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Vol. XXI Fall 2007 Three professors retire after inspiring careers rofessors Julia Bondanella (Italian), Peter Bondanella (Italian), and PRosemary Lloyd (French) all retired at the end of the 2006–2007 academic year. We caught up with them in May to review the highlights of their careers and ask them to reflect on their time at Indiana University. Their profiles and a brief ques- tion-and-answer summary follow. Professor Julia Conaway Bondanella earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon. She joined the IU faculty in 1974 with a specialization in European Renaissance literature and culture. Bondanella was involved with the Honors Division from the time she arrived at IU, and she held the positions of as- Peter and Julia Bondanella at lunch with Federico Fellini, Rome, 1978 sociate director, associate dean, and acting dean in what has since been renamed the Portable Machiavelli (which has sold more title of Distinguished Professor of Compar- Hutton Honors College. Issues relating to than 100,000 copies) with Mark Musa. ative Literature and Italian. He has received honors students have been at the core of His book The Eternal City: Images of Rome numerous awards in this field, including Bondanella’s career. She was instrumental in the Modern World was nominated for a the President’s Award of the American in creating the honors grant and freshman Pulitzer Prize in 1987. His groundbreaking Association for Italian Studies for his book merit scholarship programs and served as work in the field of Italian cinema, how- Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the vice president and president of the Na- ever, has perhaps most firmly established his Present and the Giovanni Agnelli Founda- tional Collegiate Honors Council. Julia reputation as a scholar and earned him the tion Prize for the Best Book in Italian Stud- Bondanella’s work as a scholar of the Italian ies for The Cinema of Federico Fellini. In Renaissance has also been noteworthy. Her 1980, Professor Bondanella founded IU’s early scholarly work was in Renaissance love summer program in Florence with funds poetry, but she broadened her scholarship from his own pocket, and he served several over the years to include work with her hus- years as chair of the Department of West band, Peter Bondanella (profiled below). European Studies. His prodigious research The Bondanellas’ joint publications include has been supported by fellowships from the translations of Vasari’s Lives of the Artists, National Endowment for the Humanities, Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy, Cellini’s the American Council of Learned Societies, My Life, Carlo Ridolfi’sThe Life of Titian, and the Lilly Foundation. and editions of Purgatorio and Paradiso for Professor Rosemary Lloyd was born the Barnes and Noble Classics library. and raised near Adelaide, Australia, and Professor Peter Bondanella also re- moved to England in 1975 when she won ceived his PhD in Comparative Literature a scholarship to pursue a PhD at the Uni- from the University of Oregon and joined versity of Cambridge. On completion of the Department of French and Italian in the PhD in 1978, with a thesis devoted to 1972 as a scholar of Renaissance Studies. Baudelaire’s literary criticism, she was elect- His translations include Machiavelli’s The ed to a fellowship at New Hall, University Prince (which has sold more than 200,000 Rosemary Lloyd in Fellows’ Garden at of Cambridge, where she has recently been copies), Boccaccio’s Decameron, and The New Hall, Cambridge (continued on page 2)

 Our one absolute desideratum was that of students who are not ready to read and Professors retire it not be flat, like Cambridge. Flying into write at the university level seems to have (continued from page 1) Indianapolis at dusk, all we could see was grown. Too many students entering the elected a fellow emerita. The following year flat land. But we woke up at the IMU the university in the last decade seem to lack she was appointed to be university lecturer next morning and gazed out at the most the kind of historical perspective that would in Cambridge University’s French Depart- beautiful campus we’d ever seen, in full fall allow them to draw distinctions between ment (where she was awarded a LittD colors. Then it snowed—crisp white on all events, books, or works of art from dif- degree in 2001). In 1990, she moved to the color. We were seduced. ferent eras. They also find it difficult to Indiana University, where she has con- discern reliable sources of information on tinued to pursue research and translation What do you consider your the Internet. Part of the problem may lie in interests focused on 19th- and 20th-cen- greatest accomplishment the way teachers are prepared today and the tury French literature and culture, with an ­during your time at IU? new methods and theories applied to the emphasis on literature and the visual arts. humanities. I have the sense that a good JB: I always tried to help students rec- Her books include Baudelaire’s World, many students lack a strong background in ognize the importance of general educa- Mallarmé: The Poet and His Circle, Closer grammar and writing. As for changes in the tion and the crucial role of the humanities and