{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2018-12-12T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T19:46:00","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/michele-bissiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/michele-bissiere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2012\/10\/Bissiere-Michele-Resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-45\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/michele-bissiere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2012\/10\/Bissiere-Michele-Resized.jpg\" alt=\"Bissiere Michele Resized\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong>Educational Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D. French, 1989 &#8211; University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/li>\n<li>M.A. French, 1986 &#8211; University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/li>\n<li>M.A. American History, 1986 &#8211; University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/li>\n<li>Agr\u00e9gation d\u2019anglais, 1982 (France)<\/li>\n<li>Ma\u00eetrise d\u2019anglais \/ M.A. English, 1981 &#8211; Universit\u00e9 Paul C\u00e9zanne-Aix-Marseille III<\/li>\n<li>Licence d\u2019anglais \/ B.A. English, 1979, Universit\u00e9 Paul C\u00e9zanne-Aix-Marseille<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contemporary French Cinema<\/li>\n<li>Teaching Language and Culture Through Film<\/li>\n<li>Immigration in France<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Teaching Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All levels of French language<\/li>\n<li>French and Francophone culture<\/li>\n<li>French cinema<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Select Courses <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FREN 3201: French Conversation and Grammar<\/li>\n<li>FREN 3209: France Today<\/li>\n<li>FREN 4007: Survey of French Film<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recent Honors &amp; Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Board of Governors&#8217; Teaching Excellence Award, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Bank of America Excellence in Teaching Award, UNC Charlotte, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Faculty International Education Award, UNC Charlotte, 2017<\/li>\n<li>AATF Dorothy S Ludwig Excellence in Teaching Award at the\u00a0post-secondary level, 2015 (awarded by the American Association of Teachers of French)<\/li>\n<li>Named <em>Chevalier dans l\u2019Ordre des Palmes Acad\u00e9miques<\/em> (Knight in the Order of the French Academic Palms) by the French government, 2014<\/li>\n<li>NC-AATF Teacher of the Year Award, 2013 (awarded by the North Carolina chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Administrative Service <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provost Faculty Fellow, 2015<\/li>\n<li>Interim Director, Film Studies Program, since 2014<\/li>\n<li>Interim Chair, Department of Languages and Culture Studies, Fall 2013<\/li>\n<li>Faculty Executive Committee, 2008-2010<\/li>\n<li>Associate Chair, Department of Languages and Culture Studies, 2004-2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Selected Professional and Community Service<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Managing Editor for the <em>French Review<\/em>, since 2017<\/li>\n<li>Film Review Editor for the <em>French Review<\/em>, 2010-16<\/li>\n<li>American Association of Teachers of French: Co-Chair, Commission on Cultural Competence, since 2013<\/li>\n<li>American Association of Teachers of French: Member of the Executive Council and Regional Delegate for the Southeast, 2007-2009<\/li>\n<li>Alliance Fran\u00e7aise de Charlotte: President, 1995-97; Vice-President, 1994; Secretary, 1991-94; Liaison with Schools and Universities, 1997-2004<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Books<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Singerman, Alan, and Mich\u00e8le Bissi\u00e8re. <em>Le Cin\u00e9ma fran\u00e7ais contemporain. Manuel de classe<\/em>. Hackett Publishing Company, 2017. Translated as\u00a0<em>Contemporary French Cinema. A Student\u2019s Book<\/em>. Hackett Publishing Company, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Bissi\u00e8re, Mich\u00e8le, and Nathalie Degroult. <em>S\u00e9quences: Intermediate French through Film. <\/em>3<sup>rd<\/sup> ed. Boston: Cengage, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Bissi\u00e8re, Mich\u00e8le, and Nathalie Degroult.<em> S\u00e9quences: Cahier de pr\u00e9paration<\/em>. 3<sup>rd<\/sup> ed. Boston: Cengage, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Montfort, Catherine, and Mich\u00e8le Bissi\u00e8re, ed. <em>French\/Francophone Culture and Literature through Film<\/em>. <em>Women in French Studies<\/em> Special Issue (2006).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Selected Articles<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brunet, Marie-Line, and Mich\u00e8le Bissi\u00e8re. \u201cBilan cin\u00e9matographique 2015-2016: diversit\u00e9 et audace.