebec.
McGillQueen'sUniversityPress,2002.ISBN:0773523731.
EditedandSpecialIssuesofJournals
"Introduction,"SpecialIssue:QubecCinemainthe21stCentury,AmericanReviewofCanadian
Studies43.2(June2013),pp157289.Firstauthorandissuecoeditor,withAndrLoiselle,Denis
Bachand,andVincentDesroches.
GuestEditorsIntroduction.FourarticledossieronLimits/Limites.ContemporaryFrenchand
FrancophoneStudies:SITES.Vol14.3(2010).28788.
EditorsIntroductiontoContemporaryFrenchandFrancophoneStudies:SITES.AsGuestCo
Editor,Iwrotethisintroduction,cosignedbyEditorsRogerClestinandElianeDalmolin.Vol13.5
(Dec2009).52529.
IntroductiontoCultures/NatureinCanada//IntroductionCultures/NatureauCanada.
InternationalJournalofCanadianStudies3940(2009).514.
"Presentation"andcoordinationofthespecialdossier"Voicesin/onMemory:TracingthePastand
FacingtheFutureinContemporaryWomen'sWriting."QubecStudies31(Spring/Summer2001).
37.
ArticlesinPeerreviewedJournals
TheRiseofFirstNationsFictionFilms:ShelleyNiro,JeffBarnabyandYvesSiouiDurand.
AmericanReviewofCanadianStudies43.2(June2013).267282.
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FromSilencetoMemory:AnInterviewwithElisabethVonarburg/Dusilencelammoire:
EntretienavecElisabethVonarburgwithLauraThompson,EmilyMajka,andAudreyGibbons.
Femspec11.2(2011).2967.
PolicingGenreFilms,or,HowAmericanareQuebecPolars?TheFrenchReview84.6(May
2011).104116.
EntretienavecMoniqueProulxparMilnaSantoro,KarenMcPhersonetGalenBascom.The
FrenchReview.83.3(February2010).624636.
CoauthoredarticlewithDr.PaulaRuthGilbert,"TransformingVisions:PedagogicalApproachesto
LaPool'sEmportemoi(SetmeFree)."SpecialissueonFrench/FrancophoneCultureand
LiteratureThroughFilmofWomeninFrenchStudies(2006).13955.
"'LaMortaveclaviededans':l'crituredudeuilchezMadeleineGagnon."Francographies3
(Summer2000),TomeII.24348.
"L'Autremillnaired'EstherRochon."WomeninFrenchStudiesV(1997).97105.
EssaysinCriticalAnthologies
FromAmericanDreamstoInterculturalRealities:TheCaseofImmigrantCinemainQuebec.In
Autourdel'oeuvredeGrardBouchard.Histoiresociale,sociologiehistorique,imaginaires
collectifsetpolitiquespubliques.Eds.SrilataRaviandClaudeCouture.Pressesdel'Universit
Laval,2015.99117.
"Lespaceintersubjectifcommelieudelabsenceetdelaperteidentitairedansquatretextesdedeuil
rcents(GeneviveAmyot,DianeMoniqueDaviau,DeniseDesautels,ChristianeFrenette)."
Territoiresfminins.SylvieMongeon,ed.CahiersduCELAT.Montral:CELAT,2006.21537.
"Writingand/inMourning:TheLegacyofLossinRecentTextsbyMadeleineGagnon."Doing
Gender:FrancoCanadianWomenWritersofthe1990s,RoseannaDufaultandPaulaGilbert,eds.
Cranbury,NJ:FairleighDickinsonPress,2001.5377.
"Menacesdemort,pulsionsd'critsdansl'oeuvrehyvrardienne.""UtPhilosophiaPoesis."Etudes
surl'oeuvredeJeanneHyvrard,articleseditedandintroducedbyJeanFranoisKostaThfaine.
AmsterdamandAtlanta:Rodopi,2001.13353.
"FeministTranslationandNicoleBrossard'sLeDsertmauve,"WomenWritinginQubec:Essays
inHonorofJeanneKissner,PaulaGilbertetal.,eds.Plattsburgh:CenterfortheStudyofCanada,
PlattsburghStateUniversity,2000.12334.
"Eblouissements:laportedesrencontresartistiquesdansLa,"inHlneCixous,croisesd'une
oeuvre,MireilleCalleGruber,ed.Paris:EditionsGalile,2000.15362.
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"FeministTranslation:WritingandTransmissionAmongWomeninNicoleBrossard'sLeDsert
mauveandMadeleineGagnon'sLueur."WomenbyWomen:TheTreatmentofFemaleCharacters
byWomenWritersofFictioninQubecsince1980,RoseannaDufault,ed.Madison:Fairleigh
DickinsonUniversityPress,1997.14768.
EssaysinConferenceProceedings
"Influencesrciproques:Lefminismedesannes70enFranceetauQubec."Francophonieen
Amrique:QuatresiclesdchangesEuropeAfriqueAmrique(Actesducolloque).JustinK.
BisanswaetMichelTtu,dir.VoixdelaFrancophonieVol15,No1.Qubec:CIDEFAFI,2005.
20719.
"Laprsencedesfemmesdansl'enseignementdelalangueetdesculturesfrancophonesauniveau
universitaireenAmrique."Jeunesseetlanguefranaise:Crer,partager,entreprendre.Langue
franaiseauCanadaetenAmriqueduNord.ActesdelaXIXeBiennaledelalanguefranaise,Dir.
RolandEluerd.(Paris:BLF,2002).32737.
EncyclopediaEntries
"MarisaZavalloni,dir.Lmergencedunecultureaufminin."ArticlefortheDictionnairedes
oeuvreslittrairesduQubec.AurlienBoivin,dir.Volume8,19861990.2011.291292.1232
pages.ISBN9782762128918
"NicoleBrossard."BiographicalsynopsisforMicrosoftEncartaEncyclopedia2001.300words.
"MoniqueWittig";"Ecriturefminine";"MLF".ThreeentriesintheFeministEncyclopediaof
FrenchLiterature,EvaMartinSartori,ed.Westport,CT:Greenwood,1999.1745,3801and5556.
Reviews
C.R.A.Z.Y.:AQueerFilmClassicbyRobertSchwartzwald.TheAmericanReviewofCanadian
Studies(ARCS).47.1(2017).
Hockey,PQ:CanadasGameinQuebecsPopularCulturebyAmyJ.Ransom.BookReview.
QubecStudies.62(Fall/Winter2016).18183.
RebellebyKimNguyen.FilmReview.TheFrenchReview.87.3(March2014).6566.
HiddeninPlainSight.ContributionsofAboriginalPeoplestoCanadianIdentityandCultureVol
2.Bookreview.AmericanReviewofCanadianStudies.43.1(March,2013).15153.
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MonsieurLazharbyPhilippeFalardeau.FilmReview.TheFrenchReview.86.2(December
2012).3734.
GillesMarsolais,Cinmaqubcois:delartisanatlindustrie.Bookreview.TheFrench
Review.86.1(October2012).1712.
IncendiesbyDenisVilleneuve.Filmreview.TheFrenchReview.85.4(March2012).74243.
LouiseDupr:LeQubecaufmininbyAnneMarieJzquel.Bookreview.WomeninFrench
Studies19(2011).14648.
QuebecQuestions:QuebecStudiesfortheTwentyFirstCenturyeditedbyStphanGervaisetal.
Bookreview.QuebecStudies52(Fall2011/Winter2012).159160.
CinemaasHistory:MichelBraultandModernQuebecbyAndrLoiselle.Bookreview.The
FrenchReview85.1(October2011).18990.
