Curriculum vitae
Education
- Ph.D., 1994, M.Phil., 1990, Yale University. Dissertation: On n'y agit qu'en parlant: Reading Corneille Through Speech Act Theory. Director: Jacques Guicharnaud. 315 pp.
- B.A., 1987, summa cum laude, State University of New York at Buffalo. Majors: French and mathematics; minor: teacher education.
Courses Taught at Sonoma State University
- FL160: Exploring Self, Exploring Other: Transformations in the City of Light (Paris) - Freshman Learning Community: fall/spring 2012-2013
- FR415: Special Topics in French Culture: Paris! spring 2007, 2009
- FR415: Special Topics in French Culture: Théâtre et société, fall 2000, fall 2002, spring 2005
- FR411: French Literature (19th-20th c.), spring 1999
- FR410: French Literature (Medieval - 18th c.), spring 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012
- FR320: France Yesterday, fall 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011
- FR314 (formerly FLIE314): Francophone Caribbean Literature in English, spring 2003, fall 2006, spring 2007, fall 2007, spring 2008, fall 2008, spring 2009, fall 2009, spring 2010, fall 2010, spring 2012 (occasionally cross-listed with the English Department)
- FR301-302: Advanced Comprehension and Expression, 1998-2003
- FR300: Introduction to Literary Analysis and Critical Writing, fall 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 , 2010, 2012
- FR202: Oral French, spring 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009
- FR201: Third-Semester French, fall 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 , 2009
- FR102: Second-Semester French, spring 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012
- FR101: First-Semester French, fall 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012
- HUM200: Written and Oral Analysis, 1999-2001
- UNIV102: Freshman Seminar, 1998-2001
Previous Teaching Experience
- Associate Professor of French, Sonoma State University, 2002-2007
- Assistant Professor of French, Sonoma State University, 1998-2002
- Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Pacific Lutheran University, 1996-1998
- Lecturer, Pacific Lutheran University, 1994-1996
- Teaching Associate, University of Washington, 1994-1996
- Teaching Assistant, Yale University, 1989-1992
Publications
- "Voyage-cyclone: Souvenirs d'Éliette dans L'Espérance-macadam de Gisèle Pineau," Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, forthcoming (fall 2012).
- "Jean-Baptiste Labat & the Buccaneer Barbecue: Documenting the Culinary in 17th-Century Martinique." Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture 10.1 (winter 2010): 60-69. Refereed.
- "Rodrigue's Balancing Act," Origines: Actes du 39e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, eds. Russell Ganim & Thomas M. Carr, Jr. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, Biblio 17/180 (2009): 107-114.
- Editor, French 17: An Annual Descriptive Bibliography of French Seventeenth-Century Studies, 2000-2008, volumes 48-55. (Contributing Editor, 1997-2000). Awarded the Prix Web17 in 2002. Journal went on-line (including archived material from the past ten years of publication) in summer 2007 through collaboration with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities.
- “Navigating the Sea of Alterity: Jean-Baptiste Labat’s Voyage aux îles,” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature 67 (2007): 485-509. Refereed.
- “Chimène, or the Scandal of the Feminine Word," reprinted in Literature Criticism, 1400-1800 (v.135) of Literature Criticism, ed. Larry Trudeau, Thomson Gale, 2007.
- "A Brief History ~ The Love Affair Between France and Chocolate." Chocolate French. TCB-Café Publishing, 2003. pp.16-25.
- "Growing Up Polish-American in Buffalo." Autobiographical essay published in CollegeWritingOnline, Longman Publishers, 2003. http://www.collegewriting.net/.
- Co-authored with Karen Brodsky. "Information Competence in the Freshman Seminar." Academic Exchange Quarterly (winter 2002): 46-51.
- Co-authored with Christine Renaudin. "(Im)possible Translations of The Waves: The Necessity of a 'Bridge Called Art'." Virginia Woolf Bulletin, 11 (September 2002): 22-31.
- "Corps sacré, discours souverain: le couple dans Les Femmes illustres" in Madeleine de Scudéry: Une femme de lettres au XVIIe siècle. Delphine Denis & Anne-Elisabeth Spica, eds. Artois: Artois Presses Université, 2002. 155-164.
- "Performing Secrets in Celinte,"Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, 56 (2002): 177-195. Refereed.
- "Teaching Phèdre: Desire and the Phenomenology of Action," Actes du 31e congrès de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, PFSCL/Biblio 17 (2000): 321-332.
- "Feminine Theatricality: Woman and Her Masks," Women in French Studies 8 (2000): 15.
