国产剧麻豆剧

Alain Lescart Ph.D., M. Div. Aggregation

Professor of French Studies
Professor of Literature

Dr. Alain Lescart joined 国产剧麻豆剧 in 2005 as a professor of French and world literature. He also teaches two special classes on science fiction and fantasy literature. His main specialties are in 19th century French literature and in French fantasy literature. Lescart has published many articles on these topics and gives a lecture/paper each year on these two topics: one during the annual 19th French Studies Colloquium in fall and the other during the 20th-21st French Studies Colloquium in spring. He is also the editor of the French New York-based review: FRANCOGRAPHIES.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Connecticut
  • M.A., French Studies, University of Connecticut
  • M.S., Marriage and Family Therapy, Quincy, Eastern Nazarene College
  • M. Ed. Aggregation, Theologie Protestante, Bruxelles, Facult茅 de Th茅ologie Protestante
  • M. Div. Facult茅 de Th茅ologie de Vaux-sur-Seine, France

Courses Taught

  • Elementary French I & II 鈥� FRE 1001/1002
  • Intermediate French I & II 鈥� FRE 2050/2051
  • French Culture & Civilization 鈥� FRE 3025
  • French Conversation 鈥� FRE 3003
  • Survey of French Literature 鈥� FRE 3020
  • Special Studies in French 鈥� FRE 4020
  • Literature & Culture: Science Fiction 鈥� LIT 2000
  • Literature & Culture: Fantasy Literature 鈥� LIT 2000

Experience in Field

  • 国产剧麻豆剧 (San Diego, CA), Professor, 2005 鈥� present
  • University of Connecticut (Stoors, CT) Teaching Assistant/French Language Coordinator, 2000 鈥� 2005
  • Eastern Nazarene College (Quincy, MA), 1998 鈥� 2000
  • High Schools of Belgium, High School Teacher, 1990 鈥� 1998
  • Mission Eben-Ezer, (Gona茂ves, Haiti), Missionary/Teacher, 1987 鈥� 1990
  • Radio Bonne Nouvelle (Bruxelles, Belgium), Journalist (Radio), 1985 鈥� 1987
  • Euro Media Production (Melin, France), Journalist (TV), 1984 鈥� 1985

Professional and Community Involvement

  • Soci茅t茅 des Professeurs de Fran莽ais et Francophones d'Am茅rique (SPFFA) (New York, NY) 2005 - present
  • At the Bay (Point Loma), Condominium Vice President, 2011 鈥� present
  • Cat Fancy of America (CFA) (San Diego, CA), Member/Director at Large, 2012 鈥� present
  • Editorial & Editorial Board Member (French topics), British Review 鈥淩OMANCE STUDIES鈥�. Taylor & Francis Online. French publications. Mission: Generate recommendation for publication, revision, or rejection. Editor. October 2017-present.

Awards and Honors

  • Victor Gant Graduate Student Scholarship Award, 2003
  • Elected Member of the Psy Chi Society, 2001
  • Outstanding Professor Nominee, Undergraduate Council, UConn, 2004
  • Research and Special Project Grant, (RASP), 国产剧麻豆剧, 2005 鈥� 2006
  • Wesleyan Center Grant, 国产剧麻豆剧, 2006 鈥� 2007
  • Research and Special Project Grant (RASP), 国产剧麻豆剧, 2006 鈥� 2007
  • Research and Special Project Grant (RASP), 国产剧麻豆剧, 2007 鈥� 2008
  • Research and Special Project Grant (RASP), 国产剧麻豆剧, 2010 鈥� 2011
  • Research and Special Project Grant (RASP), 国产剧麻豆剧, 2014 鈥� 2015
  • Research and Special Project Grant (RASP), 国产剧麻豆剧, 2020-2021
  • Sabbatical in Spring 2019 for 鈥淗istory & Legend of the Birman Cat鈥�

Dissertations, Presentations, and Publications

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & INVITED LECTURES:

  • 芦 Le Songe Romantique des 芦 D茅mons de la Nuit 禄 de Charles Nodier. 禄 19th Century French Studies Conference. Sarasota, FL. November 31- December 2nd, 2019.

  • 鈥淟a Censure de La dame aux Cam茅lias. 禄 19st Century French and Francophone Studies Colloquium. University of California, Riverside & Scripps College, Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles. CA. October 25-27, 2018.

  • 鈥淟e Retournement de situation chez Paul Beorn dans son roman 鈥淟e Septi猫me Guerrier-Mage.鈥� 20th 鈥� 21st Century French and Francophone Studies Conference. Brown University. Providence. RI. April 12-14, 2018.

