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Instructional Video created as a recorded slideshow using Apple Keynote 
As part of the online French course I teach for NHTI, Concord’s Community College, I provide instructional videos to supplement the […]

This year our annual Macaulay Honors College/CUNY Snapshot student-curated exhibit of student photos taken on October 11th was on display for one day at the New-York Historical Society.  Here are some of my own […]

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I took my students from my Intermediate French 1 course to the Museum of Arts and Design this evening. Their assignment is the following:

What do you know about the work of art? (name of artist, title, etc.)
What […]

Recently, a friend asked me how much I was paying a certain large conglomerate for my cable TV service.  I had one of those “all in one triple play” packages that included phone and internet, and with DVR and HBO […]

Students milling about in the Beaux ArtsPavillion of the Brooklyn Museum
Tonight was our inimitable Macaulay Night at the Brooklyn Museum.  The event went smoothly after a tremendous amount of preparation.  About […]

Today it was my supreme pleasure to receive my PhD (officially!) from the CUNY Graduate Center!  The Commencement Exercises took place at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, along with several colleagues from […]

I have a couple of Facebook friends who frequently repost literature-related birthday announcements from the Writer’s Almanac and decided I would follow suit today since there are two French Lit related […]

“The notion of a collective death or rapture can be very attractive to those who live a very solitary life. The protagonist of my film lives by herself, she has alienated her family, and she keeps her neighbors […]

On October 11th, the members of the Macaulay Honors College freshmen class each took a photograph that would capture for them some aspect of New York City. Their photos were uploaded to a gallery – <a href="http://macaulay.cuny.edu/gallery/index.php/snapshot-2012&quot; […]

This is a report on the Gide panel from the MLA 2012: “The Feminine in André Gide’s Life and Works” on the website for the Catherine Gide Foundation (Fondation Catherine Gide).  Justine Legrand writes:

Du 5 au 8 […]

Got back from the MLA earlier this week and my head is still spinning. What an amazing experience.
First and foremost, I want to acknowledge the panel that I had the privilege of being part of: The Feminine in […]

SocioWiki NYC – Macaulay Honors College/Brooklyn College, Spring 2007
The “SocioWiki” was the first wiki project (I will be posting more) I directed with Macaulay Honors College students at Brooklyn College for […]