BINITA MEHTA – CURRICULUM VITAE 11 CURRICULUM VITAE FULL

CURRICULUM VITAE

Binita Mehta – Curriculum Vitae/ 11

CURRICULUM VITAE

FULL TITLE:

Binita Mehta, Ph.D., Professor of French and Director International Studies Program, Manhattanville College, 2900 Purchase Street, Purchase, NY 10577.

Office: Founders Hall, G-26B.

Tel: (914) 323-5407.

email: [email protected]

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in French literature, The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York (February 1997).

M.Phil. in French Literature, The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (1993).

M.A. in French Literature, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia (1985).

B.A. in Economics and Political Science (double major), French (minor), St. Xavier’s College, Bombay University, Bombay, India (1982).

Certificat pratique de français commercial et économique de la Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris, Alliance française de Boston, Massachusetts (1987).

Exchange student in France, 1983-84.

Spanish Course, Institut d’études ibériques et latino-américaines, Service de la Formation continue, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV, Paris (1983-84).

Diplôme de langue & Diplôme supérieur, Alliance française de Bombay, India (1980), (1982).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Professor of French and Director, International Studies Program, Manhattanville College, 2003- present

Courses taught:

FRN 2001 & 2002, Intermediate French I and II

FRN 2008: French Conversation

FRN 2011, Advanced French Conversation

FRN 3031/5031, Contemporary French and Francophone Culture in Literature and Film

FRN 3021/5021: 20^th Century French Theater

FRN 3003, Advanced French Language and Culture

FRN 3017, World Literatures in French

FRN 3024, Introduction to the Analysis of French Texts

FRN 3012, The Nineteenth-Century French Novel, French Comedy-

FRN 3027, French Comedy

FRN 3029, The Exotic Other in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel

FRN 3035, Writing in French

FRN 312l, City of Light: Paris through the Ages (in English)

FRN 2073: Cultural Study Tour to Paris, spring 2007

FRN 2055: French Cinema: From the nouvelle vague to the cinéma de banlieue (3 credits in English) & FRN 2055A: Readings and Discussion in French (1-credit in French)

IDS 1006 & 1023, Preceptorial (In English)

First Year Program Seminar, FYP 1001, “Multicultural France” (In English)

INS 1001: Introduction to Comparative Literature and Culture (In English)

CSCH 3006- Literatures and Films of the South Asian Diaspora (In English) (Castle Scholars Program)

Lecturer, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (1985-1987; January 1997-May 1998; February – May 2003).

Courses taught:

Elementary French I & II; Intermediate French I & II

French for Reading

Elementary Hindi I & II

Lecturer in French, Modern Languages and Literatures, Simmons College,

Boston, Massachusetts (August – December 2002).

Courses taught:

Elementary French I using French in Action

Lecturer in French, Department of Romance and Comparative Literature, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (August-December, 1997; September - December 1998; January - May, 2002).

Courses taught:

Elementary French

Intermediate French: Topics in French Culture - Family and Society in the French and Francophone World

Adjunct Lecturer in French, Department of Romance Languages, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York (1988-1989; 1994-1996). Courses taught:

Elementary French I & II

Intermediate French I & II

Adjunct Lecturer in French, Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York, New York (Fall 1994). Courses taught:

Beginning French I and II.

Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages, Pace University, New York, New York (1992-1993).

Courses taught:

Beginning French I and II

Intermediate French I and II

French Theater in Translation.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Romance Languages, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia (1982-1983, 1984-1985). Courses Taught:

Elementary French I and II

Intermediate French I and II.

Assistante d’Anglais, Lycée Technique “Uruguay-France,”Avon, France (1983-1984). Taught English to French high school students.

TEACHING INTERESTS:

French language and culture, use of multimedia and video technology in teaching of French language and culture, French and Francophone literature, French and Francophone cinema, the Francophone bande dessinee, Orientalism in French Literature, Literature and Film of the South Asian Diaspora, Postcolonial Studies.