Closer Apart: Jealousy in Literature, academy, I think that the approaches to the in learning to think critically based on and The Land of Lost Content: Childhood in humanities are quite different from those evidence, in developing imagination and Nineteenth-Century French Literature. Pro- that inspired me to earn a PhD. creativity, in learning how to write well, and fessor Lloyd has also published numerous PB: There is certainly more research in living a good life. The amount of time I translations of Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and money. Whether better research is being spent with my students to teach them how Mylène Catel (PhD’96). Her scholarship done is an open question. to write cogently and gracefully is time has earned her numerous awards, including RL: The biggest changes have been in as well spent as that on my own scholarly a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship, a National the area of technology and the possibilities projects. I believe that my contributions to Endowment for the Humanities Fellow- that technology has brought for different honors education nationally, as well as to ship for University Teachers, a Camargo ways of teaching and of doing research. the development of IU’s honors programs Foundation Fellowship, and a Leverhulme and the Hutton Honors College—in Fellowship. What do you think you will particular developing increased funding miss most about being a How did you wind up at for research and international experien­ ces—have been significant. My translations ­professor? Indiana University? and my publications in the literature of art, JB: I will miss the daily contact with col- JB: I began my academic career at the Machiavelli, and Petrarch have received leagues and students. I have always enjoyed University of Montana, where I studied international recognition. I am proud to classroom teaching, especially directed with some amazingly creative people, have developed and designed the Interna- discussion. including the notable literary critic Leslie tional Experience Program in the Hutton PB: Faculty meetings and grading pa- Fiedler. Although he was one of the first Honors College and to have addressed the pers, without question. so-called “culture” critics, Fiedler always issue of studying foreign languages and cul- RL: Having the possibility to explore grounded what he thought and wrote tures on a national level in my presidential great works of literature with such a range in the text. He had a kind of passion for address for the National Collegiate Honors of readers and in particular of convincing provoking us Montanans, but he never Council. them that poetry—which often seems to forgot—or let his students forget—that PB: In 1980, I founded the summer have been taught as something intimidating the critic should always begin with a program in Florence, which is still in opera- or boring in high school—is really a won- thorough knowledge of the texts. I came tion. I also helped through my teaching derful source of pleasure and excitement. to IU in 1974, after completing my PhD and publications to put Italian cinema into in Comparative Literature and working the curriculum of virtually every Italian What words of wisdom would in the Department of English at Wayne program in North America. I was also able State University for three years, where I meet and get to know some outstanding you want to pass along to an taught courses in English and Comparative people—Denis Mack Smith, Umberto Eco, incoming faculty member in Literature. Federico Fellini—during my time on the the Department of French and PB: I left Wayne State University for IU faculty. Italian? IU because I wanted to be in a graduate RL: Two things really: my book on still JB: Few professions offer the freedom program with a program abroad. life in narrative, Shimmering in a Trans- to think, to teach, and to write about RL: In 1988, I received a letter, entirely formed Light, and the four exhibitions I important ideas and great works of art and out of the blue, inviting me to apply for a presented at the Lilly Library, particularly literature over a lifetime. Even if it involves position here. Knowing nothing about the the last one on French artists’ books of the a great deal of hard work, both intellectual University, and never having visited the 20th century. It was a great deal of work, and physical—and it does—it is all worth- United States, I asked two people—George but I had a wonderful richness of works while and, at least to me, deeply satisfying, Steiner, and the president of my college, from which to select. The exhibition itself because it is something you carry with you Rosemary Murray—both of whom had and the catalog were spectacular. been here on visits, what they thought that enriches your life no matter where you about it. George spoke highly of the role of What changes have you seen in are or what you are doing. It is a chal- languages at IU, while Rosemary gave me the students/academy during lenge to balance teaching, scholarship, and a book about the trees on the campus and service; it is a challenge to sit alone at your warmly remembered meeting Herman B your time at IU? desk and work, but as Virgil knew, “Labor Wells. So we came, arriving for an inter- JB: Some students seem better pre- vincit omnia improbus.” view in the third week of October 1989. pared than ever before, but the number (continued on page 4)

