Dr. Emmanuelle A. Vanborre Assitant Professor of French Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics Gordon College 255 Grapevine Road Wenham, MA 01984 Tel. 978 867 4581 Email. Emmanuelle.Vanborre @ gordon.edu

Dr. Emmanuelle Vanborre (M.A., Ph.D. Boston College) is from the south of France. She studied English and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Montpellier. She then studied French literature at Boston College. Her research in literature is focused on XXth century fiction, literary theory, and Francophone literature. Her dissertation consists of a rereading of Malraux and Camus through the lens of Blanchot. It highlights the original aspects of their writings, which have often been overlooked by critics, and shows how they tackle essential questions concerning meaning, existence, writing and literature itself. Dr. Vanborre has also used a similar approach to read Francophone writers such as Maryse Condé. She presented a paper on Condé’s Traversée de la mangrove in May 2007 at the Université Laval in Québec. Her last publication is entitled "Possibilité et impossibilité de la littérature: Paulhan lu par Blanchot," Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, Fall 2005, vol. 20.2.

Dr. Vanborre has taught at Saint-Jean-du-Gard Highschool in France, at Dillard University in New Orleans, LA and at Boston College, Boston, MA. Her teaching is communicative and student-centered.  It involves the use of a variety of instructional technologies. Dr. Vanborre also created several websites that can be used in class and are available to the general public on the Internet. These sites, all written in French, introduce students to aspects of French and Francophone culture through art, film, and literature. As students carry out tasks and consult web pages written for and by French speakers, they improve their language skills and reading ability while learning about the other.

Dr. Vanborre has done a number of presentations and workshops in the field of teacher training. After a presentation at the national meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages – that she gave with two Boston College colleagues – she was invited to give a full day workshop to foreign language teachers in the Chicago Public School system. In March, 2008, she will be presenting, with two BC colleagues, a talk titled “Learning to Read While Reading to Learn” at the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. The talk will deal with successful techniques that can be employed to increase comprehension, confidence and higher-level thinking skills, while acquiring knowledge about the history and many cultures that comprise the French-speaking world.

This year at Gordon College, Dr. Vanborre teaches three French classes, including an African Studies seminar devoted to Francophone countries in Africa.

Dr. Vanborre also organizes a “French Table” every Tuesday from 12 to 1pm in Lane Cafeteria. Students, as well as faculty and staff, are invited to join her for lunch to speak French in a relaxed atmosphere.