ArchaeologiesofanUncertainFuture:RecentGenerationsofCanadianWomenWritingbyKaren
McPherson.BookReview.QubecStudies50(Fall/Winter2010/2011).153155.
ScienceFictionfromQubec:APostcolonialStudybyAmyJ.Ransom.BookReview.American
ReviewofCanadianStudies40.4(December2010)560562.
"DenysArcandsLeDclindelEmpireamricainandLesInvasionsbarbaresbyAndrLoiselle.
BookReview.AmericanReviewofCanadianStudies39.4(2009).46567.
"ViolenceandtheFemaleImagination:QubecsWomenWritersReframeGenderinNorth
AmericanCulturesby."BookReview.AmericanReviewofCanadianStudies39.1(March2009).
6163.
"HistoireducinmadanimationauQubecbyMiraFalardeau,"BookReview.AmericanReviewof
CanadianStudies38.3(Autumn2008).39698.
"DialoguesavecJeanneHyvrard,byHelenVassalloandCathyWardle,"BookReview.Womenin
FrenchStudies15(2007).13536.
"FiguresdelautrebyJanetPaterson,"BookReview.AmericanReviewofCanadianStudies37.2
(Summer2007).258260.
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":EssaysonherWorkeditedbyLouiseForsyth,"BookReview.WomeninFrenchStudies14
(2006).1523.
"100CanadianHeroines:FamousandForgottenFacesbyMernaForster,"BookReview.
AmericanReviewofCanadianStudies36.1(Spring2006).14547.
"OnMoniqueWittig:theoretical,political,andliteraryessayseditedbyNamascarShaktini,"Book
Review.Choice(October2005).
"Lelointain:crireauloin,crirelelointain,dirigparMagessaO'Reilly,NeilBishopetA.R.
Chadwick,"BookReview.Francophoniesd'Amrique17(2004).8789.
ConferenceReport,coauthoredwithMargotMiller(CatholicUniversity)ontheCassalConference
on"NewWomensWritinginFrench"heldattheInstituteforRomanceStudiesattheUniversityof
London,September2002.WomeninFrenchNewsletterVol17.1(Spring2003).89.
"L'criture:liendemrefillechezJeanneHyvrard,ChantalChawaf,etAnnieErnauxbyMonique
Saigal,"BookReview.WomeninFrenchStudies10(2002).265266.
"WomenandNarrativeIdentity:RewritingtheNationalTextbyMaryJeanGreen,"BookReview.
QubecStudies32(Fall2001/Winter2002).138140.
"RecentApproachestoFeministCriticism:ResearchinandonQubec."InternationalJournalof
CanadianStudiesVol.23(Spring2001).189194.
"Lecturemythocritiqueduromanqubcois,parAntoineSirois,"BookReview.Etudes
francophones16.1(Spring2001).27275.
"LaNouvelleauQubec,FranoisGallaysetRobertVigneault,eds."BookReview.QubecStudies
25(Spring1998).1089.
Translations
"MichleSarde.TheDisaster."Authorprofile,selectedworks,andtranslation.DaughtersofSarah:
AnthologyofJewishWomenWritinginFrench.EvaMartinSartoriandMadeleineCottenetHage,
eds.Teaneck,NJ:HolmesandMeier,2006.187204.
TextfortheChamplaincommemorativestampissuedsimultaneouslybyCanadaPostandtheUS
PostalServicein2006.Consultingtranslator.
"JeanneHyvrard,translationbyMilnaSantorofromMremafille."4poemsincludedinthe
"FrenchIssue."InternationalPoetryReview26.1(Spring2000).613.
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"ThreepoemsfromJeanneHyvrard'sMyDaughter,Mother."TheAntigonishReview121(Spring
2000).627.
"SixpoemsfromJeanneHyvrard'sMremafille."TheAntigonishReview120(Winter2000).6677.
FilmParticipation
"LaThorieundimanche:SweetSuite."Production,concept,aswellasanappearanceinthevideo
recording,madeandeditedbyJeanPierreMasse,oftheACQSminiplenarysession,October2000.
OtherPublications
AmericanCouncilforQubecStudies2003MembershipDirectory.64pages.
InPreparationorSubmission
EncounteringAmericainQuebecCinemasincethe1960s.Currentbookproject.
Cettemaisondtre,raisondtre,forthecollectionAutodidacte.Insubmission.
TheRural(Re)TurnsofYoungProtagonistsinContemporaryQuebecFilms, article for the
volume A Cinema of Pain: Essays on Quebecs Nostalgic Screen, Liz Czach and Andr Loiselle,
eds. Wilfred Laurier University Press. In submission.
TraumaanditsAftermathforWomeninthreeQuebecFilms.Articleinprogress.
EntriesforTheLiteraryEncyclopediaonJeanneHyvrardandMadeleineGagnon(c.2000words
each).Inpreparation.
ReviewofBordlerlandFilmsforARCS,Inpreparation.
ArticlesurNicoleBrossard.AtlaslittraireduQubec.Inpreparation.
Presentations
Conferences
1. Rustic Returns, or the Rewards of Young Protagonists "Roughing It" in Contemporary
Quebec Films. ACQS, Portland, November 2016.
2. ImagesdefluiditetdeforceidentitairechezlespersonnagesfmininsdansEmporte
moietLapassiondAugustinedeLaPool.WomeninFrenchConference,Gettysburg,June
2016.
3. "Le gnie de la forme chez Xavier Dolan: Un dfi ou un avantage face au march
hollywoodien?"ACSUS,LasVegas,Nov.2015.
4. DocumentingtheAmricanitofQuebecIdentityattheONF.ACQS,Montreal,Oct.2014.
5. ComingtoAmerica:ImmigrantvoicesinQuebeccinema.ACSUS,Tampa,Nov.2013.
6. FromAmericanDreamstoInterculturalRealities:TheCaseofImmigrantCinemainQuebec.
Collective Imaginaries, Interculturalism andHistory:aroundthe workof GrardBouchard,
BanffCenter,2828September,2013. ConferenceorganizedbyTheCampusSaintJeanofthe
UniversityofAlberta.(AlsolistedunderInvitedLectures.)
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7. ReelVisions:SnapshotsfromaHalfCenturyofFirstNationsCinema.ASymposiumon
BecomingIndigenous,AssertingIndigeneitycoorganizedfortheAmericasInitiativeof
GeorgetownCollege,March2013.
8. TheRiseofFirstNationsFilmFictions:ShelleyNiro,TraceyDeer,JeffBarnabyandYves
SiouiDurand.Inadditiontogivingapaper,Iwasalsoareaderaspartofaroundtable
presentationCelebratingLoukyBersianikandMarieSavard:MothersofInventionofa
LiberatedDiscoursauFminin.ACQS,Sarasota,November811,2013.PanelChair:Quebec
Cinemasince2000:ArticulatingIdentityintheNewMillenium.
9. FairUsePolicyandPedagogicalPractice:ARoundtablewithRepresentativesfrom
GeorgetownUniversitysDigitalMediaWorkingGroup,AmericanAssociationofUniversity
ProfessorsAnnualConference,WashingtonDC,June2012.
10. LestudesqubcoisesauxEtatsunis:untatdeslieux.PanelorganizedbylAssociation
internationaldtudesqubcoisesfortheconferenceonWhereisQuebecinCanadian
Studies?/LaplaceduQubecdanslestudescanadiennes,SchoolofCanadianStudies,Carleton
University,Ottawa,May22,2012.
