Dr. Romain CHAREYRON romainchareyron@gmail.

com
11-238 Main Street (403) 977-2718
Saskatoon, SK S7N 0B5 http://rchareyron.weebly.com (online portfolio)

EDUCATION

2005-2010 University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)

• Ph. D. in Francophone culture and contemporary French cinema,
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Department. Thesis title:
Les Emprunts au genre horrifique et pornographique dans le cinéma français
contemporain.
Supervisor: Pr. Anna Gural-Migdal.

2003-2004 Université Toulouse-Le Mirail (Toulouse, France)

• 2nd year of MA (French D.E.A.) in English (magna cum laude).
Thesis title: The Meanings of Space in Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named
Desire. Supervisor: Pr. Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard.

2001-2003 Université Toulouse-Le Mirail (Toulouse, France)

• 1st year of MA (French Maîtrise) in English (cum laude). Thesis title:
The Representation of Cinema in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard.
Supervisor: Pr. Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard.

1998-2001 Université Jean Monnet (Saint-Étienne, France)

• BA, English.

CERTIFICATION

Certified marker/assessor for the DELF (Diplôme d’Études de Langue Française) exam (level A1
to B2).

LANGUAGES

• French: Native speaker • Spanish: Read; Written

• English: Fluent
 

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

July 2017- French Lecturer

present
• Beginning French I (FREN 103) • Advanced French I (FREN
University of 212)
Saskatchewan –
Dept. of Languages,
Literature and • Culture and Society in French • Représentation de la jeunesse
Cultural Studies (FREN 252) dans le cinéma français et
francophone contemporain
• French Film Classics (FREN (FREN 338)
224) – online course to be offered in
Spring 2018

2016-June Individualized Study Tutor of French (distance learning)

2017
• First Year University French • Le roman français du XIXème
Athabasca (FREN 200) siècle (FREN 421)
University – Center
for Humanities
• Le roman français du XXème • Poésie et théâtre français du
siècle (FREN 363) XIXème siècle (FREN 420)

2014-2016 Clinical Assistant Professor of French (teaching stream)

• Second Semester French • Intermediate Grammar and

(FREN 102) Writing (FREN 308)
Washington State
University – Dept. • Third Semester French (FREN • Intermediate Speaking and
of Foreign Languages 203) Listening (FREN 307)
& Cultures

• Fourth Semester French • “Youth in Contemporary

(FREN 204) French and Francophone
Cinema” (FREN 310)

• French Culture (FREN 120) – • French Film in Translation

taught in English (FREN 410) – taught in English

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2011-2014 Advanced Lecturer

• Applied French Grammar and • La France d’aujourd’hui

Composition (FREN 350) (FREN 430)

• French for Business and • Recent French Culture and

University of Kansas Journalism (FREN 352) Film (FREN 440)
– French & Italian
Dept.
• Introduction to French and • (Re)Defining French Identity
Francophone Literature through Film (FREN 440)
(FREN 326)

• Intermediate French Individualized study

Conversation (FREN 375)
• Honors in French (FREN 499)

Graduate course

• Expository French Writing

(FREN 620)

2005-2010 French instructor

University of • Intermediate French I • Advanced French I

Alberta - Modern
Languages &
(FREN 211) (FREN 297)
Cultural Studies
(Edmonton, • Intermediate French II • Advanced French II
Canada) (FREN 212) (FREN 298)

2007-2010 French instructor (adult learning)

Faculty of • Beginners French I • Intermediate French I

Extension,
University of
Alberta (Edmonton, • Beginners French II • Intermediate French II
Canada)

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CREATION OF WEB-BASED COURSES

2017-2018 Development of an online course in French cinema

University of • Development of a survey course for undergraduates on French

Saskatchewan –
Dept. of Languages,
cinema classics to be offered in Spring 2018.
Literature and • Creation of the syllabus.
Cultural Studies • Selection of all the materials (films; textbook; articles).
• Work in collaboration with the Instructional designer team and the
Distance Education Unit to design the course on Blackboard.

2017 Lesson writer for the educational website Study.com

• Creation of short lessons on discrete French grammar and cultural

Study.com aspects.
• Lessons created on the following grammar/cultural aspects: the past
participle; disjunctive pronouns; adverbs of quantity; the infinitive;
French medical terms; the past perfect; relative pronouns; the
imperative; the imparfait; school vocabulary; body parts in French.

Link: http://study.com/academy/course/basic-french-help-review.html

Creation of a MOOC on French language

2017
• Development of a French course as part of the Freshman Year for Free
Modern States – program offered by modernstates.org (https://modernstates.org/about-us/who-
Alliance Education we-are/).
• Development of materials to help students review the fundamentals of
French grammar (beginners to intermediate level).
• Recording of videos for each grammar lesson.
• Recording of audio resources to help students with their listening
abilities.
• Selection of open-access textbook and texts to help students improve
their reading abilities.