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n the summer of 2006, Julie Auger University of Miami. In September, Gray de la fin du Moyen Age: l’exemple du directed the CIC study-abroad pro- participated in a week-long conference on messager païen,” in European Medieval Igram in Québec City. While she was on “The Impact of Proust” in Bellagio, Italy, Drama, 10 (published in 2007). As part leave in Montréal during the fall of 2006, as a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation, of the Virgin Mary project, he has also she gave lectures at many universities in where she presented a lecture on Proust published an article, “Les Notre-Dame de New Brunswick, Québec, and Ontario. In and popular culture. Highlights of the Bon Lait: dévotions, rituels et antécédents November, she presented a joint paper with experience included a daily late-afternoon préchrétiens” in Revue du Tarn (Actes du Francisco Montaño (MA’06) at NWAV in swim off the Foundation’s private beach on Colloque “Espaces thérapeutiques, saints Columbus, Ohio. In January, she presented Lake Como, surrounded by alpine peaks. guérisseurs et autres intercesseurs,” Gaillac, the results of the research that she had She also enjoyed reading AP French exams, 9-11 Dec. 2005) 2007, no. 204. Merce- conducted with doctoral student Anne-José which brought the chance to reconnect ron was invited to Berlin to deliver a talk Villeneuve at the GalRom07, a confer- with former colleagues and students, in- on “The Sacred and Laughing Body in ence devoted to Gallo-Romance languages cluding Cathy Pons (PhD’90) and Juliana Pious and Lay French Medieval Literature” that was held in Nice. She also published Starr (PhD’95), who did not scruple to at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, as part two co-authored papers: an article about crush her hard-working former disserta- of the conference, “Risus sacer-Sacrum Picard geminates written with Brian José tion-committee member at tennis, 6-0, 6-0. risibile: Fields of Interaction between that appeared in the Catalan Journal of A brief break in the action of the Nine- the Sacred and Laughter in Cultural and Linguistics, and an article about e muet in teenth-Century French Studies Colloquium Historical Transition,” in May 2007. As Québec French that appeared in the journal here in Bloomington in October brought for teaching, he greatly enjoyed working Glottopol. the pleasure of catching up with Sayeeda with Aaron Cantrell on his senior thesis on In March 2007, Margot Gray presented Mamoon (PhD’96) and Joyce Johnston Merlin and Medieval sciences. a paper, “‘Une Histoire de Filles’: Gender, (PhD’01), although time did not permit an Emanuel Mickel and his wife, Kathleen, Masquerade and Displacement in Japrisot’s opportunity to even the score with Juliana spent the Michaelmas Term (September Piège pour Cendrillon,” at the International Starr. 29–December 9) at Pembroke College, Colloquium in Twentieth and Twenty-First Rosemary Lloyd had a very active year University of Cambridge. Before arriving Century French Studies, hosted by the in preparation for her retirement, meet- at Cambridge, they visited Dublin, spent a ing up with many alumni for scholarship week in the Dordogne at Les Eyzies, and and friendship. She took part in a poetry visited Paris. Professor Mickel lectured at reading at the College Arts and Humani- Cambridge and Edinburgh University. He French & Italian ties Institute in September with Mylène was asked to contribute a chapter on the Catel (PhD’96), at which Catel read recent trial of Ganelon in the MLA-sponsored This newsletter is published by the Indiana poems and Lloyd read her translations. volume, Chanson de Roland, which ap- University Alumni Association, in coop- Professor Lloyd also met up with depart- peared in December 2006. In early 2007, eration with the Department of French ment alumnae—Juliana Starr, Sayeeda the British Branch of the Société Rencesvals and Italian and the College of Arts and Mamoon, and Joyce Johnston—at the published Epic and Crusade, which Sciences Alumni Association, to encourage annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies ­included the papers from the 2004 annual alumni interest in and support for Indiana conference in Bloomington in October. meeting of the Société Rencesvals (British University. For activities and membership The annual meeting of the Société des Branch) held in honor of the completion information, call (800) 824-3044 or send dix-neuviémistes in Cambridge, England, of Old French Crusade Cycle, a 10-volume e-mail to [email protected]. allowed Lloyd and Starr to meet up again series edited by Mickel and his recently Department of French & Italian in March. Professor Lloyd continued her deceased colleague, Jan A. Nelson. Mickel Chair...... Sonya Stephens social and intellectual activities in Cam- has been asked to join the editorial board Editors...... Heather May bridge with a conference organized in of Medievalia, and his article on satire in and Isabel Piedmont her honor and devoted to “Translations/ the trial of Renard has just appeared with College of Arts & Sciences Transpositions,” in which numerous