ROBYN COPE CURRICULUM VITAE
Office: Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, PO Box 6000, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902 Email: [email protected] Phone: (607) 777-2645 Fax: (607) 777-2644
EDUCATION 2013 Ph.D. in French, Florida State University, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, with Distinction 2003 M.Ed. in Secondary Education, Xavier University. 1994 B.A. in French, Miami University, Department of French and Italian, cum laude
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2014-present Binghamton University, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Assistant Professor of French; Affiliated Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies (LACAS) Program; Affiliated Faculty, Sustainable Communities Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence (TAE) 2017-2020 Binghamton University, Department of Comparative Literature, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature (courtesy title) 2013-2014 Florida State University, Graduate School, Director, Program for Instructional Excellence & Fellows Society
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS 2020 Harpur College Subvention Award, The Pen and the Pan: Food, Fiction, and Homegrown Caribbean Feminism(s) monograph project. 2019 Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Diversity and Inclusion Leave Award. 2018 Individual Development Award, “Food, Fiction, and Homegrown Caribbean Feminism(s)” conference presentation at the Global Feminisms Conference at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. 2018 Co-recipient (with Romance Languages Pre-Tenure Faculty), Harpur College Mutual Mentoring Initiative Grant. 2017 The Québec/United States University Grant Program, Support Program for the Development of Courses on Québec, for FREN 381Q, “Multicultural Quebec.” 2016 Dean’s Semester Research Award 2015 IASH Faculty Fellow, “The Forbidden Fruit: Creoleness in Lakshmi Persaud’s Butterfly in the Wind and Sastra.” 2015 Individual Development Award, summer research at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (Monograph project development, The Pen and the Pan & Course development, “Race, Roots and Identity in the French Caribbean”) 2008-2013 Winthrop-King Fellow, Florida State University. 2009-2010 University Fellow, Florida State University.
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1991-1994 Benjamin Harrison Scholar, Miami University. 1991-1994 National Merit Scholar. 1991-1994 Ohio Academic Scholar.
RESEARCH INTERESTS Contemporary Afro- and Indo-Caribbean women’s writing, Literary Food Studies, Edwidge Danticat, gender and feminisms in the Caribbean, contemporary Haitian literature
PUBLICATIONS Books: 2021 The Pen and the Pan: Food, Fiction and Homegrown Caribbean Feminism(s) (forthcoming, University of the West Indies Press).
Peer-Reviewed Articles: 2017 “ ‘We Are Your Neighbors’: Edwidge Danticat’s New Narrative for Haiti.” Journal of Haitian Studies, vol. 23, no. 1, spring 2017, 128-148. 2015 “Gagging on Égalité: French Culinary Imperialism on the Island of Reunion in Axel Gauvin’s Faims d’enfance.” Food and the French Empire. Spec. issue of French Cultural Studies 26.2 (May 2015): 220-230. 2015 “Writing Haiti Global: Food and Fascism in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones.” Haiti in a Globalized Frame. Spec. issue of Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 19.3 (2015): 315-324.
Book Chapters: 2021 “Scattering and Gathering: Danticat, Food and (the) Haitian Experience(s).” The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat. Bloomsbury, 2021, pp. 283-302.
Book Reviews: 2021 “Precarious Crossings: Immigration, Neoliberalism, and the Atlantic by Alexandra Perisic (review).” Contemporary French Civilization. Forthcoming.
2019 “Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean by Jason Herbeck (review).” French Studies: A Quarterly Review, vol. 73, no. 3, Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 505-06.
Translations: 2010 Trouillot, Evelyne. “Eternity Lasted Less than Sixty Seconds.” Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010. Ed. Martin Munro. University of the West Indies Press, 2010.
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Manuscripts in preparation:
“A New Plague: Kidnapping and Gang Violence in Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State and Edwidge Danticat’s ‘Ghosts’ and ‘Dosas.’” (article project)
“With Friends Like These: Neglect, Betrayal, and Gender-Based Violence in the Contemporary Haitian Short Story.” (article project)
Macoutes, Chimè, and Casques Bleus: Haitian Women’s Writing in the 21st Century. (monograph project)
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Panels Organized: 2015 “Recipes for Power: Food and Literacy in French and Francophone Literature.” 46th Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, Canada, April 30-May 3.