11. Ellestaientcinq,orHowFemaleFriendshipSurvivesTrauma,MLA,Seattle,2011.
12. AmericanContextsforQuebecFirstNationsFilm,ACSUS,Ottawa,Nov.2011.
13. IntroductiontoQuebecsAmericans:AmricanitandAmericanizationinQuebec
Cinemasincethe1960s,AmericasInitiative,GeorgetownUniversity,April2011.
14. Americano,or,A(Self)PortraitofMigrationandExileintheAmericasbyCarlos
Ferrand.ParticipationinaroundtableonReadingthePostcolonialOtherinContemporary
Cinema,NEMLA,Apr.2011.
15. (Self)PortraitsofMigrationandExilebytwoSouthAmericanfilmmakersinQuebec,
MarilMalletandCarlosFerrand.SymposiumonMigration,LaborandtheFamilyin
DiasporicNorthAmerica:LiteraryandCulturalPerspectives,GeorgetownCollegeAmericas
Initiative,GeorgetownUniversity,November2009.
16. OnPassages,Passeurs,andPasseuses:UndergroundandAbovegroundCommodification
inParisandMontrealPapercopresentedwithPaulaRuthGilbertatACSUSinSanDiego,
2009.
17. PolicingGenreFilms,or,HowAmericanareQuebecPolars?ACQS/ACSUSin
CanadaConferenceinQuebecCity,2008.
18. Integratinglanguagelearningandcriticalanalysisofliteraryandculturaltextsatthe
GatewaylevelinFrench.FLLConferenceonFosteringTranslingualandTranscultural
Competencies,GeorgetownUniversity,April2008.
19. From Suicidal Teen to Vengeful Victim and Citizen of the World: The Many Leading
Roles of Quebec Actress Pascale Bussires. 20th and 21st century French and Francophone
Studies Conference, Washington DC, March 2008.
20. "USFacesandPlacesinRecentQuebecFilms."ACSUS,Toronto,Canada.November
2007.
21. "ImagesofAmerica(ns)inContemporaryQuebecCinema"AmericasInitiative,
GeorgetownUniversity,April2007.
22. "Flight,AbandonmentandReturninTwoRecentNovelsbyDianeMoniqueDaviauand
ChristianeFrenette."ACQS.Cambridge,MA,October2006.
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23. "Mutatismutandis:GeneticmutationandmanipulationintheworksofElisabeth
Vonarburg."SymposiumonFrenchandFrancophoneScienceFiction,GeorgetownUniversity,
April2006.
24. "ThePoeticTravelsofNicoleBrossard:TouristorVisionaryintheEraof
Globalization?"MLA,Washington,DC,December2005.
25. "NicoleBrossards"Ailleurs":ForeignWordsandTheirPlaces."ACSUS,St.Louis,
November2005.
26. "PickingSides:QubecsidentitypoliticsinRichardCuipkasdetectivedrama,Le
Derniersouffle(1999)."ACSUS,Portland,November2003.
27. "Influencesrciproques:Lefminismedesannes70enFranceetauQubec,"Colloque
"FrancophonieenAmrique,"QubecCity,May2003.
28. "TransformingVisions:PedagogicalApproachestoLaPoolsEmportemoi(SetMe
Free),"SouthAtlanticModernLanguageAssociationConvention,Baltimore,November2002.
29. "L'infinidudeuil:Lamiseenformedelaperteidentitairedanslestextesfminins
rcents,"AmericanCouncilforQubecStudies,Mobile,October2002.
30. "Writingand/inMourning:TheFormsofLossinRecentQuebecWomen'sWritings,"
NewWomensWritinginFrench,InstituteofRomanceStudies,UniversityofLondonSchoolof
AdvancedStudy,September2002.
31. "LesFormesfragmentairesdudeuildanstroisromansqubcoiscontemporains,"
InternationalColloquiuminTwentieth/TwentyfirstCenturyFrenchStudies,Hartford,April
2002.
32. "Franchirleseuildudeuil:traversesdel'criturecontemporaine,"ConseilInternational
d'EtudesFrancophones,Portland,Maine,June2001.
33. "InconsolableLossanditsEffectsonWritinginRecentWorksbyMadeleineGagnon
andDianeMoniqueDaviau,"AmericanCouncilforQubecStudies,Montreal,October2000.
34. Introductionandconcludingremarksfortheminiplenarysession"LaThorieun
dimanche:SweetSuite,"AmericanCouncilforQubecStudies,Montreal,October2000.
35. "'Lamortaveclaviededans':l'crituredudeuilchezMadeleineGagnon,"Crationet
Ralitd'ExpressionFranaise,FordhamUniversity,NewYork,April2000.
36. "Writingand/inMourning:TheLegacyofLossinRecentTextsbyMadeleineGagnon,"
AssociationofCanadianStudiesintheUnitedStates,Pittsburgh,November1999.
37. "Eblouissements:portedesrencontresartistiques,"HlneCixous,croisesd'une
oeuvre,CrisylaSalle,France,June1998.
38. "TheFutureFeminine:FictionsofElisabethVonarburg,"NEMLA,Baltimore,April
1998.
39. "L'Autremillnaired'EstherRochon,"ConseilInternationald'EtudesFrancophones,
Guadeloupe,May1997.
40. "L'Autre(au)seuildutroisimemillnaire,"AmericanCouncilforQubecStudies,
QubecCity,October1996.
41. "FromPaintingtoWriting:APortraitofCixouslaVoleuse,"MLA,Chicago,December
1995.
42. "VoicingSilencesandWritingAbsencesinAssiaDjebar'sL'Amour,lafantasia,"
Script/ScreeninFrancophoneAfrica:OusmaneSembneandAssiaDjebar,Universityof
Victoria,Victoria,Canada,October1994.
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43. "JeanneHyvrard's'MotherDeath':TheMatrixoftheTroubledFeminist,"Second
GraduateStudentColloquiuminRomanceLanguages,PrincetonUniversity,December1993.
44. "TheBodyThoughtofJeanneHyvrard:RethinkingContemporaryFrenchFeminism,"
GraduateResearchColloquiuminWomen'sStudies,PrincetonUniversity,April1993.
45. "Incomprhension,incommunicabilitetlavoixdelafemmedansL'Amanteanglaisede
MargueriteDuras,"20thCenturyLiteratureConference,Louisville,Kentucky,February1993.
46. "FeministRewriting:RepetitionandDisplacementinNicoleBrossard'sLeDsertmauve
andMadeleineGagnon'sLueur,"AmericanCouncilforQubecStudies,Chicago,November
1990.AlsopresentedattheGraduateResearchColloquiuminWomen'sStudies,Princeton,
February1991.
47. "Lejeudel'identit:lasubjectivitdanslelangagedansLesBonnesdeJeanGenet,"
LearnedSocieties/SocitsSavantes,Victoria,Canada,May1990.
InvitedLecturesandAppearances
McGillUniversityFacultyExchange:OftheCinemaofImmigrationandImmigrantCinema:
VisionsofQuebecsComplicatedRelationshiptotheOtheraspartofapanelwithfilmmaker
BachirBensaddekandactressTeneishaCollins;andLeChatdanslesac:unportraitdelacrise
identitairependantlaRvolutiontranquille.Twopresentationsinseminars,March2017.
PresentationoftheAIEQanddiscussionwiththevisitingscholarsofRseauQubecMonde,May
24,2016.GeorgetownUniversity.
"RusticReturns,orXavierDolan'sPortrayalof"RoughingIt"inRuralQuebec."ACQSOutreach
Seminar,MacalasterCollege,St.Paul,MN,September2015.
Inthewakeoflittraturemigrante:immigrantcinemaandthecinemaofimmigrationinQubec.
