Department of Romance Languages
Cybelle McFadden Wilkens
Assistant Professor of French
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Department of Romance Languages
Office: 2334 MHRA
P.O. Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
Phone: (336) 334-3648
Fax: (336) 334-5358
cmwilken@uncg.edu
Education
- PhD in Romance Studies, Duke University, 2005
- Major Field: French Literature and Film
- Minor Field: Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies
- MA in Romance Studies, Duke University, 2001
- Fulbright Scholar, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 1997-1998
- BA in French, Summa Cum Laude, 1997, The College of William & Mary
- Major: French Literature and Film
- Second Major: Women’s Studies
Research and Teaching Interests
Contemporary French and Francophone film, video, visual art, and literature; twentieth-century French women’s film and literature; feminist theory; film theory
Honors and Grants
Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowship, Duke University, 2003-2004
Preparing Future Faculty Fellowship, Center of Teaching, Learning and Writing, Duke University, 2003-2004
Graduate School Summer Research Grant, Duke University, 2003
Graduate School International Travel and Research Grant, Duke University, 2002
Pensionnaire Étrangère, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 2001-2002
Freewater Productions Film Grant, Duke University, 1999
Omicron Delta Kappa, The College of William & Mary, 1997
Phi Beta Kappa, The College of William & Mary, 1996
Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society, The College of William & Mary, 1996
Journal Articles
“No Sex Last Night: The Look of the Other.” Intermédialités 7 (2006): 111-125.
“Body, Text, and Language: Wittig’s Struggle for the Universal in Les Guérillères.” Women in French Studies 12 (2004): 70-84.
Book Review
Rev. of On Monique Wittig: Theoretical, Political, and Literary Essays, ed. Namascar Shaktini. H-France Review 6 (November 2006), review 139.
Books
Visible et Invisible: lutte des femmes, edited collection, in preparation.
Entering into the Video: Self-Representation, Reflexivity, and Contemporary French Female Filmmakers, in preparation.
Conference Papers
“Documentary, the Portrait, and Female Creativity in Jane B. par Agnès V.” for Women’s Studies area, Film & History League, Dallas, November 2006
“Visibility and Invisibility: The Body, Sexuality, and the Photo” for panel “Visible et invisible: lutte des femmes,” 20th-21st Century French Studies, University of Miami, March 2006
“No Sex Last Night: le regard de l’autre,” Sophie Calle conference, organized by Figura, Centre de recherche sur le texte et l’imaginaire, Université du Québec à Montréal, April 2005
“The Role of the Artist: Agnès Varda’s Meditation on Art,” for panel “The Mise en scène of Art and Artist in 20th Century France,” 20th-21st Century French Studies, Florida State University, April 2004
“Sophie Calle’s Self-Representation: The Production of Art and Life,” for panel “The Feminine Self,” Constructing Images of the Self, Duke University, February 2004
“Agnès Varda’s Gleaning and Recycling: a Glimpse of Contemporary French Society in the Margins,” for panel “Recycling and Transplanting in Literature and Visual Media,” MLA Annual Meeting, December 2003
“My Body, My Video: Sophie Calle’s No Sex Last Night and Dominique Cabrera’s Demain et encore demain,” for panel “Autobiographical Bodies,” Focalizing the Body: Contemporary Women’s Writing and Filmmaking in France, University of London, Institute of Romance Studies, October 2003
“Annie’s Ernaux’s Passion simple and Se perdre: The dialogue between published text and published journal,” for panel “Diaries and Letters,” MLA Annual Meeting, December 2002
“Student Beliefs and Attitudes About Language Learning,” co-presenter with Professor Clare Tufts, ACTFL Annual Meeting, November 2000
Selected Coordinations and Presentations
Introduction to film, The Battle of Algiers, Human Rights Film Festival, UNC-Greensboro, September 2007
Invited lecturer, “Entering into the Video: The Female Body, the Film Body, and the Self-Portrait,” French Lecture Series, Macalester College, October 2006
Co-curator, International Film Series, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 2005
Organizer, visit of Dominique Cabrera, Duke University, March 2005
Introduction to film, Les Filles ne savent pas nager, Duke University Center of French and Francophone Studies and Film and Video Program’s Screen/Society French film series, October 2002
Introduction to film, Camille Claudel, in conjunction with Auguste Rodin exhibit, North Carolina Museum of Art, July 2000
Curator, “An Evening of Films by Women Filmmakers,” Duke University’s Program in Film and Video and the Program in Literature, 1999
Films
The Unexpected Roommate, 16mm, Duke University, 1999
Playing in the Cemetery, 16mm, Duke University, 1998
Qui ose regarder? video, Atelier des jeunes cinéastes, Brussels, 1997-1998
Teaching Experience
UNCG courses:
French Conversation and Culture (French 312)
Twentieth-Century French Literature Seminar (French 653)
Advanced Grammar and Composition (French 315)
Topics in Modern Literature: Adultery in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century French Literature (French 454/693)
French and Francophone Civilization (French 532)
Other courses:
Text, Film, and Media
Art and Ideas in French Culture
French Drama Workshop
Introduction to Literary Analysis
French Cinema
French Literature 1900-present
Gender and Popular Culture: Women and Contemporary Film (Women’s Studies)
Cultural and Literary Perspectives on Contemporary France
Advanced Intermediate French Language and Culture
Intermediate French
Beginning French