  • 芦 脌 la crois茅e des Chemins entre Fantasy et Science-Fiction. Le m茅tissage du contenu et des genres chez R茅gis Goddyn dans son cycle du Sang des Sept Rois. 禄 University of CT. Storrs. CT. Graduate Class Seminar of Dr. Anne Berthelot. April 12, 2018.
  • "Grandeur et Mis猫re de la Grisette: Repr茅sentation d'une figure symbolique" PhD. UConn. 2005.
  • Benedicte Gorrillot & Alain Lescart. L鈥橧llisibilit茅. Les Actes du Colloque de San Diego. Paris : Septentrion, 2014.
  • Lescart Alain. Prince, Sue Ann. 芦 Of Elephants & Roses. French Natural History : 1790-1830.禄 An Egyptian Giraffe and Six Osage Indians : An Exotic Plea Against the Censorship of 1827. The American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia Museum. 2013 (Ch. 18 : pp. 214-222.)
  • Lescart, Alain. Splendeurs et Mis猫res de la Grisette: Evolution d鈥檜ne figure embl茅matique. Paris: Honor茅 Champion, Romantisme et Modernit茅 no 113, 2008 (362 pages).
  • Lescart, Alain. Faire du Nouveau avec de l鈥橝ncien. Le recyclage de la grisette fossilis茅e dans 鈥淟es Mis茅rables鈥� de Victor Hugo. Revue des Sciences Humaines- No 302 鈥� Avril-Juin 2011. 
  • Lescart Alain & Anne Berthelot (Editors: Roger Celestin & Eliane Dalmolin). Revue SITES. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. Vol. 15, No 2, March 2011.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥溾�橣antasy 脿 la Fran莽aise鈥�: The case of Pierre Pevel.鈥� in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. Vol. 15, No 2, March 2011, 241-248.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淔antasy 脿 la Fran莽aise et Fantasy Anglo-saxonne: Une diff茅rence de rh茅torique?鈥� La Fantasy en France aujourd鈥檋ui. Modernit茅s M茅di茅vales. Journ茅es d鈥櫭﹖ude du 10-11 Juin 2009. University Paris XIII Villetaneuse, Paris, France, June 11, 2009. 
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淚ncursion du Fran莽ais dans l鈥檈space a茅rien de la cit茅 am茅ricaine.鈥� In Review SITES, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (2007: Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 519-530).
  • Lescart, Alain. "Grisettes et bals populaires dans la premi猫re moiti茅 du XIXe si猫cle", Romantisme. Revue du dix-neuvi猫me si猫cle, no137 (2007-3, pp.105-124).
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淩en茅 Depestre promoteur d鈥檜ne identit茅 ha茂tienne esth茅tique et ancestrale. Etude d鈥檜ne nouvelle extraite de Alleluia pour une femme jardin ; Ros茅na dans la montagne,鈥� in Francographie (2005: Vol 13, pp. 67-76).