UniversityofMaryland.April2015.
FromAmericanDreamstoInterculturalRealities:TheCaseofImmigrantCinemainQuebec.
CollectiveImaginaries,InterculturalismandHistory:aroundtheworkofGrardBouchard,Banff
Center,2828September,2013. InvitationonlyconferenceorganizedbyTheCampusSaintJeanof
theUniversityofAlberta.
GettysburgCollege.IsIncendiesanimmigrantfilm?Immigrantfilmmakersandtellingimmigrant
storiesinQuebeccinema.Invitedlecture.February2013.
GuestpresentationanddiscussionofthefilmEllestaientcinq,NorthernLights,AFestivalof
QuebecFilms.UniversityofOregon,May2012.
FrenchandFilmStudiesProfessorStudiesComplexityofQuebec.Aninterviewforthe
GeorgetownCollegeWebsite,published8/2/11.<http://college.georgetown.edu/232885.html>
Santoro/13
BalancingLiterature,WorkandFamily:AnInterviewwithMilnaSantoroandPaulaGilbert.The
GeorgetownUniversityForum,Jan.4,2011.<http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/?ID=54916>
InvitedguestforabooklaunchforTransatlanticPassagesinconjunctionwiththeexhibitbyBonnie
Baxter,JanesJourney.MediainterviewandRoundtablediscussionparticipant.Theinterviewwas
withajournalistfromtheJournaldeSherbrooke.GalriedartduCentreculturel,Universitde
Sherbrooke,Quebec.Nov.3,2010.
"TheRolesofGirlsandWomeninQuebecFilmHistory."GuestLecture,DukeUniversity,March
2009.
GuestLectureandQ&A."DenysArcandsJesusofMontreal:textandcontext."American
University.November2006.
"Travailleravec/surHlneCixous."AdiscussionattheinvitationofDr.JanineRicouartofGeorge
MasonUniversity,inthecontextofhersummergraduateseminaronHlneCixous,June2003.
"MothersofInvention:FeministAuthorsandExperimentalFictioninFranceandQubec."A
presentationfortheGUWomenAuthorsSeries,organizedbytheWomensCenter,Feb.2003.
"LaPrsencedesfemmesdansl'enseignementdelalangueetdesculturesfrancophonesauniveau
universitaireenAmrique,"XIXeBiennaledelalanguefranaise,HullOttawa,attheinvitationof
theMinistryofCanadianCulturalHeritage.August2001.
"QubecfilmhistoryandtheworkofdirectorLaPool,"copresentedwithPaulaGilbert(from
GMU)atascreeningofEmportemoi(LaPool,1999),VisionsCinema,DC,December2000.
FourguestpresentationsfortheInstitutderecherchesentudesfmininesandtheDpartement
d'tudeslittrairesoftheUniversityofQubecatMontral:"Textesettoiles:l'atelierd'Hlne
Cixous";"Autourde1975,annederencontresdansl'histoiredesfminismesfrancoqubcois";
"Lelegsdel'criturechezMadeleineGagnon:unehistoiredefemmes";"Violence,crationetgenre
dansquelquestextesrcentsdeMadeleineGagnon."OrganizedbyLoriSaintMartin.Invitation
extendedbyMichelineNadeaudeSve,IREFDirector.October1999.
"Voixetchoixd'immigrsauQubec,"UniversityofMaryland,BaltimoreCounty.Organizedby
TomField,ChairofModernLanguages.April1999.
"ElmentsdupostmodernedansL'AmrdeNicoleBrossard"and"LaJeunened'HlneCixous:
texteetcontextes,"UniversityofQubecatMontral.GuestoftheDpartementd'tudeslittraires
andtheInstitutdeRecherchesenEtudesFminines(IREF),attheinvitationofBarbaraHavercroft.
March1999.
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"WomenBehindtheLens:WomenDirectorsinFilmHistoryandtheModernExampleofJodie
Foster,"GeorgetownUniversityCampaignKickoffLecture:"TheGenderedLens:Uncoveringthe
HistoryofWomeninFilm,"organizedbytheWomen'sStudiesProgram,October1998.
"(S')criretraverslapeur,"ArencontresminaireattheUniversityofQubecatMontral.Guest
oftheDpartementd'tudeslittraires,attheinvitationofRenLapierre.October1996.
"AForumontheIssueofQubec,"Participant,HumboldtStateUniversity,November1995.
"OnClariceLispector's"'TheHen',"GuestPresenterinHlneCixous'Seminar,Universityof
Virginia,September1992.
TEACHINGANDMENTORING
CoursesTaughtatGeorgetownUniversity
021: IntermediateI
022: IntermediateII
100*: FMST/GatewaytoFilmandMediaStudies:IndigenousFilmmakersfromQuebecand
Canada.
112: IntensiveAdvancedFrenchII
151: AdvancedGrammarandWriting
227*: FrancophoneCultureandWritingI
228: FrenchCultureandWritingII
251*: ReadingTextsintheFrenchSpeakingWorld:Literatures
262: FrenchLiteratureandWritingII
333*: ContemporaryFrenchCanadianCulture
380*: FrenchandFrancophoneCinema:QuebecFilmClassics
411*: ContemporaryFrenchCanadianLiterature
434*: QuebecSocietyandFilm
462*: ModernFrancophoneWomenNovelists(crosslistedwithWomen'sStudies)
478*: ModernFrenchCanadianLiterature:Women'sWor(l)dsintheQuebecNovel
(crosslistedwithWomen'sStudies)
489/481*: UrbanFictionsinQubec(1sttaughtasaSeniorSeminar)
*CoursesnewlycreatedorreconceptualizedfortheFrenchDepartmentorFMSTcurriculum.
CopresentedcoursewithAnneONeilHenry:"TheParisExpositionUniverselleof1889and
Montreal'sExpo'69:urbanmigrationandinternationalizationofthecity,"FLLBakerScholars
Colloquium,Feb10,2017.
Tutorials
302: "The Idea of Canada in a Globalizing World." Codirected with Dr. Faruk Tabak (SFS).
Student:WilliamPrice.Spring2001.
305:"TheResistancetoPatriarchy:FemaleauthorsinAlgeriaconfrontviolencesince1962."SFS
HonorsThesis.Student:VictoriaMacchi.Fall2003andSpring2004.
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302:ModernFrenchCanadianLiterature:Women'sWor(l)dsintheQuebecNovel.A3/1credit
tutorialwithAudreyGibbons,EmilyMajka/LauraThompson.Spring2006.
302:TheGraphicNovelsofZeinaAbirachebandMarjaneSatrapi.SFSHonorsThesis,Student:
NoelleYasso.Fall2009andSpring2010.
WomeninFrenchUndergraduateEssayPrize:awardedin201314toMarcusDominickforhis
finalpaperproducedinthecontextofmySpring2013French478seminar.
JeanneKissnerAward(undergraduateessayprizeofferedbytheAssociationforCanadian
StudiesintheUnitedStates):awardedinNovemberof2013toOliviaGeorgeforherfinalpaper
producedinthecontextofmySpring2013French478seminar.
SeniorTheses/CapstoneProjectsSupervised
20142015: ZoeGadegbeku:"Entendezlesvoixquicrient:UneanalysedAwaThiam,Mariama
BetKenBugul"
EmilyHall:"Latraduction"aufminin"dansLaPrincessedeClvestraduitpar
NancyMitford"
20112012: AdrianBautista,WhereisHome?ThirdCultureKidsTimebasedfilmprojectfor
theFilmandMediaStudiesMinor.
20092010: TuckerKapp,Oppressionetlibration,thorieetcreation.
