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Michele Bissiere

Languages and Culture Studies
French culture
French film
Teaching language and culture through film

Bissiere Michele ResizedEducational Background

  • Ph.D. French, 1989 – University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • M.A. French, 1986 – University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • M.A. American History, 1986 – University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Agrégation d’anglais, 1982 (France)
  • Maîtrise d’anglais / M.A. English, 1981 – Université Paul Cézanne-Aix-Marseille III
  • Licence d’anglais / B.A. English, 1979, Université Paul Cézanne-Aix-Marseille

Research Interests

  • Contemporary French Cinema
  • Teaching Language and Culture Through Film
  • Immigration in France

Teaching Areas

  • All levels of French language
  • French and Francophone culture
  • French cinema

Select Courses

  • FREN 3201: French Conversation and Grammar
  • FREN 3209: France Today
  • FREN 4007: Survey of French Film

Recent Honors & Awards

  • Board of Governors’ Teaching Excellence Award, 2018
  • Bank of America Excellence in Teaching Award, UNC Charlotte, 2017
  • Faculty International Education Award, UNC Charlotte, 2017
  • AATF Dorothy S Ludwig Excellence in Teaching Award at the post-secondary level, 2015 (awarded by the American Association of Teachers of French)
  • Named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Knight in the Order of the French Academic Palms) by the French government, 2014
  • NC-AATF Teacher of the Year Award, 2013 (awarded by the North Carolina chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French)

Administrative Service

  • Provost Faculty Fellow, 2015
  • Interim Director, Film Studies Program, since 2014
  • Interim Chair, Department of Languages and Culture Studies, Fall 2013
  • Faculty Executive Committee, 2008-2010
  • Associate Chair, Department of Languages and Culture Studies, 2004-2007

Selected Professional and Community Service

  • Managing Editor for the French Review, since 2017
  • Film Review Editor for the French Review, 2010-16
  • American Association of Teachers of French: Co-Chair, Commission on Cultural Competence, since 2013
  • American Association of Teachers of French: Member of the Executive Council and Regional Delegate for the Southeast, 2007-2009
  • Alliance Française de Charlotte: President, 1995-97; Vice-President, 1994; Secretary, 1991-94; Liaison with Schools and Universities, 1997-2004

Publications

Books

  • Singerman, Alan, and Michèle Bissière. Le Cinéma français contemporain. Manuel de classe. Hackett Publishing Company, 2017. Translated as Contemporary French Cinema. A Student’s Book. Hackett Publishing Company, 2018
  • Bissière, Michèle, and Nathalie Degroult. Séquences: Intermediate French through Film. 3rd ed. Boston: Cengage, 2016.
  • Bissière, Michèle, and Nathalie Degroult. Séquences: Cahier de préparation. 3rd ed. Boston: Cengage, 2016.
  • Montfort, Catherine, and Michèle Bissière, ed. French/Francophone Culture and Literature through Film. Women in French Studies Special Issue (2006).

Selected Articles

  • Brunet, Marie-Line, and Michèle Bissière. “Bilan cinématographique 2015-2016: diversité et audace.” The French Review 90.4 (May 2017). 101-18.
  • Beschea-Fache, Caroline, Marie-Line Brunet, and Michèle Bissière. “Bilan cinématographique 2014-2015: Combattant(e)s en tout genre.” The French Review 89.3 (March 2016) : 15-34.
  • Bissière, Michèle. “L’immigration dans le cinéma français: Quelques tendances depuis la fin des années 2000.” Contemporary French Civilization 40.2 (July 2015): 215-33.
  • Bissière, Michèle, Caroline Beschea-Fache, and Marie-Line Brunet. “Bilan cinématographique 2013–2014: Adèle, Guillaume, Suzanne … et les autres.” Forthcoming in The French Review 88.3 (March 2015): 3-21.
  • Degroult, Nathalie, Michèle Bissière, and Caroline Beschea-Fache. “Bilan cinématographique 2012–2013: A Holy Year!” The French Review 87.3 (March 2014): 15-33.
  • Bissière, Michèle. “De La Promesse (1996) à L’Enfant (2005): le cinéma éthique des frères Dardenne.” Dialogues et Cultures 56 (2010): 108-116.
  • Bissière, Michèle. “L’ouverture de  Madame Bovary à l’écrit et à l’écran,” Nouvelles Francographies 2.1 (2010): 59-69.
  • Bissière, Michèle. “Louise d’Epinay.” Dictionary of Literary Biography 313 (Writers of the French Enlightenment I). Ed. Samia Spencer. Thomson Gale, 2005. 183-91.
  • Bissière, Michèle. “Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos.” Dictionary of Literary Biography 313 (Writers of the French Enlightenment I). Ed. Samia Spencer. Thomson Gale, 2005. 274-80.
  • Bissière, Michèle. “Louise d’Epinay et l’éducation des filles: Les Conversations d’Emilie de 1774 et 1782.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 1 (2003): 297-310.
  • Bissière, Michèle. “L’Instruction et la scolarisation des femmes en France: une esquisse.” Women in French Studies. Special Issue (2002): 335-50.
  • Bissière, Michèle. “Riballier et l’éducation des femmes.” Sexualité, mariage et famille au XVIIIe siècle. Eds. Olga B. Cragg and Rosena Davison. Presses de l’Université Laval, 1998. 361-69.
  • Bissière, Michèle. “Graffigny, Riccoboni, et la tradition des Lettres persanes.” Postscript (1995): 9-21. (Awarded the 1995 Founders Prize for best article in Foreign Languages and Literatures by the Philological Association of the Carolinas).
  • Bissière, Michèle. “Union et désunion avec le père dans Ourika et Edouard de Mme de Duras.” Nineteenth Century French Studies 23.3-4 (Spring-Summer 1995): 316-323.
  • Bissière, Michèle. “Les romans de Marie Jeanne Riccoboni, variations sur le texte de l’héroïne,” Atlantis 19.1 (Fall-Winter 1993): 101-107.
  • Bissière, Michèle. “Dramaturge par procuration: Marie Jeanne Riccoboni et le théâtre de son temps,” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 314 (1993): 167-82.

 

 

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