See More Dissertations, Presentations, and Publications

  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淧erception d鈥檜ne ic么ne fran莽aise dans les journaux am茅ricains du XIXe si猫cle : Un st茅r茅otype de Paris. Le mythe de la s茅duisante grisette鈥� in the special issue # 5 of Francographies. 
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淎ll Women are Grisettes in Charlotte Bront毛鈥檚 Villette,鈥� Bront毛 Studies. Vol. 30 (July 2005: 103 -111).
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淢arguerite Yourcenar aux prises avec le tao茂sme dans le conte Comment Wang-F么 fut sauv茅,鈥� Soci茅t茅 Internationale d鈥櫭塼udes Yourcenariennes. Bulletin n. 25 (2004: Decembre). 21-30
  • Lescart, Alain. Review of BBC One TV series :The Adventure of Merlin (2008-2012). L鈥橢splumoir, n潞 12 (2013) M芒con: Copy-Plus.
  • Gorrillot B茅n茅dicte & Lescart, Alain. 鈥淟es Actes de San Diego. L鈥橧llisibilit茅 en Questions.鈥� Collectif. Septentrion. Lettres et Arts. 2014.
  • Lescart Alain. Prince, Sue Ann. 芦 Of Elephants & Roses. French Natural History : 1790-1830.禄 An Egyptian Giraffe and Six Osage Indians : An Exotic Plea Against the Censorship of 1827. The American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia Museum. 2013 (Ch. 18 : pp. 214-222.)
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淧anorama des tendances r茅centes en fantasy anglophone鈥�, co-authored with Anne Berthelot, http://www.modernitesmedievales.org/articles/BerthelotLescart.htm , Feb. 2010.
  • Lescart, Alain. Review of 鈥淢urger, Henri. The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter: Introduction par Maurice Samuels. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. pp. 392,鈥� in Nineteenth Century French Studies 34 (2006: Nos. 3 & 4. Spring-Summer, pp. 228-229).
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淧o猫tes et F茅lins: Esth茅tique de l鈥檈xposition F茅line de 1896.鈥� 19st Century French and Francophone Studies Colloquium. Brown University, Providence, RI. October 28, 2016.
  • Lescart, Alain. Je t鈥檃ime un peu, beaucoup, 茅norm茅ment 鈥� pas du tout: La grisette figure symbolique du XIX猫me si猫cle en literature.鈥� French Department. University of CT. Invited Lecture CT. Octobre 26, 2016
  • Lescart, Alain. 芦 Chats et po猫tes : Esth茅tique d鈥檜ne exposition f茅line : !896-1901. 禄 French Department. University of CT. Invited Lecture. Storrs, CT. April 23, 2015
  • Lescart, Alain. 芦 Les Enchantements du mythe chez Martin Rouillard dans son cycle des Gardiens de L茅gendes. 禄 20th 鈥� 21st Century French and Francophone Studies Conference. University of Louisiana. Baton Rouge. LO. February 26-28, 2015.
  • Lescart, Alain. 芦 La Fuite du fantastique Fran莽ais vers le fantastico-gothique : Le V茅nus d鈥橧lle de Prosper M茅rim茅e et son adaptation cin茅matographique par Mario Bava. 19st Century French and Francophone Studies Colloquium. San Juan. Puerto Rico. University of Puerto Rico. 16-19 October 2014
  • Lescart, Alain. 芦 Sang bleu et Eminences grises. L鈥檃rgent chez R茅gis Goddun dans Le Sang des Sept Rois. 禄 20th 鈥� 21st Century French and Francophone Studies Conference. New York University, NY. March 6-9, 2014.
  • Lescart, Alain. 芦 Cellendhyll, Agent des Ombres : La Mythologie de Michel Robert et l鈥檕mbre port茅e de Morcock. 禄 20th 鈥� 21st Century French and Francophone Studies Conference. University of Atlanta, GA. March 28-30, 2013.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥� Victor Hugo et le paup茅risme dans Les Mis茅rables 禄 19st Century French and Francophone Studies Colloquium. North Carolina University, Raleigh, NC, October 11-14, 2012.
  • Lescart, Alain. 芦 La R茅forme Protestante et la Sorcellerie. Le cas de Jean Calvin 脿 Gen猫ve en 1545. 禄 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. April 17, 2012.
  • Lescart, Alain. 芦 Insensiblement autre : La r茅茅criture de l鈥檋istoire dans la trilogie de Wielstad de Pierre Pevel. 禄 20th 鈥� 21st Century French and Francophone Studies Conference. University of California, Long Beach, CA. March 28-31, 2012.
  • Lescart, Alain. 芦 An Egyptian Giraffe and Six Osage Indians : An Exotic Plea Against the Censorship of 1827. 禄 The American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA. December 1-3, 2011.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淟es Dragons en question chez Pierre Pevel. 禄 20th 鈥� 21st Century French and Francophone Studies Conference. University of California, San Francisco, CA. March 25-27, 2011.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淧ierre Pevel dans la tradition du roman 芦de cape et d鈥櫭﹑茅e禄 禄鈥�, at the SPFFA Colloquium, New York, NY, Oct. 29-30, 2010.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淯chronies et Mondes Parall猫les dans l鈥櫯搖vre de Pierre Pevel. Le Mod猫le d鈥橝mbremer鈥�, 20th 鈥� 21st Century French and Francophone Studies Conference. University of Guelph, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 25-27, 2010.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淔aire du Nouveau avec de l鈥橝ncien: Le chant de grisette de Victor Hugo dans Les Mis茅rables.鈥� 35th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, UT, October 21-24, 2009.