Office: (208) 426-3692 • E-mail: jasonherbeck@boisestate.edu
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EDUCATION
May 2002 Ph.D. in French Literature. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dissertation: “Awakening Routinists: Consciousness, Quest and Albert Camus.”
May 1995 M.A. in French Literature. Middlebury College. Mémoire: “Au Carrefour de la croyance: la pensée religieuse d’Albert Camus.”
May 1993 B.A. in French Literature with Distinction and Honors. University of Wisconsin-Madison
POSITIONS HELD
2006-present French Section Head, Boise State University. Boise, ID.
2005-present Assistant Professor of French, Boise State University. Boise, ID
2002-2005 Visiting Asst. Prof. of French, Bowling Green State University, OH
Faculty Member of University Honors Program
2004-2005 Supervisor of Teaching Assistants (French), BGSU
Faculty Member of Canadian Studies Advisory Committee, BGSU
1996-2002 Teaching Assistant, UW-Madison
2000-2002 Editorial Board of VOICES, The Wisconsin Review of African Languages and Literatures. Madison, Wisconsin.
1999-2000 Graduate Assistant to the Academic Program in Aix-en-Provence, France: a Study Abroad Consortium of the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University and the University of Michigan
1998-1999 Head TA of First-Semester French (12 sections), UW-Madison
• FORLNG 340 / 597 / PHIL 497: Albert Camus’s Absurd Heroes (Spring 2007)
• FRENCH 201: Intermediate French I (Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Spring 2007)
• FRENCH 303: Advanced French Conversation and Composition (Fall 2005)
• FRENCH 307: Business French (Spring 2006)
• FRENCH 376: French Culture (Fall 2006)
• FRENCH 404: Survey of French Literature (Spring 2006)
• FRENCH 412: Advanced French Grammar & Pronunciation (Spring 2007)
• FRENCH 485: The Francophone World Today : Africa and the Antilles (Fall 2005)
• FRENCH 498: Senior Seminar: Caribbean Detective Novel (Fall 2006)
OTHER COURSES TAUGHT
Literature: • “The French-Caribbean Detective Novel,” Graduate/ Undergraduate Seminar, BGSU (Spring 2005)
• “Introduction to Francophone Literature,” BGSU (Fall 2004, 2003)
• “Introduction to French Literature,” BGSU (Spring 2004, 2003)
• “Conflicting Fictions: Québec and France,” Graduate/ Undergraduate Seminar, BGSU (Spring 2004)
• “Quest Narratives of the French Caribbean,” Graduate/ Undergraduate Seminar, BGSU (Fall 2003)
• “Solitary Heroes of the Twentieth Century,” Graduate Seminar, BGSU (Spring 2003)
Theory: • “Critical Approaches,” Graduate Course, BGSU (Fall 2004, 2003, 2002)
• “Introduction to Literary Analysis,” UW-Madison (Spring 2002, Fall 2001)
Culture: • “Introduction to French Civilization,” BGSU (Summer 2004)
• “Introduction to Francophone Civilization,” BGSU (Spring 2004, 2003)
• Intermediate Language and Culture (Honors Section), UW-Madison (Fall 2000, Spring 2001)
• French TA of “France from Napoleon to the Great War,” a Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum Course funded by the Center for European Studies, UW-Madison (Spring 2001)
Language: • French for Reading Knowledge, BGSU (Summer 2004)
• Third Semester French, BGSU (Summer 2005, Summer 2004, Fall 2002)
• Fourth Semester French, UW-Madison (Fall 1997, Spring 1998)
• First Semester French, UW-Madison (Spring 1999, Fall 1998, Spring 1997, Fall 1996)
PUBLICATIONS
“Raphaël Confiant’s Le Meurtre du Samedi-Gloria: Crime and Testimony.” The French Review. (Forthcoming: December 2007)
“Endeavors of Authenticity: Architectural/Architextual Expression in Traversée de la Mangrove.” Dalhousie French Studies (Forthcoming: Summer 2007)
“Gouverneurs de la… mangrove : une étude de sources littéraires antillaises.” (“Masters of the... mangrove: a study of Caribbean literary origins.”) Dalhousie French Studies 72 (Fall 2005): 115-127.
“
Au
nom du discours amoureux : Une Étude glissantienne de Gouverneurs de la rosée
et
Romeo and Juliet.” (“In the name of
lover’s discourse: a Glissantian Study of Masters of the Dew and Romeo
and Juliet.”) Mosaic (Special Issue on “The Garden”) 38.4 (December
2005): 157-173.
“‘Jusqu’aux limites de l’improvisation’: Caribbean Identity and Jazz in Daniel Maximin’s L’Isolé soleil.” Dalhousie French Studies 71 (Summer 2005): 161-175.
“Le Discours du malaise dans La Peste d’Albert Camus.” (The Discourse of Unease in Albert Camus’s The Plague.”) The French Review. 78.5 (2005): 920-932.
“Entre la sentence et l’exécution : ou l’indispensable accusé de réception dans La Chute.” (“Between the sentence and the execution: or the necessary certificate of receipt in The Fall.”) Esprit Créateur (Special Issue on “Albert Camus et les formes brèves”) 44.4 (2004): 85-97.
“L’Homme révolté et ses parents littéraires.” (“The Rebel and his literary parents.”) Albert Camus et les écritures du XXe siècle. Arras, France: Artois Presses Université (2003): 137-144.
“Soit ‘é’ un élément formalisé: é Î Î ? un examen du rôle des éléments formalisés dans Î de Jacques Roubaud.” (Let ‘é’ be a formalized element: é Î Î ? a study of the role of formalized elements in Î by Jacques Roubaud.”) Romanic Review 93.3 (2002): 341-359.
