Dr. Fabrice Poussin

Associate Professor of French and Chimes Sponsor
706-233-7254
fpoussin@shorter.edu
315 Shorter Ave.
Rome, Georgia 30165

Educational Background:

Ph.D. Rutgers University, French Literature
M.A. Rutgers University, French Literature
B.A. Rutgers University, History
Baccalaureate, Lycee Grammont, Tours, France, Philosophy
DEUG, Universite Francois Rabelais, Tours, France, History/Geography
Capacite en Droit, Universite Francois Rabelais, Tours, France,  Introduction to Law

Courses taught:

French I, elementary French, Part I
French II, Elementary French, Part II
French III, Intermediate French
French for Reading Knowledge
French for Life Long 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

Teaching Experience:

Fairmont State University, West Virginia
University of Texas
University of Dallas
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Dallas International School
Rutgers University
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

 

Conferences organized:

France-Amerique 2000
France-Amerique 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 2 week Summer Study programs in Paris, for 3 consecutive years.

Publications:

–        Sauvez Son Ame, La Pensee Universelle, Paris.
–        Le Feminin dans les Fleurs du Mal de Charles Baudelaire, Doctoral Dissertation.
–        “L’invitation au Voyage”, Kestrel, No17, Spring 2007.
–        “L’influence de Baudelaire sur l’Oeuvre d’Albert Camus”, with Gregoire V., Symposium, Summer 2002.

Poetry:

More than 140 poems published in 79 magazines including:

“Fear of the Light,” Roads,” and “Trembling to Ecstasy,” Eskimo Pie, March 2016
“Legacy of Ghosts,” and “Christmas in Barbed Wire”, in The Chimes, March 2016
“My Own Hero,” The Great Journey,” and “In The Underground,” in Secrets and Dreams, an anthology published by Kind of Hurricane Press.
Pilcrow & Dagger, “Locked Up,” 1 poem, November 2017.
Writer’s Block, 1 poem, “Alphabet Soup,” December 2017.
“Pl New Ulster, Playing the Strings,” “Seeking a Gaze,” “Stabbed by the Ghosts,” “Sweet Pathways,” “The Ice Experiments,” 5 poems, upcoming.
Now Then Magazine, 1 poem, “Tomb of Fear,” October 2017.
Brushfire Literature and Arts Journal, 1 poem, “Forever She,” December 2017.

Photography

More than 500 photos published in 237 magazines including:

“Lost in the Desert,” (2 photographs) 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,” 4 photographs, Gnarled Oak Magazine, February 2016
“The Reader”, cover photograph, Five on the Firth, February 2016
“Writing by the Light,” cover photographs, # 180, # 182, Crack the Spine, January-February 2016
“The Mills”, 3 photographs, The Chimes, March 2016.

The Brooklyn Review, 1 photograph, “First Error,” upcoming.
Communicator’s League, 6 photographs, “Good Night,” “Heaven?”, “Soothing,” “Sphynx,” “Teasing Heaven,” “The Courtroom,” November 2018.
Faith, Hope, and Fiction, “Almost Cozy,” “Nlizzard 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,” 11 photographs, Winter 2017-18.
Pinyon Review, 4 photographs, “A Dream,” “Next Creation,” “Quest,” “To the Artist,” Issue # 13, June 2018
 Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, “Purple Tales,” “Sharing All,” 2 photographs, Fall/Winter 2017, September 2017.
Birmingham Arts Journal, “An Artist’s Wish,” “Broken Spring,” “Drafty Yes,” “ Edge of Trinity,” “Enjoying Springtime,” “ For Posterity,” “ Gift,” 7 photographs, upcoming.
South Florida Poetry Journal, “An Artist’s Wish,” “Before the Quilt,” “Deep Thoughts,” “Her Galaxies,” 4 photographs, August 2017.

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 S. Lewis to Bob Dylan
–        The Arthurian Legend

Military Experience:

–        Served in the Security Unit of the French Air Force.

 

 

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