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Nancy E. Virtue

Associate Professor of French

Department of International Language and Culture Studies

Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne, IN 46805

260/481-6632

EDUCATION

Ph.D.	1993	French, University of Wisconsin Madison
		Thesis: Representations of Rape in the Renaissance Novella
		Thesis Director: Ullrich Langer
M.A.	1987	University of Wisconsin Madison
B.A.	1983	Assumption College
		magna cum laude, double major in French and English

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

	Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne

	1999-present	Associate Professor of French
	Fall 2006	Interim Chair, Department of International Language and Culture Studies
	2005-2007	Director of International Studies
	1998-2005	Co-director of International Studies
	1993-1998	Assistant Professor of French

	Educational Testing Service

	1997-present	Faculty Consultant to the Educational Testing Service's Advanced Placement French Reading Series

	University of Wisconsin Madison

	1991	Lecturer of French
	1985-1991	Teaching Assistant of French

	Lycée Polyvalent Rive Gauche, Toulouse France

	1988-1989	Poste d'assistant (French government teaching assistantship)

COURSES TAUGHT

	F111-F204	First- through Fourth-Semester French
	F213	Second-Year French Composition
	F305	Introduction to French Literature I
	F317	French Language Skills I: Composition
	F318	French Language Skills II: Conversation
	F325	Oral French for Teachers
	F326	Business French
	F330	French-English Translation (online and face-to-face versions)
	F340	Contemporary French Culture
	F356	Introduction au cinéma français
	F410	Medieval French Literature
	F413	Renaissance French Literature
	F442	French Poetry
	F450	Women in French Literature
	F460	French Fiction in Film
	F463	French Civilization I : The French Revolution
	F474	Thème et Version
	INTL I200	Introduction to International Studies
	INTL I208	International Cinema

PUBLICATIONS

	Articles in Print :

	“Singing from the Edges: Tété’s Brand of French Musical Métissage,” French Review 82:6 (May 2009).
	"Gender and Theology in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron," Women in French Studies 12 (2004).
	"Storytelling in Transition:Character Individuation in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron," Romance Notes XLII:3 (Spring 2002).
	"Rereading Rape in Two Versions of La fille du comte de Pontieu," Fifteenth Century Studies 27 (April 2002).
	"Translation as Violation: A Reading of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques," Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme XXII:3 (Summer 1998).
	"Another Look at Medieval Rape Legislation," Mediaevalia 22:1 (Fall 1998).
	"Le Sainct Esperit parlast par sa bouche: Marguerite de Navarre's Evangelical Revision of the Chastelaine de Vergi," Sixteenth Century Journal XXVII:3 (Fall 1997).
	"Ce qui doit augmenter le cœur aux dames: Telling the Story of Rape in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron," Romance Quarterly 44:2 (Spring 1997).

	Translation in Print :

	"'Si les signes vous fâchent...': Natural Inference and the Science of Signs in the Renaissance." By Marie-Luce Demonet. In South Central Review 10:2 (1993). Eds. Philippe Desan and Ullrich Langer.

	Publications related to Teaching:

	Revisions for web-based exercises and online quizzes for the fourth edition of the 2nd-year textbook, Ouvertures: Cours intermédiaire de français (Wiley & Sons, 2005).
	Workbook/Lab Manual Part I to accompany the first-year textbook, Débuts:An Introduction to French. Co-Authored with H. Jay Siskin, Ann Williams-Gascon, Elise Leahy, and Tom Field (McGraw-Hill, 2002).
	Web-based Exercises to accompany Entretiens: Cours de conversation, an advanced conversation textbook published by Harcourt College Publishers, 2000. Url: http://www.heinle.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20bI&product_isbn_issn=9780030290466&discipline_number=304
	Web-based exercises and online quizzes for the second edition of the 2nd-year text, Ouvertures: Cours intermédiaire de français (Harcourt, 2000).

GRANTS / AWARDS

	2008	Leepoxy Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
		Mobile Teaching Environment Grant, granted by the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching IPFW.
	2006	PRF International Travel Grant
		Indiana University Overseas Conference Fund
		IPFW Distance Learning Grant ($3700) to develop F474, an advanced online French-English translation class.
	2005	Nominated by students for the Continuing Studies Faculty Star Award 2005 for the online version of French F330, French-English Translation, Summer 2005.
	2004	PRF International Travel Grant .
		IPFW Distance Learning Grant ($10,000) to develop two on-line French-English Translation classes.
	2003	PRF International Travel Grant .
	2002	PRF International Travel Grant .
	2001	Indiana University Bloomington International Enhancement Grant .
	1999	Elected to Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET).
		IPFW Summer Research Grant
	1997	Purdue Research Foundation Summer Faculty Grant

PAPERS / PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED)

	2007	"Torture, the Pentagon and War Lessons: The Colonial Gaze in The Battle of Algiers"
		“La guerre d’Algérie révélée: le cache-cache cinématographique de Michael Haneke dans le film Caché” at the Congrès du Conseil international d’études francophones (CIEF), French Guyana, on July 4, 2007.
	2004	“Le voile et la caméra: l’hégémonie européene exposée dans La bataille d’Alger.” Congrès du Conseil international d’études francophones (CIEF), Liège, Belgium, 19-26 June, 2004.
	2002	“Jacques Demy’s Allegorical Treatment of Colonization in Les Parapluies de Cherbourg,” Congrès du Conseil international d’études francophones, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, May 26-June 2, 2002.
	2001	“Géburon’s Tired Soldier: The Price of Masculinity (Novella 65)” Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL, March 29-31, 2001.
	2000	“Narrative in Transition: The Generation Gap in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron,” Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Culture Studies, New Orleans, LA, November 18, 2000.
	1999	“Storytelling in Transition: Female Individuation in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron,” “Les Femmes écrivains de l’ancien régime,” University of Virginia Charlottesville, September 24-25,1999.

SERVICE (University)

	2005-07	Director IPFW International Studies Certificate Program.
	1999-2005	Co-Director IPFW International Studies Certificate Program
	2000, 2005	Interim Overseas Study Director, IPFW