NoelleYasso,IllustratingWar,Memory,andIdentity:WomensAutobiographical
GraphicNovelsandNarrativeSpacesofResistanceinIranandLebanon.SFS:
CULPHonorsThesis.
20072008: GalenBascom,"LaFormationproblmatiquedel'identitdansLeSexedestoilesde
MoniqueProulx."
LauraThompson,AnthropologyThesiscodirectedwithSusanTerrio.
20032004: RebeccaSalois,"Rencontreslinguistiquesetidentitairesdanslalittraturefranco
amricainedelaNouvelleAngleterre."
VictoriaMacchi,"TheResistancetoPatriarchy:FemaleauthorsinAlgeriaconfront
violencesince1962."SFS:CULPHonorsThesis.
20002001: AlisaBelanger,"<<Aufond>>durecueilLoveandSorrowdeRenLapierre:une
tuded'unenouvelleformedanslaposieenprosequbcoise."
19992000: VictoriaWilliams,"Troisromanciressngalaisesmodernesetlethmedurapport
mrefillecommeprismeduconflitsocial."
19981999: MatthewLewis,"DenysArcandetsonportraitcinmatographiqueduchangement
desmoeursdanslasocitqubcoiseaprslaRvolutiontranquille."
MeganSmyth,"Monicaetlesmdiasfranais:l'affaireClintoncommemiroirdes
diffrencesculturellesentrelaFranceetlesEtatsUnis,"codirectedwithDr.Susan
Terrio.
April1997: SecondReader,HonorsThesisofSariKawana,"Conversationetintgration:
approchesjaponaisesetfranaisesdeschangesculturelsetlittrairesdepuis1880,"
Dr.PatrickLaude,director.
FirstYearStudentWorkshopsModerated
2011:DinawMengestu,HowtoReadtheAir
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2006:MargaretAtwood,TheBlindAssassin
2001:ErnestGaines,ALessonBeforeDying
2000:MichaelOndaatje,Anil'sGhost(Gradedstudentpapers)
1998:AmyTan,TheHundredSecretSenses
1997:IsabelAllende,Paula
GUROPStudentResearchAssistantships/FellowshipsMentored
Summer2013:MichaelaWright(assistantship)
Spring,2008:GalenBascom(assistantship)
Summer,2007:LauraThompson(fellowship)
Spring,2007:SophiaCarodenuto(assistantship)
Summer,2006:LauraThompson(assistantship)
ComputerbasedTeachingMaterials
BlackboardwebsitesforallcurrentcoursestaughtatGeorgetownUniversity.
http://www.georgetown.edu/santoro.Personalwebpagewithcoursesyllabi,invitedspeakers'page
(nolongeractive).
CoursesTaughtElsewhere
HumboldtStateUniversity,199596.
AlllevelsofFrenchlanguageandgrammar.
FrenchPoetryandArt,"FromtheRevolutiontoSurrealism."
FrenchCultureandCivilization.
FrenchFilmSeminar,"PoeticRealismandJeanGabin."
FrenchFilmSeminar,"WomenFilmmakersofQuebec."
VassarCollege,199495.
Beginners'andIntermediateFrench.
"EncounteringtheOtherinContemporaryQuebecLiterature."Seminar.
PrincetonUniversity,198894.
Beginners'FrenchandAdvancedFrench.
AcceleratedBeginners'French.CourseHead."FrenchinAction"method.
"ModernEuropeanWriters."PreceptorforProfessorVictorBrombert.
"FrenchFeminisms,1789tothepresent."PreceptorandGuestLecture.
GuestLecture:"PoliticsandCultureinQuebec,19701980"forFren528:TheQuebecNovel
RomanceLanguagesPedagogyWorkshop.TeachingDemonstrator,1990.
UniversityofVictoria,Summer1990.
TheHistoryofFrenchCinema.Newcourse.
UniversityofBurgundy,Dijon,France,Spring1988.
7hoursasGuestlecturer,I.N.P.S.A.EnglishProgram.
INSTITUTIONALANDPROFESSIONALSERVICE
DepartmentofFrench
CurriculumCommittee,20142015,200709,200506,Spring2000and199799.
Santoro/17
StudyAbroadLinguisticCompetencyEvaluationsOralEvaluator,201217,199798.
McCarthyCommittee,20152016,201214.(2014:4.5hours)
MeritEvaluationCommittee,201314,Spring2013,200001.(2014:4.5hours)
SFSProficiencyExamsEvaluator,201113,Fall1996.
CourseCoordinator,GatewaySequence,200810.
StudyAbroadLinguisticCompetencyEvaluationsCoordinatorandEvaluator,200710,200506,
Spring2004and19982002.
ProjectCoordinator,FrenchDepartmentCurriculumRenewalGrant,20062008.
DirectorofUndergraduateStudies,200607,200304.
StudyAbroadLinguisticCompetencyWrittenEvaluationProctor,Feb.2007.
SearchCommittee,20112012,20072008,200507,200102.
PresentationofNewTechnologyPurchasesfortheEspaceMcCarthy,September2002.
EquipmentandTechnologyCoordinator,EspaceMcCarthyCommittee,200102.
DepartmentSelfStudy:Scribe,SubCommitteeonFrench&FrancophoneLits,Spring2000.
PreSearchCommittee,199798.
University
MainCampusExecutiveFaculty,FrenchDepartmentrepresentative,20142016.
FilmandMediaStudies,CoreFaculty(20112017);AdmissionsCommittee(201315,201112;5
hrseachspring).2hours.
DigitalMediaWorkingGroup:CopyrightandFairUseatGeorgetown,20142015,20102013.3
hours.
FLLSummerGrantsEvaluationcommittee,20112013.7hours.
Participant,GeorgetownCollegeAmericasInitiative,200915,200608.1820hrsperyear.
Participant,FilmandMediaStudiesAdvisoryGroup,201113,200910.Assistedindevelopingthe
successfulMinorinFilmandMediaStudiesProposal,Fall2009.
FLLTransferStudentAdmissionsCommittee,Spring2012.18hours.
ReportonStreamingVideoFairUsepolicytotheFLLChairs,Spring2009.Draftedletter,
appointedFLLpointpersononthisissue,200910.
FrenchDepartmentPresenterfortheFLLinserviceday,November7,2008.
FrenchDepartmentRepresentativetotheFLLTaskForceonLanguageLearninginthe21st
Century.20082010.
FacultySenateRepresentativetotheDiversityActionCouncil,200708.
GeorgetownCollegeFirstYearSeminar,Discussiongroupleader,2011,06,01,00,98,97.
CopresentationofMargaretAtwoodsTheBlindAssassintoGeorgetownCoachingstaff,with
ProvostJamesODonnell.August2006.
GeorgetownrepresentativeinnegotiationsforinstitutionallinkswiththeUniversityofMontreal,
200304.SponsoredbytheOfficeofInternationalPrograms.
CollegeAppealsBoard,January2004.
CollegeCurriculumCommittee,200102andSpring2001.
FacultySenateRepresentativeontheLibraryAdvisoryCommittee,200102.
FacultySenateRepresentative,200001.
DepartmentalRepresentativetoOIPOverseasStudiesLanguageFocusGroup,200002.
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Coordinator,CanadianEmbassyBookDonationtoGeorgetownUniversity,withElizabethSmith,
CoordinatorforCollectionDevelopment/GiftsLibrarian,Spring2001.
CollegeAppealsBoard,January2000.
Women'sStudiesAdvisoryBoard,GeorgetownUniversity,19962000,201112.