- "Performative Tension: Parabolic Resistance in the Pensées of Blaise Pascal," Cahiers du dix-septième, VII.2 (2000): 141-148. Refereed.
- "'The Memory of Naked Ages': Charles Baudelaire, Eugene O'Neill, and The Great God Brown." Eugene O'Neill Review, 23.1/2 (spring/fall 1999): 60-77. Refereed.
- "Gilberte Pascal," "Jacqueline Pascal," "Port-Royal," "Préciosité," Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature, ed. Eva Sartori, Greenwood Press, 1998.
- "Two Sisters' Tears: Paralinguistic Protest in Horace,"La Rochefoucauld, Mithridate, Frères et sœurs, Les Muses sœurs: Actes du 29e congrès de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, PFSCL/Biblio 17 (1998): 221-229. Refereed.
- "Wolmar, metteur-en-scène," Rousseau on Arts and Politics: Autour de la Lettre à d'Alembert, ed. Melissa Butler, Pensée libre, 6 (1997): 91-99.
- "Ce dont l'esprit est capable: Beauty and Truth in Madeleine de Scudéry's Les Femmes illustres,"L'esprit en France au XVIIe siècle, ed. François Lagarde, Actes d'Austin, PFSCL/Biblio17 (1997): 197-205. Refereed.
- "Chimène, or the Scandal of the Feminine Word," Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, 43 (1995): 505-523. Refereed.
- Translation of Christian Jouhaud, "Richelieu, or 'Baroque' Power in Action," Yale French Studies 80 (1991): 183-201.
Book Reviews
- Michel Soëtard, Rousseau et l'idée d'éducation, Essai suivi de Pestalozzi juge de Jean-Jacques (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2012). The French Review, forthcoming.
- Ellen R. Welch, A Taste for the Foreign: Worldly Knowledge and Literary Pleasure in Early Modern French Fiction (Newark: U of Delaware Press, 2011). The French Review; forthcoming.
- Judith P. Zinsser, ed. & trans., & Isabelle Bour, trans., Emilie du Châtelet, Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings (Chicago & London: The U of Chicago Press, 2009). Women in French Studies, 18 (2010): 173-174.
- Nina Ekstein, Corneille's Irony (2007). Seventeenth-Century News, vol.66, no. 3 & 4, 2008-11-21. http://repositories.tdl.org/tdl/handle/2249.1/5677
- Doris Garraway, The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005). Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature. PFSCL XXXIV, 64 (2007): 263-266.
- Jane Donawerth and Julie Strongson (eds. & trans.), Madeleine de Scudéry, Selected Letters, Orations and Rhetorical Dialogues (Chicago & London: The U of Chicago Press, 2004), Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature. PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006): 281-283.
- Gilles Declercq & Michèle Rossellini, eds. Jean Racine, 1699-1999. Actes du Colloque Ile-de-France ~ La Ferté-Milon, 25-30 mai 1999 (Paris: PUF, 2003), Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature. PFSCL XXXII, 63 (2005): 634-638.
- Janet Letts, Legendary Lives in La Princesse de Clèves (Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 1998), Cahiers du dix-septième, IX.1 (2004), 170-172.
- John D. Lyons, The Tragedy of Origins: Pierre Corneille and Historical Perspective (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996), Cahiers du dix-septième, IX.1 (2004), 175-177.
- Abby Zanger, Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial Fictions and the Making of Absolutist Power. (Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1997), Cahiers du dix-septième. VIII.2, 117-119.
- Edric Caldicott & Derval Conroy, eds. Racine: The Power and the Pleasure. (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2001), Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature. PFSCL XXIX, 57 (2002): 523-526.
- Roméo Arbour, Les Femmes et les métiers du livre (1600-1650). (Chicago/Paris: Garamond Press & Didier Erudition, 1997), Cahiers du dix-septième VIII.1 (2001): 191-193.
- Germain Poirier, Corneille, témoin de son temps. II: Le Cid (1636). Préface de Jean-Pierre Chauveau. Paris-Seattle-Tübingen, PFSCL/Biblio 17, 1994. Cahiers du dix-septième VII.2 (2000): 277-280.
- Mary Jo Muratore, Mimesis and Metatextuality in the French Neo-Classical Text (Geneva: Droz, 1994), Cahiers du dix-septième siècle, VII.1 (1997): 259-261.
Scholarly Presentations
- ‘O roi manioc!’: Food as a Site of Resistance in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Solibo Magnifique," PAMLA, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, November 2011.
- "Voyage-cyclone: Souvenirs d'Éliette dans L'Espérance-macadam de Gisèle Pineau," Conseil International d'Études Francophones, Aix-en-Provence, France, May 29-June 5, 2011.
