JOSHUA M. BLAYLOCK CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Modern Language Studies Box 297210 Fort Worth, TX 76129 817-257-6365 j.blaylock@tcu.edu EDUCATION Brown University Ph.D., French Studies 2014 Dissertation Title: Through a Glass Darkly: Secrecy in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century French Novella Dissertation Directors: Professor Virginia Krause and Professor Lewis Seifert First Reader: Professor David LaGuardia University of Montana M.A., French 2005 Professional Paper Title: Revolt in Le passé simple by Driss Chraïbi and Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline Director: Professor Fazia Aitel First Reader: Professor Michel Valentin Second Reader: Professor Linda Frey University of Montana B.A., French High Honors B.A., History High Honors 2002 RESEARCH INTERESTS Medieval and early modern French literature, in particular secrecy, the novella, emblems, rhetoric, courtly aesthetics; literary theory; literature and the visual arts; second language pedagogy; teaching with technology. TEACHING INTERESTS General survey courses on medieval, sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century French literature French language courses (All levels) Special topics courses covering the French novella, secrecy and literature, literary and critical theory, poetry and emblematics, libertine philosophy and literature, French cinema
PUBLICATIONS Articles "A Skeleton in the Closet: Secrecy and Anamorphosis in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron," Sixteenth Century Journal, Winter 2014. "A Transparent Veil: Secrecy as Tragic Spectacle in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron (1559)." MLN. Forthcoming September 2017. "Intertextual Echoes: Emblems, the Novella, and Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron." L'Esprit Créateur, submitted for initial review. "The Vanishing Lady: Secrecy, Emblematics, and the Mélusine Legend in Jacques Yver's Le Printemps (1572)." In progress. To be submitted to French Forum. Reviews "Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance," Comparative Literature Studies (52.4), December 2015. CONFERENCE PAPERS "Intertextual Echoes: Emblems, the Novella, and Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron." Sixteenth Century Society Conference. Vancouver, BC. October 2015. "Voicethread in the French Classroom," South Central Association for Language Learning Technology Conference. Austin, TX. April 2015. "Through a Glass Darkly: The Iconography of Secrecy in Hélisenne de Crenne's Les Angoisses douleureuses." Sixteenth Century Society Conference. New Orleans, LA. October 2014. "Covert Libertinage: Secrecy, Self-Censorship, and Storytelling in Charles Sorel s Les Nouvelles choisies (1623, 1645)," Renaissance Society of America, New York, New York, March, 2014. "Deadly Confidants: The Mediated Secret as Tragic Spectacle in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron," Charting the Future and the Unknown in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, New York, December 2012. "The Vanishing Lady: Secrecy, Emblematics, and the Myth of Mélusine in Jacques Yver's Le Printemps (1572)," Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, Fall 2012 "A Sidelong Gaze: Secrecy and Anamorphosis in The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein and the 32nd Novella of the Heptaméron by Marguerite de Navarre," Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, Fall 2011.
"A Skeleton in the Closet: Secrecy and Anamorphosis in Marguerite de Navarre's L'Heptaméron and Hans Holbein the Younger's The Ambassadors," Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Graduate Student Colloquium Series, Brown University, Fall 2011. "Sharing Secrets: Complicity and Friendship in Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier (1528) and Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron (1559)," Friendship in Premodern Europe (1300-1700), Victoria University, Toronto, Canada, Fall 2011. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor of French French 10153 First Semester College French, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016 French 10163 Second Semester College French, Spring 2015, Spring 2016 French 30063 Readings in Selected French Genres: Le Voyage, Fall 2016 French 30073 Introduction to Composition, Spring 2015, Spring 2016 French 40123 Seminar in French Studies: Secrecy in French Literature, Fall 2014 French 40123 Seminar in French Studie: Literature and the Visual Arts in 16th- and 17th-Century French Literature College of the Holy Cross Visiting Instructor of French FR 101: Elementary French 1, Course Supervisor, Fall 2013 FR 102: Elementary French 2, Course Supervisor, Fall 2013, Spring 2014 FR 201: Intermediate French 1, Course Supervisor, Spring 2014 FR 302: Le Voyage, Fall 2013 FR 499: Secrets and Secrecy in French Literature Before the Revolution, Spring 2014 Brown University Teaching Assistant French 0100: Basic French I, Fall 2007 French 0200: Basic French II, Spring 2008 French 0400: Intermediate French II, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Fall 2012