PUBLICATIONS:

Article: “Visualizing Postcolonial Africa in La Vie de Pahé,” alternative francophone. Vol. 1, No 6 (2013): 52-64

https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/af/issue/current/showToc

Book Chapter: “A Reluctant Migrant in Paris: Malamine: un Africain à Paris.” In Metropolitan Mosaics and Melting Pots: Paris and Montreal in Francophone Literatures, eds. Adlai Murdoch and Pascale DeSouza, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

Article: “Bhaji, Curry, and Masala: Food and/as Identity in Indian Diasporic Cinema.” In India and the Indian Diasporic Imagination / L’Inde et l’imagination diasporique, « Horizons anglophones, » Série PoCoPages, Textes réunis par Rita Christian & Judith Misrahi-Barak. Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2011. 351-370

Article: “Memories in/of Diaspora: Barlen Pyamootoo’s Bénarès,” in special issue of journal L’Esprit Créateur entitled Indianités francophones/Indian Ethnoscapes in Francophone Literature. Eds. Brinda Mehta and Renée Larrier. Summer 2010, Vol. 50, No. 2. 46-62.

Book chapter: “‘Comment peut-on être français’? Imagining Alternative Identities/Futures in Coline Serreau’s Chaos (2001) and Julie Bertucelli’s Depuis qu’Otar est parti (2003)” in France at the Flicks: Trends in Contemporary French Popular Cinema. Eds. Darren Waldron and Isabelle Vanderschelden, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 142-156.

Book: Widows, Pariahs, and Bayadères: India as Spectacle. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2002.

Entry on “Prester John” in Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs. Eds. Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Lindow. Vol. 2. California: ABC-CLIO Inc., 2000. 789-91.

Biographical essay on the nineteenth-century French playwright Casimir Delavigne, Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 192: French Dramatists, 1789 - 1914. Ed. Barbara T. Cooper. Columbia, South Carolina: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 1998. 65-70.

Translated chapter from French into English in book, Telling Tales. Eds. Giuseppe Carlo Di Scipio, Diana Conchado, and Francesca Canadé Sautman. New York: St. Martins Press, 1998.

Book Chapter: “Emigrants Twice Displaced: Race, Color, and Identity in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala.” In Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality. Eds. Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. 185-203. Reprinted in Screening Asian Americans. Ed. Peter X Feng. New Brunswick, New Jersey; London: Rutgers University Press, 2002. 217-34.

Article : “La Veuve du Malabar: une représentation de l’Inde dans le théâtre français.” Francographies. Actes I. Ed. Jean Macary. New York: SPFFA, 1995. 297-300.

News Articles for newspaper; Film Reviews: Salaam Bombay, Madame Sousatzka; Book Reviews: Meatless Days, Memoirs of an Indian Woman, Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, 1988-90.

PRESENTATIONS:

Presented paper, “Imminent Death and Heightened Senses: Alain Gomis’s Tey (Aujourd’hui),” at a day-long conference held at The College of New Rochelle, on Francophone African Cinema in Quebec, April 11, 2014.

Panelist at post-screening discussion of Senegalese film, Tey (2012) (Aujourd’hui) (Today) by the Franco-Senegalese director Alain Gomis, Avon Theater, Stamford, CT, March 13, 2014. The event was sponsored by the Alliance Française of Greenwich as part of its celebration of Le mois de la Francophonie.

Invited talk, in French, “La visualization de l’Afrique postcoloniale dans la bande dessinée La Vie de Pahé,” May 28, 2013 at Women’s Club of Greenwich. Sponsored by the Alliance Francaise of Greenwich.

