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Overview<\/h3>\n

Dr. Katherine Stephenson is Associate Professor of French, Liberal Studies, and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies. In her nearly 30\u00a0years at UNC Charlotte she has taught all the core courses in French and developed French for Reading Knowledge and French Women Writers in Translation. She co-developed the\u00a0Limoges Study Abroad Program in French. She has been a leader in integrating technology into the curriculum and all her courses are now hybrid courses. She helped establish the Language Resource Center in 1990 and is regularly\u00a0on the departmental LRC advisory committees. \u00a0She is a founding member of the Master’s in Liberal Studies program, in which she still teaches Language, Gender and Power, the inaugural course in the program. In the WGST and MALS programs she regularly teaches Queer Theory, Theoretical Approaches to Sexuality, and Language, Gender and Power. She was\u00a0the Graduate Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies from\u00a02010 to 2015. She has published on feminist theory, French women writers, and language and gender. She worked on the international research project \u201cDiff\u00e9rence sexuelle et communication(s)\u201d (Sexual Difference and Communication) directed by French feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray and has co-translated Irigaray\u2019s\u00a0Sexes et genres \u00e0 travers les langues<\/em> (Sexes and Genders across Languages<\/em> with Gail Schwab (Hofstra). Dit de femmes: entretiens d\u2019\u00e9crivaines fran\u00e7aises<\/em> (Women\u2019s Words: Interviews with French Women Writers<\/em>), the anthology of interviews with contemporary French women writers she conducted along with Mich\u00e8le Magill (NCSU), was published in 2003 by Summa Publications.<\/p>\n

Education<\/h3>\n
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  • Ph.D. 1985, French, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/li>\n
  • M.A. 1980, French, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/li>\n
  • B.A.\u00a0summa cum laude 1976, French, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Research Interests<\/h3>\n
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    • Feminist theory<\/li>\n
    • French feminist philosophy<\/li>\n
    • Language and gender<\/li>\n
    • Contemporary French women novelists<\/li>\n
    • Queer Theory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Teaching Interests<\/h3>\n
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      • French language and literature<\/li>\n
      • Language and gender<\/li>\n
      • Contemporary women novelists<\/li>\n
      • Feminist theory<\/li>\n
      • Queer Theory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Select Coursess<\/h3>\n
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        • FREN 2200 French for Reading Knowledge<\/li>\n
        • FREN 4050\/WGST 4228 French Women Writers in Translation<\/li>\n
        • WGST 4170\/5050 Queer Theory<\/li>\n
        • WGST 6601 Theoretical Approaches to Sexuality<\/li>\n
        • WGST 6603 Language, Gender and Power<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Honors & Awards<\/h3>\n
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          • Honoree, first UNC Charlotte International Women\u2019s Day Celebration, 2006<\/li>\n
          • \u00a0NationsBank Award for Excellence in Teaching Finalist, 1996<\/li>\n
          • International research project \u201cDiff\u00e9rence sexuelle et communication(s),\u201d 1991\u20111994, directed by Luce Irigaray. Co-directed English section with Dr. Gail Schwab, Hofstra University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Select Professional Affiliations<\/h3>\n
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            • Women in French<\/li>\n
            • Modern Languages Association<\/li>\n
            • Southeastern Women’s Studies Association<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Selected\u00a0Publications<\/h3>\n
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              • “A Dialogics and Ethics of Love: Luce Ireigaray’s\u00a0The Way of Love<\/em>.”\u00a0Women in French Studies<\/em>\u00a0Special Issue (2008).<\/li>\n
              • \u201cPlugging the Hole in Cognitive Theory: Irigaray\u2019s Ethical Solution for Gender Blindness.\u201d\u00a0Ecriture Courante: \u00a0Critical Perspectives on French and Francophone Women<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Mary Rice-DeFosse and Cathy Yandell.\u00a0\u00a0Women in French Studies<\/em>\u00a0Special Issue (2005): 136-44.<\/li>\n
              • Dit de femmes: entretiens d\u2019\u00e9crivaines fran\u00e7aises<\/em>. Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications. Dec. 2003. With Mich\u00e8le Magill (NCSU).<\/li>\n
              • \u201cMarie Chaix,\u201d \u201cEssentialism,\u201d \u201cJocelyne Fran\u00e7ois,\u201d \u201cMaterialism,\u201d \u201cPostmodernism,\u201d and \u201cPoststructuralism.\u201d\u00a0The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature<\/em>. Ed. Eva Sartori, et al. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999. 81- 2, 186-87, 217-18, 351-52, 428-29, 429-30.<\/li>\n
              • \u201cThe Possessive, Gender, and Subjectivity.\u201d\u00a0Untying the Tongue: Gender, Power and the Word<\/em>. Ed. Linda Longmire and Lisa Merrill. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998. 25-32.<\/li>\n
              • \u201cMapping Matters: Corporeal Feminism\u2019s Materialization of Sexed Subjectivity.\u201d Semiotics 1996, Proc. of 21st Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America. Oct. 1996. Ed. C.W. Spinks. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. 43-49.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                Selected Conference Presentations<\/h3>\n
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                • \u201cSex, Gender and Language,\u201d 2014 Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, UNC Wilmington, Mar. 27-29, 2014.<\/li>\n
                • \u201cLanguage and Gender: Thinking Difference, Thinking Differently,\u201d LGBT & Allies Diversity Summit, Charlotte Convention Center, June 6, 2013.<\/li>\n
                • \u201cIrigaray’s New Critique of Language Through Elaborating the Practice of Love,\u201d 2013 Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, UNC Greensboro, Apr. 18-20, 2013.<\/li>\n
                • \u201cIrigaray’s Revis(ion)ing of Culture Through the Cultivation of Sexual Difference,\u201d\u00a02012 Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Fairfax, VA, March 29-31, 2012.<\/li>\n
                • \u201cCultivating\u00a0Difference through Relational Being in Irigaray,\u201d\u00a0Sixth Women in French International Conference, Tempe AZ, Feb. 23-26, 2012.<\/li>\n
                • \u201cFrom Sexual Difference to Relational Being in Irigaray’s Later Works,\u201d 2011 Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 24-26, 2011.<\/li>\n
                • \u201cQueering the Conversation: Strategies, Possibilities, Future Directions,\u201d\u00a0Roundtable discussion, 2011 Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 24-26, 2011.<\/li>\n
                • \u201cLove as Mediation in the Oeuvre of Irigaray,\u201d Fourth Women in French International Conference, Fort Worth\/Dallas, April 10-12, 2008.<\/li>\n
                • \u201cTeaching Summer: The View From the Trenches,\u201d with Tink Moore, Kim Harris, and Nishi Bryska, 2007 Southern \u00a0Regional Conference on Summer Sessions, Charlotte, NC, March 25-27, 2007.<\/li>\n
                • \u201cLeveraging Technology in Foreign Language Instruction,\u201d with Robert Hambrick and Carolyn Quarterman, 2007 UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference, Raleigh, NC, March 21-23, 2007.<\/li>\n
                • \u201cUsing Technology in Foreign Language and Culture Instruction,\u201d with Mary Frances Castro, Martha Miller, and Heather McCullough, 2007 UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference, Raleigh, NC, \u00a0March 21-23, 2007.<\/li>\n
                • \u201cFeminist Philosophy–What\u2019s Love Got to Do with It?\u201d\u00a0Third Women in French International Conference, Durham, NH, April 6-8, 2006.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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