of her Medievalia et Humanistica. Dean...... Bennett Bertenthal former students took part. Professor Emeritus Samuel N. Rosen- Executive Director of Development Jacques E. Merceron spent spring 2007 berg spoke on topics in French lyric poetry & Alumni Programs...... David Ellies on sabbatical leave in Paris, working on a of the Middle Ages at colloquia at the Uni- Virgin Mary project covering the Middle versité de Valenciennes in November 2006 IU Alumni Association Ages to modern times. In October 2006, and at the Université de Metz in March President/CEO...... Tom Martz he published a book on French place names 2007. He presented a paper this May at the Director of Alumni (legends, fake etymologies, and puns), La annual Congress on Medieval Studies at Programs...... Nicki Bland Editor for Constituent Vieille Carcas de Carcassonne. Florilège de Western Michigan University. His edition Periodicals...... Julie Dales l’humour et de l’imaginaire des noms de and translation of the songs of Colin Muset Assistant Editor...... Abby Tonsing lieux en France, with Editions du Seuil prepared in collaboration with Christopher (Paris). Radio France Culture interviewed Callahan (PhD’85) appeared at the end of him about the book on March 7. He also 2005 (Paris: Champion), and he published published an article on medieval French two articles on Muset’s lyric corpus in the drama, “Le couple ludicra-seria et son cod- ensuing months. Professor Rosenberg’s age scénologique dans le théâtre religieux (continued on page 4)

 Faculty news scholars from the United States, UK, tics (AAAL) in Costa Mesa, Calif., with France, and Australia (via Hong Kong). Tamara Lindner (ABD Linguistics) and (continued from page 3) Professor Stephens is editor of the Société Kevin Rottet. Valdman served as modera- edition and translation of Old French des dix-neuviémistes’ journal XIX, which is tor for a special panel on the evolution of ­ballettes, prepared with Eglal Doss-Quinby, in its fourth year of publication and which, second-language acquisition research in the came out in 2006 (Geneva: Droz), and his this year, published its first special number, course of the last thirty years, organized retelling of an Arthurian tale, Lancelot and a double issue devoted to Delphine de to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the the Lord of the Distant Isles, written in col- Girardin. In 2006, Stephens published two AAAL. Professor Valdman co-authored laboration with Patricia Terry, was recently essays on Baudelaire’s prose poems, one in an invited article with Rottet, “Vers un published (Boston: Godine), as was the the Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire dictionnaire du français de Louisiane,” pub- most recent volume (and first under Profes- and another, “Les lectures de l’archilecteur? lished in a special issue on French in Loui- sor Rosenberg’s editorship) of Encomia, Readers of/in the Petits Poèmes en prose,” in siana in the journal Etudes francophones. the annual publication of the International the Bulletin baudelairien (40, 1–2), as well Valdman is also the author of the lead Courtly Literature Society. as an article, “Paris and Panoramic Vision: article, “Vernacular French communities in Kevin Rottet published articles in a lieux de mémoire, lieux communs,” in Mod- the United States: A general survey,” which joint issue of the Revue canadienne de ern and Contemporary France (14, 2). She appeared in the special French Review linguistique appliquée/Canadian Journal has also contributed to and edited a volume issue (May 2007), “La francophonie aux of Applied Linguistics, and the Revue of essays titled Ebauches: Projects and Pre- Etats-Unis.” The Creole Institute, which de l’Université de Moncton, and he co- Texts in Nineteenth-Century France, which Valdman continues to direct, published the ­authored an article with Albert Valdman in soon will be published (with Peter Lang). Haitian Creole-English Bilingual Diction- Etudes créoles. Editing work continues on She has also started a number of new and ary this spring. the Dictionary of Louisiana French as Spo- collaborative projects with colleagues in Rebecca Wilkin secured a contract for ken in Cajun, Creole and Native American the United States. She became chair of the her book, Women, Imagination, and the Communities, with publication expected in department on July 1, 2007. Search for Truth in Early Modern France late 2007. Rottet gave conference papers This has been a busy and rewarding with Ashgate Publishing Company. She is at the American Association for Applied academic year for Albert Valdman as he putting the final touches on the manuscript Linguistics (AAAL) in Costa Mesa, Calif., continues his transition into emeritus sta- and is looking forward to some champagne in April, and at the conference of the North tus. He is the recipient of a $300,000 grant in the company of friends and family when American Association of Celtic Language from the National Science Foundation to it is in the mail. She participated in two Teachers (NAACLT), held in Edmonds, conduct sociolinguistic research on Haitian conferences this year: “French Historical Wash., in June 2006. He received a West Creole. He will explore the effect of the Studies” in Houston and “North American European Studies Summer Language