Link: https://modernstates.org/course/french-language/

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TEACHER TRAINING

2009-2010 Training of Teaching Assistants

University of • Helped with the designing and planning of lessons.

Alberta - Modern
Languages & • Observed and provided feedback on teaching methods.
Cultural Studies • Provided an assessment of performance.
(Edmonton,
Canada)

STUDENT SUPERVISION

2012-2013 • Supervisor for a student’s Honors thesis in contemporary French

cinema. Topic: “The depiction of Youth in Contemporary French
University of Kansas Cinema”. (Final grade: A-)
– French & Italian
Dept.

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

Operating systems Microsoft Office 2011; Mac OS X Yosemite

Web Page Construction Weebly; Zoho

Learning Management Systems Blackboard; Moodle

Multi-Media Presentation Prezi; PowerPoint

Word Processing and Spread sheets Word 2011; Excel 2011; Google Docs

Educational Technology My French Lab; Quia; Centro; Connect

Educational Software VoiceThread; Padlet; Thinglink, Nearpod

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ADMINISTRATION

2016 Member of the curriculum committee

Washington State • Design and review of the undergraduate curriculum.

University – Dept.
of Foreign Languages • Undergraduate outcomes assessment.
& Cultures • Student learning/development assessment.
• Undergraduate class staffing and scheduling.
• Advising.

2014-2016 Chair of the Advertising and Marketing committee

Washington State • Liaise with people in charge of social media to increase the
University – Dept.
of Foreign Languages
Department’s visibility on campus and beyond.
& Cultures • Attend university fairs to promote the various programs in the
Department.
• Target the specific needs of other departments on campus to
promote the learning of a foreign language.
• Draft proposal for new course offerings.

2014-2016 Member of the organizing committee for the “French Film Festival”

Washington State • Selection of films.

University – Dept.
of Foreign Languages • Creation of flyers/brochures.
& Cultures • Meeting with the sponsors.
• Budget management.

2011-2013 Member of the selection committee for the “Study Abroad” program

University of Kansas • Interview of candidates.

– French & Italian
Dept. • Allocation of funds for selected candidates.

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PUBLICATIONS

Edited volume

In progress Chareyron, Romain and Gilles Viennot (eds.), The Representation of Youth in
Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema.

Proposal accepted by Edinburgh University Press. Editors are currently

working on the requested changes from the reading committee.

Book chapter

2016 “Entre utopie et dystopie: Espace urbain et immigration illégale dans les
films Welcome (Philippe Lioret, 2009) et Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki, 2012)” ,
Racines et déracinements au grand écran: trajectoires migratoires dans le cinéma
français du XXIème siècle. Eds. Marianne Bessy and Carole Salmon,
Brill/Rodopi, coll. “Francopolyphonies,” pp.130-147.

Essay in anthology

2015 “Haptic vision and the Experience of Difference in Agnès Varda’s Les
Glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000)”, The Cinema of Sensations. Ed. Ágnes Pethö.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.73-86.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Proposal “Sébastien Lifshitz: Cinéaste des identités”

accepted Proposal submitted for the special issue “LGBTQ Politics and Identities
in France Since 1968” of the academic journal Modern and Contemporary
France (to be published in 2018)

2017 “Lorsque le corps se fait langage : Aporie du discours et vérité des corps
dans le cinéma français contemporain”, Les Cahiers LINGUATEK
(University Gheorghe Asachi, Iaşi, Romania) n1-2 (2017), pp.198-209.

2016 “La chair des sentiments: hapticité et mise en scène du désir dans La Vie
d’Adèle (2013)”, “Regards sur les films d’Abdellatif Kechiche”, CELAAN
(Revue du centre d’études des littératures et des arts d’Afrique du Nord), vol.XIII
n°1 (juin 2016), pp.113-129.

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2015 “The Body Out-of-Bounds: Trauma, Corporeality and Representation in
Marina de Van’s Ne te retourne pas/Don’t Look Back (2009)”, Chimères: A
Journal of French Literature and Culture, vol.XXXII (Fall 2015), pp.51-60.

2014 “La Relecture de la figure du vampire dans le film Backstage (Emmanuelle

Bercot, 2004)”, New Zealand Journal of French Studies. Numéro spécial: Le
Sang/Blood, vol.34 n°2, pp.97-108.

2013 “Haptic vision and the Experience of Difference in Agnès Varda’s Les
Glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000)”, Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film & Media
Studies, vol.7, pp.83-96.
Online access: http://acta.sapientia.ro/acta-film/C7/film7-6.pdf

2013 “Comprendre par les sens: Pour une approche tactile de L’Apollonide
(Bertrand Bonello, 2011)”, Revue Entrelacs, n°10, pp.2-9.
Online access: http://entrelacs.revues.org/528

2013 “Horror and the Body: Understanding the reworking of the Genre in
Marina de Van’s Dans ma peau (2001)”, Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural
Studies – Scandals of Horror, vol.4 n°1, pp.70-81.
Online access: http://www.csj.ualberta.ca/imaginations/?p=4368

2011 Gural-Migdal, Anna et Romain Chareyron, “Du Cinéma comme outil

d’apprentissage de la langue à la langue comme outil d’apprentissage du
cinéma”, AQEFLS: Le Cinéma comme outil pédagogique en français langue seconde
et étrangère, vol.28, pp.7-27.

