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revised February 2017 curriculum vitae Dr. Christine McCall Probes, Professor Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques Outstanding Faculty Award, March 5, 2014 Chair, CAS Faculty Council, 2014-May2016 Chair, USF Library Council, 2008-2010 Senate Executive Committee, 2007-2011 Elected Member of USF System Council, 2010-2014 Associate Director, Humanities Institute of USF, 2007-2011 Coordinator, Faculty Mentoring Program, College of Arts and Sciences, 2000-present Vice-President, Alliance Française de Tampa, 2000-2011 Co-Director, Florida-France Institute, 2000-present Executive Council, French CIR 17, 1996 to present Executive Council, North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 1989 to present Present Head, French Section of Department World Languages Department, College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida CPR 107 Tampa, Florida 33620 (813) 974-2743, Fax: (813) 905-9937 e-mail: [email protected] 1. EDUCATION a. Undergraduate: B.A. in French and Art from Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Alabama, 1963. b. Graduate: Research and study at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris and at l'Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, 1965-1966. Ph.D. in French, minor: Romance Linguistics from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1968. Dissertation: "St. Augustine as 'Garent' of Jean de La Ceppède: Attested Influence in the Théorèmes." Chairman: Francis L. Lawrence. 2 2. ACADEMIC HONORS OR AWARDS, GRANTS, PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES a. Scholarships held throughout undergraduate school, French Government Fellowship "France-Amérique" for a year of study in France, Title IV NDEA Fellowship held for three years at Tulane University. Chosen in October, 1970 as Florida Atlantic University's one official nominee for summer stipend from National Endowment for the Humanities. February, 1971 awarded seed grant by Florida Atlantic University for summer research. Twice awarded a Research and Creative Scholarship Grant (USF Sponsored Research) totaling $12,655. Various Library Enhancement Grants. Co- authored a Departmental Grant for Teacher Education in Foreign Languages, MLA/NEH 2 year grant, awarded February, 1995. Co-authored with Dr. Trevor Purcell of Africana Studies the CAS Colloquium Grant, funded by CAS ($3,750) and LACS ($1,500), for the April 1999 conference, “Culture, Wisdom and Pratice of the African Diaspora: the Caribbean and Tampa.” Co-authored with officiers of Phi Sigma Iota, a Community Service Grant to benefit local Haitians, awarded February, 1996. Co-authored a $15,000 Center for Teaching Excellence Grant (awarded in 1998-1999) “African and African- American Images in Film.” Various International Travel Grants benefitting research; latest awarded in September 2012 for presentation at international conference in Paris and subsequent meetings with officials of U de Paris regarding exchanges with USF. “Florida-France Linkage State Grant on Globalization”, total with cash matches and in- kind: $40,000. Co-authored with Dr. Kofi Glover an Innovative Teaching Grant, “Africa and the African Diaspora: Film, Languages, Study Abroad, Undergraduate Research and Service Learning at Home and in Africa” (not awarded, plan to resubmit). Co-authored Grant application to Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for Conference: Book 2.0 (not funded without criticism, encouraged to reapply). Submitted, application to Faculty Research Grant Program with the Institute on Black Life for project “Memory and Identity Transmitted by the Antillean Woman: Strategies of Literature and Film.” Grant application submitted, “Taste, Literature and the Arts,” to the France Florida Foundation for the Arts. Speakers’ award applied for at request from the Miami Consulate, granted. Co-PI with Mark Greenberg and Paul Dosal: “Interpreting Cultural Heritage: Tampa’s Cubans and Their Club, 1886 to present,” written in 2007, grant awarded January 2008 by Florida Humanities Council, total with cash matches and in-kind: $80, 534. International Travel Grant from CAS in 2009 for two presentations at two international conferences in Geneva and subsequent research in Paris. International Travel Grant from Research Council for 2010 presentation in London and research at the British Library. International Travel Grant from Research Council for 2012 presentation in Paris and exchange meetings with U de Paris V. Advisory Committee for NSF Grant, head PI Kathy Borman of Anthropology; focus is on Mentoring in Chemistry and Engineering. Applied, not awarded: “Historical Ideas and Exemplifications of Virtue As Seen through 3 Humanistic and Scientific Lenses: What Are the Implications for Individuals and Groups in the Twenty-first Century?” co-PI with Mozella Mitchell, Navita C. James and Deborah Noonan. Grant agency: Arete Initiative at the U of Chicago. Applied as member of grant team from the Humanities Institute and CSILC for 2010 NEH Bridging Cultures Grant, not awarded. CAS Development Grant in 2013 toward publication of volume Emblems and Propaganda (Glasgow University) for 2014. Elected Chair, CAS Faculty Council, 2014-present. Research One Grant awarded in December 2014 for February 2015 event on Sino-French Film; Confucius Institute support also awarded. Faculty International Travel Grant awarded for 2014 invited presentation at the international Conference on Emblem Studies at Kiel, Germany. b. Dean's List throughout undergraduate school; college honorary societies: Kappa Pi, national art; Chi Delta Phi, national English; Alpha Beta, local scholarship honorary; Tri Sigma, scholarship, spirit and service; twice awarded the French scholarship prize. Phi Sigma Iota, national language honorary; Pi Delta Phi, national French honorary. c. Membership in: MLA, SAMLA, NASSCFL, AATF, CIR 17, WIF, SSCFS, International Society for Emblem Studies, ADIREL, American Society of French Academic Palms, SEMFS (UK), RSA, Australian Society for French Studies. d. Bio-Bibliographical mention in French 17, ADIREL, and in Répertoire des dix- septiémistes. e. Executive Council, NASSCFL, 1989 to present. NASSCFL Editorial Board, 2007 to present. Executive Council, CIR 17, 1996 to present. MLA Delegate Assembly, Named Representative of Executive Committee, MLA's Seventeenth Century French Literature Section, Fall 2007 to present. Editorial Board of SAMLA’s South Atlantic Review 2008 to present. Nominee to MLA Organizing Committee of the Delegate Assembly. Nominee to MLA Bibliography Advisory Committee. f. Appointed to MLA’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, 2007 to 2011. g. Elected to MLA’s Delegate Assembly, 2007 to 2011. h. Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2002. i. European “Prix Web” for 2002 volume French 17 (I am a member of the team that produces this annual critical bibliography). j. Diversity Award in 2010 from USF’s Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity. k. Named by French government Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, October 9, 2012. Decoration bestowed in 2013. 4 l. Outstanding Faculty Award, March 5, 2014. m. Mention of achievements in Fall 2015 Humanities Institute Newsletter 3. FACULTY APPOINTMENTS and ADMINISTRATION a. Taught as graduate assistant at Tulane University, 1966-1967. b. Joined faculty of Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, in September, 1968 with rank of instructor; September, 1969, promoted to rank of assistant professor (Voluntary resignation due to move, June, 1971). c. Joined faculty of Mississippi College, Clinton, Mississippi, in September, 1972 with rank of assistant professor (Interim). d. Joined faculty of University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, in September, 1975 with rank of assistant professor (part-time). e. Joined faculty of University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, in August, 1987 as full-time, tenure track assistant professor. Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor, August 1990. Promoted to Full Professor, August 2008. f. Associate Chair, Division of Languages and Linguistics, 1992-1996 and 1997- 2001. g. Interim Chair, Division of Languages and Linguistics, 1996-1997. h. Associate Director, Humanities Institute, January 2007-August 2011. i. Courses taught. Undergraduate: French Conversation, Composition and Grammar (all levels), the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Seventeenth Century, the Eighteenth Century, the Nineteenth Century, the Twentieth Century, Survey Courses on Literature and Culture. Graduate level courses and seminars: Bibliography and Research Tools for French and Spanish graduate students, French for Research, Baudelaire, Existentialism, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Classical Prose and Poetry, Classical Drama, the Eighteenth Century, French Women Writers (cross-listed at request of Womens Studies Department), Fables, Fairy Tales and Philosophy. Developed with a grant from 5 USF’s Center for Teaching Enhancement: African Images in Francophone Film (Exit Course for Liberal Arts Curriculum), cross-listed at request of Africana Studies Department. Research Methods in Humanities for Honors College, General Education course Great French Love Stories. j. International Teaching. As “Professeur Invitée” at French universities, for several periods teaching in the specializations as above (including Women Writers and African Images in Film, as well as American Literature and Culture). Co- direction of M.A. thesis at the U de Perpignan and invited participation in the Jury. k. Theses directed at USF are listed under Service. Similarly for Thesis Committee work. 4. PRESENTATIONS a. "La Ceppède and St. Augustine," SAMLA annual meeting, November