Grant standard norm of the language on its most Society for Seventeenth Century French to study Breton in the summer of 2006, deviant regional variety, that of the Cape Literature” in Lincoln, Neb., where she and he continues to work on and teach Haitian area in northern Haiti. Valdman had the pleasure of seeing Denis Augier Welsh, this year as an independent study participated in a colloquium, “Language (PhD’97) and meeting one of Tammy through West European Studies and at the Revitalization: The Case of Louisiana,” in Berberi’s (PhD’03) colleagues. Profes- intensive residential course hosted by Cym- April 2007 at the annual meeting of the sor Wilkin’s daughter, Marian, will be in deithas Madog in Albany, N.Y. American Association for Applied Linguis- kindergarten this year. Time flies! Massimo Scalabrini is currently work- ing on two articles, “The Peasant and the Monster in the Macaronic Works of attend classes, write often, and talk to Teofilo Folengo” and “Naming the Comic Professors retire professors, they will learn how to learn. I Hero: Some Case Studies from Boccaccio (continued from page 2) have always encouraged students to chal- to Ariosoto.” He also continues work on lenge themselves by taking courses or by two book projects, one on the poetics of PB: Focus on doing good research— engaging in activities that are outside their comedy in the Italian Renaissance and the your real constituency is beyond the bor- comfort zones, including volunteer work. other on the pastoral tradition in literature ders of Bloomington, Indiana. I have perhaps above all advocated study and the visual arts with Professor Davide RL: IU has such a lot to offer: three abroad during my career. Stimilli of the University of Colorado at great libraries (Wells, Fine Arts, and Lilly), PB: Do not write anything that is not Boulder. the Jacobs School of Music, the overseas clear, thoughtful, and free of academic Since coming to IU, Sonya Stephens study programs, and its wonderful technol- jargon. Do not follow critical trends. By the has presented papers at the Nineteenth- ogy support. I would recommend to all in- time you think a methodology is popular, Century French Studies Colloquium, coming faculty members that they explore it is too late to be the leader in that field. which took place at IU in October 2006; everything the University offers and to pass Do something you love doing—that feeling at the Société des dix-neuviémistes’ annual their knowledge about these resources on is probably the only real reward you will conference, which took place in March in to their students. receive from it. Cambridge, England; and at the Nine- RL: Stretch yourself—there is so much teenth-Century Cultural Production work- What words of wisdom would more to enjoy than American popular cul- shop at the University of Florida Research you give to today’s students? ture. Great works of literature, art, music, Center in Paris. She also organized a con- JB: I think the most important advice and architecture all require time and effort ference and presented a paper at the Uni- I could give students is to follow their to appreciate, but they bring enormous re- versity of Cambridge on the theme “Trans- instincts. They should study something wards in terms of intellectual and emotional lations/Transpositions” in honor of fellow for which they have a real passion, even satisfaction. colleague and dix-neuviémiste Rosemary if it doesn’t appear to have an immediate Lloyd. The conference brought together practical application. If they work diligently,

 Honors & awards Awards ceremony recognizes student and faculty success n April 20, the Department of French The Italian faculty also recognized out- The faculty recognized the accomplish- Oand Italian held its annual awards standing students through multiple awards. ments of their colleague in French linguis- ceremony at the Indiana Memorial Union This year’s Mario and Katrina Vangeli Un- tics, Associate Professor Barbara Vance, for to honor outstanding students, associate dergraduate Award for excellent achieve- her excellence in teaching and mentoring stu- instructors, and faculty. In his final year ment as a student of Italian was presented dents by awarding her the Trustees’ Teach- as department chair and emcee, Professor by Professor Julia Bondanella to senior ing Award. Given the secrecy surrounding of Italian Andrea Ciccarelli shared his wit, Michael Cancelmi (BA’07). Director of this award, Professor Vance was surprised as wisdom, and friendship with the gathering Italian Graduate Studies Peter Bondanella well as honored by her recognition. of students, faculty, and staff. Awards pre- later presented the Vangeli graduate award senters followed in his footsteps, providing to doctoral student Beatrice Arduini Initiations humor and insight about award recipi- (MA’05). Undergraduate Advisor and Professor ents, and remembering the French and Juniors Juliana Dumas and Anna Hes- Emanuel Mickel congratulated the spring Italian scholars for whom the awards are ser each received a Carol A. Hofstadter 2007 Phi Beta Kappa initiates majoring in named. The event also provided students, Memorial Scholarship to assist in funding French or Italian: Caitlin Dugdale, Isabel faculty, and staff with a venue to catch up their studies in Bologna