CURRICULUM VITAE

Robert R. Daniel Jr.

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D., French, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, May 1992.

Area of specialization:  19th-century French literature (prose fiction, poetry, literary history).

 

Dissertation: “Une fortune littéraire problématique: Le Cas d’Édouard Ourliac.” Director:  Claude Pichois.

 

CURRENT POSITION

 

• Assistant Professor, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992-present

 

TEACHING, COURSE DEVELOPMENT (* = courses that I developed or co-developed)

 

• First-Year French / Beginning French

• Second-Year French / Intermediate French

• French Conversation and Composition

• French Poetry

• The French Essay

• The French Novel

• French Civilization and Culture

• France: Enlightenment to Today

• The Francophone Press *

• Contemporary Francophone Cinema *

• Advanced Conversation *

• Francophone Caribbean Literature *

• French Romanticism

• Directed Readings: Baudelaire *

 • Directed Readings: Comparative Culture *

• Tutorial: Scholarly Writing, History *

•  Honors Reading and Research: Zola’s Rougon-Macquart *

• Economic and Business French *

• Language, Culture, Identity (first-year seminar) *

• The Franco-Afro-Caribbean Story (Honors course) *

• French Caribbean Literature (online) *

• Society, Democracy, Republic (Honors course, co-developed and team-taught with Maria Marsilio) *

• Online Tutorial: Self, Narration, Reflection (reading and writing autobiography, Ignatian discernment) *

• Learning Across Cultures (first-year seminar, adult learning seminar) *

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

Robert R. Daniel Jr.

ADMINISTRATION (academic department and study abroad program management)

 

Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Saint Joseph’s University, June 2009 - May 2015

 

Managed department of 12 tenure-track faculty, approximately 40 non-tenure-track faculty, two non-teaching staff members; oversaw curricular options in seven languages, linguistics, and diverse cultures and literatures, including seven academic majors, nine minors, three interdisciplinary programs and a general education requirement in a non-native language; supervised tenure-track, non-tenure-track and staff job searches; did robust planning and reporting; evaluated faculty/staff annually; managed discretionary budget of $30k-40k.

 

Campus Coordinator and Advisor, SJU-in-France, 1992-2009

 

Recruited students; advised the Director of the Center for International Programs; ran orientation programs.

 

Resident Director, SJU-in-France, spring 1995, spring 1998, spring 1999, spring 2001

 

 

SCHOLARLY WORK

 

Book

 

The Poetry of Villon and Baudelaire:  Two Worlds, One Human Condition (New York:  Peter Lang Publishing, 1997).

https://books.google.fr/books?id=j89cAAAAMAAJ

 

 

Articles and Bibliographies

 

• “France 2 Television News for Cultural Learning, Critical Thinking, and Language Practice: Steps Toward Intercultural Capability” NECTFL Review, 80 [Special Issue] (December 2017): 95-121. Downloadable here:  https://www.nectfl.org/?ddownload=1741

 

• “Baudelaire et Ourliac en 1845,” Bulletin Baudelairien, 25:2 (December 1990):  59-62.

 

• Annual Baudelaire bibliography and bibliographical supplement (in collaboration with W. T. Bandy and James S. Patty), Bulletin Baudelairien, 24:1 (April 1989), 25:1 (April 1990), 26:1 (April 1991).