- "«Voilà bien des documents culinaires pour un missionnaire apostolique»: Jean-Baptiste Labat and the Buccaneer Barbecue," North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, April 2008.
- “Rodrigue’s Balancing Act,” participation in a roundtable at the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 2007.
- “Navigating the Seas of Alterity: Jean-Baptiste Labat’s Voyage aux Iles,” invited lecture delivered at Yale University, March 2006. (A slightly modified version of the hour-long talk was also delivered in the A&H Forum at Sonoma State University in spring 2006.)
- "Libation Exploration: Caribbean Cocktails, or, What Jean-Baptiste Labat's Recipes Reveal about the Colonial Space in Fin-de-siècle Martinique." Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies / Société d'Etudes Pluridisciplinaires du XVIIe siècle, Bowdoin College, Maine, October 2005. A related paper was presented at the 2006 PAMLA Conference, Riverside, CA, November 2006.
- "Navigating the Seas of Alterity: Jean-Baptiste Labat's Voyage aux Iles." Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies / Société d'Etudes Pluridisciplinaires du XVIIe siècle, William & Mary College, Williamsburg, October 2004.
- "En préparation à l'examen AP: L'Enfant noir de Camara Laye." California Language Teachers Association, April 2004, Monterey Bay, California. http://www.sonoma.edu/users/t/toczyski/claye.html
- With Christine Renaudin. "Les voies du miroir sorcier: la créolité et son ombre dans Les chemins de Loco-Miroir." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Missoula, Montana, October 2003.
- With Christine Renaudin. "En préparation à l'examen AP: L'Enfant noir de Camara Laye." American Association of Teachers of French, Martinique, July 2003. http://www.sonoma.edu/users/t/toczyski/claye.html
- "Mégare, que dis-tu de cette violence?" Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies / Société d'Etudes Pluridisciplinaires du XVIIe siècle, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2002.
- With Christine Renaudin. "Possible or Impossible Translations of The Waves: The Necessity of a 'Bridge Called Art'." Virginia Woolf Conference, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, June 2002.
- "Corps sacré, discours souverain: le couple dans Les Femmes illustres." Colloque Scudéry, Paris, July 2001.
- "When She Hides: Celinte Removed from the Social Space," La femme au dix-septième siècle, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2000.
- "L'interdit and l'entredit: The Complex Functioning of Curiosity in Celinte," Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies / Société d'Etudes Pluridisciplinaires du XVIIe siècle, 1999.
- "Teaching Phèdre: Desire and the Phenomenology of Action." North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Santa Barbara, California, 1999.
- "Performing Secrets in Madeleine de Scudéry's Célinte," South Central Modern Language Association, 1998.
- "What's on Her Mind? Beauty and Truth in Madeleine de Scudéry's Les Femmes illustres," Invited Lecture, Women's Studies Program, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, 1998.
- "Two Sisters' Tears: Paralinguistic Protest in Horace," North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, 1997.
- "Dangerous Theatricality: The Arena of Sacrifice in Les Liaisons dangereuses," Northwestern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, 1996.
- "Cette illustre femme: Madeleine de Scudéry Rewrites History," The Sixteenth Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1996.
- "Ce dont l'esprit est capable: Beauty and Truth in Madeleine de Scudéry's Les Femmes illustres," North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas,1996.
- "Wolmar, metteur en scène," North American Association for the Study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Wabash College, Indiana, 1995.
- "Performative Tension: Parabolic Resistance in the Pensées of Blaise Pascal," American Comparative Literature Association Conference, University of Georgia-Athens, Athens, Georgia, 1995.
- "Chimène, or the Scandal of the Feminine Word: The Case of Pierre Corneille's Le Cid." Invited Lecture, Department of Romance Languages, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1994.
Other Presentations & Papers
- Pre-show talk for Marin Shakespeare Company's production of Pierre Corneille's The Liar, September 21, 2012.
- With Christine Renaudin. The French Program’s Full Program Review. Presentation given as part of a series of workshops organized by Sonoma State University’s Assessment Coordinators, Elaine Sundberg & Carlos Benito. Spring 2007.
- French Program Assessment: Highlights and Pitfalls. Presentation given as part of a series of workshops organized by Sonoma State University’s Assessment Coordinators, Elaine Sundberg & Carlos Benito. Spring 2006.
- “The Little Prince and the Poetics of Loss.” Presentation for Library Lecture Series, October 2005.
- With Chef Arturo Guzman. "Chocolate French." Presentation for the Campus Author Series. April 2005.