REVIEWS
Review of J’étais derrière toi by Nicolas Fargues (Paris: P.O.L, 2006). French Review. (Forthcoming)
Review of L’Angoisse de la première phrase by Bernard Quiriny (Paris: Phébus, 2005). French Review. (Forthcoming)
Review of Café Europa by Serge Delaive (Paris: Éditions de la Différence, 2004). French Review. 79.6 (2006): 1386-1387.
Review of L’Homme qui penche by Bertrand de Robillard (Paris: Éditions de l’Oliver / Le Seuil, 2003). French Review. 79.3 (2006): 672-673.
Review of The African Writer’s Handbook . VOICES, The Wisconsin Review of African Literatures. Regents of the University of Wisconsin. 3 (2000): 112-114.
SELECTED CONFERENCES
“Sensibilité absurde et eau sacrée: Albert Camus et la Méditerranée.” (“Absurd Sensibility and Sacred Water: Albert Camus and the Mediterranean.”) Seventh International Albert Camus Colloquium. Poitiers, France. May 31 – June 2, 2007.
“Typologie policière et Rosalie l’Infâme.” International Colloquium on Boundaries and Limits of Postcolonialism: Anglophone, Francophone, Global. Florida State University, FL. December 1, 2006.
“50 ans barakat ! Albert Camus et la Femme maghrébine.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Tucson, AZ. October 14, 2006.
“Endeavors of Authenticity: Architectural/Architextual Expresion in Traversée de la Mangrove.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Cœur d’Alène, ID. October 22, 2005.
“Authoring a Crime: Hidden Testimony in Raphaël Confiant’s Le Meurtre du Samedi-Gloria.” Narrative: An International Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. April 7, 2005.
“Narrative Convention and Authorial Intervention in Patrick Chamoiseau’s L’Esclave vieil homme et le molosse.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Boulder, Colorado. October 1, 2004.
“Gouverneurs de la… mangrove : Une Étude de sources dans la littérature antillaise.” (“Masters of the... mangrove: a study of Caribbean literary origins.”) Cincinnati Romance Languages and Literatures Conference. Cincinnati, Ohio. May 2004.
“De l’écrit à l’écart : L’Anonyme solidarité du journal intime dans L’Étranger et Journal du dehors.” (Writing from Without: Anonymous solidarity of the Diary in The Stranger and Diary from Outside.”) South Central Modern Language Association. Hot Springs, Arkansas. November 30, 2003.
“‘Jusqu’aux limites de l’improvisation’: Caribbean Identity and Musicological Discourse in L’Isolé soleil.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. February 30, 2003.
“Performance of an ‘Unknown Praxis’: Jazz as a Compositional Model for French-Caribbean Literature.” Modern Language Association, New York City, New York. December 27, 2002.
“L'Amour aux temps de la politique: Le Discours du malaise dans La Peste d'Albert Camus.” (Love in the Time of Politics: The Discourse of Unease in The Plague by Albert Camus.”) Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Scottsdale, Arizona. October 11, 2002.
“L’Homme révolté et ses parents littéraires.” (“The Rebel and his literary parents.”) Colloque International Albert Camus, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France. November 22, 2001.
SERVICE
2006-present Internationalization Advisory Board, Boise State University
French Section Head, MLL
Cercle de Français (French Circle), MLL
October 2006 Invited to Dr. Nancy Napier’s International Business Orientation course on October 4, 2006, to introduce FRENCH 307: French for Business and all other business courses offered in MLL, and to discuss the courses’ relevance to International Business students
Fall 2006 MLL Spanish Language Coordinator Search Committee, Boise State University
May 2006 MLL representative at BSU commencement: May 2006
April 2006 Study Abroad Scholarship Granting Committee — International Programs Office
January 2006 COAS Boise State’s Top Ten Scholars Awards Committee, Boise State University
2005-2006 Task Force on Internationalization Committee, Boise State University
MLL Assistant Professor of Spanish Search Committee, Boise State University
Study Abroad Scholarship Committee
2005-present MLL representative for all International Business Organization Meetings
Fall 2005 COAS Honors and Awards Committee, Boise State University
COAS Mini Development Grant Committee, Boise State University
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
2006 Co-chair and presenter of “Short Stories for High School Students: Discussion, Ideas, Activities for French Teachers.” Southern Idaho Conference Foreign Language Summit: “Connecting Foreign Language Learning to the Community.” Mountain View High School, ID. February 7, 2006.
AWARDS
2006 College of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, Boise State University
2004 Teaching Award: Outstanding Faculty Member, Panhellenic Council, Bowling Green State University, OH.
2001 Vilas Travel Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2001 University Dissertation Fellowship, UW-Madison
1999-2000 Jeanne Marandon Fellowship, Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d’Amérique
1998-1999 Award for Academic Excellence, Department of French and Italian, UW-Madison
1996-1997 Award for Academic Excellence, Department of French and Italian, UW-Madison
1993 Distinction and Honors in French. B.A., UW-Madison
STUDY AND RESEARCH ABROAD
1999-2000 Université d’Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence, France
1994-1995 Université de Paris X Paris, France
1991-1992 Université de Caen Caen, France
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Twentieth-Century French and Francophone literatures and cultures. Literary criticism and theory, in particular with respect to evolving narrative forms in twentieth-century French and French-Caribbean literatures, and how these forms relate to expressions and constructions of identity. Quest and Detective narratives. Albert Camus. Philosophy and Music in Literature.