THOMAS JEFFREY DEXTER ARMBRECHT
1205 Elizabeth St.
Madison, WI 53703-1713
E-mail: tarmbrecht@hotmail.com
Telephone and Fax: 608-260-8573
EDUCATION
Brown University
Providence, RI
736 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI 53706-1525
E-mail: tjarmbrecht@wisc.edu
Telephone: 608-262-9744/Fax: 608-265-3892
PhD, French Studies
MA, French Studies
May 1999
May 1995
Ecole Normale Supérieure
Paris, France
Exchange Student
1995-96
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT
BA, Magna cum Laude
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
June 1992
Summer 1992
Université de Paris X
Paris, France
Junior Year Abroad
1990-91
DISSERTATION
Autres Voix: Sexuality and Literary Genre in the Works of Marguerite Yourcenar and Julien Green.
Completed April 1999
Director: Professor Sanda Golopentia, Brown University
Readers: Lewis Seifert (Brown U.); Eliane Dezon-Jones (Washington University, St. Louis MO).
POSITIONS HELD
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, Madison, WI
Associate Professor of French—Dept. of French & Italian
Aug. 2003-Present
COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, Williamsburg, VA
Aug. 2000-Aug. 2003
Assistant Professor of French—Tenure-track position in Modern Lang. & Lit. Dept.
COLBY COLLEGE, Waterville, ME
Visiting Assistant Professor—French Department
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, RI
Instructor—Brown University Learning Community
HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
National and International Awards and Grants
Teaching & Technology Grant
Nat’l Inst. for Tech. in Education
Teaching Fellowship
Académie de Paris
Gay Scholar Award
Johnson and Wales U., Providence, RI
Writers’ Conference Scholarship Breadloaf School of English
Phi Beta Kappa
Middlebury College
Rotary Scholarship to USSR
Rotary International
Feb.-May 2000
Sept. 1998-May 1999
1998, 2002
1995-96
1995
1992
1992
1987
University of Wisconsin-System
UW-System Teaching Fellow
2008-09
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Honored Instructor Award (University Housing)
Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (UW-System)
DoIt Engage Collaboration Grant
DoIt Engage Games & Simulations Grant (Rec’d 2 times)
Graduate School Research Grant (Rec’d 3 times)
DoIt Engage Podcasting Grant (Rec’d 2 times)
Sem I, 2008-09
2008-09
2008-09
2006-08
Summer/Fall 2004, 2007
2005-07
First-Year Interest Group Grant (Rec’d 4 times)
Research-Service Grant
Teaching Academy Institute Grant
DoIt Engage Concept Tutor Grant
Ctr. for Euro Studies Travel Grant (Rec’d 4 times)
Int’l Institute Travel Grant (Rec’d 2 times)
Wisconsin Idea Seminar Grant
College of William and Mary
Summer Research Grants (Rec’d 3 times)
Minor Research Grant
Teaching Project Stipend (Rec’d 2 times)
May Seminar Stipend
Charles Center Travel Grant
Reves Center International Travel Grant
OTHER TEACHING POSITIONS HELD
Language Teacher
Director, Governor’s Academy
Substitute Teacher
Foreign Assistant
ESL Instructor
Winter-Term Instructor
Antik Languages, Istanbul, Turkey
U. of Maine, Orono, ME
Wheeler School, Providence, RI
Lycée Fénelon, Paris, France
Brown ESL Summer Program
Middlebury College
2005-07
2006
2005
2005
2004, 05, 06
Spring/Fall 2004
2004
2001, 02, 03
2002
Fall/Spring 2001-02
2001
2000
2000
August-October 1999
Summer 1999
1996-98
1995-96
Summers 1995, 1996
January 1992
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Monograph
At the Periphery of the Center: Sexuality and Literary Genre in the Works of Yourcenar and Green.
Chiasma 18. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2007.
Translation and Scholarly Introduction
Wicked Angels. By Eric Jourdan. Trans. Thomas Armbrecht. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2006.
(An English translation of Jourdan’s most important early novel, with 5,500-word introduction about the
censuring of the book).
Chapters in Books
“The Whole Picture: Using Non-literary Forms of Artistic Production to Analyze Autobiography.” Life
Writing and Pedagogy, Ed. Craig Howes and Miraim Fuchs. Approaches to Teaching World Lit. New
York: MLA, 2008: 151-160.
“The Altar of the Soul.” Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives. Ed. by L. Gallagher, P. Smith and F. Roden.
Hampshire, England: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006: 165-184.