Papers Presented: 2018 “Food, Fiction, and Homegrown Caribbean Feminism(s).” Global Feminisms and the Anti-Colonial Project Biennial Conference, Cave Hill, Barbados, November 21-23. 2015 “Haiti Through the World’s Eyes: Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light.” 27th annual Haitian Studies Association Conference, Haiti in the Global Environment: Presences, Representations, Performances, Montreal, Canada, October 22-24. 2015 “Alienation and Agency in Maryse Condé’s Victoire, les saveurs et les mots.” 46th Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, Canada, April 30-May 3. 2014 “Américanité, Antillanité and Créolité in Lakshmi Persaud’s Butterfly in the Wind.” Culture/Identity/Politics: Eloge de la Créolité Twenty Years On International Conference, Tallahassee, Florida, October 21-22. 2013 “Blurring the Borders of La Francophonie: Edwidge Danticat’s Language(s) in Breath, Eyes, Memory and The Farming of Bones,” KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, Lexinton, Kentucky, April 18-20. 2013 “The Culinary Trace: Gisèle Pineau’s Un Papillon dans la cité and L’Exil selon Julia,” 20th & 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Atlanta, Georgia, March 28-30. 2013 “Writing Haiti Global: Food and Fascism in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones,” Haiti in a Globalized Frame International Conference, Tallahassee, Florida, February 14- 16.
Panels and Presentations Chaired: 2018 “Resistance and Revolution.” Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Fourth Biennial Undergraduate Research Conference, Binghamton University. 2016 “Caribbean History, Culture, and Politics.” Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies
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Third Biennial Undergraduate Research Conference, Binghamton University. 2014 “Comics and Graphic Novels in the Foreign Language Classroom,” 2nd Annual Conference on Foreign Language Teaching, Binghamton University, September 20-21. 2013 “Literature in the Built Environment,” Haiti in a Globalized Frame International Conference, Florida State University, February 14-16. 2012 “Sarkozy and Africa,” Sarkozy’s France Conference, Florida State University, Feb 20-21. 2011 “The Myth of Haiti’s Pact with the Devil: Evangelical Revival and the Haiti Quake,” Haiti 2011 International Symposium, Florida State University, February 17. 2009 “World, Regional and National Literatures,” Littérature-Monde: New Wave or New Hype? International Conference, Florida State University, February 12-14.
THESES SUPERVISED Fall 2018 Toutche, Paulin. “Le Houn dans la littérature haïtienne.” MA publishable article project, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Binghamton University (substitute for Master’s thesis).
THESIS COMMITTEES Spring 2017 Belizar, Karine. “Henri Christophe: une figure tragique dans la littérature contemporaine, francophone/anglophone/hispanophone.” Master’s Thesis, Latin American Studies, University of Delaware (outside committee member).
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SUPERVISED Summer 2020 Lewis, Marc. “Kreyòl Pale, Kreyòl Konprann: Haitian Creole in Edwidge Danticat’s English-Language Fiction and Essays.” Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP).
TEACHING AND MENTORSHIP AT BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY Graduate/Advanced Undergraduate Courses: FREN 481E/581E Race, Roots and Identity in the French Caribbean (new spring 2016) FREN 481K/581K Haiti’s New Narratives (new spring 2017)
Undergraduate Courses: FREN 381C Food in Francophone Literature (new spring 2015) FREN 381Q Multicultural Quebec (new spring 2018) FREN 341 French Society and Culture (new fall 2020) FREN 251 Grammar and Composition FREN 215 Intermediate French II FREN 211 Intermediate French I
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UNIV 103 Danticat’s Dyaspora Writing (new fall 2020)
Graduate Independent Studies: Spring 2021 Chris Lysak, MAT student in French. “French Society and Culture” adapted to 500 level course. Spring 2018 Paulin Toutche, MA student in French. “Multicultural Quebec” adapted to 500 level course. Fall 2017 Paulin Toutche, MA student in French. “Food in Francophone Literature” adapted to 500 level course. Spring 2017 Baddredine Ben Othman, PhD student in Comparative Literature. “Haiti’s New Narratives” adapted to 500 level course.
Undergraduate Independent Studies: Spring 2021 Sebastien Conge, undergraduate student, “(The) Haitian Experience(s)” Spring 2020 Autumn Connor, undergraduate student in French Language and Literature. “Food in Francophone Literature,” adjusted to 400-level. Spring 2019 Geraldin Diaz, undergraduate student in Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies. “Caribbean Culinary Fiction.”
