Work:     Department of Classical and Modern Languages
                Cornell College
                600 First Street West
                Mt. Vernon, IA 52314
                (319) 895-4345
                Internet: e-mail dcrowder@cornellcollege.edu
                            Web page: people.cornellcollege.edu/dcrowder

Education
                1977 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
                                    Major: French,  Minor: Theory of Literary Criticism
                Dissertation: "Narrative Structures and the Semiotics of Sex in the Novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet."
                1973 M.A., French, University of Wisconsin-Madison
                1971 Studied at the Université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes
                1970 B.S.Ed. Texas Christian University
                                    Majors: French, English, Education

Employment History
                1977-now Professor of French, Cornell College
                                        (Promoted to Full Professor, 1990)
                1987-88 Visiting Lecturer, Smith College

Areas of Research

                French literature, fiction, feminist theory, lesbian/gay studies, semiotics

Professional Organizations

                Modern Language Association, Midwest MLA, National Women's Studies Assn., AAUP

 Courses Taught

                Beginning and Intermediate French
                Composition and Conversation, Advanced Conversation
                French Novel in translation, French Women Writers, 20th Century Women's Fiction (comparative literature)
                French Literature (in French): Medieval, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries
                French Seminars: Renaissance Literature, Existentialism and the "nouveau roman",
                            Experimental Women Writers since 1960, Colette, Francophone novel
                Introduction to Women's Studies, Feminist Utopian Fiction, Feminist Theories,
                            Thinking Sexualities, Senior Seminar on Gender and Postmodernism

Academic Service

Committee on Administration (2006-2009); Chair, Faculty Salary Committee (2008-2009)

Academic Affairs Committee (1997- 98, 2001-2004)
Cornell Women’s Coalition Executive Council (1997-98)
Committee on Faculty Development (1996-98)
Dean of Admissions search committee (1996-97)
Registrar search committee (1995-96)
Vice-President for Development search committee (1994-95)
Chair, Committee on Administration (1993-95)
Chair, Cornell Judicial Board (1992-93)
Chair, Classical and Modern Languages (1985-89)
Chair, Women's Studies Program Committee (1985-89)
Dean's Search Committee, 1987
Women’s Studies Program Committee (1984-present)
Chair, Academic Affairs Committee (1984-86)
Administrative Affairs Committee, 1982-83
Representative, ACM Committee on Women's Concerns, 1981-85
Served on Academic Programs Committee, Computer Committee, Committee on Committees, Academic Standards
        Committee, numerous search and ad hoc committees, Smith College Women’s Studies Committee.
Faculty Advisor to French Club and Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Association.

Professional Activities and Awards

2000-2002 Richard and Norma Small Senior Faculty Chair, Cornell College

1999 sabbatical in France: Lecture on Queer theory, Graduate Seminar "L'Anthropologie du sexe," dir. N.-C. Mathieu, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

1998     Mellon Grant for summer research in computer-assisted instruction
             McConnell Grant for sabbatical research for 1999
1997     Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Advancement of Women in Higher Education, Iowa Way Up Conference
1996-    Iowa AAUP Committee A [Academic Freedom and Tenure]
1992     Sabbatical Research in France on Monique Wittig
1990-    Editorial Board, NYU Press series "The Cutting Edge"
1986-88 Co-Chair, Gay and Lesbian Caucus for the Modern Languages, MLA.
1985-     Peer Reviewer, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.
1987     Reviewer, Department of Education grants for Critical Languages Program.
1984     Sabbatical Research in Montréal and Paris on Feminist Criticism
1981     NEH Summer Seminar, " The Problematics of 'l'écriture féminine' from Colette to Cixous." University of Wisconsin,
                        Germaine Brée, Director.
1980-81 Executive Committee, Women's Caucus, MMLA
1979-81 Executive Committee, Cornell AAUP
1978     NEH Summer Seminar, " Semiotics as Foundation for the Human Sciences,"Indiana University, Thomas Sebeok,
                        Director.
1977 Midwest Delegate to MLA Delegate Assembly; Midwest Faculty Seminar,"Metaphor"

Listed in Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in the Midwest
Occasional peer reviewer for Signs and NWSA Journal

Research

Reprint of "Lesbians and the (Re/De)Construction of the Female Body." in Queer Looks, ed. D. Atkins. New York: Haworth Press, 1998.

"Utopian Literature" and "Monique Wittig." The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, 2nd Ed., Vol. 1 Lesbian Histories and Cultures, ed. B. Zimmerman. New York, Garland, 2000.

"Amazons." The Feminist Companion to French Literature, ed. E. Sartori. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999

"Amazons." The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, ed. C. Summers. Chester, CT: New England Publishing Associates, 1995.

"Lesbians and the (Re/De)Construction of the Female Body." Reading the Social Body, Eds. C. Burroughs and J. Ehrenreich. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993: 61-84.