through the IU Estevez, Anna Pizzi, and Melissa Troyer. over punch and cake following the official overseas study program in 2007–08. These The Phi Beta Kappa inductees presentation ceremony. scholarships are given in memory of Carol was followed by Professor Scalabrini’s pre- Ann Brush Hofstadter, who also studied sentation of the new initiate to the Gamma Student awards and in Bologna and was the wife of Professor Kappa Alpha Italian Honor Society, Arwen scholarships Douglas Hofstadter (cognitive science). Myers. The French faculty recognized their Professor Hofstadter and Professor Emeri- outstanding students through a variety of tus Edoardo Lèbano shared the honor of Other recognitions awards named in honor of former faculty presenting these awards. The former broke Before concluding the awards ceremony, members and alumni. Professor Rosemary with his usual tradition of reading selec- Professor Ciccarelli acknowledged a num- Lloyd carried on the tradition of donning tions from his book, Le Ton Beau de Marot, ber of key members of the department for a unique hat, to honor the late Professor which he presented to the award winners a variety of services. After recognizing the Grace Young’s favorite fashion accessory, along with their certificates, to share some administrative staff for their work through- to bestow the Grace P. Young Awards. of his favorite puns. out the year, Professor Ciccarelli honored (Professor Lloyd later revealed that the hat Professors Julia Bondanella, Peter Bon- is a key costume element in her prepara- Teaching awards danella, and Rosemary Lloyd, all of whom tions for retirement in Australia.) Professor The Department recognized superior per- were retiring at the end of the semester. Lloyd presented the awards for excellence formance in teaching as well as in scholar- Ciccarelli presented all three beloved pro- in French literary studies to doctoral stu- ship, presenting its annual teaching awards. fessors with books on Hoosier topics. dent Olga Amarie (MA’04) and to senior Director of French Language Instruction The ceremony concluded with Peter Aaron Cantrell (BA’07). Kelly Sax presented the Associate Instructor Bondanella and Rosemary Lloyd making a Honors also went to senior Rowenna teaching awards to Ben Trotter (MA’07) surprise presentation to Andrea Ciccarelli Miller (BA’07), who received the John K. and Anne-José Villeneuve, both PhD on behalf of the faculty of the Department Hyde Award in recognition of undergradu- students in French linguistics. Italian PhD of French and Italian to commemorate his ate achievement in French. Junior Laura student Ioana Larco (MA’05) won the eight years of service as chair of the depart- Birkenbeul received the Albert and Agnes Department’s Italian Associate Instruc- ment. Department administrator Isabel Kuersteiner Memorial Prize in recognition tor teaching award, presented by Director Piedmont also thanked Professor Ciccarelli of distinction in written and spoken French, of Italian Language Instruction Massimo for his years of diligent leadership marked while junior Eric LaMagdeleine received Scalabrini. by humor, diplomacy, and respect. the Charlotte F. Gerrard Memorial Prize for excellence in French studies. Senior Emma Eklof (BA’07) was the recipient of Membership Matters. the second annual Quentin M. Hope Me- Your Indiana University Alumni morial Award, and senior Melissa Troyer Association membership supports (BA’07) won this year’s Lander Mac- programs that provide scholarships Clintock Memorial Award for outstanding for students, Commencement cer- achievement as a student of French. emonies, student-recruitment efforts, Professor Julie Auger presented the an- and student-leadership programs. nual award for graduate students in French Linguistics, the Peter Cannings Prize, to www.alumni.indiana.edu Anne-José Villeneuve, who was honored twice at this year’s awards, also winning [email protected] a French Associate Instructor teaching Emma Elkof receives the Quentin M. Hope (800) 824-3044 award. Memorial Award from Margot Gray

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fter a career of 30 years in hospital Always, she wore a small, black hat with a technology at Loyola Blakefield, a college- administration, Donald M. Hip- partial veil and black dresses to class and on preparatory school in Towson. She is a A pensteel, BA’49, is the facilities campus. Many of my credits were from her national speaker on the issue of cyber safety. manager at First Unitarian Universal- classes. [To Rudy Professor of French and Joanne Altschuler, BA’71, is a professor ist Church in Columbus, Ohio. He and Italian and Linguistics at IU Bloomington] and the bachelor’s program director of the his wife, Carolyn (Hays), BS’55, live in Albert Valdman, congratulations. I knew School of Social Work at California State Columbus. She is a retired administrative him for four years as a member of the Indi- University, Los Angeles. assistant for the Ohio House of Representa- ana Foreign Language Teachers Association Rev. Gerald W. Keucher, BA’73, tives and Senate. board.” MA’75, is chief of finance and operations “At the annual meeting of the Geo- Nicolis “Nikki” Kaplan Stern, BA’64, for the Episcopal Diocese of New York. He logical Society of America on Oct. 22 in is an account