Dr. Fabrice Poussin - Shorter University

Dr. Fabrice Poussin

Professor of French, Chimes Sponsor
706-233-7254
fpoussin@shorter.edu
RH 112

Educational Background

  • D. Rutgers University, French Literature
  • A. Rutgers University, French Literature
  • A. Rutgers University, History

Courses taught

  • French I, elementary French, Part I
  • French II, Elementary French, Part II
  • French III, Intermediate French
  • French for Reading Knowledge
  • French for Lifelong Learners
  • Survey of French Literature I
  • Survey of French Literature II
  • Advanced French Grammar and Composition
  • French Civilization and Culture
  • Business French
  • French Composition and Conversation
  • Medieval French Literature
  • 19th Century French Literature
  • 20th Century French Literature
  • The Theater of The absurd
  • Graduate Seminar: Charles Baudelaire
  • Race, Class and Gender in World Film
  • American Literature Survey
  • World Literature, Part II
  • English Composition
  • Americans in Paris
  • African American Literature
  • Literary Crossroads; Immigrant Literature in the United States
  • The Arthurian Legend, Honors Colloquium

Teaching Experience

  • Fairmont State University, West Virginia
  • University of Texas, Arlington, Tyler, Dallas
  • University of Dallas
  • Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
  • Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
  • Dallas International School
  • Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Alliance Française, Dallas, Texas

Other professional Experience

  • Photographer, Photography trainer, Lifetouch studios
  • Training manager, Medco/ Accredo / Express Scripts
  • Assistant Principal, Dallas International School

Awards and Grants

  • University of Michigan, Summer Seminar on CD Authoring for Language Learning
  • San Diego State University, Summer Seminar on Language learning Video Production
  • Fairmont State University, Summer Seminar for French Education Majors
  • University of Washington, Summer Seminar on teaching Methodologies for learners or Foreign Languages
  • International Film Festival Funding, for 5 consecutive years FACSEE, Film Grants
  • Teaching Excellence Award, Shorter University, 2016
  • Shorter University Outstanding Support to Freshmen, 2014, 2017, 2018

Conferences organized

  • France-Amérique 2000
  • France-Amérique 2001
  • Multi-cultural conferences celebrating the two centuries of Franco-American Relations; creator, organizer, and fund raiser for the events

Study Abroad Programs Organized

1999 and 2001

  • Organized and lead 2 week Summer Study programs in Paris, for 3 consecutive years

Publications

  • Sauvez Son Ame, La Pensée Universelle, Paris
  • Le Féminin dans les Fleurs du Mal de Charles Baudelaire, Doctoral Dissertation
  • “L’invitation au Voyage”, Kestrel, # 17, Spring 2007

Poetry

860 poems published in more than 400 magazines including:

  • “Fear of the Light,” Roads,” and “Trembling to Ecstasy,” Eskimo Pie, March 2016
  • “Legacy of Ghosts,” and “Christmas in Barbed Wire”, The Chimes, March 2016
  • “My Own Hero,” The Great Journey,” and “In The Underground,” Secrets and Dreams, an anthology published by Kind of Hurricane Press, 2015
  • “Locked Up,” Pilcrow & Dagger, November 2017
  • “Alphabet Soup, Writer’s Block, “December 2017
  • “Tomb of Fear,” Now Then Magazine, October 2017
  • “Forever She,” Brushfire Literature and Arts Journal, December 2017
  • “Explorer,” “Feeding the Monsters,” “Fingers Prints on Another Light,” “Pilot,” “Quiet Man,” Adelaide, April 2018
  • “Kissing the Cosmos,” Euphemism, May 2018
  • “Phantasm,” “Fade to Black,” The Mark Literary Review, May 2019
  • “Soul of the Ruins,” Poetry Life and Times, April 2019
  • “Dream of the Dying,” Grand Little Things, December 2020
  • “Aurora,” “Parking Lot,” “The Colors of Death,” Communicator’s League, December 2020
  • “Lead Sea,” “Calling in the Dark,” Fiery Scribe Review, August 2021
  • “Leaving the Bones Behind,” Pomona Valley Review, # 15, August 2021
  • “When the Light Goes Out,”, The Littoral Magazine, September 2021
  • “The Weight of Death,” The international Poetry Review, Fall 2022
  • “To the Dream,” “Time for Sale,” “Shells,” “Little Lives,” “Going Home,” “Final Talk,” Setu, October 2020
  • “Born at Last,” “Broken Pinocchio,” “Soul on a Platter,” “To the Sacred Winds,” Trouvaille, May 2021
  • “Homeless,” “Left Behind,” “Monster Outside,” “The Waves in Her Soul,” The Northwest Indiana Literary Journal, May 2020