Translated Colette Guillaumin, "The Constructed Body." Reading the Social Body, Eds. C. Burroughs and J. Ehrenreich. University of Iowa Press, 1993.

"Separatism and Feminist Utopian Fiction." Sexual Practice/ Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism, Eds. J. Penelope and S. J. Wolfe. Oxford, Eng. & Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1993: 237-250.

 "Monique Wittig." Fifty French Women Writers, Eds. E. Sartori and D. Zimmerman. Greenwood Press, 1991.

"Sapho à l'école." AHLA Vol. 4, 1 (Montréal, 1985): 45-50.

"Une armée d'amantes: L'image de l'amazone dans l'oeuvre de Monique Wittig." Vlasta #4 (Paris, 1985): 79-87.

"Amazones de... demain? La fiction utopique féministe et lesbienne." AHLA Vol. 2, 4 (Montréal, March 1984): 19-33.

"Culture, langage, écriture: entretien avec Diane Crowder." Bulletin des archives de recherches lesbiennes (Paris, June 1984): 30-39.

"Amazons or Mothers?: Monique Wittig, Hélène Cixous and Theories of Women's Writing." Contemporary Literature Vol. 24, 2 (1983): 117-144.

"Semiotic Functions of Ideology in Literary Discourse." Bucknell Review Vol. 27, 1 "Literature and Ideology" (1982): 157-168.

"Image Structures, Codes and Recoding in Colette's The Pure and the Impure." Co-author J. A. Cothran. In Colette: The Woman, The Writer, ed. E. Eisinger and M. McCarty. Penn State University Press, 1981.

Contributed to French entries in Women Writers in Translation: An Annotated Bibliography, 1945-1980. M. Resnick and I. de Courtivron, eds. Garland, 1981.

Book reviews in The Lesbian Review of Books, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Motherroot Journal, Sistersource, and Belles Lettres.

French 205 Grammaire. [Grammar manual for intermediate French 2] Cornell College: 1989, second edition 1991.

French 205: Lectures. [Reader for intermediate French 2] Cornell College: 1990.

CALIS computerized grammar exercises for French 101, 102, 103. Created 1985, revised 1987, 1989, 1993, 1997.

1997     " A Brief History of Feminist Activity at Cornell College 1977-1997."

1996     "'Hell is Hetero': Wittig's Virgile, non as Utopian Fiction." Panel discussion with Monique Wittig, Kentucky Foreign                     Language Conference, Lexington, KY, Apr. 20, 1996.

1994     "From Gay to Queer: Notes on Political Movement." Moderator: " Small College/ Small City: The Lesbigay Experience." Both at InQueery/InTheory/InDeed: Sixth North American Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies Conference, University of Iowa, Nov. 17-20.

1991     "Genderbending in [Colette's] The Pure and the Impure." MLA
            Consultant to Women's Studies Program, Wittenberg University

1989     "Sex, Gender, Sexuality: Some Questions of Definitions." Cornell College, Pauley Lecture series.

1988     Session Leader, "Being 'Out' in the Profession." MLA

1986     "Feminist Scholarship in the Humanities." Two-day workshop, Luther College.

1984    "Integrating Feminist Scholarship into the Liberal Arts Curriculum." Two-day workshop, Grinnell College.
            "La sémiotique du sexe en linguistique et littérature." Address to seminar "Anthropologie et sociologie des sexes," N-C                     Mathieu, director. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
             Informal workshop on semiotics and the theory of feminist criticism, Institute for Research in Women's Literature,
                    Tulsa University.
              Panelist, "Humanities," Iowa Conference on Women in Research, University of Iowa.

1983     "Utopia is a Feminine Noun." Convocation, Cornell College. Broadcast KCCK-FM (Cedar Rapids, IA).

1982     "Revolutionary Sexts: French Feminism Today." Grinnell College and University of Iowa.

1981     "An Army of Lovers: The Image of the Amazon in Wittig." New York, MLA.

1979     "Teaching Twentieth Century French Women Writers in Translation." Lawrence, KA, National Women's Studies                     Assn.
             "The Semiotic Functions of Ideology in Literary Discourse." Semiotics Society of America.

1979     Organizer and Moderator, "Feminist Utopian Literature." MMLA and MLA

1978    "Integrating Women into the Literature Curriculum." Associated Colleges of the Midwest Conference.
            "An Optical Thirst for Invisible Water." (on Colette). New York, MLA.

1977     "Pedagogical Problems in Teaching Women Writers." MMLA.
            "The Signs of the Times." MLA
            "The Use of Semiotics in Foreign Language Teaching." Iowa Assn. of Teachers of German
            "The Semiotics of Sex." Cornell Honors Lecture.

 Credentials and references available upon request.

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