Women'sStudiesFilmFestival:Filmpresenter,1998;OrganizingCommittee,1997.
SpecialEventsatGeorgetownUniversity
VisitofQuebecdirectorJephtBastien,March2017.Classvisitandfilmscreeningaspartofthe
MoisdelaFrancophonie.
VisitofQuebecdirectorDanielRoby,andscreeningofhisfilm,LouisCyr,aspartoftheMoisdela
Francophonie,March2016.ClassvisitandQ&Aafterthefilm.
VisitofindigenousfilmmakersMelissaDupuisandCraigCommandafromtheWapikoniMobileto
theFMSTprogram,January2016.CoordinationofthescreeningandreceptionwithFMST.
VisitofwriterLarryTremblay,March2015.Organizer,introducer,andliaisonwithQuebecOffice
inDC.
VisitofIndigenousfilmmakerJeffBarnaby,November2014.LiaisonwiththeNationalMuseumof
theAmericanIndianandintroducerforthefilmmakerandhisstarringactress,DeveryJacobs.
SkypeteleconferencewithDr.RobertSchwartzwald,UniversityofMontreal,inthecontextof
French434,October2014.
LiaisonandPresenter,visitofHaitianQubcoisenovelistJosyO,October2013.
SkypeteleconferenceswithauthorsNicoleBrossardandLouiseDupr,inthecontextofmyFrench
478seminaronQuebecwomenwriters,FebruaryandMarch,2013.
Coorganizer,withErickLanger(CenterforLatinAmericanStudies),oftheGeorgetownCollege
AmericasInitiativesymposiumonBecomingIndigenous,AssertingIndigeneity,March1416,
2013.
VisitofYvesSiouiDurand,November2012.Organizerofthiseventandparticipantintheinterview
exchangewiththedirectorandCatherineJoncas,playwrightandactress.Coordinatedwiththe
NationalMuseumoftheAmericanIndianandtheQuebecGovernmentOfficeonbringingthis
directortoDC.6hours.
SkypeteleconferencewithfilmmakerJeffBarnabyinthecontextofFMST100,November2012.
VisitofMichaelParent,Feb.2012.Organizerofthiseventandpresenterfortheperformanceon
February7thandtheclassroomvisit(fourclassestogether)February8th.15Hours.
Santoro/19
CoorganizerwithSylvieDurmelatofthesymposium:PorousNations?Migrants,Transnationals
andIllegalsintheCinemasoftheMaghreb,QuebecandFrance.November2,2011.Introductions
anddiscussant.Inaddition,IservedaspresenterforthefilmLAngedegoudron,withdiscussants
DenisBachandandVincentDesroches,whichwasshownNovember2,aspartofthefilmseries
organizedinconjunctionwiththesymposium.65Hours.
OrganizeroftwovisitstocampusbyQuebecgovernmentrepresentatives,November17and24,
2009.JeanStphaneBernard:LajeunesseauQubec:enjeuxetperspectives;JeanStphane
BernardandDeborahRitter:Lconomiequbcoise.
Coorganizer,withRicardoOrtiz(English)andAdamLifshey(Spanish),oftheGeorgetownCollege
AmericasInitiativeonedaysymposium:Migration,LaborandtheFamilyinDiasporicNorth
America:LiteraryandCulturalPerspectives,GeorgetownUniversity,November5,2009.Ialsoco
introducedtheconferenceandintroducedthefirstmorningsession.
VisitofQuebecfilmdirectorPhilippeFalardeau,Spring2009.Coordinatorandintroducerfor
FalardeaustwoappearancesoncampusandattheLetelierTheatre.LiaisonwiththeAlliance
FranaiseofWashington.
VisitofMauritianauthorAnandaDevi,Spring2009.Coordinatorandintroducerofherpresentation.
LiaisonwiththeAllianceFranaiseofWashington.
20thand21stCenturyFrenchandFrancophoneStudiesInternationalConference.Coorganizerwith
AndrewSobanetand,WashingtonDC,March2008.Iorganizedand/orpresentedQuebecartist
BonnieBaxterandauthor/screenwriterMoniqueProulx.
LecturebyDr.LouisBalthazar,"Quebec:ANationwithinaNationinNorthAmerica."
Organizer/presenteronbehalfoftheAmericasInitiative,March2007.
QubecauthorMarieClaireBlais.Presenterofherreadinganddiscussion.April,2006.
QubecauthorElisabethVonarburg.Organizerandpresenterofhervisit,partiallyfundedthrougha
grantfromtheQubecMinistredesrelationsinternationalesandtheACSUSFundfortheArts.
April,2006.
"IntroductiontoHlneCixous"for"DerridaCosamentale:EnactmentsForJacquesinHarmony
withHlneCixous."GeorgetownUniversity.April,2005.
"ChamplainsLegacy:APresentationbyLouisCaronaccompaniedbyaphotoexhibitbyFranois
Poche."Liaisonandintroducerforthisevent,sponsoredbytheCanadianEmbassyandtheFrench
DepartmentMcCarthyEndowment.March,2004.
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QubecauthorGailScott.Organizerandpresenterofhervisit,cosponsoredbyGeorgeMason
University,andpartiallyfundedthroughagrantfromtheQubecMinistredesrelations
internationales.September2003.
CanadianSupremeCourtJusticeLouiseArbour.Assistedwithfundraisingandliaisingwiththe
CanadianEmbassyfortheGraduateSchoolofArtsandSciences,attherequestofDeanDavid
Lightfoot.February,2003.
AlgerianauthorAssiaDjebar.AssistedMichleSarde,SylvieDurmelatandRabiaBekkarwith
fundraisingfortheauthorsvisit.September,2002.
MinisterPeterBoehmoftheCanadianEmbassy.Guestlectureon"CanadaandtheUnitedStates:
PartnersinSecurity/PartnersinProsperity."Organizer.February,2002.
QuebecStudies"PrixduQubec"LaureateDr.MaryJeanGreen.Presenterforherlectureon
"MappingMemory,MappingGender:TheAutofictionalProjectsofRgineRobin."Eventorganized
byPaulYoung.April2001.
QuebecauthorNicoleBrossard.Organizerandpresenterofhervisit,cosponsoredbyMark
McMorris(English).March2001.
TheRightHonourableKimCampbell,ConsulGeneralofCanadainLosAngeles.Guestlectureand
classroomvisit.CoorganizedwithDeborahTannen(Linguistics).September2000.
QuebecauthorLouiseDupr:areadinganddiscussionwithGeorgetownstudentsandfaculty.
Organizerandpresenter.March2000.
QuebecauthorMarieClaireBlaisinWashington.Coorganizerofher5localappearances,with
JanineRicouart(GeorgeMasonUniversity).PresenterofBlais'readingatGeorgetown,September
1998.
QuebecauthorNicoleBrossardandAdrieneJenik:eventstohighlightQubecatGeorgetown
University.Organizerandpresenterofbothlectures.October1997.
SpecialEventsOrganizedatOtherInstitutions
PrincipalOrganizer,AIEQinternationalgraduatestudentconference,LeQubecdansles
Amriques,January1516,2016,attheWoodrowWilsonInternationalCenterforScholarsand
GeorgetownUniversity.Selectioncommittee,articleevaluationjury,introductoryandconcluding
remarks,presidedtwosessions,Q&Aforindigenousfilmmakers,CraigCommandaandMlissa
MollenDupuis,attheCanadianEmbassyFilmpresentation(Fridaynight).4050hours.
Santoro/21
VisitofQuebecMinisterofInternationalRelationstoDC.Coordinatorforthecosponsorshipofthis
eventbetweentheAssociationforCanadianStudiesintheUSandtheWoodrowWilsonCenterfor
InternationalScholars.Offeredclosingremarkstotheevent.February,2015.
