Danielle C Edwards

Adjunct Instructor

TEL: (315) 267-2007

Lora G. Lunt

Professor

TEL: (315) 267-2793

I have taught at the University of Maine, Canton College, Potsdam High School, Saint Lawrence University, and played many roles at SUNY Potsdam since 1981, from Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, to Director of International Education, while always offering courses in French, Arabic, and ESL. Since 2006, I have devoted my time to teaching in the Modern language Department.

I have won a number of grants to provide professional development for language teachers in New York State, as well as grants to bring international scholars to SUNY Potsdam, including a MEPI Middle East Program Initiative, and I am currently organizing an annual conference, with a colleague at Saint Lawrence University, for language teachers of the North Country.

Committed to the importance of international exchange and immersion experiences in language and culture for our students, I have organized a field trip to Montreal every semester for our language students. I have taught six short-term travel courses to North Africa, three to Tunisia and three to Morocco, winning a Chancellor's Award for the last Morocco course on Women and Democracy in Morocco. My team-taught January 2020 course with Allonah Ezrowill took students to Spain and Morocco and explored the flourishing of cultures in Moorish Spain and contemporary issues in Morocco.

Courses at SUNY Potsdam
Francophone Cultures through Their Music Seminar
Seventeenth Century French Literature Seminar
Contemporary French Theater Seminar
Quebec Literature and Culture
North African Literature and Cultures (French and English versions)
French Literature and Thought I & II
French intermediate conversation
Oral and Written French I & II
Contemporary French 101, 102, 103

Arabic 101, 102, 103, 203
Arabic intermediate conversation
Media Arabic
North African Literature and Cultures
Arabic across the curriculum research projects

English as a second language
ESL 190 English conversation
ESL 497 Conversation Partners internship

Publications and recent articles & presentations

The Childhood of a Muslim Girl Growing up in Pre-Independent Tunisia, a translation from French into English of the novel Les Jardins du Nord, by Souad Guellouz, 2016.

The Potsdam Reader, Ginn Publishing Company, editor; an interdisciplinary text for the Freshman Seminar program, 1982.

Recent papers and panels on language teaching and articles on North African Literature and Culture

Associated Colleges, 2018 "Tech Tools for Teaching."

NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) 2018
•Reflections on short-term programs to Tunisia and Morocco for Study Abroad roundtable led by Kevin Bongiorno, Louisiana State U.
•Teaching Culture in non-traditional ways: My Journey, presented and co-chaired panel with Gisele El Khoury of St. Lawrence University.

NeMLA 2017 Using Maps in Teaching Language and Culture: Traditional vs Hi-Tech Approaches, presenter and co-chair.

NeMLA 2015 two papers:
•Proficiency Methodologies and Tech Tools in teaching Arabic at SUNY Potsdam, for the session "Building a Proficiency-oriented Arabic Curriculum"
•In Memoriam, in honor of Celine Philibert: Disconnection and Empathy in the film'Les Intouchables'.

NeMLA 2014 Arabic Classroom and Technology (co-chaired with a colleague from Bryn Mawr)

NeMLA 2013 Developing an Advanced Curriculum in Arabic

NYS Sociology Association Fall 2013 Women in North Africa and the Jasmine Revolution, with Abdelkader Cheref.

NeMLA 2010 panel chair and presenter: Au Croisement des Chemins: la Fermentation Intellectuelle dans le Roman Maghrébin

Awards

SUNY Chancellor's Award for Internationalization, 2014.
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service, 2007.
President's Award for Excellence in Academic Service, SUNY Potsdam, 2001.
President's Award for Excellence in Academic Advising, SUNY Potsdam, 1985.
Marquis's Who's Who in America 2003, Who's Who among American Women, Who's Who in Education.

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Ryan T Ransom

Adjunct Instructor and Assistant Director

TEL: (315) 267-2623

Oscar Sarmiento

Professor and Dept. Chair

TEL: (315) 267-2034

My article "Mad Love: Martín Espada's homage to Frank Espada's photographic legacy" published in the Latino Studies journal resulted from my interest in the work of U.S. Latino poet Martín Espada and his father's documentary photographic work on the Puerto Rican diaspora.

My edition of Chilean poet Jorge Montealegre's Cuenta Regresiva. Antología de Poemas 1978-2010 was published by LOM in 2017.

My book of interviews El otro Lihn: La práctica cultural de Enrique Lihn was published by University Press of America in 2001, and my articles on contemporary Latin American poetry can be found in a number of scholarly journals.

I was poetry editor for the Chilean poetry chapter of the Handbook of Latin American Studies of the Library of Congress from 1993 until 2000, and I am currently on the editorial board of the Blueline literary magazine.

A few of my own poems plus translations of poems by Jack Agueros, Todd Davis, Mark Doty, Maurice Kenny, Li-Young Lee, Philip Lopate, and Kathleen Sheeder Bonano can be found on the Letras de Chile literary website.

Carta de Extranjería, a collection of my own poems, was published by Asterión in 1992.