manager for LSQ Funding is also the bishop’s vicar for the Church of Philadelphia, the National Association Group in Orlando, Fla. She writes that she the Intercession in Manhattan. Keucher is of Geoscience Teachers awarded me its is widowed, has two children, Neil and the author of Remember the Future: Finan- highest award, the Neil Miner Award ‘for Heidi, and has five grandchildren, Josh, cial Leadership and Asset Management for exceptional contributions to the stimula- Eric, Alexis, Ethan, and Zachary. She en- Congregations, released by Church Publish- tion of interest in the earth sciences,’” joys her family, work, and traveling. ing in 2006. writes William D. Romey, BA’52. Romey, Therese “Teri” Moran Fell, BA’66, A retired librarian, Grace M. Whyland, professor emeritus of geography at St. Law- and her husband, Arthur, BS’57, JD’66, BA’73, lives in Indianapolis. rence University in Canton, N.Y., also pre- live in Montpellier on the southern coast Rebecca Miller Shanahan, BA’74, sented a paper at the meeting. “Communi- of France and would be happy to see IU JD’77, is president of OTN Specialty Ser- cating about the Geosciences: Self-Publish- alumni. They can be reached at arterifell@ vices, a physician-services company in San ing and Distributing Books” dealt with a aol.com. Francisco. Previously, she served as execu- Web site Romey and his co-author created Caterina Cregor Griner Blitzer, tive vice president and general manager of to make the public aware of self-published BA’69, is coordinator of international Aetna Specialty Pharmacy. books by geoscientists, www.libri-terrarum. education for the Indiana Department of Regina McKernan Harm, BS’75, is a com. Romey lives in East Orleans, Mass. Education in Indianapolis. Previously, she freelance singer and a choir director at her Jean Smith Minneman, BA’53, is spent 11 years as the executive director of church. She is a member of a semi-profes- retired and living in Sarasota, Fla. She the International Center of Indianapolis. sional group, Jubilate Deo Chorale, which writes, “Grace Young, BA’08, MA’14, Deborah A. Cotter, BA’70, of Cock- has performed twice at Carnegie Hall. “I was an outstanding professor of French. eysville, Md., is the director of academic just love coming back to campus to visit, since our son, Daniel, is a student—even if it is a 12-hour drive,” she writes. Harm lives in Cherry Hill, N.J. Alumnus still recovering after devastation Julie M. Songer, BA’80, works in com- munications for Northrop Grumman, a of Hurricane Katrina defense contractor. “I also have eight years n August 28, 2005, just before Hurricane of radio experience in the Dallas area,” OKatrina, the most devastating storm in U.S. she writes. “I also worked for a year at a history, hit New Orleans, Denis Augier (PhD’97) radio station in Taiwan. While there, I was and his wife Lora evacuated the house they were also a correspondent for CBS radio. In renting. When they returned, they found the house my current position, I am using my radio and all of their possessions ruined by the impact of background to produce podcasts. Now that the storm and subsequent flooding. Denis Augier’s Northrop Grumman has heard my voice, dissertation, on the topic of alchemy in French they are going to use me for more voice Renaissance literature, was one of the many losses work for videos.” Songer works and lives in he sustained in the storm. Augier’s work leading up Dallas. to and including his current position as an associ- Sonia Childress-Hoek, BA’83, ate professor at the University of New Orleans is MAT’87, writes, “[I’m] happily teaching notable. He received an MA from the University again and raising two girls bilingually.” She of Nebraska, a Licence from the University of teaches high school French at Frankton ­Avignon in France, the Grace Young Graduate (Ind.) Junior-Senior High School and lives Award in 1993, and a Weathers Dissertation Fel- in Cicero. lowship at IU in 1996. He also taught French at Susan Jordan Myers, MA’89, PhD’94, Indiana State University while he completed his dis- is a professor of French at William Jewell Laura Augier sertation. The Augiers relocated to another house College in Liberty, Mo. She and her hus- Denis Augier recovers items in New Orleans upon their return to the city, but band, William, MM’91, live in Liberty. after Hurricane Katrina they are still working to recover from their losses Christopher J. Momenee, MA’90, con- and find normalcy in their lives. Denis and Lora Augier can be reached at their new tributed a chapter, “The Business: Slipping home: 4710 Mandeville Street, New Orleans, LA 70122. Past the Velvet Rope,” to Writing Movies: (continued on page 7)

