Position: Assistant Professor of French
Degree: Ph.D. in French Literature and Critical Theory - Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.(2003)
Research Interests: French Literature (French Female Writers/Feminism) and Critical Theory
Office: 360 O’Dowd Hall
Phone:248-370-2071
Email: jumel@oakland.edu
Website: www.oakland.edu/~jumel
Caroline Jumel has joined Oakland University in 2004. Before that she taught at Wayne State University-1997-2003 (Michigan) and at the University of Windsor-1995-1997(Ontario, Canada).
Teaching Interests: French literature 16th to 20th/Translation/Phonetics/Composition.
Courses taught: FRH 114, FRH 115, FRH 215, FRH 312 (phonetics), FRH 314 (grammar), FRH 316 (conversation I), FRH 318 (composition), FRH 370 (intro. to literature), FRH 408 (conversation II), FRH 417 (17th/ 18th Century literature), FRH 420 (20th Century literature), FRH 480 (Seminar of Female writers) and FRH 455(translation from English to French)
Publications: 1: “Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales.”Entry: Sand, G. Greenwood Press, 2008. 2: “The Aesthetic of Knowledge in George Sand’s Jeanne.” Proceedings of the 2008 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI. January 2008. 3: "The Revolutionary Power of a Feminist Aesthetic of Writing."Proceedings of the 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI. January 2007. 4:" Le Paradoxe de la Claustration dans Rose et Blanche de Sand."Chimères, Vol. XXIX (Spring 2006): 38-51. 5: C. Jumel, " Empires masculins, marges féminines: le malaise socio-politique dans Ma soeur Jeanne." George Sand et l'Empire des Lettres. Presses Universitaires du Nouveau-Monde, June 2004: 255-264. 6: C. Jumel, "The Third Man in the Story, Ronald Aronson Discusses the Sartre-Camus Conflict with Francis Jeanson." Sartre Studies, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (2002): 20-67. Transcription.
Scholarly Presentations: 1-“Performing Gender in the Seventeenth-Century French Novel.” Michigan Academy Conference, Kalamazoo, MI. March 2008. 2- “The Aesthetics of Knowledge in George Sand’s Jeanne.” The 2008 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, January 11-14, 2008. 3- "The Revolutionary Power of a Feminist Aesthetic of Writing." The 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, January 12-15, 2007. 4-"La découverte d'un ailleurs: la bohème ou la fugue éternelle dans Consuelo de George Sand." XXXIInd Annual Nineteenth Century French Studies University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, October 19-21, 2006. 5- "Scientia Sexualis ou si le sexe m’était conté, dans La Religieuse de Diderot." 2006 Annual Meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters. Oakland University, Rochester, MI, March 3-4, 2006. 6- “Le Paradoxe de la Claustration dans Rose et Blanche de George Sand." XXXIth Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, October 27-30, 2005. 7-“La Contestation de l’uniformité féminine au fil de la diachronie sandienne." XVI International George Sand Conference, Wellesley College, Boston, MA, September 30-October 2, 2004. 8-“La guerre des sexes au XVIIème siècle vue à travers les contes de Charles Perrault et Madame d’Aulnoy.” 2004 Annual Meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 5, 2004. 9-“Enfermement/éducation: les filles au dix-neuvième siècle, vues à travers Les malheurs de Sophie de la Comtesse de Ségur." 2003 Annual Meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Hope College, Holland, MI, March 21-22, 2003. 10-"Empires Masculins, Marges Féminines: la représentation du malaise socio-politique dans Ma Soeur Jeanne." XVth International George Sand Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, December 5-8, 2002. 11- “Cross-Dressing and Crossing Space in Catalina de Erauso’s The Lieutenant Nun.” 7th AEEA (Asociación de Escrituras de España y las Américas) Annual Conference, University of Portland, Portland, Oregon, September 12-14, 2002. 12-"Space Transgression in Catalina de Erauso’s The Lieutenant Nun." Forum, April 4, 2001, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.