2009 Gural-Migdal, Anna & Romain Chareyron. “The ‘Ghost Image’ of Horror
and Pornography in Michael Haneke’s La Pianiste (2001)”, Studies in French
Cinema, vol.11 n°11, pp.57-70.

2007 “La Petite Lili ou la fracture du réel”, Excavatio, vol.22 n°1-2, pp.250-262.

Under review “Peut-on domestiquer les images? Jouissance féminine et limites de la

représentation dans Les Anges exterminateurs (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 2006)”.
Article submitted to the academic journal French Forum.

Under review “Displacement and the construction of transgender identity in Xavier

Dolan’s Laurence Anyways ”
Proposal submitted for the proceedings of the Foreign Language Film
Conference on Travel.

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 Book review

2015 Film and the City: The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema by George
Melnyk. American Review of Canadian Studies, vol.45 n°3, pp.381-382.

PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS

Session chair

2016 “The Representation of Youth in Contemporary French Cinema”,

NeMLA 2016, Hartford, CT, March 17th- 20th.

Invited Keynote Speaker

2018 “Le queer peut-il encore être transgressif? Repenser les représentations des
populations LGBTQ dans les œuvres de Sébastien Lifshitz et Alain
Guiraudie”, Journée d’études Trangression(s), déviance(s), norme(s) et limite(s) dans les
arts et les lettres, Département d’anglais, langues et cultures, Mount Royal
University, Calgary, April 26 th 2018.

Presentations

2018 “Seeing and Being Touched : Sensory Involvement and the Emotional
Power of the Image in Agnès Varda’s Documentaries” – Agnès Varda’s
Gaze, NeMLA 2018, Pittsburgh, April 12th-15th.

2017 “Entre subversion et répétition : L’instabilité du genre et la figure de

l’enfant dans Ma Vie en rose (Alain Berliner, 1996) et Tomboy (Céline
Sciamma, 2011)”, Multitudes « queer » Conference, Université de
Sherbrooke (Quebec), April 28th-29th.

2016 “Portraying Lives in Transition: Céline Sciamma and the Transcription of

Experience”, Studies in French Cinema Conference – “Childhood and
adolescence”, King’s College London, June 30th.

2015 “The Complex Notion of Identity in the Films of Xavier Dolan”, A

Humanities of Inclusion, Humanities Roundtable, Washington State
University, February 17th.

2015 “Gender as/at play in Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy (2011)”, The Queer Child in
Contemporary Literature and Culture, NeMLA 2015, Toronto, April 30th –
May 3rd.

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2013 “Le genre en question dans le cinéma français contemporain”, Brown Bag
Lunch Series, French & Italian Dept., University of Kansas, November
22nd.

2013 “Displacement and the construction of transgender identity in Xavier

Dolan’s Laurence Anyways ”, Travel, Foreign Language Film Conference VI,
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, October 31st- November 3 rd.

2013 “Entre utopie et dystopie: Espace urbain et immigration illégale dans les
films Welcome (Philippe Lioret, 2009) et Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki, 2012)”,
Représentation(s) de la migration dans le cinéma français contemporain, NeMLA
2013, Tufts University, Boston, March 21th- 24th.

2012 “Haptic Vision and the Experience of Difference in Agnès Varda’s Les
Glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000)”, The Cinema of Sensations: XIVth International
Film & Media Studies Conference in Transylvania, Sapientia University, Cluj-
Napoca, May 25th- 27th.

2011 “Le Détournement des codes de l'horrifique dans le film Dans ma peau
(Marina de Van, 2001)”, Written in Blood, University of Pennsylvania 2011
GRA Conference, Philadelphia, March 19 th.

2009 Gural-Migdal, Anna and Romain Chareyron, “The Provocative Ambiguity

of the Image in Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher (2001)”. Panel on
“Provocation and Anger in the Cinema of Michael Haneke” (in association with
the Wirth Institute), Dimic Lecture Series, University of Alberta, March
11th.

2006 “La Petite Lili ou la fracture du réel,” AIZEN/CUNY International

Conference on Realism and Naturalism in Film Studies, City University of New
York, Graduate Center, New York, May 5th - 6th.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

2013-present Member of the reading committee for the academic journal Convergences
francophones

2008 Editorial Assistant for the International Journal of Naturalist Studies

EXCAVATIO.

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AWARDS

2013 Recipient of a Departmental Service Award ($600)

This award acknowledges the contribution to all departmental matters and
excellence in teaching.

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