Michel+Rocchi+Bio

Michel Rocchi Department of Foreign Languages and Literature University of Puget Sound Tacoma, Washington 98416 (253) 879-3969 FAX (253) 879-3500 e-mail rocchi @ ups.edu

EDUCATION PhD (University of Washington) in Comparative Literature, 1980. Dissertation topic: “Twentieth Century Blues: A Study of Affinities between Harold Pinter and Luigi Pirandello.” Frank W. Jones, director. Major field: 19th and 20th Century French Literature Minor fields: Linguistics, Islamic Literature, Literature of Classicism and Enlightenment

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Scholarly Work:

“Jean Anouilh: A Literary Biography.” Chapter in Twentieth Century French Dramatists: Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. M-A. O’Neil. Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. [to be published in 2004] “The Theater of Jean Anouilh and the Impossibility of Happiness: The Mother Figure Once Again.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. January 8 – 11, 2004. Article Review of “Abla Farhoud et la fragilité du bonheur.” For The Rocky Mountain Review. September 2003. “Francophone Literature: Pa/Ma-triarchal Power.” Conference on Legitimizing Power: Sexual Identity, Gender, and Authority. West Chester University. November 8- 9, 2002. “Francophone Literature: The return to the Native Land.” European Studies Conference. University of Omaha. October 2001. “Madness and Control in Samuel Beckett’s Works.” Fifteenth Annual International Conference in Literature and the Visual Arts. State University of West Georgia, Atlanta. 1999. “Autobiographical fiction: self-representation in the works of Annie Ernaux.” Twenty-Third Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film; University of West Virginia, October 15-17, 1998. Also chaired a session on //Biographical Readings of French Narrative//.

“Albert Camus: The Experimental style.” Seventeenth Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. May 8-10, 1997.

Martin Nelson Summer Research Award. Summer 1996.

Burlington Northern Curriculum Development Grant: Comparative Literature. August 1996.

“Marguerite Duras: Literary Culmination of Postmodern Feminism." Fifteenth Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. May, 1995.

“Marguerite Duras and the Unraveling of the Couple.” Thirteenth Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. May 13-15, 1993.

“Compétences désirées en français au niverau universitaire” Second Language Education Symposium and Workshops. February 5, 1992. “Charles Baudelaire: Artist, Social Critic or Modern Saint.” National Endowment for the Humanities Conference on the Avant-Garde, April 1991. University of Puget Sound. “French Literature in a New Key” Cesar Franck and the World of Romanticism Symposium. November 3, 1990. University of Puget Sound. Chism Faculty Seminar - “Modernism and the Avant-Garde.” University of Puget Sound. Rainer Rumold (Northwestern University), director. Fall 1990. Burlington Northern Outstanding Teacher/Scholar award. May 1989.

“The Flowering of Evil: Baudelaire and the British Romantics.” Foreign Language Forum, Fall 1989. University of Puget Sound. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Study Grant. “Modernization and Modernism.” University of Puget Sound. William J. McGrath (Rochester University), director. Spring 1988. Book Reviews in Arches: Faculty Bookshelf, March 1987. The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera. John Lantz Senior Fellowship Award: 1986-87. “The Use of Extracurricular Activities in Foreign Language Teaching” Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers 1986 Fall conference, October 10, 11, 1986 published in The Forum, journal of the conference proceedings; Vol. XVIII, No. 1. “Dutch Treat: 17th Century Dutch Painters and 19th Century French Writers.” Humanities Symposium, Saint Michael's College, Vermont. March 28-29, 1985. “The Role of Business Language in the Traditional Curriculum.” Eastern Michigan University Conference on Foreign Languages for Business and the Professions. Ypsilanti, Michigan. April 5-7, 1984. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar. “The Symbolist Aesthetic in Poetry and Prose.” Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Bert Sonnenfeld, director. Summer 1983. “Judas Iscariot: A Literary Figure.” Pacific Northwest Conference on Foreign Language Teaching (PNCFL). Spring 1983. Stanford Faculty Renewal Program: Mellon Foundation Grant. “Comparative Analysis of Literature and the Visual Arts.” Stanford University. John Bender, director. Summer 1982. “A Spring Festival of Languages at the University of Puget Sound.” The Forum, Vol. XIV, Spring 1982. “Evaluating the Study-Abroad Venture: The Sorbonne Courses.” Abstract in conference proceedings of the Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers (WAFLT). October 9-10, 1981. Third International Colloquium: “Le Mouvement des idées en France et aux U.S.A.: Rôle et statut de l'intellectuel.” Paris, France, June 10-11, 1981. Teaching Exchange, Paris, France. Spring 1981. Associate Director, Pomona Modular College, Paris Program. (Administration of the program for the Claremont Colleges.) Other Professional Activities:

Institute of European Studies: Assessing Language Studies. Gustavus Adolphus College. July 22-26, 1997.

“Technology Workshop: Multimedia for Foreign Language Instruction.” Mellon Foundation. Middlebury College. June 1996.

Hewlett Foundation Grant - International Political Economy Seminar. Fall 1991. University of Puget Sound.

UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES 2003-04 Presidential Inauguration Committee 2000 to date Technology Planning Group 2002-03 Senate Ad-Hoc Committee: Study-Abroad Review 2000 Sub-Committee on Fine Arts Guidelines: New Core 2000 Director, Mellon Grant Summer Workshop 2000 Director, Culpeper Grant Workshop 1997 to date Chair, Department of Foreign Languages & Literature (also 1976-79 and 1982-91) 1996-97 Committee on Information Technology 1995-99 Committee on Fellowships and Grants 1995-96 Faculty Senate: Vice-President 1994-1996 Faculty Senate 1989-1992 Member, Faculty Advancement Committee 1988-2002 Fulbright Campus Representative 1988-93 Member, Chism Selection Committee 1988-89 Chair, Professional Standards Committee 1987-88 Member, Professional Standards Committee 1983-84 Member, Student Union Renovation Committee 1982-84 Member, Student-Life Committee 1981-83 Faculty Recording Secretary 1979-81 Vice-Chair, Faculty Senate 1978-84 Chair, Fulbright Committee 1976-77 Chair, Study-Abroad Committee 1973-75 Director, Living-Learning Program 1973 to date Director, Language House Program

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member, Phi Kappa Phi Member, Modern Language Association (MLA) Member, Washington Association for Foreign Language Teachers (WAFL