Participant in a round table discussion of a documentary film on Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé entitled, Maryse Condé, une voix singulière, directed by historian Françoise Vergès, April 11, 2013. Other roundtable discussants included the moderator, Ronnie Scharfman, Professor Emerita of French and Marc Brudzinski, Assistant Professor of Language and Culture, both of Purchase College, SUNY. Maryse Condé was present at the event and signed copies of her latest book, “La vie sans fards” (2012), after the discussion. The screening took place at the Avon Theater in Stamford, CT and was sponsored by the Alliance Française of Greenwich.

“Reframing the Self in the World in the French comic book La Vie de Pahé” Paper presented as part of a panel entitled Rhetorical Analyses of Popular Culture Genres at the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) annual conference, Re/Framing Identifications, held in Philadelphia, PA, May 25-28, 2012.

“Defining Francophone Africa through the Comic Book La vie de Pahé.” Paper presented as part of a panel Defining and Reshaping Francophone Africa through Literature: The Age of Updates at the 43^rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) held in Rochester, New York from March 15-18, 2012.

Panelist in post-screening discussion on recent award-winning French Language short films screened at the Avon Theater in Stamford, CT., with co-panelists Ronnie Scharfman, Professor Emerita of French Literature and Michelle Stewart, Professor & Chair of Cinema Studies, both of SUNY Purchase College, March 8, 2012.

“Women’s Education and the Sacred Heart: Louise L. Keyes, RSCJ.” Paper presented at the Duchesne Alliance Launch Conference held at Roehampton University, London, UK, July 23-26, 2011.

“Reading Transnational Anglophone South Asian Diasporic Literature,” paper presented at roundtable entitled Complicated Space: Reading the Transnational Text at 42nd Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) annual conference held at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, April 7-10, 2011.

“Connecting Teaching and Training: The CIEE Faculty Development Seminar, Religious Diversity in France: Jews and Muslims, Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, Faculty Lecture Series, Manhattanville College, November 17, 2010.

Invited Speaker at the Alliance Française of Greenwich, CT “Bourses and Prix” (Scholarships and Prizes) ceremony held on May 10, 2010. The talk was entitled “The French Language Today.”

“Recreating “Home(s)” : Nathacha Appanah-Mouriquand’s Les Rochers de poudre d’or.” Paper presented at the 41^st Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention held in Montreal, Canada, April 7-11, 2010.

“Bhaji, Curry, and Masala: Food and/as Identity in Indian Diasporic Cinema” Paper presented at conference on India and the Indian Diasporic Imagination. University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, April 1-4, 2009.

“‘Performative Interruptions’ in Danièle Thompson’s Fauteuils d’orchestre” as part of a panel The Rhetoric of Interruption: Reclaiming Agency in the Social World, at the 13^th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA), Seattle, Washington, May 23-26, 2008.

“Communities of Artists in Danièle Thompson’s Fautueils d’orchestre (2006),” at a conference Building Bridges in the City and Beyond: Languages Communities, and Cultures, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland (UMBC), April 11-12, 2008.

Invited Lecture: “Representations of Multicultural France in Contemporary French Cinema,” to seniors majoring in Mass Media at St. Xavier’s College & Wilson College, Mumbai, India, January 4-5, 2008.

Invited Lecture: “The Challenges of Teaching French in a Four-Year Liberal Arts College.” French Department of the City University of New York Graduate School and University Center, New York, New York, December 1, 2006.

“Fashioning Communities of Women in Post-colonial Britain and France: Gurinder Chadha’s Bhaji on the Beach (1993) and Colline Serreau’s Chaos (2001),” at conference on Migrant and Diaporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe, July 6-8, 2006, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.

“‘Comment peut-on être français’: Negotiating Identities in Colline Serreau’s Chaos (2001) and Julie Bertuccelli’s Depuis qu’Otar est parti (2003)” at Conference on Issues in Popular Contemporary French Cinema, January 12-13, 2006, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

“Names, Places, Identities: Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake. Faculty Lecture Series, April 6, 2005. Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY.