French 0100: Basic French I, Fall 2007 French 0200: Basic French II, Spring 2008 French 0400: Intermediate French II, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Fall 2012 French 0500: Writing and Speaking French I, Fall 2009 French 0600: Advanced Written and Spoken French II, Spring 2013 French 0600: Advanced Written and Spoken French II, Fall 2010 Special Literature Section Summer Instructor French 0500: Written and Spoken French I: Intermediate Level, Summer 2011. French 0220: French for Reading in the Humanities, Summer 2010, Summer 2012 The course was designed to give graduate students an ability to read and translate French. University of Montana Teaching Assistant French 101: Elementary French I, Fall 2003, Fall 2004 French 102: Elementary French II, Spring 2004, Spring 2005 France Lecturer-English Université Lumière-Lyon II, Lyon, France, 2008-2009 Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, 2002-2003 Sheridan High School PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Koehler Center for Teaching Excellence Seminar, Words and Sense: Contemplative Pedagogies in Academic Writing. February 2015. Seminar, A Framework for Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills. November 2014 Seminar, Engaging Students in a BYOD Environment. September 2014. Workshop, LearningStudio Gradebook. August 2014.
Koehler Center for Teaching Excellence Seminar, Words and Sense: Contemplative Pedagogies in Academic Writing. February 2015. Seminar, A Framework for Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills. November 2014 Seminar, Engaging Students in a BYOD Environment. September 2014. Workshop, LearningStudio Gradebook. August 2014. Workshop, Active Learning 102. August 2014. Workshop, Active Learning 101. August 2014. Brown University Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Certificate III: A year-long seminar devoted to professional development, 2011-2012. Certificate I: A year-long pedagogy program entitled "Developing a Reflective Teaching Practice," 2010-2011. Instructional Technology Group, Summer Institute in Teaching with Technology, Summer 2010. GRANTS External Tournées Film Festival Grant 2015-2016 French-American Cultural Exchange $2,200 Tournées Film Festival Grant 2014-2015 French-American Cultural Exchange $2,200 Virtual Voyage Grant Discovering Global Citizenship Initiative $1000 This grant allowed us to invite French director Emmanuelle Bercot for a live virtual Q & A in conjunction with our screening of her film, Elle s'en va, as part of our Tournées Film Festival during spring semester 2014. The grant paid for an honorarium for Bercot's participation. SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Panel Moderator, Equinoxes Conference: The Missing Link, Brown University, Spring 2010. Organizer, Equinoxes Conference: Architectures, Brown University, Spring 2008. Editor, Equinoxes Journal, Spring/Summer online issue Architectures, Spring 2008. Editor, Equinoxes Journal, Fall online issue Revolutions, Fall 2007. Panel Moderator, Women, The Veil, Islam, and the West, University of Montana, Spring 2005. SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY Faculty Advisor, Ensemble, French Club, 2015-2016 Discussion Leader, First-Year Common Reading, 2015, 2016 Organizer and Director, Tournées Film Festival, 2015, 2016, 2017. Member of Italian Search Committee, Modern Language Studies, 2014-2015 Chair, French Search Committee, Modern Language Studies, 2016-2017 College of the Holy Cross Co-organizer, French Ciné-Club, 2013-2014 Faculty Advisor, French Club, 2013-2014 Faculty Advisor Brown University Graduate Student Representative for French Studies, Graduate Student Council, Brown University, 2009-2010. Graduate Student Liaison to the Faculty, French Studies, Brown University, 2007-2008. University of Montana Graduate Student Representative, Search Committee, Department of Modern and Classical Language and Literature, University of Montana, 2004-2005. Graduate Student Representative, Search Committee, Department of Modern and Classical Language and Literature, University of Montana, 2003-2004.
HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS Dissertation Fellowship, Brown University, Spring-Fall 2011. First Year Graduate Fellowship, Brown University, 2006-2007. Summa Cum Laude, History/French, University of Montana, 2002. President s Recognition Award, University of Montana, French, 2002. MEMBERSHIPS Modern Language Association Sixteenth-Century Society and Conference Renaissance Society of America LANGUAGES English - Native Speaker French- Near-Native Proficiency Latin- Reading