 Sonya Stephens becomes new chair of Department onya Stephens within my academic building, old habits, Rather, I believe that any major projects Sjoined the familiar faces, and favorite places. And its should be developed and shared by all department in fall proximity to France. those with an interest in the future well- 2006 from the ­being of the department. And I hope that School of Modern What has surprised you most we, the faculty and the students, will be Languages, Litera- about Bloomington/IU/the talking about these things a lot. Always. tures and Cultures Department? at Royal Hollo- What are some of the princi- Stephens: I’ve been surprised by many way, University of things, such as the generosity we have been ples that will guide your work London, where she shown and the friendships that have grown as chair? was a professor of in such a short time, the speed at which the Stephens: I think that a large part of what Modern French Sonya Stephens grass grows, the size and variety of insects, a chair does is to create opportunity for Literature and Cul- the resident wildlife, the local cheeses, the others and to manage resources to enable ture. In 2005–06, she was chair of French fabulous elementary schools and the qual- colleagues to take full advantage of those as well as head and deputy head of school. ity of the teachers, the opportunities that opportunities. What I have always appre- Professor Stephens’s books and editions exist to explore and develop interests, the ciated in my professional life is access to include Baudelaire’s Prose Poems: The Prac- quality of the performing and plastic arts, enough information about situations to be tice and Politics of Irony (Oxford University the public library, and the loyalty to and able to participate in the debates and the Press, 1999), A History of Women’s Writing support of IU in the local community. I’m decision-making as well as the opportunity in France (Cambridge University Press, pleasantly surprised to find opportunities and freedom to share my views about any 2000), and many articles on Baudelaire and for exchange and collaboration at IU, the situation with colleagues. These will be my 19th-century French culture. Her forth- fantastic resources of the library and other guiding principles as I work with colleagues coming publications include a collection collections, and the fact that, though the in the department: to create every opportu- of essays on the theme of the ébauche; a acronyms change, the fundamental issues nity for faculty to conduct original research collection of essays on Baudelaire; and a in higher education remain the same. As far and to teach engaging courses that will number of articles on Baudelaire, French as the department goes, I enjoy having the attract undergraduates and highly qualified poetry, and visual culture in the 19th cen- academic freedom to teach what I think is and committed graduate students—as well tury. She is currently completing a book on interesting and significant, the light-touch as new faculty—and, in so doing, to main- the unfinished as a phenomenon in 19th- administrative procedures (compared with tain the program’s top ranking nationally. century France. Professor Stephens began the completely oppressive ones I’ve been her responsibilities as chair of the depart- used to), the range of courses taught, and What is one fact that people ment on July 1, 2007, and we caught up the number of students keen to take them. with her during the calm before the storm likely do not know about you? to learn more about what the department Are there any major projects Stephens: A colleague once Googled me might expect from her leadership. and came up with information about a you foresee embarking upon as wrestler and a marathon runner. I can con- What have you enjoyed most Department chair? firm that I am neither. about working in the Depart- Stephens: Ask me next year! I don’t think ment thus far? that coming in with a project is desirable. Stephens: It’s always stimulating to be in a new environment with new colleagues, new courses, and new students. Each day Dorothy L. Stegman, MA’96, PhD’99, has been a challenge, from learning that a Alumni notes is a professor of French at Ball State guillotine is really called a paper cutter, that (continued from page 6) University in Muncie, Ind. In August, she the envelopes are in the credenza and the The Practical Guide for Creating Stellar presented “Les Listes Entrelardées ou un photocopier is on the fifth floor, to teach- Screenplays, published by Gotham Writers’ Genre Qui s’Engendre” at McGill Univer- ing all my classes in French (most classes Workshop. He lives in New York City. sity’s international colloquium in Montreal. are taught in English in the UK system). Nicole Wilson Denner, BA’93, MA’96, Desiree M. Bongers, MA/MLS’98, is I’ve enjoyed learning from colleagues works at Stetson University. She and her the library director of Ripon Public Library about how things work and discovering husband, Michael, BA’93, live and work in in Wisconsin. how things are done at IU. And I’ve loved Deland, Fla. Jason M. Kivett, BA’01, is the district working with the students at every level; Joyce E. Dixon-Fyle, MA’96, MLS/ manager for Marco’s Pizza in Indianapolis. I have really appreciated their enthusiasm PhD’99, is the coordinator of collection Rebecca A. Boostrom, BA’04, is a law and commitment, as well as their sense of development at Roy O. West Library at student at Valparaiso (Ind.) University fun in learning about French language and DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. School of Law. She has studied interna­ culture. She is also an associate professor. She tional law in London and Cambridge, has published Female Writers’ Struggle England. What do you miss most about for Rights and Education for Women in England? France (1848–1871). 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