- With Christine Renaudin."L'Enfant noir de Camara Laye." Invited lecture for the Alliance Française de Berkeley, February 2005.
- With Paul Draper. "The Whole University Educating the Whole Student." White paper describing a proposal for a new Freshman Year Experience in the General Education Program at Sonoma State University. December 2004. http://www.sonoma.edu/ge_initiative/pdf/thewholeuniversitypdf.pdf
- "Perspective," KQED 88.5, April 2004. http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R404240837
- With Christine Renaudin. "From Concours to Language Festival: Creating the Community Necessary for Articulation." California Language Teacher Association, Sacramento, April 2003.
- “Chocolate Proust.” Invited lecture for the Alliance Française de Berkeley, spring 2003.
- With Christine Renaudin. "Preparing Traditional-Aged Freshmen for a Liberal Arts & Sciences Education," white paper for the annual faculty retreat, January 2003. http://www.sonoma.edu/senate/apc/freshmen.html
- With Karen Brodsky. "Freshmen and the Library." Teaching &, November 2002.
- With Karen Brodsky, "Information Competence in the Freshman Interest Group," First-Year Experience Western Conference, San Francisco, January 2002, and First-Year Experience National Conference, Orlando, February 2002.
- With Lorraine Morales, "The Educational Mentoring Teams of Sonoma State University," First-Year Experience Conference, San Francisco, January 2000.
- "Madeleine de Scudéry et la condition des femmes au XVIIe siècle" Invited lecture before the Alliance Française de Santa Rosa, June 1999.
- "Cuisine et gastronomie au XVIIe siècle." Invited lecture , Marin-Sonoma French Camp, March 1999.
Grants
- Sabbatical, spring 2011.
- "Information Competence in the Freshman Interest Group." CSU Chancellor's Information Competence Initiative, 2001-2002.
- RSCAP Summer Fellowship, SSU, 2000.
Awards & Honors
- Sonoma State University Teaching Excellence Award, spring 2006
- Induction into Phi Beta Delta, Zeta Tau chapter, fall 2006 (http://www.phibetadelta.org/)
- Arts & Humanities Nominee, Excellence in Education Award, fall 2004
- SSU Ambassadors Distinguished Faculty, December 2000 and April 2006
- SUNY-Buffalo University Honors Program Scholarship, 1983-1987
- Westinghouse Family Scholarship, 1983-1987
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1986
Research Experience
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Assistant to the Curator, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, June-August, 1988-1991.
Consultant Experience
- Consultant/Reader for foolsfury Theater Company. 2003-2004; 2007-2008 (the latter remunerated).
- Reviewer, Horizons, Third Edition, for Thomson Learning. Remunerated.
Service to the Profession
- Manuscript evaluator, Cahiers du dix-septième, spring 2006-present.
- California State University Foreign Language Council Secretary / Treasurer, 2002-present.
- SSU Representative to the California State University Foreign Language Council, 1998- present.
- Session chair, “Témoins et témoignages,” Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies / Société d'Etudes Pluridisciplinaires du XVIIe siècle, New Haven, Connecticut, November 2007.
- Session chair, “Le boire et le manger chez les écrivain/e/s et cinéastes” (Women in French Session), PAMLA, Riverside, CA, November 2006.
- Session chair, “L’enfer et le paradis,” Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies / Société d'Etudes Pluridisciplinaires du XVIIe siècle, Iowa City, Iowa, October 2006.
- Member of the Executive Committee, North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 2004-2006.
- Chair, California State University Foreign Language Council Election Committee, 2005.
- Session chair, "Teaching the Seventeenth Century," Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies / Société d'Etudes Pluridisciplinaires du XVIIe siècle, Maine, fall 2005.
- California State University Foreign Language Council Election Committee, 2000-2002.
- Respondent, "Port-Royal et la littérature," NASSCFL, Arizona State University, 2001.
- Session chair, "Théâtralité féminine: la femme et ses masques," Modern Language Association, Chicago, 1999.
- Session chair, "Paratextes et seuils," Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies / Société d'Etudes Pluridisciplinaires du XVIIe siècle, University of Kentucky-Lexington, 1999.
- Respondent, "Cuisine et gastronomie," Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies / Société d'Etudes Pluridisciplinaires du XVIIe siècle Conference, Chapman University, 1998.
- Board member, Regional Executive Board of the American Association of Teachers of French, 1995-1997.
- Session Chair, "Performance and the Performative in Seventeenth-Century French Theater," Modern Language Association, San Diego, 1994.
- Respondent, "La Veuve," Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies / Société d'Etudes Pluridisciplinaires du XVIIe siècle Conference, Tulane University, 1994.