RenLapierre:"Ecrireetvivredcentr,"VassarCollege.OrganizerandpresenterforRen
Lapierre'svisit.May1995.
"VarietiesofAntiModernism,"PrincetonUniversity.ColloquiumCoorganizer,withNatalieDavis
andLionelGossman.May1994.
SecondGraduateStudentColloquiuminRomanceLanguages,PrincetonUniversity.Coorganizer,
withVictoriaCampos.December1993.
"WritinginQuebecToday,"PrincetonUniversity.ColloquiumCoorganizer,withKarenMcPherson
andThomasPavel.November1991.
ProfessionalCommunity
President,AIEQ(Associationinternationaled'tudesqubcoises),June2015May2017.
ModernLanguagesAssociation,ExecutiveCommitteemember(electedposition),Languages,
LiteraturesandCultures,Francophone,20152019.Chair,201718.Secretary,201617.Delegate
AssemblyRepresentative,2017.
EditorialBoardmember,QuebecStudies,beginningwithVolume49,2010.
Grantevaluator,ACQSAIEQdoctoralstudiesgrant,February2017.
CoEditor,InternationalJournalofCanadianStudies,20142017.PierreSavardAwardscommittee
(bookcompetition),January2016.
Panelorganizer,chair,anddiscussant:GlobalQuebecinLiteratureandFilm.MLA,Jan.2017.
ThissessionwasselectedtobepartofthePresidentialThemeofBoundaryConditions.
Grantevaluator,QuebecStudiesGrantsforProfessorsandResearchersofferedbytheQuebec
MinistryofInternationalRelationsandFrancophonie,December2016.
Panelorganizerandchair,ContemporaryQuebecCinema:Masculinity,Rurality,andDolan.
Roundtableparticipant,AcademicandScholarlyExchangesAPanelDiscussion,ACQS
biennialconference,Portland,November2016.AlsoservedasSectionChairforCinemainthe
programplanningforthisACQSconference.
PresenterforthefilmLaPassiondAugustineattheMajesticCinema,Gettysburg,aspartofthe
WIFconference,June2016.
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Promotionreviewletter,MacalesterCollege,January2016.
Panelorganizerandchair,"FrancophoneMedia/na/tions,"MLA,Jan.2016.
Reviewer,1articleproposedtoQuebecStudies,December2015.
Reviewer,manuscriptproposal,UniversityofNebraskaPress,October2015.
Reviewer,articleforPMLA,October2015.
Reviewer,1articleproposedtoQuebecStudies,June2015.
Panelorganizerandchair,"DanyLaferrire,Academician,"MLA,Jan.2015.
CoEditor,InternationalJournalofCanadianStudies,20142017.PierreSavardAwardscommittee
(bookcompetition),January2016.
Reviewer,1articleproposedtoQuebecStudies,Dec.2014.
CanadaCouncil,KillamPrizeNominationEvaluator,Nov.2014.
AssociateEditor,AmericanReviewofCanadianStudies(ARCS),20082015.
Evaluator,Fall2011RufusZ.SmithPrizeCommittee.Selectioncriteriadevelopmentand
selectionofthebestarticlefromvolumes39.2to41.1(atotalof46articles)intheAmerican
ReviewofCanadianStudies.
ElectedCouncillor,ExecutiveCounciloftheAssociationforCanadianStudiesintheUnitedStates,
20112015.Fallmeeting:8hours.Interimwork:4hours.NominationsCommittee,Spring2015.
USRepresentative,ExecutiveCouncil,InternationalAssociationofQuebecStudies,May2011
present.MemberofComitscientifiqueforevaluationofgrantproposals,May2012June2015.
3xperyear,7hourseachtime,includingreadingapplications/discussions.ElectedVicePresident
fortheAmericasandAsia/PacificRimfor20132014.CE(June)2hrs,CS(June)(8hours).
Tenurecaseletterofsupport,ElonCollege,August2014.
Reviewer,1articleproposedtoAmericanReviewofCanadianStudies(ARCS),May2014.
Bookproposalandmanuscriptreviewer,GeorgetownUniversityPress,September2012,February
2014.
ACSUSinTampa,November2013.PanelChair:AmricanitandNationalisminQuebecFilm.
RoundtableParticipant:BecomingIndigenous,AssertingIndigeneityacrosstheAmericas.
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Reviewer,1articleproposedtoQuebecStudies,October2012.2hours.
Bookmanuscriptreviewer,XYZediteur,Montreal.December2012.
Reviewer,1articleproposedtoQuebecStudies,June2012.1.5hours.
ScholarshipAdjudicator,20112015.MurrayGlaubermanScholarshipAward,administeredbythe
ConsumerSpecialityProductsAssociation.TheGlaubermanScholarshipcommemoratesMr.Glaubermans
dedicationandexamplebyrecognizingastudentwhoseextracurricularcontributionsandaccomplishments
havebeenoutstanding.Thenationalpoolofapplicantscomesfromfamilieswithfulltimeemploymentata
CSPAmembercompany.Outofapoolofabout100applicants,theScholarshipAwardsCommitteechose
thetopranking13highschoolseniorsoutofwhichIselectedthewinningrecipientasanoutside
consultant.4hours.
Reviewer,CanadianStudiesGrantProgramSelectionCommitteefortheGraduateStudentFellowship
ProgramandtheFacultyEnrichmentGrantProgramadministeredbytheCanadianEmbassy,Washington,
DC,January2012.10Hours.
ProfiledintheNewsletteroftheInternationalAssociationforQuebecStudies,September2,2011.
<http://aieq.cybercat.ca/fr/voir.php?idNewsLetter=364>
Reviewer,1articleproposedtoWomeninFrenchStudies,September2011.
Reviewer,1articleproposedtoARCS,August2011.
Reviewer,1articleproposedtoQuebecStudies,July2011.
ProgramChairforLiteratureinFrench,ACSUSBiennialConferenceinOttawa,2011.Iorganized
orselected8panelsof34speakersforthisconference.AlsoPanelChair,ContextsofFirstNations
Film,andModerator(withAmyRansom),MiniplenarywithauthorsElisabethVonarburgand
SylvieBrard:Utopia,SFandFantasyfromQuebecLiterature.20Hoursofwork,includinggrant
applicationpreparationandnegotiationswiththeAIEQ.
Reviewer,1articleproposedtoTheInternationalJournalofCanadianStudies.Jan.2011.
Reviewer,2articlesproposedtoWomeninFrenchStudies.Winter201011.
Reviewer,3articlesproposedtoFemspec,Winter201011.
Evaluator,JamieBishopAward(giventothebestscholarlyessayonfantasywritteninalanguage
otherthanEnglish),InternationalAssociationfortheFantasticintheArts,November2010.
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TenureandPromotionDossierExternalEvaluator,CampusSaintJean,UniversityofAlberta,
Canada,December2010.
PanelChair:Cinmacontemporain,ACQSNovember2010,Burlington,VT.
JuryMember,Jeunessefrancophoneenaction,2010edition.CompetitionorganizedbytheCentre
delafrancophonedesAmriquestopromoteandaffirmtheFrenchfactintheAmericasthrough
supportingprojectstopromotetheuseofFrench.29videosubmissionsevaluatedfor10awards,
June2010.
Reviewer,articleproposedtoQuebecStudies,September2009.
MemberofAdvisoryBoard,UniversityofAlbertaCanadianStudiesInstitute,20082010.