\u201d <em>The French Review<\/em> 90.4 (May 2017). 101-18.<\/li>\n<li>Beschea-Fache, Caroline, Marie-Line Brunet, and Mich\u00e8le Bissi\u00e8re. \u201cBilan cin\u00e9matographique 2014-2015: Combattant(e)s en tout genre.\u201d <em>The French Review<\/em> 89.3 (March 2016)\u00a0: 15-34.<\/li>\n<li>Bissi\u00e8re, Mich\u00e8le. \u201cL\u2019immigration dans le cin\u00e9ma fran\u00e7ais: Quelques tendances depuis la fin des ann\u00e9es 2000.\u201d <em>Contemporary French Civilization<\/em> 40.2 (July 2015): 215-33.<\/li>\n<li>Bissi\u00e8re, Mich\u00e8le, Caroline Beschea-Fache, and Marie-Line Brunet. \u201cBilan cin\u00e9matographique 2013\u20132014: Ad\u00e8le, Guillaume, Suzanne \u2026 et les autres.\u201d Forthcoming in <em>The French Review<\/em> 88.3 (March 2015): 3-21.<\/li>\n<li>Degroult, Nathalie, Mich\u00e8le Bissi\u00e8re, and Caroline Beschea-Fache. \u201cBilan cin\u00e9matographique 2012\u20132013: A Holy Year!\u201d <em>The French Review<\/em> 87.3 (March 2014): 15-33.<\/li>\n<li>Bissi\u00e8re, Mich\u00e8le. \u201cDe <em>La Promesse <\/em>(1996) \u00e0 <em>L\u2019Enfant<\/em> (2005): le cin\u00e9ma \u00e9thique des fr\u00e8res Dardenne.\u201d <em>Dialogues et Cultures<\/em> 56\u00a0(2010): 108-116.<\/li>\n<li>Bissi\u00e8re, Mich\u00e8le. \u201cL\u2019ouverture de\u00a0 <em>Madame Bovary<\/em>\u00a0\u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9crit et \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cran,\u201d <em>Nouvelles Francographies<\/em> 2.1 (2010): 59-69.<\/li>\n<li>Bissi\u00e8re, Mich\u00e8le. \u201cLouise d\u2019Epinay.\u201d <em>Dictionary of Literary Biography<\/em> 313 (Writers of the French Enlightenment I). Ed. Samia Spencer. Thomson Gale, 2005. 183-91.<\/li>\n<li>Bissi\u00e8re, Mich\u00e8le. \u201cPierre-Ambroise-Fran\u00e7ois Choderlos de Laclos.\u201d <em>Dictionary of Literary Biography<\/em> 313 (Writers of the French Enlightenment I). Ed. Samia Spencer. Thomson Gale, 2005. 274-80.<\/li>\n<li>Bissi\u00e8re, Mich\u00e8le. \u201cLouise d&#8217;Epinay et l&#8217;\u00e9ducation des filles: Les <em>Conversations d&#8217;Emilie<\/em> de 1774 et 1782.\u201d <em>Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century<\/em> 1 (2003): 297-310.<\/li>\n<li>Bissi\u00e8re, Mich\u00e8le. \u201cL&#8217;Instruction et la scolarisation des femmes en France: une esquisse.\u201d <em>Women in French Studies<\/em>. Special Issue (2002): 335-50.<\/li>\n<li>Bissi\u00e8re, Mich\u00e8le. \u201cRiballier et l\u2019\u00e9ducation des femmes.\u201d <em>Sexualit\u00e9, mariage et famille au XVIIIe si\u00e8cle<\/em>. Eds. Olga B. Cragg and Rosena Davison. Presses de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Laval, 1998. 361-69.<\/li>\n<li>Bissi\u00e8re, Mich\u00e8le. \u201cGraffigny, Riccoboni, et la tradition des <em>Lettres persanes<\/em>.\u201d <em>Postscript<\/em> (1995): 9-21. (Awarded the 1995 Founders Prize for best article in Foreign Languages and Literatures by the Philological Association of the Carolinas).<\/li>\n<li>Bissi\u00e8re, Mich\u00e8le. \u201cUnion et d\u00e9sunion avec le p\u00e8re dans <em>Ourika<\/em> et <em>Edouard<\/em> de Mme de Duras.\u201d <em>Nineteenth Century French Studies<\/em> 23.3-4 (Spring-Summer 1995): 316-323.<\/li>\n<li>Bissi\u00e8re, Mich\u00e8le. \u201cLes romans de Marie Jeanne Riccoboni, variations sur le texte de l&#8217;h\u00e9ro\u00efne,\u201d <em>Atlantis<\/em> 19.1 (Fall-Winter 1993): 101-107.<\/li>\n<li>Bissi\u00e8re, Mich\u00e8le. \u201cDramaturge par procuration: Marie Jeanne Riccoboni et le th\u00e9\u00e2tre de son temps,\u201d <em>Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century<\/em> 314 (1993): 167-82.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educational Background Ph.D. French, 1989 &#8211; University of Wisconsin-Madison M.A. French, 1986 &#8211; University of Wisconsin-Madison M.A. American History, 1986 &#8211; University of Wisconsin-Madison Agr\u00e9gation d\u2019anglais, 1982 (France) Ma\u00eetrise d\u2019anglais \/ M.A. English, 1981 &#8211; Universit\u00e9 Paul C\u00e9zanne-Aix-Marseille III Licence d\u2019anglais \/ B.A. English, 1979, Universit\u00e9 Paul C\u00e9zanne-Aix-Marseille Research Interests Contemporary French Cinema Teaching Language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2ZrOe-5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/michele-bissiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/michele-bissiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/michele-bissiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/michele-bissiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/michele-bissiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/michele-bissiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/michele-bissiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/michele-bissiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}