Teaching Assistant Supervision: Spring 2021 Eve Milusich, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for FREN 341 Spring 2020 Laura McDowell, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for FREN 215 Spring 2019 Christopher Lysak, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for FREN 215 Fall 2018 Nadine Madiou, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for FREN 215 Spring 2017 Marie Louis-Jeune, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for FREN 215 Spring 2016 Derek Vladescu, Graduate Teaching Assistant for FREN 215
Extracurricular Student Engagement: 2016-present Organizer, “Taste of the French Caribbean,” annual open music, culture, and culinary event sponsored by College in the Woods Spring 2018 Panelist, “ ‘Black and…?’ or ‘Black or…’ ,” discussion organized by Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority Spring 2016 Keynote Speaker, Haitian Students Association Banquet. “Dany Laferrière: Pearl of the Caribbean.”
ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2008-2013 Teaching Assistant and Instructor of Record, Florida State University 2006-2007 Teaching Assistant and Instructor of Record, Miami University 2004-2005 Adjunct Instructor, Miami University Hamilton Branch Campus 2007-2008 French Teacher, Edgewood High School, Trenton, Ohio 2001-2006 French Teacher, Lakota East & West High Schools, West Chester, Ohio
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INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE Romance Languages and Literatures: 2021-present Acting Head, French Division Spring 2021 Committee Member, Spanish Tenure Track Faculty Hiring Committee Spring 2020 Committee Member, French Lecturer Hiring Committee 2015-present Faculty Advisor to French Minors 2017-present Faculty Advisor to French Intern and French Activities Coordinator 2017-present Committee Member, Languages Committee 2015-present Co-evaluator, MA in French comprehensive exams 2017-2018 Advisor to Student Advisory Committee, French Faculty Third Year Review Spring 2017 Committee Member, Administrative Assistant to the Chair Hiring Committee 2016-2017 Departmental Representative, Transfer Student Orientation 2014 & 2017 Departmental Representative, Commencement Ceremony Fall 2016 Committee Member, Department Secretary Hiring Committee Spring 2016 Co-reviser, MA in French Reading List Fall 2016 Committee Member, Retirement Appreciation for Department Secretary and Administrative Assistant to the Chair Fall 2015 Committee Member, Romance Languages and Literatures Open House
Harpur College: 2015-2016 Co-organizer, Dean’s Speaker Series, “Current Trends in Caribbean Thought: Francophone, Anglophone and Hispanic Perspectives”
University: 2019-present Member of Advisory Board, Harriet Tubman Center for the Study of Freedom and Equity Organized Research Center. 2014-2015 Individual Development Awards Program Committee Fall 2014 General Education Assessment, FREN 211-02
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Peer reviewer, Journal of Haitian Studies Peer reviewer, Modern and Contemporary France
ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY BUILDING 2020 Faculty participant, Anti-Racist Pedagogy Mutual Mentoring Initiative 2020-present Faculty mentor, BFirst Binghamton University First-Generation Mentoring Initiative 2017 & 2018 Faculty Participant, “The State of Race at Binghamton University: A Public
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Deliberation,” hosted by the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. 2017 Faculty participant, “Ask Big Questions” informational lunch by the Center for Civic Engagement, the Office of the Dean of Students, and the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. 2016 Faculty participant, “Addressing Implicit Bias in Higher Education” Workshop, by the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Fall 2015 Faculty Participant, Harpur College Diversity and Inclusion Dialogue
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (SELECTED) 2021 “Justice Now? : Tackling Legacies of Europe’s Colonial Past in the Wake of Black Lives Matter.” Virtual interdisciplinary symposium. March 22nd-26th. 2021 “Madan Sara: The Power of Haitian Women” Virtual screening and discussion. The Center for Experimental Ethnography. March 8th. 2021 “Colorism in the Haitian Community” and “Haitian Women”. Virtual roundtables hosted by The Haitian Times. March 2nd and 28th. 2020 “Understanding Your Research Impact: An Overview of Traditional & Alternative Metric Assessment Tools” workshop, University Libraries 2016-2019 Haitian Creole lessons (1-2 monthly) 2014 & 2015 Binghamton University’s 2nd and 3rd Annual Conference on Foreign Language Learning
LANGUAGES English native French native-like/distinguished Haitian Kreyòl intermediate reading & writing; novice high listening & speaking Spanish advanced reading; intermediate listening, speaking & writing Italian intermediate reading; novice listening, speaking & writing
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) Haitian Studies Association (HSA) Women in French (WIF)
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