Jane A Hale

Title

Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature

Cultural Production
Romance Studies

Expertise

French, education, and comparative literature. Contemporary French fiction and drama. Samuel Beckett, Raymond Queneau. Literature and painting. Francophone literature and culture of Africa and the Caribbean. Cross-cultural literacies.

Profile

Affiliations with education, sustainable international development, women's studies, international & global studies. Founder and Director, Family Literacy Lesotho.

Degrees

Stanford University, Ph.D.

Stanford University, M.A.

University of Chicago, M.S.T.

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Contact

Email:	jhale@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-3216
Office:	Shiffman, 208

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Awards and Honors

Fulbright Senior Specialist Grants for work at Lesotho College of Education (2005)

Whos Who in America (2003 - 2001)

Whos Who in the World (2003)

Jeannette Lerman-Neubauer '69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Counseling (2001)

Who's Who in American Women (1998)

Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship (1995 - 1998)

Executive Board, Samuel Beckett Society (1992 - 1995)

Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to Senegal (1992 - 1993)

National Endowment for Humanities Travel to Collections Grant (1989)

Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (1988 - 1989)

Dana Faculty Fellowship (1985 - 1988)

Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities (1983 - 1984)

Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter, College of William & Mary (1970)

Courses Taught

COML	165a	Reading, Writing, and Teaching across Cultures
COML	166b	Literacy, Language and Culture
EL	94a	Experiential Learning Practicum
FREN	34a	Intermediate French: Topics in French and Francophone Cultures
FREN	110a	Cultural Representations
FREN	137a	The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Plague, War, and Human Power
FREN	155b	French Drama of the Twentieth Century
FREN	164a	Haiti, Then and Now
FREN	165b	Francophone Literatures
USEM	4a	Literacy and Development

Scholarship

Hale, Jane A, Ed. Tam Lin Neville. "What Do We Mean by Changing Lives and Anyway, Why Literature?". January 1, 2009. Changing Lives Through Literature. <http://cltlblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/what-do-we-mean-by-changing-lives-and-anyway-why-literature/>.

Hale, Jane A, Ed. Fatou Sow. "Rebelle" de Fatou Keïta, roman d'apprentissage féminin (Fatou Keïta's "Rebelle," a Woman's Coming-of-Age Novel). Proc. of Colloque International sur La Recherche Féministe dans la Francophonie Plurielle (International Conference on Feminist Research in Plural Francophone Cultures). Dakar, Senegal: Paris: Éditions Karthala, 2008.

Hale, Jane A. "Between Cultures: Words, Schools, and Books in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure and Albert Camus' The First Man." The Histories, Languages and Cultures of West Africa: Interdisciplinary Essays. Ed. Akua Sarr, Edris Makward, Amadou T. Fofana, and C. Frederick. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2006. 15-27.

Hale, Jane A. "Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in Arican Literature." Brandeis internet project: "Integrating Diversity Texts into the Curriculum" (2005): <http://www.brandeis.edu/provost/diversity/diversity_text.html>.

Hale,Jane A. "Cours d'Introduction de littérature francophone: quels objectifs? (Introductory course in Francophone literature: what goals?)." North-South Linkages and Connections in Continental and Diaspora African Literatures. Africa World Press, 2005. 423-28.

Hale, Jane A. "Literature and Testimony" and translation of Boubacar Boris Diop's "Writing by Duty of Memory." Literary Responses to Mass Violence. Waltham: Brandeis, 2004. 13-17; 109-124.

Hale, Jane A. and Students of "Literacy and Development " Seminar at Brandeis. Our Voices: A History of Waltham. Brandeis University. Waltham: 2004.

Hale,Jane A.. "Working Wireless: Beckett's Radio Writing." Samuel Beckett and the Arts. Ed. Lois Oppenheim. NY: Garland, 1999. 269-94.

Hale, Jane A. "A.R.T. Stages Godot." The Beckett Circle 17. (1995): 1-2.

Hale, Jane A. "Dante...Bruno.Vico..Joyce, Beckett." Ecritures 2. (1992): 15-26.

Hale, Jane A. "Endgame: How Are Your Eyes?." New Casebook on Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Ed. Steven Connor. London: Macmillan, 1992. 71-86.

Hale, Jane A. "Queneau et la ville encyclopédique (Queneau and the Encyclopedic City)." Cahiers Raymond Queneau 17-19. (1991): 125-136.

Hale, Jane A. The Lyric Encyclopedia of Raymond Queneau. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.

Hale, Jane A. "Le drame bourgeois et ses espaces (The Spaces of Bourgeois Drama)." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 256. (1988): 185-193.

Hale, Jane A. "Perspective in Rockaby." Make Sense Who May: Essays on Samuel Beckett's Later Works. Ed. Robin J. Davis and Lance St. J. Butler. Gerrards Cross, England: Colin Smythe, 1988. 66-76.

Hale, Jane A. "The Impossible Art of Francis Bacon and Samuel Beckett." Gzaette des Beaux-Arts 111. (1988): 268-274.

Hale,Jane A. The Broken Window: Beckett's Dramatic Perspective. West Lafayette IN: Purdue University Press, 1987.

Hale, Jane A. "La Perspective et le pouvoir: L'Échec de Néron et le triomphe du spectateur (Perspective and Power: Nero's Failure is the Spectator's Triumph)." Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 13. (1986): 313-328.

Hale, Jane A. "Le passé, le poète et l'avenir: Le mythe gréco-romain dans la poésie d'Apollinaire (The Past, the Poet, and the Future: Greco-Roman Myth in Apollinaire's Poetry)." Australian Journal of French Studies 12. (1985): 296-306.

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