Panelist, “The US and the World Community,” a panel discussion organized by the Library Committee, April 2 and 29, 2004, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY.

“Performing India: Hélène Cixous’s and Ariane Mnouchkine’s L’Indiade ou l’Inde de leurs rêves,” for session entitled Performing History. MLA Convention, 27-30 December 2002, New York, New York.

Organized and chaired Special Session, “Theater, Spectacle, and Imperialism.”

1998 MLA Convention, 27-30 December 1998, San Francisco, California.

“But I’m Beige!”: Postcolonial London and South Asian Identities in Hanif Kureishi’s film The Buddha of Suburbia.” 26^th Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 26-28 February 1998.

“‘Barbaric’ India: The Widow, Sati and French Colonialism in Lemierre’s La Veuve du Malabar.” 21^st Annual Conference of the Northeast American Society For Eighteenth Century Studies (NEASECS), Boston, Massachusetts, 11-14 December 1997.

“Tipu Sultan and Franco-British Conflicts in Eighteenth-Century India.” CEMERS Conference entitled Comparative Colonialisms: Preindustrial Colonial Intersections in Global Perspective. Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, 31 October-1 November 1997.

“Widow Sacrifice and Identity: The Contemporary Debate on Sati.” 25^th Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 20-22 February 1997.

“India, Dream or Reality: Hélène Cixous’s L’Indiade ou l’Inde de leurs rêves.” Conference entitled Paradoxe et Vérité, sponsored by the French Student Forum, Ph.D. Program in French, CUNY Graduate School, New York, 12 April 1996.

“Emigrants Twice-displaced: Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala. Panel discussion organized during the Asian American Heritage Month, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, New York, April 28, 1994.

“Two Representations of India in French Theater: Lemierre’s La Veuve du Malabar and Théophile Gautier’s Sacountala.” NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 8-9, 1994.

“La Veuve du Malabar: une représentation de l’Inde dans le théâtre français.” Conference of the Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d’Amérique (SPFFA). Fordham University, New York, March 25-26, 1994.

“Language, Gaze and the Exotic Other in Graffigny’s Lettres d’une péruvienne and Prévost’s Histoire d’une grecque moderne.” Conference on Women and Society, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, June 1993.

“Language, Colonialism and Francophonie.” Conference entitled Post-Colonial Fantasies in Francophone Literature. Sponsored by the French Student Forum, Ph.D Program in French, CUNY Graduate School, New York, March 1991.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

Conducted an external review and wrote a report on the International Studies Program at the College of Staten Island, CUNY with Erick Castellanos, Associate Professor of International Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey, April - June 2013.

Attended the Duchesne Alliance Launch Conference held at Roehampton University, London, UK, July 23-26, 2011.

Attended the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) International Faculty Development Seminar on "Religious Diversity in France: Jews and Muslims, Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia" in Paris, France, June 3-9, 2010. Received the Ping Scholarship from CIEE to attend the Seminar

Organized “Table Francaise,” an informal discussion group in French for students, staff, and faculty of Manhattanville College, September 2003-present.

Prepared French department self-study report and conducted External Review

of the French Department, Manhattanville College, March 28, 2008. The External Reviewer, Professor Francesca Canadé Sautman, Professor of French at Hunter College of CUNY and Chair of the Ph.D. Program in French at the City University of New York Graduate School, submitted her report in April 2008.

Participated in External Review of Program in Romance Languages, Manhattanville College, April 9, 2008.

Organized and led a group of 11 students and 1 faculty members on a Cultural Study Tour to Paris, France with Professor Irene Whelan from History, spring break 2007.

Organized “Languages Across the Curriculum” workshop at Manhattanville

College on April 19, 2006. The workshop was sponsored by ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages).

“Haiti: 200 Years of Independence.” Co-organizer of joint Manhattanville College-SUNY Purchase Interdisciplinary Conference on the 200^th anniversary of Haiti’s Independence, October 29, 2004. Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York.