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淔antasy 脿 la Fran莽aise et Fantasy Anglo-saxonne: Une diff茅rence de rh茅torique?鈥� La Fantasy en France aujourd鈥檋ui. Modernit茅s M茅di茅vales. Journ茅es d鈥櫭﹖ude du 10-11 Juin 2009. University Paris XIII Villetaneuse, Paris, France, June 11, 2009.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淩ichelieu contre la Cour des Dragons. Le vers est dans le fruit chez Pierre Pevel鈥�, in Fantasy 脿 la Francaise. 20th 鈥� 21st Century French and Francophone Studies Conference. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus, Minneapolis, MN, March 26-28, 2009.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淭he Lady of the Camellias by Alexander Dumas Son: History and Repercussions of the Book and Drama in Literature and Other Medias.鈥� 国产剧麻豆剧, Nease Library Lecture. San Diego, CA, November 19, 2008.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淯ne girafe et six indiens ou l鈥檈xotisme de la contre-censure.鈥� 34th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, October 16-18, 2008.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淧ierre Jean de B茅ranger, ouvrier en rimes, ou comment faire une r茅volution avec des chansons.鈥� 33th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Alabama University, Mobile, AL, October 18-20, 2007.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淟a grisette, figure embl茅matique鈥�, Conference sur Cherchez la femme! Espaces f茅minins dans la culture populaire. Universit茅 Jean Monnet, Roanne, France. October 11-13, 2007.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淏astille Day: The events preceding July 14th, 1789.鈥� San Diego Chamber of Business. La Jolla, August 19, 2007.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淚ncursion du Fran莽ais dans l鈥檈space a茅rien de la cit茅 am茅ricaine: le cas de San Diego.鈥� 20th-21h Century French and Francophone Studies Conference, College Station, TX, March 21-24, 2007.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淟a Lithographie support des id茅es r茅publicaines sous la Restauration.鈥� 32th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, October 19-21, 2006.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淭he Grisette, emblematic figure in 19th Century French Literature.鈥� Literary Tea. LJWL. 国产剧麻豆剧, October 5, 2006.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淟eila Sebbar, une 茅criture panoramique.鈥� 20th-21st Century French and Francophone Studies Conference, Gainesville, FL. March 31 鈥� April 3, 2006.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淟es Petites Gens: La Grisette.鈥� 31st Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin, TX, October 27-30, 2005.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淎min Maalouf 脿 la crois茅e des chemins.鈥� 20th-21st Century French and Francophone Studies Conference, Gainesville, FL. March 31 鈥� April 3, 2005.
  • Lescart, Alain.  鈥淟a Danse des Grisettes, le D茅but de la D茅ch茅ance鈥︹�� 30th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Washington University, Saint-Louis, MO, October 28-30, 2004.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淧erception d鈥檜ne ic么ne fran莽aise dans les journaux am茅ricains du XIXe si猫cle: Repr茅sentation st茅r茅otyp茅e de Paris. Le mythe de la s茅duisante Grisette.鈥� SPFFA Centenary Conference (鈥淐r茅ation et R茅alit茅 d鈥橢xpression Fran莽aise鈥�), Fordham University, NY, October 8-9, 2004.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淓very Woman is a Grisette : Charlotte Bront毛鈥檚 subversive use of the grisette in The Professor and Villette.鈥� Fourth Annual New York Meeting of the American Bront毛 Society on 鈥淭he Bront毛鈥檚 and their World.鈥� Pace University, NY, April 17, 2004.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淟e  Cosmopolitisme Errant Oriental de Marguerite Yourcenar dans le Conte Wang-F么 fut sauv茅. Une Spirale Imaginaire de Sublimation de l鈥橭ppression.鈥� 20th 鈥� 21st Century French and Francophone Studies Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. April 1-4, 2004.
  • Lescart, Alain. "The Grisette Paradigm in the First Part of the Nineteenth Century in French Literature.鈥� Women and Gender Studies Conference, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 12, 2003.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淐harlotte Bront毛 and the Use of Grisettes in Villette.鈥� Modern and Classical Languages Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, January 29, 2003.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淕risettes et courtisanes, de Paul de Kock 脿 la Dame aux Cam茅lias.鈥� 19th Century Graduate Seminar, University of Connecticut, Storrs, November 12, 2002.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淢ichel Tournier鈥檚 Eleazar et le Buisson : exp茅rimentation d鈥檜ne 茅criture binaire.鈥� 20th Century French and Francophone Studies Conference, Hartford, CT, April 4-7, 2002.
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淩en茅 Depestre, in Quest of a Haitian Identity: 鈥楻os茅na in the mountain.鈥欌�� Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, March 31, 2001
  • Lescart, Alain. 鈥淓thnocultural Counseling.鈥� South Bay Mental Health, Brockton, MA, February 13, 2001.