AssociateEditor,InternationalJournalofCanadianStudies,20062010.Readallsubmissionsand
participatedinselectionforissues35(2007),36(2007),37(2008),38(2009),3940(2009),for
whichIalsowrotetheintroduction,and41(2010).Inthiscapacity,Ialsoparticipatedinthe
selectionofthePrixPierreSavardforthebestinternationalmonographinCanadianStudies,
200610;inthedeliberationsforthePublishingFundawardsofferedbytheInternationalCouncilfor
CanadianStudies,200610;andservedontheSelectionCommitteeforthefirstICCSWorld
SeminaronCanada,2009.
ProgramChairforLiteratureinFrench,ACSUSBiennialConferenceinSanDiego,2009.Also
PanelChair:TransatlanticPassages:LiteraryandCulturalLinksbetweenMontrealandEurope.
ExternalResearchGrantAssessor,SocialSciencesandHumanitiesResearchCouncilofCanada,
December2008.
Organizer,ProgramChair,andofficialACSUSLiaisonforthejointACQS/ACSUSinCanada
ConferenceinQuebecCity,2008.
PanelChair:TransatlanticPassagesII:Theatre;Fiction;ArtinSituandDiscussant:Transatlantic
PassagesI:Narratives;Images;FeminismsforthejointACQS/ACSUSinCanadaConferencein
QuebecCity,2008.
PanelChair:PanelonWomenandWomensVoicesinFrenchCanadaatTheMiddleAtlanticand
NewEnglandCouncilforCanadianStudies(MANECCS)andtheSouthernAssociationfor
CanadianStudies(SACS)jointconference,Arlington,October2008.
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Member,CommitteeontheStatusofWomenandDiversity,fortheAssociationofCanadianStudies
intheUS,20082010.
Moderator,WomenandFilmpanel,20thand21stCenturyFrenchandFrancophoneStudies
InternationalConference.Also:Presenter/InterviewerforMoniqueProulxaspartofthescreeningof
thefilmforwhichshewrotethescript,basedonhernovelLeSexedestoiles.
Reviewer,2articlesproposedtoWomeninFrenchStudies.SpringandSummer2007.
Reviewer,articleproposedtotheJournalofCanadianStudies.Spring2007.
Reviewer,articleproposedtoGlobe:Revueinternationaledtudesqubcoises,Fall2005.
RoundtableParticipant:ContemporaryQuebecCinema;PanelChair:"ContemporaryQuebec
Poetry";andIntroducerattheCanadianGovernmentPlenaryLuncheon,ACSUS,November2005.
Coordinator/CampusLiaison:VisittoGeorgetownsLauingerLibrarybyLiseBissonnette,Presidentand
CEOofTheNationalLibraryofQubec,November2005.
Reviewer,articleproposedtoWomeninFrenchStudies,May2005.
Reviewer,CanadianStudiesGrantProgramSelectionCommitteefortheGraduateStudentFellowship
ProgramandtheFacultyEnrichmentGrantProgramadministeredbytheCanadianEmbassy,Washington,
DC,December2004.
Coordinator,DCmetropolitanQubecStudiesconsortiuminvolvingcolleaguesfromGeorgetown,George
Mason,Marymount,AmericanU,Gallaudet,theWoodrowWilsonCenter,andtheWashingtonCenterfor
Internships,20022004.
SecretaryTreasureroftheAssociationforCanadianStudiesintheUnitedStates,November20032007.
AlsoservedontheThomasO.EndersFellowshipSelectionCommittee(2003)andtheNominations
Committee(2005).
Reviewer,articleproposedtoVoixetImages,September2003.
MemberoftheOrganizationalSubCommitteeon"FrenchintheAmericas"fortheInternationalConference
on"FrancophonieenAmrique,"LavalUniversity,Qubec,May2003.
Reviewer,U.S.DepartmentofEducationNationalResourceCenterandForeignLanguageandArea
StudiesFellowshipsPrograms(Canada),January68,2003.
PanelChair:"Nouveauxregardscritiquessurlesuvresdesfemmes,"AmericanCouncilforQubec
Studies,Mobile,Alabama,October2002.Alsochaired(inextremis)asessionon"Voyage."
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BookReviewEditor,WomeninFrenchStudies,Fall2002Fall2006.Bookreviewsections
publishedinWIFStudiesVol11,pp113144,Vol12,pp130164,Vol13,pp122156,Vol14pp
131160.
Secretary,AmericanCouncilforQubecStudies(ACQS),20002004.Electedposition.Responsible
forthesemiannualnewsletter,websiteupdates,the2003membershipdirectory,andforoverseeing
membershipandconferenceregistration.
Memberofthe2002CanadianStudiesPublicationGrantSelectionCommitteeawardedbythe
AssociationofCanadianStudiesintheUnitedStates.
Memberofthe2002SelectionCommitteefortheThomasO.EndersFellowship,awardedannually
bytheAssociationforCanadianStudiesintheUnitedStates(ACSUS).Theawardwinnerishosted
bytheUniversityofCalgaryfor20032004.
FrenchSectionChairfortheOrganizingCommitteeoftheACSUSBiennialConferenceinSan
Antonio,November2001.
PanelChair:"QubcoisTexts/Contexts:SociocriticalApproachestoTremblay,Beaucheminand
Charron,"ACSUS,November2001.
PanelOrganizerandChair:"Leseuiletledeuil,danslaconstructiondel'identitetdurapport
l'autre,"fortheConseilInternationald'EtudesFrancophones,Portland,Maine,MayJune,2001.
PanelOrganizerandChair:"WritingtheUnbearableinContemporaryLiterature:(De)Constructing
theSubjectofMourningandLoss"fortheACQSconferenceinMontreal,October2000.
"PrixduQubec"SelectionCommitteeMember,ACQS2000.
PanelOrganizerandRoundtableModerator:"TheFacesofFrancoCanadianWomen'sWritingsin
the90s"forACSUS1999conference,Pittsburgh,November1999.
PanelOrganizerandChair:"OfMemoryandMemoirs:MappingHorizonsinContemporary
Women'sWritings,"fortheACQSconferenceinCharleston,November1998.
RegistrationCoordinatorandmemberoftheOrganizingCommitteefortheACQSConferencein
Charleston,SC,November1998.
Moderator:"ComicsandFeminism"panel,SecondAnnualInternationalComicsandAnimation
Festival,GeorgetownUniversity,September1996.
PROFESSIONALMEMBERSHIPS
AmericanAssociationofTeachersofFrench
AmericanCouncilforQubecStudies
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AssociationforCanadianStudiesintheUS
AssociationInternationaled'EtudesQubcoises
ConseilInternationald'EtudesFrancophones
ModernLanguagesAssociation
WomeninFrench
Localcommunityservice:
201213CamelotPTA:BJsfundraisingcoordinatorandPTAvolunteer.
May2012,PresentationonWestVirginiaFossilstoCamelotGradetwoclasses.
20102013CamelotPTAVolunteer,OrganizedIceCreamSocial(2010and2011),Reading
NightParentsandChildrensdinner(2010),BingoNight(2011),andvolunteeredforother
events(FunRun,2011;FieldDay,2011and2012;IceCreamSocial,Bingonight,20122013;
InternationalNightFoodcoordinator,2013).
ParentrepresentativeofCamelotElementarySchoolSACCtotheSchoolAgedChildCare
(SACC)ParentsActionCommittee(PAC),FairfaxCounty,VA.201215.
VolunteerTeacher,SundaySchool,LewinsvillePresbyterianChurch,201115.
TaiChiSubstituteinstructor,FairfaxCountyParksAuthority,Summer2015.