“Alterity and the German Television Market.” for The Text as Spectacle: Visual Culture in TwentiethCentury Germany. Edited by Gail Finney of UC Davis. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 2006 : 164-178.
“‘The Prolongation of a Dream…’: The Search for Masculinity in Julien Green’s Si j’étais vous…” Images
of Masculinity in Fantasy Fiction. Ed. by Susanne Fendler and Ulrike Horstmann. Studies in Comparative
Lit. 57. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003: 259-278.
“S’écrire: Beur Writing as a Self-Definition.” Cultures transnationales de France : Des « Beurs » aux… ? .
Ed. Abdelhafid Gafaiti. Paris: L’Harmattan. 2001: 163-81.
Articles in Refereed Journals
“‘La Dixième muse’ meets ‘Un monstre sacré’: Cocteau’s Cinematographic Reinvigoration of Drama.” The
Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 25.1 (Jan. 2008): 37-51.
“Can One Be ‘Gay’ and French?” Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review World Wide 12.3. (2005): 20-22.
“Telling It Like It Isn’t: The Importance of the Non-dit in Green’s Sud.” American Drama 13.1 (2004): 4665.
“The Nostalgia of No Where: Pierre Loti’s Utopian Spaces.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Literature 36.4 (2003): 81-102.
“The Cucumber Seller: Homosexuality and Social Class in Turkey.” Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction
Quarterly 3.4 (2001): 51-59.
“Talking Themselves Out of It: Le Langage et le corps dans Mémoires d’Hadrien et les Bonnes.” RomanceReview 8.1 (1998); 8: 7-15.
Book Reviews/Scholarly Articles
Encyclopedia entry. “Julien Green.” Encyclopedia Virginia. Charlottesville, VA: VA Foundation for the
Humanities. (Forthcoming 2008).
Review of De la culture en Amérique. By Frédéric Martel. Contemporary French Civilization. 32.2
(Summer 2008): 219-22.
Review of Never Say I - Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide and Proust. By Michael Lucey.
Dalhousie French Studies. 83.1 (2008): 157-59.
Review of Marguerite Yourcenar: "un certain lundi 8 juin 1903." Ed. Pierre-Louis Fort. French Review
81.5 (2008): 33-34.
Review of Subversive Subjects: Reading Marguerite Yourcenar. by Judith Holland Sarnecki and Ingeborg
Majer O'Sickey. French Review 80.4 (2007): 33-34.
Review of Ionesco: La Cantatrice Chauve et Les Chaises. By Michael Holland. Dalhousie French Studies
70.1 (2006): 80-83.
Review of Défis du récit scénique: Formes et enjeux du mode narratif dans le théâtre de Beckett et de
Duras. By Matthis Engelberts. SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism 33.2 (2004): 155-59.
Professionally Produced Creative Work
“Knock.” Dramatic performance. Music Hall Theatre : University of Wisconsin-Madison. 8-10 Apr. 2008.
“La Guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu.” Dramatic performance. Hemsley Theatre : University of WisconsinMadison. 11-12 Apr. 2006.
“La Comédie de la comédie.” Dramatic performance. Frederic March Play Circle. University of WisconsinMadison. 19-20 Apr. 2005.
“Mit Herz und Handschellen” Concept for German television police drama. SAT 1. Cologne, Germany.
(Pilot episode aired 28 Oct. 2002).
“ALEX & ALI: Man(n) ist nicht allein.” Head writer for German Television Sitcom. Pilot produced for
RTL (Radio Télévision Luxembourg). Cologne, Germany.
Invited talks and presentations
“Julien Green’s Religious Autoficition.” Invited lecture. Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT. 14 Oct.
2002.
“Careers in Teaching and Technology.” Panel Presentation at The National Institute for Technology in
Liberal Education’s Conference: Teaching and Technology in the Real World Conference. Middlebury,
Vermont. 14-16 June 2002.
“La liberté sensuelle de s’exprimer.” Invited Lecture. Centre International de Documentation Marguerite
Yourcenar, Brussels, Belgium. 9 Nov. 2001.
“Alex & Ali: International Activism Through Creative Writing.” Invited Lecture. Trinity Seminar. Trinity
College, Hartford, CT. 17-18 Apr. 2001.
“Queer Studies and Comparative Arts.” Invited Lecture. Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota FL.
27 Feb. 2001.
“Writing for International Television.” Panel Presentation at The Playwright’s Progress. Goldsmith’s
College, London, England. 11-12 Nov. 2000.
