Associate Professor of French (part-time) and Assistant Director of Communicating Plus (part-time)
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8729

E-mail: PonceletD@ripon.edu

Education

• Ph.D. in French, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "Licence en Philologie Romane", University of Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
• "Agrégation en Philologie Romane", University of Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Awards

• May Bumby Severy Award for Excellence in Teaching, Ripon College, 2004

Areas of Interest

• 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Literature (Henri Michaux, Marcel Proust, Jean-Pierre Verheggen)
• The Teaching of Foreign Languages

Recent Publications

• "Au Pays de la Magie d'Henri Michaux: la poésie comme 'traduction du monde'", Dalhousie French Studies 59 (2002):67-75.

• "Par des traits  d'Henri Michaux: la mémoire picturale du signe."  French Studies 60 (2006): 205-217.

• "Le nom propre et son référent dans Noms de Pays: le Nom de Marcel Proust."  Bulletin Marcel Proust 52 (2002): 47-54.

Current Courses Taught

• F211 Intermediate French
• F211 French Via Film and Texts
• F315-317 French Theatre Workshop
• F327 French Poetry
• F329 Contemporary French Issues