E. Nicole Meyer
Professor
Academic Appointment(s)
Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Department of English & World Languages
Bio
E. Nicole Meyer is Professor of French and Women’s and Gender Studies at Augusta University, having Chaired the Department of English and Foreign Languages. Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques, she is currently completing Fractured Families in French and Francophone Women’s Autobiography. Her co-edited volume Teaching Diversity and Inclusion: Examples from a French Classroom (Routledge 2022) appeared in July 2021, and follows her co-edited volume, Rethinking the French Classroom: New Approaches to Teaching Contemporary French and Francophone Women (Routledge 2019). 2021 recipient of the Louis K. Bell she publishes on a wide array of topics from French and Francophone women’s autobiography to Flaubert, French for Specific Purposes, Service-Learning, contemporary French cinema and 19th-, 20th- and 21st- century French and Francophone literature. She is editor of French, Francophone and Comparative Literatures for the Rocky Mountain Review and Chair of the national AATF Commission, French for Specific Purposes. She served as Vice-President of Women In French, an international organization.
Education
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Ph.D., Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other
University of Pennsylvania, 1988
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MA, Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other
University of Pennsylvania, 1983
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BA, French Language and Literature
University of Wisconsin - Madi, 1980
Awards & Honors
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Amos Distinguished Chair Sponsorship Award for South Atlantic Modern Languages 2023 Conference Panel, Pandemic Impacts: Reflections on Saving French Programs, November 11, 2023.
South Atlantic Modern Languages Association, 2023
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Louis K. Bell Research Award (2021)
Augusta University, 2021
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Pamplin College Research Award, 2021. Nominated [awarded, May 2021].
Pamplin College (Augusta University), 2021
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Chevalier dans l'Ordre des palmes académiques
République Française, 2021
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Boundless Teaching Award, Center for Instructional Innovation
Augusta University, 2020
Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year
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FREN 3510
Intro to French Literature
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FREN 4300
Advanced Written Expression
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CURS 2990
Undergrad Research I
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FREN 3300
Written Expression in French
Teaching Interests
French and Francophone Contemporary Women’s Autobiographies, Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Novel, Representation of the Body in French Literature, French for Specific Purposes (French for Health and Medical Professions, Business French), Interdisciplinary Humanities: Fractured Families, Questions of Race and Ethnicity
Scholarship
Selected Recent Publications
- “A Sign of the Times: 21st-Century Edited Collections.” , 2022
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Teaching Diversity and Inclusion: Examples from a French-Speaking Classroom, 2022
Book, Scholarly-New
- “Introduction", 2022
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
- “Promoting Mutual Understanding and Inclusion in the French Classroom through French, Israeli and Polish Post-Holocaust Life Writing" , 2022
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
- “Space, Place and Memory: The Holocaust Effect in Marguerite Duras’s La Douleur", 2021
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Research Interests
French and Francophone Contemporary Women’s Autobiographies, Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Novel, Representation of the Body in French Literature, French for Specific Purposes (French for Health and Medical Professions, Business French), Interdisciplinary Humanities: Fractured Families, Questions of Race and Ethnicity, Deaf Studies and Cinema / Disability Studies
Department Service
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Faculty Research and Development Committee
2019 - Present
Role: Committee Member
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Creative Writing Hire, EFL attendee of meetings
2018 - Present
Role: Attendee, Meeting
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Curriculum Mapping committee of 3
2016 - Present
Role: Committee Member
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Portfolio advisor
2016 - Present
Role: Faculty Advisor
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Selection committee, Alpha Mu Gamma Student Award
2016 - Present
Role: Committee Member
College Service
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Humanities Curriculum Committee
2015 - Present
Role: Attendee, Meeting
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WGST Executive Committee, Pamplin College
2015 - Present
Role: Committee Member
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Lyceum Committee
2015 - Present
Role: Committee Member
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FLAIR Foreign Language Alliance for International Relations Steering Committee
2014 - Present
Role: Committee Member
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Search Committee at Georgia Regents University (Assistant Dean)
2014 - Present
Role: Committee Member
University Service
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Augusta U Representative / Director /of Foreign Language Alliance for International Rapport (FLAIR) at Augusta University, August 2019-present
2019 - Present
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Director of Foreign Language Alliance for International Rapport (FLAIR) at Augusta University,
2019 - Present
Role: Other
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college representatives to the University Faculty Senate Dispute Resolution and Grievance Committee
2018 - Present
Role: Committee Member
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Oversight Team for Health Humanities
2018 - Present
Role: Committee Member
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WGST Symposium--moderator of Session
2017 - Present
Role: Guest Speaker
Professional Service
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External Evaluator, tenure; research; prizes, etc.
2019 - Present
Role: Other
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Reviewer, 2018 American Association of Teachers of French Convention Proceedings, Spring 2019.
2019 - Present
Role: Reviewer
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Chair, American Association of Teachers of French, National Commission, French for Special Purposes
2019 - Present
Role: Chairperson
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Cinema Commission of the American Association of Teachers of French
2019 - Present
Role: Member
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Honorary Membership Committee / South Atlantic Modern Language Association
2019 - Present
Role: Committee Member
Public Service
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Modern Languages Association
2024 - Present
Role: Other
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Foreign Language Alliance of International Rapport (FLAIR)
2020 - Present
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Director, Foreign Language Alliance of International Rapport (CSRA)
2019 - Present
Role: Chair
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Modern Languages Association Member, Modern Languages Association Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities, July 2024-June 2027
2024 - 2027
Role: Committee Member
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Modern Languages Association/Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
2022 - 2024
Role: Chair