“Le profil d’une vie: Marguerite Yourcenar.” Jean Picker Memorial Lecture. Camden Public Library,
Camden ME. 13 Apr. 2000.
“Le langage et le corps dans Mémoires d’Hadrien et Les bonnes.” Alexander Twilight Visiting Scholar.
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT. 20-21 Apr. 1998.
“Procrustean Pornographies.” Alexander Twilight Visiting Scholar. Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
20-21 Apr. 1998.
Lectures and Scholarly Papers Presented
“Translating Transgression: Eric Jourdan's Wicked Angels and the Globalization of Queerness.” The
Modern Language Association Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. 27-30 Dec. 2008.
“Euro-American Queerness? Reconsidering ‘the Coarse Axes of Categorization’ in a Global Context.”
Queer in Europe. The Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe,
University of Exeter, UK. 13-15 September 2008.
“Turning a Blind Eye: Self-representation in Guibert's Vice.” Rhetoric of the Other V. University of
Illionois at Champaign-Urbana. Champaign, IL. 27-30 March 2008.
“‘Universal Particularities:’ Conceptions of Nationality, Sexuality and Identity in France.” The 20th and 21st
Century Studies French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX. 21-23 Mar. 2007.
“‘Un effort, non seulement de sincérité, mais aussi d’exactitude’ : Sexuality and Self-representation in
Marguerite Yourcenar’s Early Works” 48th Annual Midwestern Modern Language Association Conference.
Chicago, IL. 9-12 Nov. 2006.
“‘A Meteor that Blazes...and Disappears: ’ Cocteau’s Filmic Shadow” Trans: A Visual Culture Conference.
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI. 19-22 Oct. 2006.
“Sacrifices at the Altar of the Soul: Julien Green’s Psychomachia.” 47th Annual Midwestern Modern
Language Association Conference. Milwaukee, WI. 4-7 Nov. 2005.
“Bad Boys and Bonnes Moeurs: The Censorship of Eric Jourdan’s Les Mauvais anges.” Australian Society
of French Studies Conference. University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. 6-8 July 2005
“(Un)common places: Rhetorical and Physical Topoi in Pierre Loti’s Œuvre.” 20th and 21st Centuries
French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. U. of Florida, Gainesville FL. 1-3 Apr. 2005.
“‘Le Dixième muse’ meets ‘Un monstre sacré’: Cocteau’s Cinematographic Reinvigoration of Drama.”
Modern Language Association. Philadelphia PA. 27-30 Dec. 2004.
“Faux Amis: False Friends and Deceptive Cognates in the Works of Hervé Guibert.” 46th Annual
Midwestern Modern Language Association Conference. St. Louis MO. 4-7 Nov. 2004.
“You Can’t Go Home Again: Post-colonial Representations of Space.” 46th Annual Midwestern Modern
Language Association Conference. St. Louis MO. 4-7 Nov. 2005.
“Viv(r)e la Difference: Will the Real Universalism Please Stand Up?” Queer Matters International
Conference. King’s College, London, England. 28-30 May 2004.
“The House the Past Built: Space as Meta-Narrative in Denis’ Chocolat and Le Touze’s Comme ton père.”
African Literature Association 30th Anniversary Conference. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
WI. 14-18 Apr. 2004.
“La Comédie dans l’Académie: Teaching French Through Performance.” Sixth National Symposium of
Theater in Academe. Washington and Lee University, Lexington VA. 18-20 Mar. 2003.
“Mise en scène/Mise en action: The Théâtre du Soleil’s Staging of the Past.” Twentieth-Century French
Studies Colloquium. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. 27-29 Mar. 2003.
“‘Mis(e) en scene malgré lui’: The Theoretical and Pedagogical Issues of Using Film to Teach Molière.”
Modern Language Association. New York, New York. 27-30 Dec. 2002.
“Julien Green’s Psychomachic Pen.” Lavender Languages IX Conference. American University,
Washington, DC. 15-17 Feb. 2002.
“‘Secret Activism’: Alterity and the German Television Market.” Modern Language Association
Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana. 27-30 Dec. 2001.
“Un goût du monde : The Writing and Withdrawal of Marguerite Yourcenar.” Modern Language
Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana. 27-30 Dec. 2001.
“Le Théâtre at All Levels of the Foreign Language Curriculum: Teaching French Through Performance.”
Fifth National Symposium of Theater in Academe. Washington and Lee University, Lexington VA. 18-20
Oct. 2001.
“Writing to/of/for Herself: The Emergence of Beurette Literature in Contemporary France.” Women of
African Descent Across the Diaspora Conference. Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT.
