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Welcome to Brigitte E. Humbert's Web Page

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Associate Professor
French Department
Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vt 05753

• Schedule
• Education
• Courses taught
• Conferences
• Publications
  
  
  SCHEDULE

ON LEAVE 2012-13

EDUCATION

• Ph. D. University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  
• Teaching Certification. France.

COURSES TAUGHT

• FREN 0101: Intensive Beginning French I
• FREN 0102: Intensive Beginning French II
• FREN 0203: Intermediate French
• FREN 0205: Toward Liberated Expression
• FREN 0210: Identity and Literature
• FREN 0220: Introduction to French Literature I (MA-18th c)
• FREN 0221: From Romanticism to Modernism: Introduction to French Literature II (19th-20th c)
• FREN 0341: French Cinema
• FREN 0342/FREN 0442: French Films and American Remakes
• FREN/WAGS 0344: Women in French Historical Films
• FREN 0362: Novels in Letters
• FREN 0381/FREN 0705: Novel to Film
• FMMC 0241: French Cinema (in English)
• First Year Seminar: French Films and American Remakes (in English)

CONFERENCES

• The Transnational and Diasporic. Panel Chair. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Boston, March 2012.
  
• "Nostalgia and Modernity in Recent Paris Films." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Los Angeles, March 2010.
  
• “Women at War & the French Heritage Film: Lucie Aubrac from Page to Screen.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Philadelphia, March 2008.
  
• Gender and French Cinema. Panel Chair.
  “Filming France’s Colonial Past on the Way to Political Parité: Women “Wearing the Pants” in Outremer and Indochine.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, March 2007.
  
• "De Paris à Hollywood: Les remakes américains de films français.” PAMLA Conference, University of Riverside, CA, November 2006.
  
• French Theater, Novel, and Film. Panel Chair. NEASECS Conference, Burlington, Vermont, November 2004.
  
• “Du roman au film: Les nuits fauves de Cyril Collard.” PAMLA Conference, Scripps College, CA, November 2003.
  
• "Eighteenth-Century Women Through a Twentieth-Century Lens: Patrice Leconte's Ridicule." Annual Conference of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, New York City, October 2002.
  
• "Patrice Chéreau's Queen Margot: A 'liberated and modern' woman?" Faculty Lecture Series, Middlebury College, April 2002.
  
• "Screening France." Déjà Views: How Americans Look at France, Middlebury College Colloquium, November 2001.
  
• "History on Film and Cultural Identity: The Return of Martin Guerre and Sommersby." Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington, D. C., May 2001.
  
• "Emotion and Modernization in Queen Margot." Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, January-February 2001.
  
• "Cruel Intentions: Adaptation or Remake?" Annual Conference of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, February 2000.
  
• "Epistolarité et narcissisme: Les Liaisons dangereuses." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 1999.
  
• "Rhétorique épistolaire: la religieuse de Diderot et la marquise de Laclos." Annual Conference of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 1998.
  
• "Les Liaisons dangereuses from Page to Screen: A Journey Through Time, Culture and Language." Annual Conference of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Worcester, Massachusetts, September 1996.
  
• "Crying over [Ariane Mnouchkine's] Molière." Tribute to French Film, College Street Film Series, Middlebury College, September 1996.
  
• "From Epistolarity to Film: Les Liaisons dangereuses and La Religieuse." European Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 1995.
  
• "Film Adaptation in the Literature Class." Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Denver, Colorado, April 1995.
  
• "Du rôle de la fenêtre dans quelques écrits de Duras." Missouri Romance Languages & Literatures Conference, Columbia, Missouri, May 1992.

PUBLICATIONS

Book

• De la lettre à l'écran: Les Liaisons dangereuses. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.
  
  

Articles/Book Chapters

• “Nostalgia and Modernity in Two Recent Paris Films.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 30.1. Forthcoming 2013.
  
• “Diabolo menthe.” Directory of World Cinema: France. Ed. Tim Palmer and Charlie Michael. Bristol, UK/Wilmington, NC: Intellect. Forthcoming September 2012.
  
• “Les Ripoux.” Directory of World Cinema: France. Ed. Tim Palmer and Charlie Michael. Bristol, UK/Wilmington, NC: Intellect. Forthcoming September 2012.
  
• “Lucie Aubrac: A Resistance Heroine from Page to Screen.” Literature/Film Quarterly. 40.2 (April 2012): 109-126.
  
• “Filming France’s Colonial Past: Women ‘Wearing the Pants’ in Outremer and Indochine.” Studies in French Cinema 12.1 (2012): 59-74.
  
• “Films français et remakes américains.” French Review 82.5 (April 2009): 962-980.
  
• “Trois hommes et un couffin.” The Cinema of France. Ed. Phil Powrie. 24 Frames. London: Wallflower, 2006. 175-183.
  
• "Patrice Leconte's Ridicule - Women in the political sphere: Transforming memory into modernity?" Studies in French Cinema 3.3 (2003): 137-147.
  
• "Screening France." French Politics, Culture and Society 21.2 (Summer 2003): 81-94.
  
• "Cruel Intentions: Adaptation, Teenage Movie, or Remake?" Film Literature Quarterly 30.4 (2002): 279-286.
  
• "Emotion, Modernization, and Female Emancipation in Patrice Chéreau's Queen Margot." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 19.3 (July-Sept. 2002): 223-235.
  
• "La Religieuse de Diderot et la marquise de Laclos." French Review 75.6 (May 2002): 1194-1212.
  
• "Re-making History and Cultural Identity: From The Return of Martin Guerre to Sommersby." Film Criticism XXVI.1 (Fall 2001): 2-24.
  
• "L'Adaptation cinématographique dans le cours de littérature française." French Review 72.5 (April 1999): 839-852.
  
• "De la lettre à l'écran: Laclos scénariste d'avant-garde." Interfaces: Image/Texte/Langage (Université de Bourgogne)14 (Juin 1998): 215-229.
  
• "L'éducation des enfants selon Montaigne et Plutarque." Bulletin de la Société des Amis de Montaigne 41-42 (Juillet-Décembre 1995): 46-51.
  

Book Reviews

• Hayward, Susan. French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics in Film. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. French Review 85.4 (Mar. 2012): 738-739.
  
• Oscherwitz, Dayna. Past Forward. French Cinema and the Post-Colonial Heritage. Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. French Review 85.2 (Dec. 2011): 45-46.
  
• Harris, Sue. Bertrand Blier. New York: Manchester University Press, 2001. Quarterly Review of Film and Video 20.4 (Oct.-Dec. 2003): 277-281.

Translations

• Ruoff, Jeffrey, and Kenneth Ruoff. "Un réalisateur en marge: Hara Kazuo et ses 'documentaires d'action'." Documentaires 16 (Fall 2000): 91-108.
  
• Truffaut's articles in Dixon, Wheeler W. The Early Film Criticism of François Truffaut. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1993.