Dianne P. Guenin-Lelle

Research Interests:

• Contemporary Cajun Poetry
• Seventeenth-Century French Narrative
• Foreign Language Teaching in a Multicultural Context
• Foreign Languages in the Elementary Schools (FLES) Programs and Methodologies

Publications:

• A translation of Madame Guyon’s Le Moyen court et très facile à faire oraison submitted to university presses.
• “The Birth of Cajun Poetry” in Louisiana Literature and Literary Figures, Volume 17 in Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series. Lafayette, LA: Center for Louisiana Studies, 2004.
• “Jeanne Guyon’s Influence on Quaker Practice: A Guiding Voice in Silence,” Spiritualité, L’Épistolaire, Le Merveilleux au Grand Siècle Actes de Tempe, published by the North American Society of French Seventeenth Century Literature, Winter 2003.
• “Friends’ Theological Heritage: From Seventeenth-Century Quietists to A Guide to True Peace,” Quaker Theology, Spring 2002.
  “Cooking Up a Class: Teaching and Learning from an Undivided Self,” Liberal Education, Spring 2002.
• "Cooking Up a Class: Teaching and Learning from an Undivided Self,” (excerpt) Friends Association for Higher Education Newsletter, Winter 2002.
• "The Birth of Cajun Poetry: An Analysis of Cris sur le bayou: Naissance d'une poésie acadienne en Louisiane," The French Review, February 1997.
• "On Organizing a Student-Centered Advanced Conversation Course," in Foreign Language Pedagogy: Practical Applications to Theoretical Concerns, Fall 1992. This article is also on the ERIC database, ED 342 254.
• Review of Triomphe de l'Iconoclaste: Le Roman bourgeois et les lois de cohérence romanesque, by Michèle Vialet, published in Cahiers du dix-septième, Spring 1990.
• "Paradigm and Deviation: The Role of Vraisemblance and Self-Referentiality in the Comic Novel," Cahiers du dix-septième, Fall 1989.
• "Framing the Narrative: The Roman bourgeois as Metafiction," Papers in French Seventeenth-Century Literature, Fall 1988
• "Social and Legal Codes in the Roman bourgeois: The Signifier Gone Berserk," Cahiers du dix-septième, Fall, 1988.
• "Prelude to Beginning: Prefaces in the Roman bourgeois," Cahiers du dix-septième, Spring 1987.
   

Theses Directed 1995-2004:

• "La Divinite' dans la nature et dans les sentiments humains: La poesie de Desbordes-Valmore," Honors Thesis by Maria Slocum (1996).
• "Une analyse feministe de Madame Bovary par Flaubert et Therese Desqueroux par Mauriac," Thesis required for International Studies Major, by Jane Lum.
• "Out of Touch and Out of Ideas": La Grève de 1995 en France by Jennifer Mae Marks (1997).
• “A Personnal Odyssey: Reflections of a Multicultural Self” by Ann-Kathrin Schwesig (2001).
• “Renée Vivien: Essai de Re-canonisation” by Rebecca Michelle Linz (2001)
• "Feu Follet: Le Rôle de la musique dans la Renaissance Culturelle en Acadiana" by Alison Harris (2004).

In Progress:

• "Études sur la France multiculturelle" by Alexandra Anda
• "Tensions culturelles et politiques entre la France et les Etats-Unis" by Patrick Reilly

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