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Nancy E. Virtue

Associate Professor of French

Department of International Language and Culture Studies

Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne, IN 46805

260/481-6632

EDUCATION

Ph.D.	1993	French, University of Wisconsin Madison
		Thesis: Representations of Rape in the Renaissance Novella
		Thesis Director: Ullrich Langer
M.A.	1987	University of Wisconsin Madison
B.A.	1983	Assumption College
		magna cum laude, double major in French and English

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

	Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne

	1999-present	Associate Professor of French
	Fall 2006	Interim Chair, Department of International Language and Culture Studies
	2005-2007	Director of International Studies
	1998-2005	Co-director of International Studies
	1993-1998	Assistant Professor of French

	Educational Testing Service

	1997-present	Faculty Consultant to the Educational Testing Service's Advanced Placement French Reading Series

	University of Wisconsin Madison

	1991	Lecturer of French
	1985-1991	Teaching Assistant of French

	Lycée Polyvalent Rive Gauche, Toulouse France

	1988-1989	Poste d'assistant (French government teaching assistantship)

COURSES TAUGHT

	F111-F204	First- through Fourth-Semester French
	F213	Second-Year French Composition
	F305	Introduction to French Literature I
	F317	French Language Skills I: Composition
	F318	French Language Skills II: Conversation
	F325	Oral French for Teachers
	F326	Business French
	F330	French-English Translation (online and face-to-face versions)
	F410	Medieval French Literature
	F413	Renaissance French Literature
	F442	French Poetry
	F450	Women in French Literature
	F460	French Fiction in Film
	F463	French Civilization I
	INTL I200	Introduction to International Studies

PUBLICATIONS

	Articles in Print :

	"Gender and Theology in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron," Women in French Studies 12 (2004).
	"Storytelling in Transition:Character Individuation in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron," Romance Notes XLII:3 (Spring 2002).
	"Rereading Rape in Two Versions of La fille du comte de Pontieu," Fifteenth Century Studies 27 (April 2002).
	"Translation as Violation: A Reading of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques," Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme XXII:3 (Summer 1998).
	"Another Look at Medieval Rape Legislation," Mediaevalia 22:1 (Fall 1998).
	"Le Sainct Esperit parlast par sa bouche: Marguerite de Navarre's Evangelical Revision of the Chastelaine de Vergi," Sixteenth Century Journal XXVII:3 (Fall 1997).
	"Ce qui doit augmenter le cœur aux dames: Telling the Story of Rape in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron," Romance Quarterly 44:2 (Spring 1997).

	Articles under Review :

	Translation in Print :

	"'Si les signes vous fâchent...': Natural Inference and the Science of Signs in the Renaissance." By Marie-Luce Demonet. In South Central Review 10:2 (1993). Eds. Philippe Desan and Ullrich Langer.

	Publications related to Teaching:

	Revisions for web-based exercises and online quizzes for the fourth edition of the 2nd-year textbook, Ouvertures: Cours intermédiaire de français (Wiley & Sons, 2005).
	Workbook/Lab Manual Part I to accompany the first-year textbook, Débuts:An Introduction to French. Co-Authored with H. Jay Siskin, Ann Williams-Gascon, Elise Leahy, and Tom Field (McGraw-Hill, 2002).
	Web-based Exercises to accompany Entretiens: Cours de conversation, an advanced conversation textbook published by Harcourt College Publishers, 2000. Url: http://www.heinle.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20bI&product_isbn_issn=9780030290466&discipline_number=304
	Web-based exercises and online quizzes for the second edition of the 2nd-year text, Ouvertures: Cours intermédiaire de français (Harcourt, 2000).

GRANTS / AWARDS

	2008	Leepoxy Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
	2006	PRF International Travel Grant ($1000) and Indiana University Overseas Conference Fund ($700) to present the paper, La Guerre d’Algérie révélée: le cache-cache cinématographique de Michael Haneke dans le film Caché (2005)” at the Congrès du Conseil International d’Études Francophones, 1-8 July 2007 in Cayenne, French Guyana.
		IPFW Distance Learning Grant ($3700) to develop F474, an advanced online French-English translation class.
	2005	Nominated by students for the Continuing Studies Faculty Star Award 2005 for the online version of French F330, French-English Translation, Summer 2005.
	2004	PRF International Travel Grant ($1100) to present the paper “Le voile et la caméra: l’hégémonie européene exposée dans ‘La bataille d’Alger’” at the Congrès du Conseil International d’Études Francophones, 19-26 June 2004 in Liège, Belgium.

PAPERS / PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED)

	2007	"Torture, the Pentagon and War Lessons: The Colonial Gaze in The Battle of Algiers"
		"La Guerre d'Alg