Developed curriculum for a four-semester sequence of courses in the Hindi language. Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, Boston University, September 1997-May 1998.

Member of Steering Committee, Ph.D. Program in Intercultural Studies, CUNY Graduate School, New York, 1992-1995.

Research Assistant, Professor Renée Waldinger, Executive Office, Ph.D. Program in French, CUNY Graduate School, New York. NEH Grant, on the Teaching of College French, 1992-93; helped coordinate workshops conducted for French professors from various City University of New York colleges for the purpose of creating modules for teaching French literature at different levels of language instruction.

Prepared Index for book, The French Revolution and the Meaning of Citizenship. Eds. Renée Waldinger, Philip Dawson, and Isser Woloch. Connecticut; London: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Managing Editor, Tolstoy Studies Journal, Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate School, New York, 1990-1991.

Editor, Political Science Journal, St. Xavier’s College, Bombay, 1980-82.

COLLEGE SERVICE:

At-large member, Faculty Council, Manhattanville College, 2012-2014.

Member, Area Studies Task Force, December 2012-January 2013.

Member, Board on Academic Standards (BOAS), and BOAS representative on the Core Curriculum Committee (CCC), Manhattanville College, fall 2011. As member of BOAS, read Sophomore and Senior Portfolios. As BOAS representative on CCC was involved in discussions related to the General Education Requirement.

Co-Chair, Committee for Assessment of Student Learning (CASL), Manhattanville College, 2010-2011

Member, Steering Committee, Foundations of Excellence Study of First Year Program, Manhattanville College, 2010-2011

Member, Global/Experiential Learning Task Force, 2010-2011

First Year Program Seminar Instructor, Manhattanville College, 2010-2011, 2014-2015

Member of Search Committee for Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Manhattanville College, April-December 2009

Member, Steering Committee/ Faculty Council, Manhattanville College, 2006-2010.

Member, organizing committee for Human Rights Awareness Day (HRAD) held at Manhattanville College, October 20, 2008. In summer 2008, helped other members of the Committee write a New York Council for the Humanities (NYCH) mini-grant for funding for HRAD.

Member, Faculty Service Committee, Manhattanville College, 2004-2010. Chairperson of the Committee from 2006-2010. Coordinated the “Faculty Hearts & Flowers Fund,” the “Faculty Travel Fund,” and from fall 2007, the “Faculty Course Development Fund.” Planned and organized faculty brown bag lunches with other Committee members.

Member of Faculty Committee of the International Studies Program, Manhattanville College, 2004-present

Ad-hoc member on Board of Academic Standards (BOAS), Manhattanville College, 2006-2007. Read student portfolios and conducted sophomore interviews with other board members.

Read and evaluated student applications for the Study Abroad Program, Manhattanville College, March 2005, 2006, and 2008.

Taught Freshman Preceptorial, a year-long critical reading, writing, and thinking course, Manhattanville College, fall 2003-spring 2007.

Participated in Manhattanville College commencement ceremonies, open houses, Board of Trustees Scholar weekends, and Freshman orientations, 2003-present.

Participated in “Seniors go to College Day,” organized by the Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services, Manhattanville College, April 18, 2006.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Ping Scholarship to attend the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Faculty Development Seminar in Paris, June 2010.

Received grants totaling $9000 from FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) to screen contemporary French films at Manhattanville College for five years, 2003-2008. The grant was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture.

University Fellowships & State Funded University Fellowships, Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (1987-92), (1993-1994).

Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges (1991-1992).

Best Speaker, Intercollegiate French Debate, Elphinstone College, Bombay, India, (1982).

French award for academic excellence, Bombay University, Bombay (1980).

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Modern Language Association of America (MLA), 1987- present.

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL),

2005-present.

American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), 2005-2009.

Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), 2009-present.

Rhetoric Society of America (RSA), 2011-2012.

References: Available on request

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