6-7 Oct. 2000.
“Saturday Night Semiotics: Non-verbal Communication Among Gay Men.” Lavender Languages VIII
Conference VII. American University, Washington, DC. 22-23 Sept. 2000.
“Le regard de l’autre: le Bildungsroman beur.” International Literary Studies Conference. George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA. Oct. 1998.
“Le regard beur.” Les Ecrits Francophones Conference. SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. Mar. 1998.
“Talking Themselves Out of It.” TransFORMations Conference. Boston College, Boston, MA. Mar. 1998.
Work Submitted for Publication
“Universal Particularities: Conceptions of Sexuality, Nationality, and Culture In France and the United
States” Invited submission for Comparatively Queer, ed. by W. Sprulin, M. Higonnet and J. Hayes.
Accepted by editors. Volume currently under review. (5,900 words).
Work in Progress
There Are Multitudes in Me: "Fracturing the I" in 20th-Century French Literature. Book-length monograph
on contemporary French authors’ autofiction. (Estimated date of completion Aug. 2010).
“‘He Would Have Been 50’: Hervé Guibert’s Narrative Legacies.” Article. (Estimated date of completion
May 2008).
Bearding the Lion in Its Den: Online Communities and the “Coarse Axes of Masculinity.” Article.
(Estimated date of completion August 2009).
C’est la (seconde) vie! Using Second Life to Teach Fundamental Concepts of Literature. Article about
using the virtual world “Second Life” to teach French literature
COURSES TAUGHT AND SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS AT UW-MADISON
Courses Taught
FR647: Le Roman Français au XXe Siècle
FR211: FIG: 20th-Century Gay & Lesbian French Writers
Spring 2009
Fall 2007
FR228: Intermediate Language and Culture
FR799: Graduate Independent Study
FR595: Theory and Practice of French/Francophone Drama
FR271: Introduction to French Literature
FR299: Undergraduate Independent Study
FR433: Readings in 20th- and 21st Century Literature
FR211: FIG: 20th-Century Gay & Lesbian French Writers
FR957: Seminar: Le Roman du XXe Siècle (L'Ecriture du Sida)
FR799: Graduate Independent Study
FR271: Introduction to French Literature
FR799: Graduate Independent Study
LitTrans 250: FIG: 20th-Century Gay and Lesbian Writers
FR228: Intermediate Language and Culture
FR311: Advanced Written and Oral Expression in French
FR595: Theory and Practice of French/Francophone Drama
FR228: Intermediate Language and Culture
Lit Trans 250: FIG: 20th-Century Gay and Lesbian Writers in Translation
FR799: Graduate Independent Study
FR595: Theory and Practice of French/Francophone Drama
FR322: Introduction to French Literature: 19th and 20th Centuries
Semester Leave
FR647: Le Roman Français au XXe Siècle
FR299: Undergraduate Independent Study
FR228: Intermediate Language and Culture
FR322: Introduction to French Literature: 19th and 20th Centuries
LitTrans250: 20th-Century French Literature in Translation
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Spring 2008
Spring 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Spring 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2007
Fall 2007
Fall 2007
Spring 2006
Spring 2006
Fall 2006
Fall 2006
Summer 2005
Spring 2005
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Spring 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Fall 2003
Institutional Scholarly Contributions
“Mots Décisifs/Caractères Inivisibles: Sexuality and Literary Genre in Julien Green’s Le Malfaiteur”
Department of French and Italian Departmental Colloquium Series. U. Wisconsin-Madison. 30 Nov. 2007.
“‘La Dixième Muse’ meets ‘Un Monstre Sacré’: Cocteau’s Cinematographic Reinvigoration of Drama.”
Department of French and Italian Departmental Colloquium Series. U. Wisconsin-Madison. 20 Apr. 2006.
“The Nostalgia of Nowhere: Pierre Loti’s Utopian Spaces.” Department of French and Italian Departmental
Colloquium Series. U. Wisconsin-Madison. 6 May 2005.
“‘La vie fleurit par le travail’ or ‘[Pourquoi] les gens qui se croient instruits éprouvent le besoin de faire
chier le monde :’ Symposia and Graduate Education.” Invited remarks. GAFIS Symposium. University of
Wisconsin-Madison. 9 Mar. 2005.
“Comment dit-on ‘Queer’ en français ? French and American Models of GLBT Identity” Invited lecture at
University of Wisconsin System LGBT Research Symposium. 4 Nov. 2005.