Poetry Collection

  • “In Absentia,” Poetry Collection, Silver Bow Publications, 2021

Photography

More than 2,000 photographs published in over 600 magazines including:

  • “Lost in the Desert,” San Pedro River Review, February 2016
  • “After the Storm,” Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, February 2016
  • “The Original Rocking Chairs,” Front Porch Review, January 2016
  • “Discovered, Uncovered,” Gnarled Oak Magazine, February 2016
  • “The Reader”, cover, Five on the Firth, February 2016
  • “Writing by the Light,” cover, # 180, # 182, Crack the Spine, January-February 2016
  • “The Mills”, The Chimes, March 2016
  • “First Error,” The Brooklyn Review, December 2017
  • “Good Night,” “Heaven?”, “Soothing,” “Sphynx,” “Teasing Heaven,” “The Courtroom,” Communicator’s League, November 2018
  • “Almost Cozy,” “Blizzard in our South,” “December Frosty,” “January Thaw?,” “Off Season,” “ Princess,” “Santa in Strike Again,” “Tendre Flakes,” “The Two Sisters,” “Won’t You Sit With me?,” “Where Have all the Birds Gone,” Faith, Hope, and Fiction, Winter 2017-18
  • “A Dream,” “Next Creation,” “Quest,” “To the Artist Pinyon Review, ,” Issue # 13, June 2018
  • “Purple Tales,” “Sharing All,” Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, Fall/Winter 2017, September 2017
  • “An Artist’s Wish,” “Before the Quilt,” “Deep Thoughts,” “Her Galaxies,” South Florida Poetry Journal, August 2017
  • “Life at 10,000 feet,” Sunlight Press, February, 2018
  • “Collection,” “End,” Little Rose Magazine, March 2018
  • “Spring Again,” Gnarled Oak, Issue # 15, March 2018
  • “The Old Maiden,” “Thirst,” “To the Treasure Chamber,” Chrysalis Journal, May 2018.
  • “Family of Ten,” “Loving,” “The Lead,” “To Another,” “To Little Red Riding Hood,” “Two in One,” Aromatica Poetica, March, 2019
  • “Her View,” “Nice Evening,” Berkeley Fiction Review, Issue # 39
  • “Distant Memories,” “Forever,” “Life Source,” “Safe,” “Organs of the Orb,” Poetry Pacific, November 2019
  • “The Source,” Off the Coast, Summer 2019
  • “Lost in the Wild,” “Pair of Jokers,” “Questions,” Portland Metrozine, Spring 2020
  • “Secrets,” “I saw Her,” “The Dreadful Blues,” Hedge Apple, May 2020
  • “Deep Space,” “Strange Thoughts,” On Loan from the Cosmos, July 2020
  • “After they Prayed,” “Broken Promises,” “Careful Now,” “Everyone’s Palace,” “Welcome,” Abergavenny Journal, July 2021
  • “Pure,” “Gift,” “Dream,” Pomona River Valley, August 2021
  • “Majesty,” The Start Literary Journal, August 2021

Research

  • The Language of Photography
  • The American Presence in Paris
  • Race, Class, and Gender Studies
  • Charles Baudelaire’s the Flowers of Evil
  • 19th Century French Literature
  • 20th Century French Literature
  • Colonial Literature
  • World Film Studies
  • African American Literature
  • American Immigrant Literature
  • Women and Christianity in the Contemporary World
  • American Christianity and European Secularism
  • American Literature Nobel Prize winners from Sinclair Lewis to Bob Dylan
  • The Arthurian Legend

Military Experience

  • Security Unit of the French Air Force.

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