Professor of French and Chair of the Department
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8726

E-mail: ClementeL@ripon.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Romance Languages, University of Oregon, with Honors
• M.A., French, University of Oregon
• M.A., English, University of Western Ontario
• B.A., French and English, McGill University

Awards and Honors

• Various grants from Ripon College
• Severy Award for excellence in teaching, Ripon College, 1996 and 1992
• Fulbright for dissertation research: Centre d'Etudes Superieures de Civilisation Medievale, Poitiers, France: 1983-1984

Areas of Interest

• Francophone women from Canada and the Caribbean, especially in terms of autobiography.
• Theoretical approaches involve aspects of postcolonialism, feminism and post-modernism.
• Medieval French literature

Recent Publications

• "Maryse Condé's Windward Heights and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights: Colonial Reality in Victorian Guise," in Changing Currents: Anglophone, Francophone and Hispaniophone Literary and Cultural Criticism, ed. Emily Allen Williams (University Press of Florida, 2004). Co-authored with William A. Clemente.

Current Courses Taught

• First-year French
• Departmental Studies at 300 and 400 levels: Autobiography, French Fairy Tales, Women in literature and film
• First-year Interdisciplinary Seminar on War and its Aftermath