Master’s Degree Thesis and PhD Dissertation Committees Directed and Sat On
Subha Xavier
Reader
Christopher Bolander
Reader
Maria Slocum
Reader
Christian Flaugh
Reader
Abby Mensing
Reader
Monica Garoiu
Director
Kristina Kosnick
Director
Theresa Pesavento
Director
Marianne DeWolf
Reader
Matthew Moyle
Reader
Sandra Simmons
Reader
Claire Nodot
Reader
Malick Mbengue
Reader
PhD completed 2007
PhD completed 2007
PhD completed 2006
PhD completed 2005
MA completed 2005
PhD in progress
PhD in progress
PhD in progress
PhD in progress
PhD in progress
PhD in progress
PhD in progress
PhD in progress
SERVICE
Institutional Service
Research Service Grant Review Committee
Academic Appeals Committee
Inclusivity Initiative
Team 5, UW Reaccreditation Diversity Init.
Phi Beta Kappa Selection Committee
Mellon Seminar Co-organizer
Faculty Senator
Departmental Diversity Liaison
Faculty Comm. on GLBT Issues. (Chair)
Associate Chair of French Section
Review Committee for El-Nossery
Variable Credit Task Force (Co-chair)
Dep’t. Undergraduate Studies Comm. (Chair)
TA Review Committee (Chair)
Dep’t Strategic Planning Committee
French Play Community Outreach
Graduate Student Advisor
Dept. Graduate Studies Committee
French House Committee
Dept. Merit Committee
Dept. Admission & Fellowship Comm.
Freshman Advisor
Phi Beta Kappa Selection Committee
Pi Delta Phi Honor Soc. Advisor
Language Lab Committee
French Section Search Committee
Fulbright Scholarship Interviewer
UW-Madison
UW-Madison
UW-System
UW-Madison
UW-Madison
UW-Madison
UW-Madison
UW-Madison
UW-Madison
French Dept, UW-Madison
French Dept., UW-Madison
French Dept., UW-Madison
French Dept, UW-Madison
French Dept, UW-Madison
French Dept, UW-Madison
French Dept, UW-Madison
French Dept, UW-Madison
French Dept, UW-Madison
French Dept, UW-Madison
French Dept, UW-Madison
French Dept, UW-Madison
Coll. of William & Mary
Coll. of William & Mary
Coll. of William & Mary
Coll. of William & Mary
Coll. of William & Mary
Coll. of William & Mary
Professional Service
Reviewer, Temple University Press
Philadelphia, PA
Reviewer, Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly Binghamton, NY
2008-09
2008-09
2007-08
2007-08
2007-09
2006-08
2005-07
2005-09
2003-09
2008-09
2008-09
Fall 2008
2007-09
2007-09
2007-09
2004-08
2004-08
2003-09
2003-08
2004-05
2003-05
2001-03
2000-03
2001-03
2000-03
2000-01
2000
2007-08
2001-02
LANGUAGES
English (native), French (near-native); German (advanced intermediate); Spanish (intermediate)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Academic Affiliations
Centre International de Documentation Marguerite Yourcenar
Société Internationale d’Etudes Greeniennes
American Association of Teachers of French
Modern Language Association
Midwestern Modern Language Association
Continuing Education
“Bodies and the Production of Perversion” Mellon Sem.
“Global AIDS” Seminar taught by R. Keller
Advanced German, Goethe Institut
Advanced Intermediate German, Goethe Institut
Pedagogical Training (Highlights)
Pedagogical Applications of Games and Simulations
Summer Institute, Teaching Academy
Effective Testing Workshop, Teaching Academy
University Teaching Project
French Civ. Course Development Seminar
Teaching & Technology Seminar
2003-Present
2003-Present
2005-Present
2005-Present
1992-Present
UW-Madison
UW-Madison
Berlin, Germany
Dresden, Germany
2006-08
2007
2002
2001
UW-Madison
UW Madison
UW-Madison
William & Mary
William & Mary
Mellon Project
2006-08
2005
2004
2001-03
2001
1998, 2001
Sheridan Center Workshops
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Trilingual Clinical Actor
Research Consultant
Television Screenwriter
Minority Affairs Proctor
French Interpreter
Research Proctor
Tour Leader in France
French House Director
Brown U
MedAvante, Ewing NJ
Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago IL
Hofmann & Voges, Munich, Germany
Graduate School, Brown University
Berlitz Translation Services, DC
French Department, Brown University
Putney Student Travel, Putney VT
Château, Middlebury College
1992-98
2005-07
2000-01
1998-2000
1993-99
1996-98
1997
1993, 1994
1991-92