- Editorial Board, Yale French Studies, 1991-1992.
Academic Service at SSU
- Phi Beta Delta, local chapter president, fall 2011-present
- University RTP Committee, fall 2011 to present.
- Global Studies Steering Committee, 2002-present.
- University Contact, Chamson (Chambolle-Sonoma) Alliance, 2002-present.
- French Club Advisor, 2000-present.
- University Scholarship Committee, 1998-present (both academic year and summer reading).
- Coordinator, Arts & Humanities Research & Creative Works Forum, 2004-2012.
- Reader at Commencement, May 2010.
- School of Arts & Humanities RTP Committee, fall 2009.
- International Programs Taskforce, spring 2009.
- Department RTP Committees for both tenure-track and lecturer faculty, 2002-2009.
- Reader at Commencement, May 2009.
- Post-Promotion Review Committees for the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the English Department, and the School of Arts & Humanities, spring 2009.
- Department Range Elevation Committee, February 2009
- Member, International Learning Committee, fall 2008-spring 2009.
- Member, Department Sabbatical Committee, fall 2008.
- Reader at Commencement, May 2008.
- Member, Global & International Education Committee, 2006-2008.
- Member, Hiring Committee, Coordinator of New Student Orientation & Family Programs, December 2007.
- Reader at Commencement, May 2007.
- Faculty participant in Project Censored, 1998-2007.
- Library Lecture Series Planning Committee, spring/summer 2006.
- Reader at Commencement, May 2006.
- With Christine Renaudin. Co-author of the French Program Review Self-Study. 2005-2006.
- Arts & Humanities School Curriculum Committee, 2005-2006.
- Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Fall 2003-2006.
- Reader at Commencement, May 2005.
- Faculty participant in International Program interviews, 2005.
- German Search Committee Chair, 2004-2005.
- Spanish Search Committee Member, 2004-2005.
- GE Initiative Task Force, 2004-2005.
- Arts & Humanities GE Subcommittee Chair, 2004-2005.
- Academic Affairs Strategic Planning Committee, 2004-2005.
- Event Coordinator for slide lecture by Dr. Sahar Amer, "Behind the Veil: French Desire & the Middle East," September 13, 2004.
- Reader at Commencement, May 2004.
- GE Planning Task Force, 2002-2003.
- Academic Technology Planning Task Force, 2002-2003.
- University Supervisor for 4 student teachers, 2002-2003 (at Rancho Cotati HS in Rohnert Park; Vintage HS in Napa, and Novato HS in Novato).
- With Darius Spearman, Event Coordinator, "A Tribute to Hip Hop" by Henri-Pierre Koubaka, November 2003.
- Information Competence in the Freshman Seminar, Training Workshop, Chancellor's Office, spring 2003.
- Participant, Well-Educated Teacher Retreat, School of Education, fall 2002.
- Interim Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, fall 2002.
- New Student Convocation Planning Committee, 2002.
- EMT Training Workshop Coordinator, spring 2002.
- Freshman Interest Group Steering Committee, 2001-2002.
- SOAR Advisor, 2000-2002.
- Faculty participant in International Program, Peer Mentor & Summer O Leader interviews, 2000-2002, 2005, 2006.
- Freshman Seminar Curriculum Committee (chair), 1999-2002.
- International House Planning Committee, 1999-2001.
- Departmental Proficiency Exam Committee, 1998-2000
Community Service at SSU
- Publication of the weekly Bay Area Francophile List providing a calendar of francophilic events in the greater Bay area to French-speaking members of the Sonoma State community, as well as to members of the local community and faculty and students at over ten other California university and community college campuses, 1998-present. A given issue runs approximately 40 pages. Over 100,000 readers to date. Website: http://www.sonoma.edu/users/t/toczyski/BAFLHomepage.shtml
- Hot Lunch Program; summer 2008; summer 2009-present.
- Animatrice, Mill Valley Fluent French Speakers, a monthly meeting of the francophones of Marin County, 2003-present.
- Lector & Extraordinary Minister, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Mill Valley, 1998-present.
- With Christine Renaudin, coordinator, Concours de diction française. Yearly French contest held at Sonoma State University. In 2002, the Concours became part of a larger, annual Language Festival at SSU. 1999-2008.
- Coordinator, publicist, monitor & judge, Concours national de l'Alliance Française, spring 2005
- Monthly contributor to Le Californien, a publication of Le Journal Français, 2002.
- Liaison, Summer Internships, International Cooperative Education, 2001-2002.
- Judge, Jack London Award for Educational Excellence, spring 2000.