Carole SALMON
[email protected]
CURRENT POSITION
Assistant professor of French Studies and Culture
September 2007- now
Department of Cultural Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell, tenure track position
EDUCATION
Louisiana State University (LSU) Baton Rouge, LA
-Ph.D. in French Studies from LSU with congratulations of the jury
TEACHING
Advanced Level French Classes taught (2007-now):
Fall 2010: Contemporary French Cinema (50.340)
Spring 2010: Survey of Francophone Literatures (50.302)
Fall 2009: Advanced French Conversation (50.346)
Spring 2009: Francophone Communities in North America (50.315)
Fall 2008: Survey of French Literature, from the Middle Ages until the 20th century (50.301)
Spring 2008: The French-Speaking world (50.310)
Fall 2007: Contemporary French Civilization and Culture (50.320)
Online Elementary French Courses created and taught (Fall 2009-now):
Fall 2009: French I and Culture online (50.101)
Spring 2010: French II and Culture online (50.102)
Fall 2010: French III and Culture online (50.211)
Awards
- Nominated for the 2010 Teacher Awards sponsored by the UML Student Government
Association
-Department of Cultural Studies annual Teaching Award 2009
- Nominated for the 2009 Teacher Awards sponsored by the UML Student Government
Association
PRESENTATIONS
ACTFL Annual Convention, Boston, November 19-21, 2010. « Les Francophones d’ici:
Franco-American Language and Culture in Massachusetts », with Elizabeth Blood. Presented
in French and in English. Accepted.
International Colloquium on the Linguistic Situation in Acadia, a Tribute to Louise Péronnet,
Centre de Recherche en Linguistique Appliquée (CRLA), September 23-25, 2010
Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. « Des Cadiens aux Francos-Américains :
analyse comparative de deux communautés francophones aux Etats-Unis ». Presented in
French.
International Conference on « Femme en Francophonie », June 15-18, 2010, Université
Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers, France. « De la Louisiane à la Nouvelle-Angleterre: portraits
de femmes francophones aux Etats-Unis ». Presented in French.
41st annual conference of the NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association), Montreal,
Canada. April 7-11, 2010. « Paris-metropolis: a nurturing city for immigrants ? ». Presented
in English.
“Création du corpus FHL: sélection de mémoires manuscrites de la population francophone
louisianaise entre 1729 et 1877.” MIFLC conference. Furman University, Greenville, South
Carolina, October 8-10, 2009. Presented in French.
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Salmon, Carole. 2009. Cent ans de français cadien en Louisiane. Coll: Berkeley Insights in
Linguistics and Semiotics, vol. 72. Peter Lang Publishing: New York.
Forthcoming. Matz, Maria and Carole Salmon (eds.). Forthcoming. Made in Spain: the
Almodóvar Phenomenon. A Bilingual Collection of Essays on Pedro Almodovar. Under
Contract for Publication with Edwin Mellen Press.
Selected Articles
Forthcoming. Salmon, Carole et Sylvie Dubois. “Etre franco-américain et être cadien: une
identité culturelle ou linguistique ?”. Colloquium « Dimension du dialogisme 2 » (Dialog 2).
Société Néophilologique. Helsinki, Finland, August 19-21, 2009. Accepted.
Forthcoming. Salmon, Carole. “La genèse du corpus Francophone Heritage of Louisiana
(FHL) et du corpus Lettres de Louisiane (LL)”. In Actes du colloque “l’histoire épistolaire
de la Lousiane”,CFFS, LSU, April 17 2009. Ed. Sylvie Dubois, Presse de L’Université
Laval, Québec. Accepted.
Forthcoming. Salmon, Carole and Sylvie Dubois. "La mémoire stylistique des femmes
cadiennes" Forthcoming. HAMEL, M-J, MILICEVC, J & MOPOHO, R., eds (2009). In
PAMAPLA 32, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistics
Association, Dalhousie University, Halifax (Nova Scotia), 14-15 November 2008. CD-ROM
with SSBN:0381-3520. Accepted.
Forthcoming. Salmon, Carole and Sylvie Dubois. Forthcoming. “Le degré d’accommodation
linguistique du français cadien de Louisiane”, In Florilège des communications du congrès
de la FIPF de Québec. Ed. Jean Pierre Cuq. Accepted.
Salmon, Carole (coordinator). 2010. Lettres de Louisiane corpus: 38 documents found in
Louisiana, written in French during the French Revolution and their transcription. Available
online: http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/p15140coll6
Salmon, Carole. Coordinator. 2008. Francophone Heritage of Louisiana corpus: 100 letters
written in French in Louisiana from 1729 to 1877 and their transcription. Available online:
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/cffs/index.html
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES
Ecole polytechnique
Paris, France 2010
Département Langues, Cultures & Communication
Member of the scientific committee selecting papers for the international colloquium entitled
“Variétés, variations et formes du français” to be held on September 23-24, 2010 at the Ecole
Polytechnique, Paris France. Directed by Dr. Olivier Bertrand.
REVIEWS (selected)
Reviewer for the linguistics section of the French Review
2005-now
-Farina, Annick and Rachele Raus, eds. 2007. Des mots et des femmes: rencontres
linguistiques. Actes de la journée d’étude tenue à l’Université de Florence (1er décembre
2006). Firenze University Press: Florence. In The French Review, vol.83, 3, February 2010,
p.691-2.
-Tréhel-Tas, Nathalie. 2007. Parlons Gallo. Coll. “Parlons...”. L’Harmattan: Paris. In The
French Review, vol. 82, 3, February 2009, p.681-2.
ORGANIZATION OF ACADEMIC EVENTS
Invitation of guest speaker Martin Robitaille at UML, MA
March 24, 2010
As part of the “week of francophonie”, celebrated in New England (March 20-26),
Québecois author and Université du Québec à Rimouski Literature professor, recipient of the
prestigious 2009 “prix Ringuet de l’Académie des Lettres” for his novel Les déliaisons,
delivers a paper entitled “Standing between French and American literatures: an identity
crisis ». Organized by the Délégation du Québec in Boston and sponsored at UMass Lowell
by the Department of Cultural Studies.
Invitation of guest speaker Gabriel Anctil at UML, MA
March 27, 2008
As a part of “the fortnight of francophonie” celebrated in New England (March 13-28),
Montreal-based filmmaker, journalist from Télé-Québec and specialist of Lowell native writer
Jack Kerouac, Gabriel Anctil delivered a paper entitled “Kerouac, Quebec and the French
Language”. Organized by the Délégation du Québec in Boston and co-sponsored at UMass
Lowell by the Department of Cultural Studies and the Jack Kerouac Center for American
Studies.
Seminar on Ousmane Sembene with Dr. Sow at UML, MA
February 29, 2008
Public seminar presenting the works, life and importance of Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane
Sembene with a projection of acclaimed film Faat Kiné (2000) and a lecture delivered by
guest speaker Dr. Moussa Sow, assistant professor of French at The College of New Jersey.
The title of his paper was “Constructing the image of the female body in Sembene’s cinema”.
Event sponsored by the Department of Cultural Studies at UMass Lowell.
OTHER
-Advisor of the UML French Club, Spring 2010- now
-Organization of the Annual Mardi Gras Celebration on campus, 2008-now
-Participation in the Foreign Film Series organized by Maria Matz. Spring 2008-now
-The French Table, every Friday at 1pm. Fall 2007-now
-Organization of a trip to Saint Georges de Beauce, Québec, with 14 students studying French
at UML. April 16-19, 2010.