Marianne Bessy

Marianne Bessy

Lois Aileen Coggins Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures; French Language Coordinator

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Marianne Bessy, a native of France educated in Brittany, Ireland, and Louisiana came to the department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Furman University in 2008.

Honors & Awards

  • Alester G. Furman, Jr., and Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious Teaching, Furman University (2023)
  • Lois Aileen Coggins Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, endowed professorship (2021-present)
  • Nominated for the Alester G. Furman, Jr., and Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious Teaching, Furman University (2021)
  • South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (SCICU) Excellence in Teaching Award (2017)
  • Named “Honored French Citizen” by the French Consulate in Atlanta (June 2016)
  • Nominated for the Alester G. Furman, Jr., and Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious Teaching, Furman University (2010)

Education

  • Ph.D., French Studies, Louisiana State University, 2008
  • M.A., French, University of Limerick, Ireland, 2002
  • Maîtrise d’anglais, Université Rennes 2 - Haute Bretagne, France, 2000 (M.A. in English)
  • Licence d’anglais, Université Rennes 2 - Haute Bretagne, France, 1999 (B.A. in English)

Research Interests

Marianne Bessy’s scholarly work focuses primarily on the texts of Vassilis Alexakis and on contemporary migrant literature in French. She is the author of Vassilis Alexakis: exorciser l’exil (Rodopi, 2011), co-editor of Racines et déracinements au grand écran: trajectoires migratoires dans le cinéma français du XXIème siècle (Brill, 2016), and co-editor of Vassilis Alexakis: chemins croisés (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2023). Bessy’s articles have appeared in a variety of scholarly journals (Alternative Francophone, Cahiers Vassilis Alexakis, Dalhousie French Studies, Foreign Language Annals, The French Review, Nouvelles études francophones, etc.). A passionate teacher, Dr. Bessy also presents and publishes research related to the Scholarship of Teaching of Learning, particularly on topics such as global competence or second language pedagogy.

Publications

 

BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES:

  • Bessy, Marianne and Ioanna Chatzidimitriou, editors. Vassilis Alexakis: chemins croisés. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2023.
  • Bessy, Marianne, and Carole Salmon, editors. Racines et déracinements au grand écran: trajectoires migratoires dans le cinéma français du XXIème siècle. Brill, 2016.
  • Bessy, Marianne, and Catherine Khordoc, editors. Nouvelles études francophones: Littérature de la migrance, vol. 27, no 1, 2012.
  • Bessy, Marianne. Vassilis Alexakis: Exorciser l’exil. Rodopi, 2011.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS:

  • Bessy, Marianne and Ioanna Chatzidimitriou. “Introduction.” Vassilis Alexakis: chemins croisés, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2023, pp. 11-28.
  • Bessy, Marianne. “‘J’écris en somme de faux contes de fées’: Vassilis Alexakis, tension générique et mise en spectacle ludique de l’écriture.” Hybrid Genres/L’Hybridité des genres (French Literature Series), 2018, pp. 56-72.
  • Bessy, Marianne. “Afterword: Vassilis Alexakis and Mother Tongue” for Harlan R. Patton’s English translation of Vassilis Alexakis’s novel Mother Tongue, Autumn Hill Books, 2017, pp. 186-87.
  • Bessy, Marianne, and Carole Salmon.“Tour d’horizon des représentations de la migration dans le cinéma français depuis 2006: histoire(s), lieux, ancrages.” Racines et déracinements au grand écran: trajectoires migratoires dans le cinéma français du XXIème siècle, Brill, 2016, pp. 192-213.
  • Bessy, Marianne, and Carole Salmon. “Introduction.” Racines et déracinements au grand écran: trajectoires migratoires dans le cinéma français du XXIème siècle, Brill, 2016, pp. 1-7.
  • Bessy, Marianne. “Exil et écriture chez Vassilis Alexakis: la mise en scène du moi.” Le Culte du Moi dans la littérature francophone. L’Harmattan, 2012, pp. 273-86 (originally published by the Office des Publications Universitaires, Oran, Algeria, 2010).

RECENT REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES:

  • Knouse, Stephanie M., Marianne Bessy, and Kyle C. Longest. “Knowing who we teach: Tracking attitudes and expectations of first‐year postsecondary language learners.” Foreign Language Annals, 2021, pp. 1-23.
  • Bessy, Marianne and Stephanie M. Knouse. “Metacognition, metalinguistic awareness, and relevance in language learning: A report on an intervention module project.” International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, vol. 14, no. 2, 2020.
  • Bessy, Marianne. “Le Paris souterrain de Vassilis Alexakis dans L’Enfant grec: catabase funeste ou lieu de renaissance?” Dalhousie French Studies, no. 116, 2020, pp. 113-25.
  • Bessy, Marianne, and Mary Sloan Morris. “Representing the Twenty-First Century Migrant Experience: Adam and Fleutiaux’s Problematic Empathy.” Alternative Francophone, vol. 2, no. 6, 2020, pp. 65-88.
  • Bessy, Marianne. “Rethinking the Teaching of Culture at the Beginning Level: The Online Francophone Cultures Portfolio Project.” The French Review: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of French, vol. 93, no. 3, 2020, pp. 66-87.

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