Cheryl Toman
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Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies Steering Committee and Program faculty in the Program in Women’s Studies (Interim Director, Spring 2005). Steering Committee and Program Faculty in Ethnic Studies Office: Guilford 207 PhD in Interdisciplinary French Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1996). In addition to studies in French and Francophone Studies, Professor Toman also did significant work in Women's Studies, African Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Anthropology along with her specialization in Cameroonian feminist writing in French. MA in Linguistics with an emphasis on African Linguistics, University of Chicago (1990). MA in French, University of Illinois at Chicago (1989) with coursework at the Université de Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle. BA in The Teaching of French and Russian, University of Illinois at Chicago (1987) with coursework at the Université de Paris IV. Named Fulbright Scholar, Spring 2007. Lecturing / Research Award to teach a graduate seminar on African Women’s Literature at Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon, and to conduct research on Lebanese communities in Francophone African countries. Major publications include On Evelyne Accad: Essays in Literature, Feminism, and Cultural Studies. Volume editor of 25 essays with preface by Nawal El Saadawi. Author of the introduction and an additional essay. Summa Publications, Winter 2006. Translation of Noureddine Aba’s It Was Yesterday Sabra and Chatila and co-author of introduction (with Evelyne Accad), for double bi-lingual (French / English) volume along with Montjoie Palestine! translated by E. Accad), Paris: L’Harmattan, June 2004. Volume editor and author of introduction of Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury’s Rencontres essentielles. (French text), MLA Texts and Translations Series, June 2002. Author of introductory critique and translator of Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury’s Essential Encounters. MLA Texts and Translations Series, June 2002. Professor Toman is currently finishing her book-length manuscript entitled, “On est ensemble”: A Matriarchal Approach to Contemporary Cameroonian Francophone Literature. Toman’s articles are included in The French Review, Northwest Review, French Literature Series, Arab Studies Quarterly, International Journal of the Humanities, Dalhousie French Studies, Women in French Studies, and French Prose in 2000. Her major conferences include: Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (CIEF), the American Comparative Literature Association at Princeton University, Modern Language Association (MLA), AEGIS at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and Women in the Global Community Fulbright Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. Go to the French Page |
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