Dr.Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch-Experience
Courses Taught at Angelo State UniversityFrench: French I; French II; French III; French IV; Advanced French Grammar and Conversation; Advanced French Composition; Contemporary French Literature; Colette; George Sand; Marguerite Duras; French Women Writers; French Romanticism and Realism of the Nineteenth- Century; French Culture and Civilization; Women's Education and Women as Educators in France; Le Roman Policier; Women and the French Revolution; The Representation of the Female Reader in Colette's Early Works; Reading and Viewing the Female Protagonist; Sénégal: Espace culturelle et littéraire; Political, Economic and Cultural Developments in Post-colonial West-Africa. French Cinema
Supervised Carr Student Research Project: Belgian Women in Texas.
German: German I; German II; German III; German IV.
Linguistics: Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Linguistics for Public School Teachers (Graduate Course).
English: Forms of Literature, World Literature After 1600
USTD 1201: Critical Thinking,
Courses Taught Abroad:
Director of the European Studies Program at the University of Lüneburg ( Germany), Summer 1995, 1999 and Summer 2004. Courses offered for ASU students: Postwar German Literature in Translation; Men and Women in Germany: A New Understanding of Gender Roles. Co-Director of the European Studies Program at the University of Lüneburg ( Germany), Summer 2004. Course offered for ASU students: Postwar German Literature in Translation. German Film and National Culture
Teaching Interests
19 th- and 20 th -Century French Women Writers
Women Writers and Professional Organizations in 19 th-Century France
History of Female Reading in France and Germany
French Cultural Studies
Gender Studies
Film History and Criticism
All levels of language instruction French and German
Grants Received
2006-Received Angelo State University President's Circle Enrichment Grant to travel to the University of Oregon to work on Ernest Haycox materials in preparation for a new French course French 2372: French and Francophone Literature in Translation.
2003-Received Angelo State Research Enhancement grant to pursue a research project on French women in Texas: Title of the project: From Texas with Love- For Texas with Love. Eugénie Aubanel Lavender and Marcelle Tinayre. Two French Women Painting and Writing Texas."
2001-Received Angelo State Research Enhancement grant to pursue a research project on the representation of the female reader in naturalist and post-naturalist novels. Title of the project: Reading and Viewing the Female Reader: The Woman Reader in French Naturalist and Post-Naturalist Novels."
2000-Member of the PT3 Grant. Received funding to develop a syllabus which allowed for the integration of technology into lower division French courses. 1998-Received SCMLA travel grant
1997-Received Angelo State Research Enhancement Grant to pursue a research project on support organizations for women writers during the July Monarchy. Title of the project: "The Société des Gens de Lettres and the Académie des Femmes: Support Organizations for Women Writers and Publishers during the July Monarchy."
1994-Received Angelo State Research Enhancement Grant. Research topic: "Business Strategies and Discourse Strategies--Women Writers and Their Publishers in Early Nineteenth-Century France."
1993-Received Research grant from the Children's Literature Association to work in libraries and archives in Paris, France, to prepare a study on Eugénie Foa.
1988-1989-Received DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) grant to do postdoctoral research in the USA (Brandeis University).
1985-1986-Received Dissertation fellowship (GraföG) from the State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
1985 Received Stiftung Babst Fellowship, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany.
1984 Received DAAD dissertation grant to do research in Paris, France.
1981-Received Research grant from the Italian Government to participate in the Summer Study Program, Università di Padova, Italy.
Administrative Experience
Interim Department Head, Second Summer Term 2005-2006
Acting Department Head, Second Summer Term 2000, First Summer Term 2003
Member of the International Education Committee, since 1993
Member of the International Education Fee Grants Subcommittee, 1995-1997, 1999-2000, since 2001
Member of the Honors Council, since 1995 -2005
Member of the Faculty Senate, 1996-1999
Member of the Academic Affairs Subcommittee, 1996-1999 (chair, 1998-1999)
Member of the Post-Tenure Review Committee 1997, 2003-2004
Member of the Honors Program Task Force, since 1997
Member of the Graduate Faculty, since 1997
Member of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 1998-1999
Member of the College Curriculum Committee, since 1998
Member of the University Curriculum Committee, 1998-2004
Member of the Publications Council, since 1998
Member of the Academic Program Initiatives Task Force, 1998-1999
Member of the University Self-Study Committee (chair, Library subcommittee), 1999-2001
Member of the Tenure and Promotion Committee (vice chair 1999-2000, chair 2000-2001), 1999-2002
University Service
Advising and Orientation, "Discover ASU"/ "College Daze"/ "ASU Preview" since 1992
Coordinator of French Exchange Program between Angelo State University and Université de Valenciennes, France, since 1996
Coordinator of Annual Exchange Programs between Angelo State University and the
Universities of Lüneburg and Hannover, Germany, since 1999
Advising of German and French Exchange Students, since Summer 1998
Served as the Graduate School Representative on the Graduate Adivisory Committee for the M.A. candidate B. Schmidt-Rö;semann, (English) 2000-2001, and Wayne Dunson (Agriculture), 2003-2004.
Member of the Search Committee for an Assistant Professor of English (Renaissance Literature), Spring 2002
Memberships
AIZEN; Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones;
Deutscher Romanistenverband; Modern Language Association;
PEN - Centre of German-speaking Writers Abroad;
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing;
South Central Modern Language Association;
Women in French, Western Society for French History.